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Greetings! I’m pleased to share with you the latest edition of on CALL.
In this issue, one of our current co-chairs, Mr. Roger Drury of
Georgia Tech, interviews two stalwart CALL members, Claire Bradin
Siskin and Deborah Healey, about their experiences serving on the TESOL
Board. In addition, Mr. Aaron Schwartz of Ohio University, the CALL-IS
incoming chair, highlights some of the changes in the CALL-IS as well as
some of the changes that are advancing in our field. Of note is the
Classroom of the Future, a new initiative by TESOL, envisioning what ESL
classes will look like in 20 years. In addition, he gives a nice
preview of some convention attractions. In one of the recurring columns,
Mr. Roger Gee of Holy Family University shows us how to use a new
corpus from Brigham Young University, GloBwE, to explore
the perceived increase in the expression more clear
over clearer. Mr. Paul Sweeney of EduWorlds in the
United Kingdom and Ms. Deborah Healey of the University of Oregon
collaborated on an article about the CALL-IS/LT SIG Joint Online
Conference this past fall, the first and hopefully not last of its kind.
Also in this edition, in her “Making Connections” column, Suzan Stamper
of the Centre for Language in Education at the Hong Kong Institute of
Education introduces three new active members of the CALL-IS: Ms. Dianna
Lippincott, Ms. Cate Crosby, and Mr. Jeff Kuhn. In a newer feature, Ms.
Mardelle Azimi of CALTech Fullerton reflects on her month-long
discussion in TESOL’s IS Community pages on the topic of “Flipping the
Classroom.” In addition, also in this issue, Suzanne Reinhardt, also of
Divine Word College, explores the ins and outs of the Google Apps for
Education Certification Program. Finally, the husband-and-wife team of
Ms. Stephanie Fuccio and Mr. Evan Simpson, both of the University of
Arizona, Tucson, report on a Twitter Scavenger Hunt and a way to
annotate YouTube videos using video notes, respectively.
As the year begins, I hope you’ll take the time to reflect on
the countless professional development opportunities available in our
TESOL community. Please consider submitting to our spring edition of OnCALL. The deadline is May 2014. Finally, the
CALL-IS Steering Committee extends an invitation to the upcoming annual
TESOL convention in March 2014; more details can be found in this
newsletter. Even if you can’t make it to the convention, there are a
wide variety of ways to stay active professionally. See the sidebars in
this issue for links to the Community and our one-stop-shopping
repository of materials related to CALL-IS. While there, please take
time to take the poll.
The newsletter could always use more hands. I have been
fortunate to have another set of hands to help. Thanks to Mr. Kole
Matheson of Tidewater Community College for his invaluable help in
editing this newsletter. I couldn’t have gotten it out if it hadn’t been
for his help. If there is something that you would like to see in our
newsletter (or if you’d like to join the newsletter team), please feel
free to contact me.
I hope all CALL-IS members will be able to use these
professional development opportunities, whether in Portland or any place
around the globe.
Larry
Originally hailing from Cincinnati, Larry was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rich, Morocco from 1986-88 and then graduated with an MA TESOL/ Linguistics from Ohio University in 1992. He has worked with Partners of the Americas in Venezuela, and he lived in Isahaya, Japan, for a year. Prior to his position at Divine Word College, he worked in UT Martin for eleven years, where he published the TNTESOL Newsletter. |
