On Sunday September 27 at the usual time of 1400 UTC Learning2gether met with Rob Howard to talk about the upcoming EFL Talks 10 in 10 for 10 – What, why, and how can you participate? Participating with us in the chat were Rita Zeinstejer from Argentina and Halima Ozimova from Tashkent. Nellie Deutsch was also there; she will be helping Rob mount his event from a single URL at WizIQ. Maha Abdulmoneim and Art Oglesby were known to be in the stream
Next Sunday Oct 4 Learning2gether will be a part of the EFLTalks program, at http://efltalks.com/
EFLtalks is a non-profit mission to produce an open and free space to share advice, tips and ideas to the next generation of EFL professionals. The project mixes the ideas of a webathon with a Pecha Kucha and TED talks all into one. Real blended teaching.
For the event, celebrating World Teachers’ Day, Rob and his team will kick-off a free 10-hour marathon of mini-webinars. Each speaker will have only 10 minutes using only PowerPoint 10 slides to make their point about their subject. We will open one webinar room lasting all 10 hours so there is only one link to enter the webathon, and viewers may come and go as time permits.
Our chat wth Rob on Sept 27 was in Google+ Hangout on Air
Mon Sep 21 1930 EDT Richard Byrne on marketing your teaching materials on TES
Monday night, September 21st, at 7:30pm EDT Richard Byrnewill be presenting a free one-hour Webinar on strategies for using blogs, social media, and email to promote the resources that you can sell through the TES Marketplace.
Register to attend live, or to receive a link to watch the recording, HERE.
This event is sponsored by TES. The TES Marketplace is open to any educator who wants to offers free and or premium resources to other educators. Educators who sell their resources through the TES Marketplace receive 100% for resources purchased in the U.S. There’s no limit to how much you can earn.
In the Webinar Richard will share his best strategies for promoting the materials without feeling like you’re turning yourself into a sales person. A TES representative will also be on the webinar show the unique features of the TES Marketplace.
Thu Sept 24 European Day of Languages 2015 in Hangout
Says you have to register to receive the Hangout link; what if you just want to watch the stream?
The event passed before the organizers would provide a solution, but they posted a document detailing how they would meet with others in their circle (see link at end of this post)
Welcome to the European Day of Languages 2015 we will celebrate on 24th September 2015. Because the 26th September is a Saturday and our school is closed that day we want to celebrate that event on the 24th September already.
This event is set up every year by the European Council in Brussels for all kind of schools in Europe to raise awareness about one common Europe community on one hand and to express the lingual diversity of all members of the EU on the other hand: “Being convinced that linguistic diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of our continent, the Council of Europe promotes pluralingualism in the whole of Europe.” Fourty-seven member countries belong to this community including the islands outside the European continent which belong to the EC as well.
Download mp3: https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/fall-blog-festival-with-vance-stevens-lhm-mae_ick.mp3?
On Monday September 21 Learning2gether joined forces with the Fall Blog Festival organized by Nellie Deutsch. The annual Fall Blog Festival #fallblogfest is a one day blog festival event showcasing bloggers, their work, and valuable tips for blogging for reflective practice, work with students, business and other reasons.
Highlights include: Why blog, background to blogging, influential bloggers, getting started, and best practices and challenges involved in blogging. Certificates of Participation will be available to those who attend 60% of the webinars and write a blog post about the event. Submission of the links to the blog posts and attendance area are on Moodle for Teachers website. Click to http://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=92 to enrol in the webathon for 2015, though no need to sign up for the class with your name unless you want the certificate.
Here is an excerpt of text chat during this session, copied from WizIQ
Some of the conversation below has to do with the fact that Nellie set up the link to the event on the assumption that anyone could easily join without pre-registration, but when we tried to get in, the system would drop us from the event (because another unregistered person was already using that link). Some of us worked out that the way in was to register through our WizIQ accounts (in my case, in the nick of time for my session!). The chat shows where Nellie and others were dealing with the problem and helping to get people in.
