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TESOL EVO - Electronic Village Online

 

 Multiliteracies for Social Networking and

Collaborative Learning Environments

 

January 9 - February 12, 2012 

http://evosessions.pbworks.com 

 

Please join the YahooGroup mailing list

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/

or http://multilit.grouply.com/

 

When joining, please leave a brief message stating your interest in this seminar;

otherwise, it will be assumed that the request originated with a spam-bot.

 

Please TAG all artifacts created for this course evomlit

 

About this seminar: A multiliterate teacher understands the many ways that technology interacts and intertwines with academic and interpersonal life, and actively learns how to gain control over those aspects impacting teaching, social, and professional development. Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of those aspects of changing technologies most appropriate to their situations. These strategies include accessing, identifying, aggregating, processing, and analyzing a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications.

 

Keynote Soundbite (5+ min.): Joyce Valenza on
Transliteracy: Teaching and learning with digital tools and literacies

From Ed Tech Crew 172 – An interview with Joyce Valenza: http://www.edtechcrew.net/podcast/ed-tech-crew-172-interview-joyce-valenza

 

More from Joyce Valenza, from K12Online 2009 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=443


 

Moderators:

 

  • Vance Stevens resides in Abu Dhabi where he is Teacher Coordinator for HCT/CERT Naval College, teaching and consulting in ESOL, computing, and educational technology. After 20 years as lecturer in English language, doubling as CALL specialist and coordinator, he worked 2 years in ESL software development in California, then returned to the Middle East as educational technology consultant and CALL coordinator for a language institute in Abu Dhabi, before working 8 years as a lecturer in computing at The Petroleum Institute. There he founded the online community Webheads, http://webheads.info, resulting in involvement in many community-based online professional development endeavors which have formed the basis of his professional development life this past decade. There's more about Vance at http://vancestevens.com/papers and at his blog: http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com.

 

 

Vance Stevens

Higher Colleges of Technology, CERT, Abu Dhabi, UAE

 

  • Kalyan Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor (Senior) in English at Bankim Sardar College, University of Calcutta, India. His research interests include New literacies studies, web-based learning design, Mobile-based learning and interaction design, and workplace communication. He is currently Vice-president of IndiaCALL (an IATEFL Associate), EC member of AsiaCALL , IALLT Council Member, and a committee member of GI SIG, YLT SIG and TTED SIG of IATEFL. He got BA Honours in English from the University of Calcutta, an MA in English Language and Literature, an MA TESOL & ICT from the University of Leeds(UK), and a PhD. He moderated the EVO session on Language Learning and Community Building in Second Life in 2011. 

                                                                                                    

                                                                                                     Kalyan Chattopadhyay 

 

Comments (13)

Mounia said

at 4:09 am on Jan 22, 2010

Hello all,
I've been able to do all week1 assignments and doing my best to finish those of this week. But, I'm afraid I'll be busy next week because My students are passing their session examinations and I will be busy mornings and afternoons. I hope I can keep up pace with you, however. The readings are interesting. Unfortunately, I can't read them all. The tools we've made use of til now are good and useful for teaching , tough I haven't been able to use them all (diigo for example) and I sometimes miss some online sessions because of work, and sometimes the moderators don't succeed to present it on time for some reason (technical proplems). I'm so pleased I joined the group. It's a enriching experience for me. I'll certainly come back later,no matter if I finish all what's required or not. A very big applaud to moderators. Mounia, Morocco. #evomlit

Vance Stevens said

at 3:53 pm on Nov 28, 2010

Hi Folks, I've been revamping this site for the start of the TESOL EVO sessions beginning in January 2011. As I value all the work that's gone into building this site over the years, and all the people who have helped, I have removed nothing. Go to archive sections in the sidebar to find all previous material intact.

Hope you enjoy the new course. All are welcome to participate in the public spaces: the Ning, and Grouply and Yahoo Group sites, at the links above. Looking forward to the F.U.N.

