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WFW: Writing for Webheads
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Voices | Video | Writing

Greetings for the Eid and Christmas season 2002/2003
and alsoMillennium 1999/2000 | 2000/2001 | 2001/2002

Webheads annual Hallowebhead Party at Tapped In, Nov 3, 2002

Happy Spring Festival 2001
Click here for Lunar New Year messages for the year 2000

Hear our voices ... try to download our voice files by clicking on the links below (this is an experiment; let us know if you were able, or unable, to access either of these files)

Ying Lan's Pure Voice file from October 1999: yinglan.qcp
Vance's reply from October 1999: vance14oct99.rm
More recently, hear us and add your voice to our Wimba voice discussion board

VIDEO: Webheads have moved into communication with web cams.

In March, 2002, Yaodong got me to download PalTalk and on the 7th, Arthur and I got it working and recorded the session documented below <LAN link here>

: Here's a history of these efforts up through 2001 and into 2002 ...

Date	URL
June, 1999	Felix in Brazil was the first to send Real Media video out to Webheads http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/felix_see.htm \| <LAN video link here>
August, 1999	This inspired Vance to create a Real Media Welcome to Webheads http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/welcom.htm \| <LAN video link here>
September 23, 2001	It was Felix again who showed the group how to broadcast his webcam on Yahoo Messenger http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw010923.htm#felix_videocam
October 14, 2001	Again inspired by Felix, Vance went out and got a USB port web cam, and on got it up and running http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011014.htm#vance_wcam
October 28, 2001	Here's screen shot from the next time we used a web cam in a regular Sunday live online chat class: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011028.htm#cam2_ti
October 31, 2001	In a practice session for a conference showing a week later, we got a class in Turkey together with one from China. The class in Turkey took pictures of students at the computers while Vance was snapping the web cam view from his computer in the UAE: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm#stronger_webcam http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm#webcam2_yahoo http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm#rif2vance
November 4, 2001	This chat had web cam interaction with both Felix and Sue: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011104.htm
November, 2001	Sue was by this time inspired to get her own web cam, and in she had contacted Vance with it to perform a couple of experiments: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/sue_webcam.htm
December 9, 2001	In this regular Sunday chat, Vance hooked up with Yaodong in China in Netmeeting, and with Yaodong and Marina in Italy in Yahoo Messenger web cam. http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011209.htm
	There may be some chats in here with web cam shots as well ... check Dec 11 and Dec 23 to see.
December 30, 2001	There are a couple of shots here of Vance broadcasting in Yahoo while in Tapped In http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011230.htm
March 2002	Teresa has been logging her webcam sessions with Webheads in Action here: http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/webheadswebcamsessions.htm \| LAN view including our demonstration at the TESOL-Arabia conference Technology Fair March 21, in Abu Dhabi, where Vance had a web cam set up and invited conference delegates to interact with any Webheads who come online
April 6, 2002	Sue visited Vance in Houston, Texas. Webheads went online with webcams for the occasion. http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/sue_houston.htm

Join our discussions on the following topics:

Topic 3 - Is it better to be a man or a woman?
Topic 4 - What's going on in East Timor?
Topic 5 - Pros and cons of makeup for women
Topic 6 - When did you first join this class and what have you got out of it so far?
A better treatment of this topic is at testimonials from January and February 2000
Topic 7 - Where do you hope to be ten years from now?
Topic 8 - Is this pornographic? - http://buzz.bazooka.se/buzz/braz/
Topic 9 - Webheads plans for the Millennium New Year's Eve
Y2K - Webheads welcome in the new millennium
Topic 10 - Your most embarrassing moment
Debate on 1 country 2 systems and the future of Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Topic 11 - What's in a name? Students and teachers tell about their names
Topic 12 - So what did you do today? Webheads write about their day.
Topic 13 – Show us a picture and describe it or tell us what it means to you
Felix’s topic – Superstitions – besides Felix and Sorsah, only the teachers wrote on this one
Ying Lan’s topic – Life is Perfect?
Another Ying Lan topic - Slang
Maggie’s topic – The Ideal Society
Olympics 2000 and One Korea
Honesty and Lying
What it’s like to go to college in different countries
Deden’s topic – Where does language come from?
Webheads make wishes for 2001
Global warming - Sue's topic
Personal reflections on death / September 11, 2001
January, 2002: An unfortunate case of bigotry and discrimination
April, 2002: Plagiarism by teachers: Is it handled differently from plagiarism by students?
July, 2002 - SungYou's topic: Which type of movie do you prefer?
July, 2002 - Riccardo's topic: Should there be prohibitions on smoking in closed places?
July - August 2002 - Mody's topic: Neanderthals and the roots of community
September 2002 - Yaodong's topic: Rationale for chat in language learning
October 2002 - Yos's topic: The Human Mind
October 2002 - Rachel's topic: Weird Email
October 2002 - Aiden's assignment: Effects and Importance of Writing Environments
October 2002 - Yos and Susanne's topic: Mother tongues: the languages we speak
October 2002 - What's in a name? Zack | Joyce | Iris | Beatrice | Alice | Songyiqi | Zi Ying Chang | Mehtap | Zaheer
November 2002 - Webheads are preparing a proposal for the TCC 2003 conferences
June 2003 - Mariko's topic: SARS Nation

