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BaW2012

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Becoming a Webhead 2012

 

 

 

Session Outline

 

 

Abstract

Webheads in Action is a long-standing community of practice of language teachers worldwide, coordinated by Vance Stevens. In the Becoming a Webhead workshop, which is an introduction to Webheads in Action, we explore Web communication tools and share the best ways of using them in our teaching practices, engage with students in virtual classes, collaborate in projects, and participate in conferences as audience and presenters. This collaboration takes place online, as we are all geographically apart. Would you like to join us?

 

 

Target Audience

ESL/EFL teachers interested in using communication tools in their teaching, be it exclusively online or blended into face-to-face teaching.

 

LEVEL: False Beginners.

 

Requirements: Have an e-mail account and Internet access, and familiarity with browsers and Web navigation. Have a headset with mic is advisable for the live sessions.

 

 

Interest Section Sponsors

TESOL CALL-IS and the Association of Teachers of English of the Czech Republic


 

Syllabus 

 

Weekly Outline

 

In the course of the 5 weeks, participants will learn collaboratively and hands on to:

 

  • use various synchronous and asynchronous web tools for learning and teaching EFL/ESL,
  • interact through e-mail, text chat, voice chat, voice and video mail, and distribution lists, among others,
  • create wikis, blogs, podcasts and interactive exercises related to their own contexts, and,
  • reflect on ways of applying those tools to their teaching, either online or face-to-face.

 

Weekly chats will be held to discuss content and pre-defined topics, build rapport and create a sense of community.

 

Former and very active BaW participants, some of whom are now active members of Webheads in Action, will moderate the 5 weeks of our session.

 

Much of the content derived from the discussions will be made available through a wiki created during the five weeks, which will be kept online for future reference.

 

At the end of the session participants will be invited to join the Webheads in Action (WiA) community of practice.

 

 

Week 1  (Jan 9 - 15, 2012)

 

Getting acquainted with Yahoo Groups. Introductions.

 

Participants will introduce themselves to the group, get acquainted with the Yahoo Groups platform, and interact among each other through the mailing list. During the week, we will take a tour of Tapped In, a well-known online community of international educators, where participants will be able to create their own virtual office and later meet with students and colleagues.

 

Guest presenter: to be announced

 

 

 

 

Week 2 (Jan 16 - 22, 2012)

 

Synchronous and asynchronous communication tools: Text /Audio/Video 
Participants will have the opportunity to chat with other Webheads through different synchronous media such as Yahoo Messenger and Skype. During these chats they will learn how to use the many powerful features of each of these environments, such as voice chat and webcam-enhanced chat. Video email will be introduced through tools such as Eyejot, Audiopal and Winkball. Regarding asynchronous tools, participants will explore several podcast providers (Podomatic, Viewpoint, Podbean, Audiopal, Audioboo, Voxopop, and VoiceThread) to create their own podcasts and add them to the wikis/blogs they will create the following week.   

Guest presenter: tba
Venue: tba

 

 

Week 3 (Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2012)

 

Building an online presence: Blogs and wikis.

Participants will be introduced to blogs and wikis. They will explore different blog providers (Blogger, Wordpress, Edublogs) and wiki providers (PBworks, Wikispaces, Wetpaint) to start their own sites. Participants will also use slide/photo sharing applications (VoiceThread, Flickr, Photopeach, Slideshare, Animoto and Sliderocket, among others) to create content and add it to their blogs/wikis. We will also touch on Social Networking (e.g. microblogging through Twitter) as part of building an online presence. Participants will create a blog or a wiki to keep track of the activities developed during this session, and will also create a Twitter account and embed a Twitter widget in their blog/wiki.

Guest presenter:  tba
Venue: tba

 

 

 

 

Week 4  (Jan 30- Feb 05, 2012)

 

Developing class materials: interactive exercise creators.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore different online exercise makers and create their own materials for their classes using software such as HotPotatoes, Quizlet, Crossword Compiler and Educaplay, among many others. They will then link or embed their exercises in their wiki/blog.

