Some Screen Shots of Vance's Demo Session

at the 9th EFL Skills Conference

Friday, January 23, 2004

Online Tools for Creating Communities of Communicative Learners

Using free and easy-to-use software tools instrumental in facilitating interaction among community members

Vance met a number of Webheads at Webheads' vRoom on Learningtimes.org, to demonstrate and discuss the use of some free CMC tools, before other participants attending his session, physically

While Vance and Webheads at Webheads vRoom on LTs, Ismail Fayed invited everyone to a voice conference at Yahoo Messenger

Meanwhile, Webheads, Michael Coghlan and Claire Bradin Siskin invited virtual and local participants to view their web cams at Yahoo Messenger

Buthaina Al Othman, a Webhead, attending Vance's demo session physically, joined the session online from Dr. Liz England's office at the AUC, few meters from Vance's room, and invited other Webheads to view her web cam. A number of participants contacted her face-to-face to ask about the URL of Webheads in Action

As you can see, it was a great demo session, well received by the audience, who were really impressed by skillful Webheads members, managed to various synchronous text, voice, and video-CMC tools at Tappedin.org, Learnin Times, and Yahoo Messenger