Vance and Bobbi Stevens, Domagoj and Marijana Smolčec, Dakota Redstone, Maha Abdelmoneim, and Mircea Patrascu present EVO Minecraft MOOC at SL MOOC 2017

Uncategorized Leave a comment

Learning2gether Episode 370

EVO Minecraft MOOC has completed its third iteration as an Electronic Village Online (EVO) session, and is aimed at a fourth in 2018. Community members discuss the evolution of the community, what we have learned through our experience, and implications for communities of practice forming in and around virtual worlds.

On Thursday June 22, 2017, Vance and Bobbi Stevens, Domagoj and Marijana Smolčec, Dakota Redstone, Maha Abdelmoneim, and Mircea Patrascu appeared in-world in Minecraft as part of an EVO Minecraft MOOC team to give a presentation by all accounts well received at SL MOOC 2017, hosted by Nellie Deutsch and Nan Nigrone and taking place in Second Life. (Beth O’Connell was planning to join us but was called away at the last minute to a meeting in RL).

Find this event on the schedule at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DbVPTXUkSlQ3TT6318K5sDJWa5XWTFuEO0LV7MNjERg/edit?usp=sharing

Where? The event was streamed beginning at 1400 UTC on Vance’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/vancestev.
And it worked, the recording is here,
https://youtu.be/Nm9qyy_VrjE

The presenters were in Minecraft and Discord, streaming voice and video from there. Of course those whitelisted on our server who wanted to make it a playdate, were able to enter the EVO Minecraft MOOC server, TP to TeacherVance, and join us there in world and live in voice in Discord.

SL MOOC participants were invited to touch base with us in Real Time in text at
http://chatwing.com/vancestev

Thanks to our testing the day before, Vance was able to get the stream going using xSplit which broadcasts to the most recent event created at my YouTube account using the credentials and stream key stored at xSplit. This seems to work quite well for Minecraft and even allows a video thumbnail from my web cam which can be easily toggled in and out.

We took our virtual guests on a railroad ride to far flung villages on the EVO Minecraft server where we saw where zombies are cured and turned into villagers who are housed in a compound created by Rose Bard and Dakota Redstone. Community members can go there to trade with the villagers. Carrots are grown on the property which can be used to exchange for things that villagers have, and Dakota grows cane there which can be harvested and turned into paper (I showed how to do this at a crafting table). Some villagers are librarians and if you can find one of those you can trade paper for emeralds and other treasures.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes

Things went well for about 45 minutes until Bobbi and I, both in Al Ain UAE, simultaneously lost our connection to Discord and could not get it back. Meanwhile I had gone walkabout and found a boat that led across a lake to lights on the other side which lit a path through a by-now dark forest to a structure someone had created at the end of the lit path. There I found ladders I was able to ascend to safety from monsters that are active on our survival mode server at night. Mircea likely teleported to my location, as he appeared there as well. By then the only audio was my microphone narrative of what I was doing, and if the conversation was still going on in Discord, it was lost to the stream and hence to SL MOOC. It was the top of the hour, so on that note, I ended the broadcast.

All the while we were streaming we were trying to acknowledge the possible presence of viewers in Second Life, but we had no way of knowing whether or not they were there (well, we did have a way but we totally missed it). Anyone who mounts one of these endeavors knows how complicated it is, whether getting the stream working while getting set up in Minecraft and organizing people in Discord (Marijana was using it for the first time and had to be guided; Bobbi as well).  Also the hosts in SL would have been equally busy mounting the stream in their virtual world and communicating with guests how to access it. Also, the event would have been early in the morning where they were (Nan overslept her alarm, she reported later). Consequently neither Nan nor Nellie replied to my emails explaining what we were doing, nor could I raise them on Skype or Facebook. So we took it on faith that they were there and played from behind the curtain as it were, not knowing what the audience was doing on the other side.

Once the event was over, and all concerned could check their emails, then the flurry of replies appeared. We had asked everyone to use Chatwing because we can organize there before the event and help anyone there reporting trouble with accessing the stream. The SL organizers had not realized that as they were handling things at their end; hence there was no message from them to us in Chatwing. For our part, we were very busy at our end and none of us were monitoring the live-stream chat. We were chatting with each other in Minecraft, and monitoring Chatwing throughout. I was monitoring stream health showing on the left of the YouTube Live window where the live chat runs on the right side, but given my limited screen real estate and the need to monitor multiple windows on my two computers, I had my Chatwing overlaying that part of the window. I was streaming in several windows on the other computer, xSplit, Discord, and Minecraft itself, so I was doing busy doing all that as well.

But for participants just joining a stream in progress, the YouTube live chat is where the action is. So we completely missed that but it’s a big lesson for next time. You definitely learn how to do this by doing it.

This was Nan’s email after the session had ended

Absolutely terrific! We’ve got the recording in the SLMOOC17 playlist on Nellie’s channel. I’m listening to what I missed. Sorry I was late. I just sent messages out to the various groups in Second Life including the MOOC participants, Open Education in Second Life, ISTE, VSTE, Real Education in Second Life, Kip Boahn’s group, and the Virtual World Education Roundtable as well as my educational groups about the location of the recording with a little positive review of the event. I also updated the Google calendar, the Google Doc schedule and the wall boards in Second Life with the link to the recording of the live stream.

You guys weren’t paying attention to the chat on YouTube live but there were a number of members of the SLMOOC, a few like Nellie who were in Minecraft too I imagine. I joined about 18 minutes in, was up late and slept through my alarm. Sorry!

Thanks so much! Such a great addition to the course! The chat in Minecraft was as informative as watching the Minecraft follow along. Thanks thanks thanks!

2017-06-23_1301evomc_slmooc

Posted at https://www.facebook.com/groups/slmooc/

And from Nellie

Thank you, Vance, Marijana and boys, and Dakota . Every live session you give on Minecraft is different and amazing!!!

And my sheepish reply 🙂

You’re right, I was pretty engrossed in multitasking across two computers, trying to drive our participants to our chatwing chat, and really sorry we missed the live stream one. Note to self for next time (in the palm of my hand, slapping it onto forehead, hope it sticks this time).

Thanks for giving us the opportunity. It was a lot of FUN as always

20170622_181822Marijana’s screenshot, and a picture of her and her younger son Domagoj presenting with us from the other side of Minecraft (used here with her permission)

20170622_152913

Announcements

This message was sent to the Google+ Communities and FB groups listed below

#Learning2gether episode 370 is hosting a live stream from the #evomc17 EVO Minecraft MOOC Minecraft server Wed June 21 for practice, and on Thu June 22, the real thing with Marijana Smolčec and Beth O’Connell, at this month’s Second Life MOOC. You are all are invited to attend either or both.

Please visit http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether for details on how to join us at Vance’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/vancestev or at http://chatwing.com/vancestev for live online help and guidance.

Also see the #SLMOOC17 program at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DbVPTXUkSlQ3TT6318K5sDJWa5XWTFuEO0LV7MNjERg/edit?usp=sharing for information on how to join this and other events there, now through end of June.

Facebook Groups

Google+ Communities

 

Wed June 21 1800 UTC Vance and Bobbi Stevens, Filip and Marijana Smolčec, Dakota Redstone, and Beth O’Connell practice live streaming from Minecraft

All were welcome to join us in our live stream practice from deep within the EVO Minecraft Server on Wed June 21 at 1800 UTC.

Where? Good question! Since this is experiment night, a good possibility is Vance’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/vancestev 

You should be able to see the stream there when we try to start it around 1800 UTC

It worked and the recording is here: https://youtu.be/mgYtRSSnyY0

You can also touch base with us in Real Time in text at http://chatwing.com/vancestev

Of course if you are whitelisted on our server and want to make it a playdate, you can TP to teacherVance and join us live in Discord. But it not, our aim is to stream all that, so drop by and see what we’ll be doing on Thursday

So what did we learn2gether?

I have two computers on my desk, a Windows 10 and a Windows 7. The W10 has a VPN installed on it. This is useful because it gets me around voice lag issues when streaming Hangouts on Air. Sometimes if I try to do a HoA without VPN the voice comes across like a series of horn honks and is totally unreadable. When I do the same thing over VPN things work more smoothly, though I still get frequent dropouts. Since we would be using Discord for voice as well as Minecraft I had set up to use the W10 computer for the stream. I have the latest version of Open Broadcaster Software Studio installed on my W10 computer. So I launched OBS and started setting up my scenes.

First problem, when I tried to launch Minecraft the launcher wouldn’t work. It gave this error, repeatedly:

Problem moving C:/Program Files (x86)Minecraft/tmp/tmpLauncher.tmp to MinecraftLauncher.exe with error code 5

Once I got the game going and was testing it through OBS, I got severe lag. I wondered if the VPN could be the problem so I took it out and restarted. Same thing. OBS? I stopped the encoder and tried again. Same thing. I’m trying it now while writing this next day. Same thing, all movements in slightly delayed jerks.  I wasn’t going to be able to stream Minecraft from my Windows 10.

With time counting down ever closer to start time I shifted operations to my Windows 7. I launched OBS and discovered that all I had there was the classic version. I’d used it to stream Minecraft from there before and everything had worked fine, but I’d got used to the Studio interface where you cue one scene and prepare it while broadcasting another, and trying to remember Classic was going back into time stored in disused brain cells. I consulted my personal manual where I’d documented my experiences with OBS Classic at a time I was trying to figure out how to use it.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12KL1390JLzBsopdsMLMi6ZHNC23CEzT2biNp0mCOV3M/edit?usp=sharing

Then I remembered I also had xSplit on that computer. xSplit knows my Google account credentials and YouTube Live stream key so all I have to do is set up a streaming event on Google and give it a name, and xSplit looks in my account, finds the event, and streams to it.  In the interest of time I decided to go that route.

