Learning2gether Episode 422

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On Thursday, September 26, at 1500 UTC in the Global Collaboration Week, Vance Stevens, Heike Philp, Mbarek Akaddar, and Hanaa Khamis joned forces, and more substantially, joined networks, to discuss Connective and Collaborative Tools for Impacting Social and Climate Change.

The following video is made from files recorded on PC from a Zoom recording started while we were setting up, almost 15 minutes before the session began.

Video URL: https://youtu.be/MNDJwRALk8c

Here’s what is looked like on the Global Collaboration Week website

Connective and Collaborative Tools for Impacting Social and Climate Change
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Long Term Project, Synchronous Long Term Project, Guided Virtual Tour, Informational Session, Panel Discussion, Tool Demo, Webinar
AUDIENCE: college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-26 15:00 – 2019-09-26 16:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)

DESCRIPTION: Learning2gether, let’stalkonline, Electronic Village (EVO), TESOL and IATEFL interest sections, Global Education Conference Network, and other online communities of practice have been connecting thousands of teachers and students through their overlapping networks to create significant change in themselves and their students via the Internet. Looking back on these two decades of connectivism, educators have been bringing to the table their know-how to bring peace to this planet, to reverse climate change, to reduce plastic waste and to reverse this warfare against nature.
HOST SCHOOL: Learning2gether.net – UTC + 8
ORGANIZED BY:  Vance Stevens, A non-profit organization

Here’s the link to the event description as a calendar event

https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=Nzk2ZmtjMXA3aGJmMGZjbnFsZGNxdWdmb2cgbHVjeWdyYXljb25zdWx0aW5nLmNvbV83MmNtbjZxcnQ1YWVyajJ2Mmk1bWgzaXUyMEBn&ctz=Etc/GMT

Screenshot of the event listed in the GMT version of the GCW events calendar:
https://www.screencast.com/t/7AZDdqlfL2ub

Navigate our session

Click on the items below to visit the various parts of our event. Use your backspace to return to this list.

1. Cloud recordings stored at Zoom
2. What is GCW, Global Collaboration Week?
3. Proposal submitted to GCW
   • This is similar to what we submitted, modified slightly
   • Why September 26?
   • Who are we? 
   • Our topic for the discussion
   • Heike’s elaboration
   • Our goal for the event
4. The Weight is on us
5. Chat logs from Zoom
6. Our 4 original panelists
7. Announcements on Facebook Groups
8. Miscellaneous notes

Cloud recordings stored at Zoom

The event was held in Heike Philp’s personal Zoom room.
Here is her cloud recording of the event
https://zoom.us/recording/share/gXPVwhfthiVOpA12wWlAKCSH5rmX-FyXlBHke1jRcRuwIumekTziMw?startTime=1569509945000

The cloud recording shows the event with its accompanying chat displayed in synch with the video, as shown here:

What is GCW, Global Collaboration Week?

Global Collaboration Week is one of two conferences hosted annually by the GlobalED network coordinated by Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray among others The two conferences are this one, GCW and GEC, the annual Global Ed Conference, overviewed at
https://www.globaleducationconference.org/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

These two conferences are run through a Ning. To propose an event, anyone can create an event on the site, as explained here:
https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/host-your-own-event.html

Accepted proposals are promoted via the Ning to the schedule. Almost anything that qualifies is accepted if proposed in time, as long as it meets at least one of these criteria:

• introduce teachers and their students to the potential and excitement of our global project-based learning
• educate fellow teachers about various connective and collaborative tools and resources
• call attention to the need and importance of fostering global competency in students

Proposal submitted to GCW

This is similar to what we submitted, modified slightly

Learning2gether, let’s talk online, Electronic Village Online (EVO), TESOL and IATEFL interest sections, the Global Education Conference Network, and other online communities of practice have long been connecting thousands of teachers and students through their overlapping networks to create significant change in themselves and their students via the Internet. Looking back on these decades of connectivism, educators have been bringing to the table their know-how to bring peace to this planet, to reverse climate change, to reduce plastic waste and to reverse this warfare against nature.

The moderators of this session represent communities that have been meeting and collaborating online for well over a decade now. In this event we discuss

• how we have formed, developed, and intertwined our online communities;
• how we are continuing to keep each other up to date about the latest developments in connective, social, and collaborative tools and resources;
• and how we are leveraging them to effect positive changes in education, and for the climate and planet.

Why September 26?

The 26th of September, 2019 is the European Day of Languages organized on high ministerial level by European Commission for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe. This event is being announced for Sept 26 on the European Day of Languages website https://edl.ecml.at/.

More critically GCW takes place during an entire week of global climate strikes either side of the UN Climate Summit on Sept 23

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_climate_strikes
• and https://globalclimatestrike.net/.

Seen on Facebook

Who are we?

Accordingly, Vance Stevens, Heike Philp, Mubarek Akkadar, and Hanaa Khamis have joined forces, networks actually, to discuss for an hour how our PLNs have been involved for decades now in exploring social networking and CMC tools to help raise consciousness about climate and social issues across our networks.

Learning2gether is a participant-driven professional development series that has produced over 420 podcasts since its inception in 2009. L2g derives from the ongoing Webheads in Action (WiA) community of practice and professional development movement, http://webheads.info, which has been putting teachers and students in touch with one another digitally, at a distance, since 1998. Stevens (2014, p.162) characterizes L2g as

“an ongoing project where presentations are organized weekly by volunteers collaborating on a wiki. They are free for all, online, recorded, and archived at http://learning2gether.net. There is also an index that gives a clear overview of all presentations so far and how to access their recordings (http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex). Learning2gether events perpetuate the spirit and goals of Webheads in Action … and are an excellent example of teachers continuing to learn from one another how to experience connectivist ways of sharing expertise in distributed knowledge spaces. It often happens that teachers present projects with their students which are examples of how they are transferring what they learn from each other online to their blended and hybrid classroom learning ecologies.”