Peggy: Today’s blogging event is right at the top of Vance’s page: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#Nextupcomingevents Tiziana: In Italy it is 4 pm and I need to be up till late to follow a lot of events but…
it is worth doing!! It is my CPD on line Nives: Hi Tiziana 🙂 Susan: Aloha Everyone! Not sure how long I can be here. Bad internet and on a chromebook. Sound not very clear but slides are GREAT. Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Nives, ‘m sharing link with you Peggy: time zones can be so confusing! I rely on timeanddate.com to help me! Tiziana: Hi NIVES! HI PEGGY!! Peggy: Hi Tiziana! Great to see you! Nives: Thank you Dr Nellie Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Peggy, I also use timetable links Nives: Brian is trying now Peggy: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109504049211076695836 Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Nives, the link is for one person Tiziana: Hi ! PLESED to be on line and learn from so many communities on line which are really engaging!! Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Hi Brian Nives: Ok Dr Nellie no problem Brian B: Hi Dr Nellie Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Let me know if your friends need a unique link to come in Peggy: I don’t know how Vance keeps up with so many networks but he is amazing!!!! Peggy: http://webheadsinaction.org/live Brian B: Thanks for the link Dr Nellie Nives: Great to see you here Brian … no idea how long this will last but let’s enjoy it while we can 🙂 Peggy: http://chatwing.com/vancestev Tom: Nives, do not leave the session. It’s a continuous class, all day long. Nives: There are many ways to have BackChannel chats when not all can join a HOA Nives: Thanks for letting me know TOM 🙂 Brian B: Its taken along time to get here so I will not be leaving yet. Peggy: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej67/int.pdf Nives: Good Brian let’s hang out here today 🙂 Peggy: Chatwing helps you to feel connected with other people in the same event 🙂 Rob Howard: Good question Nives: Dr Nellie – what will happen with people following the Twitter or FB links which are not working ? Nives: Hi Rob 🙂 Rob Howard: Hi Nives! Dr. Nellie Deutsch: good question Nives: I agree Peggy – chatting during an event in a backchannel keeps (me) motivated and engaged. Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Nives, you can tell them to register Peggy: love that description! you know it’s working when you’re learning new things is when your practice changes 🙂 Nives: Register … I did that and it did not work…! Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Maybe the link I shared will work for them if they add their names Peggy: yes Nives! I find that if there is no way to chat during webinars it’s easy to get up and walk away and get distracted. 🙂 Nives: Let’s hope so Dr Nellie Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Smore is more Dr. Nellie Deutsch: http://tinyurl.com/vance2015fbf Peggy: Thank you Vance for all you do to bring these amazing professional learning experiences to all of us through Learning2gether!!!!! Nives: Yes Peggy or do something else on another page and not really ‘pay attention’ just listen passively Peggy: exactly Nives! Nives: 🙂 @Peggy Peggy: you can’t get the link with your name unless you register. That’s how I finally got it. Nives: Will the recording also have the same problem Dr Nellie when trying to access it ? Rob Howard: I hope we learn! Peggy: good question Nives 🙂 Nives: Peggy I did register twice with 2 diverse emails and still no luck until magically it just happened… Rob Howard: Very positive! Nives: I think we always learn as long as we experience something, no? Nives: Or at least I do … Peggy: will the recordings for these sessions be separate recordings for each session or one long recording? Peggy: sorry Nellie. Not prepared to take the microphone today. Tom: Going to grab a cup of tea! Dr. Nellie Deutsch: One long one and my Youtube for each one Peggy: we did a show yesterday that was a preview of the K12 Online Conference. The recording and Livebinder links are here: http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources/k12-online-conference-preview Peggy: thanks Nellie Peggy: what is the url for your youtube channel? Dr. Nellie Deutsch: I think it will work, Nives Nives: Oh good idea YouTube one for each Dr Nellie – I will rely on those recordings. Peggy: Thank you Vance for this great presentation! Tom: Thanks Vance! Dr. Nellie Deutsch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxnNx8kpdaBkmTcFEP9shyi9 Peggy: I guess Vance can’t see our chat today Peggy: thanks Nellie!!
