The Classics at the Electronic Village

A highlight of each year’s TESOL CALL-IS Electronic Village (EV) Fair is the EV Fair Classics, a collection of outstanding presentations and presenters from EV Fairs at previous TESOL conventions. This year’s edition of the Classics features two sessions: one on Friday, March 22, 2–2:50 pm CST, and the second on Saturday, March 23, 11–11:50 am CST. Webcasts of several sessions will also be available. Here’s the Classics roster for Friday:

• M. Karen Jogan: Social Bookmarking: Organizing and Sharing Resources With Web 2.0
• Ann Byfield: Hot Potatoes: Hot or Not?
• Tom Robb: Checking What Students Have Read With a Free, Online Quiz Program
• Ashley Hastings, Brenda Murphy, Barbara Wheatley: Using Blackboard to Assess Language Proficiency
• Randall Davis: Beyond "Googling": Research Techniques for ESL Students
• Marisa Mendonça Carneiro, Junia Braga: Dealing With Super-sized Classes: Ingrede Trajectory
• Mabel Ortiz Navarete, Claudio Diaz Larenas: Using Digital Stories to Improve Nonnative Student Teachers’ Language Proficiency
• Lyra Riabov: Culture Integration in Action: Technology and Model Solutions
• Lili Bruess, PhD: Realizing the Promise of Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Language Learning
• Leslie Opp-Beckman: Shaping the Way We Teach English (webcast)
• Sandy Wagner: Oh, What a Site! Google Sites for Language Learning (webcast)
• Nellie Deutsch: EVO: Moodle for Teachers (webcast)
• Evelyn Izquierdo, Miguel Mendoza: EVO: Podcasts, Web-Based Recordings, and Videocasts: Dynamic and Interactive Ways to Provide Feedback (webcast)
• Daniela C. Wagner-Loera: EVO: EVO Mentoring (webcast)

Saturday’s Classics session includes these presentations:

• June Rose: PowerPoint and Pronunciation
• Thomas Leverett: Grammar Technology: For Better or Worse
• Marcos Racilan: Integrating Google My Maps and Language Learning: The Collaborative Creation of Virtual Tour Guides by Brazilian Students
• Cynthia Wiseman, Joshua Belknap: Something "Wiki" This Way Comes! Instant Interactive Websites
• Brenda Murphy, PhD: 10 Ways to Use the Blackboard Discussion Board
• Randall Davis: Online Listening: Tricks, Tools, and New Directions
• Phil Hubbard: An Invitation to CALL: A Mini-Course for CALL Teacher Education
• Jennie Brown, Roger Drury: Podcasting for Pronunciation
• Roger W. Gee: Constructing Corpus-Based Grammar Activities
• Gary Carkin, Fernando Molia, Leslie Sapp: EVO: The Wonderful World of Teaching English Through Drama
• Kenji Kitao, S. Kathleen Kitao: Using Cloze Generator to Make Cloze Exercises
• Leslie Opp-Beckman, Rawan Yaghi, Deanna Hochstein, Deborah Healey: Women Teaching Women English (WTWE) (webcast)
• Vance Stevens, Claire Bradin Siskin: EVO: Multiliteracies MOOC (webcast)
• Jim Bame: Student Projects and More Using Nicenet.org (webcast)

If you’re in Dallas for the TESOL Convention, the Classics coordinators invite you to drop by the Electronic Village to hear some of these very informative and engaging presentations. If you can’t attend the convention, you’re still welcome to participate online by joining one of the webcast presentations. Links to the web casts will be available at the CALL-IS Moodle.

Jack Watson is a senior administrator/facilitator at the University of New Brunswick English Language Programme. He is a member of the TESOL CALL-IS Steering Committee, serving as co-coordinator of EV Fair Classics and co-coordinator of Web Cast Development. Spare-time indulgences include blues guitar and home renovation.