Meanwhile people were turning up to join the show. Beth O’Connell was at school and was blocked from Discord, so she and Marijana and I had agreed to use Skype. But it turned out she wasn’t able to use Skype either.  My wife Bobbi joined us in Minecraft and on Skype so I did a test stream to see if it would work. Bobbi was able to see the stream and find its recording in her recent YouTube events, but I got a message when I stopped the stream that its archive should be ready in 24 hours. Huh? (it flashed on and of the screen, so I never worked out what that was about). Still we were able to replay the recording from the events log on Bobbi’s computer and verified that we had streamed with sound and video and all components.

By now it was almost official showtime so I set an event, Bobbi went to my channel and was notified that an event was about to happen but it was waiting for me to appear, so I decided to start streaming. Everything worked fine, and Dakota Redstone was online and invited us to join him at Glitch Gulch /warp barndoor. When we arrived there we discovered that Dakota doesn’t use Skype but he was willing to use Discord. Bobbi and I were still in Skype and we were waiting for Marijana and Filip to join us, and they were also expecting to use Skype. But by now it was  20 min after our agreed start time. We were aware that Marijana had an online event set to end just as we would start ours, and it would be understandable for that one to have gone overtime. Later I found that they also had an electrical problem. By the time she and Filip got there Bobbi and I had logged off and were sitting down to dinner, but I got their messages next day.

The purpose of the test run for me was actually to figure out how to stream it. I accomplished that, and it was left only to get everyone into Discord next day. Another minor issue was that I did not know how Nancy Zigrone and Nellie were planning to feed it into Second Life, for the SL MOOC event. So I sent them an email next morning and updated all the information at the SL MOOC program so they’d have the information there as well.

This was my message, sent several hours before the event was due to start, but apparently after Nan and Nellie were heading or had gone to their respective beds.

Is there anything more we need to do apart from start the stream on schedule? You can email us back or leave us a msg at chatwing.

Earlier this week

Sun June 11 1400 UTC Learning2gether Episode 369 – David Winet demonstrates using Screencastify to provide dynamic feedback on ESOL student writing

https://learning2gether.net/2017/06/11/david-winet-demonstrates-using-screencastify-to-provide-dynamic-feedback-on-esol-student-writing/

Mon June 12 1900 EST Developing Personal Relationships in Service-Learning

Needs and Wants: Developing Personal Relationships in Service-Learning
Global Citizenship is most effectively demonstrated through the experiences students engage in with local and global communities. The cumulation of honing such attitudes and skills explored in this series, including self-awareness, openness, sensitivity and adaptability, can be displayed in a student’s ability to function effectively when working toward shared goals with others. Looking at the dynamics of Community Service-Learning, the last session of this series will demonstrate ways students can create distinctions between their needs and wants along with others, and the impact communicating their needs has on building community relationships.

THE HOST
Lisa Petro is a Curriculum Development Consultant and the Co-founder of Know My World, a Global Education Resource organization, which focuses in the development of Social, Emotional, Academic, and Cultural Learning (SECAL) through digital cross-cultural exchanges and integrated classroom projects. Lisa has designed Global Education curriculum and professional development workshops for teachers in the United States, Japan, Nepal, China, Mexico, Albania, Palestine and Taiwan with an emphasis on social/emotional learning and cultural competence in the classroom. Lisa continues to offer cross-cultural training in preparation for panel presentations at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women with girls and women from all over the world through The Grail NGO. She has also presented dynamic cross-cultural workshos at the East Asia Regional Conference for Overseas Schools in Thailand and China, Congreso de Preparatoria, Preparatorias del Tecnólogico de Monterrey, ITESM in Mexico, the State University of New York Multicultural Education Conference, The Global Education Forum, and the SUNY Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning.
http://www.knowmyworld.org and http://www.lisapetro.com.

THE GLOBAL EDUCATOR
Genevieve Murphy is a global educator who has taught students K-12 in the United States, Japan and Taiwan. She currently designs and teaches Social and Emotional Learning at the American School Taichung in Taichung, Taiwan. Genevieve has presented professional development workshops on social, emotional and culutral projects in the United States, Japan, Nepal, China, Thailand and will be presenting at the 2017 EARCOS conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. She is also the Global Development Director and co-founder of Know My World, a global educational resource that emphasizes social, emotional and cultural learning through digital exchange and integrated classroom projects.
​http://www.ast.tc.edu.tw/

GlobalEd TV is a free, inclusive, and comprehensive webinar series which spotlights theories and best practices related to multiculturalism in schools and organizations all over the world. This 5-part series is hosted monthly by the Global Education Conference Network, the Learning Revolution, and Know My World; and the series is designed to inform educators, students, and parents about the role of cultural and global competence in education.

SIGN UP – IT’S FREE! (Registered guests are not in any way required to attend the live sessions, and will receive links to the recording after each session. Attending live will provide an opportunity to ask questions and participate actively.)

This series will look at the foundations for providing students with the kinds of social and emotional attitudes needed to be effective global citizens, and it will explain and document real classroom projects that foster cultural identity, critical thinking, assumptions, communication and social responsibility. Every session will scaffold a learning path to build the appropriate attitudes for engaging in the world and with others. The culmination will be a social impact project for the local community. Each 1-hour session will feature a project being implemented in the diverse Know My World 3rd Grade Classroom in Taichung, Taiwan by educator and co-founder, Genevieve Murphy. Co-founder Lisa Petro will host the series and lead webinar participants through the project sequence, research behind each competency area and method, and share pre-recorded footage of students engaging in the instruction. At the end of each session, participants will receive a lesson sequence to replicate or modify in their classrooms.

Visit The Global Education Conference Network at: http://www.globaleducationconference.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

David Winet demonstrates using Screencastify to provide dynamic feedback on ESOL student writing

Uncategorized 3 Comments

Learning2gether Episode 369


Download mp3 here:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/learning2gether-with-david-winet-on-screencastify-and-dynamic-feedback-on-student-writing-trimmed.mp3?

On Sunday June 11, 2017, at the usual time of 1400 UTC, David Winet came on to Learning2gether to demonstrate using Screencastify to provide dynamic feedback on ESOL student writing.

The video above is at https://youtu.be/D4PE3DF3jEc on YouTube. The original video started out with setup dialog for the first 11 minutes, which needed to be removed, but the YouTube online trimming tool works only for videos up to an hour in length. So Vance downloaded an mp4 and cropped it in Windows Movie Maker. This bloated the mp4 from the 378 MB original downloaded from YouTube to 2,220 MB in the 1080p version, so I made a 720p version which was still 1,164 MB. I tried a third time with Camtasia, rendered it to 720×540, and saved it as mp4 without any further enhancement. This time the upload was 135 mbytes, much more acceptable.

That’s what you see above, but meanwhile Dave showed me this link
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/
which explains how you can create a link to start a video at any specific point, so if you want to view the original in higher resolution and skip over the first 11 minutes, the direct link for that is here:
https://youtu.be/GvxhivQg1WA?t=706

Ever the innovative educator, David Winet has been using Screencastify to give students feedback on their writing dynamically in video. He reports that students

“liked having the dynamic correction with webcam that Screencastify made possible.  For myself I found it slower, but more personal and closely focused, than just correcting online and sending the corrected/marked-up homework back to the student by email. I ended up just choosing three or four students’ papers to ‘screencastify’ on a given day and did the others the old way on that day.  Eventually after several homework assignments everybody got at least one Screencastified paper back.”

About Screencastify

Screencastify is a freemium plug-in that works only in Chrome, available at
https://www.screencastify.com/

Dave has made a tutorial on how to use Screencastify, using, of course, Screencastify itself – https://youtu.be/UsaPpCyPOr8

Dave prepared show notes to explain what he would talk about link to his videos. He also includes instructions on how-to work with Screencastify with students.

Dave demonstrated his technique live in the HoA using a the screen share feature to show what he was doing on his desktop in Screencastify. He had also prepared a similar demonstration in advance, though we realized he would not be able to air it during the webcast: https://youtu.be/ZkR928-tyJo

In order to see the text in the video, please use HD setting 720 or 1080.

Vance has also been working on dynamic correcting techniques, as posted here
http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.ae/2015/07/teaching-writing-on-ipads-and-other.html

This post contains an illustration of a similar correction method where the student happened to be following online, but the technique can be used asynchronously as well,
https://youtu.be/bH1p86lXD40

When watching videos on YouTube, always use the highest HD settings possible

The event took place in Google Hangout on Air, live-streamed on
Vance’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/vancestev 

Participants were invited to

Transcripts from the Hangout on Air and Chatwing text chats are available here:

Here are some links from those notes

2017-06-19_1005grahamstanleyhttp://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/enhancing-feedback-with-technology/enhancing-feedback-with-technology.html

Vance has documented how this was all set up in slides 1-13 at
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12KL1390JLzBsopdsMLMi6ZHNC23CEzT2biNp0mCOV3M/edit?usp=sharing

Also, you might be interested in watching a 35 minute video that Dave and I (Vance) made the day before the event, where we worked out how we were going to do it:


Before the event, the following announcement was made to the spaces indicated below

Ever the innovative educator, David Winet has been using Screencastify to give students feedback on their writing dynamically in video. He reports that students “liked having the dynamic correction with webcam that Screencastify made possible.” He plans to demonstrate and discuss his technique in Google Hangout on Air starting Sunday Oct 11, 1400 UTC, and live streamed on Vance’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/vancestev. For further information on the event, such as a countdown to the time where you are, see http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether. Find there also a text chat where you can ask questions or troubleshoot any problems in real-time while the event is taking place, or link directly at http://chatwing.com/vancestev

Facebook Groups

Google+ Communities

Earlier this month

May 5 to Sun May 7 Learning2gether with the Virtual Round Table Web Conference

https://learning2gether.net/2017/05/05/learning2gether-weekend-with-the-9th-virtual-round-table-web-conference/

Wed May 10 1700 UTC Nahla Nadeem – Speak Up: Is blended learning even necessary?

