Learning2gether Episode 40

(There is no MP3 recording for this session; the Adobe Connect recording is available, below)

• For this session we’ll meet at Webheads HQ in Edunation (SLURLhttp://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/49/179/23).  There we’ll be briefly introduced to
  •  the recent Virtual Round Table Conference, summarized here: http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/summary-4th-virtual-round
  • the free SLanguages conference coming up
• Then we’ll move as a group via teleport to any sites that participants want to show us. If you want to be teleported, add me as a friend in Second Life: Webhead Link.
  • For this, we invite others who would like to show us their (favorite) places to teleport us there during this session.
  • We’ve done something like this before:  
    http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
• Participants we think might attend
  • Gwen Gwasi (Heike)
  • Kalyan Chattopadhyay
  • LyseBrie (Ellen)
  • Osnacantab (Dennis)
  • Randall Renoir (Sadler)
  • Webhead Link (Vance)

More info on the Edunation islands http://edunation-islands.wikispaces.com

Where: 15:00 GMT (note, later time than usual, 7 pm in UAE);

• Location (SLURL): http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/49/179/23 
  

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27639
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-heike

Recording:

• http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p41074590/  (42min)
  Starts with Randall Sadler explaining how to improve visibility by increasing draw distance …

Learning2gether Episode 39

Kalyan Chattopadhyay’s presentation online at IATEFL Brighton – m-learning in TESOL, how far is it feasible in India? took place Monday, April 18 2011 | 3:30 PM (GMT Standard Time).

Recording:

• http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/520745-m-learning-in-tesol-how-far-is-it-feasible-in-india

Learning2gether Episode 38

Sunday, April 17. 2011 –

How do you close the screen shares you no longer want? We never did figure it out, but that’s what the lines are @#!?

BigMarker is free software running online that lets participants display voice and video, share screens, and of course text chat with one another. It has two modes, meeting space and presenter.  Today we try out a meeting space created for Webheads to hang out in. No password is required to join in, but please wear a headset (your mic will activate automatically).  I don’t think it has a recording mode; we may have to make a screencast. The room is available for common use by anybody at any time 24/7.  And anyone who can read a capcha can create his or her own room at http://bigmarker.com. Thanks and acknowledgement to Nik Peachey for the tip on this space, yet another illustration of how knowledge disseminates through a PLN.

When and where:

• noon GMT, start gathering at http://tappedin.org for distance coordination and setup
• 13:00 GMT, http://www.bigmarker.com/vances/wia

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/today-we-test-drive-bigmarker
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27622

Screenshots (we didn’t bother screencasting our fumbling about learning this new software 😉

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 Saturday, April 16, 2011

Vance Stevens presents Transforming learning with creative technogogy: Achieving the aha! moment, live from Ras Al Khaimah, UAE with help from online colleagues in various regions of the UAE and with a possible live hookup from Brighton, where they will be getting ready for their first presentation of the day at the IATEFL Conference taking place there. http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2011/ TESOL Arabia is very active in the UAE, with chapters in various cities frequently putting on professional development events such as the one in the flyer at left. However, the UAE is a large country, with several hours driving time required between its major cities.  As a result it is often not possible for many teachers in the UAE to attend these fine events in regions not their own.

One purpose of this presentation is to suggest alternative means for teachers in the UAE to connect with one another via their chapter events.  This presentation will attempt to demonstrate how teachers in various parts of the UAE can present to one another online and not only that, but include participants from other parts of the world as well.  It is hoped to suggest by extrapolation that teachers familiar with tools making this possible could also use them to engage students in meaningful and authentic communication with peers elsewhere in the UAE and worldwide.

