ANNOUNCEMENTS

Posted: Thursday, February 21 The EVO Moderators and Coordinators would like to thank you for taking the time to participate in this year's sessions. We hope you have found your time rewarding. We would like to ask you to please take a minute to recognize the valuable time your moderators and guest speakers have contributed by taking a short (5-10 min.) survey that will help us plan for next year (link below).  Thanks very much for participating in the EVO! --Paula Emmert For the Coordination Team of the EVO
 * ANNOUNCEMENT: EVO Evaluation Survey**

Posted: Sunday, February 17th http://exploringthebigapple.wikispaces.com/ http://mods-profiles.pbwiki.com/Exploring_Big_Apple || Ruru Rusmin Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York rrusmin@bmcc.cuny.edu Cynthia Wiseman, BMCC/CUNY, cwiseman@bmcc.cuny.edu Sang K. Kim, Pratt Institute, sang06kim@yahoo.com Anna Koorey, Sydney, Australia, aas56@yahoo.com Patricia Dam, New York, NY, patdam1121@yahoo.com ||
 * ANNOUNCEMENT: TESOL CONVENTION -- Electronic Village Presentation of Exploring the Big Apple**
 * MAC 5,6 || **Exploring the Big Apple, Byte by Byte**
 * This session will showcase online projects created in TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO) course "Exploring the Big Apple, Byte by Byte". EVO participants have explored New York City virtually and created interesting learning activities that they want to share for use in face-to-face or online instruction. Participants in this session will take a virtual tour of New York City through the exploration of famous New York landmarks and institutions. The city's cultural centers, historic events, and architecturally unique buildings were used by teachers to develop virtual visits to venues in the Big Apple through activities that can be used to introduce intermediate to advanced ESL/EFL learners to New York and engage them in intensive research. The presenters will share collaborative hands-on activities that use online instructional tools such as hyper-texts, sharing sources, asynchronous forums, synchronous chat, voice files, video clips, blogs, and wikis. ||

Posted: Thursday, February 14 We are going to have a live session this weekend. We hope you can join us for a synchronous meeting of Big Apple! Who: All Big Apple Explorers! When: 14 GMT Sunday, February 17 What: Collaborative Projects -- Discussion and Sharing Where: [|WiZiQ] See you this weekend! If you get lost or have questions, you can always post to this Yahoo! Group. We'll be looking here for any stragglers who need help!
 * ANNOUNCEMENT: Synchronous (live) Big Apple Sessions this weekend.**

Posted: Tuesday, January 29 We are going to have live sessions this weekend. We hope you can join us for a synchronous meeting of Big Apple! Who: All Big Apple Explorers! When: GMT 21-22 Saturday, February 2 and/or GMT 14-15 Sunday, February 3 What: Q&A about the Big Apple Workshop and Weeks 1 & 2 Tasks; Forming groups for Projects in Weeks 3-4 Where: [|Learning Times, Webheads Virtual Office.] See you this weekend! If you get lost or have questions, you can always post to this Yahoo! Group. We'll be looking here for any stragglers who need help!
 * ANNOUNCEMENT: Synchronous (live) Big Apple Sessions this weekend.**

ANNOUNCEMENT: Synchronous (live) Big Apple Sessions this weekend.** When: GMT 16-17 Saturday, January 26 and/or GMT 21-22 Sunday, January 27 What: Q&A about the Big Apple Workshop and Weeks 1 & 2 Tasks; getting to know each other better Where: [|TappedIn] – Go from Reception to Laine’s virtual office, known as : LaineM Ofc How: View this brief video for a tutorial on how to get to our session (your teacher is Laine) Here is a file where Vance explains to his students how to log on as a GUEST at TappedIn and find their teacher there, and JOIN them: [|Tapped In Tutorial]
 * Posted: Wednesday, January 23

//ANNOUNCEMENT : CHANGE of PLAN -- We've moved our Introductions to the Yahoo!Group. Introduce yourself by posting a message to the group. Let's meet all 26 participants in Exploring the Big Apple Yahoo! Group!! //**
 * Posted: Wednesday, January 16