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Call for Participation
Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2022
January 10 - February 13, 2022
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About EVO
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.
EVO Communities
Kickoff Meeting
You are invited to EVO22 kickoff Zoom meeting.
When: Jan 9, 2022 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 2 PM UTC for other timezones, please click and check here https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Kickoff+of+EVVO22&iso=20220109T09&p1=250&ah=1
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsf-yqqjksGtewL5inH0de19AVtJNFg4wY
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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 2 TO JANUARY 9, 2022
SESSIONS for EVO 2022
----> Due to the time involved, we very strongly recommend that you sign up for no more than two sessions.
Vance is playing with the wiki now, will restore it to service working correctly soon, hopefully
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What have you done about assessment after a new normal year? Do you concentrate on f2f or online tools or a hybrid? Join us to discuss a new perspective of assessment in teaching English after a long challenging year with new hybrid tools. |
Maha Hassan
Aya El Wakil
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This hands-on EVO project aims at empowering teachers to conduct teacher research to solve situated problems in their classrooms. Our team of experienced mentors will guide participants in the implementation of their research projects in their classrooms and in the dissemination of their research findings in the EVO online community. |
Rubén Mazzei
Mariana Serra
Asli Saglam
Erkan Arkın
Sidney Martin Mota
Silvia Severino
Suchita Mahokar
Sudhakar Katare
Aysegul Sallı
Pablo Labandeira
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Participants will learn how to design and deliver a distance or blended course site with optimal content and tools according to best practices. Examples and options will be given and participants will showcase their work. |
Christine Bauer-Ramazani
Christine Sabieh
Rose Bard
Larisa Olesova
Sue Annan
Jack Watson
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This session will look at a variety of materials to engage students of Business English, looking at best practices for making, finding and adapting materials, together with the relevant knowledge of copyright licensing. Participants will finally show and tell what they have created. The materials design will also look at whether materials are suitable for online or face-to-face classes and for 1-2-1 or group lessons. The materials will be suitable for different topics and each participant will be able to make them work in their own context. This will be delivered by a skilled team of Business Teachers who all have experience in training and material creation, who are based around the world in a variety of different contexts, making moderation effective. |
Sue Annan
Kirsten Waechter
Uma Tadema
Grace Alchini
Katrin Lichtenfeld Oksana Hera
Vicky Margari
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Effective learning habits are essential for school and future careers. Participants of the session will learn about Personal Competency: A Framework for Building Students' Capacity to Learn by and develop effective learning habits that engage and motivate students to make good use of their time in and out of class. |
Nellie Deutsch
Suchita Mahorkar
Sudarshana Shirude
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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. |
Vance Stevens,
Aaron Schwartz,
Catrina Marie,
Heike Philp,
Jane Chien and Mattie Tsai,
Jeff Kuhn,
Bobbi Stevens
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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 not only gain further insight into the concepts and processes of flipped learning in order to transform their pedagogical practice, but also learn about tools to enhance direct instruction and individual learning. Of course, as much as possible, the workshop employs a flipped approach! |
Diana K. Salazar,
Juliana Díaz,
Gabriela Garibotto,
Mike Kenteris,
Aloisia Sens
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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
Masahito Watanabe
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Building in virtual worlds and virtual reality is creative, sociable and gets our learners excited. This fascination keeps millions of kids in Minecraft and millions of adults in a number of social VR worlds and video games.
Yet, how difficult is it to build in OpenSim or Second Life? How difficult is it to build in VR? How do you create an avatar in VR Chat or a home in EngageVR or AltspaceVR? When creating a scene, what building and perhaps scripting skills are required? How do we import mesh objects from 3D warehouse or Unity3D? How difficult is it to get started even without experience? In this EVO session we also try to compare building skills in a variety of VWs and VR solutions.
