Hi, all.  It is exciting to see the community evolving.  Here is my info.

Name: Keiko Schneider
Yahoo ID : keikoschenider
Education: MA in Teaching from School for International Training,
Brattleboro, VT, USA
Position : ESL Instructor, Albuquerque TVI community college,
Albuquerque, NM, USA
http://planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/esl
email: kschnei@...
web site (really for Japanese teachers, some info for EFL)
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks

You may have seen my Handbook to senseiOnline list that Vance wanted you
to read regarding YahooGroups.  Basically you can change senseiOnline to
evonline2002_webheads, but please keep in mind that some settings and
circumstances are different.  (For example, senseiOnline is running for
more than two years.)

I look forward to the learning experience!

Sincerely yours,
Keiko Schneider

--
Keiko Schneider (kschnei@...)
Bookmarks: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks
Manager, SenseiOnline:
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html
Online Academic Conferences Chair, WAOE http://waoe.org
HelpDesk volunteer at TAPPED IN: http://www.tappedin.org

Hello

Here is the info requested.

1)  Ana Saravia. Please call me Ana.
(2)  Yahoo id: anamsaravia
(3)  I don't have a personal website
(4)  Professor - Dept of Languages, Centro Universitario Newton Paiva, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil - http://newtonpaiva.br
(5)  I'm relatively new to CALL so this is a great opportunity for me to
learn more. I hold an MA in TESL/Linguistics from Iowa State University and
I'm planning to return to the same university for a PhD in Instructional
Technology next Fall, which makes this online session even more important to
me. I've been teaching EFL and ESP in Brazil since 1995.

Regards,
Ana Saravia


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Thanks, Dafne!
Dafne wins the Extra Credit for the Voluntary Assignment.
BUT there might be more to this than meets the eye.
Dafne has obviously already associated the email address she uses for
evonline2002_webheads with her
Yahoo profile.
When Dafne visits YahooGroups and asks to see My Groups, the robot there knows
to include
evonline2002_webheads in her list of groups.

Is there anyone out there who can't get it to work so simply?
Fortunately, Keiko has already pointed us to a document where she's written out
the steps to resolving
that one.

I've organized the steps you should take according to the above contributions
from helpful community
members.
I've set where you should be in the syllabus right now to those steps, so if you
visit this url, you
should be able to find them:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/syllabus.htm#now

If you're on the mirror site, that would be:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/evonline2002/syllabus.htm#now

You can reach the #now bookmark by clicking on "click here to see what you
should be doing now -->" at
the top of most of the Webheads pages.

Everyone's next Voluntary Assignment is to reach the point that Dafne did.  If
you can't get there using
the steps indicated above then do one of two things:
  - write us and explain the problem and we'll try and help you resolve it
  - write out the steps you took to RESOLVE the problem and let us add them to
our set of instructions

Have fun!
Vance

dafne Chavez wrote:

>  Here's what I learned about changing E-mail parameters in Yahoo groups:
>    Go to the groups home page: http://groups.yahoo.com
>    Click on "My Groups"
>    Once on the "My Groups" page, click on "Edit my Groups"
>
> There you will find all the groups you belong to, and different options for
the reception of E.mails.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Dafne Gonzalez
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina.
> Visíta Yahoo! Noticias.
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> evonline2002_webheads-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Here's what I learned about changing E-mail parameters in Yahoo groups:
    Go to the groups home page: http://groups.yahoo.com
    Click on "My Groups"
    Once on the "My Groups" page, click on "Edit my Groups"

There you will find all the groups you belong to, and different options for the
reception of E.mails.

Good Luck

Dafne Gonzalez





---------------------------------
Do You Yahoo!?
Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina.
Visíta Yahoo! Noticias.


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Hi Bridget,

You're not the only country with a block on Geocities.  China is in the
same predicament.

For the folks in Tunisia and China, I've mirrored my site here:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm

That one should work (only problem is, tacky ads, but at least you
should be able to access the site).

Regarding the Yahoo ID, assuming you can access the site, check Keiko's
instructions here:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/evonline2002/syllabus.htm

and let me know how you get on.

Cheers,
Vance


Bridget Gersten wrote:

> Vance:
>
> If I have a Yahoo email account, do I still need to do anything at the
> Yahoo! Groups page? I started to sign in there, and it told me I
> already existed (user ID-wise). But the YahooGroups page also showed,
> when I was logged in, that I don't belong to any Groups yet. I hope I
> didn't miss something.If so, please refer me back to an earlier email
> that explains this. I went back to the TESOL EV page on the CALL IS
> but this didn't help me figure this out.
>
> I still can't access any pages from Yahoo from home and don't know
> why. I"ll try this from work to see if I can get a move on. The same
> thing happened for JoAnn Miller's course I signed up for: can't access
> any of the the links with assignments. I thought it was a Geocities
> problem (as this is a known fact/problem over here), but I don't know
> why I can't get into YahooGroups.
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed.
>
> Bridget
>
>

Hi Lena and everyone,

I mentioned in an earlier email that one advantage to using Yahoo Groups is that
you can manage many aspects of your subscription yourself.  Now it's time for
lesson 1, how to subscribe and unsubscribe to this list.

