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Learning2gether with Joe Dale about AppSmashing with iPads

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Learning2gether Episode 228


Download mp3:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/joedale2014july.mp3?

Wed Jul 23 – Joe Dale taking the multimedia appsmashing iPad challenge!

On Wednesday of this week I had the great pleasure of being one of the participants at Joe Dale’s remarkable presentation on appsmashing which was put on as one of a series of webinars offered by Saarland Landesinstitut fur Padagogik und Medien (LPM) and organized by Jürgen Wagner.

I first heard of Joe Dale through an interview by Darrel Branson and Tony Richards of the Ed Tech Crew, which was so interesting that I listened to it twice, and I since met him in Istanbul where he gave a plenary talk at a conference at Sabanci University.

This most recent webinar on appsmashing was 1.5 hours long which gave Joe ample time to take the topic out for a long ride. Appsmashing requires skill and experience with the apps utilized, and relies for example on creating products in one app and storing them on the device’s photoroll or in the cloud, and then developing that product through another app to produce a more elaborate product. For example, Joe showed how animated characters could be created in one app, greenscreened in another, and laid onto a background such as a photo of a local scene to create an animated character overlay on that scene. Joe described several such processes in fine detail and demonstrated considerable knowledge of the apps he was talking about.

Joe’s presentation is one that will be worth replaying hands-on with an iPad handy. I won’t have a chance to do that for week or two, so in this post I want to archive as much as I can in order to eventually make that possible. For this reason I have preserved Jürgen’s comments at the end of this post, after my own here:

TAKING THE MULTIMEDIA APPSMASHING IPAD CHALLENGE

  • Find further free webinars for teachers of foreign languages at http://v.gd/webinars
  • Joe Dale is an independent languages consultant from the UK who works with a range of organisations such as Network for Languages, ALL, The British Council, the BBC, Skype, Microsoft and The Guardian.
  • He is host of the TES MFL forum, former SSAT Languages Lead Practitioner, a regular conference speaker and recognised expert on technology and language learning.
  • He has spoken at conferences and run training courses in Europe, North America, the Middle East, the Far East and Australia.
  • He was a member of the Ministerial Steering Group on languages for the current UK government and was short-listed for a NAACE Impact Award in 2013 too.
  • Joe was recently described in a Guardian article as an ‘MFL guru’ and ‘the man behind the #mfltwitterati.’
  • His blog http://www.joedale.typepad.com has been nominated for four Edublog Awards.

Here are the links I harvested at this session, all from posts in the text chat

Two more links from Edudemic: http://sco.lt/9JVifR to wit

This pair of posts, starting with this one, explain how appsmashing, or guiding students to create deliverables from a series of precursor operations on iPad, can be set up and implemented. This article leads to a second one showing by example how to create an iMovie product from Tellagami, 30 hands, and Photospeak
http://www.edudemic.com/app-smashing-digital-storytelling-ipad/ (no longer works)

View these tutorials in preparation for fully appreciating Joe Dale’s 1.5 hour presentation on appsmashing https://learning2gether.net/2014/07/23/learning2gether-with-joe-dale-about-appsmashing-with-ipads/

Joe sent  a follow-up email to the Learningtgether list, here
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/learningwithcomputers/conversations/messages/6961

This provides a link to another webinar Joe did subsequently on useful iPad apps to enhance language learning for the LARC Social Media Workshop:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2014-07-31.0918.M.78BBF947C3E6316BD4BD21F8226DFA.vcr&sid=2009202

General information

The top half of this writeup is mine (Vance’s) and the other half (below) comes from Juergen’s email which recapped the webinar with some of the same material I had mentioned. I intend to do more work on this webinar deconstructing it so that I can apply some of its lessons in my teaching, more about which when I have time later. I fly home to Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