Learning2gether has connected over the years with numerous communities of practice worldwide, including two whose representatives will appear in our discussion

Let’s talk online http://www.letstalkonline.com/ has been involved in language teaching and learning at a distance in real-time via internet for more than 15 years.

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. According to its website, http://evosessions.pbworks.com/, EVO sessions can serve as

“a discussion of an issue in the field of teaching language, or experiments with and pedagogy of new technology tools … or to carry on a discussion of topics important to your member group … EVO is a long-standing project of TESOL’s CALL-IS, and we have joined forces in our coordination and moderation teams with IATEFL and national Teaching Associations to offer sessions that relate to IATEFL’s special interest groups (SIGs) and the IATEFL conventions and webinars.”

Our topic for the discussion

The moderators of this GWC event have chosen the important topic of climate change to focus our discussion, and as a bridge to illustrate how the communities of practice we have been building over the past decades can be directed through connectivist means at collaborating on addressing one of the world’s most intractable yet, as far as the members of our communities are concerned, least controversial conundrums (e.g. this CNN The Daily Show where Trevor Noah interviews Greta Thunberg):
https://youtu.be/rhQVustYV24

and this screen shot from the interview, which was being shared around Facebook at the time of this event: https://www.screencast.com/t/Mtx6DeYHS7

Clearly, there is a role for educators here, if not an imperative, in helping society discern fact from fake news.

Vance first became aware of Greta Thunberg when Amy Goodman interviewed her for Democracy Now on Dec 11, 2018 at the 24th World Climate Summit taking place in Katowice, Poland at that time:

• Part 1: “Our Leaders Are Behaving Like Children”: Teen Climate Activist Confronts World Leaders at U.N. Summit
  https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/11/our_leaders_are_behaving_like_children
• Part 2: School Strike for Climate: Meet 15-Year-Old Activist Greta Thunberg, Who Inspired a Global Movement
  https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/11/meet_the_15_year_old_swedish

Heike’s elaboration

This event is organised for Global Collaboration Week and this seems to coincide with the climate change action week by Greta Thunberg. Thousands will walk the streets. Public school strike too.

On top it also coincides with the European language day, an annual event. There happens to be a calendar advertising around 430 events in the whole of Europe in 53. On this calendar there are only 31 online events and none in real-time, so this is only the beginning but perhaps it helps carry our message which should be read those in the streets following Greta. edl.ecml.at

Online collaboration is the most eco friendly way of CPD and conversing online (especially when done in real-time) the cheapest way of learning a language and again the most eco friendly way. So we rightly belong to the call for action to reverse climate change and if we could help this movement with our know how best to collaborate online.

I almost feel that this climate change movement is what we have been preparing ourselves for during decades of online collaboration of communities of practices.

If Greta approached any one of us and asked us: how could I best collaborate online with thousands of people? What should I do and what kind of tools should I use to advertise and to work together…what would we answer?

I hope that the result of this event is not only to show off who we are but to constructively come up with a list of the top 5 tools for online collaboration. It’s a kind of looking forward to what we can do now… to assist those who currently go in the streets to protest. A show case for best practice.

Host School or Organization Website URL: https://learning2gether.net/
This event is organized by: A non-profit organization

Screenshots provided by Hanna Khamis

Our goal for the event

To focus our discussion, we aimed to come up with a list of the top 5 software / connectivity tools that might help impact social and climate change (and by extension, to help any CoP promote and sustain any agenda).

To help us vote for the top 5 tools, Heike suggested we use Tricider.
http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/368pPXLkXtp

In Tricider you can mention the tool and a short description of the tool. Participants can then elevate or demote the tool’s list in the ranking of all the tools proposed.

We had asked our panelists to please consider, if they were to list 5 tools which they think are a must for connectivist online collaboration, which ones would they be?

We made it clear in promoting the event that this was a question we’d like both our panelists and participants to address.

Hanaa suggested (in a Facebook chat)

• Facebook and Facebook Live
• Google Apps (Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms …)
• Twitter
• Video conferencing tools like Zoom
• Polling apps
• You Tube

Vance and Mbarek were thinking of

• Trello
• Slack

And Mbarek added other tools that we have used in the past 20 years of organizing EVO (Electronic Village Online)

• Wikis
• Google Drive
• Yahoo Groups
• Google Sites
• Flipgrid
• Whatsapp

During the event we invited the audience to contribute their ideas

Carrie proposed the following tools for our consideration. She originally distinguished them as being for project work or classroom use, but  as the lists expanded their purpose seemed to overlap. She posted some of these tools in Zoom chat and others were added on the fly as we discussed the possibilities in Zoom:

• Padlet map
• Google Slides
• Adobe Spark
• Chromebook,
• Screencastify
• Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets
• Powerpoint
• Zoom
• Google Meet, and lots more from Google….
• Edmodo,
• Snapchat
• Instagram

Lucy Gray was sitting in on our session, but when Heike asked her a question, she joined our discussion, and recommended the following tools:

• Zoom
• Flipgrid
• Padlet
• Google Classroom (with some reservations, which are recorded in the video)
• Canvas
• Blackboard Collaborate (which she said was ‘pretty awesome’)

The Weight is on us

Panelists

Introducing our original panelists

• Vance Stevens representing Learning2gether.net
• Heike Philp representing lets talk online
• Mbarek Akaddar representing EVO, Electronic Village Online
• Hanaa Khamis representing NileTESOL LT SIG, which maintains a free webinar series presented sometimes with support from Learning2gether

Our communities of practice result in occasional serendipitous meet-ups at international conferences