Guest presenters: tba
Venue: tba

 

 

 

Week 5  (Feb 06 -12, 2012)

 

Online and Blended Learning: Wrap-up. Conclusions and Evaluation. Graduating as a Webhead in Action.

Participants will share reflections about "online and blended learning" and arrive at the main conclusions about the online Web communication tools explored and their role in language learning. Participants will also give feedback about the session. To wrap up these five weeks, there will be a "Graduation Ceremony" live session during which participants will be invited to join the "Webheads in Action" community.

Guest Presenter: tba
Venue:  tba


Join this session

 

Sign-up for the session starts on Jan 2nd, 2012 .

 

The action starts on Jan 9, 2012.

 

To join this group:

 

From January 2 to 8:

 

  1. Go to: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/baw2012/
  2. Request to join the Group
  3. Wait for approval 

 

 

Note:

When you register for the group, you will have to be approved by the moderator in order to reduce the possibility of "unwanted" members (such as spammers).

 


Coordinators

 

Teresa Almeida d’Eça is a recently retired EFL teacher. She taught English for 33 years at most levels. She lives and works from home in a small town in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal. In January 2002, she joined the Webheads in Action for the EVOnline 8-week teacher development workshop, and since then she has been actively involved in the cyberworld of education! She has published two books, one on the use of the Internet in education and the other on the use of email in the classroom. She presents regularly at conferences at home and abroad. She's been coordinator and co-moderator of BaW with Dafne González since 2004. She also co-moderated with Dafne the TESOL Principles and Practices Certificate Program course "Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar Online". You're welcome to visit her website and to get in touch with her at tmvaz@mail.telepac.pt

 

 

Fernanda Rodrigues

 

Hi everybody! My name is Fernanda, and I live in Setúbal, a city about 50 kms south of Lisbon, Portugal.

I have been retired for a year, after a career of 38 years as an EFL teacher at secondary schools. I was responsible for several ICT projects at my school like the school webpage, Moodle platform and projects with educational resources. I have also been a teacher trainer, f2f and online. I have been a Webhead since 2002 and a co-moderator in BaW workshops for some years.

 

 

 

Larissa Olesova


I am Larisa Olesova from Yakutsk (Russia), but currently I have finished my Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology at Purdue University in the United States. I have been teaching EFL and ESP at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk     since 1989. I still have an opportunity to teach my students in Yakutsk. How? Of course - by using all available technologies today! I am teaching online a lot. I am still excited to see how the world is getting smaller and closer through technologies. Today, I widely use online collaboration between classes in Yakutsk and in the United States. I am in EVO almost since 2003 and I always try to attend all EVO sessions at TESOL. I have been involved into Becoming a Webhead since 2009. In 2010, I had an opportunity to moderate one of the BAW sessions devoted to online chat and conferences with my colleague from Brazil Jose Antonio. Then, I moderated the week on interactive activities in 2011 with my friend from Russia Valentina. Thanks to invitation of my best friend Teresa from Lisbon, Portugal I was able to open the EVO world online! I am looking forward to another round of exciting events and discussions!



Moderators

 

Previous participants of BaW sessions have been invited to moderate each of the weeks of the session. Meet them here.

 

Communication Media Used

 

Session tools

Some of the tools and sites to be introduced 

Yahoo Group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/baw2012/ 

Audiopal: http://www.audiopal.com/

 

Box (online file storage): http://www.box.net/

 

Dropbox (online file storage): http://www.dropbox.com/

 

Delicious (bookmarking): http://delicious.com/

 

Learning Times (vClass): http://home.learningtimes.net

 

PBworks (wiki): http://pbworks.com

 

Podomatic (podcasting):  http://www.podomatic.com/

 

Podbean (podcasting): http://www.podbean.com/

 

Skype (chat):  http://www.skype.com/

 

Tapped In: http://www.tappedin.org/

 

Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/

 

Voxopop: http://www.voxopop.com/

 

Yahoo Messenger (chat): http://messenger.yahoo.com/


The Electronic Village Online is a project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section

 

 
                                        TESOL, an international education association

 


 

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