The lesson here is that you can produce imaginative student projects through use of a succession of applications. This is more obvious on a PC where you have control over where the intermediate files are than on an iPad where your intermediate work is in the camera roll or in the cloud somewhere. Joe’s contribution was in showing exactly how you stitch those disparate parts together, which is the main challenge for teachers to get their minds around when using mobile technologies.
And more recently, I’ve come across this 17 minute video by Joe,
A Recipe for AppSmashing, from 13 Oct, 2015

What follows here is from Jürgen Wagner’s “post-paratory” email following the event. I have reproduced it verbatim here, as it is rich in content, but there will be some duplications from my own notes. In Jürgen’s words …

App-Smashing has developed into a craze in the US and though it can not even be found on Wikipedia blogposts, Pinterest-boards, YouTube- and Vimeo-clips and tweets about the phenomenon are “exploding” and I forecast that it will “arrive” in Europe soon, with Joe being the only European protagonist in Europe so far.

Thanks for contributing these links to the chat which I gladly share

http://www.joedale.typepad.com/

http://ettsummit2014.sched.org/

Peggy George: so many of these multimedia projects can consume a lot of memory on an ipad! I’ve recently started using a wireless flash drive to remove things from my ipad and easily transfer to other devices. http://www.sandisk.com/products/wireless/flash-drive/

https://twitter.com/lancslassrach

http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

http://www.thinglink.com/

Peggy George: there are some great Thinglink examples compiled on this Listly by Shelly Terrell. http://list.ly/list/35b-thinglink-edu-examples

http://flipsnackedu.com

http://answergarden.ch/

http://cloudart-app.com

http://www.flubaroo.com/flubaroo-user-guide

http://google.amassi.net/doctopus

Peggy George: Doctopus How To: (great instructions) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m4Lq6x66Th3O5kCBDlB8KuzN0zMATbqH3fgIPVqIs4U/edit

https://twitter.com/mrbadura

http://comfortably20.blogspot.com/2014/03/calling-all-app-smashers.html

http://www.zigzagstech.com/2014/04/appsmash4-challenge-smashing-word-clouds.html

http://ipad4schools.org/2014/04/19/why-app-smash/

https://twitter.com/ICTEvangelist

http://kulowiectech.blogspot.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/gregkulowiec

http://readium.org/

Jenny Léger: I have read epub books using Aldiko on an Android tablet.
Mary Cooch: yes Jenny http://www.aldiko.com/features.html

http://procamapp.com/Home.html

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id730712409?mt=8 (ProCam 2)

Multimedia app smashing at #ettipad Boston
by Joe Dale http://youtu.be/J2xBslydHqE

http://bit.ly/appsmashlive

My App Smash Live Challenge
by Joe Dale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3UZE7IgpTc

Joe Dale’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/joedale100

Yakit Kids: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yakit-kids/id794546203?mt=8

Yakit Kids tutorial from Sylvia Duckworth: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RETmEvdC8PRU93EK8Sm6LeUj1AOfM-xkEEqtWClLTlw/mobilebasic?pli=1

https://www.youtube.com/capture

http://www.pinterest.com/joedale100/

http://www.pinterest.com/joedale100/samr-model-and-appsmashing/

http://jeffthomastech.com/blog/?p=13682

http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources/category/joe%20dale

Peggy George: Livebinder link for Joe: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/718751?tabid=b0ea0e5d-32bb-f7e8-11c8-3abcc6e55564 – Classroom 2.0 LIVE January 2013

http://www.techsmith.com/screenchomp.html

http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways

I’ll share some additional links and quotes from my article – to be published towards the end of the year – with you.

I submitted an extensive linklist to the publisher, hoping he will make it accessible along with the article.

What Joe might have stressed a little more is the central tenet of Ed Tech Teachers:
All the Good Apps Fit on One Screen as opposed to “There’s an app for that”.

or, what struck me most: “Educators shouldn’t think of iPads as repositories of apps but rather as portable media creationdevices.” (Ed Tech Teachers Tom Daccord and Justin Reich)

I’ll just share a few here:

In my article you’ll find loads of links to App Smash App Packs, Task Challenges, Idea Cards, etc.