Chat logs from Zoom

Here are the Zoom chat notes from the event, with hyperlinks

Hanaa Khamis : I ll be back in 2 min
clsnyder-renfro : Howdy from Oklahoma USA ! ^
Heike Philp : What’s your name?
clsnyder-renfro : Some years are better than others. This year is the best so far and today there are enough syncronous events all my classes can participate!
clsnyder-renfro : Chef Carrie Snyder-Renfro – I teach Career & Technology and Family & Consumer Sciences at an inner city low SES school for a major school district in the state of Oklahoma.
clsnyder-renfro : First Career – Certified Executive Pastry Chef 🙂
Hanaa Khamis : im back
clsnyder-renfro : We have an asyncrounous project for GCW – The Pollinator Project.
Heike Philp : And what kind of tools are you using Carrie?
Vance Stevens : nice to meet you carrie, do you want to speak to us?
clsnyder-renfro : For project: Padlet map, Google Slides, For class: chromebooks, screencastify, Google docs, slides, sheets, PPT, zoom, Google Meet, lots….
Vance Stevens : may I share my screen for a moment?
Heike Philp : yes
Vance Stevens : thank you
Heike Philp : Carrie, you are here in the room twice, it is possible that you get double audio ….
clsnyder-renfro : Sure, I can chat when you have a break in conversation 🙂
Heike Philp : Can you also add a tool to tricider?
clsnyder-renfro : I am not on double audio. One screen is for classroom view and one is for mine.
Hanaa Khamis : Hi
clsnyder-renfro : Actually – now I am in my second career so I have a BA and two Masters in Ed and I am a NBCT 🙂 I figure if I am going to do something I am going to be the best I can – Knowledge is power!
Vance Stevens : monarch butterflies that migrate at certain time of the year
Heike Philp : more tools mentioned: Edmodo, Snapchat
Vance Stevens : I’ll add them
Heike Philp : hi Maureen, I just muted you briefly
Heike Philp : you can still speak … if you want to
Maureen Cropper : Thanks; interested in learning more about what others are doing 🙂
Heike Philp : Instagram
Heike Philp : Hashtag in Instagram
Heike Philp : Twitter is built for hashtags
clsnyder-renfro : It depends on the population you want to catch – older population – us tend to use Facebook then the next younger generation would be twitter – then the youngest I think use instagram and snapchat – then their are some tumbler people out there that are in the middle someplace – of course that is what I think.
Heike Philp : Tumbler, another tool
Hanaa Khamis : Hi there!
Hanaa Khamis : I can cya!
Hanaa Khamis : introduce yrslf?
clsnyder-renfro : Hello my name is trynity
Hanaa Khamis : Hi dear trynity
Hanaa Khamis : Yr call Vance
Heike Philp : hey Lucy!
Heike Philp : great to have you
Vance Stevens : Hi Lucy
Heike Philp : hi Trinity, you look great
Lucy Gray : hi everyone!
Vance Stevens : Hi Trinity, are you enjoying this?
Vance Stevens : who is your favorite teacher?
Heike Philp : Trinity can you help us to find the top 5 tools for online cooperation which we could share with Greta Thunberg?
Lucy Gray : Hi I’m watching while in another meeting….
Vance Stevens : no worries
Lucy Gray : Thanks for hosting an event!
Heike Philp : Thanks for having us
Vance Stevens : Alejandro, Lorraine, Maureen, would you like to share web cams?
Vance Stevens : google sites, another for our list
Heike Philp : Google sites – free for NGOs
Vance Stevens : I’m adding these here at Mbarek speaks, http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#Ourgoalfortheevent
Lucy Gray : I love Slack
clsnyder-renfro : From Trynity: Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Electronic billboards, Skype, Textnow
Heike Philp : Thanks Carrie
Heike Philp : never heard of Electronic billboards
Heike Philp : or Textnow
Heike Philp : can you perhaps add these here?
Heike Philp : https://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/368pPXLkXtp
Heike Philp : Zoom, flipgrid,
clsnyder-renfro : yup- Flipgrid in the U.S.
Vance Stevens : Lucy’s tools: zoom, flipgrid, padlet,
Heike Philp : Padlet (Lucy’s recommendation)
Alejandro Espinosa : good morning I’m sorry, I don’t have a microphone on my computer and some problems with the camera, the most important project is a geogebra course with a Colombian school and my school in Quito Ecuador
Vance Stevens : Welcome Alejandro
Heike Philp : thanks Alejandro – we are hearing you
Heike Philp : Edmodo (Lucy)
Hanaa Khamis : Google Classroom?
Hanaa Khamis : Better than Edmodo?
Hanaa Khamis : Personal Gmail account to work on G Classroom
Maureen Cropper : Canvas is popular; we use Blackboard
clsnyder-renfro : Adobe Spark is pretty aweseome – This year they added a lot of new features
Lucy Gray : The new Blackboard conferencing tool is really lovely.
Lucy Gray : Love Adobe products
Vance Stevens : this is 422
Lucy Gray : You are always welcome to publicize your events in our discussion forum within globaleducationconference.org
Lucy Gray : I have a few thoughts on this.
Heike Philp : Have MOOC connected many?
Heike Philp : iEARN
Hanaa Khamis : Not many finish till the end – dropouts, lurkers
Heike Philp : How about Twitch?
Heike Philp : How about YouTube Livestream?
Heike Philp : Winfrey Oprah managed to get Millions on her livestreams
Maureen Cropper : using Skype for guest speakers
Lucy Gray : I don’t know much about Twitch… I should know more about it
Lucy Gray : I don’t know about that, Vance! We are trying
Heike Philp : Some 110 Mill users are on Minecraft, some 330 Mill on Fortnite, Millions on Word of Warcraft…
Maureen Cropper : I think part of the difficulty is that there are so many options/opportunities, it can be difficult to get large numbers at any one thing
Lucy Gray : How are we inspiring the students?
Lucy Gray : Look at the Climate Strike, too!
Lucy Gray : Yes, Maureen. I agree!
Lucy Gray : Teachers also don’t have time to filter through the good stuff.
Lucy Gray : I think my son is in Twitch… I’ll have to ask him.
Lucy Gray : That’s a good question…
Lucy Gray : There definitely is inconsistent levels of knowledge
Hanaa Khamis : I agree Mbarek
Hanaa Khamis : Similar here in Egypt
Maureen Cropper : Yes; that’s right, Lucy. I find it sometimes hard to remember all the various options, despite the interesting names ( twitch, etc!)
Hanaa Khamis : Social change 1st