Lena wants to UNsubscribe agparshin@....  To do that she has gain
access to that email account and FROM that account, send the following blank
email (blank email means no subject or message, and if there is a subject or
message it will be ignored).

evonline2002_webheads-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

She then gains access to the email account she wants to subscribe, in this case
lenaparshina@..., and FROM that account, sends the following blank
message:

evonline2002_webheads-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Now Lena, in your case, since I know what it is you want to do, and since I'm
frequently on the YahooGroups site these days, next time I'm there, I'll check
for a subscription from lenaparshina, and if I don't see one, I'll send you an
invitation, which you should then reply to.  Once lenaparshina is subscribed,
I'll unsubscribe agparshin.  But if you can do it through email, go ahead.

Lesson 2 is how you can manage how and where you get your email once you've
subscribed.  There is one member of our list who is subscribed at two different
addresses.  In this way, he can send messages to the list from either of those
addresses (you can only post to our list from an address you have subscribed; in
other words, once lenaparshina is subscribed and agparshin is unsubscribed,
agparshin will no longer be able to post to the list).  But I'll bet this member
doesn't want to receive duplicate emails at both those addresses.  He's gone to
the YahooGroups website and set one of those addresses to No Mail.  There's also
an option there to set the delivery of email to Daily Digest.

So that's my spiel for this morning, and here's a Voluntary Assignment for Extra
Credit, in case anyone would like to start contributing to our community now.
Go to the Yahoo Groups site and figure out how to change the parameters on your
email (No Mail, Daily Digest, Individual Emails) and then write the list
explaining how.

Nice meeting everyone, and be sure to revisit our sites frequently.  If you want
to see who's sent a picture already, visit our community picture gallery at:

http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm

If you find a face that intrigues you, click on it and you'll be taken to that
person's profile on our Community Page.

I hope you're enjoying being a part of the Webheads Community, and that you can
see already by example how communities can be developed on the web.  If anyone
has suggestions or other ideas for community development, please let's discuss
them in our list.

Vance


Andrey & Yelena Parshin wrote:

> Hi, everybody. I would like to tell one more time that I've changed my
> e-mail address to lenaparshina@... I don't want to use
> agparshin@... for the Groups. Sorry, I repeat myself, but I really
> don't know how to change it. Thank you for your patience.
>
> And for the introduction of myself
> I am Yelena Parshina(Lena is a short variant of the name)
> My Yahoo ID is lena_parshina.
> My e-mail is lenaparshina@...
> I am an English Language teacher by Education. I have Master degree in
> Education, and Bachelor  Degree in English. I am a russian, have 2 kids and
> 1 husband. We are from Kazakhstan, the republic which is bordered with
> Russian Federation on the south. I worked as a high school teacher, then as
> a translator/interpreter. Now we live in Virginia USA. My husband is a great
> specialist, we are here on his working visa.
> Thank you.
> Best regards
> Lena.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vance Stevens [mailto:vstevens@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 14:38
> To: rita@...; Tong1570@...;
> evonline2002_webheads@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [evonline2002_webheads] Welcome all
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I guess we're making progress on getting started.  We have 43
> participants enrolled in this group (one enrolled twice at two email
> addresses, which is fine - with Yahoo Groups, you can manage your
> participation however you like).  We also have 15 applicants who
> requested to be enrolled, and whom I have invited, but who have for
> whatever reasons not answered the invitations.  Also we are still
> getting two or three successful enrollments a day, so we haven't fixed
> the community yet.
>
> You can see who is enrolled at this address:
> http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm
>
> You should see your email address on that page.  You will also see your
> name if I know it, your picture if I have it, and your affiliation or
> whatever personal information you happened to have included in your
> email to me so far.
>
> At this point, our task in community formation is to develop this page.
> So you should at this point send the list an introduction. I hate to be
> overly prescriptive, but for the purposes of developing the community
> page, could you send me the following information in this format:
>
> (1) Your name, in this format = name you like to be called + last name
> (2)Your Yahoo ID (you should get one if you don't already have one)
> (3) A web link, if you have one, to your personal web site (you can have
> two or three such links if you like)
> (4) Your affiliation, in this format ...
>  - your position in the organization (if you like)
>  - The name of the organization (dept., institution, city, country)
>  - A web link for that organization if any
> (5) A less than 100-word (limit) blurb about yourself
>
> In your blurb you can be folksy if you like.  You can refer to yourself
> in the first person: I am .. I have been etc.
>
> And, please, if you like (all assignments optional, remember) send (or
> point to, on the web) a picture of yourself.
> Send the picture to me vstevens@..., not to the list (I will
> if I haven't alreadyl blocked attachments on our list - we have a files
> area in YahooGroups if you want us all to have something, but that's the
> first week's topic).
>
> I will make a thumbnail of your picture and put it on the community page
> (you can see some there already).  If you want to crop or reduce your
> own thumbnail it should be 60x70 pixels.  But I can make whatever you
> send me this size if you don't want to bother.
>
> I look forward to hearing more about you and sharing this information
> with all present and future participants via our community web page.
>
> Vance ^v^
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> evonline2002_webheads-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> evonline2002_webheads-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Hi, everybody. I would like to tell one more time that I've changed my
e-mail address to lenaparshina@... I don't want to use
agparshin@... for the Groups. Sorry, I repeat myself, but I really
don't know how to change it. Thank you for your patience.

