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Here, giving a presentation at the TESOL Conference in Long Beach, April 3, 2004.

My "Web 2.0 Workshop for Sudan" in Khartoum hosted by the British Council there has not as of yet been rescheduled. In preparation I am developing materials off-line for transfer to a wiki later: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/sudan2007/web20workshop.htm; or http://tinyurl.com/2fku9q. Hala Fawzi had set up a YahooGroup for the event: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SudaELTech/. If the event is confirmed I will set up some spaces such as NetVibes for this, as well as a Voicethread for pictures.

Upcoming presentations next -

November 6, 2009 - I am invited to present at the Social Networking 2009 Conference which runs from November 5-8, 2009 . This open-knowledge event is completely online and free and is being jointly organized by AVEALMEC (http://avealmec.org.ve/) and ARCALL (Argentine Computer Assisted Language Learning at: http://arcallmashup.ning.com). Speakers include: George Siemens, Etienne Wenger, Vance Stevens, Nik Peachey, Charalambos Vrasidas and Maria Solomou, Nicky Hockly, Erika Cruvinel and Ronaldo Lima, Rita Zeinstejer and Paula Ledesma, Nellie Müller Deustch, Carla Arena, Graham Stanley, and Jennifer Verschoor, Evelyn Izquierdo and Erika Cruvinel - all presenting on some aspect of how social networks can be used in language teaching and learning, concepts and theories around social networks, communities of practice and the Web 2.0, as well as about the use, advantages and drawbacks of social networking tools. My presentation is tentatively scheduled for Friday, November 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM Caracas time, which is Friday, November 6, 2009 at 18:30:00 GMT.

November 13, 2009 at 18:00 GMT I join Graham Davies and others in a panel discussion Lancelot Schools's Virtual Round Table Conference, hosted by Heike Philp: http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/events/virtual-round-table-conference

The Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2010 is gearing up again http://evosessions.pbworks.com/ and I'm involved as in previous years. The Call for Proposals for moderated sessions is here: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/CfP

At the TESOL conference in Denver I agreed to give my online course for TESOL PP 107 Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments starting September 7, 2009, which was a change of dates from that originally established. The course was listed at the TESOL website here: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=664&DID=2642 but the dates given are for the old dates. Consequently I am proposing to give the course as an EVO session again this year, based at http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/

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Presentations: 2009 - Navigate to other areas of this page

I was invited to take part in the Worldbridges Equinox 2009 Webcastathon Sept 25-27, 2009 http://worldbridges.net/node/3618. Webheads participation was scheduled for 13:00 GMT Sunday Sept 27 As shown on the schedule: http://www.webcastacademy.net/2009-equinox-webcastathon. So far, I haven't been able to locate any audio.

Mireille Massue interviewed me at her first interncast for the Webcast Academy (the one where the intern is supposed to record the two sides of a Skype conversation) on August 3, 2009 and posted her work at http://www.webcastacademy.net/audio/mireilles-interview-vance-stevens. I podcast the mp3 at my own GeekSpeek site http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-08-03T19_12_16-07_00, or http://tinyurl.com/geekspeek090803. This was either Mireille's first or second 'interncast'. Her task at this point was to , not webcast it yet, so it was just a recorded interview, which is why there was not a general invitation to join us or listen in live.

For the third time in 5 years I coordinated the 3rd bi-annual Webheads in Action Online Convergence held May 22-24, 2009, http://wiaoc.org.

May 17, 2009 - I spoke to group of ARCALL teachers on: Multiliteracies in Elluminate. Announcement: We have the honor to have Vance Stevens as our special guest for ARCALL. Don´t miss this unique event to learn from the best!!!!http://arcallmashup.ning.com/events/event/listByDate?date=2009-05-17

May 7, 2009 - I was interviewed by Leslie Shield for one of her projects concerning the impact of ICT and new media on language learning.

I moderated three hours of conversation being sustained online for 24 hours April 21-22 by Jay Cross and friends. Jay is known for his Internet Time blog http://www.internettime.com/ and books/writings on Informal Learning. The event is based at the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation Ning: http://learntrends.ning.com/page/april-2009-event or http://bit.ly/46G1Om. There's a table with Session Descriptions here: http://learntrends.ning.com/page/april-2009-event. Jay wants to feature webheads in this program and he's given us three hours, 1000 to 1300 GMT on April 22nd. Sessions will be held in Elluminate: http://bit.ly/WPKGi. The idea is to stimulate conversations by pulling together voices at these times, with others besides Webheads joining in from around the world. It's likely to be informal, no slides, or maybe just a few. One of Jay's ideas is to have a web tour up showing a Twitter feed aggregated on #learntrends. That could be F.U.N. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=@learntrends

The time selected coincides with Earth Day, being celebrated by the webcasters at Earthbridges on http://earthbridges.wikispaces.com/Earth+Day+2009 I put Webheads down in the available time slot during this time, which happened to be 11:00 GMT, but I'm hoping to change that to 10:00 GMT as it will be a break time for students at the Petroleum Institute where I work, who can then come in to join the conversation. So a conversation with students at the PI about our environment becomes a recorded part of the LearnTrends event. I blogged feedback on the event at http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com

I was an Invited Speaker at two sessions on pages 10 and 15 of the TESOL Advanced Program book http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2009/docs/advanceprogram.pdf for the 43rd Annual TESOL Convention in Denver Thursday March 26 through Saturday March 28, 2009:

February 23, 2009 at 02:00 GMT- I was invited as a guest on It's Elementary Show #31 streamed live on the EdTechTalk Channel of the Worldbridges network with Lisa Durff, Jose Rodriguez, Maria Knee, and Alice Mercer. The program is about Self Directed Learning and Online Professional Development and I join guests Dennis Newson and Nick Noakes from EVO2009 Virtual Worlds and Language Learning. Links:

Feb 20, 2009 I gave a talk entitled "After a decade of inroads, SUCCESS in modeling blended learning in theory AND practice at F2F and online conferences" at AACE's Spaces of Interaction: An online conversation on improving traditional conferences. http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/ - Recordings of all sessions are available here: http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/speakers/ and will be archived in the Education and Information Technology Digital Library (EdITLib): http://www.editlib.org - George Siemens's 4 min. introduction to the event: http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/intro/player.html - Ning http://aacecommunity.ning.com/ for conversation and brainstorming before, during, and after the presentations.

My abstract: The presenter has been a long-time advocate and agitator for broadcasting online both into and out of on-site professional development events and conferences. The presenter describes inroads made during the past decade from 1999 to the present in making conferences accessible to many more than just their physically present delegates. Having debunked the myth that if conferences were open to online access on-site attendance would drop off, a case is made for the opposite scenario: that broadening channels for conversation at conference venues is a win-win situation in which everyone benefits, and conferences where these channels are blocked are the dinosaurs doomed to extinction.

Feb 17, 2009 at 13:00 GMT http://tinyurl.com/090217-1300 I assisted from a distance Rick Rosenberg presenting live and online from Beirut conducting a workshop on integrating technology in the classroom, designing engaged learning projects with the tools, training teachers how to develop online and multimedia teaching material, and on how to use technology in assessment. Rick invited webheads to drop by to discuss these resources at http://statedept.connectsolutions.com/amman

From January 2 to February 22, 2009 I moderated a session entitled Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments, http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/multiliteracies, co-moderated with Nelba Quinta, Doris Molero, and Jennifer Verschoor and assisted by Dennis Oliver. Our wiki is here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com. About this seminar: Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of those aspects of changing technologies most appropriate to their situations. These strategies include managing, processing, and interpreting a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. This course seeks to heighten awareness of these considerations, and to enable participants to explore ways of dealing with them in professional and interpersonal development as well as work with students.

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Presentations: 2008 - Navigate to other areas of this page

In October-November 2008 I was again involved with EVO, Electronic Village Online as a member of the http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/Coordinating_Team. I have been a coordinator since 2003, after moderating the seminal Webheads in Action session in 2002.

Web page 2008-2009 page
EVO Portal http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/
Coordinating team http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/Coordinating_Team
Call for Proposals http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/CfP
Moderator training http://evo-training.pbwiki.com/ (choochoo)
Call for Participation, moderator profiles, and session descriptions http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/Call_for_Participation09
Tweme http://twemes.com/evo2009

081109 - Leigh Blackall's Facilitating Online Communities course mounted a conference Nov 2-9, 2008. Presentations in the mini conference are listed here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Facilitating_online_communities/course_mini_conference#8Nov-7AM_GMT__Connecting_Online_in_Developing_Countries. On November 9, 2008 at 11:00 GMT - Minhaaj ur Rehman invited me "being the founder of Webheads will be highlighting the spirit of webheads and their efforts in the proliferation of ICT and CALL in ESL teaching" to be interviewed for his FOC08 course session of 30-45 mins on the topic of Webheads, its inception, development and goals.

081106 - I was invited to speak at the Network to Support Trainers in Europe’s first annual on-line conference on “the Training of Trainers” on 6 November, 2008 http://www.trainersineurope.org/conference/programme/. The organizers had four speakers in each session and the title of my contribution was Teacher professional development in groups, communities, and networks. Abstract: At the second WiAOC conference, Etienne Wenger (2007) gave one of our keynotes and I asked him if his ideas on CoPs had changed at all as a result of his interactions with Webheads. Surprisingly, he said that they had, especially regarding the nature of space occupied by the community. He said that we knew who we were in terms of domain and practice but that we had freed ourselves from constraints on space in spanning so many available spaces in distributing ourselves, and that this was a revelation to him in that we were clearly a CoP, but with very loosely defined boundaries. At that same online conference, Stephen Downes (2007) spoke to us about the distinction between groups, communities, and networks. A YahooGroup characterizes that first level of interaction, where a group forms to disseminate information, but might not necessarily be a community. A community implies greater interaction where members are impacting one another, and a community of practice suggests that this interaction is directed toward the professional development of all concerned. For some time Webheads have considered themselves a CoP but with so many more opportunities for connectivist knowledge to be disseminated across many groups and communities (Siemens, 2004), Downes's notion of individuals interacting as nodes in a complex and interlaced distributed learning network is the one that I think best fits Webheads in its current configuration. I think this is what Etienne was getting at when he said that Webheads had freed themselves from constraints on spaces in which to meet, and thus his notion of what characterizes a CoP might be merging with the connectivist network model (Stevens, 2007).

081101 - November 1, 2008 - I joined Dafne Gonzalez and Chis Hill in Second Life. Chis was presenting live at the Ohio TESOL conference at a Technology Session: Access to Virtual Worlds: How Languages are Being Taught in Second Life, abstract: "Second Life, an internet-based, multi-user virtual world, can provide access to education via the Internet. This panel of language teachers who have taught in Second Life will discuss research, methodologies and challenges for teaching within a virtual world." My slide show for my part of the presentation is here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/language-learning-resources-in-second-life-presentation

081009 - I adapted my workshop which was never given in Sudan to my possible appearance at the 6th International TELLSI Conference to be held at Guilan University on October 8 & 9, 2008 - http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/iran2008/web20workshop.htm. However, my appearance in person in Rasht was thwarted by special permission not being granted by Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs) but we managed something live online. I awas at one point listed in the program here, http://www.guilan.ac.ir/files/other/Conference_Tentative_Schedule.pdf for 09:00 - 10:30 their time on Oct 9, 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. GMT.In the end the presentation was made and blogged here: http:/tinyurl.com/iranpost and, even better, recorded and made available here: http://tinyurl.com/uae2iran

080927 - Saturday, September 27, 2008, I was invited to assist at a distance along with Nellie Deutsch and Doris Molero in a presentation given by Buthaina Alothman at the Women without Frontiers International Conference 2008, held physically in Rhodes, Greece, on September 26-28. The presentation focused on ways we can promote peace and reduce discrimination against gender, origin, religion, and color in our societies through Cross-Cultural online projects in the Language Classrooms. Buth created a Wikispace with the abstract of the presentation, Guest Speakers bios, and slides of her previous presentation at the International Conference of WwF.org in 2004, and photo at: http://buthaina-wwf-peaceconf08.wikispaces.com. The session recording is at: http://tinyurl.com/LT080927

080806 - At the August 6-9, 2008 WorldCALL congress in Fukuoka, Japan, http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd0/. My 45 min. session on Engaging collaborative writing through social networking listed in the program as http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/docs/Web_20080728.htm was given on Aug 6 from 17:25 to 18:10 Tokyo time, http://tinyurl.com/6bjk7r; or Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 08:15 GMT.


Nelba Quintana and I after we gave our presentation - photo by Joseph Dias

I submitted the same abstract as I did for the GloCALL 2007 conference in Hanoi the previous November, but my presentation developed as per changes noted here: Becoming Multiliterate requires changing attitudes AND practices in education. Content management through aggregation and understanding of tags and RSS is key to collaboration and control of information resources online. This presentation will explain these concepts in terms accessible to educators and then describe how the concepts were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving bloggers in two countries in South America and one in Balkan Europe, who utilized tagging and social networking tools to enable students to locate each other's blogs and then interact with selected individuals thus identified as being of similar age and interests. This presentation went beyond previous ones by suggesting numerous sites for aggregation and mashup that can be used with students to exploit the concepts associated with the techniques demonstrated here. Nelba Quintana, one of the original Writingmatrix teachers, joined me at my session, and Rita Zeinstejer and Sasa Sirk joined in online.

Several webheads attended this conference. Some are shown in this photo, which Tom Robb (also a Webhead) annotated for mouseover. They might have been about to listen to Vera Menezes give an interesting plenary address on CALL development in the context of chaos theory and how strange attractors create butterfly effects impacting subsequent development of a field like CALL felt all around the world. For example ... imagine huge auditorium, huge screen dwarfing tiny podium with speaker on stage, who clicked on a slide on ... Webheads in Action, and another slide on Writingmatrix. Erika Cruvinel also rated her own slide and several minutes of Vera's presentation as she talked about Erika's model project sharing with Claudia's class in La Plata.

On May 29 I was invited by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to participate in an Elluminate session as a panel guest for 75 Superintendents from around Western NY who were discussin Current Internet Issues for Schools http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/Current+Internet+Issues%2C+Obstacles+and+Challenges+for+schools-+Panel+Discussion
I had been asked to help "set the stage for this discussion and brainstorm challenges and obstacles to using the Web and Web 2.0 tools (the Internet) for teaching and learning" as one of a panel of "key leaders from around the globe." This session lasted for 50 minutes and ws part of an all day workshop. URLs:


May 10, I joined David Winet and Dafne Gonzalez in Second Life in Christopher Hill's live presentation at a conference put on by the Linguistics Department at Ohio University. He introduced Second Life and talked about how SL can be / is being used in teaching. http://esl.osu.edu/staff/hill/resources/secondlife.html

The presentation was in the form of a panel discussion. He asked in-world panelists to give perspectives on what works well and what challenges are faced there. Chris Hill planned "to spend the first 20-30 minutes introducing SL to the audience in RL on a large projection screen, lecture-style. I'm going to show a couple of YouTube videos and then have the audience watch me navigate my avatar through SL, including the SL version of the OhioU campus, which is hosting the conference . After they're up to speed, I'll meet you at the OhioStateU island, TELRport. Some SLURLs are locked down, so use this one: http://slurl.com/secondlife/TELRport/89/211/24 This is the main entrance area of the island. We'll use SL voice chat for you to communicate with my avatar, which the RL audience will also watch on the big projection screen. You'll each have about 15 minutes, so introduce yourself and what you've done in SL. Dafne has a PowerPoint presentation http://dafnegonzalez.pbwiki.com/SL-COULD08; Dave is thinking of including a tour of interesting sites. A variety of perspectives is great. Vance will be basing his presentation on http://sl2ndchance.pbwiki.com/

May 7, 2008 at 17:00 GMT Barbara Dieu and I participated in a CPsquare Field Trip to Webheads. Bee and I set up a wiki for it here: http://beevance.wikispaces.com/cp2. There are numerous other links posted to Webheads in Action list. I was hoping to get a recording but this has not yet materialized.

