Suzanne Bardasz, University of California- Davis, California, USA
Larry Udry, Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa, USA |
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Hello CALL-ISers!
We hope that all of you are enjoying the summer! We are still
raving about some of the presentations we saw at the TESOL 2019
Convention in Atlanta. This issue brings together some of the highlights
from the Convention and Electronic Village (EV), including the latest
reference management tools that could help students organize their
materials for research papers and prevent plagiarism as well as digital
backchanneling tools such as YoTeach! that can help keep the
conversation going outside of the classroom.
Hopefully, reading these articles will inspire you to use these
or similar tools in your classroom. And thanks for the contributions
from our co-chairs Heather Benucci and Abe Reshad and steering committee
newcomer Taira Neves of Utah State University. Of course, the
newsletter would not be complete if it were not for Suzan Stamper, our
former newsletter editor, who puts out her 14th 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, please feel
free to contact us.
Suzanne and Larry
Suzanne Bardasz currently works at UC Davis
Extension IEPP in Davis, California, 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 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 at UT Martin for 11 years, where he published the TNTESOL Newsletter. |
