Learning2gether Episode 299
Dave’s abstract:
The arrival of both virtual reality headsets and of remotely controlled personal robots presents an interesting step forward for teaching and learning. This talk will touch on some of the possibilities and hurdles along this path.
On Sunday, Nov 8, 1500 UTC, Learning2gether met David Winet to catch him previewing the presentation he is giving officially on Nov 14 at the CATESOL Conference in Anaheim, California
http://www.catesol.org/2015_annual_conference.aspx. In this presentation, Dave speculated on some strikingly interesting affordances to education of Virtual Reality Headsets and Robots for Teaching and Learning.
We were joined by Vanessa Vaille in the HoA and by Peggy George, Rita Zeinstejer, and Maha Abdelmoneim in the Chatwing text chat, http://chatwing.com/vancestev.
There is mention in our chat logs of Google Cardboard, which David showed us, with a cell phone inside running an app that split the screen in such a way that each split could be seen through Cardboard by one eye, creating a 3D effect, as with the old Viewmaster some of us used to have as kids. This has been exploited by the NY Times, as reported in this article, NYT VR: How to Experience a New Form of Storytelling From The Times:
(thanks to John Hibbs for calling our attention to this link)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/nyt-vr-how-to-experience-a-new-form-of-storytelling-from-the-times.html
Next day, Vanessa pointed us to an interesting take on VR by Brian Alexander, who checked out the NY Times VR project, http://bryanalexander.org/2015/11/09/impressions-of-new-york-times-vr/. Vanessa mentioned our hangout in a comment there. In reply to her comment, i said, “We liked the idea, shown in one of the videos, of a robot whose face is that of a learner as in a Skype call, interacting in the space through which the robot is moving, or instead of building worlds in Second Life for immersive education, sending a robot or drone or tiny camera (as in optical surgery) into the real location where the learner can view the panorama by turning his/her head. The potential would suggest a quantum development for POV (point-of-view) technology in learning, as reality checks noted in this post are worked through.”
This is Vanessa’s ‘excellent link’: https://anticap.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/rage-against-the-machine/
Many of our normal audience were at the EVO moderators’ Week 1 training wrap up below (scroll waaaay down).
Where? Google+ Hangout on Air:
- Event and conversation page: https://plus.google.com/events/ch0a47hvt8c8eplhva8t4ng3ado
- YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/yX4-0fmTM80
- Real-time live text chat: http://chatwing.com/vancestev
- One-stop stream and chat on same page: http://webheadsinaction.org/live
- Dave’s show notes with links to videos and other URLs
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YWOdlfRyip8IIQgQa2OR2SvI4w7qsENrn6gk90nsAg/edit - Webheadsinaction archive:
http://webheadsinaction.org/learning2gether-episode-299-david-winet-virtual-reality-headsets
Text chat copy pasted from Chatwing
http://www.wareable.com/google/the-best-google-cardboard-apps
Announcements
- http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-david-winet-about-virtual-reality-headsets-a
- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/messages/31918
- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/multilit/conversations/messages/2110
- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/learningwithcomputers/conversations/messages/7074
- Facebook Groups
- Learning with Computers https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
- TAEdTech Sig https://www.facebook.com/groups/TAEdTech/
- Multiliteracies https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
- Webheads in Action
https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/ - Learning2gether https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
- Google+ Communities
- Web 2.0 Teaching and Learning https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112197420264775820915
- Teachers for Interactive Language Learning (TILL)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106289715383230353120 - Webheadsinaction https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114550321376936920900
- MultiMOOC https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104523567430842485789
- EdTech Mojo
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110130856353339654958 - Learning2gether https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109504049211076695836
Earlier this week
Learning2gether Episode 298 – Sun Nov 1 1400 UTC Week 1 EVO moderator training meet and greet – and Curt Bonk at MM7
Sun Nov 8 EVO Moderator Training Week 2
EVO2016 Moderator Training continues with a Week 1 wrap-up chat and a look ahead to Week 2
Download mp3:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/week-1-overview-of-evo-2016-moderator-training-s5ox_mpkxz41.mp3?
There is a note attached to this video on YouTube
This video is unlisted. Be considerate and think twice before sharing.
This session was originally planned as an introduction to Bb Collaborate. However, It was switched at the last minute to Hangout on Air because the grant from LearningTimes for use of the Webheads Room expired Oct 31. This was discovered Sat night Nov 7 in USA and there seemed little hope of having the grant renewed in time for the Nov 8 event, so we set up the HoA instead. However, 2 hours after Learning Times were contacted, Hope Kandel got back to us that she had renewed the grant for our continued free use of this facility for another year. That was midnight her time, great response from our sponsor company
http://www.learningtimes.com.
