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"The CALL Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) offers language teachers world-wide the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2011 Convention in New Orleans, LA, USA. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL convention-goers and those who can participate only virtually. Interest Sections, Affiliates, E-groups, and other member groups of TESOL in particular are invited to sponsor sessions related to the convention. "

"Do you Diigo? To be honest, I signed up but never used the online social-bookmarking tool. Fortunately, TESOL's Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Section has been busy bookmarking some great online resources. Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith shared the Diigo CALL IS Virtual Software List on the TESOL CALL Community: http://www.diigo.com/user/call_is_vsl. This list contains tons of resources on various teaching topics! However, this post focuses only on the teacher-training videos." A nice review and selection by Sandra Rogers for the TESOL Blog.

"TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it." Embed in a blog, etc. Could be very useful if you want to use just a small clip from a longer video for your language class.

"TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it." It's handy that the site begins with a search engine to find a topic or URL in YouTube.

The home page of the CALL Interest Section of TESOL has links to resources, including the Software List and the Electronic Village Online.

A presentation for the 25th Anniversary of CALL IS Colloquium\nTESOL Denver, March 26, 2009, by Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, a Past Chair of the CALL Interest Section.\n\nThis wiki: \n\nFor the full text of these remarks, see\n\n\nReferences:\n

"Relevant real-world content Each lesson is based in authentic content-the world-class news and information on CNN-and organized in sections that match the needs and interests of learners. This makes the learning experience personalized and relevant. No nonsensical sentences or made-up stories. New lessons every day Today's news becomes today's lessons on en.news, with new lessons published on a daily basis. That's like giving the world a new English textbook every day. For free. Unlimited learning for free Learning a language is a lifelong journey and on en.news, learners can return as often as they want to take as many lessons as they want. There's no "end of a book" or "end of a course" which means the learning never ends. Part of a daily routine en.news combines the habit of consuming news, checking sports scores and staying on top of the world of entertainment with the utility of learning English."

The new TESOL English as a Foreign Language IS website. The site includes a forum, a news section, information on sessions, and a list of proposals.