April 23, 2008, I participated in an interview with Carla Arena which she shared with her class resulting in some marvelous repercussions; e.g. http://explorations.bloxi.jp/a/vance-stevens-talks-about-abu-dhabi/. I blogged the event here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/04/carla-arena-interviews-advanceducation.html. There is also a Voicethread, link in my gmail.

I participated in the EarthDay presentation April 22 listed as Elderbob Brannon and Jose Rodriguez "two night owls trying to connect with the world" at 5:00 a.m. GMT at http://enviroscims.wikispaces.com/Earth%20Day. There is no link to the recording from here or from http://www.edtechtalk.com/earthcast08.

The Writingmatrix team were invited to give an online presentation April 20, 2008, at http://www.instantpresenter.com/lancelotschool5 (now links to an inactive meeting). This presentation was meant to explain aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking. This session was billed as a discussion with the coordinator of the project, as well as with any other Writingmatrix project participants who might join us. It then developed that the session might include other EVO session moderators apart from Writingmatrix so was asked to keep our part down to ten minutes. The announcement was but is no longer here: http://www.lancelotschool.com/Terminkalender/details/EVO-Sessions-2008---The-Writing-Matrix-or-How-bloggers-connect-their-brain-neurons or and a recording apparently never materialized.

I repeated my Exeter presentation at an event April 12, 2008, 11:15 to noon in Abu Dhabi, or 7:15 to 8:00 a.m. GMT at the Abu Dhabi Men's College in Abu Dhabi. I started with a short report from the LA SIG Preconference Event in Exeter (IATEFL) which I attended briefly, I then did the larger presentation on The Multiliterate Autonomous Learner: Teacher attitudes and the inculcation of strategies for lifelong learning, "with focus in particular on the influence of teacher attitudes towards technology as it might impact autonomy in the newer generations of learners."

On April 7, 2008 I was invited to present at the Learner Autonomy SIG Pre-conference event here: http://learnerautonomy.org/exeter2008.html, scheduled as part of the 42nd Annual IATEFL Conference in Exeter http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/2008/index.php. 7th-11th April 2008. My presentation was requested as a part of the "Autonomy and the language classroom: opening a can of worms!" project, http://learnerautonomy.org/wormsindex.html. I am indicated as being 'keeper' of the Technology worm here: http://learnerautonomy.org/wormsmay2007.html.


Graham Stanley, Dafne Gonzalez, Ronaldo Lima, Jonathan Finklestein, Teresa Almeida d'Eca, Carla Arena, Rita Zeinstejer, Aiden Yeh, et moi vraiment after dinner in New York City

On April 4, 2008, joint proposal, number 119652, titled, "CALL and SLA: Research, Applications, and Beyond " has been accepted for the TESOL 2008 convention program. I have been asked to "be prepared to present your session on 4/4/2008 from 9:30 AM to 10:15 AM and in Gibson Suite in the Hilton." This is part of a panel discussion and it could conceivably be done online as well. Abstract: 'Technology and Second Language Acquisition evoke consternation, innovation, and excitement. From any perspective, technology has had an impact on SLA. This session investigates current research on SLA, how research translates into best practices in CALL, land how future trends in SLA and emerging technologies may effect classroom applications.' I have been asked to address Emerging Technologies. The session is listed on p.7 here: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/docs/convention08/AdvancedProgram.pdf. My slides have been posted to http://tinyurl.com/5tjtdy .

At this conference I also did a stand-in presentation of a workshop on Second Life for two presenters who had their workshop accepted in the EVO but did not turn up in NYC. In pulling this off I also engaged Christopher Hill and Graham Stanley to assist me live in New York, with Gavin Dudeney graciously meeting us at Edunation. We had about 30 participants and doubled them two to a computer. After explaining SL minimally, we got them to create avatars and befriend Dudeney Ge, who teleported them to his location, and got them morphing and off and running, flying, etc.

At the TESOL Arabia 2008 Conference to be held at Dubai Men's College, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 13-15, 2008 I present on: Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networking - Abstract: This presentation explains aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking.

250 word summary: Multiliteracy is increasingly recognized as being critical for student development, and requires changing attitudes AND practices. Content management through aggregation and understanding tags and RSS is key to collaboration and filtering and regulating the flux of information resources online. This presentation explains these concepts in terms accessible to educators and then describes how the concepts were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving bloggers in two countries in South America and one in Balkan Europe, who utilized tagging and social networking tools to enable their students to locate each other's blogs and then interact with individuals whom participants identified as being of similar age and interests. To achieve this, students were encouraged to blog their interests and concerns, then tag posts with an identifier unique to the project. Technorati was used to ferret out the posts of participants in other countries. RSS feeds are generated not only by blogging individuals but by Technorati searches, and all these can be subscribed to in aggregators such as Bloglines or Google Reader. Many participants became motivated to form writing partnerships spontaneously or in projects set by teachers collaborating in the project, and engagement in the project occurred simply through tagging posts; no other coordination required. A final aspect of the project was to have students explore areas of mutual interest through tagging each other's posts in Del.icio.us, and then discern who else was reading and tagging their own posts. Positive outcomes are expressed in the voices of the instructors and students in the project.

I participated on February 24, 2008 in the EVO2008 Closing Ceremony with Worldbridges http://webheadsinaction.org/taxonomy/term/82

February 22, 2008 - I participated in WAOE conference in SecondLife; documented here: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chat2008/chat2008.htm#080222

February 13, 2008, from noon to 13:15 UTC (GMT), have been invited to present online at the 4th Inter-college Conference on Technology and Multiculturalism being organized by Elaine Hoter at Talpiot College of Education, to take place in Intwise (exact URL to be announced). Title: RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online

Abstract: Mutual understanding, key to harmony between peoples of different cultures, is often facilitated through the leveling impact of Internet connectivity. The widest area network, the Internet, is in aggregate peer to peer, with millions of nodes which tend toward commonality in outlook and agreement on content, Wikipedia being perhaps the classic example. Interactants often initiate encounters with some degree of anonymity and are generally met with openness by other interactants. Although there can be a downside to this (predation, spam) many aspects of the Internet, subsumed under terms such as connectionism and Web 2.0, lend themselves to effective peer-to-peer learning environments with reduced affective filters. In this presentation we can look at some of these environments and see how certain characteristics of connectivity on the Internet serve to diminish cultural barriers.

RSS and tagging are key to p2p collaboration over the Internet. Tags allow people to organize the information available through their distributed networks in ways that are meaningful to them, and social networking enables nodes in these networks to interact with each other according to how these tags and other folksonomic data overlap. When productive tags are identified, then RSS is used to monitor where web artifacts using those tags are accumulating, or being aggregated. This presentation will explore some of the ways that tagging can be used productively by people wishing to locate one another in order to discover more about each other's cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The WritingMatrix project will be used as an example of how basing interaction on tagging has enabled students in various parts of the world to interact with one another in the ways suggested here. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/rss-tagging-collaboration-online-264077/ or http://tinyurl.com/2bwfuy

On February 3, 2008 I was interviewed by Anne Fox for her Absolutely Intercultural podcast, http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=76. The audio is available here: http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/podcast/absolutely_intercultural_show_050.mp3, and Anne blogged about the event here: http://eduspaces.net/annef/weblog/267747.html

January 14 - February 24, 2008 - I am participating in the 2008 TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com/ Blogging for Educators. My 'extension' activity entitled "Exploring Tagging with Vance Stevens" http://blogging4educators.pbwiki.com/Week3 is set for Week 3, January 28-Feb 3, 2008. Material for it will be drawn from this working paper: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dr22kn2_24dpqdgg. URLs associated with B4E:

As EVO Coordination Team member, I was again involved in the organization of training of moderators for the 2008 EVO (Electronic Village Online) sessions for 5 weeks in Oct-Nov and leading up to Jan-Mar 2008 EVO sessions themselves. My responsibility was supposed to be in helping to coordinate management of the EVO Moodle: http://evo.tesol.org/moodle/ however there were no requests for use of this facility. The EVO call for proposals is here: http://dafnegonzalez.com/evo08/Cfproposals.htm and for those who responded and were accepted, the EVO moderator training wiki and syllabus is at http://evo-training .pbwiki.com/. I mentored two sessions:

080122 - Tuesday, January 22, noon UTC (GMT) - I was invited to be a guest speaker for the EVO 2008 session, Getting the Most Out of Web 2.0 for ESP, on the advantages of using tags and technorati for a community of bloggers in the ESL/EFL/ESP classroom. http://evo08esp.pbwiki.com/Week%202. The session was recorded: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2008-01-22.0130.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

- January 16-19 I was a presenter in the TCC TALO Connections unConference, or Future of Learning in a Networked World 2: http://flnw.wikispaces.com/flnw2_tcc which connects TALO with FLNW2 participants on the ground in Thailand and online throughout the world between the 16th and 28th January 2008. I plan to be present in Bangkok and Jan 16-19. There is a blog associated with this event here: http://learningnetworkedworld.blogspot.com/. Some of the events will be webcast, recorded, and/or podcast, with URLs here:

Presentations: 2007 - Navigate to other areas of this page

Sunday December 23, 2007 - 16:00 GMT I was an invited guest on the Worldbridge Network Solstice 2007 Webcastathon, http://www.webcastacademy.net/solstice2007. I blogged the event here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/12/ustream-i-stream-we-all-stream-for.html and ...

I was an invited guest on a Webcast hosted by Paul Allison, with Susan Ettenheim and Lee Baber, on Wed Dec 5, broadcast over the Worldbridges Network http://www.edtechtalk.com at 9 p.m. EST or 2 a.m. GMT Thu Dec 6. Paul maintains the blog http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/ as an archive of the weekly show. His edit of our interview is here: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=145. I put the original recording at my podcast site: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2007-12-11T19_13_45-08_00

November 23- November 25, 2007, I hosted a Knowplace event on Google Notebook, running under this byline: - "Google Notebook Location: http://knowplace.ca Google Notebook is a free service offered by Google that provides a simple way to save and organize clips of information when conducting research online. Join the webhead cat-herder, Vance Stevens as he provides his own description of the many uses of Google Notebook. You don't want to miss this one. Facilitator: Vance Stevens" - The actual course location was http://knowplace.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=213. After the course was officially shut down at Knowplace it was archived here: http://213.42.148.233/course/view.php?id=180

071103 - I was invited to be a Featured Speaker at GloCALL 2007, Globalization and Localization in CALL, at Hanoi University, November 2-4, 2007, http://www.glocall.org/. I gave two talks, listed in the program at http://glocall.org/program/printprog.php:





Note: When visiting the Google Docs listed at right, look for the link that allows you to view the materials without logging in, if you don't wish to sign in at Google.
  • Saturday, November 3, 2007 - 16:45-17:20 (session 81) New Age CALL: Syndication, aggregation, and mashup of content on the Web - Becoming Multiliterate requires changing attitudes AND practices in education. Content management through aggregation and understanding of tags and RSS is key to collaboration and control of information resources online. This presentation will explain these concepts in terms accessible to educators and then describe how the concepts were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving bloggers in two countries in South America and one in Balkan Europe, who utilized tagging and social networking tools to enable students to locate each other's blogs and then interact with selected individuals thus identified as being of similar age and interests. To achieve this, students are encouraged to blog their interests and concerns, then tag relevant posts with an identifier unique to the project. Technorati is then used to identify the posts of participants in other countries. RSS feeds are generated not only by blogging individuals but by Technorati searches, and any of these can be subscribed to in Bloglines. The intent is for students to be motivated to form writing partnerships spontaneously or in projects set by teachers collaborating in the project. A final aspect of the project is to have students explore areas of mutual interest through tagging some of their and each other's posts in Del.icio.us, then discern who else is reading and tagging their posts. Slide show: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkc6v4f_40cvxvjm
  • Sunday, November 4, 2007 - 16:00-16:35 (session 113) Petroleum Institute Starting from Scratch with Computer Assisted Language Learning - In the developing world it is not uncommon for an institute to introduce computers into the language learning environment for the first time, with restricted or no Internet access. This paper will touch on some of the benefits that can reasonably be expected and some obstacles and problems that might be encountered and how to address them. Among the obstacles are finding appropriate software on tight education budgets and training of staff unfamiliar with how computers are best used in an educational environment. Regarding software, we examine where the computers at the institute will be used offline, what software can be obtained for free, and what a school might consider purchasing. We will overview how the computers might be networked, the concept of software licensed for the network, and what firewalls and other protection must be in place when the network is opened to the Internet. Finally we will touch on the extensive resources that would be available once students are working from computers with Internet access. Two aspects of staff training are considered. One regards anxieties staff will likely have when expected to function in an environment where they might be less competent than certain of their students. The second regards awareness of appropriate use of CALL both off and online. While time will be insufficient to cover these topics in detail, this paper seeks to heighten awareness of the scope and nature of adjustments required, and point participants to resources available in dealing with these issues. - draft slide show: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkc6v4f_45f2ntmj

071020 13:00 PM GMT Saturday, October 20 was the time of our "fireside chat", on the K-12 Online Conference Live Events (Fireside chats schedule: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=128) October 15-19 and October 22-26, 2007 - The Writingmatrix group Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Saša Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer answered this CfP http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=83 and were accepted to present “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating” at the K-12 Online Conference “Playing with Boundaries,” (presenters listed here: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=100). I also hosted an hour of the 24-hour conference wrapup, "When Night Falls" http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k12online2007schedule.html.

Abstract: "The presenters play with boundaries through the simple expedient of having student bloggers in different countries tag their blog posts with the unique tag term writingmatrix. Searching on that tag in Technorati, the student bloggers in four locations in three different countries have managed to locate one another's posts, leave comments for one another, and have subsequently interacted in other ways as well. The presenters explain how they started the project and how it has branched into other online and even face to face activities involving the students in the participant countries. The presentation is made not only through the voices of the presenters, but with the students themselves lending their voices through their blogs and videos." Presentations at this conference are all asynchronous except for the live chat events. The presentation itself can be found at these web artifacts:

Wesley Fryer left this comment at our conference presentation node http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=162: "Wow, what a GREAT presentation on so many levels. This was the best example of a “blended” presentation I’ve ever seen," and he followed up with a podcast at http://wesleypd.blogspot.com/2007/10/pd-reflection-on-motivating-student.html. Along the lines of our presentation, more content related to the conference can be aggregated at http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/k12online07.

