EVO 2016

 What is the EVO?

     EVO is a set of online discussions and workshops that takes place every year from mid-January to mid-February. Sessions include a range from simple discussions to virtual hands-on workshops. They can serve as a run-up or preview to the TESOL Convention, or a discussion of an issue in the field of teaching language, or experiments with and pedagogy of new technology tools.

     An online session is the perfect venue to pre-discuss papers from Academic Sessions or Intersessions, or to carry on a discussion of topics important to your member group. EVO provides an invaluable service to teachers all over the globe, for it brings the convention to those who cannot travel. We usually have over a thousand participants, both members and non-members of TESOL. Most sessions also offer live chats (text and audio/video), including Webcasts from the Convention, and all participants are welcome to any of these live events.

     EVO is a long-standing project of TESOL's CALL-IS. In an effort to bring together CALL IS and the mainly European-based IATEFL, we have joined forces in our coordination and moderation teams to offer sessions that relate to IATEFL's special interest groups (SIGs) and the IATEFL conventions and webinars. We hope you will find these new sessions of interest.

Two articles describing EVO:

 Yeh, A., Rogers, S.,  Philp, H., Chattopadhyay, K., Arena, C., & Stevens, S. (2011). The Electronic Village Online provides free professional development annually. TESOL-Italy Newsletter, June-July 2011: 9.

Hanson-Smith, E. & Bauer-Ramazani, C. (2004). Professional development: The Electronic Village Online of the TESOL CALL Interest Section. TESL-EJ, 8(2).
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708587/What-is-EVO