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Randall Sadler
Heike Philp
Dennis Newson
Barbara McQueen
Helena Galani
Doris Molero
Amany Alkhayat
Helen Myers
Alicja Bomirska
Jennifer Hamilton
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Language Assessment has been a relatively untapped area of language education, which keeps posing challenges for the practitioners in their teaching and assessment practices. This session aims at improving language assessment literacy of the participants through exposure to and discussion of key concepts in language assessment as well as production of assessment tasks as the final outcome. We aim at exploring the key concepts of and common challenges in language assessment (e.g. reliability, validity, types/purposes of assessment tasks, principles for assessment of receptive and productive language skills, integration of educational technology in classroom-based language assessment ) within a collaborative network of practitioners from diverse educational contexts. As an overall aim, this session is hoped to create a professional learning community who feels better-equipped in language assessment literacy to cope with assessment related puzzles and challenges. |
Asli Saglam
Ece Sevgi-Sole
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This session aims to empower language teachers through developing an ecological perspective of agency. Participants will examine the interplay of various factors influencing teacher agency. They will also reflect upon and share different ways of achieving agency and have a chance to implement language teacher agency in their classrooms. |
Zhenjie Weng
Grace kim
Jingyi Zhu
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In this session, participants will consider their LUDIC, LANGUAGE, and PEDAGOGICAL (LLP) literacies. Moderators will show how we are teaching with games, providing frameworks, worksheets, and other materials including examples of student work. Teachers will also design their own lesson plans under the feedback and guidance of moderators. |
James York
Rose Bard
River Swayne
Kathryn Kashitsyn
Jonathan deHaan
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Teacher-research can be a powerful process, having a profound impact on teachers and learners. There are now quite a few resources on classroom-based research which are easily available to English language teachers. However, there is a lack of guidance on how to support teacher research, particularly as a mentor.
Accordingly, this session aims to create a community of teacher-research mentors, providing an opportunity to share insights and provide specific guidance to enable mentors and prospective mentors to play what can be a pivotal role in supporting teacher-research.
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Richard Smith
Seden Eraldemir Tuyan
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Participants will learn about and develop a mindfulness awareness practice. They will work individually and in teams. The session activities include formal and informal mindfulness practice. The participants will keep a personal journal (diary activity) for reflections on the individual practice and mindful activities and on the weekly session activities. |
Nellie Deutsch
Sanja Bozinovic
Rahal, Aicha
Hala Gharib
Maha Abdelmoneim
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The goal of the session is to introduce Moodle learning management system for face-to-face, blended (hybrid), and fully online programs. Participants will learn how to teach online using the activities, resources, and blocks available on Moodle to develop their own individual and collaborative Moodle courses. |
Nellie Deutsch
Praveen Kumar TD
Zeynab Moosavi
Sonam Bansal
Nahla Nassar
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Click on the title of the session to
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Session description
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Moodle for Teachers - Learn to Teach Online
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The goal of the session is to introduce Moodle learning management system for face-to-face, blended (hybrid), and fully online programs. Participants will learn how to teach online using the activities, resources, and blocks available on Moodle to develop their own individual and collaborative Moodle courses.
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Nellie Deutsch
Praveen Kumar TD
Zeynab Moosavi
Sonam Bansal
Nahla Nassar
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Teaching EFL to Young Learners
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This is a hands-on session for teachers of English to Young Learners and Teens from around the world. The focus is on activities that engage young learners. Teachers will use tools for student speaking, limited resource classroom activities, board games, and learn a storybook reading improvisational play activity.
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Nellie Deutsch
Nives Torresi
Sheryl A. McCoy
Judy Wong
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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. The session provides various tools to practice and improve spoken English with fluency and accuracy.
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Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Sudarshana Shirude
Suchita R Mahorkar
Ajita Ganjale
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Tools for Student Collaboration
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Learning is fun when it’s 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 is on curation and video recording tools that engage learners in peer and collaborative learning.
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Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Alina Mirela Popa
Dr. Deepika Kohli
Maria Flouraki
Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Shalini Attri
Debora Servidio
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Video Based Mobile Learning
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Learn how students can create video tutorials on their smartphone to engage in storytelling, video tutorials, and presentations. With free screen recording tools with online and offline download capabilities for desktop sharing, participants will be able to communicate, learn from peers and have fun.
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Nellie Deutsch
Dr. Deepika Kohli
Sudarshana Shirude
Cynthia Javes
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EVO is NOT part of the TESOL Certificate: Developing an Online Teaching Program.
For information about this Certificate program, please contact TESOL at
TESOL Professional Learning
or
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