September 10-October 7, 2007 - I facilitated the 4th rendition of my annual Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments course as part of TESOL's Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program, described on the TESOL website at: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=5&DID=488. The course itself is described here:

070928 - I participated on Friday September 28, at 9 pm GMT in Rita Zeinstejer's presentation on "Emerging Technologies for EFL Teachers and Students: the Web 2.0 and its possibilities" http://ritaz.pbwiki.com/CollaborativeTechnologies using Learning Times Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh - Rita's presentation to teachers in Argentina intended to encourage us to "say something about your own experiences using any social software with your students--blogs, wikis, Google maps, Flicker...--, live for the audience for about 5 minutes ... My idea is showing a VERY simple ppt and providing precise concepts and examples not to overwhelm the web-phobics, but to give them a view of how life for educators has definitely changed as from the advent of Web 2.0, which I'm also going to define very briefly and in a simplified way. Your live presence would be GREATLY appreciated, since that is definitely the best way to produce a consciousness-raising impact on our teachers" My slide presentation was here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/vance-stevens-28-sept-2007/.

070905 I was invited to present online at the EuroCALL conference on 8 September from 11:15-12;00 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland (10:15-11:00-- GMT) as a featured online presenter in the Virtual Strand which includes streamed presentations from the conference, and conference blog and chat space, in addition to a limited number of invited, interactive, online presentations lasting approximately 40 minutes My paper entitled Mastering competencies for collaboration and aggregation in distributed learning networks can be accessed as indicated below. Registered delegates are expected to read the text in advance, so that during the presentation itself, I will join delegates in a chat room on a Blobber-enabled web-page for discussion and questions.

Here is the abstract:

This talk begins by discussing terms in the title, especially 'aggregation' and 'distributed learning networks'. Regarding the latter, Downes and Siemens are strong proponents of the notion that functionality of networks is of prime importance to the knowledge embedded there, and therefore accessing this knowledge is key being able to utilize and develop the knowledge within the network. We look briefly at Web 2.0 and some impacts on education, and especially at how knowledge is organized there in folksonomies as opposed to taxonomies, and finally at heuristics aimed at aggregating this knowledge. We then apply these concepts to techniques specific to second language learning.

My colleagues and I have implemented interesting experiments in applying aggregation techniques in the teaching of writing, and its counterpart reading. These colleagues are not my institutional ones, but those in my distributed (online) communities of practice, who comprise a significant part of my distributed learning network. These colleagues and I conceived the Writingmatrix project, which became our means of learning how to aggregate content (what the students were writing) via tags (a prime element in folksonomies).

The remainder of the talk explains how students posting in blogs throughout the world used the tag 'writingmatrix' to make their postings visible to others in the project, and how similar techniques can be used to promote collaboration among students around the world and motivate them to read each other's postings, comment, formulate responses, and form partnerships conducive to learning outcomes. It is stressed that understanding the concepts is key to making the paradigm shift leading to opening minds to the transformational potentials inherent in connectivity facilitating interchange across the Web 2.0. Such notions impact reading, writing, and thinking, in CALL contexts worldwide, and enable applying these concepts to one's own language learning projects.

070831 - - Through a recommendation on Jay Cross' Internetime Ning, I was invited to speak in the second 20 min talk in a session taking place from 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 (so, about 9:30 Egypt time) on 31 August, in session 3 of the "New Learning for Sustainability in the Arab Region" meeting 30 August - 1 September 2007 at the Alexandria Library, in Alexandria, Egypt. The event is subtitled "Motivating Change: New Learning in Formal Education for Sustainable Development", and the conference seeks regionally-based experts working in informal learning, web 2.0, active bloggers, etc. (The organizers' blog is here: http://www.welearnsomething.com). My presentation is written out here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm; TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/398bnw

070901 -I had originally been offered an opportunity to mount a poster session at the parallel New Marketplace at New Learning for Sustainability exhibition (with wireless, available). My idea was to use the wireless to demonstrate some of the tools we use in Webheads and Worldbridges Webcast Academy. This resulted in my eventually being offered an additional slot for a workshop on Saturday Sept 1, 9 a.m to 11:30 a.m. in Egypt (06:00 to 08:30 GMT) on:

F.U.N. Fare - UnWorkshop on Computer Mediated Communications Tools for Distributed Social Learning Networks:

The two convergent communities of practice Webheads in Action and Worldbridges are constantly exploring new computer-mediated communications (CMC) tools for percolating knowledge through their overlapping distributed learning networks, many of which take on many properties of social networking. Members of those communities will be invited to join us online, and the (un)workshop will take place informally, without fixed agenda, in response to the direction suggested by the online participants and those present in Alexandria. Among the spaces we can explore (more to be added as they occur to me) are:

070811 I was invited to teach a short course on writing on the Internet 11th-13th July during the XXVI Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain. The course is entitled "Learning to write in a global and plurilingual world" and my part is to give 3 talks (60' exposition + 15' debate) on Internet (Electronic writing, On-line learning to write, Electronic approach to language learning -focus on writing). There is more information about the university and these courses here: http://www.sc.ehu.es/cursosverano. In order to have something to talk about I instigated a writing project here: http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/. I created a Moodle component here: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=46 and a course portal here: http://www.vancestevens.com/writing.htm. I also wrote out the text of each lecture, uploaded the slides, and left recordings of the lectures themselves as follows:

  1. Lecture 1: Multiliteracies and the changing landscape of communication in a world without arbiters of what gets published
    Internet, electronic genre and writing. Several analogical literacy practices have migrated to Internet. Now we write emails, wikis, blogs, chats or webs. We read on a screen and write with the keyboard and mouse. How has Internet changed literacy practices? Which are the most relevant electronic genres in L2 learning, why, and how can we use them?
  2. Lecture 2: Web 2.0 and Social Networking: What you need to know about these concepts to get your students colloborating online, using tags, rss, and aggregation
    L2 learning with an electronic approach. More and more L2 courses incorporate Internet and on line learning activities as part of the syllabus and teaching materials. How does this change our teaching practice? Which are the good teaching practices in an on line course and in a blended-learning course? What free and collaborative online tools exist to help us do it better? (On line learning platforms such as Moodle have become very popular in some secondary and university centres in Spain -but we cannot assume that all the students in the course will be aware of that fact…).
  3. Lecture 3: Putting the forces in motion: Applying technology to foster writing through motivating online environments
    Resources and ideas for learning to write on line. Language technologies and engineering offer us powerful resources to help us write and teach writing, such as multi-user virtual environments, pen pals and class collaboration projects, blogging, wikis, Google docs and mapping tools. These greater-picture enhancements can make use of lower-level spelling software, readability analysis systems, automatic assisted translation, terminology data base, plurilingual textual corpora, etc. We also have software that register our writing process, huge on line writing labs, with lots of materials, outlines and information. How we can use these resources in the classroom and in on line courses? What implications do these resources have in the learning of writing?

070518 The Webheads in Action Online Convergence was held May 18-20, 2007. http://wiaoc.org, with archived presentation details at http://schedule.wiaoc.org and http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007; recordings linked from http://streamarchives.net/. I planned and coordinated the conference, and participated in two presentations:

May 13, 2007 - I may have put in an Ed Tech Weekly appearance on this date; link to the recording: http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/1628

070421 I was invited to present a workshop (2 hours) at the TTTT (TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi chapter Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips 5) at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi on April 21, 2007 http://ilearn.20m.com/news/newevents.htm on Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking. It was presented in conjunction with the writing course I am giving in Spain this summer http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=46, for which I started a project with a number of teachers worldwide -http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com, among them Rita Zeinstejer, who assisted from Argentina via Elluminate, and the recording is here: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/play.jnlp?psid=2007-04-21.0050.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr. I posted the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/writing-in-a-flat-world-bettervblogging-through-social-networking/

The workshop covered:

  • How to start a blog
  • How to post to a blog
  • How to edit a post
  • How to TAG a post, and why you should do this
  • How to open a http://www.bloglines.com account, and why you should do this
  • What RSS is, and why it's important
  • How to subscribe to RSS feeds generated by other bloggers
  • How to organize and follow each other's updated blog postings
  • How to open a http://del.icio.us account, and why it's important
  • How to get the del.icio.us browser button and tag sites you visit
  • How to see who's tagged YOUR pages and find other tags they are interested in
  • How to aggregate content using the tags you've placed in your posts

070414 I was invited by Ankara University Development Foundation Schools, to be a Plenary Speaker at the annual ELT Conference held at the ATAUM Conference Hall, in Ankara, Turkey on April 14, 2007. The theme of this conference is "CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) – Technology CALLs You". The title of my talk is "What is CALL? It's YOU!" (derived roughly from my blog posting from Sunday, April 1, 2007 What is CALL: Computer Assisted Language and Literacy as well as from Webheads chat logs from October 29-Nov 3, 2001). We webcast using Elluminate courtesy of Learning Times, http://tinyurl.com/y3eh starting with Dr. Senem Yildiz's presentation at 07:10 GMT. URL's used in the presentation are given in playnotes: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/ankara2007/whatiscall.htm and http://tinyurl.com/yvx6yd. The slides for my presentation are here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/what-is-call-its-you-vance-stevens-ankara2007/

URLs provided by the organizers:

I was invited to participate in the1 hour - 45 min. Colloquium entitled: "CALL IS Electronic Village Online Communities" held on March 21, 2007 at the international TESOL Convention in Seattle, Washington State Conv Center/Room304 Hall C 8:30am ~ 10:15am PST http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=1244&DID=6071. The event was Skypecast and the recording is posted at http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/154. On-site and distance presenters created a wiki for it here: http://colloquium07.wikispaces.com with biodata here: http://colloquium07.wikispaces.com/presenters. I created my presentation on the wiki here: http://colloquium07.wikispaces.com/Vance+Stevens, and have placed a slide show version here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2007seattleEVO/00.htm

I gave my talk on the potential for education of the MUVE Second Life at the METSMaC conference in Abu Dhabi, http://metsmac.org March 18, 2007 in an oral presentation entitled "Second life and online collaboration through peer to peer distributed learning networks" March 18. The draft of the paper I submitted for the proceedings can be viewed here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/metsmac/metsmac_secondlife.htm, and the published version is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/metsmac/Stevens-METSMaC-2007.pdf. An annotated rendition of the slides presented at this talk appears here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia2007/00.htm

I presented at the TESOL Arabia 2007 Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates http://tesolarabia.org/conference/ on March 17, 2007. My talk was entitled "Second Life and collaboration in distributed learning networks". As my 'handout' I gave out the link to my Studies in Second Life. An annotated rendition of the slides presented at this talk appears here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia2007/00.htm

January 21, 2007 - I was invited to give a short talk on the topic of "Benefits of using computers and technology in teaching: Focus on language teaching" by a company called Senaco, who asked me to speak at a meeting of its sales and technical staff in Abu Dhabi. I put the text from the PowerPoint slides up at my blog: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/, and I recorded the talk and placed it at my pod-blog: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/.

January 15-February 25, 2007 I am co-moderating the EVO rendition of the Webcast Academy Class of 2.1 http://webcastacademy.net/EVO2007 . The EVO sessions homepage is here: http://evo07sessions.pbwiki.com/. The Webcast Academy syllabus and other information are here: http://evo07sessions.pbwiki.com/webcast-academy. I am tracking my work in this endeavor at my page Tackling the Webcast Academy <-- here.

Presentations: 2006 - Navigate to other areas of this page

As EVO Coordination Team member, I was involved as usual in the organization and training of moderators for the 2007 EVO (Electronic Village Online) sessions taking place prior and leading up to Jan-Mar 2007 http://dafnegonzalez.com/evo-07/Cfproposals.htm. My evolving responsibility is helping to coordinate management of the EVO Moodle: http://evo.tesol.org/moodle/. The planning wiki was at http://evo-07- coord.pbwiki. com/ and the EVO moderator training wiki and syllabus was at http://evo-training .pbwiki.com/

I presented at GLD X - Global Learn Day 10 - Sunday October 8 - for the program of the Gulf Region http://tinyurl.com/gszbs The GLD timetable is here http://www.bfranklin.edu/gldten/. My page is here http://ben300.com/GLDTEN/?p=39. My presentation is here:http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2006antwerp/gld10_vance.htm and I made a recording and posted it on my podblog at: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com

September 11-October 8, 2006 - I taught my third annual rendition of PP 107: Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments, description at http://snipurl.com/ppt107_2006 and Moodle portal at http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23. The course is described on the TESOL website at http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=664&DID=2642. Major changes in the newly revised course include greater reliance on blogged and podcast materials for examination of evolving literacies, with participants sharing artifacts they create such as summaries of recordings, their personally aggregated rss feeds, and their own blogs and podcasts. I am articulating the focus of the revised course in my presentation given virtually via recorded video at the 12th International CALL Research Conference: How are we doing? CALL & monitoring the learner, DIDASCALIA, University of Antwerp Language Institute 20-22 August 2006: http://snipurl.com/vance2006antwerp. I prepared a print-literacy wrap-up in my On the Internet column in TESL-EJ (Electric Online Journal) here: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej38/int.html

August 22, 2006 - I presented virtually via recorded video at the 12th International CALL Research Conference How are we doing? CALL & monitoring the learner, DIDASCALIA, University of Antwerp Language Institute 20-22 August 2006, more information at DIDASCALIA Research Centre: http://www.didascalia.be. The annotated text of my presentation can be found here: http://snipurl.com/vance2006antwerp. The video of the presentation can be seen here (55 kbps) and at better quality here: http://blip.tv/file/62861 (521 kbps). I received this feedback from Jozef Colpaert: "Your presentation was shown to some 15 people and was well received. We had a discussion afterwards on learner freedom versus teacher guidance in Web 2.0-based learning environments and associated constructivist approaches."

On July 6, I presented in French (from my mom's home in Houston) as part of a presentation hosted by Jean Michel Chaupart from France in conjunction with a congres in Paraguay. The event was la conférence internationale pour professeurs de francais latinoaméricains – XIVe.SEDIFRALE que a eu lieu le JEUDI 6 JUILLET, entre 20 heures et 21heures 30 GMT, sur la plate-forme de conférence : http://www.portafolio.org/conference.htm qui supporte la voix + image webcam + présentation de pages web. Les diapositives sont disponibles pour consultation à l'adresse suivante: http://www.cimted.org/carrusel/sedifrale/. For the text of my presentation in French, click here

June 23, 2006 - I was interviewed via podcasting on my views on various aspects of consulting. The interview was conducted by ElderBob Brannan and posted on one of his blogs, Rebuilding Indianola, at: http://rebuildingindianola.blogspot.com/2006_06_23_rebuildingindianola_archive.html. The original recordings were those posted June 21 at http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/.