Peggy was right, the text chat was underneath another module in my view of the WizIQ interface and I wasn’t able to see it during the event. However, I see it now, and I certainly appreciate the nice things people said about Learning2gether 🙂
GEC members are welcome to participate in Global Collaboration Day onSeptember 17, 2015. Companies, non-profits, and schools will be coming together in a global demonstration of global collaboration. There are activities available for individuals and for classrooms. If you browse our separate site for Global Collaboration Day, you’ll find something for everyone!
To get started, we recommend that you take a look at our overview page.
We also have new videos that will help you understand this event.
Conversation about Learning2gether starts at 27 minutes into the audio, minute 38, 43 etc.
Sat Sep 19 1400 UTC Anna Uhl Chamot – IATEFL LASIG Learner Autonomy SIG Webinar
The LASIG, Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group of the IATEFL, would like to invite you to take part in its first webinar on Saturday 19th September 2015 at 3pm BST / 2pm UTC /4pm CEST. In this webinar Anna Uhl Chamot is going to explain How language learning strategies can foster Learner Autonomy.
The webinar is free both for members and non-members of LASIG.
On Sunday September 13 1300 UTC Learning2gether met with Lucy Gray and Peggy George to learn about Global Collaboration Day coming up on Sept 17 http://www.globalcollaborationday.org/about.html, a first annual demonstration of global collaboration for educators, encouraging students, teachers, organizations and companies to host virtual events involving technology on September 17, 2015.
The primary goal of this whole-day event is to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, universities, and institutions of informal learning and around the world. Global Collaboration Day will introduce others to the tools, resources, projects and programs that are available to educators today. Tag: #globaled15
You can join us in HoAvia its direct link posted here at show time
and posted to Twitter hash tag #learning2gether
If the Hangout is full, listen to the stream and interact with us in the text chat
You can let us know if you want to join the Hangout
We will let you know via the stream when space comes available
When you enter the Hangout
Wear a HEADSET to avoid broadcasting speaker sound back into the Hangout
Switch OFF the stream as it is on a delay and will create an echo for you
Please MUTE YOUR MIC when not actually speaking into it during the HoA
We would like invite you to join Global Collaboration Day, our first annual demonstration of global collaboration for educators. We are encouraging students, teachers, organizations and companies to host virtual events involving technology on September 17, 2015. (And since September 17 takes nearly 48 hours to start and finish across the globe, check out the calendar in your own time zone for all the activities!)
The primary goal of this whole day event is to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, universities, and institutions of informal learning and around the world. Global Collaboration Day will introduce others to the tools, resources, projects and programs that are available to educators today. We currently have over 130 schools and organizations representing about 29 different countries; 25 outreach partners have also committed to joining this worldwide event. Approximately 52 events are listed on our site and this list is growing by the day. There is no cost to participate at any level.
Here is how people and organizations can participate:
companies and organizations with large reach can serve as outreach partners and in return, we will post their link and logo on our website
Examples of events that are currently scheduled include a Twitter chat on global learning, an asynchronous Twitter poll on chocolate, a survey on sunlight around the world, and a class live streaming using Periscope. Many organizations are hosting webinars and other activities to introduce educators to tools, resources and programs that will help them connect their classroom to the world. We recommend that activities be simple in scope and have low barriers to entry in order to attract participants. Ideas are listed on our host page. Events can be geared towards any audience including students, teachers, parents, and organization leaders.
Yes! Classroom 2.0 with Steve Hargadon back in 2007 was the beginning for many of us on this wonderful adventure with web 2.0 and connecting with educators from around the world!
which site can’t you open Halima? the main site for Global Collaboration Day? it may be a bandwidth problem since you are also in the Hangout and that takes a lot of bandwidth.