Just after Heike brought up Twitch, Hanaa interjected with a description of how the tools under discussion were contributing to social changes in her context in Egypt. She used https://ytcutter.com/ to snip that part of the video and put it up at YouTube, where I was able to retrieve it and embed it here:

Lucy Gray : I had someone in our GCW chat ask me what it meant to collaborate!!
Heike Philp : nice one… haha
Lucy Gray : In general, we’ve actually had a good number of people participating in GEC activities in general from the MENA region.
Heike Philp : so maybe the synchronous way of doing things is not the right one?????
Heike Philp : look at MOOCs
Heike Philp : etwinning is also a great example for online collaboration/ cooperation acress Europe
Lucy Gray : I think people are over networked… and it makes sense to go to the most popular network where people are already are
Maureen Cropper : That’s true
Alejandro Espinosa : Thank you all, I have to leave a few minutes, a good day
Lucy Gray : There are some channels out there that really leverage YouTube and FB for live events.
Lucy Gray : For example, explore.org. One of my favorite resources.
Lucy Gray : I also think it’s a problem that traditional educational groups don’t necessarily partner and promote more grassroots efforts
Lucy Gray : Also, on the other hand, the EdCamp movement here in the US started as grassroots and has been really embraced by teachers.
Lucy Gray : https://www.edcamp.org/
Lucy Gray : Where is everyone from?
Lucy Gray : I’m close to Chicago Illinois USA.
Maureen Cropper : Thanks; no comments other than this was interesting and informative. I am a librarian in Lex KY
Lucy Gray : Yay, Lorraine!!!
Lucy Gray : 🙂
Lucy Gray : I tried to get our music teacher at my school to participate, Lorraine.
Lucy Gray : https://www.facebook.com/groups/741169739394984/
Lucy Gray : 🙂
Maureen Cropper : I feel like I need to learn more about this to share with my students, because I also teach 🙂
Lucy Gray : Here’s Lorraine’s Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/Lorraine_L
Vance Stevens : @vances on Twitter
Lucy Gray : @elemenous #globaled19
mbarek akaddar : twitter @mbarek
lorraine : World Peace Song Project: https://tinyurl.com/yyntfw49
Maureen Cropper : @mtcropper
Vance Stevens : thanks lorraine
Lucy Gray : http://globaleducationconference.org
Lucy Gray : #globaled19
Lucy Gray : Thank you so much!
Lucy Gray : I really enjoyed the conversation!
Hanaa Khamis : hanaakhs@aucegypt.edu
Vance Stevens : https://learning2gether.net will have the chat transcript
Lucy Gray : lucy@globaledevents.com
Lucy Gray : Gridpals
mbarek akaddar : flipgrid gridpal
Vance Stevens : hi trinity!
lorraine : Thank you!
Lucy Gray : Bye everyone!
clsnyder-renfro : I will email you Hannaakhs

Carrie has just said she would email us the thumbs-up snapshot that she had just taken. But afterwards Hanaa used https://ytcutter.com/ to make a video snippet of the last 9 minutes of our conversation from the thumbs-up point onwards, and including our goodbyes to Trinity, Carrie’s enthusiastic student. Here it is

clsnyder-renfro : Trynity said bye
Lucy Gray : Hi Trinity!
Maureen Cropper : Bye,all
Lucy Gray : Have a good day, everyone!
Lucy Gray : Thank you for doing this, Vance and friends!!!
Lucy Gray : Really enjoyed it

Carrie’s take: https://twitter.com/carrierenfro/status/1177596715010068483

Announcements

Announcements were made on the following Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• TESOL Arabia Ed Tech SIG – https://www.facebook.com/groups/TAEdTech/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• Online Teaching – https://www.facebook.com/groups/101863643236562/
• EVO MInecraft MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomc/

Here is the start of the announcement I posted on Sept 24 on the above Facebook groups:

#Learning2gether Episode 422 goes online Sept 26, 2019 as part of GCW, the Global Collaboration Week event taking place now and through Sept 27. Sept 26 happens to be the European Day of Languages this year, but more critically GCW takes place during an entire week of Global Climate Strikes either side of the UN Climate Summit on Sept 23. Accordingly, Vance Stevens, Heike Philp, Mubarek Akkadar, and Hanaa Khamis have joined forces, networks actually, to discuss for an hour how our PLNs have been involved for decades now in exploring social networking and CMC tools to help raise consciousness about climate and social issues across our networks.

Miscellaneous notes

Here are a few miscellaneous items associated with our presentation
Reference

Stevens, V. (2014). Connectivist Learning: Reaching Students through Teacher Professional Development. In Son, J.-B. (Ed.). Computer-assisted language learning: Learners, teachers and tools. APACALL Book Series Volume 3. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Available: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/archive/2014connectivist_learning.pdf

Feedback from a group of students in Uruguay

I received a PowerPoint slide show sent me out of the blue on behalf of a group of students in Uruguay, by their teacher, Flavia.  In their cover email message, they said, “We are pleased to send you our collaboration for the Global Collaboration Week regarding the Climate Change event.
What you will find attached to this email is what our students have been working on so far. Best regards, ALI – American Language Institute.” http://www.ali.edu.uy/

I wrote back for more information, and they replied::

We are Mateo, Mateo and Germán from ALI (American Language Institute) in Uruguay. We send this presentation because the planet is very affected because of the Climate Change and we would like to make an impact in the society. In the presentation you can see what the Climate Change is and how it affects the planet.

I wasn’t able to find their presentation in the GCW schedule but I assumed they had presented there. Eventually, Flavia wrote back:

Thank you very much for including us there!!! It looks awesome!
We didn’t “present”… I guess. It’s our first time in this event, and what we did was work in class investigating and producing the ppt, and we sent it to you in the hopes that that was what was expected from us….

Well Yes!! Why not!? I am proud and happy to include their presentation in this post, in keeping with the inclusive spirit of Global Collaboration Week. Through this blog, Flavia, Mateo, Mateo., and Germán have mounted their presentation and achieved inclusion as part of the archive of record of GCW 2019.