April 20 I presented on Effective Strategies toward Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning at The Language Centre 6th Annual ELT Conference, Language Learning in the Cyber Age: Innovations and Challenges 19 – 20 April 2006 Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman http://www.squ.edu.om/lan/index.html. I used Learning Times / Elluminate at http://tinyurl.com/y3eh to webcast it, and I placed the handout with links to the PowerPoint slide show, URL playlist of the presentation, and webcast recording from here: http://tinyurl.com/m4ow6.

On March 30, 2006 at 3:30 PM in Dubai (11:30 a.m. GMT) I gave a talk entitled Effective Strategies toward Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning at the12th International TESOL Arabia Conference March 29-31, 2006 in Dubai, UAE http://tesolarabia.org/conf2006/. 50 word abstract: This presentation deals with the topic of multiliteracy, the importance of including multiliteracy skills in designing almost any modern curriculum, and how teachers can develop strategies to become more multiliterate themselves and thus be better equipped to pass on these skills to their students through multiliteracy components in curricula. My handout is here: http://tinyurl.com/m4ow6. The conference schedule is here: http://tesolarabia.org/conf2006/speakers/ta2006schedule.pdf. My talk was listed as being at 3:30 a.m in Dubai on this document: http://tesolarabia.org/conf2006/speakers/2006ConcurrentSpeakers.pdf

I webcast at Learning Times http://tinyurl.com/y3eh from the METSMaC 2006 “Making Connections” at 9:30 a.m. in Abu Dhabi, 16 March 2006 at the Beach Rotana & Towers Hotel Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates on Effective strategies for applying multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments by Vance Stevens Foundation Computing, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. http://tinyurl.com/m4ow6

Abstract: Multiliteracy is an important aspect of almost any curriculum nowadays. Teachers and students with good multiliteracy skills have a workable grasp of the many ways that technology intertwines with academic life, and are in position to actively gain control over those aspects directly impacting the learning environment and their professional development. Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of fast-changing technologies by adapting those most appropriate to their situations. These strategies begin with managing, processing, and interpreting a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications.

This presentation discusses effective approaches and strategies for responding to technology issues in the academic environment. It overviews tools and skills that help cope with information overload and discusses means of communication and interaction in Internet 2.0 environments, including using social networking, RSS, video, web cam, image, and voice technologies to gain familiarity with these tools and their applications in teaching through communities of practice which in turn model collaborative, constructivist learning settings.

It is hoped that teachers will leave this presentation with a greater awareness of the potentials of Internet 2.0 in the enhancement of optimal learning environments, and with some idea of a strategy that they might pursue to learn more about the topic, thus enhancing their own awareness of multiliteracy skills and how they might include these in curricula they develop for students

Robert "Elderbob" Brannan, Buthaina Al Othman, and I conducted a session for the TESOL / Electronic Village Online (EVO2006) sessions Monday, January 16 - Sunday, February 26, 2006 entitled Establishing and maintaining 'Web presence' Part 2: The Moodle. The proposal is here: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/evo2006/gvs2006proposal.htm. The link for the sessions is http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/announce.html and the link from there to this session is http://webpages.csus.edu/%7Ehansonsm/WebPresence.html

Tuesday February 14th I present from a distance at the invitation of Gavin Dudeney a talk entitled "Webheads: Communiities of practice in action" at a conference entitled ICT in ELT: putting the 'Learning' back into 'E-Learning' held face to face at the Manchester Conference Centre, 12-17 February 2006: http://www.britishcouncil.org/seminars-english-0563.htm. I gave a presentations at 10:00 GMT to the following specs: "Participants are all interested in ICT in ELT, on a teacher, traner and a ministry level and come from a wide variety of countries around the world. They will have seen a bit of group CoP theory, and looked extensively at Yahoo Groups beforehand. They will also have discussed, a little, what makes a good group. What I'd like you to do is present Webheads, a bit of history, what it does, how it has evolved and why they should probably think about joining it. Some nice anecdotes, practical experiences or whatever, and a look at the kind of courses you do, the Convergence, etc." Prior to the presentation there was lively interaction at the remote conference Moodle: http://www.britishcouncilinteractive.tv/moodle/course/view.php?id=5 . My presentation was recorded at Learning Times http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1122376 and can be accessed directly here: https://www.elluminate.com/site/pmtg.jnlp?psid=d2006213181.397826 ; Powerpoint slides here

Presentations: 2005 - Navigate to other areas of this page

I organized and coordinated the WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Conference: Bridges across Cyberspace Friday and Saturday, November 18 - 19, 2005 and Convergence wrap-up Sunday November 20 http://www.wiaoc.org/; Moodle: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=20. I was on a panel and gave a stand-alone presentation at this conference; replay here: http://schedule.wiaoc.org

TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi Chapter, IL SIG & Al Hosn University Present 4 Computer Workshops & Presentations At Al Hosn University, Abu Dhabi Thursday 17th November, 2005 10.00am - 12:30pm . My presentation discusses the WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Convergence that features guest speakers Curt Bonk, David Nunan, Dave Sperling, Randall Davis, and Joy Egbert. The conference is free and entirely online from November 18-20. Vance is coordinating on behalf of Webheads. He will explain what goes into putting on a conference like this, and suggest how students might organize their own conferences along similar lines. If you are interested in this event, come to Vance’s presentation and find out more here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/convergence2005.htm and the Moodle: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=20

Oct. 31 - Nov. 7, 2005 - I am involved as Coordinator and TESOL Professional Development Liaison in the (TESOL) Electronic Village Online 2006 Sessions http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/How_EVO_differs.html; http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/What_is_EVO.html. Buthaina Alothman, Nicolas Gromik, and I are conducting the training during Week 4 of the moderator training sessions taking place Monday, October 10 - Sunday, November 14, 2005. The scope of our segment is to help moderators Refine their YG & syllabus based on readings - Explore advanced features of YG (or their own CMS) as described in Buthaina.s message here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVO_Moderators/message/1830. My own contrbution is in helping moderators learn about voice presentation tools. Buth has created a portal for this effort here: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/evonline_voicechat_tools.htm

September 12 to October 9, 2005 (and again September 11-October 8, 2006): My online course, PP 107 Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/portal2005.htm, was scheduled for the TESOL Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program, http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/ppcp/index.html. The abstract is somewhat changed from the course I taught in 2004; e.g. addition of required textbook: Course-specific requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0, sound card, some means of reading/accessing and composing/sending e-mail, course text: Selber, Stuart. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Another addition is the course Moodle: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23

A multiliterate teacher understands the many ways that technology interacts and intertwines with academic life, and actively learns how to gain control over those aspects impacting teaching and professional development. Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of those aspects of changing technologies most appropriate to their situations. These strategies include managing, processing, and interpreting a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. This course

Topics covered include:

Sat April 30 at 07:00 a.m. GMT I was invited to address an audience virtually at the Qatar Teachers English Network Conference (QTEN) conference in Doha, Qatar and was listed in the conference program as appearing Saturday, in room C107 in the Liberal Arts Building in the Qatar Foundation though physically present in Abu Dhabi: Blogging in online communities of practice: Impact on language learning and teacher professional development abstract: "Blogging is an Internet phenomenon with significant impact on both language learning and teacher professional development, It is now possible for students AND teachers to create their own web pages in minutes and, with minimal guidance, extend these to more elaborate web sites. This workshop will guide participants in creating and developing their own blog sites, and illustrate and discuss ways that blogs can be configured to create authentic, interactive, communicative, reflective, creative, and motivating learning environments that engage students and provide a means for teachers to further their ongoing professional development." http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/qten2005/vancestevens2005qten.htm The session was recorded and is here: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=805285. Incidentally, the slide presentation explaining how to create a blog in Blogger was updated in April 2007 and is available here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/blogger_tutorial.htm

At right, in my capcity as Amideast consultant in one of the classroms at the MLI, with furniture which we ourselves designed, January 2000

On Wednesday April 27 at 07:20 GMT (11:20 in Abu Dhabi) I presented on "Online Webcast: Computer mediated communications tools used with teachers and students in virtual communities of practice" at METSMaC–I The First Annual Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing Conference “Strategies for Effective Learning in the Middle East” 26 to 28 April 2005 at the Armed Forces Officers' Club and The Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE http://metsmac.org. Further information on the presentation can be found here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia/metsmac2005gvs.htm

I gave an online 2-part workshop at The Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi UAE Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips Event for the Learner Independence and IT SIGs of TESOL Arabia April 14, 9:00 - 13:00 in Abu Dhabi. The presentation is at: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia/tttt2005/blogging_now.htm or http://tinyurl.com/3jc5o. The workshop was in two 1 hour blocks starting around 05:00 GMT . The two parts were on starting blogs, and the second hour got into what to do with them (e.g. how to use them as portals to learning communities such as that at http://webpres2005.buzznet.com . (More info about the past TTTT events can be found at http://ilearn.20m.com/pasteventsb.html#tttt)

At the TESOL 2005: The 39th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition March 30-April 2, 2005 San Antonio, Texas, USA - http://www.tesol.org. Online participants were encouraged to participate in these events at http://www.tappedin.org, http://www.alado.com/webheads, http://www.tinyurl.com/y3eh, and at Yahoo Messenger for web cams of multiple participants.

  • Wed evening March 30 there was a webheads party event on-site in San Antonio at the The Houston Street Bistro organized by ElderBob Brannon and open virtually via wi-fi from 1800 San Antonio time (midnight GMT Thu).

For more information including where to post on other blogs: http://elderboblog.typepad.com/fiesta/2005/03/post.html
http://elderboblog.typepad.com/fiesta/2005/03/on_march_30_i_w.html
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/chat2005/chat2005.htm#elderparty

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 17:00:00 GMT: I was invited to give a voice-enabled virtual presentation for the Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture Series, an entirely free, online presentation series in which experts in the field of higher education give hour-long interactive presentations, live over the internet via the Horizon Wimba OpenCampus virtual classroom. The bi-line on the session from the HWDLS website was: "Building Community Among Educators: Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online since 1998. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web-based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues." The text and graphics of the talk are here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/horizonlive/2005mar15vance.htm. As of March 16 the talk is still listed as an upcoming one: http://www.horizonwimba.com/community/upcoming.php, but a recording should soon appear in the archives here: http://www.horizonwimba.com/community/archived.php; or here: http://lecture.horizonwimba.com/launcher.cgi?channel=stevens_2005_0315_1202_45

I conducted an online training session on Web presence for the Electronic Village Online 2005 Sessions, Monday, January 17 - Sunday, February 27, 2005 [6 weeks]

Friday Feb 25, 2005 15:00 to 16:00 GMT: At the Knowtips Conference http://knowtips.ca I was part of an online panel presentation entitled: Webheads – Intuitive chaos management in online collaborative interaction http://wiaknowtips.buzznet.com/. Presentation description: "Webheads in Action With Susanne Nyrop, Vance Stevens, Dafne Gonzalez, Sergei Gridushko. Webheads in Action (WiA) is a robust community of educators worldwide. Active WIA participants bring evidence of strong bonds of online collegiality and loyalty, while questioning and reflecting critically upon our experiments, tinkering with free communication tools and environments. During the Knowtips conference, we'll engage in storytelling and discussion about such shared experiences. Join our narrative inquiry on how to help each other, moving from novice to practitioner to domain experts by inclusive participation, peer scaffolding and inspiration." My part of the presentation is entitled: The intuitive chaos manager as cat herder: Helping others to have F.U.N. navigating simplexity while developing cohesion in communities of practice online and the presentation itself can be found here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/horizonlive/2005feb25whjam.htm or via its link in the presentation blog http://wiaknowtips.buzznet.com/user/?id=983482

This was scheduled for Feb 14, 2005, at 8:00 GMT but has been postponed due to technical problems. I was invited to participate in a presentation Buthaina Alothman was delivering before executive managers and employees of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, (KPC) http://www.kpc.com.kw/index2.htm, in conjunction with her work as technology consultant with HRD, Int. specialising in training programs for workers at both the private and public sectors. Presentation title: E-Learning in the Age of Information Technology: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/hrd_kpc_wia_mvpresentation.htm.The presentations were to be held here: https://www.virtexc3.com/clients/kuwaituni/. I was to elaborate on the concept of e-learning & successful/effective learning environments for e-learning from his perspective and experience as the founder/leader of several online communities, (for ESL/EFL educators, teachers, and learners), like Webheads in Action, with focus on Managing at a distance and The role of collaborative e-learning to enhance performance and to increase productivity of groups and sub-groups; (e.g. the Webheads in Action and Writing for Weheads CoPs for teachers and students from his perspective as the founder and owner/moderator). The text of my presentation can be seen here.

Tuesday, February 8, 14:00-15:00 GMT, at Learning Times http://www.tinyurl.com/3yeh: Teresa Almeda d'Eca and Vance Stevens gave a joint session as guest speakers in the TESOL sponsored EVOnline 2005 course entitled, The Use of Blogs in ESL/EFL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weblogging/. The topic was: Blogging Beyond Text and is now listed as "Jam session: Adding Sounds and Photos" http://www.beewebhead.net/Evo05/week.htm. My presentation is here: http://webpres2005.buzznet.com/user/?id=871727. It explains how the links are achieved in your blogs, through postings and comments to each other's postings.

Presentations: 2004 - Navigate to other areas of this page

Thursday, Dec 16, 2004 - At an event sponsored by the TESOL Arabia - Teacher Education SIG, held at the British Council, Abu Dhabi, 9:30 to 12:30 (05:30 to 08:30 GMT), Vance Stevens gave a workshop Communities of Practice for Ongoing Online Teacher Professional Development for Teacher Educators and K-16 teachers interested in collaborative networking in Teacher Education. Handout: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/evo2005/webpresence.htm and abstract:

Students and teachers are increasingly meeting online to explore ways of using the latest free communications technologies that promote language learning and teacher training. These technologies include synchronous text, voice, and web cam -enabled chat services that are educational in nature as well as asynchronous tools such as blogs, groupware, and open source applications like Moodle. Accordingly it is becoming important for teachers to establish a Web presence in order to participate in robust online communities which often influence how these teachers interact with their students. The presenter will show numerous ways that an online presence can be maintained using free online tools, and give examples of how these tools are used to achieve pedagogical goals.

Thursday, November 3, 2004 at 11:00 - 12:20 GMT, Dafne Gonzales, Susanne Nyrop, and I were asked to give the lead presentation online, entitled "Intro To Asynchronous Communication Tools", during the Belarusian Association of Teachers of English (BelNATE) and Minsk State Linguistics University 6th International BelNATE-IATEFL Conference 'Teaching English as a World Language in the Information Age' (November 3 - 5, 2004). The aim of the on-line workshop was to bring together EFL teachers and specialists in an online session to demonstrate a number of synch/asynch tools available on the web.

URLs for the conference are:

Our Abstract: Why educators would want to get themselves online (and once that is established, then how?). This will be an overview of the tools available on the web, with references to further information to get participants started with any or all of them.

