2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Golden State A
(Electronic Village Browsing Room)
This fair features ESL professionals showing Internet tools they use in distance learning environments. Demonstrations may include discussion boards, real-time chats, file exchange, video, virtual groups, self-assessment, portfolios, online testing, grading, student tracking. Some use course/learning management systems (Moodle, BlackBoard, WebCT, etc). Others integrate various free tools from commercial and non-commercial sites.

Friday, April 11 Saturday, April 12 Golden State A & B, Hyatt Yet another stimulating Electronic Village is being planned for CATESOL 2008. This is where you can explore the latest software and online tools for enhancing your classes with technology. Furthermore, you can learn about strategies to use those tools in meaningful and effective ways. Some of the topics this year include Internet-based video, podcasts, social networking sites for professional development, digital storytelling, tips in MS Word, and more.A browsing room and a hands-on lab already have a home at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Based on the growing number of technology-related presentation proposals in the recent years, we hope to provide a second, hands-on lab. The Browsing Room is where Internet, Software and Distance Learning Fairs will take place, and very likely presentations by various publishers who offer technology-enhanced materials. In the Hands-on Lab ESL teachers will share the new, exciting things they do with technology integration in their classes, or give us a ‘refresher’ on ‘tried-and-true’ techniques, strategies and lesson plans that bring our learners closer to both being proficient in English language and becoming better equipped members of our modern society, which is demanding higher and higher levels of technology skills and familiarity. The EV will be open all day Friday and Saturday with volunteers available to answer questions, assist you, and learn with you. Join us and get some practical tips for your class.