More from Hanaa Khamis

When Hanaa Khamis joined our panel, I asked her to write a one or two sentence blurb about the NileTESOL LT SIG  and PD committee that she will represent, so I could include a sentence or two characterizing it in the proposal. At that moment (we were chatting in FB) I was filling in the online form. But she was crossing Cairo on a bus, and could not respond before I sensed that if I didn’t submit the form I had open in a browser window I’d be timed out and have to copy/paste the whole thing in again. So I hit submit. Just after that, Hanaa FB’d me this very nice description of why she was interested in joining this proposal. I couldn’t resist appending it here, though Hanaa’s description, even in reduced form, did not reach me quite in time to make it into the proposal:

This year (2019) witnessed the official launch of the NileTESOL Interactive Webinar series, a long-awaited dream come true. In May 2019, the Professional Development (PD) Committee and Learning Technologies Special Interest Group initiated a collaboration with Vance Stevens,  the Founder of Webheads and Learning2gether initiatives. So far, six international speakers have participated in one-hour Q/A sessions on Zoom:

• • Dr. Deborah Healey, TESOL International President (2019-20);
  • Vance Stevens, Webheads and Learning2gether Founder;
  • Nik Peachey,  digital guru and author;
  • Csilla Jaray-Benn, TESOL France President (2016-17);
  • Lilika Couri, TESOL Greece Chair (2017-18);
  • and Georgios Chatzis, TESOL Greece Chair (2018-19).

Hanaa Khamis,  NileTESOL PD Chair and LTSIG Co-coordinator has interviewed these distinguished TESOL experts about topics of interest to NileTESOL community members,  e.g. being a teacher researcher, gamification, publishing ESOL materials, empathy in the classroom, literature and language learning, and desensitizing students in the age of YouTube. Vance Stevens has kindly supported this series with his amazing technical and professional expertise through his Zoom account.

My pleasure 🙂 Vance

How did we plan this thing?

Short answer: by the seat of our pants.

Earlier events

Sun Sep 22 1400 UTC – Nick Koretsky discusses Grammar Cube

Learning2gether episode 421
https://learning2gether.net/2019/09/22/nick-kortesky-demonstrates-grammar-cube-his-3d-representation-of-english-verb-tenses/ 

Wed Sept 25 – Cary Torres at SLW-IS Webinar: Supporting English Learners with Disabilities in Writing

This event was posted on myTESOL Lounge in this thread. You might need to be a member there to view it.

The event was recorded

DESCRIPTION

With an increase in English language learners in our classrooms, the number of English learners with disabilities (ELSWD) is also growing, leaving many teachers unsure of how to support these twice exceptional students. This is often even more difficult with writing, an incredibly complex academic task. This webinar will give a brief overview of ELSWD and common challenges in writing, while also highlighting the diversity and variability of these students.  A framework for support and strategies, which teachers can implement across content areas and grade levels to support ELSWD in writing, will also be introduced.  Many of the recommendations can also be applied to struggling writers, including ELs without disabilities, who often face similar challenges with writing, and native-speaker students with disabilities.

Presenter: Caroline (Cary) Torres

Caroline (Cary) Torres is an assistant professor at Kapi’olani Community College in Hawai’i, teaching Second Language Teaching to pre-service and in-service teachers and Writing to non-native speakers of English.  She also provides professional development on supporting English learners and culturally and linguistically diverse students to K-12 teachers. She has worked in schools across the Hawaiian islands and in Japan.  She has a master’s degree in Second Language Studies and a PhD in Exceptionalities/ Special Education with a focus on language learners with disabilities.  Her research interests include culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, including ELs and CLD students with disabilities, Universal Design for Learning, Evidence-Based Practices, grit and growth mindset, and writing instruction, including Self-regulated Strategy Development.
#SecondLanguageWritingInterestSection

LOCATION Url: http://global.gotomeeting.com/join/134347717

Mon-Fri Sept 23-27 –  Global Collaboration Week – Full information and week-long asynchronous events

You can view the flyer here, https://www.smore.com/nvgs6-global-collaboration-week-2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 – 27, 2019. Students, teachers, and organizations will get online to celebrate global collaboration as back-to-school season begins in the northern hemisphere.

During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. The primary goals of this event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources, projects, and networks that are available to educators today.

A current listing of events you can join is below. To see an updated calendar of events, go to https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/join-an-event.html and scroll to the bottom to find your time zone.

Please let others know about this free set of events! You can also follow the event on Twitter @GlobalEdCon and using the hashtag #globaled19;
search on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23globaled19

The Global Education Conference Network believes in the power of connected, globally competent learners of all ages. During Global Collaboration Week you can show others what connected learning looks like around the clock. This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal.

Important links for the GCW online week of events

• Main website http://globalcollaborationweek.org
• Live chat available: http://bit.ly/GCWchat
• Social media badges located on this page: http://bit.ly/GCWbadges
• Events are listed here: https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/2019-event-listings
• Directions for participation are located here: https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/join-an-event.html
• To host a project or event, please follow the directions here: https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/host-your-own-event.html
• Follow our project and event hosts here: http://bit.ly/GCW2019hosts
• FInd also tutorials for participants and hosts: bit.ly/GCWtutorials
• Online link to an email sent on Sept 20 by Steve Hargadon to members of the network and to the people registered for Global Collaboration Week, which includes all the projects and events submitted by Friday morning: https://www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw

Visit The Global Education Conference Network at: https://www.globaleducationconference.org/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Asychronous events happening throughout GCW

Important notice. The events listed below were registered as of Sept 21, 2019. There could be additions or changes to the dynamic program.

To see an updated calendar of events, go to https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/join-an-event.html and scroll to the bottom to find your time zone. Register here to get your own updates and information.

