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Dear visitor, Thank you for dropping by the Teaching for Webheads site. This notice is being placed into this document without changing anything else of what you might find here. This is because this group, TfW, was started, as you can see by reading further, in an attempt to develop a community of language teaching peers along the model as had succeeded for Writing for Webheads (WfW). However, this particular group did not jell properly, partly because the time was not right, and partly because its goals were taken on by another group, which has thrived since its formation in 2001-2002, called Webheads in Action.
Welcome to Webheads, Vance (Feb 6, 2003) |
Long-time ESL teachers Vance Stevens, Maggi Doty, and Michael Coghlan have been facilitating an online course through English for Internet http://www.study.com for the past couple of years which we call Writing for Webheads (WFW) http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm
Lately we have been giving presentations at conferences, at TESOL in Vancouver the recent annual online conference from Hawaii, TCC2000, conferences in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and IATEFL CALL-SIG Conference in Barcelona, for example. See summaries at: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/reports.htm
The presentations have generated interest with teachers desiring to mount their own online courses (http://www.usq.edu.au/opacs/cllt/33006/ for example). Meanwhile, there have been calls in the lists to resume the popular MOO-based and other online teacher conferences. One benefit of this would be, under the guise of peer to peer discussion, to model a means for participants to implement the topics under discussion in their own teaching.
This is what we propose to do with our new list. In the WFW experiment, one component is a listserv, and we find http://www.yahoogroups.com well suited to this purpose. This in fact is the home of the list we are inviting you to join, which we call Teaching for Webheads, or TFW@yahoogroups.com.
The purpose of the TFW list is to discuss tools useful in online learning and to set up opportunities to use them to engage teachers in the kind of
activities that we feel have helped to promote language learning in our students.
This is where our list will be different from other lists. Whereas all lists that I know of are purely discussion lists, this list will serve as a home base from which list members can mount excursions to the far flung (and free-of-charge) corners of the internet and return to report results and to organize further explorations and experiments.
Who would be interested in such a list? Anyone who wants to learn from / teach to others what they know about web based communicative tools (spot the ambiguous anaphore there). Accordingly, the list is open to beginner, intermediate, and advanced users of internet-based learning tools.
How do you join? Send blank email from the email address you want to register to: tfw-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Because it seems to come up on these lists, I would like to add that WFW and TFW are non-commercial wholy voluntary and non-institutional supported efforts mounted by language learning professionals who enjoy evolving effective ways of using freely available resources on the Internet as a means furthering their professional goals while having some guilt-free fun in their copious spare time. - Vance
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