Vance Stevens and Jim Buckingham – MultiMOOC and Rhizo14: What was that all about?

Learning2gether Episode 204


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For 5 weeks in January-February 2014 Vance Stevens, Jim Buckingham, and Ali Bostancioglu co-moderated an EVO (Electronic Village Online) session on Multiliteracies with focus on MOOCs, called MultiMOOC, with portals at

On Sun Feb 23 Vance Stevens and Jim Buckingham presented a reflection: MultiMOOC: What was that all about?

as a regular weekly Learning2gether event conceived as a report and reflection on badges and the latest foray into chaos in learning wrought by the EVO session #MultiMOOC, and what has been learned from it, by two of the co-moderators that laid it on. This presentation was a vestige of EVO and the Rhizomatic Learning MOOC #Rhizo14, and took place as a part of Moodle MOOC 3

Vance prepared some remarks on his part of the program in a very rough draft, entitled The Elephant in the Fire Hose:

2014-02-28_0937paperli

Paper.li have fixed a glitch in their system and MultiMOOC is back

Announcements

Earlier this week

Mon Feb 17 1400 GMT Talking Research-Based Teaching Practice: Session #1

Talking Research-Based Teaching Practice is an open discussion around personal experiences and opinions centered on one primary research article: 
http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/08/08/elt.cct040.abstract

In Google Hangout thanks to Benjamin Stewart and the TILL G+Community

https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cka09vptj77m2859h8uj9enqfrk?authkey=CKLjkNu029_PqAE

Tue Feb 18 1000 GMT – Talking VTE about the Horizon Report Australian Regional Analysis

Topic for this session is around the NMC Technology Outlook, Australian Tertiary Education 2014-2019, Horizon Report Regional Analysis. Both Robyn Jay and Michael Coghlan are members and are currently considering technology trends and issues in the post school edu space. Robyn and Michael will facilitate the session and gather the responses for input into the NMC process.

For more information see the session wiki page @

http://sridgway.wikispaces.com/talkingvte39

Tue Feb 18 1600 GMT Jennifer Maddrell and Designers for Learning

This is a project kick-off webinar for our first service-learning pilot project at Designers for Learning! Here is the start time in your area … http://bitly.com/d4lconf214 … Information about how to access the webinar will be posted at webinar live | oerforccr

Kim Philip and the client team from Grace Centers of Hope will join the web conference to share with us their goals and needs for the Open Educational Resources for College & Career Readiness service-learning project. Please note that if you can’t make the live sessions, all webinar recordings for the OER for College and Career Readiness service-learning project will be posted on this website -> webinars | oerforccr

Wed Feb 19 0800 EST IT4ALL Charles Goodger MM3 Music and mime, rhythm and rhyme

Integrating Technology 4 Active Lifelong Learning event

Here are the class details:

Class Presenter: Charles Goodger
Class Title: MM3: Music and Mime, Rhythm and Rhyme.
Class Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Class Time: 8:00 AM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada))

Click here to access the class.

Feb 21 Rhizomatic Learning Planned Obsolescence

Sat. Feb 22 Peggy George, Lorie Moffat and Tammy Moore hosting Classroom 2.0 LIVE

Time: 9:00am PT/10:00am MT/11:00am CT/12:00pm ET
Location: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live (http://tinyurl.com/cr20live)

Peggy George, Lorie Moffat and Tammy Moore will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 Ning community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat and desktop sharing. A Google calendar of upcoming shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html.

Special guest will be Felix Jacomino the Director of Technology at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School, Coconut Grove, FL on the topic of The Many Facets of Successful Technology Integration. We are so excited to be joined by Felix to hear about his experience and leadership with integrating technology in his 1:1 iPad initiative at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, Florida. He is also the creator and host of Miami Device, a mobile learning event presented by his school in November of 2014.

Sat Feb 22 Moodle4Teachers showcase

By Feb 20 all participants in Moodle4Teachers are putting their ePortfolios in a showcase

Learning2gether with EVO 2013 – Live Webcast: Share Your Experience

Learning2gether Episode 203


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Sun Feb 16 1400 GMT – EVO2014 ends with Live Webcast: Share Your Experience

On Sun Feb 16 1400 to 1600 GMT there is a Live webcast where participants in the Electronic Village Online EVO2014 sessions are invited to come share their experience over the five weeks ending today.  Electronic Village Online 2014 participants are invited to take the microphone and share what they have done, learned, produced during the past 5 weeks.