We try to use Chatwing as much as possible given the nature of herding cats, so as to include people in the stream in a conversation they can participate in. However, those in the chat moved their discussion into the Hangout chat (where on my computer, I can’t copy / paste it). But Nellie Deutsch can do that, and she sent me what appears below:
Peggy George
9:29 AM
Hi Nellie! Great to see you!
youcanbookme is an amazing scheduling tool! it’s really easy to use as a presenter!
you can also sign up to help as a volunteer moderator during the Global Education Conference to help moderate Blackboard Collaborate sessions. I love doing that rather than being a presenter.
Robert Wachman
9:41 AM
Sounds interesting.
me
9:41 AM
people find reading challenges
challenging
Halima Ozimova
9:42 AM
I REALLY need Help! BCS Trainers do not know about #Tesol #evo Trainings http://kitoblog.com/
me
9:42 AM
can mess with google hangout
Peggy George
9:42 AM
the K12 Online Conference is a month before the Global Ed Conference It’s from October 19-30 with the kickoff keynote on Oct. 12. http://k12onlineconference.org/
me
9:43 AM
I’d love to be part of that, Peggy.
BCS?
Halima Ozimova
9:44 AM
Peggy cannot open Your site! How to E-mail to You?
Peggy George
9:45 AM
There are many opportunities to volunteer for the K12 Online Conference either as a presenter or helper. There is an Organizer team and a number of different committees.
me
9:45 AM
Who cannot open what site, Halima
Halima Ozimova
9:45 AM
Dr Nellie! Peggy’s site
Robert Wachman
9:45 AM
Age 12?
Peggy George
9:45 AM
Everything is pretty much in place for this year for K12 Online but watch for the volunteer webinar next year to see how to get involved.
me
9:46 AM
I’m available this year. I have no idea about next year.
Peggy George
9:46 AM
I don’t know what BCS is
which site are you having trouble getting into Halima?
Robert Wachman
9:47 AM
Thanks, Lucy!
Peggy George
9:48 AM
Nellie is definitely a connected educator leader around the world!!
it’s one educator at a time and a very slow process.
Peggy George
9:49 AM
My weekly webinars that I host on Classroom 2.0 LIVE often have 8-10 people each week from other countries!
me
9:50 AM
but Peggy, how many turn up in total?
Thank you, Peggy
Peggy George
9:50 AM
Halima, that is my “About.me” page. Is that the link that won’t open for you?
Nellie, each week we meet on Saturdays and often have between 30-50 people. We record everything so many people also watch recordings if they can’t make it on Saturdays.
me
9:51 AM
That’s great, Peggy.
less on webinars
Halima Ozimova
9:52 AM
Peggy I am reading Your site
Peggy George
9:52 AM
Is this the link that won’t open for you? It’s working for me so maybe it’s just a bandwidth issue for you. https://about.me/peggy_george
I often go back to watch recordings from previous years!
I also love to be able to invite presenters to come and do their presentations for us on Classroom 2.0 LIVE if I think it is something our participants might really find valuable.
I have found some outstanding presenters in the Global Ed Conference
me
9:54 AM
Lucy, where are getting funding? I self-fun and it’s getting hard.
fund
Halima Ozimova
9:54 AM
Dr.Nellie! A GOOD QUESTION!!!
me
9:55 AM
Steve does that, Vance
Peggy George
9:55 AM
Steve hosts a LOT of virtual conferences each year!!!
there is almost one every month of the year!
Robert Wachman
9:56 AM
Is Global Ed site mobile-friendly? Can I access on my iPad?
Peggy George
9:56 AM
he sends out weekly emails to anyone who signs up for the Learning Revolution (free) to announce upcoming activities
yes it is Robert (website). Are you referring to Blackboard Collaborate or the website?
Robert Wachman
9:57 AM
website…for archived material.
Thinking I’d like to listen to sessions while doing the dishes, etc.
Robert, I think you can view the recordings from the archives if they are mp4 video recordings. If they are blackboard collaborate recordings you would need the app to view them
great Nellie! yes the calendar link is on the home page for Learning Revolution
Robert Wachman
10:02 AM
I’ve got a laptop I can use, too. but I usually have my iPad in the kitchen, just easiest.