I must admit I am a bit annoyed concerning the recent Tellagami update, which introduced in app purchases and crippled !!! the free version

Here are two blopgposts that reflect my own thinking quite well

Tellagami published http://blog.tellagami.com/2014/06/14/message-to-educators/ but has not yet answered an email I sent them a week ago.

I submitted an article about Tellagami to German portal site http://lehrer-online.de and overnight my draft became worthless. I had to send a new one that is waiting to be published.

Towards the end of August I’ll take part in the Colloque CyberLangues in Rennes (France) with a workshop about Tellagami and had to scrap most of what I had planned. Can I expect participants to download the EDU-version for 5 dollars???

I suppose I can’t, so I’ll work with two iPads, one with the crippled FREE version, the other on with the paid version on it (for demonstration only).

Our calendar of webinars for teachers of foreign languages

I mentioned the iUSBport 2 in the chat as well, which can be used to address privacy issues. My friend and LPM-colleague Patrick Schäfer wrote an excellent article about that, due to be published in the next issue of http://www.lamultimedia.de/ and I’m planning to translate it into English, French and Spanish and have it published in suitable mags there.

Anyone offering there help in proofreading my translation?

Best regards

Jürgen

I suppose there were quite a few particpants who may be presenters in their own right. Please feel free to tell me what subjects you’d like to share with us.

By the way

On the occasion of the publication of my Newsletter 100 for teachers of foreign languages I created 2 padlets for feedback:

http://padlet.com/wagjuer/newsletter / (still open)

http://padlet.com/wagjuer/feedback / (still open)

You can subscribe and consult the newsletter archives here

I’ve only just realised that I’ve passed the 100-mark for webinars without noticing, thus I created a webinar feedback padlet to which I hope you will contribute: http://padlet.com/wagjuer/webinars

Following Joe’s example I started my own Pinterest-Board about App-Smashing

Mit freundlichem Gruß

Jürgen Wagner

Earlier this week

Sun Jul 20 Catching our breath: Reflecting on RSCON5, iDTi MOOC, TTO MOOC, and MMVC14

https://learning2gether.net/2014/07/21/reflecting-on-rscon5-idti-mooc-tto-mooc-and-mmvc14/

Mon Jul 21 00:01 GMT IHAQ 14

with Jeff Lebow, Dave Cormier, Jennifer Maddrell, and John Schinker

http://edtechtalk.com/live/ihaq

https://plus.google.com/explore/IHAQ

http://youtu.be/9PKMp3Zlk28

Mon Jul 21  Roseli Serra on What teenagers want – on iTDi MOOC


Download mp3 for Roseli Serra
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/roseli_itdi.mp3

In WizIQ – For connection details or to view recordings, enroll in the course at http://bit.ly/iTDiSummerSchoolMOOC

Roseli played some videos during her presentation:

Mon Jul 21  Chrysa Papalazarou and Chuck Sandy – on iTDi MOOC

This MOOC is open in the sense that it is free to sign up for and to enjoy, but not open in the sense that its artifacts are accessible to anyone online without pre-condition, which is that you must enroll in the iTDi Summer School MOOC For English Teachers: Fly High With iTDi! runs July 20th – August 17th  in order to attend the live events or see the recordings

Mon Jul 21 EdWeb.net presents Selecting Mobile Apps for K-5 Learners

http://home.edweb.net/upcoming-webinars/

Introducing Mobile Devices and Selecting Mobile Apps for Your K-5 Learners

Mon, July 21, 4pm – 5pm (not sure what time zone this is) found this NOTE:  All of our webinar start times are listed in Eastern Time

Calendar
edWebinars
Created by
lynn@edweb.net
Description
Presented by Liz Kolb, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Click here  for more information and to pre-register for the live session.
Join the live session at the scheduled time at: www.instantpresenter.com/edwebnet3 .
Join the Mobile Learning Explorations  community to participate in online discussions with peers, for invitations to upcoming webinars, to view past webinar recordings, to take a quiz and receive a CE certificate for a past webinar, and for access to more resources.
This webinar is co-hosted by CoSN, ISTE MLN, and SIIA.

