Learning2gether Episode 275

Download mp3: https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/learning2gether-with-maria-colussa-about-mystery-location-calls-zvwtvnyyb00.mp3? On Sunday May 31 LEARNING2GETHER  was priviledged to meet with Maria Colussa and her colleagues in Hello LIttle World about Mystery Location Calls. In her presentation she demonstrated how she stimulates student interest in culture and language with “mystery location” Skype calls. Here are

• the slides from her presentation: http://es.slideshare.net/mariacolussa/learning2gether-31st-may
• and a Google Doc with more information and links: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VWLs5pvKBEEE0jN_yxTgRHKM9HiLlj0rx9CEIfQ-Xfo/edit?pli=1

The event took place in Google+ Hangout on Air

• Join the conversation on the Google+ event page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cf18l2d47nekpdfqkqf99sb2lho
• Live-streamed
  • on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zVWTVNyyB00
  • and at http://webheadsinaction.org/live where
    • You can listen at the YouTube embed there
    • You can chat with us in real-time in the Chatwing embed or open the chat in a new window here http://chatwing.com/vancestev
    • there is an archive here http://webheadsinaction.org/learning2gether-maria-colussa-about-mystery-location-calls

Links mentioned in the text chat

• http://www.longingtolearn.blogspot.com
• https://education.skype.com/
• A video invitation to Sebastian’s July 4 event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pquOPf6oq3Q
• And this late addition from Jonathan Wylie: Free Mystery Skype Curriculum for Schools
  http://jonathanwylie.com/2015/07/17/free-mystery-skype-curriculum-for-schools/

Copy / paste of chatwing text chat for this session

chatWING

Vance Stevens

HoA with Maria Colussa has startedhttps://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYcdxoNzSuRnPlmPKvG7zUelLH1BKrcF8kae41jtijMFNgq85A?authuser=0&hl=en

michaelc

Hi Maria and others

michaelc

Lionel Messi!

David Winet

Hola

michaelc

Hi David!

David Winet

Either on the equator or a visitor from another world?

Ah, Europe……western, central or eastern? OK, my guess is Hungary.

michaelc

But it must be northern hemisphere

David Winet

Ah, I am NEVER WRONG 🙂

michaelc

You were right Dave!

I bet you are wrong sometimes 🙂

David Winet

Mais bien sur… 🙂 Because she doesn’t have a slavic accent – so it had to be a non-slavic eastern european country near Austria. You’re right, I am often wrong in truth.

michaelc

🙂

David Winet

I came in late. How do we find people online to play this game with? Is there a good way?

michaelc

Can you put the link for the pres here?

michaelc

yep! it’s me

Vance Stevens

ok, gimme a sec

michaelc

I’m happy here 🙂

Vance Stevens

slow computer, digging out the slideshare link

here it is http://es.slideshare.net/mariacolussa/learning2gether-31st-may

we’re on slide 4 of 15

michaelc

Thanks V

David Winet

Ah, so this is a classroom exchange kind of thing set up by teachers working with other teachers in other countries?

michaelc

yes Dave.

David Winet

Ah, thanks Mike. And how does the initiating teacher locate willing teachers in toher countries?

Vance Stevens

would you lkke to join the HO and ask or do you want me to relay the question?

David Winet

Me, me… but how?

(btw I sent you a couple of private messages)

Vance Stevens

scroll up for the link

ah, sorry, multitasking 🙂

David Winet

Ah, ok.

michaelc

Although I gather sometimes Maria works with students 1-1

Vance Stevens

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYcdxoNzSuRnPlmPKvG7zUelLH1BKrcF8kae41jtijMFNgq85A?authuser=0&hl=en

yeah, she never explained that

michaelc

LOL

Vance Stevens

her first time?

there’s a lot of HO chat, I can never get peple in the HO to use chatwing

Robert Wachman

If someone wants to join the Hangout live, I’ll leave.

Michael c?

Vance Stevens

Michael says he’s happy there, but there’s an offer

Robert Wachman

OK.

Anyone else, just let me know.

michaelc

Maria – this has been great. Thank you. I need to go. Bye.

