Welcome to the NNEST Interest Section Website! We're glad you're
here.
As the NNEST CAUCUS we had a great 10 years, and our thanks to
all the Caucus Members and all the Caucus Leaders who lead us so well and so
far. We must particularly mention all the Caucus
Presidents: George Braine, Jun Liu, Lia Kamhi-Stein, Paul Matsuda, Masaki
Oda, Ahmar Mahboob, Lucie Moussu, Karen Newman, Luciana C. de Oliveira.
Now, as the NNEST INTEREST SECTION, with new roles, new
orientations on research, and new areas for outreach, we will work hard to
achieve the same kind of success that the Caucus had and we hope you'll join us
in making that happen. It is very important to us that the Interest Section find
ways to maintain the sense of community, the support for member publication, and
the commitment to developing new leaders that so characterized the Caucus. Those
are some big shoes to fill, but together we can manage it.
Over the next few months as the transition from Caucus to
Interest Section occurs, we may need some help from you--engaging in processes
like indicating that you want to be an NNEST Interest Section Member (and we
hope you'll decide to make the NNEST IS your primary Interest Section), and
participating in Interest Section elections (which we intend to carry out online
in February so new officers will be ready to lead at the TESOL Convention in
Denver). When we have guidance from Central Office on such matters we will let
you know as soon as we can--your participation gives our Interest Section all
its meaning..
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, don't hesitate
to contact us--we'll do our best to help
Katya Nemtchinova, NNEST IS
transitional Chair (and final Chair Elect of the NNEST Caucus!) Brock Brady, NNEST IS transitional Chair
Elect
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What's New
December 2008
The International Association for the Integrational Study of
Language and Communication (IAISLC) in collaboration with The Amsterdam Center
for Language & Communication (Research group Sociolinguistic aspects of
multilingualism) announces an international symposium on"The Native Speaker
and the Mother Tongue"December 11-13, 2008 Cape Town, South Africa
Call for proposal: Inquiries, abstracts and proposal for papers
should be addressed to Nigel Love (nigel.love@uct.ac.za) and Umberto Ansaldo
(uansaldo@gmail.com).
Closing date for abstracts: 31 Jul 2008
July 2008
New URL: The NNEST Caucus website moved from
http://nnest.moussu.net to http://nnest.asu.edu.
June 2008
The TESOL Board of Directors has approved the creation on the
NNEST Interest Section. Congratulations to all!
April 2008
The 42nd
TESOL Annual Convention and Exhibit will happen on April 2 to 4, in New
York,
Holly Dilatush on 07 Jul 08(bummer! I had typed a fairly long note on this, and then clicked to a different tab and lost it? apologies if this is a duplicate) Try again: Interesting list -- which do you use? PowerPoint, Audacity, Moodle and SlideShare made both lists. Does this spur your thinking/reflecting about attitudinal differences commonly recurring between workplace and higher ed/adult ed? In light of the likely funnelling of (USA) adult ed funding from K-12 and toward workforce (Workforce Investment Act), is there something to be learned here? More research would be interesting. Why would certain delivery solutions be preferred/selected by one group over another? thoughts? comments? reactions?
Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08Holly, Very interesting questions for reflection. I don't know why one was chosen over the other in different spheres, but my guess is that in the workplace, it seems to have more of paid softwares like captivate, camtasia, etc, whereas in the formal educaton environment, some read/write web tools with free versions. Also, at the workplace the tools seem to be more of delivery of content, while in formal education, they're more related to social software with possibilities of social construction of knowledge. What do you think?
I think Carla might be on to something where she surmises workplace content delivery (or training), in contrast to education, as well as the attractiveness of free and open source tools to educators. The Top 100 Tools...: Analysis page cross-links to a CLPT programme on free tools (http://c4lpt.co.uk/25Tools/Tools/about.html), which in turn links to a Ning group, whose intro. pairs education with training instead of learning. Perhaps learning is too broad a term for the Top 100 Tools proposed for workplaces. It is also interesting to note that the top ten for neither workplaces nor formal educational settings include web browsers. It is hard to imagine using either Moodle or Slideshare without a browser, isn't it?
