Learning2gether Episode 235

Download mp3:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/learning2gether-with-eltai-2014-post-conference-webinar-g4akv7w28n8.mp3?

The webinar started in WizIQ, recording at: http://go.wiziq.com/2tsw 

Eventually Vance Stevens joined in WizIQ and guided participants there to join a Google Hangout on Air (HoA) 

This special Learning2gether event was a part of the post-conference of the 9th International and 45th Annual ELTAI Conference – http://eltaiconferences.com/WEBINAR_14.html

Webheadsinaction.org archive: http://webheadsinaction.org/learning2gether-eltai-2014-post-conference-webinar

ELTAI is the English Language Teachers’ Association of India, Rajasthan: Jaipur Chapter (An Associate of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language [IATEFL], U.K.)

POST CONFERENCE WEBINAR Coordinators: Dr. Ashok Kapil and Dr. V.Anitha Devi

• 9.30 a.m GMT (3.00 pm IST) Dr. Sanjay Arora- ELTAI Conferences: The Milestones of Yesteryears
  • Recording in WizIQ  http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2103771-post-conference-webinar-to-9th-elt-i-conference
• 10:00 a.m. GMT (3:30 pm IST) Global Perspectives on ELTAI – International participation – Vance Stevens Learning2gether session – Live demonstration – Hangouts on Air

Instructions for joining the Hangout (you can join directly in the HoA or you can watch and listen to the stream)

If you wish to join directly, you need to

1. Log on to your Google (e.g. Gmail) account
2. Put on your headphones or ear buds
   (If you have no headset please listen to the stream. Sound from speakers creates echo in the Hangout)
3. Click on the link to launch the HoA
   https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYf6eFPWuEIQwgAJmI4BKvOzHhLcX4UrJy3S5QFvn2yhaY03kQ?authuser=0&hl=en
4. Activate your mic and webcam (optional)
   1. Unmute your mic when ready to talk
   2. Please mute your mic when not talking.

If you wish to listen on the stream, you can do so in any of several ways

1. You can visit http://webheadsinaction.org/live (here you will also find a Chatwing text chat)
2. You can visit the Google+ event page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c07nnb1ffl76k3ljflejink7nlo
3. You can watch on YouTube directly: http://youtu.be/g4AkV7W28n8

Vance Stevens touched on Learning2gether https://learning2gether.net/about and ways we could connect with Indian educators in the way we met  Anitha Devi through Webheads (Learning2gether is an extension of Webheads). The plan is to

1. meet at WizIQ, where everyone will be for Dr. Sanjay Arora’s presentation
2. explain how to move either to Hangout or to follow the stream on YouTube, as per the writeup here:
   Stevens, V. (2013). Tweaking Technology: How Communities Meet Online Using Google+ Hangouts On Air with Unlimited Participants. TESL-EJ, Volume 17, Number 3, pp. 1-16. Available: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej67/int.pdf (also at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume17/ej67/ej67int/).
3. move to Hangout on Air (links to be provided shortly; as per instructions at http://webheadsinaction.com/live)

This is also a yesteryear and future experience.

• Yesteryear
  • I met Dr. Anitha Devi when she participated in Webheads weekly events on Sundays around ten years ago. More on Webheads can be found at http://webheads.info
  • On July 19, 2012 I presented a talk entitled Engaging students with technology in Web 2.0 English classes at a distance from Abu Dhabi to the ELTAI Conference in Vellore, India. There is a write-up of the presentation here: http://vanceposterous.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/a-small-research-project-on-student-attitudes/ and a TESL-EJ updated variation on the theme here:http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej62/ej62int/.
  • Presentation links include:

• Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/engaging-students-eltai-19july2012-stevens
• ELTAI Conference portal: http://www.eltaiconferences.com/Conference.html
• Program: http://www.eltaiconferences.com/Pdf/conferenceprogram12.pdf
• Recording (video and audio start 20 min. into the recording; the presentation itself at about 30 min.): http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/906483-engaging-students-with-technology-in-web-2-0-english-classes
• I made a Camtasia recording cutting out the 30 min lag time and podcast it:
  http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2012-07-23T01_03_41-07_00
• Regarding the future, my next visit to India is to the Eighth Joint Conference of APACALL and PacCALL, Bhavan’s College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India9-11 October 2014 – http://glocall.org/course/view.php?id=81&topic=0#section-8

Announcments

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/eltai2014
• Google+ communities:
  • Webheadsinaction, https://plus.google.com/communities/114550321376936920900
  • Learning2gether, https://plus.google.com/communities/109504049211076695836
  • EdTech Mojo, https://plus.google.com/communities/110130856353339654958
  • MultiMOOC, https://plus.google.com/communities/104523567430842485789
  • Intergrating CALL with Web 2.0 and Social Media, https://plus.google.com/communities/112312474779630822736
  • Teachers for Interactive Language Learning (TILL) https://plus.google.com/communities/106289715383230353120
  • Web 2.0 Teaching and Learning https://plus.google.com/communities/112197420264775820915
• Facebook Groups:
  • Learning2gether, https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
  • TAEdTech, https://www.facebook.com/groups/TAEdTech/
  • Multiliteracies, https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
  • Webheads, https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
  • Learning with Computers, https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/

Earlier this week

Sun Sept 7 – Learning2gether in Hangout with Marijana Smolcec talking about the EU LLP Comenius Project

https://learning2gether.net/2014/09/07/learning2gether-in-hangout-with-marijana-smolcec-talking-about-the-eu-llp-comenius-project/

Thu Sep 11 1400 GMT Bron Stuckey on The Gaming Revolution

THE GAMIFICATION REVOLUTION

Weekly gamification webinar featuring Gabe Zichermann, where the gamification community come together and answer user questions about gamification design and engagement.

http://www.gamification.co/gamification-revolution/

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CLICK THE “LIVE CHAT” BUTTON TO SEE THE CHATROOM!

Upcoming Episode: Sept 11th – 10:00 AM ET – Innovative Educational Ideas Bron Stuckey

Thu Sep 11 Webinar on Video Game Design as the New 21st-Century Literacy

http://connectedlearning.tv/video-games-new-21st-century-literacy

http://dmlhub.net/

This seems to have come to me through the Connected Courses Mooc in the FB post above

Sun Sep 14 Timeline of an eConnected Story

http://www.wiziq.com/course/75751-webinars-for-iatefl-ylt-sig

Past deadline for proposals for EVO 2015 – get yours in asap 🙂

Call for Proposals is at http://evosession.pbworks.com

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