Tue Jul 22 1500 GMT EdWeb.net presents Concrete Ways to Use OER in the Classroom 

http://home.edweb.net/upcoming-webinars/

Concrete Ways to Use OER in the Classroom

Tue, July 22, 11am – 12pm NOTE:  All of our webinar start times are listed in Eastern Time

There is a time zone conversion tool at the registration link

Calendar
edWebinars
Created by
lisa@edweb.net
Description
Presented by Michelle Comen, 5th Grade Teacher at Orange Grove Elementary Charter School Click here  for more information and to pre-register for the live session. Join the live session at the scheduled time at: www.instantpresenter.com/edwebnet22 . Join the Open Educational Resources (OER) in the K-12 Classroom  community to participate in online discussions with peers, for invitations to upcoming webinars, to view past webinar recordings, to take a quiz and receive a CE certificate for a past webinar, and for access to more resources. This webinar is sponsored by Net Texts, Inc.

A plethora of links in this one:

July 22 iTDi rapping with Jason in Fresh (fresher freshest)

‘Fresh (fresher freshest) * * Thru Rhythm & Rhyme by Jason R. Levine’.

This MOOC is open in the sense that it is free to sign up for and to enjoy, but not open in the sense that its artifacts are accessible to anyone online without pre-condition, which is that you must enroll in the iTDi Summer School MOOC For English Teachers: Fly High With iTDi! runs July 20th – August 17th

In order to attend the live events or see the recordings

Wednesday, July 23rd Teachers Teaching Teachers, Weekly conversations hosted by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community.

For more information, click here.

Catching our breath: Reflecting on RSCON5, iDTi MOOC, TTO MOOC, and MMVC14

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Learning2gether Episode 227


Download MP3: https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/2014july20-l2g-64k.mp3

Sun Jul 20 1400 GMT Learning2gether reflects on summer of RSCON5, TTO MOOC, iTDi, and MMVC14

http://englishlearning-marijanasblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-fantastic-edu-weekend-with-rscon5.html

Many of us are anticipating summer holidays, some like me, Vance, are traveling and can’t connect with all the events happening this summer when they are synchronously online. From a presenter’s or participants point of view, even if you did connect, perhaps you didn’t have time to explore or explain your topic in detail, or perhaps there was too little time to discuss it.

If you can relate to the educators’ dilemma in the paragraph above and would like to take a moment to join us to revisit or reflect on topics of interest to you, whether as a presenter or participant, or most likely both, in either of the events mentioned above, or any other you have enjoyed this summer, please join us at 1400 GMT this Sunday July 20. We are going To The Ocean, to the virtual beach, spread a virtual beach mat, maybe kick a few beach balls around, and share stories, data, whatever.

Hangout or Bb/Collaborate Elluminate?  Any preference? As RSCON5 was held in that environment, should we go there? Why not, anyone can join, and its mat spreads well at the beach. It is summertime, let’s meet there then, shall we?

In Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Dress comfortably, come as you are, all are welcome, hope to see you there

RSCON5 follow-up

We hope you were inspired by the Reform Symposium Free Online Conference (RSCON) events that took place July 10-13th. The online global event featured 50+ presentations, 11 keynote speakers, 3 panel discussions, and a tech/app swapalooza. Our plenary, Dean Shareski, began the conference by challenging us to spread joy in our practice. Our keynotes came from 9 countries and our presenters from over 15 countries. Topics included mobile learning, gamification, differentiation, writing web tools, passion based learning, maker education, teaching english language learners, demand high teaching, Chess, puppets, Minecraft, digital portfolios, and much more! Two of our keynotes were students who started their own companies and one of our presenters was a 10 year-old Youtuber who walked us through machinima and Mindcraft.

