Resources for Discussion - Going the Distance: Online and Blended Models of Sustained Professional Development

Going the Distance: Online and Blended Models of Sustained Professional Development

Resources for Discussion

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The CAELA Web site (www.cal.org/caela) offers professional development to adult ESL teachers, administrators, and researchers. Examples of several pages are below:

• Online resource collections at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections.html
• Focused professional development activities between CAELA and individual states at

• Using the CAELA Web site for Instructors at www.cal.org/caela/tools/instructional/CAELA.html
• Using the CAELA Web site for staff development at www.cal.org/caela/tools/program_development/staff_development.html
• Ask CAELA at www.cal.org/caela/ask_caela/archive.html
• Contact CAELA (where many of our user questions come from) at www.cal.org/caela/about_caela/contact.html
• Adult ESL resource database at www.cal.org/caela/research/resource_database.html

Our online workshops are synchronous, so nothing exists outside of the workshop time. To see an example of how it works, go to http://www.edtechnetwork.org/, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "See a brief example of a live online class ... " This is a PowerPoint class, and gives a good idea of how the system works.

TIMAC Yahoo Group

We use Yahoo Groups to communicate and share among participants in our Technology Integration Mentor Academy.

TeacherTube

YouTube for teachers - teachers can post videos here to support various professional development online offerings.

TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVOs)

An info-packed link to this past session's EVO "call for proposals"

How EVO Differs - a brief description of the Electronic Village Online and its
unique characteristics.

A Short Guide to Netiquette - This is a set of "rules" for courteous behavior
on the Internet and is followed by a self-test. (This is also an example of the
kinds of materials EVO has developed over the years.)

Going the Distance
is a wiki where subscribers can add information, resources, etc. It is also a model for the kinds of tools we use in EVO. Information may be added by requesting to join the wikispace.

Although the EVO is over for this year, many of the group sites are still open
and available for browsing. Link to them from http://dafnegonzalez.com/evo-07/index1.htm. (Subscribers must join each of these groups in order to see
the resources, but membership is free and usually instantaneous.)

Yahoo Groups (one of the important free tools available to PD online):

• Academic Writing - teachers can bring groups of students here to work on
  the exercises and communicate about them through the email list (high
  intermediate-advanced EFL/ESL level).
• Academic Writing for Teachers - a place for resources and to ask questions
  about teaching composition in an EFL setting
• Real English Online - for students who want to use realistic videos produced
  by Mike Marzio (videos for zero beginner-advanced).
• EVOVideo07: ESL/EFL Video Production - a group for video-using teachers.
  The wiki has many resources, lesson plans, ways to get started with video,
  answers to technical questions, etc. You are welcome to join and add your
  resources or questions (also a related YG is linked from this site).
• Learning with Computers - every quarter or so the founders of this group
  (Gladys Baya, et al.) begin a topic related to using technology online.
  Resources are archived and the group works together to contribute ideas and
  good, free tools. This spring the topic is Listening.
• Moodle for Language Teaching - (run by Tom Robb) helps teachers practice
  using this free, opensource Course Management System (CMS).