Hello CALL-ISers! We are pleased to share with you the latest edition of “On CALL”. We had a great TESOL convention in Chicago, and we are excited to share articles and ideas that explore the use of technology in various contexts. In this newsletter, we have articles about tools such as Google Docs and H5P that will help in supporting and empowering our learners in improving their writing and other language needs. Apps such as Kahoot! and the use of e-books are also highlighted in these articles to help you think of other ways to engage and bring new life into your classroom.

We hope that this edition of the newsletter will inspire you to think of ways to incorporate technology in your classroom contexts and to get more involved in our IS. There are many ways that you can get involved in this IS and in TESOL such as writing an article, watching a webcast, or reviewing an app. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any ideas or suggestions for this newsletter. We look forward to hearing from you!

Suzanne

Hello CALL-ISers!

I hope you’ve had a chance to slow down and enjoy some time off this summer. If you haven’t already, please make sure you see the sidebars in this issue for links to our Facebook and Twitter sites. The other offers information on the Electronic Village Online (EVO). While there, please take time to take the poll. In our last poll, see below, we discovered

As Suzanne mentioned above, thanks to all the contributors to this edition and our stalwart Steering Committee headed by: Christine Sabieh (Chair), Claudio Fleury (Past Chair); and Co-chairs-elect Maria Tomeho-Palermino and Jennifer Meyer.

It really does take a team to put out the newsletter, and our team, like the CALL-IS SC, is pretty farflung. Thanks the Newsletter Editing Team, whose editorial excellence ensures nothing unexpected gets out: Suzanne Bardasz ( UC Davis), Grazzia Mendoza ( Zamorano University- Honduras), Sandy Wagner ( Defense Language Institute), Skip Gole ( ESOL teacher Montgomery County Public School System- Maryland) and the two newcomers from the University of South Florida: Patrick Mannion and Babak Khoshnevian. Thanks too to Suzan Stamper, who showed me the ropes. Suzan, a Senior Lecturer and English Language Team Leader at Yew Chung Community College in Hong Kong, puts out her twelfth anniversary “Making Connections” column.

If there is something that you would like to see in our newsletter, or if you’d like to join the newsletter team, contact either Suzanne Bardasz or Larry Udry.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you soon,

Larry

Suzanne Bardasz currently works at UC Davis Extension IEPP in Davis, CA, where she mainly teaches upper-level composition classes as well as classes in the English for Science and Technology (EST) program. She previously taught English at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea for nearly 5 years.

Larry Udry works at Divine Word College, a small Roman Catholic seminary for missionaries in Epworth, Iowa. 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 and is now working on a second edition. Prior to his position at Divine Word College, he worked in UT Martin for eleven years, where he published the TNTESOL Newsletter.