Robert Wachman

I’m going to leave the Hangout now. Thanks a lot.

Vance Stevens

ok robert, thanks for joining

Maria’s previous version of this presentation https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cpgpka8onula4k56rk7gmsq2014?authkey=CIS1n5nJpIDXPQ Posted with Permission from Maria Colussa

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-maria-colussa-about-mystery-location-calls
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/messages/31785
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/multilit/conversations/messages/2078
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/learningwithcomputers/conversations/messages/7039
• Facebook groups Webheads, Learning2gether, Multiliteracies, TAEdTech, and Learning with Computers
• These Google+ Communities

Earlier this week

Sun May 24 1400 GMT LEARNING2GETHER with Mbarek Akaddar about managing EVO with Trello

https://learning2gether.net/2015/05/24/learning2gether-with-mbarek-akaddar-about-managing-evo-with-trello/

Tue May 26 1800 GMT Shelly Terrell on eTwinning

Presumed time (CET?) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shelly+Terrell+on+eTwinning&iso=20150526T20&p1=168&ah=1 Marijana informs me that “logging in requires email and special password, and you need to be EU teacher tio attend it as a memeber of eTwinning. But there will be a recording and I will try to make a summary of her talk, maybe when I get the recording I will do a short youtube video. will see. But, thank you for sharing it :-)” Normally I try and post announcements here of only open events, but I also post on behalf of people I like 🙂 As there will be a recording, and if it too is available on open access, I’ll include this in the archive for next week.

Sat May 30 1500 BST IATEFL Seminar – Charles Hadfield on Creative Grammar

http://www.iatefl.org/web-events/webinars

May 1-31 Moodle MOOC 6

http://www.wiziq.com/teachblog/whats-ahead-2015/ YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxnQ4IcAENQdh3RrtzAjIhrD

Sat May 30 noon EST Letia Cooper on Classroom 2.0 Webinar

Learning2gether Episode 273

Download mp3 (first 32 minutes of HoA): https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/learning2gether-with-david-winet-on-teaching-f2f-writing-using-wechat-and-polleverywhere-3ggx7ghhtqq.mp3? Dave’s topic was using WeChat and Polleverywhere for live, in-class, corrected on-the-fly student writing Where? Hangout on Air

• Event Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cdl7319mjskg3higciq9vbllp10

Live-streamed on

• You Tube: https://youtu.be/3gGx7ghHtqQ
• Webheadsinaction.org: http://webheadsinaction.org/live
  • Includes a live text chat window so you can interact with others in the stream if the HoA is full
  • Join the chat at the page above or here: http://chatwing.com/vancestev
  • Archived at http://webheadsinaction.org/learning2gether-david-winet-about-using-wechat-and-polleverywhere-live-class-corrected-fly-student-w
• and the video embed here

What’s it all about? Dave introduces the topic Writing  is for students pretty much unrelenting drudgery and pain, even in their own language — not to mention in English!  Very few students write for pleasure; this is an undeniable fact (go ahead, prove me wrong.) Consequently students don’t approach writing with any enthusiasm, don’t write much, and generally write poorly. And yet modern society without clear, cogent writing is unthinkable. What is the problem?

In my view the reason is that our students are usually not writing about anything that is interesting, much less compelling, to them — but rather writing on topics assigned from a textbook, topics which do not “grab” them “where they live” and whose purpose is solely to train them, like monkeys, to use correct essay structure, rather than to express their thoughts, ideas, discoveries, experiences, acquired knowledge and feelings.

There is a difference between learning a skill that enriches one’s existence and learning a skill to get a good score on TOEFL or IELTS.  The latter, which is the rule, is the unhelpful triumph of form over content.   Let students first learn to love writing, then hit them with all the fine points of good (academic) writing. Fortunately, and as is often the case lately, modern technology has provided at least a partial solution to this problem in the form of online, real-time, instantly viewable-and respondable-to, writing-based platforms for in-class and out-of-class writing, such as WeChat (http://www.wechat.com) and Polleverywhere (http://www.polleverywhere.com) , just to name two that I have some acquaintance with.

