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This is a video recording of the 2012 EVO Kickoff on Jan 8, 2012. We have some 14 moderators who talked a little about their respective sessions. Join EVO!

"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. "

Webinar with dozens of ideas for using online tools to teach young learners writing. Offered at the 2012 EVO. Shelly Terrell offers free webinars every Friday at 21:00 GMT. go to tinyurl.com/ELTLinks to see a list of recent offerings. Recordings are also available for this free online professional development series.

David Farmer's list of resources for drama includes mobile apps as well as software, reviews, strategies, lessons, etc. Recommended by EVO Drama members.

Marina Petrovic has started a Ning group to work with and explore Vyew Virtual Classroom. This will be a great help i mastering this online environment. The YG Learning with Computers is begining a new series of activities in March. To follow, check out their wiki, http://learningwithcoputers07.pbworks.com, and join the YG, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningwithcomputers (a spin-off from EVO 2006).

"Between 2006 and 2008, while teaching "Ethics for Teachers" to EFL teacher trainees at "Profesorado del Liceo Cultural Británico" (Buenos Aires - Argentina ), and certainly encouraged by the inspiring discussions that were taking place at TESOL EVO workshops, I had the chance to explore the integration of student blogs into the course. Class members were invited to start their own blogs (which I then linked and followed by means of a Feevy students in turn chose to embed into their blog templates) and weekly post their reflections on assigned readings. Since the topics discussed took in sharing values and personal experiences, this seemed a perfect occasion for fostering individual expression. Serving other aims of the course - the development of interculturalism and appreciation of diversity - the weekly assignment also involved posting a comment on at least an entry made by a partner."

This chat room tool might be useful for your classes, or as a backchannel if several teachers are working on a presentation together. The interface can be mounted on your own website, ensuring that students don't wander off. You can easily save a transcript of the chat, and it lets students join from home or other classrooms. T/H to H. Dilatush who let us in EVO know about it.

This is such a great idea! Nina created a page wher we could link or photostream all the Webhead activities at TESOL Boston in 2010. This one is Carla's but the tags will be helpful (see Spezify.com) --EHS

A cute way to introduce yourself to your students, and vice versa. Students in teams could post their pictures and comment on each other's "peach." Add music, share on Fb or Twitter, make comments, make private or public. Example from EVO_Drama_2012 at http://photopeach.com/album/10l8r5x.

The Call for Proposals is out. Deadline is Sept 25. Please volunteer to offer a session on an area of EFL/ESL you know something about--or want to learn more!