Webheads' Remote & Local Events

"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try". ~ Sophocles~
Webheads' Face-to-Face & Virtual Events Presentations, Projects, and Workshops (2002- Present)
Remote & Local Events, (Online/ in person/ multiple venue presentations & workshops)
The 42nd Annual TESOL Convention, New York, New York, USA - April 2 - April 5, 2008 Wiki created for this event can be found at http://tesol08-present.wikispaces.com/
IUCN 2007: "New Learning for Sustainability in the Arab Region" Alexandria, Egypt - August 31-Spetember 1, 2007 - Here are my Slideshares & Photos "Blending Formal & Informal Learning: Utilizing New Technologies in the Workplace to Connect, Interact, and Sustain Learning"
The 41st Annual TESOL Convention, Seatlle, Florida, USA - March 21-24, 2007, Seattle, Washington, USA CALL IS Electronic Village Online Communities - March 21st 2007 - Session Number/Code: 1845 Seattle-Washington State Conv Center/Room304- a Wikispace created for this Colloquium can be found at http://colloquium07.wikispaces.com/
TESOL EVO Electronic Village Online Jan-Feb 2007: EVO session: An ESP Potpourri: Business, Legal, Science & Technology, and Medical ESP Moderators: Buthaina Al-Othman, Christine Parkhurst, Debra Lee, and Mark R. Freiermuth
Global Learn Day 10, (GLD) Speaker's Index and Blog Pages - Oct. 8, 2006
The 40th Annual TESOL Convention, Tampa, Florida, USA - March 15-18, 2006 TESOL CALL Interest Section - Academic Session: Buthaina Al-Othman's Online Presentation with her Guest-Presenter Barbara Sawhill, and Ali Yedes can be found HERE! The handout of this presentation is HERE & a direct link to the recording of Buthaina's webcast joined by Vance Stevens and hosted by WorldBridges can be found HERE! Thursday, March 16 - 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. (Kuwait Local Time) The web casts of the Internet Fair Classics and interviews can be viewed at http://worldbridges.com/webheads/ - Thursday & Friday, March 16 & 17
TESOL EVO Electronic Village Online Jan-Feb 2006: EVO session: Establishing and Maintaining 'Web Presence' Part 2: The Moodle - Co-moderator, a direct link to Buthaina's Activities for Weeks 1 & 2 EVO session: Tips and Tricks for the Successful Online Teaching Environment - Guest Speaker of Week 5 EVO session: Oral Skills & Technology - Guest Speaker of Week 5
WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Convergence Bridges across CyberSpace - November 18 - 20 WiAOC 2005 Survey Results, by Dafne Gonzalez. This was the first Webheads online conference, a unique event and the frist of its kind by the online community of practice (CoP), Webheads in Action, led by its founder Vance Stevens
Open Weekend Course @ KnowPlace Moodle (August 26-28, 2005)
Skype WorldBridges Project, for EFL learners, by Webheads, Rita and Buthaina, Aug 10 - 22, 2005
The Culture Project, a collaborative student-teacher interactive session, in Webheads vOffice, at LearningTimes.org, by Wendy Bakes-Seale & Buthaina Al-Othman, - Aug 5, 2005 - 3:00 - 5:00 GMT The link to the recording of students' presentations is HERE! Advanced-ESL Class Blog Advanced-ESL Course in Moodle
A link to Teresa's page with photos, recording "Webheads face-to-face Dinner", in Lisbon!
