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Call for Participation
Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2021
January 11 - February 14, 2021
For five weeks in January and February, TESOL experts and participants from around the world engage in collaborative online discussions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by land-based professional development conventions and allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible.
Sessions are free and open to anyone around the globe. It is not necessary to be a TESOL or IATEFL member nor to attend the TESOL
Convention in order to participate. All you need is access to the Internet.
We invite you to choose a session from this year's offerings listed below. Please inform your colleagues about this unparalleled professional development opportunity!
Click on the link for the session you want to attend, scroll down to the bottom of the page and find the joining instructions for each session there.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/electronicvillageonline/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/evillageonline
Community: https://groups.io/g/evocommunity
Mailing list: https://tinyletter.com/electronicvillageonline
The Electronic Village Online Hashtag is: #evosessions
Click on the title of a session below to view the complete session description. You will find instructions on how to join the session on that page.
REGISTRATION IS FROM JANUARY 3 TO JANUARY 10, 2021
----> Due to the time involved, we very strongly recommend that you sign up for no more than two sessions.
Click on the title of the session to find out more and learn how to join
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Session description |
Session Moderators |
CEFR VS Assessment: How can new revisions help? |
CEFR has settled rules for determining students' language levels. Yet what is the relation between it and assessment? What are the new clarifications/descriptors added through the recently published CEFR revisions? Can these really promote teachers' assessment of their students' classwork and their lesson plans as well? Is there a place for technology also? Let's look it up!!
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Maha Hassan Aya El Wakil |
Classroom-based research for Professional Development
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This hands-on EVO project aims at empowering teachers to conduct teacher research to solve real site-based problems in their classrooms. Being guided by our team of experienced moderators, participants will have the possibility of implementing their research projects in their classrooms as well as of sharing them in the EVO online community.
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Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam Mariana Serra Rubén Mazzei Pınar Ayber Erkan Arkın Aysegul Sallı Sandip Kumbhefal Abd MPilar Martinez Sidney Martin Mota Ana María Otero Jimmy Ronald Riojas Silvia Severino Esther Vazquez
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Digital Imagery and Designs
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In the era of digital Imagery, it is absolutely necessary for everyone to get involved in the creation of digital images and process and also to understand the basics fundamentals this includes image retouching etc. Participant will learn how to process the Images such as changing colour, size and enhancement and also to extract some useful information from it. |
Peter Omal Rahalkar, Dr Anupama Mushtakhusen S.M.
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Effective Presentation Skills
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As we have gone very much online, webinars and presentations, whether individual or collaborative, have become commonplace in all professional fields. If you feel you could improve the way you communicate and present your ideas, you cannot miss this session where you will learn how to make effective presentations. |
Patricia Andrada |
EVO Minecraft MOOC 2021
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This session invites interested teachers to join us in playing Minecraft. Through meaningful play, we will learn all we can about playing Minecraft alone and together. We will learn and understand through play how Minecraft can be used effectively in language learning. We'll learn by doing and from one another.
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Stevens, Vance & family Abdelmoneim, Maha Bard, Rose & family Briggs, Laura Carroll, Don Chien, Jane & family Harrison, Kim Kuhn, Jeff Patrascu, Mircea Schwartz, Aaron Smolčec, Marijana & family |
Flipped_Learning_in_language_teaching
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This five-week online workshop is designed for both those new to flipped learning and those who are already flipping their classes. The goal of flipped learning is to reach every student every day in a meaningful way. In flipped learning, the group learning space is revitalized and turned into a fertile environment for students to engage actively and creatively with learning. Thus, participants in the session will gain further insight into the concepts and processes of flipped learning in order to transform their pedagogical practice and will also learn about tools to enhance direct instruction and individual learning. Of course, whenever possible, the workshop employs a flipped approach! |
Rodriguez Buitrago, Carolina Ramírez, Martha Díaz, Juliana Salazar, Diana K Garibotto, Gabriela Kenteris, Mike Sens, Aloisia |
Grammar for TESOL
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Grammar for TESOL aims to provide some general theoretical and practical knowledge of grammar as well as some suggested tasks for beginner and experienced TESOL teachers to apply their understanding of that knowledge as they prepare for more interactive grammar lessons. |
Naglaa Salem Dr. Nellie Deutsch Masahito Watanabe |
Immersive Storytelling in Virtual Worlds |
Storytelling is a wonderful means of getting our students excited. Recreating such a story in a virtual world would provide a great setting for roleplay and fanfiction.
Yet, how difficult is it to recreate scenes of Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter or King Arthur and his Round Table in OpenSim? What about character creation? Changing avatar outfit, clothes and accessories? When creating the scene, what building skills are required and when it comes to storytelling, what skills are required to come up with a captivating story? These main three challenges will be addressed in this EVO session and we hope to recreate a story in OpenSim.
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Dr. Randall Sadler Heike Philp Dennis Newson Alicja Bomirska Helena Galani Dr. Doris Molero Helen Myers |
Intercultural Competence 2021
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Intercultural competence is required today more than ever to avoid conflict and misunderstanding. Due to COVID-19 lockdown, we have gone ever more online and our interactions have become even more globalized. As each culture has its own values, practices, and ways of communicating, this session will help you understand them better and therefore help you achieve your goals.