And for the introduction of myself
I am Yelena Parshina(Lena is a short variant of the name)
My Yahoo ID is lena_parshina.
My e-mail is lenaparshina@...
I am an English Language teacher by Education. I have Master degree in
Education, and Bachelor  Degree in English. I am a russian, have 2 kids and
1 husband. We are from Kazakhstan, the republic which is bordered with
Russian Federation on the south. I worked as a high school teacher, then as
a translator/interpreter. Now we live in Virginia USA. My husband is a great
specialist, we are here on his working visa.
Thank you.
Best regards
Lena.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vance Stevens [mailto:vstevens@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 14:38
To: rita@...; Tong1570@...;
evonline2002_webheads@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [evonline2002_webheads] Welcome all


Hi everyone,

I guess we're making progress on getting started.  We have 43
participants enrolled in this group (one enrolled twice at two email
addresses, which is fine - with Yahoo Groups, you can manage your
participation however you like).  We also have 15 applicants who
requested to be enrolled, and whom I have invited, but who have for
whatever reasons not answered the invitations.  Also we are still
getting two or three successful enrollments a day, so we haven't fixed
the community yet.

You can see who is enrolled at this address:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

You should see your email address on that page.  You will also see your
name if I know it, your picture if I have it, and your affiliation or
whatever personal information you happened to have included in your
email to me so far.

At this point, our task in community formation is to develop this page.
So you should at this point send the list an introduction. I hate to be
overly prescriptive, but for the purposes of developing the community
page, could you send me the following information in this format:

(1) Your name, in this format = name you like to be called + last name
(2)Your Yahoo ID (you should get one if you don't already have one)
(3) A web link, if you have one, to your personal web site (you can have
two or three such links if you like)
(4) Your affiliation, in this format ...
  - your position in the organization (if you like)
  - The name of the organization (dept., institution, city, country)
  - A web link for that organization if any
(5) A less than 100-word (limit) blurb about yourself

In your blurb you can be folksy if you like.  You can refer to yourself
in the first person: I am .. I have been etc.

And, please, if you like (all assignments optional, remember) send (or
point to, on the web) a picture of yourself.
Send the picture to me vstevens@..., not to the list (I will
if I haven't alreadyl blocked attachments on our list - we have a files
area in YahooGroups if you want us all to have something, but that's the
first week's topic).

I will make a thumbnail of your picture and put it on the community page
(you can see some there already).  If you want to crop or reduce your
own thumbnail it should be 60x70 pixels.  But I can make whatever you
send me this size if you don't want to bother.

I look forward to hearing more about you and sharing this information
with all present and future participants via our community web page.

Vance ^v^




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Hi, This is lena_parshina. I changed my e-mail address. Now it's
lenaparshina@...
Please don't send messages to the previous e-mail agparshin@... I
want to use only the first one. it's verified.
thank you very much.
lena.


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Hello all!

1. Name - Dan Bilitz
2. Yahoo ID - dan_bilitz
3. Web page -
http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/dan.htm
4. Assistant Professor; Business Economics Discipline; Wisconsin
Lutheran College; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Web site - www.wlc.edu

I teach marketing and management courses. My research interests
involve the use of technology in business education.

Hi,

Name: Carol Boehm aka carol lister

Yahoo ID: either jbcarol or cjbcaus

My web page is down for the time being
Instructor continuing ed - ESL
Affiliation: San Diego Community College District


I have just moved back from North Carolina and am
still living out of boxes.  I've been teaching ESL at
various levels to groups from community colleges,
private schools, and universities (in Morelia Mexico)
I have a MA in ESL and am almost finished with another
MA in media education - media literacy.  I've taken 5
classes (masters level) online and enjoyed each.  I'd
like to start a doctorate in communications someday
when I have time.

It's great to meet you all online!
carol

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1. Andrianna Jobin
2. andriachan
3. N/A (resituating)
4. P/T Instructor, Univeristy of California
Riverside Extension, International Education
Programs
    F/T Student, M.A. in Educational Technology,
Cal State San Bernardino
5. Before coming to Riverside and after completing
a RSA Certificate, I taught Conversational English
in Taiwan for a couple years. I am interested in
applications of technology and telecommunications
to autonomous learning, particularly for foreign
students and adults.

Thanks Ali.

The reason we need Yahoo ID's is so that everyone can access the
features of the yahoo groups.  And the reason we might want to let each
other know about our Yahoo IDs is that with them we can contact each
other on Yahoo Messenger.  This happens to be a free chat client that
allows multiple participants in voice chat rooms, and also simultaneous
view/broadcast of web cams.  That's for later in the session, but just
so you know.

And in case anyone is concerned about the course being 'over one's
head', you can participate here at your level of expertise and more
importantly, at the degree to which you wish to experiment.  We've found
in working with students and like-minded peers that if people in the
community appear to have found a useful tool for online communication,
others in the community will download and install it and the original
users will help the others learn how to use it.  Most of the tools are
pretty intuitive anyway, but there is always a lot of support in a
community, and no one is under pressure to do anything, since whoever
wants to can carry on even if all members don't participate.

Now, Ali has already joined us in one of our ongoing weekly online
sessions (each Sunday, noon GMT) at http://www.tappedin.org ... so Ali,
it doesn't look to me like this is going to be over your head at all
:-))

Vance


ali boumoussa wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Just call me Ali , that's easy to remember... I'm an English teacher
> trainer here in Rabat, the capital of Morocco. I have been mainly
> trained in applied linguistics and language teaching methodology...My
> IT/CALL training has been very very patchy and I think I'm still
> toddling at the CALL threshhold. I like swimming and, until further
> notice, cybersurfing too! And like you Dave , I have my share in
> another tremendous job with our two daughters...but it's a lot of fun
> too.
>
> My yahoo ID? Anyone really cares about it?    ali_boumoussa
>
> Looking forward to the course - I hope it will not be too much above
> my head!
>
> Vance Stevens <vstevens@...> wrote:
>

Name: Bobbie Hammock-McCall

Yahoo ID: Bobbieattegus@...