Fostering Global Sustainability
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project, Asynchronous Long Term Project, Survey
AUDIENCE: secondary grade students (14-19)
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: Using the Climate Action, Affordable and Clean Energy, Clean Water + Sanitation, Life Below Water, Life on Land Global Goals for Sustainable Development, students from different countries are invited to share which environmental issue(s) are the most prevalent in their communities and how their community is addressing these issue(s).
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Pascack Valley Regional HS District – Montvale, NJ (EST)
ORGANIZED BY: Noemi Rodriguez, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Alert! Fake News!
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time
AUDIENCE: intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: In this asynchronous collaborative short term project and debate, my students and their families ,as well as global guests will be expressing themselves through a collaborative Zeetings session with a Google Slides presentation among many other embeds. We will reflect on the importance of understanding global issues as a way of directing our personal and professional projects based on collaboration, tolerance, mutual respect and protection
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Academia de Inglés Internacional – Quemú Quemú , La Pampa, Argentina (GMT-3)
ORGANIZED BY: Stella Maris Berdaxagar, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Class-to-Class K-12 Global Connections
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Asynchronous Long Term Project, Informational Session, Tool Demo
AUDIENCE: primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: This event is asynchronous, multilingual, interactive and open to K-12 teachers and students from around the world. Teachers and students may participate ANY TIME during or after Global Collaboration Week. Through the event, hosted in a VoiceThread, teachers and students will Asynchronously interact with each other by posting text, audio or video greetings and/or multimedia content that informs other participants about their class, school, town or cultures.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: OneWorld Classrooms – Andover, MA
ORGANIZED BY: Paul Hurteau, A non-profit organization

Global Cookies
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Survey
AUDIENCE: primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19)
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: This project is an asynchronous event. We are baking chocolate chip cookies in class, and want to learn more about cookies from around the world! This project will show the submitted favorite cookies on a map so participants can compare and contrast cookies from around the world.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Fort Worth Academy – Fort Worth, Texas UTC -5:00
ORGANIZED BY: Lauren Parker, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Global Issues
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Other
AUDIENCE: primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), teachers, administrators
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: Teachers and students nationally and internationally will discuss global issues from social and political perspective through social media.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Eduproject – Louisiana. CT
ORGANIZED BY: Rochelle Scott, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Global Project Partnerships
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Asynchronous Long Term Project, Birds-of-a-Feather Virtual Meet Up, Mystery Hangout, Mystery Skype Call, Survey, Other
AUDIENCE: teachers, administrators, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: Classroom teachers are looking to use technology to connect their students to other classrooms around the world. The educational benefits of globally connected teaching and learning are many; students learn about cultures, practice language skills, and develop collaborative skills through project-based learning.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: GlobalEd Events – UTC/GMT-6 (Central Standard Time)
ORGANIZED BY: Lucy Gray, A non-profit organization

Homes Around the World
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Asynchronous Long Term Project, Survey, Other
AUDIENCE: early childhood students (0-4), primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: This is an asynchronous project in which any class can participate before, during, or after Global Collaboration Week (September 23-27, 2019). The goal is to provide a wide array of pictures of homes that can be used by classes as discussion prompts.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: North Shore Country Day School – Chicago, IL CST UTC/GMT-6
ORGANIZED BY: Lucy Gray, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

War on Drugs’ Debate
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Debate
AUDIENCE: secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers, parents
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: Under the premise of the Philippine government’s ‘War on Drugs’ campaign, which has been criticized by many Human Rights Organizations worldwide but has been approved and supported by the majority of Filipinos, participants in this event will debate on whether or not they are in favor of ‘War on Drugs’ campaign to be implemented in their respective country.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Alternative Education Center – Odessa, TX and Central Time
ORGANIZED BY: Reynaldo Duran, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

What Are Your Language Learning Tips?
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project
AUDIENCE: intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: This is a collaboration of language students around the World. The goal is to gather ideas on how to learn new languages the best way. We hope that many schools will participate in this project.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Sequoyah High School – Madisonville, Tennessee, Eastern Time
ORGANIZED BY: Ruth Valle, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

My School, Your School project- An IEARN project
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Guided Virtual Tour, Informational Session
AUDIENCE: teachers
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: This session will give information on how to take part in a telecollaborative global project for students to see similarities and differences among students around the world.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Mother of Mercy School/ Escuela Madre de la Misericordia – GMT-3
ORGANIZED BY: Silvana Carnicero, An educator or educators at a for-profit school

One Day in our World
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Long Term Project
AUDIENCE: primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19)
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 120H | Monday – Friday (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)
DESCRIPTION: The ONE DAY IN OUR WORLD project is suitable for grades K-12 as a starting point for global collaboration. The topics are student-generated to start the interactions, and are intended to promote discussion. We encourage teachers and students to return to the topics to see responses and respond to each other.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: William J. Johnston Middle School – EST
ORGANIZED BY: Laura Krenicki, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Mon Sept 23 1230 thru 1530 UTC- Global Collaboration Week Events scheduled for today

Important notice. The events listed below were registered as of Sept 21, 2019. To see an updated calendar of events, go to https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/join-an-event.html and scroll to the bottom to find your time zone. Register here to get your own updates and information.

Tue Sept 24 0030 and 1330 UTC – Global Collaboration Week Events scheduled for today

How to Globalize US History
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Guided Virtual Tour, Tool Demo
AUDIENCE: secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 30M | 2019-09-24 0:30 UTC– 2019-09-24 for 30 min 1:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 08:30 in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+24%2C+2019+at+1330+UTC+for+30+min&iso=20190924T0030&p1=1440&am=30
DESCRIPTION: This is a virtual tour of the free educational resource – Globalizing US History. The preview will address the Why, How. and What of this approach to US History. Participants will learn how to navigate and utilize the resources provided- which are updated weekly. The link above is to our webinar room. See you there.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: NCHE/Longview Foundation – Virginia EST
ORGANIZED BY: Craig Perrier, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

iEARN Project Book Release Party
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Informational Session, Webinar
AUDIENCE: pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-24 13:00 UTC – 2019-09-24 for 1 hour to 14:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 21:30 in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+24%2C+2019+at+1330+UTC+for+1+hour&iso=20190924T1330&p1=1440&ah=1
DESCRIPTION: iEARN-USA is hosting two virtual webinars to celebrate another year of global collaboration. Join us to celebrate and learn about iEARN’s 100+ global projects that you and your students can participate in this year!
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: iEARN-USA – New York (EDT)
ORGANIZED BY: Rachel Manley, A non-profit organization

Wed Sept 25 1400, 1900 and 2130 UTC – Global Collaboration Week Events scheduled for today

Important notice. The events listed below were registered as of Sept 21, 2019. To see an updated calendar of events, go to https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/join-an-event.html and scroll to the bottom to find your time zone. Register here to get your own updates and information.