Posted by Hanaa Khamis at https://tinyurl.com/egy-education-innovation

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1803741989890128/

Thu May 11 1500 UTC Janet Salmons on a Hybrid Moodle Model in Moodle MOOC 10

4

May 11Thursday

11.00 AM EST

3.00 PM UTC

Janet Salmons

A Hybrid Moodle Model

Self-Paced Meets Instructor-Led: Learning Activities in a Hybrid Moodle Model

Sat May 13 Connecting students to the world on Classroom 2.0

Saturday, May 13, 2017
Connecting Your Students with the World: Tools and Projects to Make Global Collaboration Come Alive, K-8
Presenters: Bill Krakower
Paula Naugle
Jerry Blumengarten

We are thrilled to welcome three amazing, connected educators as our special guest presenters to share their passion, experiences, and resources for: “Connecting Your Students with the World: Tools and Projects to Make Global Collaboration Come Alive, K-8” Billy, Jerry, and Paula connected to each other first online and then face-to-face at ISTE. For almost two years they met every Sunday evening in a Google Hangout with some other like-minded educators, to plan ways they could connect their students and do collaborative projects. During this webinar, you will learn how to make connections that will help you facilitate becoming a globally connected teacher and your students becoming globally connected learners. The trio will take you through starting with Mystery Location Calls, Mystery Number Calls, and other simple collaborative projects that take 15-20 minutes of time to doing more extensive collaborative projects that could last for an extended period of time. They have “been there and done it” and they even wrote a book about their experience and the projects they have done.

Bill Krakower is currently the Computer Technology Instructor, Gifted & Talented, STEAM Teacher for grades three and four. He is also a co-teacher of ELA for Special Education students at Beatrice Gilmore Elementary School in the Woodland Park Public School District in New Jersey. For the past ten years, Billy has served as Special Education Teacher, in the Inclusion setting, and Resource Room setting. Billy is the co-author of four books, “Connecting Your Students with The World,” “Using Technology to Engage Students with Learning Disabilities,” “140 Twitter Tips for Educators.” and “Hacking Google for Education”. @wkrakower

Paula Naugle lives in New Orlean, Louisiana where she teaches 4th graders ELA and social studies in a public school just outside of the city. She has taught for 42 years and is passionate about preparing her students for their futures as 21st-century digital citizens. While in her 4th grade her students use web tools such as Edmodo, Google Hangouts and Docs, and Seesaw. Paula is a Discovery Education STAR and member of the DEN Leadership Council of Louisiana, a Microsoft Innovative Educator, and one of the organizers for #edcampNOLA, and a host for Classroom 2.0 LIVE. @plnaugle

Jerry Blumengarten is a retired educator who taught in New York City, but he is probably best known as Cybraryman1 on Twitter. He is the curator of thousands of webpages where he says he is trying to catalog the internet for students, educators, and parents. He is passionate about helping others become connected educators. He does this through his participation in Twitter chats such as #edchat, #engsschat, #satchat, #4thchat, and more, and by keynoting around the country at conferences. Jerry is also a member of the Council of Peers of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences and a commentator on BAM! Radio. @cybraryman1

Remember to follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20

More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm EST(Time Zone Conversion) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent “Choose To Be Nice” session with Dina Creiger. Click on the Archives and Resources tab.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Team: Peggy George, Lorie Moffat, Tammy Moore, Paula Naugle, Steve Hargadon

Fri May 19 13:30 UTC Susan Hillyard on re-designing online training for English Language teachers in Moodle MOOC 10

6

May 19

Friday

9.30 AM EST

1.30 PM UTC

Susan Hillyard

Designing a PLC for English Language Teachers on a global Scale

This presentation looks at a possible generic model for designing an online short course to boost English language teachers’ skills in changing their approach to methodology in ELT classrooms.

Friday May 19 1300 Brazil time Aline Pacheco on Teaching Aviation English

For our May webinar –next Friday, May 19, from 1 to 2 p.m. — we bring you Aline Pacheco, Associate Professor at PUC-RS.

Register now: bit.ly/btwebinars2017ap

Title: Teaching Aviation English: an Introduction

Abstract: Aviation personnel have specific language needs that can be quite challenging for English teachers. Those needs are closely related to aviation safety, the ultimate goal of Aviation English.

In this webinar, we are going to approach some basic assumptions of teaching Aviation English (AE), such as:

-key concepts/definitions
– the context of AE in the teaching scenario
-general guidelines: DOC 9835, language requirements, classroom material
-tests
-perspectives

Presenter’s bio: Aline Pacheco is an Associate Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). She holds a PhD in Language Studies from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics from PUCRS and a Bachelor’s Degree in Letters – English Language from PUCRS. She has been working as an English teacher for over 23 years. Currently, she works at the School of Humanities and the School of Aeronautical Science. Her major interests are teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language and Aviation English.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Best,

The BRAZ-TESOL team

Mon May 22 – Globaled.tv monthly webinar series on Conscious Communication: Choosing Words

Mon. May 22nd – 7pm EST
Conscious Communication: Choosing Words
​Applying self-awareness, openness, and sensitivity in social situations requires practice through communication with others. While engaged in dialogue, students must understand that not all communication will be easy or clear, and by taking ownership for their words and behaviors, they can demonstrate personal power by choosing what and how they communicate. Through the joining of English Language Arts and Social and Emotional Learning, students will participate in a series of role-playing exercises to practice strategies for conscious communication.

GlobalEd TV is a free, inclusive, and comprehensive webinar series which spotlights theories and best practices related to multiculturalism in schools and organizations all over the world. This 5-part series was hosted monthly by the Global Education Conference Network, the Learning Revolution, and Know My World; and designed to inform educators, students, and parents about the role of cultural and global competence in education.

SIGN UP – IT’S FREE! (Registered guests are not in any way required to attend the live sessions, and will receive links to the recording after each session. Attending live will provide an opportunity to ask questions and participate actively.)

This series will look at the foundations for providing students with the kinds of social and emotional attitudes needed to be effective global citizens, and it will explain and document real classroom projects that foster cultural identity, critical thinking, assumptions, communication and social responsibility. Every session will scaffold a learning path to build the appropriate attitudes for engaging in the world and with others. The culmination will be a social impact project for the local community. Each 1-hour session will feature a project being implemented in the diverse Know My World 3rd Grade Classroom in Taichung, Taiwan by educator and co-founder, Genevieve Murphy. Co-founder Lisa Petro will host the series and lead webinar participants through the project sequence, research behind each competency area and method, and share pre-recorded footage of students engaging in the instruction. At the end of each session, participants will receive a lesson sequence to replicate or modify in their classrooms.

THE HOST
Lisa Petro is a Curriculum Development Consultant and the Co-founder of Know My World, a Global Education Resource organization, which focuses in the development of Social, Emotional, Academic, and Cultural Learning (SECAL) through digital cross-cultural exchanges and integrated classroom projects. Lisa has designed Global Education curriculum and professional development workshops for teachers in the United States, Japan, Nepal, China, Mexico, Albania, Palestine and Taiwan with an emphasis on social/emotional learning and cultural competence in the classroom. Lisa continues to offer cross-cultural training in preparation for panel presentations at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women with girls and women from all over the world through The Grail NGO. She has also presented dynamic cross-cultural workshos at the East Asia Regional Conference for Overseas Schools in Thailand and China, Congreso de Preparatoria, Preparatorias del Tecnólogico de Monterrey, ITESM in Mexico, the State University of New York Multicultural Education Conference, The Global Education Forum, and the SUNY Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning.
http://www.knowmyworld.org and http://www.lisapetro.com.

THE GLOBAL EDUCATOR
Genevieve Murphy is a global educator who has taught students K-12 in the United States, Japan and Taiwan. She currently designs and teaches Social and Emotional Learning at the American School Taichung in Taichung, Taiwan. Genevieve has presented professional development workshops on social, emotional and culutral projects in the United States, Japan, Nepal, China, Thailand and will be presenting at the 2017 EARCOS conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. She is also the Global Development Director and co-founder of Know My World, a global educational resource that emphasizes social, emotional and cultural learning through digital exchange and integrated classroom projects.
​http://www.ast.tc.edu.tw/

Visit The Global Education Conference Network at: http://www.globaleducationconference.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Thu June 1 1900 UTC for 3 hrs – Library 2.017 mini-conference on Digital Literacy and Fake News – hosted by Brian Alexander


The keynote panelists have been announced for the second of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: “Digital Literacy + Fake News,” which will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 1st, from 12:00 – 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone).
Time where you are:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Library+2.017+Expertise+Competencies+and+Careers&iso=20170601T12&p1=283&ah=3

In the first hour, Bryan Alexander will host our special opening panel discussion, joined by Mnar Muhawesh, Doug Belshaw, and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. More information on each of them is below. They and our session presenters will look deeply at the foundational relationship of libraries and librarians to media, information, and digital literacy. Bryan will also give a closing keynote at the end of the three-hour mini-conference.

We invite all library professionals, educators, students, and others to provide input and participate this event. The call for session proposals is still open, and the currently accepted conference sessions are listed at the bottom of this post.

The Library 2.017 virtual mini-conference, “Digital Literacy & Fake News” was held on June 1st, and recordings of the keynotes and sessions are available. You need to be registered (free) and logged into the Library 2.0 network to view the recordings. We have also built a special page of curated resources and links, as a bonus to you for registering.

RECORDINGS: http://www.library20.com/digital-literacy-recordings

RESOURCE PAGE: http://www.literacy.digital.

