Learning2gether Episode 153

Download:

https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/talkingvte-37.mp3

The view from down under: http://talkingvte.blogspot.ae/2013/04/talkingvte-episode-37.html

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Vance is in Melbourne.  Not that I have to fly all this way to connect, but Michael is dropping by on his way back from Tasmania, and while in the neighborhood why not connect with other Australian friends and colleagues.  We’ll talk informally on topics that may or may not range from/to

• What’s the latest (like this week) in veillance and wearable technologies
• Alex’s HCC presentation at ANU – 8th April 2013
• MOOCs and open learning (LTMOOC starts April 15, http://ltmooc.com/)
• The Adelaide Maker Faire (special ref to 3d Printing)
• Report from THETA Conference

http://talkingvte.blogspot.com meets Learning2gether

For more information on the session, including topics: http://sridgway.wikispaces.com/talkingvte37

Where?

• Google Hangout and Live stream of the event at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
• Alternate URL: http://webheadsinaction.org/wednesday-april-10-2013-michael-coghlan-and-vance-stevens-live-melbourne-talking-vte-stephan-ridgway
• Text chat: http://etherpad.mit.edu/VUuZowAaZm

Announcements

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30387
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/talking-vte
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30396
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1883
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/message/6812

Learning2gether Episode 152

Download:

https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/transform-and-tailor-your-teaching-with-twitter_001.mp3

Hangout recording from April 4, 2013

This event was a Hangout with simultaneous stream on http://webheadsinaction.org/live 

At the time you could have followed the event by

1. Joining the stream at http://webheadsinaction.org/live 
   1. listen to the simulcast
   2. interact with others in the Etherpad text chat http://etherpad.mit.edu/qnIN6WpaAn
2. Coming directly to the hangout

In her presentation, Rita discussed many

Tools complementing Twitter

• Twibes: http://www.twibes.com/
• TwitDoc: http://twitdoc.com/ and http://www.scribd.com/about
• TagDef: http://tagdef.com/
• The Tweeted Times: http://tweetedtimes.com
• GroupTweet: http://www.grouptweet.com/
• Monitter: http://monitter.com/
• Screenr: http://screenr.com/
• Spezify: http://spezify.com/
• Twitcam: http://twitcam.livestream.com/
• The StorySoFar: http://cwd.co.uk/storysofar/
• Twitterature: http://www.twitterature.us/uk/index.htm

Alternative URL

http://webheadsinaction.org/rita-zeinstejer-transform-and-tailor-your-teaching-twitter

More info: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/

Learning2gether Episode 151

Download:

https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/aamc-professional-development.mp3

I might want to edit the start of the mp3, when I get time – Vance

Learning2gether classroots weekly online professional development

This session was one of several being held this week at Al Ain Men’s College (AAMC) as part of an in-house professional development week.

Description of event: 

Learning2gether is a wiki which, since September 2010, has served to organize teachers in meeting online at regular times weekly to conduct free “class-roots” professional development seminars and discuss topics of mutual interest to teachers of ESOL in particular and educators in general. Presenters and participants range from expert to those merely interested in the topics. Participants come from all over the world, but from its inception there has been an effort to involve teaching practitioners in Arab countries through coordination with the TESOL Arabia TAEDTECH-SIG. Sessions are recorded, and a growing archive of recorded resources is accumulating at the associated podcast site. This session will introduce teachers to the endeavor and invite them to become involved.

Hangout recording

Webheads in Action recording archive: 

 http://webheadsinaction.org/vance-stevens-learning2gether-streamed-live-online-al-ain-mens-college-uae

Slides updated especially for this event

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether-classroots-weekly-online-professional-development

Place:

This event is being organized live at Al Ain Men’s College (AAMC) in Al Ain, UAE

The plan (assuming robust Internet and that April Fools does not intervene) is to:

• Set up live and face-to-face at AAMC for the appointed session
• Start a Hangout in Google +
• Put the URL of that Hangout here 
• Stream it live online at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
• Post the recording at http://learning2gether.net
  

Participants will be able to listen to the live stream on http://webheadsinaction.org/live

Anyone can interact as well in this live text chat at http://etherpad.mit.edu/CzKEv1s6wM 

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30369
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/vance-stevens-on-learning2gether-streamed-live-online-from-al-ain

Learning2gether Episode 150

Download:

https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/2013apr01badges-10-001-64k.mp3

Elluminate Recording URLs

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate
  • https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-31.0653.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75  
  • http://tinyurl.com/2013mar31badges  
  • http://goo.gl/Xcv6Z  

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim’s notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

• online PD: why it doesn’t seem to be taking off in UAE;
• current issues in IT?
• Some participants might want to discuss the recent TESOL Conference in Dallas, an unprecedented number of sessions at which were recorded.  Archives exist here:
  • https://learning2gether.net/2013/03/23/learning2gether-from-live-events-webcast-from/
  • http://callis2013.pbworks.com/
• Badges idea .. could it work and how?

James’s vision of all of this? “some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it.”

Some brainstorming ideas:

• Sunday, November 11, 2012 – Jonathan Finkelstein – walked us through Learning Times Badgestack
  • https://learning2gether.net/2012/11/11/jonathan-finkelstein-walks-us-through-learnin/
  • http://badgestack.com/
• Doug Belshaw:
  •  http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/open-badges-cra-28-february-2013
  • http://www.slideshare.net/eucunet/doug-belshaw-open-badges-overview
  • http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/category/doug-belshaw/
• Peter Rawsthorne
  • http://www.slideshare.net/prawsthorne/mozilla-open-badges-14035618
  • YouTube
    • Bootleg mp3 Downloadhttps://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/introduction-to-open-badges.mp3

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/jim-buckingham-and-vance-stevens-discuss-badges
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30365