We intend to demonstrate to participants how they can establish their online presence and be empowered to upload photos they can link to, create simple web pages, etc. Our presentation put these in a perspective of WHY educators would want to put files and web pages online (and once that was established, then HOW?). In other words, this was an overview of the tools available and enough of an explanation with reference to further information to get participants started on any or all of them. A PDF of the PowerPoint slides is here (2.15 Mbytes): http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/belnate2004/belnate041103.pdf

Some of the tools are:

Friday, October 29, 2004 20:30 to 21:30 GMT, I agreed to conduct session 7 on Learning From Others - Learning in a Social Context at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/theenglishworkshop;

September 13-October 10, 2004 - I gave an online course as part of the TESOL Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program, http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/ppcp/index.html. My course is listed as PP 107: Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments - Instructor: Vance Stevens. Its description: A multiliterate online language teacher creates learning environments interweaving sound and image with text over networked media. This course provides experiential training in the technological skills required to develop effective strategies for utilizing video, web cam, image, and voice technologies in communities of practice as enhancements to collaborative learning settings. Course-specific requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0, sound card, and some means of reading/accessing and composing/sending e-mail. http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/ppcp/courses-1.html#pp107. The course was run through the CMS Desire to Learn at http://uwec.courses.wisconsin.edu but I created an alternative portal whose purpose was to bring knowledgeable others into contact with participants in this course and thereby enrich the learning experience for all: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/portal2004.htm

Wednesday Aug 25, 12:00 to 14:00 GMT, at a Cyberlangues http://cyberlangues.online.fr/ atelier (workshop) on blogging - Barbara Dieu made an online presentation on blogs at http://www.alado.net/webheads. I was invited to join this presentation and present (in French) my work on building communities through photoblogs at http://mahdia2004.buzznet.com and show as an example of blog journalism my travel photoblog at http://vancestevens.buzznet.com. The text of my presentation appears here: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2004/chat2004.htm#040825

July 19 - 31, 2004, I gave a series of workshops in an English Language Specialist Program http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/ Tunisian Summer English Institute for secondary school teachers - "New Information Technologies in ELT - IT Networks in ELT" in Mahdia, Tunisia. The request was to combine lectures and demonstrations with hands-on workshops and activities with a view to giving participants ideas, methods and materials they would be able to put to immediate use in their own classrooms. The course objectives were to introduce concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects in preparatory and secondary schools, digital content, production and exploitation, online tutoring, management and optimization of ICT spaces and networks and ICT quality control.

The courses started with a look at a number of sites which explain the principles of good online tutoring. During the course of these workshops I created a blended learning environment working face to face with the participants to help them explore a set of community building tools for interacting with each other online. The progress of the workshops and the syllabus evolved was recorded at http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tunisia2004/mahdia.htm. At the top of these pages, there are links to our YahooGroup, the pictures we took and placed at Ofoto, the blogs created at Blogger and Buzznet, and web sites created using Tripod. The most developed of the two syllabi is here: http://tinyurl.com/47snq. The workshops were meant to establish:

  1. that in order to use online tools effectively with students, teachers need to familiarize themselves with the tools in benign collaborative settings (that is, with each other first; not use them without practice with students straight away).
  2. the importance of encouraging what I call F.U.N. or Frivolous Unanticipated Nonsense ...
  3. the benefits of taking advantage of the spontaneous and sometimes unexpected or serendipitous aspects of the medium, which sometimes involves a teacher making a paradigm shift in attitudes toward the nature of learning, rather than hold to less flexible teaching styles that might not apply to multiliterate learning.

Participants formulated a set of principles that applied to the group, learned to use various tools for interacting in constructivist learning environments such as the one created in the workshops, and learned just enough HTML to let participants fine tune (really use) some of these tools. It was challenging to make it all fit together and make sense and be effective by the end of the workshop, and also to put in place a mechanism by which activities started at the workshop would continue after the workshop ended on July 31.

Sunday, May 23, 2004 at 12:15 GMT- An M.A. TEFL Conference entitled Developing Teacher Practices for Turkey was held at Bilkent University. The audience and speakers were alumni of the M.A. Bilkent program. reunion at Bilkent University MA TEFL program. The program URL is at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~matefl/. This reunion was celebrated with a conference, where William Grabe, Bill Snyder, Fredricka L. Stoller and Kimberly Trimble were invited speakers. They expected approx. 150 EFL instructors all around Turkey. A joint proposal was accepted: "Sustaining an online community: Webheads experience" for an online presentation with Arif Altun (Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu Turkey) physically present at the Bilkent MA TEFL Reunion Conference (with Vance Stevens connecting online from The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE). The online venue for the presentation will be http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=27366. Our abstract:

Language learning is an ongoing engagement, which requires learners to experience authentic use of language. Webheads, which is the name of an online community promoting just that, comprises a number of communities of practice of language students and teachers who meet regularly online to explore ways of using the latest free communications technologies that work over the Internet for language learning and teacher training (for more information see, http://www.webheads.info). Webheads use emerging and existing technologies both in their weekly synchronous meetings and in asynchronous messaging within the group. One part of the Webheads mission is to introduce teachers and students to CMC environments despite many of those involved being novice computer users.

This presentation will be a demonstration of the tools used to sustain such online communities of learners and teacher-collaborators. The on-site participants will have the chance to meet the initiator of this group, Vance Stevens, and interact with a remote audience of Webheads, who will tune in live and online for the occasion using the tools being demonstrated to allow us to hear their voices and view their web cams. The participants will also have the opportunity to discuss with the online guests the advantages and disadvantages of using these tools with students and other teachers. Consequently, the opportunities, limitations and strengths of joining an online community will be examined together with Turkish participants.

On Tuesday, May 18, 14:30 - 16:00 GMT (9:30 am - 11:00 am, CST) Vance Stevens (Webhead's Leader, Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Teresa Almeida d'Eça (Lisbon, Portugal) were scheduled to present "Building Online Communities for Professional Development" at the First Tutor/Mentor Leadership e-Conference Overlay to the face-to-face Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference being held at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago on May 17 and 18, 2004.

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. GMT - Tools used to create online communities of learner- and teacher-collaborators A Demonstration and Workshop by Vance Stevens as a TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi Chapter special event held at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, from 10:00 to noon local time. Helping with the second lab: Phil Cozens

We met starting at 5:00 a.m. GMT in TappedIn, Yahoo Messenger, and the Learning Times Webheads room: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662 . This event kicked off in the theatre where Michael Coghlan, Buthaina Alothman, and I did the Global Learn Day presentation on November 16, 2003. See a copy of the flyer here. Below is a description of the event, and there is more information on the online_events page:

Webheads comprises a number of communities of practice of language students and teachers who meet regularly online to explore ways of using the latest free communications technologies that work over the Internet for language learning and teacher training http://www.webheads.info. These technologies include synchronous text, voice, and web cam -enabled chat services that are educational in nature http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/software.htm. The use of these tools is simpler than many people think and Webheads have consistently introduced teachers and students to CMC environments despite all concerned being novice computer users. Webheads have in turn documented their experiences with these tools and used them to work collaboratively on numerous student projects http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun00.htm. This event was planned in two parts.

First there was a demonstration of the tools used to create online communities of learners and teacher-collaborators http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/cairo2004/workshops/demo.htm. The demonstration was in the PI Auditorium and introduced the auditorium audience to a remote audience of Webheads who tuned in live and online for the occasion so that we could use these tools to hear their voices and view some of their web cams.

There was then a regrouping in the language labs at the PI where workshop participants experimented with the tools hands-on to communicate more closely with the online participants. Workshop participants were able to discuss with the online participants the advantages and disadvantages of using these tools with students and other teachers, and compile lists of pros and cons on the whiteboards.

April 8, 2004, I was invited to present at the TESOL Arabia Independent Learning SIG ( iLearn) "Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips 2 morning of practical workshops" at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. I patterned my talk after my most recent TESOL presentation and entitled it Having F.U.N. in communities of practice for independent learning. The hypertext PowerPoint 'handout' was actually the one from the TESOL conference, though I re-purposed the PPT slide show for the SIG event.

March 30 to April 3, 2004, I was invited to make the following presentations at the 2004 TESOL Conference in Long Beach, California.

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 from 17:00-24:00 GMT or 9 am - 4 pm in Long Beach

Click here for the 'handout'

With colleagues from Webheads I am presenting a PCI or 'pre-convention institute' on Enhancing Online Communities with Voice and Webcams (2xzax).This is a major 6-hour event where I and five colleagues arrange for participants to experience hands-on use of chat (text only, and voice and web cam enhanced) in safe, educator-friendly online environments. Any and all online participants are welcome to join us. Dafne Gonzales is organizing the online participants and has set up a sign-up page for this event here: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/pci-invitation.html

Objectives, participants will: · become familiar with easily implemented technologies to enable interactions in text-based chat augmented with voice and web cam; · through interaction with peers, extrapolate to pedagogical advantages of using media-enhanced chat with students; · increase awareness, through community-building techniques, of the effects group solidarity can have on individual student output and improvement. For example, using images and voice on a communal web page helps emulate face-to-face community interaction, facilitating natural communication practice for the learner; · working in groups by level, devise chat projects for students that can be implemented on return to work/school.

We presenters will show sample class projects demonstrating a wide range of potential uses of chat for language learning. These case studies will show how much students and teachers enjoy participating in such projects, meeting other students and educators online, and entering an environment that fosters community support and out-of-class language development. Hands-on activities include: · using voice and webcams to chat with online partners worldwide, · creating or joining online communities, · and preparing photos and sound files for upload to shared web spaces.

Buth's photo-record of the event: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/tesol2004_pci_webheads.htm
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 from 10:30 to 11:30 at the Long Beach Convention Center (Room 103 A&B), in the Electronic Village EV

Click here for the 'handout'		 Applications Fair http://www.pgcps.org/~esol/AppFair2004.html. Integrating keyboarding and language skills with MS Office will be a 25-30 minute presentation, with handouts for about 20-30, conducted as 2 small group presentations during the hour long period, with participants given the chance to switch between multiple presenters. - I have my students practice their keyboarding skills in a simple typing program. I have them track the results on a worksheet I gave them which is really a printout from an MS Office Excel spreadsheet. The worksheet has space to record date, exercise number, typing speed, and accuracy for the 50 lessons in the typing program. The students then create their own spreadsheet and key in their individual data. From the spreadsheet they use the Wizard to create a line graph which lists date and exercise on the bottom and two 'series' of connected points on the graph labeled 'accuracy' and 'fluency'. They then import their graph into an MS Word memo wizard and send me a report on how they have been doing. That is, they have to create a document in the register of an office memorandum and in that memo report and evaluate their progress. Their keyboarding is then graded on their report of their progress in the memo (and language skills as well as ESP for business skills could be evaluated as well). The 'handout' is available here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/pi/kbtutor_lnx.htm
Thursday, April 1, 2004 Internet Fair: 16:30 to 17:30 GMT, 8:30-9:30 am in Long Beach

Christine's handout is here.

The EV Online proposal titled "Professional Development through 2004 EV Online Sessions" is organized by Suzan Moody, Randall Davis, and Malika Lyon. The fair takes place from 8:30-9:30 each morning of the convention (Wednesday-Saturday). I am involved in my role as one of the coordinators for the annual EVOnline events. That aspect of the program is being organized by Christine Bauer-Ramazani, whose handout is at http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/2004/InternetFair/EV2004.htm.

Friday, April 2, 22:00 to 23:00 GMT, 2:00 - 3:00 pm in Long Beach, in rooms 103 A-C of the Long Beach Convention Center.

Click here for a 'handout'

I was invited to present in an Electronic Village Special Event, The Internet Classics Fair. My presentation will connect conference participants with members of the Webheads community of practice who will join online from locations distant from the conference. As I have done at this conference the previous two years, I will set up a web cam and use this and voice chat software to enable the local and distant participants to communicate and interact with one another. According to the invitation: "This invitation is based on the high quality of the presentation you gave for either the 2002 or 2003 TESOL Internet Fair. This "invitation only" forum will feature the best presentations from the past few years of Internet Fair presentations. It is a means to bring back some of the best, thus providing access to those who may have missed these exceptional examples of Internet use for ESL/EFL instruction."

Saturday, April 3, 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM - Control (Event) Number: 3026 Session Title: Multiple Perspectives on the Virtual Learning Environment Type of Session: Colloquium Scheduled Location: Long Beach Convention Center/Grand Ballroom Maximum Room Capacity: 989

Click here for hyperPPT 'handout'

I am one of the panelists at the TESOL 2004 presentation "Multiple perspectives on the on-line conversation class" with David Nunan, Mark Warschauer, Andy Chao, Lillian Wong, etc. (acceptance letter here). In a talk entitled Voices heard having F.U.N. in online communities of practice I spoke on Webheads experiences with using voice chat with students, realized and potential benefits of such use, as well as some drawbacks associated with realities on the ground as concerns bandwidth and issues of voice quality. I will stress that in order for the potential of voice interaction to be realized with students, teachers much first become comfortable with the medium in their own communities of practice.

I can speak from extensive experience with use of numerous voice chat clients with students and teaching peers in Writing for Webheads and Webheads in Action respectively. The goal of each endeavor has been to promote learning through creation of a community of practice of participants in each group. It is important to speak of both groups, the teachers / practitioners and the students because training teachers experientially in techniques for forming robust online communities and in their look and feel informs the way these teachers subsequently interact with students. We apply many such techniques to our online community formation projects, including creating portals with pictures and personal vignettes of all participants, and use of voice and web cams in synchronous chat events. We feel that voice is pivotal to these projects. It's the element of humanism in online interaction that projects best over the Internet. Web cams, the way we have used them so far, have had limited impact, but voice interactions consistently work for us in cementing bonds in our communities. With our student groups, in addition to enhancing the ability to get to know one another, it has the added benefit that for those in remote locations where there are few or no native speakers available, it may the only opportunity that such students have to interact aurally in real time with native speaking informants.

Buth's pictures: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/tesol2004_vance_colloquium.htm

paper in progress

I had the following engagements in Cairo January 23-24, 2004
http://cairo.usembassy.gov/usis/RELO0104.HTM

Saturday, January 24 - 2 to 6 p.m Cairo time; noon to 4 p.m. GMT, with Buthaina Alothman and Randa Effat: Enhancing Online Educational Communities with Computer-Mediated Communications Tools, an IELP2 mini workshop at the Central Department for In service Training lab in Cairo. Participants receive information on free software, explore techniques and resources for community-building, and experiment with a variety of synchronous and asynchronous communication resources for language learning and teacher professional development. Participants in Cairo were meant to work with online participants from Webheads groups online, but were prevented from doing so by the local firewall. See: html version with links that work online and a PDF version used as a handout at the session. Buthaina documented the event: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/vance_workshop_jan2404.htm and went on to create a portal for the EgyptWebheads group that emerged from this session: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/egyptwebheads_portal_jan2404.htm.