Peggy George
10:03 AM
you can watch the blackboard collaborate recordings on an ipad using the app
me
10:03 AM
Where do we add to the calendar?
Peggy George
10:03 AM
fortunately we don’t have to understand how Google Calendar works (behind the scenes) to make it work. It just works!
me
10:03 AM
I have my calendar called Integrating Technology
Robert Wachman
10:04 AM
Susan Gaer has given online workshops on Google Calendar, Vance.
Vance Stevens
10:04 AM
there’s a suggestion Robert, L2g session lead!
How can I copy the chat here, it isn’t copyable in my browser
Peggy George
10:05 AM
Nellie are you a partner with the Learning Revolution? You could share your calendar with them too.
Not sure, Peggy. I know Steve asked me to be a sponsor, but I self fund what `I do
Halima Ozimova joined group chat.
Peggy George
10:07 AM
it’s really easy to pick sessions to moderate for the Global Ed Conference
everyone helps each other out!
there is no charge to be a partner Nellie. Sponsors provide financial support.
Robert Wachman
10:08 AM
What’s the timeline for volunteer/moderators?
When do people need to start getting involved? Orientation?
Peggy George
10:08 AM
it’s throughout the entire conference Robert
Delphine Chiao
10:08 AM
thank you, Nellie. I got it into my calendar.
Peggy George
10:09 AM
they even provide training on a recording on how to moderate blackboard collaborate
me
10:09 AM
Thank you, Delphine.
Robert Wachman
10:09 AM
I’ll be in Nepal in Oct.
Vance Stevens
10:09 AM
cool
Peggy George
10:09 AM
Nikki is a huge help for people who want to learn how to moderate and she’ll meet you in a room to provide individualized help
me
10:09 AM
I know do webinars on BB, Adobe Connect, Zoom and WizIQ
Robert Wachman
10:09 AM
I’ll be back home about Nov. 7.
me
10:10 AM
know = now
have a great time, Robert
thank you, Lucy
Robert Wachman
10:10 AM
Thanks, Nellie.
Peggy George
10:11 AM
It has been really great to hear you describe the Global Collaborate Day and the conference Lucy!!! Really informative and now we’ll be able to share the recording link with other people who couldn’t join us.
me
10:11 AM
I’ll see you in Baltimore, Robert
Peggy George
10:11 AM
seeing and hearing you great Robert!
Delphine Chiao
10:12 AM
a wonderful time to listen your sharing. thank you for all sharing.
would you put that in Chatwing? I can’t copy from here
Delphine Chiao left group chat.
Peggy George
10:15 AM
so many fantastic opportunities for us to connect with each other for professional learning!
thank you Robert!!!
me
10:15 AM
thank you
great chat
Lucy Gray
10:15 AM
Thanks everyone!
See you online next week and in November!
Ah
Peggy George
10:15 AM
Thanks everyone for joining us! Have a great weekend! (what’s left of it)
Halima Ozimova
10:15 AM
Thank YOU!
Peggy George
10:16 AM
I get some of my best geography lessons from Vance!
I’ve been going to ISTE every year since 2005!
Robert Wachman
10:16 AM
Thanks, Everyone. I’ll definitely check out events o the 17th and sign up to be a volunteer in Nov.
Peggy George
10:16 AM
Bye everyone!
Robert Wachman
10:17 AM
Will keep a journal and take lots of photos to share in Nepal.
Peggy George
10:17 AM
thanks for your willingness to volunteer Robert!!
Robert Wachman
10:17 AM
Glad to help out; sounds like a great way for a mostly retired educator to be involved.
Lucy Gray
10:18 AM
Yes
me
10:18 AM
you get invited to visit places
Halima Ozimova
10:18 AM
DESPITE FEELING MYSELF LIKE among GURUS i nevertheless try too!
Robert Wachman
10:19 AM
Thanks. I
I”m going to say good night (10 p.m. here) and see if I can listen to a Global Ed session while doing the dishes!
