Greetings all!

I hope you’ve had a chance to slow down and enjoy some time off this summer. I’m pleased to share with you the latest edition of On CALL. Make sure you see the sidebars on our homepage. One offers information on the Electronic Village Online (EVO).

The EVO sessions are free online sessions for language teachers worldwide. The Call for Proposals can be found here. Proposals relevant to CALL/TESOL are due 4 Sept. Moderator training will be 16 Oct–13 Nov. Sessions will be held 8 Jan 8–12 Feb 2017. Proposal instructions can be found here. To view past proposals, click here, and a previously published article about the EVO can be found here.” the EVO CALL-IS liaison, “ these are free online sessions for language teachers worldwide. The Call for Proposals can be found here. Proposals relevant to CALL/TESOL are due Sept. 4. Moderator Training will be Oct. 16 - Nov. 13. Sessions will be held Jan 8 – Feb. 12, 2017. Proposal instructions can be found here. To view past proposals click here and to read a previously published article about the EVO, it can be found here.” In addition, the other sidebar has information on a new professional development opportunity. Called InterSections Online, it offers chances for members and nonmembers to take part in encore presentations of InterSections. There will be at least three presentations per session, and sessions are now tentatively scheduled for August (27th or 28th) or early September (3rd or 4th), and the other in mid-November (19th or 20th). Look here for details. While on our newsletter homepage, please take a few minutes to take our poll. The CALL-IS leadership is interested in what you think are emerging issues and topics in CALL. This will possibly help us determine the direction of topics for Electronic Village sessions in the future. Heads up: It is an open-ended question. I will share the results in our next newsletter. Finally, in this newsletter, there are a few articles that explore pedagogy and teaching using CALL in new and interesting ways.

It really takes a village to put out a newsletter. First, I would like to thank the newsletter editing team, especially Grazzia Maria Mendoza, MEd Zamorano University Honduras, and Carolina Rodriguez-Buitrago, Lecturer at Universidad de La Sabana, Bogotá, Colombia. I wouldn’t have been able to put this newsletter out this year without their help. Also a big thanks to all the CALL- IS Steering Committee contributors: Jack Watson, the current president and ELP e-learning coordinator, University of New Brunswick English Language Programme, Fredericton New Brunswick, Canada; and Stephanie Korslund, the outgoing chair who is the director of the Language Studies Resource Center, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Finally, thanks to all the contributors in the newsletter: Seth French, who is pursuing a PhD at the University of Arkansas–Fayetteville; Jennifer Meyer, a newly-minted CALL-IS Steering Committee member who teaches K–12 ESL in middle Tennessee; and Abir El Shaban, a PhD candidate in the Language, Literacy, and Technology Program at Washington State University. Suzan Stamper, a senior lecturer and English language team leader at Yew Chung Community College in Hong Kong, celebrates the 10th year of her biannual “Making Connections” column, introducing some new “faces in the crowd.” She has been actively involved in CALL since 1995.

If there is something that you would like to see in our newsletter or if you’d like to join the newsletter team, contact me.

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon,

Larry

Larry Udry has worked at Divine Word College, a small Catholic seminary in Epworth, Iowa, since 2003. He has published the CALL-IS newsletter and has served on the CALL-IS Steering Committee since 2009. Recently, he published an environmentally themed ESL e-text with Kendall Hunt. Prior to his position at Divine Word College, he worked in UT Martin for 11 years, where he published the TNTESOL Newsletter.