So we had acted too quickly to get the HoA in place, but having done that, we went with it. For this reason, there were two events scheduled for this session:
- One for the Bb Collaborate event: https://plus.google.com/events/cj6moirmrbt3g5pr1srvi72i3o4
- One for the Hangout on Air: https://plus.google.com/events/cg7m2kbjb42fjvip8uifv5tflqo
Find that HoA and its Chatwing chat space here:
http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/102766792/week2live
Who:
Lead Coordinator Mbarek Akaddar
with members of the EVO Coordination Team;
all EVO moderators are invited to join the HoA
and all interested parties are welcome to follow on the stream and participate in the live chat at
http://cloud.chatwing.com/nina.liakos
This was the original announcement for the Bb Collaborate event
This event has been set up at the convenience of EVO moderators and has been registered in the Webheads Room calendar here
http://www.brownbearsw.com/cal/eslhome_conferen
Events posted in that space are by definition open to all who wish to attend.
As a condition for using the Webheads room, bookings must be made on the calendar, and as it says on that calendar:
“Items on this calendar are assumed to be open (OER) educational events. Posting here implies that other educators are welcome to attend.”
Thanks are due to http://www.learningtimes.com for an ongoing grant to Webheads in Action, and by extension Learning2gether, CALL-IS,and EVO for free and open use for educational purposes of this Bb Collaborate meeting room
Where:
Blackboard Collaborate http://webheads.learningtimesevents.org/
- (Before the event, be sure to download Java Webstart (PC) or Open JNLP (Mac) and follow the tech recommendations at the site.)
- Click CHECK NOW at the Tech Check http://webheads.learningtimesevents.org/tech-check/ to be sure
(Should manage the necessary download for you)
Mon Nov 2 1500 UCT Anita Adnan on MM7 – How to work from anywhere
Anita Adnan is an ELT and ICT Consultant
In this presentation, I will illustrate how i have been doing my online work from basically anywhere – at home, from a coffee shop, at the airport and even in a moving bus! Abundant Wifi connections and mobile broadband have made this possible and all busy moms should learn the art of managing this approach to work. I will be sharing some of the tools and applications that i have used – and provide some reviews on them.
More information about my work www.anita-adnan.webnode.com
Mon Nov 2 Developing Online Experiential Learning through Educational Design Research – Thomas C. Reeves
Leaflet: http://www.trainingshare.com/pdfs/Reeves_Abstract_Indiana_November_2_2015.pdf
Invite to talk: If you are interested in task-based experiential learning, authentic tasks, design-based research, online learning, MOOCs, open education, the World Health Organization (WHO), or taking a bus ride in Turkey, you might want to attend the following session: Developing Online Experiential Learning through Educational Design Research Thomas C. Reeves, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design, and Technology The University of Georgia
Date: Monday November 2, 2015 Time: 2:00-3:00 pm in Indiana, presumably
Livestreaming URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=Tom_Reeves_Colloquium
Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?folder=video&filename=Tom_Reeves_Colloquium_20151102.mp4
Optional Web Conferencing Participation: Web browser: https://bridge.iu.edu (Conference ID to dial: 233222878)
Talk Abstract: This presentation will describe how the World Health Organization took an award-winning experiential learning course that takes place on a bus traveling down the “cold chain” for time- and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products in Turkey, and moved it online as an award-winning authentic tasks-based experiential learning environment. This conversion was driven by the application of educational design research (also known as design-based research). Similarities and differences in the objectives of the two courses as well as of the learning activities, tools, and technologies deployed in two courses will be illustrated. The presentation concludes with examples of design principles that can be applied to the design of other online experiential learning environments.
Sat Nov 7 Digital Assessment Tools on Classroom 2.0
| Date: Sat., November 7, 2015 Time: 9:00am PT/10:00am MT/11:00am CT/12:00pm ET Location: Blackboard Collaborate (http://tinyurl.com/cr20live)Peggy George, Lorie Moffat and Tammy Moore will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 Ning community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing and closed captioning. A Google calendar of upcoming shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html.We are so excited to have a group of amazing teachers from the Madison Elementary School District in Phoenix, AZ joining us as our special guest presenters on November 7th. They will be sharing their stories and experiences using digital assessment tools focusing on Kahoot, Socrative, Plickers, Google Forms, & Answergarden. The presenters are: Kim Thomas, Rae Dewberry, Julie Leckman, and Jessie McKinley. Kim is the Tech Integration Facilitator for Madison District, Rae teaches language arts and social studies to 5th – 8th grade highly gifted students, Jessie teaches Kindergarten – 4th Grade General Music, and Julie teaches 8th grade Math. It will be a great opportunity for you to learn many ways you can be using formative assessment in your classrooms!More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm Eastern (GMT-5) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent“Marcie Hebert: Featured Teacher” session with our special guest Marcie Hebert. Click on the Archives and Resourcestab.When tweeting about Classroom 2.0 LIVE, be sure to use #liveclass20. Special thanks to our sponsors Weebly, The Learning Revolution and Blackboard Collaborate!Classroom 2.0 LIVE Team: Peggy George, Lorie Moffat, Tammy Moore, Steve Hargadon |
Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
Sat Nov 07 1800 UTC Maha Hassan at MM7
JOIN Maha Hassan Saturday Nov 7 for her PRESENTATION on MM7 http://teachingenglishcafe.blogspot.com
MM7: Helping Interns integrate Technology in Teaching and Professional Development Step by Step
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