Full information here, http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-017-digital-literacy-fake-news

Steve Hargon’s nexus of educator networks will hold a second of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: “Digital Literacy + Fake News,” to be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 1st, from 12:00 – 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone).

This event is being organized in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander, who will serve as moderator for the opening panel and as the closing keynote speaker. Invited panelists and presenters will look deeply at the foundational relationship of libraries and librarians to media, information, and digital literacy. We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to provide input and participate this event.

This is a free event, being held online. 
REGISTER HERE
to attend live or to receive the recording links afterwards.
Please also join the Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.

What does “digital literacy” mean in an era shaped by the Internet, social media, and staggering quantities of information? How is it that the fulfillment of human hopes for a open knowledge society seem to have resulted in both increased skepticism of, and casualness with, information? What tools and understanding can library professionals bring to a world that seems to be dominated by fake news?

In this Library 2.107 mini-conference, we start with the foundational relationship of libraries and librarians to media, information, and now digital literacy, and then we ask some pointed questions. How should library and information professionals address the issues of fake news, propaganda, and biased research? What technical skills are required for critical thinking in the digital age? As learners increasingly move from just consuming information to also socially producing it, what are the new requisite skills of critical thinking and decision-making? What are appropriate uses for social media when conducting research? What is digital citizenship in a global, globally-diverse, and often globally-fragmented world? What work on digital literacy is available, what frameworks already support these efforts, what are the perspectives of the leading thinkers?

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.

MORE INFORMATION:
The School of Information at San José State University is the founding conference sponsor, and additional support has been provided by Follett. Please register as a member of the Library 2.0 network to be kept informed of future events. Recordings from previous years are available under the Archives tab at Library 2.0 and at the Library 2.0 YouTube channel.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
We will have a limited number of slots for presenter sessions. The call for proposals is now open HERE. We encourage all who are interested in presenting to submit.

WEBINAR PLATFORM:
The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate, and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To see if your system is already configured for Blackboard Collaborate, you can try entering the practice room at http://www.thepracticeroom.me. If you aren’t able to enter that room, see Behind the Blackboard Support.)

Registration will give you access to the live event and to the event recordings. An event reminder and additional connecting information will be sent just prior to the event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (MORE TO COME)

Bryan Alexander
Futurist
@bryanalexanderBryan Alexander is an internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of how technology transforms education. He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997, with a dissertation on doppelgangers in Romantic-era fiction and poetry. Then Bryan taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. There he also pioneered multi-campus interdisciplinary classes, while organizing an information literacy initiative. From 2002 to 2014 Bryan worked with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), a non-profit working to help small colleges and universities best integrate digital technologies. With NITLE he held several roles, including co-director of a regional education and technology center, director of emerging technologies, and senior fellow. Over those years Bryan helped develop and support the nonprofit, grew peer networks, consulted, and conducted a sustained research agenda. In 2013 Bryan launched a business, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC. Through BAC he consults throughout higher education in the United States and abroad. Bryan also speaks widely and publishes frequently, with articles appearing in venues including The Atlantic Monthly, Inside Higher Ed. He has been interviewed by and featured in MSNBC, US News and World Report, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Pew Research, Campus Technology, and the Connected Learning Alliance. His two most recent books are Gearing Up For Learning Beyond K-12 and The New Digital Storytelling.
http://www.bryanalexander.org

May 1 to June 4 – Moodle MOOC 10

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zMHab0y3cBItvZe89ahtY54XS6xwWuBUOV18ileAMlM/edit

Beth Ghostraven at SL MOOC June 3
https://youtu.be/rbzWGVaxufU

June 5 1800 UTC Globinar Melanie Auriel on Creating videoclips for language learners

By the way:

  • At http://lpm.lpm.uni-sb.de/Webinar/index2.php you can register for several webinars in one go:
  • Please click on the webinar you would like to register for.
  • If you hold down the control key, you can select several conferences and enroll in one go.“
  • In case you cannot attend, you will nevertheless receive my follow-up materials with the link tot he recording, the presentation as a PDF and the relevant links posted in the chat.
  • You can also use that link to register via Tablet or smartphone.

Learning2gether weekend with the 9th Virtual Round Table Web Conference

Uncategorized 1 Comment

Learning2gether Episode 368

This weekend from Friday May 5, starting at 1230 UTC, and ending on Sun May 7, 1600 UTC, Learning2gether participated in and monitored sessions of the 9th Virtual Round Table Web Conference, hosted by Heike Philp.

Here is Heike’s invitation to the conference:
The Virtual Round Table Web Conference on 5-7 May 2017 presents the latest in learning technologies for language educators and features keynotes by Paul Driver and Dr. Cynthia Calonge about Virtual Reality and Language learning, a Minecraft Symposium with Dave Dodgson and friends, a Virtual Worlds Symposium with treasure hunt in Second Life and NEW a 3D virtual book fair.

No tech, low tech? is also part of the VRT WebCon with the Nile TESOL LTSIG Symposium with Nicky Hockly and friends, the ‘Hacking the Workbook’ initiative by John Allan and friends, joined by the Innovation in Asian Symposium by iTDi and a number of guest speakers, who present their expertise in dealing with realistic and challenging teaching situations.

The Virtual Round Table opens its virtual doors with a keynote by Nik Peachey and as a highlight on Sunday 7 May we will be able to join BRAZ-TESOL’s EFLtalks with Rob Howard and some 15 presenters who each present 10 slides in 10min talks. 3 hours of exciting presentations non-stop!

Last but not least don’t miss some fun with fun songs by Charles Goodger on Sunday first thing.

For a complete program, please click here

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/program-vrtwebcon2017

Friday, 5th May 2017

Fri May 5 1700 UTC Learning2gether with Minecraft Symposium at VRT WebCon

Where?

Minecraft has taken the world of education by storm and is being used in schools across the globe both through the Education Edition and the original game. Most examples of its classroom use appear to focus on STEM subjects, however. This symposium will highlight the experiences of EFL and ESL educators who have collaborated in the EVO Minecraft MOOC to investigate how the game can be used in a language learning & teaching context. The session will feature a livestream from within the EVO Minecraft server. Jeff, Vance, and Dave, along with some participants from the MOOC, will take participants on a tour of the server and discuss some of the key learning moments and collaborations from the EVO sessions.

The EVO Minecraft MOOC presentation at VRTC has been organized largely through the efforts of David Dodgson this year. Vance will lead part of a ‘guided tour’ and talk about the origins of EVO Minecraft MOOC. Jeff will talk about how participants develop their digital literacy through learning the game and Dave will reflect on what he has learned about himself as a learner (linking into his blog posts and TESL-EJ article). Hopefully, we can add the experiences of some of the participants in EVO Minecraft MOOC if they are able to join us on the server.

Other Links

Recordings

2017-05-07_1246eltsandbox

Announcements

Facebook Groups

Google+ Communities

 

Saturday, 6th May 2017

  • 9:00am GMT  Innovation in Asia Symposium hosted by iTDi
  • 11:00am GMT  ‘Hacking the Workbook’ Symposium with John Allan and friends in Doha, Qatar
  • 1:30pm GMT  Giovanna Carloni: English-Taught Programmes and technology-enhanced learning
  • 2:00pm GMT  Nile TESOL LTSIG Symposium with Nicky Hockly, Amany AlKhayat, Ayat Tawel and Hanaa M. Khamis
    http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p3u2dxvsqp5j/
  • 4:30pm GMT  KEYNOTE Dr. Cynthia Calongne Virtual Reality and Language Learning
  • 5:00pm GMT  Virtual Worlds Symposium
  • 7:00pm GMT  Treasure Hunt in Second Life

Sat May 6 1400 UTC NileTESOL LTSIG VRT Symposium

NileTESOL LTSIG is proud to announce its second virtual event and first Virtual Roundtable (VRT) Symposium to be held on Saturday May 6, 2017 on Adobe Connect.

The theme of the VRT symposium is“Language Learning Technologies Aspirations and Challenges”. This NileTESOL LTSIG symposium is part of a larger Virtual Roundtable Web Conference (VRT WebConf) taking place May 5-7, 2017 and organized by Heike Philp.

Kindly find below the link to the FAQs:

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/faqs

Also, it is advisable to visit the links for the Conference main room and the livestreams to make sure that the links are workable.

NileTESOL LTSIG VRT Seminar on Sat May 6?🕑 International guest speaker Nicky Hockly, together with Amáñy Haroun Ahmed, Ayat Tawel and Hanaa M. Khamis are discussing “Language Learning Technologies Aspirations & Challenges”. Interact with speakers and other audience members from Egypt and around the globe🌐🌍. Plz preregister to help us connect with you for tech check on Adobe Connect before the event. Mark your calendars. ⏳⏳

Our NT LTSIG is proud to announce its upcoming virtual event: May 6, 2017 (details TBA). 🌐💻📹
Call for Attendance/Participation: Join us by attending our NT LTSIG VRT Symposium or d whole VRT WebConf to interact with participants from all around d globe. 🌐📱🎎
Attendees: Preregister to virtually attend: https://goo.gl/forms/wetxzEc4zKibYqCp2

https://www.facebook.com/…/1819…/permalink/1939117119656955/

Recordings

 

2017-05-07_2022ayat

Sunday, 7th May 2017

  • 9:00am GMT   Charles Goodger: ELT through songs
  • 10:30am GMT   KEYNOTE Paul Driver: Virtual Reality
  • 12:00pm GMT   EFLtalks with BRAZ-TESOL and Rob Howard and 15 guest speakers who  each deliver 10min talks
  • 3:00pm GMT   Close

The conference and the virtual fair are free to attend. If you wish to obtain a Virtual Round Table Web Conference certificate of attendance, please sign up at  http://virtualroundtable.eventbrite.com.