ElizabethHS said

at 12:21 am on Dec 4, 2010

Hi Vance-- Could you add some objectives for the course? Even a rough idea would be helpful.
Cheers!

jenice21@... said

at 10:44 pm on Jan 3, 2011

Hello everyone,
I've read the Syllabus outline 2011 and I'm looking forward to evrything that will happen here the coming weeks. I'm aware that in this era of fast-developing technology, teachers need to keep pace with improvements since (young) learners easily adapt to these rapid changes. I'm happy to be part of this group too and I'll try to contribute to the activities as much as possible.

Enjoy the coming weeks and success to all,
Jenice

Vance Stevens said

at 11:52 am on Jan 8, 2011

Mounia left a comment here a year ago but a reply now is appropriate. It illustrates several features that distinguish Multiliteracies sessions from others. For one thing, this delayed reply illustrates that this session is run not as a stand-alone course, but evolves as a community year after year. It shows also how learning is ongoing, not limited to a certain time frame, only the time allocated to this EVO session for example. It also highlights the fact there the course is conceived as a berry-bush, not as a conduit. In conduit learning, we all start here, go there, and end up over yonder. The berry bush is where you have a goal in mind but where you end up can be much different from where anyone else in the session does, depending on your own goals, and on the berries you pick along the way. We will encourage you in this session to chart your learning journey in an eportfolio where you document steps you have taken along the way.

Mounia says she can't possibly read all the materials here. This is understood; they are not meant to be absorbed in conduit order. They are arrayed as on a bush for you to pick the ones that are most accessible. With this concept in mind, I'm creating a Berry Bush Bookstore here with links to free ebooks that you can read if you wish, and with the understanding that you might not read any or all of them during the time we interact intensively together, but they are there if you wish, and whatever you read or watch or listen to in relation to this session will give us all something to talk about.

You can also access the recordings and free events at our co-community http://learning2gether.pbworks.com. You are welcome to teach us something there. You are encouraged to contribute in our communities and help us teach one another via our Self-Help Desk. We are a peer to peer network. The moderators are here to provide cohesion. We hope that you will add content and expertise here, and help us all learn from one another.

Sandra Annette Rogers said

at 12:20 am on Jan 13, 2011

Hi Vance,

I can't wait to see your "Berry Bush Bookstore" concept with free ebooks. Where did you get that name? What a great idea! I'll have to add it to my personal PLE afterward.

Dr. Nellie (Muller) Deutsch said

at 2:43 pm on Jan 8, 2011

Hello Everyone,

Great to be here. Do we need to check in at any specific area at first? Like, here, the ning or elsewhere? Is there a home base for the workshop? I introduced myself in the yahoo group. Is that home?

Thank you.
Nellie

Jennifer Verschoor said

at 9:37 pm on Jan 11, 2011

Dear Nellie,

Welcome aboard!! The idea is that you feel yourself at home with the tool that you like. Most of the weekly activities will be found in the Ning but feel free to use the tool that best suits your needs.

Please do not forget to use our tag #evomlit.
See you around cyberspace.
Warm regards
Jennifer

Luciana Caldeira said

at 10:24 pm on Jan 11, 2011

Hello folks,

I"m not sure if What I have been doing is exactly what I am supposed to do. I've checked the syllabus and tried to follow the projects listed there, but I was taken to so many different places that I feel a little lost. Besides I've been spending too much time. I know it must be part of the process of adapting to the platform, but please, help me organize what I have to do. Thanks
Luciana, Brasil #evomlit

Jennifer Verschoor said

at 6:12 am on Jan 12, 2011

Dear Luciana,

At the beginning it is quite difficult to understand how to navigate so many different online spaces. It is overwhelming!! I would suggest you to use the Ning as your main platform. Bear in mind that you do not need to do everything that is in the syllabus. I´ve been following your online steps and you are doing a wonderful job.

Keep it up!!
Cheers
Jennifer

Luciana Caldeira said

at 5:06 pm on Jan 12, 2011

Thank a lot Jennifer!

nagwa soliman said

at 6:19 pm on Jan 15, 2012

Hi everybody,
I am Nouga and I am an English Language Lecturer at the British University in Egypt.

Vance Stevens said

at 8:47 pm on Jan 15, 2012

Hi Naqwa, thanks for writing here and bringing life and currency to this page :-)

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