My presentation will attempt to show how the use of these tools has the serendipitous effect of getting students to write, and write copiously, both in and out of class – enthusiastically, and with purpose.  Nor are these tools in any way inconsistent with improving students’ style, syntax, grammar and structure but rather, used skillfully, can enhance all of those skills; indeed willy-nilly, by dint of the student wanting to communicate effectively, he/she will little by little adopt the conventions that make effective, powerful communication easier.

David Winet, Cal State East Bay American Language Program, USA (david.winet@gmail.com) and online at http://Chatonic.com (“studyenglish” and “studycom” rooms).

Why is the recording incomplete? Vance’s Internet suddenly went down at about 24 minutes into the event. I didn’t know immediately what the problem was but I soon found that my modem had gone dark, no blinking lights, so I tried using my cell phone to reconnect to the event. Hangouts would not connect, but I managed to leave messages in the Chatwing. Fortunately, I had a spare modem in a back bedroom, so I went to get it, connected it, but again, no blinking lights. All the other devices in that rack were blinking so it must be the power supply to that modem. I went to the back to get the power supply for the replacement modem, plugged it in, and restored the previous modem to service. This took me half an hour,and by the time I had got the modem functioning again, I guess Google had already terminated the HoA, though when I got back in, people seemed to be engrossed in conversation. Unfortunately, it was not being recorded.

Feedback

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-david-winet-on-teaching-f2f-writing-using-we
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/messages/31769
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/multilit/conversations/messages/2076
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/learningwithcomputers/conversations/messages/7036
• And posted to various Facebook groups and Google+ Communities

Earlier this week

Thu May 7 1800 GMT Joe Dale – Planning a virtual field trip to New Orleans

https://learning2gether.net/2015/05/07/learning2gether-with-joe-dale-planning-a-virtual-field-trip-to-new-orleans/ This event served at our Learning2gether session for the week of May 4-10

May 8 Maria Colussa on Mystery Location Calls

Maria has agreed to present this as a Learning2gether event on Sunday May 31 … https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cpgpka8onula4k56rk7gmsq2014?authkey=CIS1n5nJpIDXPQ Posted with Permission from Maria Colussa

Fri-Sat May 8-9 Education on Air free online conference for educators

Register here https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/live/2015-may and explore

• http://www.educationworld.com/a_news/google-hangouts-host-education-conference-1693475644
• http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/2015/03/join-us-for-education-on-air_4.html

Day 1 1400 to  1900 GMT will focus on “leading for the future” with sessions from educators, students, and other leaders. On Day 2 1100 to 0130 (next day) GMT Over 100 educators will lead sessions on “shaping the classroom today.” Topics will range from “increasing student collaboration” to “successful device deployments” to “teaching computer science.” I hope that you and your teammates will find this conference valuable. You can register online for the free event, and there is more info here: http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2015/04/google-launches-education-conference-hangouts

May 13 – Elaine Hoter and International Day at theTEC Center

http://www.mofet.macam.ac.il/tec/13-5-2015/eng/Pages/default.aspx

Learning2gether Episode 272

Download mp3:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/joedale07may2015.mp3?

On Thu May 7 1800 GMT Learning2gether attended an event organized by Juergen Wagner, hosting Joe Dale presenting on apps and websites for Planning a virtual field trip to New Orleans. The  announcements and show notes were prepared by Juergen.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8905964/Breeze/invitation_field_trip.pdf

Post paratory Announcements

• Lots of great links in the post-conference show notes
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8905964/Breeze/Post_conference_doc_Joe_Dale_Fieldtrip.pdf
• Enter your feedback into the Padlet http://padlet.com/wagjuer/webinars (Just state your full name and enter a short remark concerning last night’s EVENT!!!)

What? This is planned as a virtual tour of a place, city or region: a powerful vehicle for

• promoting intercultural understanding
• creating authentic language learning opportunities
• free web tools for planning a virtual field trip: New Orleans as an example destination
• how to find creative commons licensed images on Flickr
• how to incorporate them into a Pinterest board
• how to share them via a Padlet wall
• Storybird as a creative writing tool bringing together key
• vocabulary and expressions
• how to create a Google Slides presentation based on the content

Who? 