Where: Blackboard Collaborate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/

Beware audio wonkiness below

Announcements

This was a part of the 2014 EVO session events calendars Jan 13-Feb 16

There are 18 EVO sessions this year, all listed at http://evosessions.pbworks.com

Here is where they post their events

Crafting the e-Perfect Textbook

events listed at

ICT4ELT

http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/70684966/LiveSessions

MachinEVO

 events listed at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112736005348568784414

MultiMOOC 2.014

(events listed here, in this events calendar)

NNESTEVO

 http://nnestevo2014.pbworks.com/

Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers

 http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/

There were also events taking place in these other EVO sessions

Podcasting for the ESL-EFL Classroom

Dream Act: What Teachers Can Do

EVO Drama 2014: Structuring Drama Work

Developing Business English Teachers

Developing Mentoring Skills

Online Tools for EFL-ESL Civic Engagement Projects

Wonderful Words: Vocabulary Matters

Peacebuilding for Language Learners

CLIL: Using Technology  for Content and Language Integrated Learning

Designing and Managing Projects in the ESOL Organization

Use of Mobile Applications in Language Classes

Moodle for Teachers  (M4TEVO14)

The official EVO BbC Elluminate Calendar

And check out http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen

Earlier this week

Jozef Colpaert, Curt Bonk, Connecting Online CO14, and more

Vance Stevens on Once a Webhead, always a Webhead for week 5 of the ICT4ELT EVO session

Mon 10 Feb Nik Peachey on Creating a Technically Friendly Environment

check your local time and get the link to the Adobe room here :  http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/

Tue 11 Feb Mentoring EVO Webinar with Angi Malderez

http://mentorevo.blogspot.ae/

Wed 12 Feb Marie Delaney – Stress management and well-being for teachers

“Stress management and well-being for teachers : how to manage yourself so you can manage your learners”

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Wed Feb 12 NNEST-EVO Session with Dr. Nathanael Rudolph

http://nnestevo2014.pbworks.com/w/page/70689283/Week5

Listed on the EVO Events calendar http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen

as taking place in Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/

Thu 13 Feb Russell Stannard

“Video subject” TBC

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Sat Feb 15 Open Mic on the topic of Blended Learning

Location: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live
Peggy George, Lorie Moffat and Tammy Moore will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 Ning community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat and desktop sharing. A Google calendar of upcoming shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html.

Join us on Saturday, February 15th, when we will be hosting an “Open Mic” show on the topic of Blended Learning

Sun Feb 16 1000 GMT – IATEFL LTSIG Webinar on Maintaining and developing an online community of practice

Maintaining and developing an online community of practice

IATEFL event: http://ltsig.org.uk/

Recordings are made but available only to SIG members

Vance Stevens presents “Once a Webhead always a Webhead”

Learning2gether Episode 202


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On Tue Feb 11 Vance Stevens presented at a MultiMOOC and ICT4ELT EVO sessions joint event – Once a Webhead always a Webhead

This was an Electronic Village Online event for Week 5 (Focus) in MultiMOOC EVO session, held jointly with ICT4ELT

Event listing on ICT4ELT portal:

Recording

In Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

Slides http://www.slideshare.net/vances/once-upon-awebhead

In preparation for the event, you can read over the draft book chapter here: http://tinyurl.com/small2014

It explains connections between Webheads in Action, WiAOC, Learning2gether, EVO, Becoming a Webhead, and MultiMOOC

Becoming a Webhead is not offered as an EVO session for the first time in ten years, but its moderators have created an alternative EVO session to follow on the collaborative spirit of BaW – ICT4ELT at http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com. Now that BaW is no longer being offered, its moderators think it important to introduce ICT4ELT participants to the Webheads <http://www.webheads.info>, so they have invited Vance Stevens to join them in a live session in Week 5. This would be also an opportunity for ICT4ELT to get to know Learning2gether, at which, says Jose Antonio Da Silva, “there is always someone presenting something very interesting every weekend.” (Thanks, Jose 🙂