Personal web page: http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~brhammoc/ (under construction)

Affiliation: Student and Teacher (History, ESL, Technology Computer)

Organization Affiliation: University of Colorado at Denver

Web link : http://www.cudenver.edu/



A greeting from Central America my name is Bobbie I am an American teacher from
Aurora Colorado presently teaching ESL and computers in Tegucigalpa Honduras. I
have a BA in American History and an MA in secondary education and curriculum.
My goal is to obtain a PhD in Caribbean cultural studies. I am very interested
in Women (of color) gender and human rights issues. I hope to continue teaching
and studying internationally next year preferable some where in the Caribbean.

  Picture: Please see my picture on my website listed above still under
construction.

   Vance Stevens <vstevens@...> wrote: Hi everyone,

I guess we're making progress on getting started.  We have 43
participants enrolled in this group (one enrolled twice at two email
addresses, which is fine - with Yahoo Groups, you can manage your
participation however you like).  We also have 15 applicants who
requested to be enrolled, and whom I have invited, but who have for
whatever reasons not answered the invitations.  Also we are still
getting two or three successful enrollments a day, so we haven't fixed
the community yet.

You can see who is enrolled at this address:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

You should see your email address on that page.  You will also see your
name if I know it, your picture if I have it, and your affiliation or
whatever personal information you happened to have included in your
email to me so far.

At this point, our task in community formation is to develop this page.
So you should at this point send the list an introduction. I hate to be
overly prescriptive, but for the purposes of developing the community
page, could you send me the following information in this format:

(1) Your name, in this format = name you like to be called + last name
(2)Your Yahoo ID (you should get one if you don't already have one)
(3) A web link, if you have one, to your personal web site (you can have
two or three such links if you like)
(4) Your affiliation, in this format ...
- your position in the organization (if you like)
- The name of the organization (dept., institution, city, country)
- A web link for that organization if any
(5) A less than 100-word (limit) blurb about yourself

In your blurb you can be folksy if you like.  You can refer to yourself
in the first person: I am .. I have been etc.

And, please, if you like (all assignments optional, remember) send (or
point to, on the web) a picture of yourself.
Send the picture to me vstevens@..., not to the list (I will
if I haven't alreadyl blocked attachments on our list - we have a files
area in YahooGroups if you want us all to have something, but that's the
first week's topic).

I will make a thumbnail of your picture and put it on the community page
(you can see some there already).  If you want to crop or reduce your
own thumbnail it should be 60x70 pixels.  But I can make whatever you
send me this size if you don't want to bother.

I look forward to hearing more about you and sharing this information
with all present and future participants via our community web page.

Vance ^v^



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Hi
My name's Monica Aparicio. My Yahoo ID is monicaparicio2002.
I'm from Tandil, Argentina.
Currently I 'm DOS of a private language school and I teach a few classes
there. I'm coordinator of EFL department at a high school and conduct
teacher training workshops in various places. My main areas of interest in
the TESOL field are video and technology.
I've been teaching EFL in my country for over 20 years. I got my MA in TESOL
at Leicester University, UK. I wrote my thesis on the Use of the Internet as
a resource for EFL teachers. I'm very interested in  distance learning and
teaching and right now I have started online teaching at Englishtown.
I'm very excited about taking part in this workshop and hope to learn a  lot
Best wishes from Argentina

Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: <glenngo@...>
To: <evonline2002_webheads@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [evonline2002_webheads] Welcome all


> Hi,
> The name that I usually use is Dave (very common, right?).  My e-mail
address
> is
> glenngo@..., and my yahoo i.d. is 41110e.  I am interested in history
(I
> have a Ph.D. in this field), and related fields. Of course I am interested
in
> linguistics, and have 30 sem. hrs. in this area but no degree.  I have
> studied six foreign languages, and speak basic German.  I am interested
too
> in philosophy, and especially religious philosophy.
> Currently I teach E.S.L. at the DeVry Institute of Tech. in Chicago, and
have
> other teaching jobs as well.  I am married and have two daughters--who are
a
> big job in themselves!  I belong to the national and local TESOL
> organizations.  Any questions?  Please send me an e-mail.
>
>                         Dave
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> evonline2002_webheads-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>

Dear All,

I am Janos Blasszauer (36), a father of two (the boy is 6 the girl is
5)living in the provincial town of Nagykanizsa, Hungary.
My Yahoo ID: bjohnnyus
I have been teaching English for ten years now. Currently, I am working at
Batthyány Gimnázium (academic grammar school) where I am the head of the English
department.
I am also the EFL pedagogical advisor for the Zala County Pedagogical Institute.
My main task
as an advisor is to organise and give hands-on presentations for high school
teachers
in the county. I received my MEd degree in English at Pécs University.
My thesis was written on Computer Supported Collaborative Projects.
My website (under permanent construction of course :-)):
http://www.geocities.com/bjohnnyus
                                                                                           
or
                                                                                      
http://go.to/bjohnny

The website of the school: http://www.sienet.hu/kanizsa/blg/1.html

Looking forward to the course.