• Presenter: JOE DALE
• Host: THOMAS STRASSER

Adobe Connect Recording

https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/p2jt3xe3f7b/

Announcements made by Learning2gether

• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/messages/31757
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/messages/31758
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/multilit/conversations/messages/2075
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-joe-dale-planning-a-virtual-field-trip-to-ne

Earlier this week

May 3 1300 GMT Learning2gether about Study.com with David Winet, Michael Coghlan, and Vance Stevens

https://learning2gether.net/2015/05/03/learning2gether-about-study-com-with-david-winet-michael-coghlan-and-vance-stevens/

Thu May 4 1800 GMT Sandrine Pac-Kenny – Using apps for better oral proficiency

http://v.gd/usingapps

Learning2gether Episode 271

Download mp3: https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/learning2gether-about-study-com-with-david-winet-michael-coghlan-and-vance-stevens-pmm5rmsmczm.mp3?

On Sunday May 3, at 1300 GMT we were Learning2gether about StudyCom with David Winet, Michael Coghlan, and Vance Stevens

The topic for Learning2gether this week is about emerging advances in online learning since the turn of the century, from a panel who were there at the beginning and have stayed on the wave for the past decade and a half. Dave Winet recently sold the domain study dot com marking the end of an era for many Webheads. Study dot com was a free website that attracted and matched teachers with language students interested in studying online just before the dawn of social media. Dave’s innovative methods created among other things a space for language learners at the Palace, which was where Vance Stevens, Michael Coghlan, and Maggi Doty met in an online class for ESL students that soon became Writing for Webheads and evolved in 2002 into Webheads in Action, a community of practice for teachers. In this session, Dave and Michael join me, Vance, in talking about some of the very forward thinking developments that characterized Dave’s work starting late last century and that have led us through Webheads in Action on up to Learning2gether, twenty years later. If you were with us at that time, please join us to add your reminiscences, and for those who have more recently joined us, enjoy a conversation with the founders of Webheads in Action.

Where? Google Hangout on Air streamed live

• HoA Event Page:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c4eug9m8jngd0jqksvt33fp5cik
• Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PMm5RmsMczM
• Archived on Webheads in Action dot org here http://webheadsinaction.org/learning2gether-about-studycom-david-winet-michael-coghlan-and-vance-stevens

Alternative live stream with Chatwing text chat You can join us here for the video embed above plus interact with us via the Chatwing embed on the same page http://webheadsinaction.org/live You can also join the Chatwing live chat at http://chatwing.com/vancestev When? 1300 GMT …

• Time where you are: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether+about+Study.com&iso=20150503T13&p1=1440&ah=1
• Countdown to the event:  http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=1440&iso=20150503T13&msg=Learning2gether%20about%20Study.com

Some links:  Study.com preserved: http://web.archive.org/web/19961229001550/http://www.study.com/ Writing for Webheads: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm Webheads in Action:

• http://webheads.info
• http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads_evo.htm
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/info
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114550321376936920900

Vanessa Vaille reports that The StudyCom Yahoo group is still open, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/studycom/ and the page is still there without the domain name, http://www.transbay.net/~dwinet/indexEnglish.html ~ and apparently the Chatterbox room too Show notes These links were mentioned in the HoA

• http://www.instructables.com/ –  A site where makers can post instructions on how they create
• http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/marina.htm – Marina joined us from Webheads in Action, 2000 – it was a coincidence that she got to thinking about us and looked us up
• The new http://study.com/ – Dave Winet likes the new owners and approves of the changes they are making
• http://screencast.com/t/drsoqEnCI – Allison McColl pays tribute to Dave’s influence on her practice
• Michael Coghlan showed us some of his Study.com pages that are still online
  • http://michaelcoghlan.net/toefllessonsplan.htm
  • http://www.michaelcoghlan.net/fearsongcloze.htm
  • http://michaelcoghlan.net/TOEFLHOME.htm

