Help

This site is the main venue of Social Media in English Language Teaching, a six-week workshop sponsored by Tesol Teacher Education SIG and conducted as part of Tesol Electronic Village Online (EVO) sessions. It runs from January 14th to February 24th, 2008.

Sections

There are six sections to this site:

  1. Blog: the main page features regular updates and commentary from the (co-)moderators.
  2. Primer: this section consists of the Syllabus and various odds and ends.
  3. Chats: like it says. Sessions will either be announced or may be used spontaneously among accredited users.
  4. Forum: think friendly corner bar. Its built-in Helpdesk may be able to sort out any technology-related problems you’re struggling with.
  5. Wiki: hysterically hierarchical hypertext, yours for the editing
  6. Aggregator:blog posts by course participants, up-to-date and sorted reverse-chronologically

Policies

Terms of service: posting rights to the Forum, the Wiki and the Chat are only granted to regular course participants, who will receive a login to the site. Access to user profiles is similarly restricted to regular participants. The SMiELT team may be willing to grant exceptions.


Privacy: this site solicits user data for the user profiles. These profiles will be made available to accredited site users (community members) but will not be viewable by the general public. Community members can contact each other via a Contact form made available in the user profiles. The Contact form does not disclose e-mail addresses to anyone other than the site’s (co-)moderators and administrators.

Who is Online?

A "Who’s Online" widget is on the left-hand side. It allows you to see who is currently online.

Sending Private E-mail Messages to Other Users

You can access the user profiles and their email contact information by clicking first on "My Account". You’ll see "The Community" on the right-hand side with a list of all this session’s participants (authenticated users). Once you click on a participant’s name, you’ll see the Contact tab where you will find the email info (Contact form). Private e-mail messages that you send through a profile’s Contact form will be received by the recipent in his/her mail box. Each profile user has the option to turn their Contact form off. The Contact form is only available to authenticated users (this session’s participants).

Assorted Geekery

This site has a colophon for the technically inclined.

Further Help

You may contact the SMiELT team or post your question to the Forum’s Helpdesk.