Of course all of this will be recorded but perhaps if you know someone who is highly interested in language learning technologies, we might be able to fill our 500 seat Adobe Connect. Thank you so much for your help in advertising this! Tweet it, share it and enjoy.

Virtual Round Table Web Conference
Heike PhilpHeike Philp
Heike Philp has invited us to the event ‘CALL Virtual Round Table Web Conference 5-7 May 2017’ on Virtual Round Table Web Conference!
CALL Virtual Round Table Web Conference 5-7 May 2017 Time: May 5, 2017 from 12:30 UTC, through May 7
Location: Adobe Connect
Organized By: Heike Philp

The Virtual Round Table focuses on new media and language learning is a web conference for language educators, language institutions and language learners. It is a grassroots event and it is being run by members of the community. It is non-commercial. It takes place online in Adobe Connect (with up to 500 capacity) and there is no admission-fee.
Program of events
See more details and RSVP on Virtual Round Table Web Conference:

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/events/event/show?id=3109966%3AEvent%3A81363&xgi=2WxnFBk1i15rES&xg_source=msg_invite_event

About Virtual Round Table Web Conference
The Virtual Round Table Conference is an annual web conference for language learning technologies.

Earlier this week

 

Fri Apr 21 noon to 1700 UTC – Sheila Adams streams Earthcast 2017 – Earthday Webcast

https://learning2gether.net/2017/04/21/sheila-adams-streams-earthcast-2017-the-annual-earthday-webcast-once-again-live-from-rye-jr-high-school/

Sat April 22 Classroom 2.0 presents Steve Garton on Parenting in the Digital Age

Saturday, April 22, 2017
“Parenting in the Digital Age”
Presenter: Steve Garton, Common Sense EducationDigital citizenship and keeping kids safe online is such an important topic. We were so proud to be able to feature #digcitkids in a recent webinar with Curran Dee and Marialice Curran, a mother/son team who are the co-founders of #digcitkids. Curran shared “Digital Citizenship from a Kid’s Perspective” and it was so exciting to hear about their initiative. In today’s webinar we are thrilled to hear from Steve Garton from Common Sense Education to learn how the amazing Common Sense resources can support parents and educators with “Parenting in the Digital Age.” The Common Sense resources are exemplary, and this is the “go to” site for teachers and parents alike when they want support for curriculum, ideas and materials that will help promote safe online activities with kids. Steve will share information about many of these resources including Common Sense Media, Common Sense Education, Common Sense Kids Action and Connecting Families. His insights into the research about how teens/tweens are using media and ways to help them find balance with their digital lifestyle will be invaluable and will provide ways parents and teachers can support activities such as video games, social media, screen time, sharing online and much more!Steve Garton is Senior Manager for Common Sense Education. He is an expert in meaningful technology integration, particularly in large-scale initiatives. He supports districts with professional development planning, program monitoring, student assessment, and communication across stakeholder groups. Prior to joining Common Sense, Steve was the Coordinator of Educational Technology for the Maine Department of Education. At the Maine Department of Education, he led the professional development programs for the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, the state’s 1:1 program that supported over 12,000 teachers and administrators. As a member of the department’s leadership team, he provided policy support and leadership. Steve was co-chair of the Smarter Balanced Consortium Technology Approach Committee and led the initial technology readiness and assessment infrastructure work. Additionally, he served as a member of the advisory council of the Maine School and Library Network, Maine’s statewide broadband network serving K-12 schools and public libraries. Steve has served as a technology director at the county level (Trumbull County, Ohio) and a classroom teacher and technology coordinator of the Sharon City School District in Pennsylvania.Remember to follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm EST (Time Zone Conversion) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent “BreakoutEDU” session with Adam Bellow. Click on the Archives and Resources tab.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Team: Peggy George, Lorie Moffat, Tammy Moore, Paula Naugle, Steve Hargadon

 

Mon April 24 – Globaled.tv monthly webinar series on  Labeling: The Impact of Placing Names on Others


GlobalEd TV is a free, inclusive, and comprehensive webinar series which spotlights theories and best practices related to multiculturalism in schools and organizations all over the world. This 5-part series is hosted monthly by the Global Education Conference Network, the Learning Revolution, and Know My World; and the series is designed to inform educators, students, and parents about the role of cultural and global competence in education.

Mon Apr 24 thru Fri 28 Global Leadership Week

Announcing the second annual Global Leadership Week (GLW) celebration, which will take place at the end of April. GLW is a weeklong convening of virtual and face-to-face events designed to celebrate leadership through global action in K-12 education, and an unparalleled opportunity for education leaders to learn from one another and to share active principles in leadership, particularly within the context of an interconnected, global age.

GLW is one of the several events hosted by the Global Education Conference Network and currently is sponsored by Participate and the Institute of International Education. We invite you to join this global celebration!
Here’s the overview and how to participate:
  • Global Leadership Week – All Week. During the week of April 24th, districts, schools, teachers, students, partner organizations, and/or companies can post, design, and host online/virtual events to showcase thought leadership in global education. All are welcome to participate! These events will be publicized through the GlobaleEducationConference.com network (join!) and listed on a GLW calendar posted to our website. Posting and hosting events is free, and if your organization is a sponsor or a non-profit, we will actively promote your event to the audience. Instructions on hosting an event are at http://www.globaledleadership.com/host-an-event.html.
  • Our face-to-face Global Leadership Summit in New York City, April 24, 2017, from 3 PM — 7 PM. Because of space limitations, this is an invite-only event with reserved seating and presentation opportunities for event sponsors. We will publicly livestream and record this event, posting information at GobaledLeadership.com and sending it out through GlobalEducationConference.com.
  • Our brand-new and ONLINE Global Education Fair, April 27th, from 10am – 4pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (1pm – 7pm US-Eastern Daylight Time). The fair will connect educators with global education organizations, who are able to describe their programs, services, or products and to answer questions. This event will be free to attend; organizations and companies pay a nominal fee to cover costs (individual educators seeking to promote a specific project may do so at no cost). To sign up to attend (free) or to to showcase go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-global-education-fair-tickets-33147226246.

To be kept updated in general on all our events, join the Global Education Conference Network and look for our emails. (And if you’re headed to ISTE, don’t miss Global Education Day.)
Global Leadership Week Goals:

The goals of GLW are to elevate and broaden the global education dialogue and to focus attention on the urgent need to develop global awareness and competency in students and teachers. The week of events provide resources and inspiration for teacher leaders, school leaders, district leaders and state/national leaders to further develop global goals within systems.

AudienceThis event is designed for students, educators, administrators and organization leaders working within the K-20 education space who are interested in leading change globally.

Sponsorship OpportunitiesContact GEC Co-Chair Steve Hargadon at hargadon@gmail.com for details. Sponsorship benefits include featured placement on websites and in social media as well as reserved seating and speaking slots at the Global Leadership Summit and the Global Education Fair.

 

Partnership Opportunities:

Organizations and companies who can conduct significant outreach about this event to an audience of more than 1000 people are welcome as media outreach partners for Global Leadership Week These partners will be recognized on the outreach partnership page of the GLW website and via social media posts. There is no cost to serve as a media outreach partner. Contact GEC Co-Chair Lucy Gray at lucy@globaledevents.com for additional details.

Lead OrganizersThe GlobalEducation Conference Network is a collaborative, world-wide community involving 25,000 students, educators, and organizations. GEC events are designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness, recognition of diversity, and educational access for all. The Network hosts four annual face-to-face and virtual events in addition to a webinar series with the purpose of elevating conversations around global education. Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon are co-chairs of the Global Education Conference Network.

iEARN-USA is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.

World Savvy is a national education nonprofit that works with educators, schools, and districts to integrate the highest quality of global competence teaching and learning into K-12 classrooms, so all young people can be prepared to engage, succeed, and meet the challenges of 21st-century citizenship.

Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

 

Update on the Global Education Fair originally scheduled for April 27, 2017: Postponed
We’ve decided to postpone the Global Education Fair until our next major event, GlobalCollaboration Day, on September 21, 2017. This coincides with the back-to-school season in the United States and will allow individuals and organizations additional time to prepare accordingly. We believe that the Global Education Fair is a great idea and will help more people working in schools to become aware of the choices they have when implementing global initiatives. The concept is only valuable to people, however, if there is a core group of organizations interested in promoting their work. Right now, many people are interested in attending this event, but we need more organizations to participate. Steve and I will be working on ways to let more globally oriented organizations know about this opportunity.

Here are important things to consider in light of this shift:
Registration will remain open and you can choose to remain registered as a presenter or as an attendee.
If you want to cancel your registration, go to your account setting at Eventbrite.com and manage your tickets. Here are directions.
We will continue to promote this event and will be taking new registrations between now and September.
Refunds have been granted to those organizations who paid to take part as presenters. If you are still interested in participating in September, re-register to confirm your participation. If you continue to be interested in pitching your global tool, resource, or program, use this time to work on a required video to promote your work during the fair in September.
Join our main network, the Global Education Conference Network, for updates.
Thanks for your continuing support, and let us know if you have any questions.

Lucy Gray & Steve Hargadon, Global Education Conference Co-Chairs
lucy@globaledevents.com
hargadon@gmail.com
http://www.globaledleadership.com/the-global-education-fair.html

Fri April 28 1300 Brasilia time BRAZ-TESOL webinar with Valeria França on Empathy in the Classroom

This message went out to BRAZ-TESOLers,

For our April webinar – next Friday, April 28, from 1 to 2 p.m. Brasilia time – we proudly bring you former BRAZ-TESOL president Valeria Benevolo França.

Valéria França graduated as a primary school teacher in the UK and following initial ELT training at International House London, she moved to Brazil in the early 90’s. She has worked in ELT for over 25 years and is the Head of Teacher Development at Cultura Inglesa. Her PhD research was in SLA, Social Cultural Theory and the language classroom. She is a workshop and plenary presenter at many ELT conferences.