4:30am UTC –  Global Warming – A Panel Discussion

When – Wed, September 25, 4:30am – 5:00am (30 minutes)

Description – Title of event/project: Global Warming – A Panel Discussion

• Educon International School is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Educon International School’s Zoom Meeting Time: Sep 25, 2019 10:00 AM India, 12:30 in Malaysia
• Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/118040668 One tap mobile +14086380968,,118040668# US (San Jose) +16465588656,,118040668# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 118 040 668 Find your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fWvTwshMq
• Project/event description: Join Educon International School for a Panel discussion on Global Warming. This discussion is happening between groups of students of Std. 7. of EIS. The main topics disccused will be; 1) Issues face by a particular country 2) Government initiatives/policies to address the issues faced by global warming 3) The Action plan/ Framework and the efforts put in by particular country with collaboration and support from other countries to minimize the ill effects of Global warning. Project/event directions for participation: This session is being held in a virtual room using zoom.com. A panel discussion will take place on the topic of Global Warming. Zoom video conference call. Meeting ID https://us04web.zoom.us/j/118040668 Feedback are welcome on flipgrid.com/school6314
• This event can be categorized as a: Informational Session, Panel Discussion
• This event is intended for the following audience(s): primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
• Primary language(s) to be spoken at this event: English
• Contact First Name: Hemali Contact Last Name: Madan Contact Email: educoninternationalschool@gmail.com Contact Twitter Handle: @educon_school
• Host school or organization: Educon International School Host School or Organization
• Website URL: http://www.educoninternationalschool.com
• ost Location and Time Zone (UTC): Pune, Maharashtra, India (UTC+5:30)
• This event is organized by: An educator or educators at a for-profit school

Online game “Sustainable Development Goals: Think and Act!”

When Wed, September 25, 10am UTC – 1pm for 3 hours – 1800 in Malaysia to 2100

Title of event/project: Online game “Sustainable Development Goals: Think and Act!”

• URL to project/event starting point: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1a3TYh-BDLud-3SD-dWA-hgn9Z2B9RVADNdStzgtJQWc/viewform?edit_requested=true
  Learning2gether found this notice when I tried to attend this session without pre-registration
  

• Project/event description: The game is devoted to the UN summit on September 25 in 2015, where the list of 17 goals for sustainable development were announced.
• Project/event directions for participation: The participants will get a set of online tasks on SDG to discuss and fulfill. This event can be categorized as a: Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project, Gaming Experience
• This event is intended for the following audience(s): secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students
• Primary language(s) to be spoken at this event: Russian
•  Contact First Name: Kate Contact Last Name: Donskova Contact Email: ccesd2018@gmail.com Contact Twitter Handle:
• Host school or organization: Belarusian State Pedagogical University Host School or Organization
• Website URL: https://esdcc.bspu.by/news
• Host Location and Time Zone (UTC): Minsk UTC+3 hours
• This event is organized by: An educator or educators at a non-profit school
• more details»  copy to my calendar

Life after NSLI-Y Virtual Event
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Webinar
AUDIENCE: secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-25 14:00 UTC – 2019-09-25 for one hour to 15:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 22:00 in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+25%2C+2019+at+1400+UTC+for+1+hour&iso=20190925T14&p1=1440&ah=1
DESCRIPTION: The National Security Language Initiative Program (NSLI-Y) sends around 800 high school students to study critical languages abroad every year. Students spend a summer or an academic year in Turkey, Jordan, Russia, Korea and more learning the language and engaging in the culture.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: iEARN-USA – New York, NY EDT
ORGANIZED BY: Meike Faber, A non-profit organization

Proposed Lunar Science Base (using lava tubes)

When Wed, September 25, 1900 – to 8 pm UTC – 3 am next day in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+25%2C+2019+at+1900+UTC+for+1+hour&iso=20190925T19&p1=1440&ah=1

• URL to project/event starting point: http://www.akerleyspaceexploration.com Project/event description: This will be both a Webpage connection and a ZOOM Conference Call. The Webpage will be available after the Conference call (pass word is SA)
• Project/event directions for participation: ZOOM Conference Call for Global Collaboration Event Proposed Lunar Science Base Date: Sep 25, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM Eastern 2:00 PM Central 1:00 PM Mountain 12:00 PM Pacific Join via Internet: https://zoom.us/j/502814706 Join via Smart Phone: (Mtg ID Auto Entered) US East +16468769923,,502814706# US West +16699006833,,502814706# Join via Land Line US East +1 646 876 9923 US West +1 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 502 814 706
• This event can be categorized as a: Informational Session, Lecture, Panel Discussion
• This event is intended for the following audience(s): intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, teachers, parents
• Primary language(s) to be spoken at this event: English
• Contact First Name: Stevan Contact Last Name: Akerley Contact Email: stevan.akerley@outlook.com Contact Twitter Handle:
• Host school or organization: Kepler Space Institute, and NSS Host School or Organization Website URL: https://Keplerspaceinstitute.com
• Host Location and Time Zone (UTC): 7:00 PM UTC
• This event is organized by: An educator or educators at a for-profit school
• Optional field for additional pertinent information: The Proposed Science Base is more than what has been suggested in past lunar base renditions. This proposal supports both scientific and settlement missions. It is a permanent settlement approach not just an expeditionary mission.
• Units : 1 Team member : Member name
• YCBM link ref: 3aab7e77-9453-4d04-9ef4-2d4604910303
• more details»  copy to my calendar

iEARN Global Educator Hangout (this event is no longer listed in the dynamic calendar on Sept 25 as of midnight UTC)
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Other
AUDIENCE: teachers
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-25 19:00 UTC – 2019-09-25 for one hour to 20:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 03:00 in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+25%2C+2019+at+1900+UTC+for+1+hour&iso=20190925T19&p1=1440&ah=1
DESCRIPTION: iEARN’s Global Educator Hangouts are virtual meetings open to K-12 educators around the world and across the iEARN network. Join these hangouts to connect with other like-minded educators, share your global project ideas and experiences, and find international partners to connect and collaborate with.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: iEARN-USA – New York, NY (EDT)
ORGANIZED BY: Rachel Manley, A non-profit organization