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Mushtakhusen S.M. Patricia Andrada Dr. Nellie Deutsch |
M4TEVO21
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Moodle for Teachers EVO21 (M4TEVO21) session will take place on the latest Moodle 3.10 (latest version). Participants will learn how to teach online using resources, activities, and blocks available in a Moodle course as students and practice in the role of a teacher and manager of a course. They will learn to engage in team peer learning, to create video tutorials using Screencast-o-Matic, Vimeo, and ZOOM (screen recording) to document learning and to use in a flipped classroom, and to manage their own Moodle courses. In weeks 2 - 5, participants will work collaboratively to create a team policy and syllabus using Google docs and to develop their own Moodle courses.
Weekly digital badges and a final certificate will be available for participants who complete the tasks. |
Dr. Nellie Deutsch Harshita Kapoor Ewa Kozłowska |
Scientific Literacy and CLIL |
Scientific literacy and CLIL session aims to provide novice CLIL practitioners a focus on implementing CLIL principles in bilingual science classes. As many countries throughout the world have been implementing CLIL to promote competitiveness of the citizens, bilingual science may be one of the most challenging subject to be taught in English to EFL learners as science terminology and concepts may be more difficult to process in second or foreign language. This session aims to provide primary school teachers a platform to discuss how to promote scientific literacy with emphasis on how to provide support for English language learners. The sessions will be practice oriented as opposed to a focus on theories of CLIL. Videos of CLIL Science lessons will be analyzed in terms of language support and content learning. |
Dr. Jane Chien Dr. Chin-Fen Chen Dr. Michael Chyuan Dr. Jenny Chen Michelle Jose
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Self-Care for Educators with Mindfulness
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The human touch is critical to our wellbeing. In times of social distancing, online virtual meetings may seem to provide an alternative to face-to-face communication, but there are many challenges that can be facilitated by self-care. Participants of self-care for educators with mindfulness awareness practice will develop and strengthen a growth mindset to help face life and work related challenges with a caring attitude to the people they love and care for and their students. Participants will learn about the brain, self-care, and how to develop a mindfulness awareness practice. |
Dr. Nellie Deutsch Poonam Vohra |
Shaping New Ways of Teaching English for Tourism in Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan's International Tourism brands would be discussed based on authentic texts Training Principles a re continuing to research on ESP & BizEnglish issues ;best practices, analysis of pluses & minuses of our previous session Encouraging previous Participants for Moderators,Teaching & Moderating ESP for Faculty & Students, cooperation with International Tourism companies, as a part of Uzbekistan’s Educational Ecosystem UzbEnglish means:Teaching Students’ majors at 20 Branches in capital & far regions of famous foreign Universities in English; International online conferences moderated by Government officials, companies’ CEOs, Universities’ administration as English Speakers Halima as the Agent for changes in Routine ESP Teaching in Uzbekistan will share her novel point of view as Intelligent Tourism at Great Silk Route as the part of Experiential Tourism widely gaining cohorts of travellers worldwide. |
Halima Ozimova |
Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach
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The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach (SOFLA) is a distance learning model that includes structured, interactive, multimodal activities, both asynchronous and synchronous. Participants will learn how to implement the eight-step learning cycle and will receive resources to guide them in using SOFLA. |
Buitrago, Carolina R. Marshall, Helaine (LAINE) W. Philp, Heike Rubin, Heather |
TECHNO CLIL 2021
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CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning - is a "dual focus" methodology, fostering the development of language competences and the delivery of subject content at the same time. It refers to the learning of a curricular subject in a foreign language, with great advantages in terms of students' learning outcomes and cognitive processes. CLIL is spreading more and more, as an integrated part of school curricula in many countries. In order to implement this innovative approach, the role of teacher training is essential. This EVO session is aimed at spreading CLIL methodology, combining teaching strategies and technical tools and eliciting reflections and discussions among teachers from all over the world. It is important to share good practices from the different countries and learn from other colleagues through synchronous and asynchronous web meetings. |
Daniela Cuccurullo Dr. Letizia Cinganotto |
TEFL2YL EVO21
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Teaching EFL to Young Learners sessions is a hands-on session for teachers of English to Young Learners and Teens from around the world. The session will focus on activities that engage young learners. Teachers will use Flipgrid and PoodLL for student speaking, story reading, board games, limited resource classroom activities, curation tools such as Padlet, Walkelet, and Miro for collaborative work and reflections, and Screencast-o-martic for video tutorials to demonstrate learning. |
Dr. Nellie Deutsch Judy Wong Nives Torresi Sheryl McCoy
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Tools for Student Collaboration
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Learning is fun when it is social. In this session, participants will learn how to engage students in collaborative team-based learning in and out of the classroom using their computers and/or smart phones. The focus will be on Google drive (Text, Spreadsheet, Forms, Slides, Jamboards)), curation tools (Miro, Padlet, Wakelet), VoiceThread, Nearpod, Quizlet, Kahoot, Voki, Flipgrid, Vimeo, Screencast-o-matic, Canva and other tools that enhance student collaboration. |
Dr. Nellie Deutsch
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Technology for Spoken English
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Many English language teachers and their students are unable to speak English fluently and accurately. Technology can facilitate the process by providing practice. This EVO21 session provides various tools to practice and improve spoken English with fluency and accuracy. |
Sudarshana L Shirude Suchita R Mahorkar Dr. Nellie Deutsch Ajita Ganjale
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Wellness: A Happy and Healthy You
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In the pandemic and post pandemic times, the world will face many economic, social and emotional challenges. The realization of being in control of their life can empower people to ensure their wellness by taking charge of their thoughts, emotions and ways in which to deal with stressful situations. |
Dr. Anupama Rahalkar Peter Omal Dr. Ahmed Fal MERKAZI S. Tigmanshi Dr. Nellie Deutsch |
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EVO is NOT part of the TESOL Certificate: Developing an Online Teaching Program.
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