Best wishes,
Janos




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Hi everyone,

I started by responding personally to the introductions as they came in,
but I can't keep that up (and get any real work done, whatever my real
work is ???!! :-))

But I've put almost everyone's pics and blurbs up here (everyone who's
sent one already):
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

So check and see if what's there is what you want (and if not, I'm happy
to change it for you :-)

If you've just joined us, or you want to know what the assignment was,
there is a link you can bookmark here:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/syllabus.htm#now

Clicking there will always let you get caught up (if I'M caught up :-))
!!

If you haven't already sent a pic and a blurb, send one in (if you like
- all assignments optional!).
And if you have sent one in, check back at the page now and then, click
on people's urls, and watch as our community fills out.
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

All the best,
Vance

Hi, Webheads! Here goes my personal data:

Name: Rita Zeinstejer
Yahoo ID : ritazeinstejer
*TEFL in Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa (ARCI)
*Position : Area Manager for Kids and Advanced Classes
*Self Access, Laboratory and Multimedia Coordinator
*Cambridge Oral Examiner for FCE and CAE

Rosario - ARGENTINA
web link for ARCI : http://www.gpl.com.ar/arci/

As a TEFL I have taken several courses abroad, lately aimed mainly at improving
and enhancing the four skills needed by students to successfully communicate in
English, with the aid of CALL. I have made presentations with practical looks at
ideas and issues involved in developing Multimedia and Internet materials for
use in the language classroom. I am currently training the staff in my place,
conducting the CALL SIG in APrIR (Asociacion Rosarina de Profesores de Ingles).
I participated in TESOL Curitiba 2001 with "CALL for Teachers in the 21st
Century".


Rita Zeinstejer
rita@...
Rosario - Argentina


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi everyone

Just call me Ali , that's easy to remember... I'm an English teacher trainer here in Rabat, the capital of Morocco. I have been mainly trained in applied linguistics and language teaching methodology...My IT/CALL training has been very very patchy and I think I'm still toddling at the CALL threshhold. I like swimming and, until further notice, cybersurfing too! And like you Dave , I have my share in another tremendous job with our two daughters...but it's a lot of fun too.

My yahoo ID? Anyone really cares about it?    ali_boumoussa

Looking forward to the course - I hope it will not be too much above my head!

Vance Stevens <vstevens@...> wrote:

Hi everyone

I'm just winding up my weekend here, Thursday and Friday in Abu Dhabi.
If I'm at home, weekends are a good time for me to catch up on pet
projects, and this has been the case this past Thursday and Friday.

If you visit the website now for this session you can see how I've set
up our web page so that it starts to promote the sense of community we
hope to build here.  Have a look at:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm

If you want to see what you should be doing now to keep up with our
group, there's a link at the top of that page you can click on.

Forty-two people had expressed interest in the EVOnline 2002 Webheads
session, and after I sent the email explaining how you can enroll
yourself, exactly half that number responded with an email to
YahooGroups and were duly enrolled.  We're now waiting for the other
half to catch up.  I'll send them invitations (through YahooGroups) to
join us if I haven't heard from them in a few days.

While we're waiting, there are a couple of things you can be doing to
enhance your experience with this session.  First off, have a look at
our community page.
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

You'll notice that it lists names and affiliations of all participants
where known, and gives web page links and Yahoo IDs where available.  In
addition, some webheads have sent a photo of themselves (and one
participant in the WFW groups made a drawing of herself, which is
fine).  If you want to send me email with any information that's missing
from my chart, I'll fill it in when I hear from you.  If you want to
send a picture (all 'assignments' optional, remember?) the end result
should be a 60x70 pixel thumbnail. If you want to send one of exactly
that dimension that would save me some time and give you control over
what you look like on our web page, but if you send any pic I'll make it
come out the right dimensions.  Send attached pics to me at
vstevens@..., not the list if you can help it (and if you do
send it to the list by mistake it's ok, we've all done that at one time
or another).

Another thing you can be thinking about is sending an introduction to
the list, but you might want to hold off on sending that right now until
the other half join us.  If you do send it though, it will be in our
archive or group email where newcomers can find it, at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads

One other thing you can be doing: if you don't already have one, get a
Yahoo ID.  This will be useful because without it you can't access all
the group features at the url above (the options in the left-hand
sidebar) and you won't be able to participate in voice and video chat
using Yahoo Messenger.  Once you get a Yahoo ID you can download Yahoo
Messenger as well and be playing wth it.

Finally, visit http://www.tappedin.org and register as a member if you
like what you see there.  You can participate in our community
activities as a Guest when we meet at Tapped In, but as a member you'll
have a richer experience.

We have weeks in our syllabus devoted to the above suggestions, so don't
feel you have to do all the above now, just do what you think you can
tackle at this point and over the next couple of weeks before the
session starts officially on January 25.

Meanwhile, welcome to the group, and feel free to write to the list with
any questions, concerns, suggestions, and introductions when you feel
it's time for that (if in doubt, follow my lead).

Vance




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(1) Clare James
(2) Yahoo ID: sweetclaritycj
(3) No personal web site yet, but see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SweetClarity for the list I founded & moderate
(see also below, (5) and PS).
(4) Self-employed with my own joint-stock company (English-language
consultancy focusing on translation from Swedish into English):
Språkverkstan AB ('The Word Shop'), in Sweden.
(5) Taught EFL in London in the 1970s and Sweden from 1980. Since 1986 have
worked mainly in Swedish-to-English translation (which often involves
teaching clients). Now interested in getting back into teaching more
directly, this time 'virtually' (e.g. by interactive, personalised e-mail
courses) rather than in a real classroom, and not only with Swedish
students. My 'Sweet Clarity' newsletter contains language-related articles
and I write teaching material. Plan to make the articles and material
available on my web site when (if ever) I finally get my act together and
launch one! Interested in partnership with a kindred spirit for this
purpose.