If you missed any of the sessions, find all the recordings here, http://www.futureofeducation.com/page/recordings-2014

On July 10th, we hosted our first pre-conference Author Spotlight. Find the short video interviews here,http://www.futureofeducation.com/page/recordings-2014

Here is important information:

Thank you for supporting our presenters, keynotes, and plenary who dedicate time to inspiring you! Please share their presentations and resources. Don’t forget to thank them for the inspiration.

Conference Organizers:

Shelly Sanchez Terrell, Peggy George Marcia Lima, Heike Philp, Marijana Smolcec, Amy Brinkley and Steve Hargadon

Visit The Future of Education at: http://www.futureofeducation.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Announcements

Participants in the Sunday Learning2gether session:

  • Leo JC [Juiz de Fora]
  • Peggy George [Phoenix AZ]
  • Marijana [Croatia]
  • Marcia Lima [Brazil]
  • Maria Colussa [Santo Tomé Argentina]
  • Claire Bradin Siskin [Pittsburgh]

Links mentioned

2014-07-22_0713jase

2014-07-22_0703likes 2014-07-22_0701marcia

2014-07-22_0725tweets

We were followed by Vicki Hollett

Earlier today!

Sun Jul 20 1230 GMT Jason Levine kicks off iTDi Summer School MOOC For English Teachers

Jason Levine started another MOOC in conjunction with iTDI scheduled to run today through August 17, 2014

This MOOC is open in the sense that it is free to sign up for and to enjoy, but not open in the sense that its artifacts are accessible to anyone online without pre-condition, which is that you must enroll in the course in order to attend the live events or see the recordings (fair enough; though Jason has expressed intention to make the recordings available through a YouTube channel, at which point they will become open for access to anyone wishing to view them)

The iTDi Summer School MOOC For English Teachers: Fly High With iTDi! runs July 20th – August 17th

Sun Jul 20 1300 GMT iTDi Keynote by Vicky Loras – The human touch

In WizIQ – For connection details or to view recordings, enroll in the course at http://bit.ly/iTDiSummerSchoolMOOC

Earlier this week

Wed Jul 16 OBANZ – Open Badges Australia and New Zealand Hangout

Created by OBANZ – Open Badges Australia and New Zealand  –  Invited by Dean Groom

Community call for open badges users in Australia and New Zealand, or those who are interested in learning more about open badges.

If you have an experience you’d like to share, or question you’d like to ask, please get in touch!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cl3iusun7rss5ktnrd3031acte4

http://youtu.be/mrnJhR4NYTE

Download mp3 here

TTO MOOC participant presentations

Wed Jul 16 Khaled Kamel – Keeping your students engaged

TTO Participant Presentation given by Khaled Kamel in the UAE on ‘Keeping Your Students Engaged

View complete information <– this link is tied to a particular WizIQ login (requiring you to supply password)

To view the presentation or its recording, join TTO MOOC

Thu Jul 17 Youssef Tamer on Google Apps in teaching, links posted in the WizIQ chat

Thu Jul 17 1900 GMT Preparing You and Your Students for the TOEFL IBT
View complete information <– this link is tied to a particular WizIQ login (requiring you to supply password)

To view the presentation or its recording, join TTO MOOC

Fri Jul 18 1400 GMT Julia Amlinskaya on TTO MOOC – Teaching online and managing online schools

Yulia has two online language schools and a blog:

Here are some examples of her webpresence:

In order to join this event in WizIQ or to access its recording afterwards, you need to enroll in TTO MOOC

http://blog.wiziq.com/teachers-teaching-online-coming-soon-mooc-near/

Enroll for Free here

Fri Jul 18 2000 GMT Holger Gilruth at Edunation Language Community event in Second Life

The EdLC is the new name for an active group of language educators who meet twice a month to exchange best practise in language education. The meetings take place on EduNation every 1st Sunday of the month and every 3rd Friday of the month

at 8pm GMT/ 1pm SLT / 9pm UK time / 8am NZ time – 3 pm in Texas

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether+with+Edunation+in+Second+Life&iso=20140718T20&p1=1440&ah=1 

WHERE? EduNation next to the Sandbox, bonfire in front of Irish Pub

WHY?