Her current research interest lies in teachers’ personal relationships with their teaching persona and space. She is a member of the Visual Arts Circle (https://visualartscircle.com/), a BRAZ-TESOL Past President (2015-2016 term) and a BRAZ-TESOL Advisory Council life-time member. She blogs at: http://valeriabfranca.com/

Let your peers know too. The more we are, the stronger we become.

Mar 20 to Apr 30 – Designers for Learning begins free 6-week Instructional Evaluation Service Project

Instructional Evaluation Starts Today
Help us and gain experience for good in our new instructional evaluation service course.

Designers for Learning’s 6-week instructional evaluation service project ran from March 20 – April 30, 2017,  promising that participants will network with other educators and designers as they support underserved adult education programs in our latest free project-based service course hosted on Canvas Network.  650+ were enrolled to help evaluate and revise open educational resources designed in our prior instructional design courses. This 6-week project is perfect for those who want to give back, but don’t have a lot of time to volunteer.

What is the project’s focus and time commitment?

During this 6-week service project, gain both instructional evaluation and design experience as you evaluate, adapt, and redesign instructional materials from our growing roster of open educational resources on OER Commons specifically created for adult learners with low math and literacy skills. In addition, expand your professional network during an optional hands-on live “Design Slam” event on Saturday, April 15th. During the online Design Slam, participants will share and compare their evaluation findings and design adaptations with volunteer facilitator support. Plan to devote a minimum of 24 hours to the project-based course (about four hours per week from March 20 – April 30).

2017 Open ABE MOOC 

Help us spread the news. Please share this course announcement with your network. – Dr. Jennifer Maddrell

Designers for Learning is organized as a nonprofit corporation in the State of Illinois, and operates exclusively for charitable purposes in accordance with section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. We help nonprofits and other social enterprises achieve their missions by targeting underserved educational and curriculum needs through service-learning.

 

May 2 1800 UTC Marie-Hélène Fasquel Globinar on Literature in the making

·        E4.512-5067: Literature in the making

·         Marie-Hélène Fasquel / Host: Amélie Silvert

·         02. 05. 2017 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET

·         Access link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/making/

·         Info: https://v.gd/making

·         Registration: http://lpm.lpm.uni-sb.de/Webinar/index2.php

Sheila Adams streams Earthcast 2017, the annual Earthday Webcast, once again live from Rye Jr. High School

Uncategorized 1 Comment

Learning2gether Episode 367

Earth Day was on April 22 this year, http://www.earthday.org/. But that was a Saturday, so Sheila Adams at Rye Jr. High School in Rye, New Hampshire celebrated by streaming her 10th annual Earthcast on Friday, April 21, for five hours from noon to 1700 UTC, when the kids could stream from school.

Find the live recordings here
http://earthbridges.net/live (at the moment, no permalink)

Sheila sent out this invitation:

Join us for the Earth Day webcast by students at http://earthbridges.net/live

This is our 10th year! Listen for a while, say hi in the chat room or share an idea!

Students would love an audience for the morning!

Please leave a message before the day on our Flipgrid. The code word is Earthcast (https://flipgrid.com/earthcast.

Likely time frame from 8 or 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT on Apr 21

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Earth+Day+Earthcast+Apr+21%2C+2017&iso=20170421T08&p1=68&ah=5

Announcements at https://plus.google.com/108656278762600865718

Videos posted at http://earthbridges.net

Leave a message on Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/earthcast

Answer these questions:

1. Where are you from?
2. What are you doing to celebrate or recognize Earth Day?
Or what are you doing to make this Earth better?
Or what would you like to share? Comments, thoughts?
You have up to 3 minutes to record your message. (You may listen and redo as needed.)

Learning2gether has participated with Sheila and other Worldbridges webcasters in these previous Earth Day celebrations:

2014

2012 

The latter event produced a publication

Adams, S., Montagne, M., Rodriguez, J. and Stevens, V. (2012). Collaborative Learning for Teachers and Students: Earth Day and Earthbridges. TESL-EJ, Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 1-14: http://www.tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej61/int.pdf. Also available at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej61/ej61in/

Earth Day events 2009, 2010, and 2011

I also participated in Earth Day by webcasting from the Petroleum Institute in April 2009 and 2010, and as Earth Day was on a weekend in 2011, I organized a hike to a beautiful spot in Oman where campers had left trash strewn about, which my friends and I cleaned up and carried the garbage out with us in plastic bags
https://curiousvance.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/earth-day-april-22-2011/

For this one I filmed a special April 21 Earth Day dive video dedicated to the earthcasters at Rye Jr. High School elementary, and here it is:

Find an explanation of what is in the video here:
http://vancesdiveblogs.blogspot.ae/2017/04/diving-on-earth-day-weekend-guiding.html

2017-04-23_2028tweet

Announcements made to … 

Facebook Groups

Google+ Communities

 

Earlier this week

Mon Apr 3 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

https://learning2gether.net/2017/04/07/learning2gether-with-iatefl-2017-glasgow/

Thu Apr 20 1800 UTC Russell Stannard Globinar on tools for quick collaboration between students

E4.512-5467: Key tools for quick collaboration between students

Russell Stannard / Host: Tilly Harrison

20. 04. 2017 | 19:00h – 2030h CET

access link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/keytools/

Info: https://v.gd/keytools
Registration: http://lpm.lpm.uni-sb.de/Webinar/index2.php

Learning2gether with IATEFL 2017 Glasgow

Uncategorized 1 Comment

Learning2gether Episode 366

During the week beginning Monday, April 3, Learning2gether was monitoring the IATEFL Conference in Glasgow. It was possible to catch many events streamed live, but what is truly remarkable about the event this year is the trove of recordings left behind for the enjoyment of anyone, not just dues-paying members of IATEFL. The opportunity for the world to tune in virtually to this year’s IATEFL conference was a development I would hope to see others follow.

The recordings are here: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/sessions

The norm is, or has been, for professional organizations to operate on the mindset that sharing out what goes on at conferences might dilute the membership base. The argument is that people won’t pay to join if they can get the conference for free. Mindsets more attuned to social business models echo Stephen Downes’s mantra that content wants to be free; money comes from elsewhere in the business model. In this way of thinking, people don’t pay dues to professional organizations not because they don’t support them, but because as teachers they don’t take home salaries that allow them to be members of a dozen such organizations. Often they choose one. If it comes to a choice of one, which would you support, an organization that metes out information to dues-paying members only? Or to one whose goal is to share that information as widely as possible. A cynical view might suggest that you would pay for the one you can’t get for free and take the fruit offered on the vine; but a more socially oriented perspective suggests you might throw your support to the organization more in keeping with your ethics and values. Look at it this way, then: if you were giving a recorded plenary, would you like it to be hidden behind a paywall where only the well-heeled can access it, or mounted on a web site where it will attract thousands of views?

Wide dissemination of IATEFL conference video recordings is making rock stars of its presenters. Others come off staid in comparison.

TESOL does not mount its plenaries for universal consumption yet, but its CALL-IS streams its programs from the conference and this year left an impressive oeuvre:
https://learning2gether.net/2017/03/24/learning2gether-assists-call-is-with-streaming-from-2017-seattle-tesol/

And I wrote last year on this topic, on April 19, 2016
Can a paradigm shift in conference business models reverse declining attendance at face to face conferences
http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2016/04/can-paradigm-shift-in-conference.html

Mon Apr 3 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017

The live schedule is here, http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/live-schedule

Recordings of all the plenaries and interviews and other events are available under the sessions tab at the link above

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/sessions 

The following are abstracted from that schedule

On each day of the conference, we’ll be providing the morning plenary live via Glasgow IATEFL Online.
We’ll also be providing live coverage throughout the day where you’ll be able to watch interviews live from the Glasgow IATEFL Online studio – starting Monday 3rd April.

Join us at 09.00 (UK time; noon in UAE) each day for all the latest from IATEFL 2017.

You will be able to watch live coverage throughout the day statring at 09.00 (UK time). Our daily coverage includes live interviews and all the latest from the Birmingham IATEFL Online studio. – See more at: https://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/editors-blog#sthash.DUaBfzrK.dpuf

As well as our live interviews and the 6 plenary sessions, you will be able to watch over 40 conference sessions. These session videos will be published throughout the conference.

On their blog http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/editors-blog the following information is given

IATEFL Online Live Schedule 2017 

On each day of the conference, you will be able to watch the morning plenary live, here, on the Glasgow IATEFL Online website.
You will be able to watch live coverage throughout the day starting at 09.00 (UK time). Our daily coverage includes live interviews and all the latest from the Glasgow IATEFL Online studio.

As well as our live interviews, you will also be able to watch over 40 conference sessions. These session videos will be published throughout the conference.