Here is a summary of what ICT4ELT will be covering in EVO Week 5 (Jan 10 – 16, 2014)

  • Cooperating online & wrap-up.
  • Revisiting Twitter, wikis, blogs, google docs (one platform of participants’ choice)
  • International project work with other participants of the course, possible school projects for the future
  • Finding out about the Webheads community as a PLN – the possibility of joining the Webheads

Announcements

Learning2gether with Prof. dr. Jozef Colpaert discussing 12 CALL Challenges

Learning2gether Episode 201

On Sun Feb 9 Jozef Colpaert discussed 12 CALL Challenges as an Electronic Village Online event for Week 4 (Clustering) in MultiMOOC EVO session and as a Connecting Online 14 conference event (CO14)

What was this about?

Where? WizIQ

Announcements

Our discussion stems from Dr. Colpaert’s presentation at WorldCALL in Glasgow, July 2013

The 12 challenges Jozef Colpaert recently identified and presented at WorldCALL 2013 in Glasgow are classified into three categories:

  1. contextual (academic meritocracy, academic value of CALL, myths/hypes and broad-public perception),
  2. methodological (design, replication, slow research and transdisciplinarity), and
  3. epistemological (open, psychological, smart and sustainable aspects)

As per http://www.linkedin.com/in/colpaert

Shortly after this presentation, on Feb 9 Curt Bonk presented also at C014
on Publishing of an Open Access (free) PDF

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1553436-co14-experiences-of-publishing-of-an-open-access-free-pdf

Curt’s recording also mysteriously disappeared

Curt Bonk posted more information on this talk on Facebook

My talk today for “Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning Conference (CO14)” is uploaded. Talk title: “Sharing Experiences of Simultaneous Open Access (Free) and Low Cost Book Publishing in Amazon CreateSpace.”

Here is the video to my session (hit Coursefeed on the left): http://www.wiziq.com/course/12066-connecting-online-fo…See More

Tomorrow morning, I will present from 10:30-11:30 EST for a MOOC Research Summit at Penn State. It is an update to my MOOC research talk, “A Mixed Methods Look at Self-Directed Online Learning: MOOCs, Open Education, and Beyond.”

Curt Bonk’s last book – Adding TEC-Variety
http://tec-variety.com/TEC-VARIETY.Bonk&Khoo.pdf

Dr. Colpaert’s and Dr. Bonk’s events were both part of CO14, the Connecting Online virtual conference organized by Dr. Nellie  Deutsch Feb 7-9, 2014

at these links:

Recordings of previous Connecting Online events can be found here:

Some sample events from the three day conference:

Fri Feb 7 Bob Diotelevi Copyright dot com: Teaching old dogs new clicks
Class Presenter: Dr. Bob Diotalevi
Class Title: CO14: COPYRIGHT DOT COM: TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW CLICKS.
Class Date: Friday, February 07, 2014
Class Time: 12:00 PM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Click here to access the class.

Fri Feb 7 Jason Levine ELT Techniques: The festival redux
Class Presenter: Jason R. Levine
Class Title: CO14: ELT Techniques: The Festival Redux.
Class Date: Friday, February 07, 2014
Class Time: 1:00 PM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Click here to access the class.

Sat Feb 8 CO14 Ramesh Sharma Virtual worlds, social networking, social learning and pedagogy
Class Presenter: Dr. Ramesh Sharma
Class Title: CO14: Virtual Worlds: Social Networking, Social Learning and Pedagogy.
Class Date: Saturday, February 08, 2014
Class Time: 11:00 AM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Click here to access the class.

Sat Feb 8 Mbarek Akaddar at CO14 on Webquests
Mbarek Akaddar’s talk is entitled Using Webquests to Break Down Cultural Stereotypes
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1562772-co14-using-webquests-to-break-down-cultural-stereotypes

The discussion is about using webquests to meet the following objectives:

  • Develop skeptical attitudes towards stereotypes
  • Discover  inaccuracies of stereotypes
  • Identify the causes of stereotypes
  • Suggest different ways to break down stereotypes

Sat Feb 8 CO14 Carissa Peck Getting Twitterpated
Class Presenter: Carissa Peck
Class Title: CO14: Getting Twitterpated with Carissa Peck.
Class Date: Saturday, February 08, 2014
Class Time: 3:00 PM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Click here to access the class.