Best,
Clare
(Clare James, BSc (Econ), Dipl. RSA, authorised public translator from
Swedish into English)

PS Welcome to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SweetClarity! If you want to
improve your English (and don't we all?) why not join? It's completely free
and non-commercial. The members include language professionals with English
as their mother tongue, as well as Swedish and other nationals with a
particular interest in English.
You'll receive the bimonthly newsletter and gain access to the archive,
which contains numerous articles about the English language and related
topics. (Do you know why, when and how to use the apostrophe, for example?
What is the difference between "in to" and "into"? What is the status of
English as a global language? What is the role of storytelling in modern
life? What is humour -- and English humour, in particular? These are just a
few of the many issues addressed in the past few months.)
You'll also be able to start discussions and get answers to all your
questions about the English language. You will, of course, be able to cancel
your membership at any time. And your e-mail address will ***never*** be
passed on to anyone else. Ever.
For a sample issue of the newsletter (in the form of a PDF file), just reply
to this e-mail with "Sample newsletter" in the subject line. I look forward
to hearing from you.
Best, CJ

Hi Vance,

Thanks for your great efforts, below you will find my info.:

(1)  Name: Ismail Fayed
(2) Your Yahoo ID: (ismailfayed)
(3)  www.geocities.com/ismailfayed
(4)  Affiliation:
  - Program Specialist
  - Integrated English Language Program - II, (Educational Technology & Resources
Unit), Cairo, Egypt.
  - http://www.ielp2.org

(5)  " Is a Program Specialist in the Educational Resources unit.  Mr. Fayed had
a First grade Professional ELT diploma from Ain Shams Faculty of Education. He
received his B.A. in ELT from Damietta Faculty of Specific Education, 1999.
Currently, he is a part-time Specialized diploma student in the FOE, Ain Shams
University. He is also a  member of EgyptTesol's afiiliate organization and the
Educational Technology Special Interest Group (EdTech S.I.G) membership
coordinator"

Best regards,
Ismail.



>>> vstevens@... 01/15/02 09:37pm >>>
Hi everyone,

I guess we're making progress on getting started.  We have 43
participants enrolled in this group (one enrolled twice at two email
addresses, which is fine - with Yahoo Groups, you can manage your
participation however you like).  We also have 15 applicants who
requested to be enrolled, and whom I have invited, but who have for
whatever reasons not answered the invitations.  Also we are still
getting two or three successful enrollments a day, so we haven't fixed
the community yet.

You can see who is enrolled at this address:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

You should see your email address on that page.  You will also see your
name if I know it, your picture if I have it, and your affiliation or
whatever personal information you happened to have included in your
email to me so far.

At this point, our task in community formation is to develop this page.
So you should at this point send the list an introduction. I hate to be
overly prescriptive, but for the purposes of developing the community
page, could you send me the following information in this format:

(1) Your name, in this format = name you like to be called + last name
(2)Your Yahoo ID (you should get one if you don't already have one)
(3) A web link, if you have one, to your personal web site (you can have
two or three such links if you like)
(4) Your affiliation, in this format ...
  - your position in the organization (if you like)
  - The name of the organization (dept., institution, city, country)
  - A web link for that organization if any
(5) A less than 100-word (limit) blurb about yourself

In your blurb you can be folksy if you like.  You can refer to yourself
in the first person: I am .. I have been etc.

And, please, if you like (all assignments optional, remember) send (or
point to, on the web) a picture of yourself.
Send the picture to me vstevens@..., not to the list (I will
if I haven't alreadyl blocked attachments on our list - we have a files
area in YahooGroups if you want us all to have something, but that's the
first week's topic).

I will make a thumbnail of your picture and put it on the community page
(you can see some there already).  If you want to crop or reduce your
own thumbnail it should be 60x70 pixels.  But I can make whatever you
send me this size if you don't want to bother.

I look forward to hearing more about you and sharing this information
with all present and future participants via our community web page.

Vance ^v^




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My name is Ron Fujihara.
My Yahoo ID is eaglerrf.
I have been an ESL teacher for the past 10 years and have been
interested in integrating technology in with our curriculum. I am
taking a graduate course at Pepperdine University in Educational
Technology. What has really captured my attention is online learning
for ESL students. I am very interested in setting up our own
online learning environment and somehow connect it to our Distance
Learning program. I am the lead teacher for our ESL labs.

Hiya All,

My name's James/Jim (your choice) Farmer . My Yahoo! ID is jamesnfarmer and
I don't have a personal website so you can get where I work on:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/
or a rather dodgy picture of me (and some students work) at the bottom of:
http://www.language.latrobe.edu.au/students/Jim's%20mail.html
(You can thumbnail that if you want Vance, I'm the one on the right!)

I teach general and academic English at La Trobe University Language Centre
where I also coordinate their CALL & ICT needs (from a pedagogical rather
than technical POV).

I ended up in Australia in January 2000 via Japan & the U.K. and am
planning on staying here indefinitely. I'm extremely interested in
'unplugging' CALL (i.e. escaping from these huge materials driven CALL
packages and looking at what really makes courses tick, i.e. people!), and
Yahoo! groups usage in teacher development and with students as a big part
of that. I'm looking forward to this!