Tue Apr 4 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1020 OPENING PLENARY BY GABRIEL DIAZ MAGGIOLI

Empowering teachers through continued professional development: frameworks, practices and promises

17:25 – 18:30 BRITISH COUNCIL SIGNATURE EVENT

Language for Resilience

Wed Apr 5 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1000 OPENING PLENARY BY SARAH MERCER

Connecting minds: language learner and teacher psychologies

Thu Apr 6 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1000 OPENING PLENARY BY JJ WILSON

ELT and social justice: opportunities in a time of chaos 

Fri Apr 7 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1000 OPENING PLENARY BY JANE SETTER

Where angels fear to tread: intonation in English language teachin

1310-1410 CLOSING PLENARY BY IMTIAZ DHARKER

Over the moon

2017-04-15_2014ta_iatefl

Meanwhile, back at TESOL, Inc. … 😦

2017-04-23_1212tesol

http://tesol.sclivelearningcenter.com/index.aspx?PID=8529

Earlier this week

Wed Mar 22- Fri Mar 24 – Learning2gether assists CALL-IS with streaming from 2017 Seattle TESOL

https://learning2gether.net/2017/03/24/learning2gether-assists-call-is-with-streaming-from-2017-seattle-tesol/

March 30 1800 UTC Globinar with Rita Zeinstejer -Joy of reading and writing through technology

Learning2gether assists CALL-IS with streaming from 2017 Seattle TESOL

Uncategorized 1 Comment

Learning2gether Episode 365

On Tuesday, March 21, Learning2gether in the guise of yours truly Vance Stevens met with colleagues Abe Reshad, James May, and Jennifer Meyer at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle and spent a couple hours working together to set up the room we had been assigned for streaming the following three days. We met early next morning and replicated the setup in half an hour, and then streamed that day Wednesday March 22, and on through Thursday and Friday March 23-24 to webcast six scheduled CALL-IS events a day live from 2017 Seattle TESOL, plus a number of others we streamed extemporaneously from the Electronic Village during the Technology Fairs held there each day.

The result was a substantial archive of YouTube videos, although video embedding was disallowed from the channels we were streaming to. The excerpt below is one of the few videos from the conference where embedding was possible.

This video was recorded at the TESOL Conference in Seattle on March 22, 2017. It shows one part of an event entitled The Electronic Village Online: Best of 2017. Christine Bauer-Ramazani introduced the session, and this excerpt cuts to the presentation by Vance Stevens on EVO Minecraft MOOC.

The presentation includes a live tour of the #evomc17 server. Many thanks to +Dakota Redstone and +Aaron Schwartz for joining me online for that part of the presentation, and being there to illustrate how gamification works through collaboration, as when Dakota helped me out of a hole I had fallen into so we could quickly continue our romp around the server.
— https://plus.google.com/u/0/+VanceStevens/posts/ii4srT6e7EL

We have been streaming from TESOL Conferences for much of the past decade using Bb Collaborate provided for via a grant to Webheads in Action by http://learningtimes.com. But this year, Abe Reshad took over coordinating the CALL-IS webcasts from TESOL Seattle, and he conceived of a plan to do the streaming through YouTube/Live, which he announced as follows:

Greetings to you all!  I would like to invite everyone and those who may not be able to attend the TESOL conference this year to join the CALL IS community online.  As in previous years, we are continuing to webcast sessions in our Technology Showcase and EV Fair so that our web audience can participate.

Check out our wiki complete with a list of events, session discussions, and other various resources. Also, here are our YouTube channels for the EV Fair and Technology Showcase. Our wiki directly links to our YouTube channels, but you can always go directly there, view live sessions and explore the growing archive.

Please spread the word and join the conversation!

Abraham Reshad
Lecturer, Ohio Program of Intensive English
Associate Director, Language Resource Center
Linguistics Dept., Ohio University

2017-03-29_1921koretsky

The Computer-Assisted Language Learning Interest Section, CALL-IS in TESOL, has control over a program of events that take place in a suite of rooms set aside for CALL-IS at each TESOL Conference.  Many of these activities are streamed, and all are listed in the CALL-IS EV Program Book and online schedule, at these links:

The streaming schedule is online at http://callis2017.pbworks.com

Each link from this page opens a presentation page, with title, summary, time, and presenters’ names, as well as in many cases, links to resources mentioned or to their online or downloadable presentations.  Each presentation page also contains a link to the live webcast through YouTube/Live where viewers could join any webcast in progress, plus find the recording link after the event

The CALL-IS Technology Showcase live-streams on this channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChnWYx1ZGtHnzzpV5t98J4Q/live
and recording links are also given at http://callis2017.pbworks.com

The kiosk presentations in the Electronic Village were live-streamed by CALL-IS “Roving Reporters” who went around with tablets and used apps that streamed live and on the fly. One such app was Live for YouTube, a free from the iPad App Store

File_000 (1)

Using Live for YouTube was quick and easy; simply …

  • Install it
  • Log it in to your YouTube account
  • Press Go Live Now
  • Give your stream a name
  • Press Go Live again,
    the stream starts, and the video ends up in your channel

The only hard parts were FINDING the app in the app store (try it yourself :-)) and having to key in a stream name, which kept the process from being point-and-shoot (so the trick is to use voice, or key in a quick code, and either way go back and edit the stream name later).

Below find all the videos we produced (unfortunately, we are prevented from embedding any videos streamed to either of our channels).

2017-03-29_1938

The video below was edited at the request of a participant, which caused me to alter and replace the video, and I am thus able to embed the subsequently uploaded video (not the streamed version), as you see here:

Tuesday, March 21

Wednesday, March 22

Thursday, March 23

Other Roving Reporter Recordings, Thursday

  • Second Language Socialization in a Strategic Online Game –
    Seyyed Abdollah Shahrokni and Mohamed Elhess, 4:00-4:45, https://youtu.be/pKtCVgLPMgQ

Friday, March 24

Announcements made to … 

Facebook Groups

Google+ Communities

 

Earlier events

Sun March 5 1600 UTC EVO Minecraft MOOC archaeological trip to temples in a desert biome

https://learning2gether.net/2017/03/17/evo-minecraft-mooc-on-an-expedition-to-temples-in-a-desert-biome/

March 6 Globinar with Rita Zeinstejer – Fuel engagement with humour

Sat March 11 noon EST – Jennifer Wagner on Classroom 2.0 – Projects by #NOTatISTE

Saturday, March 11, 2017
“Projects by Jen and #NOTatISTE”
Presenter: Jennifer Wagner

We are really looking forward to having Jennifer Wagner with us on Saturday, March 11, 2017 to share two very exciting opportunities. As the creator of ProjectsByJen, she has been successfully encouraging teachers since 1999 to use online projects in their PreK-6 classrooms. Jennifer has hosted over 80 projects with over 1 Million participants. Six to eight projects are hosted each year each with a different theme — literature, history, holiday celebrations, etc. Almost all the projects can be used in PreK – Sixth grade with extension ideas provided for each level. Using various ideas, she will help you understand how online projects will help you make the most of your time in a variety of ways. In addition, Jennifer will be sharing information about the #NOTatISTE community which she has organized to help educators who are unable to attend the annual ISTE Conference to be able to participate virtually through sharing of resources, activities, videos and presentations by participants.Jennifer is an exemplary teacher and technology facilitator in Southern California and has won numerous awards for her creative ways of encouraging teachers to collaborate with a teaching style that is very user-friendly, creative, and personable. Since the late 1990’s, Jennifer’s main focus has moved from working with students to working with teachers. She attends many local and state conferences each year, sharing ideas and also frequents many virtual conference opportunities! Plus, she has a blog, hosts a podcast, and is very happy with the invention of “pinterest”. (oh, and she is quite vocal on twitter!) She is a Google Certified Teacher and a Discovery Education Guru. Jennifer has been recognized by Global SchoolNet Foundation, ISTE, Kidspiration, SIGTEL, TechMuseum, & Time Warner for her innovative uses of technology.Remember to follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm EST (Time Zone Conversion) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent “Participate in your Own PD” session with Brad Spirrison. Click on the Archives and Resources tab.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Team: Peggy George, Lorie Moffat, Tammy Moore, Paula Naugle, Steve Hargadon

March 20 1800 UTC Globinar with Stephan Rinke on Language Teaching 2.0

Mon March 20 – Globaled.tv monthly webinar series on Thinking Critically About Social Perspectives

Mon. March 20th – 7pm EST
Seeing is Being: Thinking Critically About Social Perspectives
Self-awareness provides a consistent platform for investigating the world and how it relates to our experiences when interacting with others. Based on the 4 C’s of 21st century learning, this project session supports students in distinguishing varied perspectives through critical thinking skills within their peer relationships. Students will learn about social awareness as a means to develop cultural sensitivity by comparing and contrasting their own perspectives with others, led by a series of critical thought practices including Didactic Questioning and the Socratic Method.
GlobalEd TV is a free, inclusive, and comprehensive webinar series which spotlights theories and best practices related to multiculturalism in schools and organizations all over the world. This 5-part series is hosted monthly by the Global Education Conference Network, the Learning Revolution, and Know My World; and the series is designed to inform educators, students, and parents about the role of cultural and global competence in education.

SIGN UP – IT’S FREE! (Registered guests are not in any way required to attend the live sessions, and will receive links to the recording after each session. Attending live will provide an opportunity to ask questions and participate actively.)

This series will look at the foundations for providing students with the kinds of social and emotional attitudes needed to be effective global citizens, and it will explain and document real classroom projects that foster cultural identity, critical thinking, assumptions, communication and social responsibility. Every session will scaffold a learning path to build the appropriate attitudes for engaging in the world and with others. The culmination will be a social impact project for the local community. Each 1-hour session will feature a project being implemented in the diverse Know My World 3rd Grade Classroom in Taichung, Taiwan by educator and co-founder, Genevieve Murphy. Co-founder Lisa Petro will host the series and lead webinar participants through the project sequence, research behind each competency area and method, and share pre-recorded footage of students engaging in the instruction. At the end of each session, participants will receive a lesson sequence to replicate or modify in their classrooms.

THE SCHEDULE SIGN UP – IT’S FREE!e

EVO Minecraft MOOC on an expedition to temples in a desert biome

Uncategorized 1 Comment

Learning2gether Episode 364

On Sunday March 5 at 1600 UTC EVO Minecraft MOOC went on an archaeological expedition to temples discoverd in EVOMC17 by Maha Abdelmoneim in a desert biome

Where? EVO Minecraft MOOC server and http://discordapp.com 

Come in person (or in avatar) if you are whitelisted, or tune in to the stream if you can’t bring your digital self to the event.