Presentations at the 9th EFL Conference: "INTEGRATING EFL SKILLS: STRATEGIES FOR THE TEACHER, CREATIVITY AND ASSESSMENT" Wednesday through Friday January 21-23, 2004 - at the Center for Adult & Continuing Education, The American University of Cairo http://www.aucegypt.edu/Conferences/EFLconf/

Tuesday Jan 20 at 13:30 to 3:00 at the EFL Fellows Conference at the Nile Hilton Jan. 19-20th, with attendance of RELOs and PAOs/CAOs, and guest appearance by Buthaina Alothman. IT in Context in the Middle East: This presentation will suggest ways that Instructional Technology can be used to enhance the IT component in EL and EFL programming and program follow-up. The session is intended to help EFL fellows from Bahrain, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia see what's going on now and what might be the shape of things to come regarding use of IT in the region as regards practices, opportunities, and challenges. Participants at this session will sample some uses of easily accessible technology, explore a virtual learning resource center, and see how the VLRC format can lend itself to production of student eZines. The presentation will overview tools for online communication, and consider a case study prepared by Buthaina al Othman, who applied these tools with students at Kuwait University. Buth's photos from this event: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/buth_vance_cairo04.htm

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December 18, 2003, 9:00 to 10:00 GMT - I was a keynote speaker, presenting from a distance, at a conference in Cairo. Title of presentation: Teacher professional development in online communities of practice: How does this impact language learning? The thesis was that only through use of CMC in professional development does its use with students become second nature. The chat was webcast from this chat room: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662. The PowerPoint slides are available to webheadsinaction members here: (forthcoming)

Euro Language Teachers Forum on Tapped In, Sunday 23 November at 19 hours GMT at http://www.tappedin.org, Vance Stevens presented "the Virtual Resource Center". You can view this resource at: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/vlrc/t2t2003.htm. This is a tool that is designed to reference online libraries and other resources on many topics, including e-Learning, mulitmedia learning opportunities and professional development.

As one of the coordinators of the EVO-2004 moderator's group, I was nominally involved in training newcomers to EV ONLINE and YahooGroups, from Monday, October 27 to Friday, November 28, 2003. In reality I was overwhelmed with my Online Academy class running at the same time.

October 27 to November 23, 2003 I put on one of the TESOL Online Academies. My session is listed as: Enhancing Online Communities with Voice and Webcams (W-3) Workshop Leader: Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/academies.html#w3 and it has its portal here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/academy/portal2003.htm.

Sunday November 16, 2003 10:00 to 11:30 GMT Michael Coghlan and I were key presenters for the Global Learn Day VII presentation on "Meet the Webheads: An experiment in world friendship through online language learning." The presentation was cybercast live from the Lecture Hall, Bldg 1, Room 100 at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi. Buthaina Othman flew from Kuwait to Abu Dhabi especially to be on hand to present: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/esl-ef_wia_gld_files/frame.htm. Buthaina took pictures and archived the event at her website: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/wia-buth-gld.htm.

Global Learn Day is an annual event that circumvents the world in a 24 hour broadcast, and involves presenters on various aspects of education and IT and participants meeting in voice chat online from all over the globe. It starts at midnight GMT at the International Dateline in the Pacific and moves for 24 hours or more west around the globe, picking up presenters as it progresses. For more info: http://bfranklin.edu/gld/; see also the blog at http://www.bfranklin.edu/blog

Webheads in Action is a community of practice of language teaching/learning practitioners interested in exploring how the interests of language learners can be furthered via community formation online when facilitated through text, voice, and webcam enabled synchronous and asynchronous computer mediated communication - http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm

Oct 25, 2003 I was invited to be Guest Speaker at the The 4th Wen Shan Conference on English Teaching The Department of English National Chengchi University October 25, 2003. I discuss my philosophy of teaching (constructivist, communicative) in the context of how we used to teach in the mid seventies and early 80's, and how we wished we could teach even then, and how computers changed what was possible for language teachers to do, culminating in Creating Environments for Teaching and Learning Languages Online for the Webheads Community of Language Learners and Teachers. Ying Lan Liu, Aiden Yeh, and Venny Su were on hand to help me co-present.

Thursday, May 8, 2003, 11:30 to 12:20 in Abu Dhabi at the Teacher to Teacher Conference of the Military Language Institute May 7-8, 2003, - "The virtual learning resource center reaches out" http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/vlrc/t2t2003.htm
In Dec 2003 there was a TESL-EJ article about this Virtual Learning Resource Centerhttp://cwp60.berkeley.edu:16080/TESL-EJ/ej27/int.html.

In a world with increasing interconnectivity, the boundaries of learning resources available to those in an educational setting extend far beyond the walls of the brick-and-mortar institute. Most learning resource centers will have a virtual component, whether it is simply an online card catalog or something more ambitious. In charge of establishing a virtual presence for the new Learning Resource Center at the MLI, the presenter maps out some potentials for such a facility, assuming optimal use of available synchronous and asynchronous web-based tools to promote learner-centered, constructivist, and socioculturally oriented collaborative online learning environments. This presentation will describe a Virtual Learning Resource Center under conception at the MLI. Starting from a computer-based mock-up of an actual LRC, the presenter will show how a virtual world of educational resources can be opened by clicking on hotspots on the shelves and walls. This world will open onto numerous educational resources available for free and for subscription in the online environment. Not only can the walls of a reference library be extended indefinitely in this way, but the presenter will show how other learners and language practitioners in cyberspace can be contacted and included in a healthy and productive educational environment. Numerous practical examples will be shown of sites and resources that can be accessed by teachers and learners asynchronously as well as synchronously. The examples shown will be focused on those that promote language learning but may apply to other fields as well.

Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 16:00 to 16:50 GMT at the Eighth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference April 22-24, 2003 http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu

Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 16:00 to 16:50 GMT in the Hibiscus chatroom, Webheads present "Student Perspectives on Participating in Webheads, a Community of Online Language Learners and Teachers" at the Eighth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference April 22-24, 2003. Our 'poster' is here: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tcc2003/proposal.htm. For more information on the presentation, see http://makahiki.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/preconf/presentations/stevens.html; chat log for the presentation: http://makahiki.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/conference/chatlogs/stevens.04.22.2003.1600.html (tcc / kumu03)

2nd annual Saudi International TEFL Symposium (SITS), Madinah College of Technology, Postponed or canceled

I had been invited to be a Plenary Speaker at the 2nd Saudi International TEFL Symposium (SITS) from 8 to 10 April 2003, and to give a workshop there entitled Building tools for on-line learning. The Symposium is the main TEFL event in Saudi Arabia and one of the largest gatherings in the region. The meeting was to have been attended by over 1000 professionals, with David Nunan, Peter Master, and Keith Johnson also as plenary speakers. The 2nd SITS was to have addressed a wide range of issues concerning TEFL and related fields. It would have comprised, in addition to presentations (Papers, Panel Discussions, Demonstrations, and Workshops), an electronic village, and a book fair. Proceedings of the Symposium were to have been published and distributed on CD ROM.

Events leading to and during theTESOL 2003 Convention March 25-29, 2003 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Saturday December 14, 2002 8-9 a.m. GMT, at the Education Technology Special Interest Group of EgypTesol Electronic Oasis, at the EgypTesol Conference (December 13- 15 2002), Sheraton Heliopolis http://www.egyptesol.org

Main Presenter: Ismail Fayed, Integrated English Language Program - II, Giza, Egypt
Joint presenter: Vance Stevens, Amideast UAE/MLI Project, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Demonstration, with Internet access: A visit with Webheads online community of practice for language learners and teachers

Abstract: Writing for Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online for over 4 years now. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web-based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues. More recently, the community has formally expanded to embrace language teaching professionals in a community of practice called Webheads in Action. These communities come together online every Sunday for a regular session at noon GMT. On that session, we will try to convene members of the community online to demonstrate 'live' our use of free and easily accessible text, video, and voice enhanced synchronous communications technologies, while showing conference delegates around the Webheads community.

Files pertaining to this presentation are accessible here (links to be embedded shortly)

In addition, Webheads in Action members may access the following files from our Yahoo Groups portal:

Oct. 21 - Nov. 29, 2002 - Pretraining for EVOnline moderators - I was part of a team providing technical training for the moderators during the 2003 EVOnline sessions. This entailed providing pointers in running online courses as well as introduction and training in use of numerous synchronous online computer-mediated communications tools.

Global Learn Day 6, Sunday, October 13, 2002 - http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld6/


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Vance Stevens and Webheads present A visit with Webheads online community of practice for language learners and teachers: http://users.voice-alert.com/gld6/6151.html in the European (UK) part of the program. We have cited the following links as being related to our presentation / work:

  1. http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm
  2. http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm
  3. http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/

For some insights into this event ...

e-Merging e-Learning Conference at Higher Colleges of Technology Men's College, Abu Dhabi, UAE, http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/admcinternet/eeconference/ee2002/Program.asp

A visit with Webheads online community of practice for language learners and teachers, noon GMT, Sunday September 8, 2002. Abstract: Writing for Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online for almost 4 years now. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web-based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues. More recently, the community has formally expanded to embrace language teaching professionals in a community of practice called Webheads in Action. These communities come together online every Sunday for a regular session held at about the time of this demonstration. Therefore we have an opportunity at this session to convene members of the community online to demonstrate 'live' our use of free and easily accessible text, video, and voice enhanced synchronous communications technologies, while showing conference delegates around the Webheads community.

A transcript with video images of our presentation is here: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2002/wfw020908.htm

Net Working 2002, http://flexiblelearning.net.au/nw2002/, an online conference held 19-30 August, 2002

What's all the fuss about? An online presentation by Vance Stevens to be given as part of Michael Coghlan's session, Cross Cultural Communication 0nline - perspectives from around the globe - presented by the Webheads Community, http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/ccc/pres.htm, Wednesday, August 21, GMT 12.30 pm. A follow-on session was held Thursday, August 22, GMT 12.30 am.

Logs and other relevant URLs for the Webheads presentation on Cross Cultural Communication are:

TESOL Course Materials Online: A description of the EVOnline 2002 sessions and where to find the materials and selected presentations from the 2002 CALICO and TESOL Conferences, a presentation given at the MLI Tuesday, April 23, 2002 by Vance Stevens, MLI CALL Coordinator, http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/tesol_online2002.htm

At: TESOL 2002: Language and the Human Spirit - http://www.tesol.org/ April 9-13, 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Classic IF schedule is here: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2002/ifclassic2002.html

At: TESOL 2002: Language and the Human Spirit - http://www.tesol.org/ April 9-13, 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah

CALICO 2002 Annual Symposium: Creating Virtual Language Learning Communities - http://calico.org/CALICO02 March 26 - March 30, 2002, University of California, Davis.

EV Online 2002 - http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/TESOL/ev_online02_TESOLblast.htm and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline January 25 - March 25, 2002

TESOL Arabia 8th Annual International Conference: "Critical Reflection and Practice" - March 20-22, 2002, Hilton Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It

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The ELT online conference (ELToc) - http://www.eltoc.com
November 10 & 11 2001, NetLearn Solutions

Further information about the Webheads ELToc session:

The Webheads Community of Language Learners Online, a demonstration by Vance Stevens and Arif Altun, Wednesday Nov 7, 12:00 GMT, at The Teacher to Teacher 2001 conference, November 7 & 8 2001, Abu Dhabi, UAE

For Global Learning Day 5 October 7, 2001
A Virtual Tour of Computer-Based Language Learning at the MLI
a presentation by Vance Stevens and the developers of the Online Student Center: Ed Chaffin, Randy Gonzales, and Paul Crane. The Student Center itself is no longer online since the closure of the MLI, nor are the GLD 5 pages from that era. Our presentation homepage remains here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/gld5/verp.htm

IATEFL CALL-SIG, Cyprus

I gave a plenary and workshop at the May 5th - 6th, 2001 conference – “Implementing Call in EFL: Living up to Expectations” - at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia

Plenary

Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind

The plenary was audio webcast. Unfortunately, the audio portion was not preserved but the slides and text are included with the presentations archived at http://www.nll.co.uk/cyprus

Workshop

Internet Applications in Foreign Language Learning

What's new in free, adaptable chat tools, Wednesday, March 14, 2001, at the TESOL Arabia Conference 2001 at Dubai Women’s College, United Arab Emirates.

Vance Stevens and Bob Campbell. "Towards Acceptance of Free Online Chat Tools" and follow-on session with Zafar Syed, "Virtual Connections." Demonstration and drop-in session at the TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi branch conference "Connecting the Classroom and the Community" at the Al Ittihad Model School, Abu Dhabi, February 15, 2001

Presentations: 2000 - Navigate to other areas of this page

At the ESADE and IATEFL Computer SIG joint event "CALL for the 21st Century" June 30th - July 2nd, 2000, Barcelona, Spain Community Building Tools for Online Language Learning A presentation by Vance Stevens Amideast Consultant and CALL Coordinator, Military Language Institute

CTELT 2000 Alternate Assessment 4th Annual Conference "Current Trends in English Language Testing" May 10-11, 2000 Zayed University - Dubai Campus (UAE) Community Building Tools for Online Language Learning A presentation by Vance Stevens

"Community Building Tools for Online Language Learning," a presentation by Vance Stevens given at the Military Language Institute's Teacher-to-Teacher Conference 2000 "Tools of the Trade" May 3-4, 2000 Al-Nahyan Base, Abu Dhabi (UAE); website: http://t2t2000.cjb.net . This paper was updated and submitted in July 2001 to the conference proceeds (updated in Sept 2001 locate and link):

Developing a Community in Online Language Learning: A presentation by Vance Stevens, Amideast UAE/MLI Project. Prepared in Sept 29, 2001 for publication in the Proceeds of the Military Language Institute's Teacher-to-Teacher Conference 2000 "Tools of the Trade" May 3-4, 2000 Abu Dhabi (UAE) is here: http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/t2t2000/gvs_t2t_paper.htm

Michael Coghlan and Vance Stevens presented at the Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April 12-14, 2000 - Michael’s report is cited as:

Coghlan, M. and Stevens, V. 2000. An Online Learning Community -- The Students' Perspective. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April 12-14, 2000 - http://www.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/TCC2000.htm. More information can be found at http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/reports.htm#000412

Handouts to papers given by Vance Stevens, Amideast UAE/MLI Project, TESOL Conference 2000, Vancouver, March 15-18 2000. These handouts are accessible through http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/tesol2000/tesol2000.htm (These links discovered not working April 22, 2005 and I have written the host for an explanation)

Community Building Tools for Online Language Learning A presentation by Vance Stevens, Amideast UAE/MLI Project TESOL Arabia, Abu Dhabi February 24, 2000, Zayad University, Abu Dhabi - http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/tesol2000/zu2000tesol.htm

 

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AMIDEAST Education and Training Services throughout the Arab World, an online presentation by Vance Stevens and Mary Corrado; Global Learn day 99 (Oct 10, 1999). Our presentation links are no longer at http://www.bfranklin.edu/hubs/gulf/gulf9801.htm and http://www.bfranklin.edu/hubs/gulf/amideast/index.htm.

