Our apologies for cross-posting!

Dear all,

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL
professional association is pleased to offer the
opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village
Online (EVO) 2008 season. This is a professional
development project and virtual extension of the TESOL
2008 Convention in New York. The intended audience
for this project includes both TESOL 2008 participants
and those who can participate only virtually.

You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in
a free , six-week , wholly online session of the EVO,
Jan 14 - Feb 24, 2008. Please visit our Announcement
Page to select one or two among the various offerings.

http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com

Feel free to distribute this annoucement.

Looking forward to having you in the EVO 2008 sessions,

Yours in TESOL ,

Dafne Gonzalez
On behalf of the EVO coordination team

----- Original Message -----

From: cristina costa

To: webcast

Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:33 AM

Subject: [webcastacademy] troubleshooting

Dear all,

it's been a while...

I have just come back from vacation. And I ma ready to continuing my training as a webcast apprentice! :-)

To my greatest surprise as I yesterday logged in to my laptop, which had also been on vacation! :-) - my ALTEC USB microphone is not working properly, as I am not able to make the microphone part working. I have checked all the settings and can't figured out what I am doing wrong. I need heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!!


I thank you in advance for that
beijinhos

 

Cris

 

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For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month.

Hi folks,

Here's the link to my next presentation.
http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/papers/index.html#next

I know I missed graduation (except for Jeff's) but I did learn to
webcast I think.  I put some notes up here (my checklist)

     * http://www.vancestevens.com/webcastacademy.htm
     * http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/webcastacademy.htm
     * http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/webcastacademy.htm

One of those should work.  Now it looks like I would like to attempt
this feat of individual b'casting on Sept 1, 06:00 to 08:30 GMT.

Now three questions

1. How do I reserve a space, like Sandbox 1 or 2 whatever?
2. How do I announce to the world that I will be using that space at
that time?
3. What do I do with the recording?

Thanks,

Vance

Hi to all new (and old) members of this group - just a reminder to you
all that the real action happens here:

http://www.webcastacademy.net/

This Yahoo group was really set up to facilitate communication between
members of the Webcast Academy TESOL EVO2007 session and for this
reason has not been used much since.

Graham

Hi and sorry if you're seeing this on numerous lists,

But I want to remind you of the free online conference starting in a
few days, May 17/18-20.

Our theme this year is CONNECT: Conversations on Networking,
Education, Communities, and Technology, and though not specifically
mentioned in the theme, many members of the Webheads community of
practice, http://webheads.info, are practitioners in language
learning.

This is the second time our community has hosted a free online
conference.  You can replay the first one at http://2005.wiaoc.org

This year we kick off in a pre-show event at 22:00 GMT May 17, with
the start of a Webcastathon hosted by http://www.worldbridges.net.
The conference itself starts at midnight GMT May 18 (evening of May
17 in the USA) with a keynote speech by Leigh Blackall and continues
for three days with more talks by Stephen Downes, George Siemens,
Etienne Wenger, Robin Good, Barbara Ganley, Teemu Leinonen, and many
other presenters whom you can see on the schedule at
http://schedule.wiaoc.org.

To attend the conference you can register for free at
http://www.webheadsinaction.org and use the calendar there or the
schedule link above, or our online help pages, to work out how to
access the presentations and make comments or join forums.  The will
be a voice stream of most events available at
http://www.webheadsinaction.org , as well a live chatroom for use
during the conference, and we hope to have someone live online
available to assist you at any time during the conference at
http://www.tappedin.org

We look forward to your joining us May 17/18-20 for this unique
adventure in online professional development.  We hope it will be
educational and F.U.N.

Please send this out to any others you think might be interested.

Vance Stevens

Dear EVO Participants,

The EVO Moderators and Coordinators would like to thank you for
taking the time to participate in this year's sessions.  We hope you
have found your time rewarding.

We would like to ask you to please take a minute to recognize the
valuable time your moderators and guest speakers have contributed by
taking a short (5-10 min.) survey that will help us plan for next
year (link below).

<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=407713346038>

Although you will receive this link in each session you registered
for, PLEASE take the survey ONLY ONCE.

Thanks very much for participating in the EVO!

--Paula Emmert
For the Coordination Team of EVO

Hi everyone,

I've been one of the moderators of this session and as an EVO
Coordinator as well I've seen my role here as being as facilitative
as possible with the YahooGroup side of this session.  However, the
session has not been set up to run via YahooGroups, but mainly
through http://www.webcastacademy.net.  There, we see content being
uploaded frequently, including several introductions posted, and an
accumulation of recordings of two sides of a skype conversation.