South America

Gloria is from Paraguay		Click here for a view through Gloria's window.
José from Argentina		José's Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2713 José has introduced himself and provided a view of culture from his perspective as former Minister of Culture for Argentina.
Felix from Brazil		Felix's Homepage: http://www.dstech.com.br/felix/ Felix has also started a page about his hometown on the Webheads site. Find out How Felix met his partner
Jexabill Saire is from Venezuela		Click here to learn about my country, Venezuela Vance visited Venezuela in December 1999 and filed this report: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/3508/venezuela/venez99a.htm
Juani is from Chile		Juani is an educator in La Union, near Validivia, a few hundred kilometers south of Santiago, in Chile. She has recently won a Fulbright scholarship and will spend a year in Rifle, Colorado.
Denilson is from Brazil		Denilson is back in Brazil after spending a year in the USA as an iintern at the Broadmore Hotel in Colorado. He says, "If you want to know more about me please visit the following address: http://www.matrix.com.br/denilson/ing_index.htm. Also: http://www.matrix.com.br/denilson/fotos/indice.htm. A lot of the pictures there aren't for everybody, just for friends, but I consider everyone from EFI my friends."

North America

Martha, Fresno California		"I do so enjoy receiving news from the group!!!"
Ming, from Taiwan, emails from Oregon		"Recently I decided to make a homepage by myself (include the guestbook, icons, and everything else I might want to use in my page later) but don't know what contents I should put in it." We can help! - Vance
Bridgett is from Jamaica		"Thank you, Maggi for that warm welcome .I like you already. I am Jamaican by birth. I am a fashion designer, but I work as a pattern-maker at the moment."

Europe

Maggi a teacher from the USA living near Frankfurt		Click here for a view through Maggi's window.
Gosia from Torun, Poland		Gosia has put lots of pics up on her webheads homepage. She's also crazy about mountains (see for yourself here).
Valentin is from Spain		Valentin is one of our very first eclass members!
Ivan is from Russia		We've had a few students from Russia. None are still enrolled on our Yahoo!Groups list as of this writing.

The Middle East

Vance, a teacher from the USA, living in Abu Dhabi

Vance's Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/
Learn about Vance's current "hometown", Abu Dhabi
Find out How Vance met his partner, Bobbi
See where Vance lives: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/apt2corniche/balcony.htm

Southeast Asia

Chotima from Thailand		Chotima's Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Housing/1600/cho2.html
Deden Sulaiman from Indonesia		Deden's Homepage (Deden is another charter eclass member!): http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/7748/ Read here about Deden's Typical Day Here, you can find out about Deden's hometown, Jakarta

Australia

Michael, a teacher from Adelaide
and Latifa Baltaji is Lebanese, living in Adelaide

China and Northeast Asia - Earthquake in Taiwan!

Eileen Wang from Beijing, China		Click here for a view through Eileen's window
Moral Lann from Kunming, China		Find out about Moral's hometown, Kunming Moral writes about the return of Macau to China
Maggie from Guandong		I am a student in China, and I live in the southern part of China. I am 18. I will go to the university this year.
Ying-Lan from Taiwan		Ying Lan's Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Island/7915/index.html
Hilda from Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Choi from Korea		You can find out what I do at work each day by clicking here! Find out why Choi hates to ski
Younghae Ryu from Korea		Younghae was sent to us by Seawalker. Yougnhae says: " I want to speak/write English very well and I want to know more about the culture, life style etc. of other countries."
"Seawalker" from South Korea		Si has an artistic spirit, as you can see from his Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/siwalker
Eun-Hyong Lee is from South Korea
Chiharu Miya is from Japan		Miya asked that his page be removed Nov 2, 2008 and Vance of course immediately did what was requested.
Gold (Fan) is from Lanzhou, China
Li Hua, or Tina, is from Fuzhou, China

Webheads abroad:

Many webheads are living and traveling away from home in foreign countries.

Vance is an American living in the UAE. He's also lived in Saudi Arabia and Oman.

Maggi is an American who has lived in many countries in Europe, currently Germany:

Michael has lived in England, Holland, Israel, and Sri Lanka.

Denilson from Brazil has lived in Colorado in the USA

Latifa Baltaji, Lebanese, lives in Adelaide, Australia

Deden Sulaiman, Indonesian, is living in Taiwan

Valentin has just made a trip to the USA

Ying-Lan from Taiwan has traveled to Scandinavia and Canada and was sent by her company to work for a year in New York City in January 2002

Juani, from Chile, is spending 2001-2002 in Colorado in the USA

Sue moved to College Station, Texas in January 2002. She visited Vance in Houston in April 2002

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Last updated: October 20, 2003 in Hot Metal Pro 6.0

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WFW: Writing for Webheads Our Virtual Community

Last updated: October 20, 2003 in Hot Metal Pro 6.0

WFW: Writing for Webheads
Our Virtual Community