• The presentation will be an echo from my blog post here http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/transforming-learning-with-creative.html, applying the concepts through engagement with an active PLN or personal learning network.
• Audience participation includes:
  • Broadcast of the presentation via Elluminate to a live audience who could interact with the one in RAK via my projected laptop with mic and speakers, or directly with on-site participants txting from workstations
    • Nik Peachey, Graham Stanley, Ayat from Egypt, and Anthony Gaughan have offered to join us from the IATEFL conference in Brighton (see http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2011/forum/welcomeintroductions); and we can also monitor their Twitter feeds and converse with them through #hashtags
    • Live interaction with other TA chapters (Jim Buckingham and Heather Baba have offered to join from distanct emirates)
    • Live interaction with others invited to tune in across various PLN’s of educators interested in using educational technology with language learners; e.g. Kalyan Chattopadhyay, IndiaCALL
  • As a result of exposure to this instance of transformative learning through creative technogogy I’m hoping that some might achieve that aha! moment. In that case they might be encouraged to learn more through participation in further connectivist professional development via http://taedtech.ning.com, http://webheads.info andhttp://learning2gether.pbworks.com

When? 07:00 GMT (11 am in UAE, 8 am in Brighton ), at this time:

• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=PLN+in+UAE+teacher+professional+development&iso=20110416T11&p1=2&ah=1
• or http://tinyurl.com/2011apr16-7gmt

Where? in Elluminate 

• http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662
  
• or  http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

Announcements:

• http://aplanet-project.org/profiles/blogs/invitation-to-attend-a-virtual
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/connecting-the-dots-connecting
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27613

• Recording of latest event at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com is at http://tinyurl.com/2011rak16apr – thanks all who attended #taedtech

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) April 16, 2011

Forums:

• http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2011/forum/future-conferences#comment-7470
• http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2011/forum/welcomeintroductions

Recording:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-04-16.0101.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2011rak16apr 

Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/connecting-the-dots-technogogy-and-the-aha-m…

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Beyza Yilmaz, Isil Boy, and some of their colleagues will share with us their impressions of the recent ISTEK conference in Istanbul April 1-2, 2011.

Special guest: Nik Peachey http://technogogy.org.uk/pres.pdf

Some links:

• http://elt.istek.org.tr/
• http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23istek
• http://blogs.istek.org.tr/elt2011/

When and where: 17:30 GMT (note, later time than usual, 9:30 pm in UAE) in Elluminate

• http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
  (or http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662)
• Time: http://tinyurl.com/2011apr24gmt1730 
  or: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether+Live+Online+Webinar&iso=20110424T1730&ah=1  

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27589
  http://tinyurl.com/istek10apr11

• Invitation to join Apr10 in #istek recap/debrief at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded -see http://tinyurl.com/istek10apr11

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) April 6, 2011

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/weekly-learning2gether-with
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27597

Recording:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-04-10.1038.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2011apr10peachey 

Tag Games

• http://www.delicious.com/tag/istek11
  What is this? During the event, Vance asked for volunteers who visited any sites mentioned to tag them ‘istek11’ in Delicous or Diigo. I’m not sure how you search Diigo (not obvious at http://diigo.com) but the above URL is a Twitter search on that tag.  After the event wound down, Vance went back through the presentation to find sites mentioned and tag them (and annotate them).  So the link above points at this writing to just those links, though anyone on Delicious can tag sites relevant to this event and in so doing add them to this list.
  More information:
  – http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27612
  – http://curiousvance.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/aggregating-content-around-a-class-tag-using/

Sunday, April 3, 2011

James Buckingham hosts the event ‘Innovate Using Educational Technology and Your Beliefs – Nicholas Yates’ on TESOL Arabia – Education Technology – Special Interest Group Ning, http://taedtech.ning.com

Join us online at 5pm (in UAE, 1300 GMT) when Nicholas Yates introduces us to the importance of “beliefs” and how they impact on our instructional design and use of technology in the classroom.

• PPT: http://www.slideshare.net/taedtech/tesol-arabia-nicholas-yates
• Jim Buckingham interviews Nicholas Yates:
  http://podcast22887.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-30T03_33_28-07_00

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/innovate-using-educational
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27579

Recording:

• http://tinyurl.com/2011apr03l2g-yates 
• Full URL:  https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-04-03.0610.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75

More information and follow-up:

• http://digitalemerge.net/
• http://digitalemerge.net/#/follow-up-from-learning2gether/4550212984
• http://tinyurl.com/3blqvv7