One big hurdle to my facilitation in this group has been that (I may
have neglected to mention this when I volunteered to join the team,
ahem ... but ..) I didn't actually know how to webcast.  But I'm
learning with the rest of us, and I have finally cracked those
virtual audio cables (like a whip, and my computer is minding itself
nicely now, thank you very much).

So my next step is to download Simplecast, and if it's all as easy
as what's gone before, I should be webcasting in just a few months
from now. Kidding, seriously, I'm hoping to be able to stream next
week when we meet again on Sunday at 15:00 GMT.

But what I'm writing the group about is not so much to report my
accomplishments (and which you can hear all about if you wish, at
http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/830) but to let you know that one
more moderator of this session is at last in some position to HELP.

So if you have any questions you'd like to bounce off us here, go
ahead.  Otherwise, we'll see you in the usual places and good luck
with your webcasting.

Vance

Wilkommen!! Meine Tante wohnt in der Nahe von Freidrichshafen am
Bodensee. Ich habe meine Tante in 2003 besucht. War sehr nett! Diseses
webcastacademy ist sehr Spass!


--- In webcastacademy@yahoogroups.com, Barbara Green-Studer <bgs@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello my name is Barbara. I live and work in Switzerland. I'm a
> teacher, trainer and teacher trainer, specializing in accelerated
> learning.
>
>
> Barbara Green-Studer
>

thanks, Chris, you are right...it was a typing mistake...

Susan

> Check your Skype ID, isn't it supposed to be
>
> susanellynb
>
> You missed an n the first time.
>
> Chris
>

Hello Sonia,

   Welcome to the academy.  Just a reminder to everyone who's joining
late - in order to receive 'intern permissions' on the site, you need
to register and send a note stating your interest from this page:
http://www.webcastacademy.net/feedback

Once you've sent the note, you should be notified of receiving
permissions within 24 hours.

Task#1 is to post a short audio introduction.
Task#2 (this week) is to post a short (about 1 minute) recording of
both ends of a telephony conversation using whatever method you can.
More info at: http://www.webcastacademy.net/Use_of_Telephony


--- In webcastacademy@yahoogroups.com, "Sonia" <sonni202@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everybody [:)]
>
> I'm Sonia Triana, EFL teacher at Javeriana University in Bogotá,
> Colombia. I got into technology in 1997 when I  got a Specialization in
> Multimedia. I'm always looking for new ways to integrate technology,
> teaching and learning. Last year I found EVO and I discovered a
> fantastic  group of generous people and an exciting way of professional
> development. My schedule at the university is really full, so I can't
> participate in the discussions but I follow  all the threads, check the
> suggestions and practice , practice.
>
> I watched Lee's movie about uploading  the audio recording but each time
> I click on "create content" the only option I get is "Forum" . Could you
> please help me, what else can I do? Well, in the meantime I'm going to
> post it in the files section of this group...
>
> Thank you for your help and see you around
>
> Sonia
>

Dear group,

here I am to say hello to all of you.  I am ready to try something new
now that AT LAST I have ADSL in my neighborhood and can move around a
little faster...just downloaded Skype and here is my id

susanellyb

for those of you who haven't met me before, I am a faithful webhead, a
CALL teacher in esl at the U. of Florence and I proudly have just
finished a Masters in e-learning at the faculty where I teach!!

;-) Susan

Hi everybody

I'm Sonia Triana, EFL teacher at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia. I got into technology in 1997 when I  got a Specialization in Multimedia. I'm always looking for new ways to integrate technology, teaching and learning. Last year I found EVO and I discovered a fantastic  group of generous people and an exciting way of professional development. My schedule at the university is really full, so I can't participate in the discussions but I follow  all the threads, check the suggestions and practice , practice.

I watched Lee's movie about uploading  the audio recording but each time I click on "create content" the only option I get is "Forum" . Could you please help me, what else can I do? Well, in the meantime I'm going to post it in the files section of this group...

Thank you for your help and see you around

Sonia

I apologize for being so late to join you and intro. myself. I work in
California on a project called California Adult Literacy Professional
Development Project (www.calpro-online.org), which is funded by the
Calif. Dept of Ed. Currently I run a program of professional
development courses for teachers and administrators of adult ed.
schools and agencies throughout the state.  Most of these use
Blackboard, in other words, they are entirely asynchronous and
discussion-based courses led by a trained facilitator.