Cheers,

James

p.s. G'Day Renata!

Hallo, everyone.

My name is Nigel Caplan.
My Yahoo ID is nigelcaplan. Original, eh?
I am in my final semester of the Masters in TESOL program at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and also an instructor at the
university's English Language Programs.

The blurb ... I am originally from the north of England, now living,
studying and teaching in the US. I am relatively new to CALL, and am
participating in this group to find out if computers can give me
something other than a headache. I am interested in the use of drama and
literature in language teaching, mainly because that gives me a chance
to indulge myself and call it a job. In my other life, I am a member
(and the co-founder) of the Underground Shakespeare Company here at the
university (www.undergroundshakespeare.com), and will be making a rare
stage appearance as the Welsh Captain in Richard II next month.

I look forward to meeting you all virtually,
Nigel.

Hi,
The name that I usually use is Dave (very common, right?).  My e-mail address
is
glenngo@..., and my yahoo i.d. is 41110e.  I am interested in history (I
have a Ph.D. in this field), and related fields. Of course I am interested in
linguistics, and have 30 sem. hrs. in this area but no degree.  I have
studied six foreign languages, and speak basic German.  I am interested too
in philosophy, and especially religious philosophy.
Currently I teach E.S.L. at the DeVry Institute of Tech. in Chicago, and have
other teaching jobs as well.  I am married and have two daughters--who are a
big job in themselves!  I belong to the national and local TESOL
organizations.  Any questions?  Please send me an e-mail.

                         Dave

Greetings, webheads,

My name is Chris Jones, and my yahoo ID is edtec2002.
My website is http://www.awc.cc.az.us/esl/cjones/.  I
am a professor of ESL at Arizona Western College (AWC)
in Yuma, Arizona.  The link to AWC is
http://www.awc.cc.az.us/.

I've been teaching at this college for the past 14
years and have developed ESL courses in keyboarding,
word processing a composition, using e-mail and the
Internet.  Recently, I took several graduate courses
in educational technology and hence my yahoo ID
(above).

Chris Jones


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Hello all, this is my introduction to the group:

Name:  Dafne Gonzalez

 Yahoo  ID: dygonza (dygonza@...)

  Associate Professor: I teach ESP to engineering and architecture students.

Universidad Simón Bolivar (USB), Language Department

Caracas, Venezuela. 

 Website: http://www.usb.ve . 

 At the moment, and for the last two years, I have been in Valencia, Spain, pursuing doctoral studies at the "Universidad de Valencia".  Since the topic for my thesis is evaluation in CALL,  I thought this session would be an excellent opportunity for me, because I have to design and teach an on line unit and my only experience with on line courses was a one-month workshop I took  (Evaluating Internet Resources).  I am excited and eager to start this new learning experience.

I am a member of TESOL since 1990 and belong to the ESP and CALL ISs.

Dafne

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Hi everyone,

I guess we're making progress on getting started.  We have 43
participants enrolled in this group (one enrolled twice at two email
addresses, which is fine - with Yahoo Groups, you can manage your
participation however you like).  We also have 15 applicants who
requested to be enrolled, and whom I have invited, but who have for
whatever reasons not answered the invitations.  Also we are still
getting two or three successful enrollments a day, so we haven't fixed
the community yet.

You can see who is enrolled at this address:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

You should see your email address on that page.  You will also see your
name if I know it, your picture if I have it, and your affiliation or
whatever personal information you happened to have included in your
email to me so far.

At this point, our task in community formation is to develop this page.
So you should at this point send the list an introduction. I hate to be
overly prescriptive, but for the purposes of developing the community
page, could you send me the following information in this format:

(1) Your name, in this format = name you like to be called + last name
(2)Your Yahoo ID (you should get one if you don't already have one)
(3) A web link, if you have one, to your personal web site (you can have
two or three such links if you like)
(4) Your affiliation, in this format ...
  - your position in the organization (if you like)
  - The name of the organization (dept., institution, city, country)
  - A web link for that organization if any
(5) A less than 100-word (limit) blurb about yourself

In your blurb you can be folksy if you like.  You can refer to yourself
in the first person: I am .. I have been etc.

And, please, if you like (all assignments optional, remember) send (or
point to, on the web) a picture of yourself.
Send the picture to me vstevens@..., not to the list (I will
if I haven't alreadyl blocked attachments on our list - we have a files
area in YahooGroups if you want us all to have something, but that's the
first week's topic).

I will make a thumbnail of your picture and put it on the community page
(you can see some there already).  If you want to crop or reduce your
own thumbnail it should be 60x70 pixels.  But I can make whatever you
send me this size if you don't want to bother.

I look forward to hearing more about you and sharing this information
with all present and future participants via our community web page.

Vance ^v^

Hi everyone

I'm just winding up my weekend here, Thursday and Friday in Abu Dhabi.
If I'm at home, weekends are a good time for me to catch up on pet
projects, and this has been the case this past Thursday and Friday.

If you visit the website now for this session you can see how I've set
up our web page so that it starts to promote the sense of community we
hope to build here.  Have a look at:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm

If you want to see what you should be doing now to keep up with our
group, there's a link at the top of that page you can click on.