Sat Feb 8 CO14 Stephen Downes
A personal learning framework
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1553512-co14-a-personal-learning-framework-with-stephen-downes

As we evolved into the next generation of MOOCs, it will become increasingly important to be able to manage our personal learning activities ourselves, rather than to depend on a particular institution. In this presentation, Stephen Downes outlines and defends this proposition, showing how personal learning support will benefit people from school through formal education through to the workplace.

Sun Feb 9 Dr Revathy Viswanathan at CO14
Dr Revathy Viswanathan kicked off CO14 for Sunday Feb 9 noon GMT with a talk entitled
“Scope for Teacher Development in Digital Era”
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1571182-co14-scope-for-teacher-development-in-digital-era

Teachers in this digital era have varied teaching experiences in their classrooms. Every session is challenging and educative to both teachers and that is facilitated more by advanced technologies. With the growing trend of using emerging technologies, it has become essential for teachers to update their knowledge of integrating technology in a traditional classroom. It must be stated that universities have to pave way for augmenting the use of new technologies in a classroom by revamping curriculum periodically. In that way it provides opportunity for teachers to develop their teaching and professional skills besides providing exposure to new technological tools to students. In this presentation, the presenter would share her experience of using Wiki and Blogs with her students in teaching written communication. She would further highlight the way those tools had helped her to design materials for learning and also created opportunities for encouraging students to work in online platforms.

And earlier this week, there were also

Feb 2 MultiMOOC session – Ali Bostancioglu

Mon Feb 3 Graham Stanley – Kids, Video Games, Images & ELT
An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer

On Teacher Development: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/NikPeachey
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ICT4ELT
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nikpeachey
Google +:  http://tinyurl.com/cwkcp55
http://about.me/technogogy

Hello Little World, Feb 24

Is MOOCs making us stupid?

Here’s the teaser

And now the hangout

It resonates with me where Keith talks about his disorientation since the first MOOC he attended, where he had to figure out how to do it better next time. He concludes, “Almost anything you pick in a MOOC will work for you … One of the things I learned to give up very quickly was trying to get it all.  I’m not going to.”

At 25:01 Dave says, “I wonder if that binding that you’re talking about when we look at … one of the first criticisms that people have of the Internet, of Twitter, of MOOCs,  abundant things generally … and I see certainly the potential of rhizomatic learning totally bundled with abundance … I wonder if the shaping that normally happens in curriculum is about creating certainty through scarcity — so that we say that these are the things that we’re going to learn, and then as learners we’ve gotten accustomed to not missing anything, being getting all the curriculum because we were supposed to get it all, and whether or not that’s one of the sort of underlying  constructs of the paper based world that needs to be opened up for people to be able to learn and think rhizomatically.”

Wed 5 Feb Susan Hillyard – Challenging ELT

“Challenging ELT: Challenging the Methodology to Reach Challenging Students”

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Wed Feb 5 Steve Hargadon and panel on NMC On the Horizon: Social Networks

http://www.nmc.org/events/horizon-social-networks

1700 GMT where you are is

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TESOLPCI8+Presenter+Hangout+%232&iso=20140301T13&ah=1

Announced on EdTech Mojo http://gplus.to/edtechmojo

Thu Feb 6 Shelly Terrell at Moodle MOOC 3

Shelly Sanchez Terrell presents

Oh the Places You’ll Go: Insights into E-Pedagogy from Dr. Seuss

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1437914-mm3-oh-the-places-you-ll-go-insights-into-e-pedagogy-from-dr-seuss

Fri Feb 7 ICT4ELT EVO session with Arjana Blazic

http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/70684966/LiveSessions#Week4

Took place in Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/

Please go to this link http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/74655704/Tools%20for%20Online%20Testing and watch the recording from Youtube. The slides from presentation, chatlog scripts and screenshots are also available.

Feb 8 David Crystal streamed live by Heike Philp

Heike Philp IATEFL

Livestreaming of Grand Opening of the new offices in Faversham http://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/faversham, starting at 11:30am until 1pm UK time (GMT) with special guest David Crystal speaking at 12pm in Adobe Connect.

