Learning2gether Episode 367

Earth Day was on April 22 this year, http://www.earthday.org/. But that was a Saturday, so Sheila Adams at Rye Jr. High School in Rye, New Hampshire celebrated by streaming her 10th annual Earthcast on Friday, April 21, for five hours from noon to 1700 UTC, when the kids could stream from school.

Find the live recordings here
http://earthbridges.net/live (at the moment, no permalink)

Sheila sent out this invitation:

Join us for the Earth Day webcast by students at http://earthbridges.net/live

This is our 10th year! Listen for a while, say hi in the chat room or share an idea!

Students would love an audience for the morning!

Please leave a message before the day on our Flipgrid. The code word is Earthcast (https://flipgrid.com/earthcast.

Likely time frame from 8 or 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT on Apr 21

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Earth+Day+Earthcast+Apr+21%2C+2017&iso=20170421T08&p1=68&ah=5

Announcements at https://plus.google.com/108656278762600865718

Videos posted at http://earthbridges.net

Leave a message on Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/earthcast

Answer these questions:

1. Where are you from?
2. What are you doing to celebrate or recognize Earth Day?
Or what are you doing to make this Earth better?
Or what would you like to share? Comments, thoughts?
You have up to 3 minutes to record your message. (You may listen and redo as needed.)

Learning2gether has participated with Sheila and other Worldbridges webcasters in these previous Earth Day celebrations:

2014

• Episode 214: April 27, 2014 -Learning2gether with the 7th Virtual Round Table and EVO SYMPOSIUM – IHAQ#4 and Earthcast 2014 
  • https://learning2gether.net/2014/04/27/learning2gether-with-the-7th-virtual-round-table-evo-symposium/
• Episode 213: April 20, 2014 – Hanging out with Jeff Lebow talking about I have a Question, and Earthbridges.net and Earth Day
  • https://learning2gether.net/2014/04/20/176463172/
  • http://webheadsinaction.org/learning2gether-hangout-jeff-lebow-and-earthbridgesnet-i-have-question-and-earth-day-preview

2012 

• Episode 101: Sunday, April 22, 2012 – Learning2gether with Electronic Village Online, and EarthBridges: Earth Day at Virtual Round Table online conference
  • https://learning2gether.net/2012/04/22/125618417/

The latter event produced a publication

Adams, S., Montagne, M., Rodriguez, J. and Stevens, V. (2012). Collaborative Learning for Teachers and Students: Earth Day and Earthbridges. TESL-EJ, Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 1-14: http://www.tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej61/int.pdf. Also available at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej61/ej61in/

Earth Day events 2009, 2010, and 2011

I also participated in Earth Day by webcasting from the Petroleum Institute in April 2009 and 2010, and as Earth Day was on a weekend in 2011, I organized a hike to a beautiful spot in Oman where campers had left trash strewn about, which my friends and I cleaned up and carried the garbage out with us in plastic bags
https://curiousvance.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/earth-day-april-22-2011/

For this one I filmed a special April 21 Earth Day dive video dedicated to the earthcasters at Rye Jr. High School elementary, and here it is:

Find an explanation of what is in the video here:
http://vancesdiveblogs.blogspot.ae/2017/04/diving-on-earth-day-weekend-guiding.html

Announcements made to … 

Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• TAEdTech https://www.facebook.com/groups/TAEdTech/
• Learning with Computers
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• Multiliteracies
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/

Google+ Communities

• Web 2.0 Teaching and Learning
  https://plus.google.com/101672902593184196638/posts/gchhkU8H3MV
• Teachers for Interactive Language Learning (TILL)
  https://plus.google.com/101672902593184196638/posts/XNWMDG7qRe1
• Webheads in Action
  https://plus.google.com/101672902593184196638/posts/CZS9MFbSb3s
• EdTech Mojo
  https://plus.google.com/101672902593184196638/posts/YjH1pvquf4b
• MultiMOOC
  https://plus.google.com/101672902593184196638/posts/Kvxg1zBMduL
• Learning2gether
  https://plus.google.com/101672902593184196638/posts/5h4MapKpxg

Earlier this week

Mon Apr 3 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

https://learning2gether.net/2017/04/07/learning2gether-with-iatefl-2017-glasgow/

Thu Apr 20 1800 UTC Russell Stannard Globinar on tools for quick collaboration between students

E4.512-5467: Key tools for quick collaboration between students

Russell Stannard / Host: Tilly Harrison

20. 04. 2017 | 19:00h – 2030h CET

access link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/keytools/

Info: https://v.gd/keytools
Registration: http://lpm.lpm.uni-sb.de/Webinar/index2.php

Learning2gether Episode 366

During the week beginning Monday, April 3, Learning2gether was monitoring the IATEFL Conference in Glasgow. It was possible to catch many events streamed live, but what is truly remarkable about the event this year is the trove of recordings left behind for the enjoyment of anyone, not just dues-paying members of IATEFL. The opportunity for the world to tune in virtually to this year’s IATEFL conference was a development I would hope to see others follow.

