Sunday, February 6, 2011

The picture below shows Learning Times founder Jonathan Finklestein,surrounded by Webheads Graham Stanley, Dafne Gonzalez, Ronaldo Lima,  Teresa Almeida d’Eca, Carla Arena, Rita Zeinstejer, Aiden Yeh, and Vance Stevens in New York City in 2008.

13:00 GMT – Hope Kandel Gershik http://www.learningtimes.com/who-we-are/the-team/#hope discussed with us her role at Learning Times, about the different focuses of http://www.learningtimes.com,http://learningtimes.org/, and http://learningtimes.net, how Learning Times funds itself, but in particular, how it feels it justifies its long-standing grants to educators, notably through providing Webheads (http://webheads.info) and EVO (Electronic Village Online, http://evosessions.pbworks.com) with one of their most valuable assets, full use of an Elluminate presentation room plus invaluable support during three Webheads in Action Online Convergence events (http://wiaoc.org). She shared with us her motivation (along with that of John Walber, Jonathan Finkelstein, and the rest of the Learning Times team) for providing these grants to hundreds of highly appreciative educators, and she told us more about how Learning Times was formed and the scope of its ventures and communities.  This event is part of the 2011 EVO multiliteracies sesson, and took place in Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh (of course 😉

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/hope-kandel-gershik-explains
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1440

Recording:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-02-06.0446.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2011feb06ltimes

Sunday, January 30, 2011

13:00 GMT in Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh – Vance Stevens talks about eportfolios and why they are an excellent way for mature 21st century learners to track and reflect on their learning goals and accomplishments. These affordances make eportfolios ideal tools for mature learners to perform self-assessment, and why shouldn’t they be the norm for institutional assessment for such learners?  Participants in the 2011 EVO session on Multiliteracies will be asked to share their progress on making their eportfolios to track their learning in this session.  For background documents driving this presentation, please see the syllabus for the session at http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/Week2EVO2011 and the sample eportfolios at http://vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/pp107/eportfolios10.htm .

Recording in Elluminate:

• http://tinyurl.com/2011jan30epflio
• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-01-30.0527.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/vance-stevens-and-evo
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1417
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1416
• http://multiliteracies.ning.com/profiles/blogs/week-3-wrapup-miniscule-open

Learning2gether Episode 26

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Download: https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/live_session_michael_coghlan_presentation.mp3

Michael Coghlan gives a presentation to the BaW (Becoming a Webhead) session at EVO, Electronic Village Online.  Michael Coghlan has designed and delivered online courses in ESL, eModeration, and Using Online Technologies, and is an online instructor for the Graduate Certificate in eLearning delivered by Adelaide Institute of TAFE. He has written widely on issues to do with elearning, and presented at several international conferences, both physically and as a remote presenter. As a Flexible Learning Leader for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework in 2003 Michael researched the use of online voice technologies. Not surprisingly, he is a passionate believer in the power of online voice communications to inspire and motivate students.

Regarding connecting with this presentation, Dafne, moderator of BaW with EVO suggests: “Michael´s presentation for BaW on Jan 23rd at noon GMT will be at Yahoo Messenger, as it has been in previous years. We like to show participants that Yahoo Messenger can also be used for presentations which is something most of them don´t know.”

More information and link to recording at http://baw2011.pbworks.com/w/page/29969958/LiveSessions
Learning2Gether will attend his presentation.

Also it is suggested you visit http://tappedin.org at the time of the presentation in order to find people there who might help you connect.

Announcements:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1384
http://taedtech.ning.com/events/michael-coghlan-addresses-evo

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Vance Stevens discussed the philosophy behind the evolution through many renditions of the EVO Multiliteracies course and community.

• This session, based at http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com, is unlike other EVO sessions and departs from many online courses in that it does not envisage a stepwise learning plan; rather it presents a ‘berry bush’ of choices.
• Participants are expected to practice precepts of learner autonomy as they define their learning goals and document steps along the path to achieving them in some form of eportfolio.
• Course structure borrows from the MOOC precepts cogently articulated by Dave Cormier in a series of YouTube videos embedded in the GoodbyeGutenberg syllabus, and leading to connectivist knowledge.  Join us for the discussion and let’s talk about it.

The session was recorded and you can view it here:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-01-16.0517.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• or http://tinyurl.com/16jan2011evomlit

Learning2gether Episode 24

Direct link to recording at Webheadsinaction.org:
http://webheadsinaction.org/audio/download/593/EVO-launch-2011-01-09.mp3

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The annual EVO Online kickoff event took place at noon GMT on Sunday Jan 9, 2011.  It’s an online party where moderators of the sessions planned for January 10 to February 13, 2011 meet to introduce and discuss the sessions they’ve been planning for the past several months. 

• Find out more at http://evosessions.pbworks.com/Call_for_Participation2011,
• and join the kickoff at http://webheadsinaction.org/live

Jeff provided this additional information just prior to the event:

Looking forward to the wondrous chaos of another EVO Launchcast in a few hours. In hopes of minimizing chaos and frustration, I’ve created a few guides and options (for slow connections and backup).

• The main webcast interface is at http://webheadsinaction.org/
• Hi speed live page: http://webheadsinaction.org/live-main
• Low speed connection page: http://webheadsinaction.org/live-lite
• Information about how to join the conversation at: http://webheadsinaction.org/join-webcast

Rather than having people people skype me directly, I’m asking that they post a comment with their name and skype ID at: http://webheadsinaction.org/join-webcast. We will then bring them in one or two at a time – will hopefully be easier than having a dozen people skyping in at the same time.

I have also created an entire backup site in case the main site is down (we are on our way off this server and it’s been particularly moody today)

• Backup site: http://evo2011.pbworks.com/ with links there to alternative hi-speed and low-speed live interfaces.

Please repost this wherever appropriate. If you are planning on joining in on the conversation, please post a comment with your Name and ID at: http://webheadsinaction.org/join-webcast
(no login required).

The event was recorded and is available at http://webheadsinaction.org/node/593

Sunday, January 2, 2011

FLNW: Future of Learning in a Networked World, featuring guests Michael Coghlan and Barbara Dieu

13:00 GMT in Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

Bee (aka Barbara), Michael, and Vance met recently in Brazil to travel together to conferences in Sao Paolo and Brasilia http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/ continuing on a reduced scale a movement known as FLNW, as indicated at  http://tinyurl.com/flnw2010vance and where Bee updatedhttp://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil.

Today’s “SpeedGeek” will continue our ongoing conversation. Michael’s website athttp://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/ is a time capsule of ongoing collaboration, starting more or less with EFI in 1997, where Michael, Vance, and Maggi Doty founded Webheads.  It broaches professional development through TAFE, Voice Online (Michael is known as “the voice”), as well as Michael’s consultancies, Articles/Presentations, and of course his music, with great songs such as “Happy Online”.   Bee blogs at http://beespace.net/ and her presentations and projects are linked fromhttp://www.barbaradieu.com/.

The session was recorded: http://tinyurl.com/2011jan2flnw

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-01-02.0028.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75