Halima Ozimova
10:19 AM
May I say THANK you!!!
me
10:20 AM
smart phone make things easier
Great to see you, Halima
Peggy George
10:20 AM
the video part of virtual conferences is so valuable because we can see places and people we would never be able to meet face to face!
me
10:20 AM
so true, Peggy
Peggy George
10:20 AM
love being able to see classrooms around the world in these virtual conferences!
me
10:20 AM
have you tried Zoom.us?
Lucy Gray
10:21 AM
Also WhatsApp
Peggy has a new favorite tool
Peggy George
10:22 AM
yes my new favorite tool is Blab!!! awesome for interviews and conversations! much easier to use than hangouts and better quality. Many people can come in and out of the conversations
Diving into the archives of sites like Classroom2.0, Webheads, and my own sites offers great value, but we’ve not figured effective ways to encourage and facilitate that.
The topic was Office 365, a Microsoft ecosystem that provides a suite of apps for sharing Office documents online and for working on them collaboratively. There are a number of other features that facilitate the interaction between student and teachers in the online or blended environment.
We were joined by Benjamin Stewart and Piry Herrera, both colleagues and teacher-trainers at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes in Mexico, where both use Office 365 in innovative ways. We were particularly impressed by the ideas the presenters shared for exploring the affordances of the environment with their future-teacher students in ways that were clearly modeling to them a very humanistic and engaging pedagogical approach to leveraging technology as an enabler of learning.
We noted that the university in Aguascalientes has a licence that makes possible all teachers and students to use this tool and to maintain ePortfolios for the duration of their stay at the university, but we naturally discussed what the students could do with these ePortfolios (i.e. how they could retrieve their content) when they left the Office 365 environment, and also how they could port what they were learning about Office 365 into a free web 2.0 ecosystem they might design for their own students when they go to work in less well-endowed workplaces after graduation.
Benjamin and Piry proved themselves knowledgeable presenters whom the participants in Hangout and in-stream engaged in lively dialog (via text chat in the latter case). The result was a discussion lasting around 1.5 hours, but well worth reviewing, and we hope you enjoy it.
The event had been planned with Jeff Lebow and ELTLive, but Jeff had to bow out at the last moment, rare for Jeff. However he had set up two notices at his ELTLive community spaces
You could have listened to the stream in a video embed while chatting with us in real-time in the Chatwing window embedded in the location of your choice (both pointing to the same stream and Chatwing live text chat)
Good morning! Set my alarm so I could tune in although I’m not an Office 365 user. Always love to learn from Jeff and Vance! Greetings from Phoenix AZ.
great response! once they get going further along in their training it will be a great way for them to help each other with peer feedback/suggestions realizing that is a great way to learn together. 🙂
I’m sure the students really appreciate knowing exactly when they will be observed and what the tutor will be looking for via the calendar. Great idea!
I’m really enjoying hearing about this teacher education program because I was a teacher education professor for Arizona State University for many years before I retired. 🙂
Hi – I’m wondering if everyone can use the email from any provider – I guess they just have to use Outlook – but can it be used with a gmail fro example
Last year my teacher trainers used onedrive for exchanging files – i.e. they were uploading and downloading rather than collaborating live in a Google doc!
I’m not completely clear about what the students are recording. Is it their reflection/synthesis of the lesson or is it the actual lesson being delivered in the classroom with students?
by having the students capture all of this documentation in One Drive throughout the program it will make it really easy for them to create a digital portfolio to use for many purposes including job searching 🙂
excellent point! it’s good for students to learn multiple platforms/tools so they can move easily between them for use later when they are no longer in the program.
haha Vance! not renting this auditorium 🙂 Definitely keep going! Very informative!
But surely the students need their own subscription? – I just checked it’s $70 / year for an individual (that’s if they want to collaborate on a document rather than just view)
great point about the format similarities with Word online and their desktop versions of Word. Interesting to hear this comparison between Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive.
what happens with all of the student work/forums etc. after they leave the university? will they still be able to access everything they saved in One Drive or would they have to pay to subscribe to continue to access documents?
