Learning2gether Episode 78

Monday, December 26, 2011

Derya is just now finishing data collection for her dissertation on the online ethnography of Webheads. She has noticed that Learning2gether was meant to replace the WIAOC that  the community previously organized, and she wishes to explore the structure for the presentations held there. Derya intends to discuss with Vance the background/history of these events, how the idea came up, etc.and explore resources/articles that underpin these events.

Recording: 

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-12-26.0639.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75 
• http://tinyurl.com/2011dec26derya-vance  

Where? Webheads Virtual Room in Bb Collaborate / Elluminate
(thanks as always to http://learningtimes.org)

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

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28761
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-on-boxing-day-derya-kulavuz-onal-interviews-vance

• celebrating birthday in 15 min in Elluminate tinyurl.com/y3eh in interview with @kulavuzd about #learning2gether learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneed…

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) December 26, 2011

• Thanks Derya @kulavuzd @doris3m and @ritaz for attending my birthday party at #learning2gether; and recording at: tinyurl.com/2011dec26derya…

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) December 26, 2011

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28768

This might have happened the day before at our usual Learning2gether time; but if it did, it wasn’t recorded

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Seasons Greetings! This week’s Learning2gether event will come with a special double gift 

For Christmas day there is this Reminder from: EVO_Moderators Yahoo! Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVO_Moderators/cal

Learning2Gether Webheads VRoom Event
Sunday December 25, 2011
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
(This event repeats every week until Tuesday February 28, 2012. <— ah, that’s why
Location: http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

Webheads sometimes meet at http://tappedin.org during these times.  You might check there as well

But keep in mind it’s a holiday for many, so no telling what will happen …

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-1200-1400-gmt-with-evo-moderators-in-webheads-vro

Learning2gether Episode 77

This week’s event comes courtesy of Nicky Hockly, Online Events Co-ordinator, IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG 

What and where?

Come and join us this weekend online for a free IATEFL LT SIG webinar with Caroline Moore on mLearning apps, on Sunday 18 Dec 16h-17h UK time (check times in your part of the world on the LT SIG page: http://ltsig.org.uk/online-events/46-future-online-events/228-1812-mobile-learning.html). 

18/12 – Mobile Learning

Apps for mobile  learning: from theory to real world  application
with Caroline Moore

When: Sunday 18 December 2011, 4pm GMT
(Note this starts one hour later than usual to avoid an Adobe Connect room clash with GISIG)
Find the time in your time zone by clicking this link.

Where: The event takes place in the IATEFL online conference room.
Click here to join the webinar (this link will be live a few hours before the webinar is due to start).

Before entering the room you will be prompted to “Enter as a guest”. Please use this model to enter your name:
Jane Smith (Italy).
This will make it easier for the webinar speaker to identify you and answer your questions.

Caroline will report on a survey of language learning apps carried out with Paul Sweeney, and the features that we liked and those we didn’t.  I will describe how I have applied this learning in two mobile app projects that I am working on. The first is an arcade style iPhone vocab game and the second is a highly ambitious project to adapt existing Adobe Flash-based course materials originally designed for CDROM for learners of English, French, Spanish and German. I will describe the challenges that had to be overcome, including decisions about what technologies and platforms to adopt, copyright and intellectual property issues, and how to make such projects sustainable and commercially viable.

Biodata
Director of Constellata Limited and Co-Founder of LearnAhead Ltd providing consultancy, training and product development services in the use of technology and language teaching to publishers and course providers. I started as an ELT teacher and then worked for the British Council in various ELT-related roles. Seewww.constellata.com

Learning2gether Episode 76

Learning2gether Sunday, Dec 4, 2011, 15:00 GMT

Who? Peggy George joins us to talk about
The K12 Online Conference showing now at a computer near you

Recording

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-12-04.0730.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2011dec04pgeorge  

Where?  Blackboard Collaborate/Elluminate

• http://tinyurl.com/y3eh,or for those challenged by TinyURLs
• http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662

What?

The 2011 edition of the annual K12 Online conference runs from now through December 13,
http://k12onlineconference.org/. The conference features dozens of asynchronous presentations plus one live event at the culmination called “The AfterGlow”– all hosted by some of the most transformative educators in the field.  See the schedule at
http://k12onlineconference.org/?page_id=824 where you can access links to all of the blog posts and recordings for each presentation.

Peggy George is a retired elementary school principal and university pre-service education professor in Phoenix, AZ who is currently one of the co-hosts for the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars on web 2.0 tools for educators. She describes herself as one of the conference “workerbees” otherwise known as an “organizer.” The main creator/convener is Wes Fryer and there are 4 strands to the conference, each with their own conveners. Peggy’s main responsibility right now is to upload the presentations daily to iTunesU at the same time they go live on the blog.  There’s a video here  that shows how to subscribe to Classroom 2.0 iTunesU recordings, and I’m sure Peggy will show us how to do that for K12 recordings as well. Specific instructions for subscribing to the K12 Online Conference iTunesU recordings can be found here: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=646 

Peggy might also do a web tour of the conference blog and even play a teaser video in web tour which would open it in participant browsers. She can also show us the slides she prepared for a Classroom 2.0 LIVE show Nov 12 with Kim Caise and Lorna Constantini. This is the link to the blog post with the recording, chat, links, and LiveBinders link with all links shared during the session.

http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2011/11/k12-online-conference.html

See the next items down in this wiki for more information on the K12 Online Conference, or visit the  main website/blog: k12onlineconference.org

Anouncements?

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28677
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-1500-gmt-dec-4-peggy-george-talks-about-k12-onlin

• About to set up at Elluminate tinyurl.com/y3eh with Peggy @pgeorge set to help us #learning2gether about #k12online. Join us in 20 min.

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) December 4, 2011

• Elluminate recording of #learning2gether w/ @pgeorge discussing #k12online gr8 – You didn’t have to be there, check out tinyurl.com/2011dec04pgeor…

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) December 4, 2011

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28687

Followup from Peggy:

Hi Vance,
I really enjoyed being able to share about the K12 Online Conference with you today and hearing about your experiences with the conference and many other opportunities for free online learning!! I hope people who weren’t able to join us will take some time to listen to the conversation. 🙂

Since you weren’t familiar with Livebinders I thought you might like to see a few more. I started a Scoop.it to compile lots of great resources and examples of Livebinders and you can access all of them here.

http://www.scoop.it/t/livebinders

I add new things to it daily so it is a growing compilation of tons of great Livebinders. 🙂

I also created a Scoop.it on Screencasting because Lorna Costantini and I will be presenting a week-long MoodleMeet session on screencasting in March this year. I wanted to collect lots of resources related to screencasting and “flipping the classroom” so I’ve been working on that and adding new things every day. You can access that scoop.it here.

http://www.scoop.it/t/screencasting-for-online-learning

Thanks for inviting me to contribute to the Webheads community. It was great to be able to “give back” for all of the great connections and learning I have experienced as a part of that community.