I am very interested in exploring additional modes of delivery in the
near future, and Webcasting is one possible addition. I've been in the
field of training teachers of English language learners, both here and
abroad, since 1984 and have been doing this work online for the past
eight plus years.

I promise to make every effort to catch up this week. I'm grateful
that my two required business trips are done now!

Dear Jeff, Graham, Vance and all,

I'm Dafne Gonzalez (aka Daf) an EFL and ESP teacher
for more than 30 years. I am a full professor at
Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, where
I teach blended English for architecture and urban
planning courses, and technology-related courses for
teachers at the graduate level, and for teachers in my
department.

Webheads got on my way back in 2002 and my life
changed, so did my professional praxis.

I am introducing myself very late because I have been
very busy with the Becoming a Webhead 2007 session,
the EVO sessions in general, designing the courses for
the English for architecture and urban planning
courses and training the teachers who are being
incorporated into this program.

I am very interested in learning how to record
webcasts and who knows if in a future I can produce
some for my classes(as you can see I am optimistic). I
use all kinds of web 2.0 tools in my courses, and I
love to experiment with whatever tool I happen to find
in my cyberwalks.

I have Skype and Audacity. Unfortunately, I have not
been able to attend the webcasts, but I promise I will
listen to the recordings ;-)

Looking forward to this new adventure,

Daf
Yahoo Id: dygonza
Skype ID: dafnegon939

Becoming a Webhead:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baw07/




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Hello all,

My name is Buthaina Al-Othman, and I'm an EFL and ESP instructor from
Kuwait. I've been teaching freshmen and sophomore classes in the
English Language Unit (ELU) of Engineering & Petroleum at Kuwait
University since Spring 2006. Before that I was in the ELU of Science
since 2001. I am also a Webhead since 2002.

I am very much interested in learning how to run a Webcast and record
it. Unfortunately, I could't be active in Week 1 and won't be able
also in week 2, as I'm moderating these 2 weeks in the EVO 07 ESP
Potpourri. But I'll be lurking if you don't mind, and I hope to be
active in the coming weeks.

I have a skype account, and managed to attend the two webcasts hosted
by Jeff.

I look forward to learning more from all of you.

Best wishes :)

Buthaina

Hi Everyone,

My name is Mary Nunaley and I'm an Instructional Designer at a community college
just
outside of Nashville, TN. We are converting course management systems this fall,
and I want
to create a series of webcasts to help our faculty and students in the
transition. I just joined
late last night so it may take me a few days to get caught up.

I have always been excited about the many ways to use technology and this
academy should
be great.

I have no background in working with audio so I hope you won't mind my many
questions.

warmly,

Mary

Hi, my name is Sandy and I live in North Carolina. I run a family
daycare and am very interested in learning Webcasting. In the
technology field I do not have alot of experience and need quite a bit
of help. Hope you don't mind questions.

Bonjour!

Greetings from chilly Montréal! My name is Sharon Peters and I am a
teacher of English to middle and senior school students at Lower
Canada College in Montreal (an independent day school). Our school
began a one-to-one laptop program this year, so it has been exciting
to see the students learn and grow as they use technology as a tool.

I am also one of the the Women of Web 2.0 - a group that was
established a few months ago to help promote the use of tech tools in
education. We have a weekly webcast, which is hosted using
WorldBridges' support (special thanks to Jeff and Dave for all they do!).

It looks like all of us will have a great time getting to know each
other as we embark on this training session!

See you all on Sunday,

Sharon

----- Original Message -----

From: Graham Stanley

To: webcastacademy@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:47 PM

Subject: Re: [webcastacademy] First appointment here?

Dear Dennis,

We missed you last night in Second Life - we ended up having an impromptu building session in the Edunation sand box

Sorry for the late reply - all of the synchronous events for the Webcast Academy will be announced on the calendar at the Drupal site:
http://www.webcastacademy.net/

All the best,

Graham



>Graham and list,

>(1) Sorry my PC decided I should leave Second Life abruptly last night.
>(2) I am looking in on (too) many sessions of BaW07 and am frightened
>of missing something on this list. Can you possibly repeat here this
>workshop's first fixed appointment?

>Dennis