The recordings are here: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/sessions

The norm is, or has been, for professional organizations to operate on the mindset that sharing out what goes on at conferences might dilute the membership base. The argument is that people won’t pay to join if they can get the conference for free. Mindsets more attuned to social business models echo Stephen Downes’s mantra that content wants to be free; money comes from elsewhere in the business model. In this way of thinking, people don’t pay dues to professional organizations not because they don’t support them, but because as teachers they don’t take home salaries that allow them to be members of a dozen such organizations. Often they choose one. If it comes to a choice of one, which would you support, an organization that metes out information to dues-paying members only? Or to one whose goal is to share that information as widely as possible. A cynical view might suggest that you would pay for the one you can’t get for free and take the fruit offered on the vine; but a more socially oriented perspective suggests you might throw your support to the organization more in keeping with your ethics and values. Look at it this way, then: if you were giving a recorded plenary, would you like it to be hidden behind a paywall where only the well-heeled can access it, or mounted on a web site where it will attract thousands of views?

Wide dissemination of IATEFL conference video recordings is making rock stars of its presenters. Others come off staid in comparison.

TESOL does not mount its plenaries for universal consumption yet, but its CALL-IS streams its programs from the conference and this year left an impressive oeuvre:
https://learning2gether.net/2017/03/24/learning2gether-assists-call-is-with-streaming-from-2017-seattle-tesol/

And I wrote last year on this topic, on April 19, 2016
Can a paradigm shift in conference business models reverse declining attendance at face to face conferences
http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2016/04/can-paradigm-shift-in-conference.html

Mon Apr 3 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017

The live schedule is here, http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/live-schedule

Recordings of all the plenaries and interviews and other events are available under the sessions tab at the link above

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/sessions 

The following are abstracted from that schedule

On each day of the conference, we’ll be providing the morning plenary live via Glasgow IATEFL Online.
We’ll also be providing live coverage throughout the day where you’ll be able to watch interviews live from the Glasgow IATEFL Online studio – starting Monday 3rd April.

Join us at 09.00 (UK time; noon in UAE) each day for all the latest from IATEFL 2017.

You will be able to watch live coverage throughout the day statring at 09.00 (UK time). Our daily coverage includes live interviews and all the latest from the Birmingham IATEFL Online studio. – See more at: https://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/editors-blog#sthash.DUaBfzrK.dpuf

As well as our live interviews and the 6 plenary sessions, you will be able to watch over 40 conference sessions. These session videos will be published throughout the conference.

On their blog http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2017/editors-blog the following information is given

IATEFL Online Live Schedule 2017 

On each day of the conference, you will be able to watch the morning plenary live, here, on the Glasgow IATEFL Online website.
You will be able to watch live coverage throughout the day starting at 09.00 (UK time). Our daily coverage includes live interviews and all the latest from the Glasgow IATEFL Online studio.

As well as our live interviews, you will also be able to watch over 40 conference sessions. These session videos will be published throughout the conference.

Tue Apr 4 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1020 OPENING PLENARY BY GABRIEL DIAZ MAGGIOLI

Empowering teachers through continued professional development: frameworks, practices and promises

17:25 – 18:30 BRITISH COUNCIL SIGNATURE EVENT

Language for Resilience

Wed Apr 5 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1000 OPENING PLENARY BY SARAH MERCER

Connecting minds: language learner and teacher psychologies

Thu Apr 6 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1000 OPENING PLENARY BY JJ WILSON

ELT and social justice: opportunities in a time of chaos 

Fri Apr 7 IATEFL 2017 Online coverage from Glasgow

0900-1000 OPENING PLENARY BY JANE SETTER

Where angels fear to tread: intonation in English language teachin

1310-1410 CLOSING PLENARY BY IMTIAZ DHARKER

Over the moon

Meanwhile, back at TESOL, Inc. … 😦

http://tesol.sclivelearningcenter.com/index.aspx?PID=8529

Earlier this week

Wed Mar 22- Fri Mar 24 – Learning2gether assists CALL-IS with streaming from 2017 Seattle TESOL

https://learning2gether.net/2017/03/24/learning2gether-assists-call-is-with-streaming-from-2017-seattle-tesol/

March 30 1800 UTC Globinar with Rita Zeinstejer -Joy of reading and writing through technology

• E4.512-2567: Boost the joy of reading and writing through technology
• 30. 06. 2017 | 19:00h – 20:30h CET
• Rita Zeinstejer / Host. Peggy George
• access link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/boost
• Info:
• https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8905964/Breeze/Rita_boost_the_joy.pdf
• Registration: http://lpm.lpm.uni-sb.de/Webinar/index2.php