Fourth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April 7 - 9, 1999. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/hawaii99.html for a revised version of the paper, Writing for Webheads: An Online writing Course Utilizing Synchronous Chat and Student Web Pages. (Good thing!) I preserved the log of the presentation WebChat at http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/hawaii99.htm

My Web sites, ESL_Home and Writing for Webheads, featured at the New York TESOL '99 Web Faire, March 10, 1999, CALL-IS Electronic Village. Maggi and Michael both appeared at the Palace and chatted with passers-by.  Student reactions:

Software Selection, Evaluation and Use , a seminar presented by Vance Stevens, Courseware Publishing International, Cupertino, CA at the 1996 Summer Technology Seminars held August 12-15 at the English Language Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon - http://www.orst.edu/Dept/eli/vstevens/main.htm

 

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TESL-EJ (Electric Online Journal) column: "On the Internet" - Navigate to other areas of this page

I took over from Jim Duber as Editor of the TESL-EJ (Electric Online Journal) column: "On the Internet" starting with the December 2002 issue . (Jim's previous columns are here: http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/tesl_ej.html, and to log on to teslej and review papers it's http://www.anglofile.com/ejreview/.

Issue date Proposed Published citations
December, 2009 Possibly Yaodong Chen, Another day in the life of an online language educator  
September, 2009   Newgarden, Kristi. (2009). Annotated Bibliography – Twitter, Social Networking, and Communities of Practice. TESL-EJ, Volume 13, Number 2: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume13/ej50/ej50int/
June 2009   Stevens, Vance, and Gavin Dudeney. (2009). Online Conferences and Teacher Professional Development: SLanguages and WiAOC 2009. TESL-EJ, Volume 13, Number 1: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej49/int.pdf; also http://tesl-ej.org/ej49/int.html, http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume13/ej49/ej49int/
March 2009   Horváth, József. (2009). Hungarian University Students' Blogs in EFL: Shaping Language and Social Connections. TESL-EJ, Volume 12, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej48/int.html
December 2008   Viswanatha, Revathi. (2009). Recent Impacts of Internet on English Language Training in India. TESL-EJ, Volume 12, Number 3: http://tesl-ej.org/ej47/int.html
September 2008   Hillis, Mary, José Antônio da Silva & Carla Raguseo. (2008). Cartoon Festival: An International Digital Storytelling Project. TESL-EJ, Volume 12, Number 2: http://tesl-ej.org/ej46/int.html
June 2008 Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2008). Trial by Twitter: The rise and slide of the year's most viral microblogging platform. TESL-EJ, Volume 12, Number 1: http://tesl-ej.org/ej45/int.pdf; also http://tesl-ej.org/ej45/int.html
March 2008 Nina Liakos Liakos, Nina. (2008). Engrade: An Open-Source Online Gradebook. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/int.html
December 2007 Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2007). Who's in charge here? WiZiQ and Elluminate. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 3: http://tesl-ej.org/ej43/int.html
September 2007 Dafne Gonzalez González, Dafne. (2007). Text-to-Speech Applications Used in EFL Contexts to Enhance Pronunciation. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 2: http://tesl-ej.org/ej42/int.html.
June 2007 Barbara Dieu and Vance Stevens Dieu, Barbara, and Vance Stevens. (2007), Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 1: http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html
March 2007 Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2007). Unarticle: Unleashing the tranformative power of the unorganized Internet. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 4: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej40/int.html
You can comment on this article at http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/03/unarticle.html
December 2006 Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2006). Second Life in Education and Language Learning. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 3: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej39/int.html
You can comment on this article at the wiki here.
September 2006 Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2006). Revisiting multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments: Impact on teacher professional development. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 2: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej38/int.html
June 2006 Jeff Lebow

Lebow, Jeff. (2006). Worldbridges: The Potential of Live, Interactive Webcasting. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 1. http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej37/int.html .
March 2006 Graham Stanley

Stanley, Graham. (2006). Podcasting: Audio on the Internet Comes of Age. TESL-EJ, Volume 9, Number 4. http://tesl-ej.org/ej36/int.html.

December 2005 Vance Stevens

Stevens, Vance. (2005). Behind the scenes at the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, November 18-20, 2005: TESL-EJ, Volume 9, Number 3. http://tesl-ej.org/ej35/int.html .
September 2005 Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2005). Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments. TESL-EJ Vol. 9. No. 2 (September 2005) On the Internet. http://tesl-ej.org/ej34/int.html
June 2005 Venny Su Su, Cheng-chao. (2005). An Open Source Portal for Educators. TESL-EJ Vol. 9. No. 1, On the Internet. http://tesl-ej.org/ej33/int.html
March 2005 Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Buthaina Al Othman Tools for Online Collaboration
http://tesl-ej.org/ej32/int.html
December 2004 by Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2004). Establishing and Maintaining Web Presence: A guide for educators. TESL-EJ Vol. 8. No. 3 (December 2004) On the Internet. http://tesl-ej.org/ej31/int.html
September 2004 Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Christine Bauer-Ramazani

Hanson-Smith, Elizabeth , and Christine Bauer-Ramazani. (2004). Professional Development: The Electronic Village Online of the TESOL CALL Interest Section .TESL-EJ, Volume 8. No. 2. http://tesl-ej.org/ej30/int.html.

June 2004 by Renata Suzuki

Suzuki, Renata . (2004). Diaries as introspective research tools: From Ashton-Warner to Blogs. TESL-EJ Vol 8 #1, June: On the Internet column. http://tesl-ej.org/ej29/int.html.
March 2004 by Vance Stevens

Stevens, Vance. (2004). The Skill of Communication: Technology brought to bear on the art of language learning. TESL-EJ 7, 4 (On the Internet). http://tesl-ej.org/ej28/int.html.
Dec 2003 by Vance Stevens Stevens, Vance. (2003). A Virtual Learning Resource Center. TESL-EJ 7, 3 (On the Internet). http://tesl-ej.org/ej27/int.html
Sept 2003 by Tom Robb Google as a Quick 'n Dirty Corpus Tool
http://tesl-ej.org/ej26/int.html
June 2003 by Teresa Alma d'Eca The Use of Chat in EFL/ESL
http://tesl-ej.org/ej25/int.html
Mar 2003 by Gavin Dudeney The Quest for Practical Web Usage
http://tesl-ej.org/ej24/int.html
Dec 2002 by Vance Stevens

Stevens, V. 2002. A day in the life of an online language educator. TESL-EJ 6, 3. http://tesl-ej.org/ej23/int.html

In press and in progress:

My article Webheads and Distributed Communities of Practice is to be published some time after October 2009 by the TESOL EFL IS Newsletter, as part of a summary of the EFL Academic Session from Denver TESOL 2009. The draft is here: http://tinyurl.com/vance2009denver

Reader response to Allan, J. (2009) Are language teachers suffering from technology overload? TESOL Arabia Perspectives 16,2: 22-23 has been drafted at http://tinyurl.com/vance2009perspectives and is slated for publication in a TESOL Arabia Perspectives some time after October 2009.

My article Shifting sands, shifting paradigms: Challenges to developing 21st century learning skills in the United Arab Emirates is slated to be published as Chapter 21 in CALL in Limited Contexts, forthcoming from CALICO, http://limitedtech.pbworks.com, submitted October 2009.

I am E-Sphere Editor of the new professional journal Writing and Pedagogy (Editor-in-Chief, Martha C. Pennington) http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/WAP/about/editorialTeam and http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/wap. My article for the inaugual issue is: Stevens, Vance. (2009). Writing in the eSphere: Where Connectivity and Literacy Collide.

I was once upon a time asked to respond to a questionnaire for the ESL Miniconference site and am preparing it here (I started this some time ago, never completed it, so busy :-(( -: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/interviews/esl_miniconf_gvs.htm

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Stevens, Vance. (2009 July 15). Engaging Collaborative Writing through Social Networking. In Koyama, Toshiko; Noguchi, Judy; Yoshinari,Yuichiro; and Iwasaki, Akio (Eds.). Proceedings of the WorldCALL 2008 Conference. The Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET). ISBN: 978-4-9904807-0-7, http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/proceedings/proceedings.pdf pp.68-71.

My paper Engaging Collaborative Writing through Social Networking still appears at an earlier version of the WorldCALL 2008 proceedings http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd12/index.php?id=5. The paper linked from those proceeds is available here http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/proceedings/d-052.pdf, while proofs can be found here: http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/WorldCALL2008_proceedings_vancestevens.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/wmatrix2008proceedings

Stevens, Vance. (2009). Life-long learner autonomy meets Electronic Village Online. TESOL Arabia Learner Independence Special Interest Group, Conference Newsletter 2009, p.9. http://tailearn.googlepages.com/LISIGNL09.pdf

Akayoglu, S., Altun, A., & Stevens, V. (2009). Social presence in synchronous textbased computer-mediated communication. Egitim Arastirmalari - Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 34, 1-16.
More details: Akayoglu, Sedat, Arif Altun, and Vance Stevens. (2009). Social Presence in Synchronous Text-Based Computer-Mediated Communication. EJER (Egitim Arastirmalari-Eurasian Journal of Educational Research) (Winter) Issue 34. Abstract in HTML: http://www.ejer.com.tr/index.php?git=22&kategori=66&makale=609 and PDF: http://www.ejer.com.tr/pdfler/eng/918659283.pdf.

Seferoglu, Gölge, and Stevens, Vance (Eds.). (2009). Current Issues and Future Trends in Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching. Special issue of EJER (Egitim Arastirmalari-Eurasian Journal of Educational Research). Available at: http://www.ejer.com.tr/index.php?git=archives&categori=66. The CfP is here: http://www.ejer.com.tr/upload/call_for_MS1.pdf. For internal use only: http://ejer.pbwiki.com/.

Stevens, Vance. (2008). Class of the future: Language learners can nowmeet up with native speakers in their home country, without leaving their computers. Vance Stevens enters the virtual world of Second Life. The Linguist (June/July), pp. 18-20. Available: http://sl2ndchance.pbwiki.com/f/linguist18-21_2ndLife_lo-res.pdf

Stevens, Vance, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Saša Sirk, Doris Molero & Carla Arena. (2008). Writingmatrix: Connecting Students with Blogs, Tags, and Social Networking. In Stevens, Vance & Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Co-editors. (2008). Special Feature: Proceedings of the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 2007. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a7.html

Stevens, Vance & Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Co-editors. (2008). Special Feature: Proceedings of the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 2007. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/toc.html (and, A Word from the Editors: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/fromed.html)

Stevens, Vance. (2007). Webheads as agents of change in overlapping clouds of distributed learning networks. APACALL Newsletter 11, pp. 3-8. Retrieved December 18, 2007 from: http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter11.pdf.

Stevens, Vance. (2007). The Multiliterate Autonomous Learner: Teacher Attitudes and the Inculcation of Strategies for Lifelong Learning Independence, Winter 2007 (Issue 42) . Retrieved November 9, 2007 from http://www.learnerautonomy.org/VanceStevens.pdf

Stevens, Vance. (2007). Second Life and online collaboration through peer-to-peer distributed learning networks. In Stewart, S. M., Olearski, J. E., Rodgers, P., Thompson, D. and Hayes, E. A. (Eds) (2007). Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference for Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing. METSMaC: Abu Dhabi. Pages 295-307. Retrieved November 9, 2007 from: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/metsmac/Stevens-METSMaC-2007.pdf

Stevens, Vance. (2006). Issue: Tools for Online Teacher Communities of Practice. Learning Languages through Technology. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Sarah Rilling, editors. TESOL publications, pp. 257-273. The latest online draft version of my paper is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/publications/gvs26oct2005.htm
Click here to see an early draft originally submitted to APACALL

Stevens, Vance. 2006. Guest Editor's Introduction: Proceeds of Webheads in Action Online Convergence: Volume 2. In Stevens, V. (Ed.) IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group Teaching English with Technology A Journal for Teachers of English ISSN 1642-1027 Vol. 6, Issue 3 (August 2006). http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_edit25.htm

Stevens, Vance. 2006. Guest Editor's Introduction: Proceeds of Webheads in Action Online Convergence: Volume 1. In Stevens, V. (Ed.) IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group Teaching English with Technology A Journal for Teachers of English ISSN 1642-1027 Vol. 6, Issue 2 (May 2006). http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_edit24.htm

Stevens, Vance. 2006. Learner strategies at the interface: Computer-assisted language learning meets computer-mediated communication. In Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha, and Liz England (Eds.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., http://www.erlbaum.com. My article is about the role of CMC (computer-mediated communication) in the teaching of languages; especially formation of communities of practice comprising groups of online and blended learners and tools that further language learning and ongoing professional development of teachers. The most updated version of my article from September 2005 is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/cairo2004/hbalt-gvs05sep.htm.

I wrote contributing sections in David Dixon, Heather Baba, Phil Cozens, Mairi Thomas (Eds.). 2006. Independent Learning Schemes: A Practical Approach. Published in UAE, http://ilearn.20m.com/bookpub.htm

Stevens, Vance. (2005). APACALL Co-sponsors Webheads in Action Online Convergence November 18-20, 2005. In Innovative Language Learning #8 (APACALL Newsletter) http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter8.pdf . My original submission is at: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/apacall_news.htm

Stevens, V. (2005). Computer-mediated communications tools used with teachers and students in virtual communities of practice, in S. M. Stewart and J. E. Olearski (Eds), Proceedings of the First Annual Conference for Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing (pp. 204-218). METSMaC: Abu Dhabi. ISBN 9948-8569-0-2. Retrieved May 16, 2005 from: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia/stevens-METSMaC-I.pdf

Stevens, V. (2005). Tools used to create online communities of learner- and teacher-collaborators. TESOL Arabia Perspectives Vol. 12, No. 2. pp. 6-11. A version submitted to Perspectives editor can be found here: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia/perspectives2004gvs.htm.

Stevens, V. (2004). Webheads communities: Writing tasks interleaved with synchronous online communication and web page development. In Leaver, B. and Willis, J. (Eds.). Task-based instruction in foreign language education: Practices and programes. Georgetown University Press. pp. 204-217. (

Stevens, V. (2004). Tech view: Tools for building online communities. Essential Teacher: ESL/EFL.reflections.practice, Spring 2004. pp. 32-35. A draft version of this article can be found online here: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/et/technoservice.htm.

I submitted the following to the TESOL Arabia Learner Independence Special Interest Group for their November 2003 newsletter

The 7th Annual Global Learn Day, Vance Stevens, PI-Abu Dhabi

Global Learn Day began 7 years ago in the metaphor of a ship that departs the International Dateline at midnight GMT and circumvents the globe over 24 hours, picking up presentations on an eclectice mix of educational technology as it travels. Topics for GLD VII are here: <http://www.talkingcommunities.com/tc/gld7/speakers.htm>.

The first GLD's used telephone hookups with presenters which were then streamed out worldwide via Real or Windows Media players. For my presentation in 1999 I had to disconnect my computer from the Internet in order be interviewed over the phone and I didn't have any interaction from listeners worldwide except as relayed through the interviewer. The latest software has made it possible to participate via a PC with only a headset. For the last two years <http://www.alado.net> have provided java-enabled chat rooms where participants simply visit one URL and install the java software at which point all wind up in the chatroom with other listeners and speakers.