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-about-study-com-with-david-winet
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/topics/31753
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/multilit/conversations/messages/2074
• and at our Google+ communities and FB groups

Earlier this week

Fri Apr 24 1130 GMT LEARNING2GETHER with Jim Buckingham in BbC from SQU EFL Conference, Oman

https://learning2gether.net/2015/04/24/learning2gether-backchannel-on-jim-buckinghams-squ-talk-on-pd-opportunities-via-taedtech-sig/

Mon Apr 6-30 Second Life MOOC

According to http://www.wiziq.com/teachblog/whats-ahead-2015/ And here’s s’more: https://www.smore.com/tq8pc-second-life-mooc-2015?embed=1 Enroll in the course: https://www.wiziq.com/course/100230-second-life-mooc-2015-slmooc15 Here is the complete program https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFcDL0RmgXH5pXS0n5ls1C3jiefxVdA_MgZUzd5oPb4/edit

30 Apr 1800 GMT Webinar on annotation and discussion of collaborative PDF documents

(This webinar was in German) Einladung zu kostenloser Online-Fortbildung: “Kollaborativ PDF-Dokumente annotieren und diskutieren – online

• Einladung zu kostenloser Online-Fortbildung: “Kollaborativ PDF-Dokumente annotieren und diskutieren – online
• Das Tool „nb“ (für notabene): entwickelt und verfügbar gemacht vom MIT)
• Funktionsumfang: pdf-Dokumente jeder Art von Lehrern und Lernern individuell und gemeinsam annotieren, diskutieren und hinterfragen
• sehr niedrige Einstiegsschwelle
• Einung nicht nur für universitäre Lehre, sondern auch im schulischen Unterricht
• Vorstellung des Dienstes anhand von Unterrichtsbeispielen und gemeinsame Erprobung
• Referenten: Uwe Klemm und Marie-Eve Beaulieu
• Moderator: Thomas Strasser
• Do 30. 04. 2015 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET
• Weitere LPM-Webinare in deutscher Sprache
• World Clock Meeting Planner
• Zugangslink: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/notabene
• Option „Als Gast eintreten“ wählen und UNBEDINGT !!! vollständigen !!! Namen eingeben. (Kein Kennwort erforderlich!)
• Weitere LPM-Webinare
• Anmeldung per Mail an JWagner@lpm.uni-sb.de
• Falls zum ersten Mal dabei, bitte UNBEDINGT !!! bei der Anmeldung Adresse und Diensstelle (Schule, Universität, Institut, …) angeben.
• Auf Anfrage können Teilnahmebescheinigungen erstellt werden.
• E4.121-0345: Workflow mit dem iPad
• Andreas Hofmann
• 11. 05. 2015 | 19:00h – 20:30 CET
• Zugangslink: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/workflow/
• Info: http://v.gd/workflow
• E4.111-0945: Erstellung von Erklär-Videos mit einem Tablet (iPad)
• Alain Christophe / Moderator: Etienne Kneipp
• 08. 06. 2015 | 19:00h – 20:30h
• Zugangslink: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/erklaervideos/
• Info: http://v.gd/erklaervideos
• E4.111-0156: Digitale Lehrertasche: Unterrichtsvorbereitung und -durchführung mit Android-Geräten
• Uwe Klemm / Moderator: Patrick Schäfer
• 21. 09. 2015 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET
• Zugangslink: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/lehrertasche
• Info: http://v.gd/lehrertasche
• B1.512-1756: Das iPad als mobiles Filmstudio im Unterricht
• Patrick Schäfer / Moderatorin: Ariane Gerhart
• 28.04.2016 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET
• Zugangslink: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/filmstudio/
• Info: http://v.gd/filmstudio
• B1.512-0156: Ein praxiserprobter iPad-Workflow für das Klassenzimmer
• Ariane Gerhart / Moderator: Patrick Schäfer
• 12. 05 2016 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET
• Zugangslink: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/praxiserprobt/
• Info: http://v.gd/praxiserprobt
• Alle LPM-Webinare