– to learn from each other through practical sessions on building, scripting, machinima (‘workshops’)

– to exchange ideas on how to deal with students, methodology etc. (‘fireside chats’)

– invite guest speakers (‘coffee with…’)

If you want to volunteer, please contact Heike aka Gwen.

This was the final event in this series

For more information, visit and join the NING at http://virtualworldssig.ning.com/

Fri Jul 18 at 2000 GMT Shelly Terrell American TESOL webinar – Cloud computing and the ELT class

Note that times in GMT may vary because the timing is fixed to a local time zone where clocks are moved forward / back periodically

The following screen with its many links live can be found at http://bit.ly/eltlinks which redirects to

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?tab_layout=side&id=292127#anchor

Learning2gether 3 days with RSCON5, and last week of TTO MOOC

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Learning2gether Episode 226

RSCON5 Reform Symposium online July 11-13, 2014

2014 Reform Symposium E-Conference. The conference will be held online over the course of 3 days: July 11-13th. It will be free for educators worldwide to attend and in the past we had thousands of teachers attend from over 100 different countries. We are featuring plenaries Dean Shareski and Kevin Honeycutt along with 11 keynotes from all over the world!

Hash tag – #rscon5

Sat July 12 Vance Stevens reported on the Antwerp CALL 2014 conference July 7-9


Download Audio:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/rscon5antwerpcall2014_vancestevens.mp3

URLs

When?  Sat, July 12, 20:00pm – 20:30pm GMT

Where? Bb Collaborate / Elluminate

Short Session Description (one line):

The presentation reports impressions and dominant threads from a conference in Antwerp  July 7-9 2014 on Research Challenges in CALL

Full Session Description

July 7-9 2014 the presenter attended a conference entitled

ANTWERP CALL 2014: Research Challenges in CALL

This presentation conveys impressions of the conference and encapsulate the dominant threads and research agendas to emerge, primarily through the conference Twitter stream. A Flipboard was produced to capture the activity and vibe of the conference. This means of aggregating content from professional events and displaying that content via an aggregation tool can serve as a model for archive and delegate reflection on conferences.

Announcements:

Tweets

2014-07-15_0640rscon1

2014-07-15_0642rscon2

2014-07-15_0642rscon3

2014-07-15_0644rscon4

2014-07-15_0645rscon5

2014-07-15_0646rscon6

Vance Stevens rsconcert

If you attended the presentation, please download and display the badge:

Vance Call

Get badges for other presentations you attended here
http://www.futureofeducation.com/page/rscon5-digital-badges

Other presentations reported via the Webheads in Action and L2G FB and G+ communities

Here are some posts returned from searches on #rscon5 on Facebook and Google+

2014-07-15_0224shareski

2014-07-15_0023rscon5-1

http://evridikidakos.edublogs.org/2014/07/08/l1-in-l2-classrooms-reform-symposium-conference/

2014-07-15_0109filip

2014-07-15_0039Filip

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.3F83255C4DDFF6BD54C70F58111C4E

2014-07-15_0236dodgeson

2014-07-15_0036rscon-tatom

http://www.slideshare.net/doctatom/connecting-through-twit-cast

2014-07-15_0251danbrown

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.A21979806809F86AEA17CC1CC191E8

2014-07-15_0042urban_teacher

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.9467F851650E7659A6217675AF3AA8