Forty-two people had expressed interest in the EVOnline 2002 Webheads
session, and after I sent the email explaining how you can enroll
yourself, exactly half that number responded with an email to
YahooGroups and were duly enrolled.  We're now waiting for the other
half to catch up.  I'll send them invitations (through YahooGroups) to
join us if I haven't heard from them in a few days.

While we're waiting, there are a couple of things you can be doing to
enhance your experience with this session.  First off, have a look at
our community page.
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/community.htm

You'll notice that it lists names and affiliations of all participants
where known, and gives web page links and Yahoo IDs where available.  In
addition, some webheads have sent a photo of themselves (and one
participant in the WFW groups made a drawing of herself, which is
fine).  If you want to send me email with any information that's missing
from my chart, I'll fill it in when I hear from you.  If you want to
send a picture (all 'assignments' optional, remember?) the end result
should be a 60x70 pixel thumbnail. If you want to send one of exactly
that dimension that would save me some time and give you control over
what you look like on our web page, but if you send any pic I'll make it
come out the right dimensions.  Send attached pics to me at
vstevens@..., not the list if you can help it (and if you do
send it to the list by mistake it's ok, we've all done that at one time
or another).

Another thing you can be thinking about is sending an introduction to
the list, but you might want to hold off on sending that right now until
the other half join us.  If you do send it though, it will be in our
archive or group email where newcomers can find it, at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads

One other thing you can be doing: if you don't already have one, get a
Yahoo ID.  This will be useful because without it you can't access all
the group features at the url above (the options in the left-hand
sidebar) and you won't be able to participate in voice and video chat
using Yahoo Messenger.  Once you get a Yahoo ID you can download Yahoo
Messenger as well and be playing wth it.

Finally, visit http://www.tappedin.org and register as a member if you
like what you see there.  You can participate in our community
activities as a Guest when we meet at Tapped In, but as a member you'll
have a richer experience.

We have weeks in our syllabus devoted to the above suggestions, so don't
feel you have to do all the above now, just do what you think you can
tackle at this point and over the next couple of weeks before the
session starts officially on January 25.

Meanwhile, welcome to the group, and feel free to write to the list with
any questions, concerns, suggestions, and introductions when you feel
it's time for that (if in doubt, follow my lead).

Vance

Hello James,

and I'm also going to take this opportunity to welcome Joan Miller who joined
us a day or two ago ... and I'm copying this to our existing Webheads group, so
if new members appear, we'll all know how and why.  Many of our Webheads
members are familiar with TESOL, having participated in live online sessions at
several TESOL Conferences.  TESOL is at http://www.tesol.org in case you need
to know that.

Webheads is a live community of native and non-native speakers and learners of
English who are interested in getting to know each other and in the process
learn a bit about the free synchronous communication software tools that makes
this possible. We've been doing 'our thing' for over three years now.
Meanwhile this TESOL EV Online event came up and I offered to facilitate a
session on  how we got our community together online and sustained it.

The course syllabus is at
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm.  As you can see,
we are slated to 'start' January 25.

However, your options for participation are broader than that.  You can join
the yahoogroup we've set up for this purpose at
evonline2002_webheads-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (Joan has already done that;
not sure about James Farmer).  To join you just send email to that address.
Then you would follow the syllabus as directed.

Alternatively, you can also participate in the real thing.  To do this, you
send blank email to efiwebheads-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.  In this case we
treat you as a member of our community.  You would be invited to send a picture
and and introduction of yourself (all optional; everything is optional in this
group).  If received, we would add your picture to our gallery at
http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm.  If we receive
an introduction, we start a Webheads web page for you and link it from
http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/students.htm.  This would
put you on our listserv as well, though you are able to control what emails you
receive and where they are sent.

You can also participate by just dropping in on our live synchronous chat
sessions held each Sunday noon GMT.  We speak in GMT at Webheads.  This is
rather early in the morning for people in the USA, though we tend to remain
online till 2 or 3 in the afternoon GMT.  In these sessions we meet at
http://www.tappedin.org and we often branch into voice and video web cam chat
using Yahoo Messenger.  You can join us if you like (with or without being a
member of our group).  There is a url explaining how:
http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm

Until January 25 in the TESOL EV Online group will be forming.  If you would
like to join us at Webheads meantime, we are a very welcoming community, and
you would meet members of the Tapped In community as well.  Feel free to
participate as you like.

All the best,

Vance
http://www.vancestevens.com/

James Farmer wrote:

> Dear Vance,
>
> Yes I did receive the e-mail, sorry not to have gotten back to you earlier
> regarding this.
>
> Downunder we've been getting very involved in online groups, primarily
> using Yahoo! Groups, for the last year & I'm v. interested in engaging
> further with this area, I was especially interested by the passage below:
>
> *to help each other learn about forming and maintaining robust online
> communities*. We will demonstrate and explore use of the latest synchronous
> and non-synchronous communications technologies, including video and voice,
> while showing delegates around the Webheads community in tours guided by
> community members who can appear online for the occasion.
>
> I'd love to get involved, I'm currently working on an effective online
> teacher development group as well as using Yahoo! groups with my classes...
> however, I'm not too sure how to join (as I'm not an EFL student) this
> section. Any help would be hugely appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James Farmer
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> James Farmer
> C.A.L.L. and I.C.T. Coordinator
> La Trobe University Language Centre
> Victoria 3086
> Australia
>
> j.farmer@...
>
> Telephone:+61 3 9479 2451
> Fax:+61 3 9479 3676
> http://www.language.latrobe.edu.au/
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