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| Title | Report on Kansas TESOL/BE Conference |
| Body | Something very memorable happened at Fort Hays State University, in Hays, Kansas, this weekend. We had 300 people attend our KATESOL/BE 2004 Conference, and we enjoyed interacting all day Saturday with: Jacqueline Boyd (Haskell Indian Nations University), Rebecca Kopriva (C-SAVE, University of Maryland), Stephen Krashen (University of Southern California), Joy Reid (University of Wyoming) and Bill VanPatten (University of Illinois- Chicago). http://www.fhsu.edu/katesol/katesolbe2004report.htm It's hard not to notice that three of these keynote speakers were originally interviewed as part of the online ESL MiniConference project: Steve Krashen, Joy Reid, Bill VanPatten. You can read those interviews in our Achievement Profiles, using the index found at http://www.eslminiconf.net/profiles.html . Now I understand what Carol Gillespie, of Washington State TESOL, meant when she wrote to me about the overwhelming experience she had when, based on the ESL MiniConference interview with Betty Azar, she found the courage to contact Betty Azar and was able to bring her to WATESOL as a keynote speaker. I believe that with KATESOL/BE 2004 I have been able to achieve one goal-- forming a grassroots network of ESL professionals in Kansas--and at the same time move forward with a "bricks" version of the "clicks" project--ESL MiniConference Online. I'm going to let the ESL MiniConference hibernate for a while. The domain name is paid up; I'll keep the Web hosting going, so that this resource remains available to prospective as well as practicing ESL/EFL professionals. And, in a year or two, I will reactivate the monthly e-mail newsletters. |
| Source | Kansas TESOL/BE |
| Inputdate | 2004-03-26 13:22:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2004-03-26 13:22:00 |
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