2014-07-15_0046ozge

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.C3ECD16DEC7E30B0165810150B11C4

2014-07-15_0054snakegaming

2014-07-15_0059aysegul

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/nativeplayback.jnlp?sid=2008350&psid=2014-07-13.0957.D.756C6449BF766B2D2537315BE62560.vcr

2014-07-15_0101rafranz

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.5F6D537453A9356221A40E8A61B04A

2014-07-15_0103soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/tastenspieler/rscon5-jingle-feat-tamaras

2014-07-15_0107blazic

URL needed for this one

2014-07-15_0121cristina

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.CB2CC508BCE481246A42BBDD6A8A20

2014-07-15_0124malu

http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/creative-writing-and-language-teaching

2014-07-15_0132avispektor

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.916BDB508DBEF6EF4380CF24BBA5F2

2014-07-15_0256roselli

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.1AE8E5F54632E3197C4FDB34212E93

2014-07-15_0304loras

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.0A2B19237B4FC01833D952DD8A806C

2014-07-15_0134authorspot

2014-07-15_0136chucksandt

Link to 3-hour video here: http://youtu.be/b9BX4yoMMiY

2014-07-15_0138marijana

http://englishlearning-marijanasblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/rscon5-online-reform-symposium.html

2014-07-15_0141leoJC

Leo JC: https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.DC5CAD8F3E6B22F610F3D07D1F27D5

2014-07-15_0141chaouki

2014-07-15_0142sousanis

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.E1F3949382319D03971E6B9336E716

2014-07-15_0208see

2014-07-15_0216mateini

https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.1F89853185139DC7A0DE9B490B731F

2014-07-15_0219hayfa

These are just a few of the posts on Facebook and Google+ that were tagged #rscon5. For a full list of recordings:

Teachers Teaching Online MOOC winds down

Ongoing through July 12 – Jason Levine – Teachers Teaching Online – TTO MOOC

Starting 15th June, 2014, and through to 12th July 2014 Jason R. Levine a.k.a. Fluency MC, Ambassador and Knowledge Entertainer at WizIQ, will team up with expert and popular online educators to bring you a brand-new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called “Teachers Teaching Online” where teachers can learn how to succeed as an online educator.

http://blog.wiziq.com/teachers-teaching-online-coming-soon-mooc-near/

Enroll for Free here

Schedule of events:

Earlier this week

Fri Jul 11 at 2000 GMT Shelly Terrell American TESOL webinar – The learning playground for Kids

Note that times in GMT may vary because the timing is fixed to a local time zone where clocks are moved forward / back periodically

As an example, this is the one for May 16, 2014, 1600 EDT, 2000 GMT

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shelly+Terrell%27s+Weekly+Friday+TESOL+Seminars&iso=20140516T16&p1=179&ah=1

The following screen with its many links live can be found at http://bit.ly/eltlinks which redirects to

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?tab_layout=side&id=292127#anchor

The schedule to the right of this image is updated weekly and available at

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uBCwS4uFDrdVdYGYBBYUOlpK9CMaSV69770D20QIW3c/pu

Learning2gether with EdLC and Edunation: Randall Sadler on Holodecks in Second Life

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Learning2gether Episode 225

Randall Sadler on Holodecks: Sun Jul 6 Edunation Language Community EdLC event in Second Life, hosted by Heike Philp

On Sunday I, Vance had just arrived in Brussels to attend the Antwerp CALL 2014 conference. As my travel plans had been uncertain I didn’t have any particular plans for Learning2gether on this day, but I had the great pleasure of attending this live event in Second Life, which would have been after midnight where I live in UAE but occurred late evening in Belgium.

In this event I had the great pleasure of following Randall Sadler through his demonstration of holodeck software he is using and what he can do with it in Second Life. The workshop was pitched at people with greater skills in SL than mine, but it was fascinating observing the potential of being able to change your surroundings at a whim, and to follow the crowd as the avatars marveled at the incredible builds.