Bron Stuckey is supporting a campaign to reboot Quest Atlantis, a project derived from Active Worlds which she has been intensively involved in. She will join us on Learning2gether to tell us about the importance to learners of Quest Atlantis and the Kickstarter campaign she is promoting to help raise funds to revive the initiative, as it says on these websites
Rick Noll Owner and one of the developers of ActiveWorlds, Inc.
and Ellen Jameson of Reboot Quest Atlantis
For the past decade there was a vast educational research project taking place in classrooms on 6 continents. It was Quest Atlantis, a massively multiplayer online game integrating strong support for 21st century skills into each subject. Teachers, students, and researchers alike hoped that Quest Atlantis could grow, and other students could share the experiences they loved. Some parts of the project moved forward, but as grant funding for the multiplayer platform drew to a close, the team couldn’t keep the game ready for today’s classrooms. As the developers of the engine that ran Quest Atlantis, we’ve always been excited to see what students were able to do, inside the game and out, and we listened when teachers told us they didn’t want to see it go. We’re working hard to bring it back for a new generation, in collaboration with members of the original Quest Atlantis team. If you brought your students in to Quest Atlantis – or if you were a student there – you know that the community formed around reading, writing, building, sharing, and saving the world together was special. You know there was potential for much more to unfold – more for students and teachers to create, more features to make the right tools available. Make your pledge and help us bring a new Quest Atlantis to a new generation!
Where? Hangout on Air
You could watch and listen to the stream in the video embedded at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
while chatting with us in real-time in the Chatwing embed below the video
Vance Stevens – I see an icon with your name on it … move your mouse to the left edge of the HoA window and find the green screenshare icon with the white arrow, try and toggle it off ?
but if you’re happy, no problem
Daniel F. Bassill – I clicked on the green icon and it was inviting me to share my screen. I can see that in my icon space my screen is being shared. It’s not a problem to me.
Daniel F. Bassill – This issue of funding continuation is something I’ve focused on for nearly 20 years. I faced it in the programs I was leading and recognize that everyone else faces same challenge. Thus my on-line connections seek people working to fix this problem for all of us, not just for themself. Hard to find such people.
Vance Stevens – I think this is for K-12, am I right?
Daniel F. Bassill – Minecraft seems to be well-supported, and promoted, by YouTube videos that show “how to” build things. My son has watched these for a few years. Building something that has the same appeal, and the same level of YouTube activity, would be key to making this widely used.
Daniel F. Bassill – People need to get paid in order to stay involved and give their time and talent. Is there a business plan that shows how fees for use might generate enough revenue for future development, training, marketing, etc.
Ellen Jameson – Yes! Would love to talk more about that
Daniel F. Bassill – I’ve been part of some cMOOCs over past few years, such as Deeper Learning, Education Technology & Media. Format is good and can be on-going.
Daniel F. Bassill – Minecraft has millions of users who have become self motivated to spen countless hours playing the game. If educators had resources that motivated as much student use, and could show measurable learning outcomes, this would be a home run. It’s possible that the more this appeals to educators the less it will appeal to learners.
Ellen Jameson – That’s one reason I’m very excited about the story/game authoring tools. The thing that really drove the continuing core of voluntary student participation was building
even the peer review activity system was tied to building
And authoring is highly enriched building – as Bron described with World Congress
Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D – You need to market QA. I forgot about it until now. Need to bring it out to the public not just teachers, but maybe parents and kids
Daniel F. Bassill – I encourage you to move quickly into social media and/or a MOOC and try to attract those 25k past users into participation. Just building those numbers can help you demonstrate value to potential donors/investors while offering loads of talent to help you.
Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D – I’d like to get involved. I’m freer these days so try me.
The ELT cyber faculty lounge returns as many teachers and students around the world get ready to head back to the classroom. All are welcome to join in and share ideas, questions, and collaboration thoughts for the coming semester.
Wed. Aug. 26 1300 UTC
Tune in at http://eltlive.com/live
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