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Hello CALL-ISers!
Our newsletter starts off with a letter from Marta Halaczkiewicz who previews the Conference and highlights some must attend special meetings. It includes dinners, meetings, EV and EV Showcase details. This newsletter also includes articles from a wide variety of people on CALL topics old and new. First up, Jimalee Sowell, a PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, writes about her use of MOOCS in the classroom, including MOOC nuggets. Then, Perry Christensen and Brent Green of Brigham Young University – Hawaii write about using an LMS Sandbox as a preservice training tool for hands-on practice. The last from Lena Ellingburg, an instructor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide, considers the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous components in online courses.
When the CALL-IS was created, there was the first of many CALL-IS pairs of co-chairs, and Vance Stevens was one of them. Since Vance’s passing last year, there is now a Fundraiser for a TESOL Award in memory of Vance Stevens. Please Donate to create a TESOL award in honor of Vance's legacy, as the founder of Webheads, an EVO Coordinator, the First CALL-IS Co-Chair, & the 2019 recipient of the CALL Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. If you would prefer to bypass Facebook, please use this link. The link goes directly to the general TESOL Fund. You do not have to be a TESOL member to donate, but if you do not have a TESOL account, please create one with a username and password to donate. Follow up the donation with an email to TESOL saying that it's for the Vance fundraiser. TESOL email: awards@tesol.org.
Please make sure you take the poll. We are very interested to hear what you think about ChatGPT.
Thanks to all our generous contributors and the Newsletter Editing Team: Suzanne Bardasz, Nathan Toister, Nabiha El Khatib, Robin Miller, Bashar Al Hariri and Sandy Wagner. I couldn't have done it without their second and third sets of eyes.
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 us.
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 revised the second edition that has an accompanying app of an environmentally-themed ESL e-text with Kendall Hunt. Prior to his position at Divine Word College, he worked in UT Martin for eleven years, where he published the TNTESOL Newsletter. |