ONLine Discussion with Group 7, Class B of Aiden Yeah, at Wen Tzao Ursuline College of Languages, (Taiwan) Wednesday, May 11, 2005 – at 3:00 GMT - Aiden's ONLine Schedule Page
Schedule of Webheads Presentations at the Tutor/Mentor 3rd eConference, as of May 6, 2005
Staying Connected: Sustaining online Communites , a Live & ONLine WebCast, by Michael Coghlan - for the CU Conference, in Adelaide, Australia, May 3, 2005
Interviews of Chris Johnes Students with Webhead EFL/ESL teachers, on April 26, 2005: < http://www.azwestern.edu/modern_lang/esl/cjones/esl_internet/int-sp05.htm >
Vance Stevens Program, in Abu-Dhabi, UAE, & Doha, Qatar - April 14-30, 2005 Blogging in online communities of practice: Impact on language learning and teacher professional development , a Live & ONLine Workshop, by Vance Stevens for the Qatar Teachers English Network Conference (QTEN) conference in Doha, Qatar, (April 30, 2005). Vance's complete session with his tutorials on How to Create Your own Blogs, video recording by Candace Pauchnick in San Diego, CA, US. "Let's go blogging now, everyone is learning how, come on and go blogging with me", a live and online webcast, by Vance Stevens and Webheads Co-Presenters:James Benenson, (in Paris, Frnace), Chris Jones, (in Arizona, US), and Buthaina Al-Othman will act as 'producer' managing the chat areas from her base in Kuwait. (April 14, 2005). Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:45 - 12:45 (05:45 -08:45 GMT), at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi
"Building Online Communities of Practice", a Live & online Webcas, tby Teresa Almeida d'Eça at the 19th APPI Conference, Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Webheads Presentations & other FUN Activities at the 39th Annual TESOL Convention, San Antonio, Texas, USA - March 30-April 2, 2005: Creating Online Extension for an ESP in EFL: Why and How? A Presentation at the EV Internet Fair, by Buthaina Al-Othman, Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Future Visions of CALL, Presenters: Jim Duber, Deborah Healey, Karen Price, Vance Stevens facilitated by Susan Gaer - CALL Interest Session Academic Session, Thursday, March 31 Photos from the Webheads' Fiesta, by Buthaina Al-Othman, San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday, March 30 ElderBob's blog with his record on the Webheads Fiesta: < http://elderboblog.typepad.com/fiesta/> Photos of CALL-IS Activities at TESOL 2005 , Friday, April 1
A MVPresentation " WIA, a CoP to Teach and Learn EFL in Collaboration ", by Dafne González & María Jordano at TESOL-SPAIN 28th. NATIONAL CONVENTION - March 12, 2005
A Visit to the Future: "Beirut 2005", Feb 26, 2005
Creating WebPages: Why & How? An Online presentation, by Buhaina al-Othman, for the TESOL sponsored EVOnline 2005 BaW session, at Alado/Webheads, Feb 2, 2005.
Cutting Edge Tools in the ESL/EFL Classroom Another Webheads' MVPresentation, by Michael Coghlan, for the ESL Conference, at LearningTimes! (Jan 21, 2005)
TESOL EVOnline 2005 Session: "Making the Transition from ESL to ESP", Co-moderated by Christine Parkhurst, (USA) and Buthaina Al Othman, (Kuwait) January 17 - February 27, 2005
Webheads Celebrating Christmas & New Year! To see the celebration, Go to Vance's Buzzent.Photoblog
BelNATE Online Workshop "Teaching English as a World Language in the Information Age" Minsk State Linguistics University - Minsk, Belarus at LearningTimes, November 3-5, 2004 The recordings of these sessions can be found at:: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=570543 Session 2: "Teaching Writing Online" by Co-Presenters, Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Aiden Yeh, and Buthaina al-Othman, her part in the presentation is HERE (pps) Session 3: "We Blog! What about you?", by Co-Presenters,* Barbra Dieu , Teresa Almeda , and Buthaina Al-Othman*
Tools for Online Collaboratrion A paper presented by Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith & Buthaina Al-Othman, at the First International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, sponsored by Reading Matrix, September 25-26, 2004 ( PowerPoint Presentation with audio naration, made possible by Impatica). (Many thanks to Christine Buaer-Ramazani for helping me with that by contacting Impatica).
"Hearing Every Voice – with the Aid of the Internet" A MVWorkshop, by Michael Coghlan, at the CLESOL 2004 in New Zealand, September 24th, 2004
Webheads & LearningTimes Meet Face-to-Face, in the Big Apple! (Aug 26, 2004) Webheads in Action, Mike Marzio & Buthaina al-Othman Meet face-to-face, in the Big Apple! (Aug 16 & 23, 2004)
EfS 162 Students - Webheads Cooperative & Collaborative Web-based Projects, (Spring 2004)
Webheads Group-Presentations, at the First Tutor/Mentor Leadership e-Conference Overlay!, May 14 - 19, 2004
Building Online Communities for Professional Development A presentation by Teresa Almeida d'Eça and Webheads Guest-Presenters, Aiden, Buthaina, Dafne, and Vance, April 29, 2004.