Dr. Randall Sadler on using Holodecks with Language Learners in SL

Hopefully, we’ll find an embed of the recording of this event to place here.

Randall Sadler has given numerous presentations on this topic recently; for example, on June 4 this year he gave a presentation with the following description:

Holodecks–a Users and Builders introduction.  This workshop will introduce to holodecks and take you step-by-step how you create your own scene using the Horizons Holodeck System.  (If you want to package your own builds during the workshop, please buy either the Horizons Multi-Scene Rezzer Home Edition or the Horizons Multi-Scene Rezzer Pro Version before the workshop–both available on Second Life Marketplace. For more information, visit and join the NING at http://virtualworldssig.ning.com/

Here are some of Randall Renoir’s recent recorded presentations

EdLC

The EdLC is the new name for an active group of language educators who meet twice a month to exchange best practise in language education. The meetings take place on EduNation every 1st Sunday of the month and every 3rd Friday of the month at 8pm GMT/ 1pm SLT / 9pm UK time / 8am NZ time

WHERE?

EduNation next to the Sandbox, bonfire in front of Irish Pub

WHY?

  • to learn from each other through practical sessions on building, scripting, machinima (‘workshops’)
  • to exchange ideas on how to deal with students, methodology etc. (‘fireside chats’)
  • invite guest speakers (‘coffee with…’)

If you want to volunteer, please contact Heike aka Gwen.

For more information, visit and join the NING at http://virtualworldssig.ning.com/

Earlier this week

June 29 – Hangout with Filip and Marijana Smolčec on the EU LLP Comenius project and learning through Minecraft

https://learning2gether.net/2014/06/29/hangout-with-filip-and-marijana-smolcec-on-the-eu-llp-comenius-project-and-learning-through-minecraft/

Mon Jun 30 I have a question – Jeff Lebow, Dave Cormier, John Schinker, Jennifer Maddrell

Find the event at the Google+ Community page https://plus.google.com/communities/102307879401185751970

or join the stream live http://edtechtalk.com/live/ihaq

IHAQ hangouts utilize the Comment  Tracker, check it out https://plus.google.com/+RonnieBincer/posts/UFhgVE7DfTV

Mon Jun 30 1900 GMT Letizia Cinganotto and Daniela Cuccurullo – MM4: Moodle for CLIL EVO

Letizia Cinganotto and Daniela Cuccurullo – MM4: Moodle for CLIL EVO (Electronic Village Online)

Monday, June 30, 2014

Time: 19:00 GMT

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1892482-mm4-moodle-for-clil-evo-electronic-village-online

Tue July 1 1700 GMT Creating a Supportive Community of Learners with Ludmila Smirnova

You need to join the TTO MOOC (free) to see how to join this class

http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#OngoingthroughJuly12JasonLevineTeachersTeachingOnlinenbspnbspTTOnbspMOOC

 

Wed July 2 1900 GMT Leading from the Inside Out with Dr. Nellie Deutsch

You need to join the TTO MOOC (free) to see how to join this class

http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#OngoingthroughJuly12JasonLevineTeachersTeachingOnlinenbspnbspTTOnbspMOOC

Fri Jul 4 at 2000 GMT Shelly Terrell American TESOL webinar – Engaging learning through SMS, Emojis, & chatting apps

Note that times in GMT may vary because the timing is fixed to a local time zone where clocks are moved forward / back periodically

As an example, this is the one for May 16, 2014, 1600 EDT, 2000 GMT

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shelly+Terrell%27s+Weekly+Friday+TESOL+Seminars&iso=20140516T16&p1=179&ah=1

The following screen with its many links live can be found at http://bit.ly/eltlinks which redirects to

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?tab_layout=side&id=292127#anchor

The schedule to the right of this image is updated weekly and available at

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uBCwS4uFDrdVdYGYBBYUOlpK9CMaSV69770D20QIW3c/pu