The interface is sophisticated. Moderators of the chat room can 'synchronise browsing' which means that whatever URL he or she keys into the whiteboard area can be seen on the whiteboards of all other occupants of the room. In this way presentations can be 'pushed' to other viewers. There is a text area in addition to the aural component plus other bells and whistles. Assuming one has the latest version of Windows Media Player, presentations can be recorded. When this is activated, a wmp file is created on the user's hdd along with an HTML file that calls up the screens presented in synch with the audio, so the viewer retains a complete record of the event for replay later. PC users can try out the software at this URL: <http://www.alado.net/webheads>. Mac and PC users can find something similar at <http://www.learningtimes.org/>. You have to register with the community (free) to use the Meeting Room with features similar in all the above-mentioned respects to the Alado product.

Almost anyone can present at upcoming GLD events. If you want to become involved next year, just keep an eye on the <http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld> website and in the fall sign up to do a presentation. To do this you submit a form and record a message and your presentation will be scheduled according to your geographical location. This event has for 7 years been pushing the edge of CMC (computer-mediated communications) technologies over the Internet. Participants in GLD not only keep themselves abreast of latest developments in CMC but become part of a community of ed tech practitioners who interact throughout the year as well as during the annual event.

In June 2003 I responded to interview questions for 'It's for Teachers' magazine <http://www.its-teachers.com/its00/default.asp>. The article now appears online here: http://www.its-teachers.com/interviews/vance-stevens.asp. My in-progress version of the article is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/interviews/its_teachers_gvs.htm and there is a fuller version here which could serve as grist for further work.

Stevens, V. (2003). How CALL-IS Began. Prepared at the request of Chris Sauer, CALL-IS Newsletter Editor, May 2003. Appeared in an email sent to all CALL-IS members in Fall 2003 via the TESOL organization. I wrote and asked about a permanent archive but there appears to be none.

42. Stevens, V. and Altun, A. (2002). The Webheads community of language learners online. In Syed, Z. (Ed.). The process of language learning: An EFL perspective. Abu Dhabi: The Military Language Institute. pp. 285-318. There is a pre-publication version of this paper at http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/t2t2001/proceeds.htm

41. Stevens, V. 2002. A day in the life of an online language educator. TESL-EJ 6, 3. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej23/int.html appears in the Dec 2002 issue of the TESL-EJ (Electric Online Journal). Another version is here

40. Stevens, Vance. 2001. Developing a Community in Online Language Learning. In Syed, Zafar, and David Heuring, eds. Tools of the Trade: Teaching EFL in the Gulf. Proceeds of the Military Language Institute's 1st annual Teacher-to-Teacher Conference, May 3-4, 2000, Abu Dhabi (UAE) pp 85-101, and on the web at http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/t2t2000/gvs_t2t_paper.htm. (This link discovered not working April 22, 2005 and I have written the host for an explanation) - An early version of this paper was submitted to VenTESOL for publication in their newsletter. I believe it was published but have not been successful in getting a copy. The web version of what I sent them is at: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/webheads/ventesol.htm

39. Stevens, Vance. 2000. Designing a CALL facility from bottom to top at the Military Language Institute in Abu Dhabi. In Hanson-Smith, Elizabeth (Ed.). Technology-enhanced learning environments. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Publications. Pp. 21-33. The final draft I submitted to the above publication is here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/tele2000/mli_call.html

38. Stevens, Vance. 1999. Writing for Webheads: An online writing course utilizing synchronous chat and student web pages. A paper submitted for the 4th Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference: Best Practices In Delivering, Supporting & Managing Online Learning, April 7-9, 1999 - http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/hawaii99.html

37. I have an article in New Ways of Using Computers in Language Teaching (1997). Tim Boswood, Editor, 309 pp., ISBN 0-939791-69-2.

36. Stevens, Vance. (1996). Use and abuse of autonomy in computer-assisted language learning: Some evidence from student interaction with SuperCloze. Pemberton, R., E. Li, W. Or, and H. Pierson (Eds.). Taking Control: Autonomy in Language Learning. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp.281-302. I am preparing an online version of this paper now.

35. Cobb, T. and V. Stevens. 1996. A Principled Consideration of Computers and Reading in a Second Language. Pennington, M.C. (Ed.). The Power of CALL. Houston: Athelstan. pp.115-136. An attempt has been made to reconcile the final draft submitted with the above publication here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/1996/cobb_stevens.htm

34. Stevens, Vance. 1995. Concordancing with language learners: Why? When? What? CAELL Journal 6, 2:2-10. < http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/stevens.htm >

33. Stevens, Vance. 1993. A survey of the MS-DOS/Windows Users Group membership. MS-DOS/Windows Users Group Newsletter6, 3:9-12. Also, DOS Tips, same issue.

32. Stevens, Vance. 1993/2. Concordances as enhancements to language competence. TESOL Matters 2, 6:11.

31. Stevens, Vance. 1992. Humanism and CALL: A coming of age. In Pennington, Martha, and Vance Stevens (Eds.). Computers in applied linguistics: An international perspective. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, pp. 11-38. Also co-authored, with Martha Pennington, Introduction: Toward appropriate uses of computers in applied linguistics, pp. 1-8, same book. http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/1991_humanism/humanism91.htm

30. Stevens, Vance. 1992. An overview of the 9th Conference on Technology and Education. CAELL Journal 3, 2:13-18.

29. Stevens, Vance. 1991. A study of student attitudes toward CALL in a self-access student resource centre. System 19, 3:289-299. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/stevens1991system.pdf

28. Stevens, Vance. 1991. Classroom concordancing: Vocabulary materials derived from relevant, authentic text. English for Special Purposes Journal 10: 35-46.

27. Stevens, Vance. 1991. Concordance-based vocabulary exercises: A viable alternative to gap-fillers. In Johns, Tim, and Philip King (Eds.). English Language Research Journal, Vol. 4, University of Birmingham, pp. 47-61. http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/1991_johns_king/vocabex91.htm (This link discovered not working April 22, 2005 and I have written the host for an explanation)

26. Stevens, Vance. 1991. Reading and computers: Hangman and cloze. CAELL Journal 2, 3:12-16.

25. Stevens, Vance. 1991. Create your own concordancer with a one-line DOS command. MS-DOS Users' Group Newsletter 5, 1:2-3.

24. Stevens, Vance. 1991. Strategies in solving computer-based cloze: Is it reading? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (25th, New York, NY, March 24-28, 1991). Listed at Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Document Reproduction Service as No. ED335952 Strategies in Solving Computer-Based Cloze: Is It Reading? Stevens, Vance 1992

23. Stevens, Vance. 1991. Computer HANGMAN: Pedagogically sound or a waste of time? Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (24th, San Francisco, CA, March 6-10, 1990). Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Document Reproduction Service No. ED332524 Computer HANGMAN: Pedagogically Sound or a Waste of Time? Stevens, Vance 1991. Available (Aug 2008): http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/22/f3/85.pdf

22. Stevens, Vance. 1990. Text manipulation: What's wrong with it anyway? CAELL Journal 1, 2:5-8; reprinted in ON-CALL 5, 1:5-10.

21. Stevens, Vance. 1989. A direction for CALL: From behavioristic to humanistic courseware. In Pennington, Martha (Ed.). Teaching languages with computers: The state of the art. La Jolla, CA: Athelstan Press.

20. Stevens, Vance. 1989. Maybe we should give them what they want. C.A.L.L. Digest 5,7:6-7.

19. Stevens, Vance. 1989. Student attitudes toward CALL in a self- access centre. C.A.L.L. Digest 5,6:4-5.

18. Stevens, Vance. 1989. Using Symphony in teacher applications. C.A.L.L. Digest 5, 4:8-9.

17. Stevens, Vance. 1989. Results of a survey of MS-DOS Users' Group members. MS-DOS Users' Group Newsletter 2, 2:1-4.

16. Stevens, Vance. 1988. A critical but overlooked factor: Not can but will teachers modify the software? C.A.L.L. Digest 4,8:3-5.

15. Stevens, Vance. 1988. Self-access language learning materials at Sultan Qaboos University. The Journal of Educational Techniques and Technologies 21, 2/3:2-4.

14. Stevens, Vance. 1988. Misconception and misuse in CALL. C.A.L.L. Digest 4, 4:2-3.

13. Stevens, Vance. 1988. Studying vocabulary using concordances on microcomputers. TESOL Newsletter 22, 3:27. http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/newsletter/1988online.htm

12. Stevens, Vance. 1988. Converting key strokes to corresponding ASCII values. TESOL/CALL-IS IBM-PC Users' Group Newsletter 1, 2:3-4.

11. Stevens, Vance. 1987. Model applications: CALL in Oman. C.A.L.L. Digest 3,8:6-7.

10. Stevens, Vance, Steve Spurling, Don Loritz, Roger Kenner, John Esling, and Moya Brennan. 1986. New ideas in software development for linguistics and language learning. CALICO Journal 4, 1:15-26.

9. Stevens, Vance. 1986. Using LUCY/ELIZA as a means of facilitating communication in ESL. TESOL Newsletter 20, 2:13-14.

8. Stevens, Vance. 1986. The word process of writing: Using a computer to study the writing process. CALL-IS Newsletter 2:9-14.

7. Stevens, Vance, Roland Sussex, and Walter Vladimir Tuman. 1986. A bibliography of computer- aided language learning. New York: AMS Press, Inc. Previously appeared as ERIC ED# 254072.

6. Stevens, Vance. 1986. Annotated bibliography of publications concerning computers in education: Emphasis on microcomputers in ESL and language learning; Revised edition. Education Resources Information Center, Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse for Languages and Linguistics. ED# 266646; replaces previous versions, ERIC document ED246674 and ED254072.

Stevens, Vance, Comp. 1985. A Bibliography of Computer-Aided Language Learning. Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), ED254072

5. Stevens, Vance. 1985. You'd be surprised at how much public domain software you can adapt to ESL and language learning. TESL Reporter 18, 1:8-15.

Stevens, Vance. 1984. Annotated Bibliography of Articles Concerning Computers in Education with Emphasis on Microcomputers in Language Learning. Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), ED246674.

4. Stevens, Vance. 1984. Implications of research and theory concerning the influence of choice and control on the effectiveness of CALL. CALICO Journal 2, 1:28-33,48. https://www.calico.org/html/article_244.pdf

3. Stevens, Vance. 1984. Research abstract on: The effects of choice and control in computer-assisted language learning in teaching supplementary grammar to intermediate students of ESL and to remedial English students at the college entry level. TESOL Quarterly 18, 1:141-3.

2. Stevens, Vance. 1984. Can CAI be evaluated? TESOL Newsletter 18, 1:16,18.

1. Stevens, Vance. 1983. A report of a project illustrating the feasibility of video/computer interface for use in ESL. CALICO Journal 1, 1:27-30,50.

 

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18. Stevens, Vance. March 2001. Software review of Concordance by Rob Watt, CALICO Online Journal at https://calico.org/p-180-Concordance.html (Seen here October 17, 2006)

17. Stevens, Vance. 1995. Book review of Word Perfect: Literacy in the computer age, by Myron Tuman, 1992, University of Pittsburgh Press, English for Special Purposes Journal, 87-92. Abstracted for CALL-IS Newsletter 13, 1:11.

16. Stevens, Vance. 1993. Book review of Computer assisted language learning and testing: Research issues and practice by Patricia Dunkel (Ed.), 1991, Newbury House. System 21, 2:257-260.

15. Stevens, Vance. 1993. Software review of Adam & Eve (Oxford). CAELL Journal 4, 3:35-39.

14. Stevens, Vance. 1992. Book review of Computers and Writing: Models and tools by Noel Williams and Patrik Holt (Eds.), 1989, Intellect Books. System 20, 3:395-397.

13. Stevens, Vance. 1990. Software review of European nations and locations, The sea voyagers, and Famous scientists: Three content-based programs for ESL. CALL-IS Newsletter 7, 1:3,5-8.

12. Stevens, Vance. 1989. Book review of Language, learners and computers: Human intelligence and artificial unintelligence by John Higgins, 1988, Longman. CALL-IS Newsletter 6, 3:3-4.

11. Stevens, Vance. 1989. Software review of Tales of adventure, Tales of mystery, and Tales of discovery. CALL-IS Newsletter 6, 1:6-8.

10. Kenner, Roger, and Vance Stevens. 1989. A summary of "Descriptive research approaches for CALL activities" (colloquium at TESOL '89). C.A.L.L. Digest 5, 3:6-7.

9. Stevens, Vance. 1988. Book review of Computers in language teaching and research by Leech, G., and C. Candlin (Eds.), 1986, Longman. CALL-IS Newsletter 5, 1:7-8.

8. Stevens, Vance. 1988. Software review of Robot Odyssey 1. CALL-IS Newsletter 5, 1:8-10.

7. Stevens, Vance. 1987. Book review of Working with computers: Computer orientation for foreign students by Michael Barlow, 1987, Athelstan. CALL-IS Newsletter IV:8-9.

6. Stevens, Vance. 1987. Software review of CAI adaptation of Robert J. Dixson's Essential idioms in English. TESOL Quarterly 21, 3:558-564.

5. Stevens, Vance. 1986. Book review of Writing and computers by Collette Daiute, 1985, Addison-Wesley. CALL-IS Newsletter 3:11-12.

4. Stevens, Vance. 1986. Software review of Clue in (Regents/ALA) and The game show (Advanced Ideas). CALL-IS Newsletter 3:8-9.

3. Stevens, Vance. 1985. Software review of Sentence combining I & II (Milliken). CALICO Journal 2, 4:41.

2. Stevens, Vance. 1985. Book review of Higgins and Johns's, Computers in language learning (Addison-Wesley). CALICO Journal 3, 2:27.

1. Stevens, Vance. 1983. Software review of English lessons on PLATO. TESOL Quarterly 17, 2:293-300.

 

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4. I am credited on the CPI products produced in 1996 and 1997: See it, Hear it, Say it!, and Tracy Talk, The Mystery.

3. In 1996 and 1997 I did Authorware conversions to Mac/Win of CPI's English Vocabulary: School & Work.

2. Stevens, Vance, and Steve Millmore. 1990-96. SuperCloze, HangMan-in-Context, HangWord Shareware available from the authors and on the Computer-Enhanced ESL/EFL Language Instruction Archive The TESOL/CELIA '96 CD-ROM, http://www.tesol.org/pubs/catalog/tech.html#99CALL.

This software, which used to be available here: ftp://archive.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/english/dos/cloze/stevens.zip, has been relocated to http://vancestevens.com/stevens-millmore.zip. As noted in the revised documents, it is intended to be freeware, though I have yet to recover a 'misplaced' disencryption program that will suppress the Constant Reminder and Invoice screens and open up all the features of the programs. If you wish to download and use these programs, you have permission to do so; simply ignore the inconvenient messages.

1. Stevens, Vance, and Steve Millmore. 1987-93. Text Tanglers. Stony Brook, NY: Research Design Associates.

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