Sat 8 Feb Barbara Sakomoto – Of Icebergs and Whales

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Sat Feb 8 eBookEVO Hangout – Week 4 overview

Please go to this page when the event starts, http://ebookevo.pbworks.com/hangouts
Sylvia Guinan, André J. Spang, Jackie Gerstein, Debora Tebovich, & Shelly Sanchez Terrell will go over your 4 missions and completing and publishing Chapter 1.

Moodle MOOC 3 continued through end of February

Moodle MOOC 3 started on February 1 , and ends on February 28, 2014.

Events take place in WizIQ (click here to acces the course).

The theme of the current MOOC is collaborative learning and connecting online for instruction and learning.

Ali Bostancioglu on Technology Professional Development: Networking and Online Communities

Learning2gether Episode 200


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On Sun Feb 2 Ali Bostancioglu presented on Technology Professional Development: Networking and Online Communities

This was an Electronic Village Online event for Weeks 3-4 (Network-Cluster) in the MultiMOOC EVO session, as well as a regularly scheduled Learning2gether event.

In Googe Hangout, streamed from http://webheadsinaction.org/live

You Tube video link for the recording http://www.youtube.com/embed/KymcI4KM4So

Ali’s slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/malibostanci/language-teachers-technology-professional-development

Ali Bostancioglu is a PhD student at the University of York, UK, where he is investigating the impact of engaging in online communities of practice on EFL teachers’ technology professional development. He will talk about communities vs. networks and how different social media platforms can best be used in pursuit of technology professional development. His presentation ends with advice for managing both the affordances and potential pitfalls of social media platforms.

We met in Google Hangout on Air, streamed from http://webheadsinaction.org/live.

Those wishing to join us in HoA can find the direct link provided at the URL above shortly before the event, as well as at the ‘more information’ link here:

http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#Nextupcomingevents

All Learning2gether events are recorded and archived at http://learning2gether.net

A full catalog and index of Learning2gether events since 2010 can be found here:

http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/34456755/archiveindex

Tags for this session:

#rhizo14 #multimooc #learning2gether #evomlit #evosessions

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Announcements

Earlier this week

Jan 26 and Jan 28 MultiMOOC sessions

Rhizo14 Week 3 Embracing Uncertainty


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This is a really cool hangout. Prior to this Dave had been experimenting with creating breakout rooms during the hangouts, creating gaps on the audio that could easily be removed, but some odd moments on the YouTube videos where he would be puttering about his house and visibly (but not audibly) engaging in the breakouts.  Also, the previous recordings came off as monologues, at odds with his so-inclusive Worldbridges endeavors, whereas this one he has invited others into the hangout, admitting voices of  others in the MOOC, and thereby embracing uncertainty while pulling off another totally extemporaneous event that models what it intends to get across, that certainty is an attempt to control proceedings by falling back on scarcity; uncertainty in turn embraces abundance.

Tue Jan 28 1830 GMT NNEST-EVO Session with Dr. Valerie Jakar

Listed on the EVO Events calendar http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen

as taking place in Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/

Fri 31 Jan 0800 GMT Charles Goodger – Let’s make a song and dance of it

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Fri Jan 31 1500 GMT Tessa Woodward in IATEFL Webinar

Gary Motteram informed FB of an up and coming IATEFL Webinar Friday, 31 January 2014 at 3pm GMT

Tessa Woodward will be holding a webinar on ‘Enjoying personal and professional creativity’
Tessa will encourage us to consider a number of aspects on the topic of creativity. Join us for this fun and informative webinar which is free of charge and open to all.
http://www.iatefl.org/webinars

Sat Feb 1 1630 GMT ICT4ELT session with Claudio Azevedo

“From Darkness to a Sparkling Connected ELT Community”

http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/70684966/LiveSessions#Week3

Took place in Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/

The recording link is available from the Live Session page at http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/70684966/LiveSessions

The direct link is here http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/74183399/From%20Darkness%20to%20a%20Sparkling%20Connected%20ELT%20Community

Sun 2 Feb – 1200 GMT Luke Podromou – Self-esteem in the Classroom

“Building Self-esteem in the Classroom – from Principle to Practice”

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/