"Using Webcasts to Train Science Students at Kuwait University to Think Critically and Independently", A presentation by Buthaina Al-Othman at the 38th TESOL 2004, Long Beach, CA, Mar 31, 2004 "Enhancing Online Communities" Webheads' Presentations & other Activities at TESOL2004, Long Beach, CA, USA, Mar 30 - April 3, , 2004 "Voices heard having F.U.N. in online communities of practice" A Presentation by Vance Stevens at a Colloquium on “Multiple perspectives on the on-line conversation class”, with Andy Chao, Jim Kohn, David Nunan, and Lillian Wong, Saturday, April 3, 2004) Webheads Having Great Fun at TESOL 2004 ESP-IS Leaders and Members Face-to-Face Open Meeting, at TESOL 2004, April 3, 2004.
Vance Stevens's Program, in Cairo, Egypt - Jan 19 - 24, 2004 IT in Context in the Middle East A presentation by Vance Stevens and Guest-Presenter Buthaina Al-Othman, at EL Fellows, (ELF) Conference Jan 20, 2004). THE SKILL OF COMMUNICATION: Technology brought to bear on the art of language learning A Keynote Speech by Vance Stevens at the 9th EFL Skills Conference of the CACE, AUC, (Jan 21, 2004). Pictures of day one & more pictures of day one An Orientation Session at the IELP-II, by Vance, (Jan 23, 2004) Screen Shots of Vance's Demo session with Webheads, (Jan 23, 2004) Mini-Workshop by Vance, at CDIT- lab, (Jan 24, 2004) Creating EgyptWebheads at CDIT- lab, (Jan 24, 2004) It is Important to Have Fun! (Dancing while crusing the Nile)
Enhancing Online Communities with Voice and Webcams, A TESOL Academy session by Vance Stevens, October 27 - November 23, 2003 Q & A , by Buthaina Al-Othman & Helaine Marshall
Webheads' Online Presentations on Global Learn Day VII , Nov 16, 2003
Creating Environments for Teaching and Learning Languages, Blended and Online, by Vance Stevens, at The 4th Wen Shan Conference on English Teaching The Department of English, Oct. 25, 2003
"StreetLife", A topic-based voice & text-chat sessions , by Anne Fox, Oct. 2, 2003 Week 5 \| An Exercise in Inter-Cultural Understanding Chatlog of Buthaina Alothman, Vibeke and Christina, (Anne's Danish students).
A Review on a Virtual Classroom, Elluminate , by Buthaina Al Othman, August 19, 2003
An Informal Presentation on How to Use a Conference Room at Compu.Ed, by Webhead, Buthaina Al Othman., August 17, 2003
Webheads Presentation in Hawaii, Using Alado.net , by Michael Coghlan, and Webhead Guest -Presenters Aiden Yeh and Daf Gonzlez, June 25th, 2003
Webheads First MVPresentation at TESOL Convention 2003. , March 28th, 2003
Weabheads in Action: Previous, Current & Future Projects., by Fernanda Rodrigues
Archive of Webheads' Homepages and Artifacts , by Arlyn Freed
CMC 1 & CMC 2. \| Students' Self-test results (academic_writing)\| students' blogs \| Students' sound Files (These files will be moved to another location on EFL Home in Kuwat site, soon)
"The Role of Accreditation in Providing Quality Control for Instituions of Higher Education", A Wrokshop at the Language Center of Kuwait University by Amy Lezberg, May 2, 2004
"Enhancement of Instructor's Academic Performance", Seminars organized by University Faculty Association at Kuwait University, Sunday, March 16th - April 4, 2003 Building your ducational Website or Weblog: Why & How? A Workshop by Buthaina Al-Othman, March 18, 2003 Web-Logs,(Handout)
090 Student Chat Project 2., by Buthaina's students and Webheads in Action, from Denmark, Holland, and Venezuela, March10th,2003
090 Student Chat Project 1, by Buthaina's students and Webhead in Action, Susan Nyrop in Denmark, Feb.24th,2003
Inviting a Webhead from the Netherland to 161 Yahoo Group. )) 161 Student Yahoo Group Projec, Spring 2003 Lebanon 2006