Who’s going? Possibly …

There is a video of the event but it was botched by me as I made more rookie errors which I’ll explain here:

I did get a recording but almost everything that could go wrong did. I forgot that my YouTube channel is not taking streams; otherwise I could have streamed to my wife’s and produced an mp4 of the event on the fly. Instead I decided to hit the record button and at least record to my computer, but I had just installed OBS 18.0 and had not done the configuration that I was using for version 17 –, and v.18 did not read the v.17 config file, so I ended up making an flv recording, not an mp4, which would upload to YouTube.

Also had I been streaming I would have seen that what I thought I was recording, the left side of the OBS Studio window, was actually the preview side where you queue upcoming scenes, so when I had planned to have a talking head to introduce the proceedings and then switch to game play without web cam, the opposite happened since I was not able to monitor the recording as I would have seen instantly had we been streaming, and the recording therefore has my webcam showing throughout except where I had meant to show the web cam (no web cam in the beginning and end scenes).

Checking now, I see that FLV is a supported file format on YouTube so I’ll see what I can do with the recording soon, though I’m not at all happy with it.

Earlier events

Learning2gether Episode 363 Sun Feb 12 1400 UTC Closing Webcast of EVO 2017

https://learning2gether.net/2017/02/12/closing-webcast-of-evo-2017/

Feb 16 Globinar with Miguel Ángel Saonas Vallejos – Busuu and Wespeke

Sat Feb 18 noon EST – Steve Sherman, From Astronauts to Zimbabwe, on Classroom 2.0

Saturday, February 18, 2017
“From Astronauts to Zimbabwe – the A to Z of Global collaboration”
Presenter: Steve ShermanWe are in for a real treat with this Classroom 2.0 LIVE presentation on February 18, 2017 by our special guest, Steve Sherman. Steve is not only an inspired, energetic, passionate global educator but he has an incredible sense of humor. He has many stories and experiences to share about his world travels “without the traveling” through the hundreds of activities he has been involved in with students through the use of technology.

Here’s a taste of his humor in his profile statement which is anything but typical (read carefully).
Steve Sherman is the Chief Imagination Officer of an Educational NGO in Capetown, South Africa called Living Maths. It is a mathematics, problem-solving and science enrichment program. He teaches approximately 4500 students weekly in schools around Cape Town and now recently, the world. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and empowering young people. He is also a multi-award purchasing educator and was voted most adorable educational innovator by his unbiased mother. He feels that it is his destiny to spread the joy of problem-solving and creative thinking to anyone who is willing to listen and even to those who are not. He knows Karate, Ju-jitsu and 2 other Japanese words. Steve is an Olympic medallist for the short jump and an accomplished Yo-yo winder.

Remember to follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20

More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm EST (Time Zone Conversion) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent “You’re So Distracted You Probably (Don’t) Think This Session is About You” session with Jason Neiffer. Click on the Archives and Resources tab.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Team: Peggy George, Lorie Moffat, Tammy Moore, Paula Naugle, Steve Hargadon

Sun Feb 19 1300 UTC Charles Goodger and Dennis Newson – GISIG webinar on FunSongs Education

To join the webinar, click here!

GISIG is delighted to invite you to a webinar that will present the contrasting interests of two speakers in the diverse field of ELT: Charles Goodger and Dennis Newson. On behalf of FunSongs Education, Charles writes and directs drama and music-based language workshops for young learners. Dennis began teaching EFL in Ghana in 1961, and subsequently taught in Sierre Leone, London, Qatar, Norway and finally in the University of Osnabrueck, North Germany.

Teaching young Arabic-speaking Israelis English through music and mime, rhythm and rhyme

In this webinar Charles will describe his experience as a theatre director at the Al Saraya theatre in Israel last July working with Arabic and English-speaking actors and musicians to rehearse and adapt his FunSongs Puppets and Monsters Show for local school audiences. Al Saraya is the Arab-language section of the famous Arab-Israeli theatre in Jaffa, Tel-Aviv.

One challenge was adapting the interactive action song and bilingual workshop from the English-Italian version to English and Arabic. Out of this, a series of interesting and significant cultural issues came up which Charles will discuss in this webinar.

Down with grammar!

How can anyone learn a language if they don’t learn its grammar.
In a referendum would you vote ‘Yes, I quite agree with this statement’ or ‘No, what rubbish!’

In this webinar Dennis will present 10 statements in support of his deep conviction regarding widespread misconceptions of what ‘grammar’ is and is not. The distortion that this causes in the understanding, promotion and facilitation of effective ways of acquiring English as a second/foreign/other language constitutes a block that he believes is a serious pedagogical, educational, global issue.

Do join us on Sunday February 19th 13.00 to 14.00 GMT for what we’re sure will be a thought-provoking and stimulating event!

Hope there’s a recording 

Sat Feb 25 noon EST Classroom 2.0 speaks with Brad Spirrison – Participate in your own PD

Saturday, February 25, 2017
“Participate in Your Own PD”
Presenter: Brad Spirrison

We are very excited to be able to welcome back Brad Spirrison as our special guest presenter with some exciting updates on Participate . Professional development in the digital age is participatory in nature. Brad Spirrison returns to Classroom 2.0 LIVE to discuss how Participate helps educators define and engage in their own professional development through peer collaboration and review, and access to compelling resources.

Learn how Participate helps educators curate resources and ideas exchanged through chats, and host online courses, including topics such as global education and Edcamps. A proud B Corporation, Participate partners with schools, districts and educational organizations to rethink professional development, host blended learning courses and programs and provide ways to showcase and recognize new competencies learned.

Brad Spirrison is the Director of Platform Innovation with Participate. He holds a M.A. in Communication/Media Ecology from New York University’s School of Education, with a focus on the role in media and technology in early childhood education. He is a Chicago-based media expert and analyst who has served as a regular contributor to ABC News, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, NPR and dozens of other broadcast, print and new media outlets.

Remember to follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20

More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm EST(Time Zone Conversion) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent “From Astronauts to Zimbabwe – the A to Z of Global collaboration” session with Steve Sherman. Click on the Archives and Resources tab.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Team: Peggy George, Lorie Moffat, Tammy Moore, Paula Naugle, Steve Hargadon

Mon Feb 20 – Globaled.tv monthly webinar series begins


GlobalEd TV is a free, inclusive, and comprehensive webinar series which spotlights theories and best practices related to multiculturalism in schools and organizations all over the world. This 5-part series is hosted monthly by the Global Education Conference Network, the Learning Revolution, and Know My World; and the series is designed to inform educators, students, and parents about the role of cultural and global competence in education.

SIGN UP – IT’S FREE! (Registered guests are not in any way required to attend the live sessions, and will receive links to the recording after each session. Attending live will provide an opportunity to ask questions and participate actively.)

This series will look at the foundations for providing students with the kinds of social and emotional attitudes needed to be effective global citizens, and it will explain and document real classroom projects that foster cultural identity, critical thinking, assumptions, communication and social responsibility. Every session will scaffold a learning path to build the appropriate attitudes for engaging in the world and with others. The culmination will be a social impact project for the local community. Each 1-hour session will feature a project being implemented in the diverse Know My World 3rd Grade Classroom in Taichung, Taiwan by educator and co-founder, Genevieve Murphy. Co-founder Lisa Petro will host the series and lead webinar participants through the project sequence, research behind each competency area and method, and share pre-recorded footage of students engaging in the instruction. At the end of each session, participants will receive a lesson sequence to replicate or modify in their classrooms.

THE HOST
Lisa Petro is a Curriculum Development Consultant and the Co-founder of Know My World, a Global Education Resource organization, which focuses in the development of Social, Emotional, Academic, and Cultural Learning (SECAL) through digital cross-cultural exchanges and integrated classroom projects. Lisa has designed Global Education curriculum and professional development workshops for teachers in the United States, Japan, Nepal, China, Mexico, Albania, Palestine and Taiwan with an emphasis on social/emotional learning and cultural competence in the classroom. Lisa continues to offer cross-cultural training in preparation for panel presentations at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women with girls and women from all over the world through The Grail NGO. She has also presented dynamic cross-cultural workshos at the East Asia Regional Conference for Overseas Schools in Thailand and China, Congreso de Preparatoria, Preparatorias del Tecnólogico de Monterrey, ITESM in Mexico, the State University of New York Multicultural Education Conference, The Global Education Forum, and the SUNY Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning.
http://www.knowmyworld.org and http://www.lisapetro.com.

THE GLOBAL EDUCATOR
Genevieve Murphy is a global educator who has taught students K-12 in the United States, Japan and Taiwan. She currently designs and teaches Social and Emotional Learning at the American School Taichung in Taichung, Taiwan. Genevieve has presented professional development workshops on social, emotional and culutral projects in the United States, Japan, Nepal, China, Thailand and will be presenting at the 2017 EARCOS conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. She is also the Global Development Director and co-founder of Know My World, a global educational resource that emphasizes social, emotional and cultural learning through digital exchange and integrated classroom projects.
http://www.ast.tc.edu.tw/

THE SCHEDULE SIGN UP – IT’S FREE!
Mon. Feb. 20th – 7pm EST
Cultures in the Classroom: Cultivating Cultural Identity with Students
Connecting to self and understanding who we are is foundational when developing skills for global citizenship and building authentic relationships with others. In this session, global educators will explore initial activities to scaffold meaningful interactions for students based on cultural identity through self-awareness practices. Using Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Model diagram, students will produce class culture books that demonstrate their understanding of the key elements of culture.

March 2 Globinar with Jo Gakonga – Get them speaking right!

 E4.512-2767: Get them speaking – get them speaking right!
Jo Gakonga / Host: Tilly Harrison
02. 03. 2017 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET
access link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/getthemspeaking/ Info: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8905964/Breeze/Getthemspeaking.pdf