For six weeks, ( Monday, January 17-Sunday, February 27, 2005),
participants and TESOL experts engage in collaborative, online discussion
sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly
benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period
of time than is permitted by the four-day convention and will allow a fuller
development of ideas than is otherwise possible. The sessions are free and
open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL member to
participate.
See description all sessions:
http://www.geocities.com/ehansonsmi/evo2005/announce.html

Our team will be leading a session on blogs:

Using Weblogs in ESL/EFL Classes: New Developments, Uses, and Challenges
This Session is sponsored by the Teacher Education IS of TESOL

Moderators:
Barbara Dieu, Brazil http://beewebhead.blogspot.com
Aaron P. Campbell, Japan http://www.eastasiacenter.net/apcampbell/
Graham Stanley, Spain http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/
Sean Smith, Korea http://blinger.org/

Target Audience
ESL/EFL teachers, with some experience in using Internet tools in teaching
(familiarity with word processors and the basics of Internet navigation),
who would like to use blogs with their classes or for reflective practice.

Content Description
A weblog or blog is a an online journal that can be easily and instantly
updated. This online session will begin with a short review of the EVO 2004
session on blogs in ESL/EFL - in which participants explored possible uses
and learned how to create their own blogs - and proceed to examine a broader
scope of the various blogging tools and how they could be put to use with
ESL/EFL learners. Participants will start their own blogs and become
familiar with the possibilities that RSS, aggregation software, and various
other internet applications have to offer. Finally, participants will take
a look at existing weblogging projects in language teaching and explore ways
of cultivating and maintaining interest in a weblog community.

Weekly chats with guest speakers will be held to discuss different aspects
of blogging and offer participants a wider range of options and
perspectives. Participants will also have the opportunity to experience
different synchronous and asynchronous media.

Participants REGISTER for the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2005 Session
on Blogs from Monday, January 3 - Sunday, January 16, 2005 at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weblogging/

Looking forward to having you with us!
Warm regards from Brazil,
Barbara Dieu
Lycée Pasteur, Sao Paulo, Brazil
http://members.tripod.com/the_english_dept