Documentary on Globalizing Education (this event is no longer listed in the dynamic calendar on Sept 25 as of midnight UTC)
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project, Asynchronous Long Term Project, Focus Group, Survey
AUDIENCE: college or university students, teachers, administrators, parents, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-25 21:30 UTC – 2019-09-25 for one hour to 22:30 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 05:30 in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+25%2C+2019+at+2130+UTC+for+1+hour&iso=20190925T2130&p1=1440&ah=1
DESCRIPTION: I am making a documentary film on globalizing education. I sometimes refer to the process as decolonizing education. The film is intended to be research and the interviews is data collection. I am interesting in discovering how people define globalizing/decolonizing education as well as how they think we can move in this direction.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Harold Washington College – Chicago Central UTC -5
ORGANIZED BY: Dana Cole, An educator or educators at a for-profit school

Kultural Konnection 360  
11:30 PM – 2:30 AM CST – GMT-5 = 16:30 UTC for 3 hours; 00:30 Sept 26 in Malaysia; 2200 Sept 26 in India

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+25%2C+2019+at+1130+CST+for+3+hours&iso=20190925T1130&p1=64&ah=3

• GCW link: https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/2019-event-listings/kultural-konnection-360
• Participants should go to this link to start the project.URL to project/event starting point:
  cnms.ac.in/Kultural%20Konnection%20360%20Degree%20(Grade%201)/M__92
• Project/event description:
  A cultural exchange between countries so that students learn to appreciate and respect the culture and traditions of other countries.
• Project/event directions for participation:
  Participants will confirm their participation on google forms. Skype sessions will be organized for students to exchange their culture w.r.t. food, clothing, greetings, traditions. Participants will be taken through a gallery walk of the different countries with performances by our students within the school and asked for feedback. Other countries can also share their native dance or song or poem.
• This event can be categorized as a:
  ​Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project, Performance
• This event is intended for the following audience(s):
  early childhood students (0-4), primary grade students (5-10)
• Primary language(s) to be spoken at this event: English
• Contact First Name: Kavita
  Contact Last Name: SANGHVI
  Contact Email: kavitasanghvi2013@gmail.com
  Contact Twitter Handle: sanghvi_kavita
• Host school or organization: C.N.M School & N.D. Parekh Preprimary School
  Host School or Organization Website URL: http://cnms.ac.in/
  Host Location and Time Zone (UTC): Mumbai GMT+5:30
• This event is organized by: An educator or educators at a for-profit school
• Optional field for additional pertinent information: We wish to promote Global Goals by sensitizing students on different cultures across the world at a young age so that they grow respecting one and all. This can only happen if students communicate pertinent information about their country with each other and in due course collaborate on further events.

Thu Sept 26 – other Global Collaboration Week Events scheduled for today

Important notice. The events listed below were registered as of Sept 21, 2019. To see an updated calendar of events, go to https://www.globalcollaborationweek.org/join-an-event.html and scroll to the bottom to find your time zone. Register here to get your own updates and information.

Kultural Konnection 360
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project, Performance
AUDIENCE: early childhood students (0-4), primary grade students (5-10)
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 3H | 2019-09-26 04:30 UTC– 2019-09-26 for 3 hours 7:30 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 12:30 pm in Malaysia
DESCRIPTION: A cultural exchange between countries so that students learn to appreciate and respect the culture and traditions of other countries.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: C.N.M School + N.D. Parekh Preprimary School – Mumbai GMT+5:30
ORGANIZED BY: Kavita SANGHVI, An educator or educators at a for-profit school

RRC Teacher Education Global Collaboration 2019
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Synchronous Collaborative Short Term Project, Survey, Tool Demo, Other
AUDIENCE: primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, pre-service teachers
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-26 14:00 UTC – 2019-09-26 for one hour to 15:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 2200 pm in Malaysia
DESCRIPTION: Student teachers at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada are preparing to design learning for their students. A huge part of this learning is for the pre-service teachers to experience global collaboration and to grow their passion for teaching and learning.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Red River College – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – Central time zone
ORGANIZED BY: Eva Brown, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Teaching the SDGs in the Classroom
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Webinar
AUDIENCE: secondary grade students (14-19), college or university students, teachers, administrators, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-26 17:00 UTC – 2019-09-26 for 1 hour to 18:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 0100 am in Malaysia
DESCRIPTION: Join the United Nations Association of the USA for Global Collaboration Week to discuss teaching the SDGs in the classroom. Learn about the resources UNA-USA offers through its Educator Affinity Group and share best practices with other educators.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: UNA-USA – Webinar, 1 pm EST
ORGANIZED BY: Anna Mahalak, A non-profit organization

ConnectED: Birds-of-a-Feather Virtual Meet-Up for Teacher Educators and Their Future Teachers
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Birds-of-a-Feather Virtual Meet Up
AUDIENCE: college or university students, pre-service teachers, teachers
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-26 18:00 UTC – 2019-09-26 for 1 hour to 19:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 2 am in Malaysia

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GCW+event+Sept+26%2C+2019+at+1800+CST+for+1+hour&iso=20190926T18&p1=1440&ah=1
DESCRIPTION: This global meet-up is designed for teacher educators and their future teachers who would to develop global collaborations. Professor David Stoloff at Eastern Connecticut State University will briefly discuss his experiences connecting with other global teacher education programs as archived at http://interconescu.wordpress.com . Participants will be encouraged to discuss their experiences with global collaborations and their aspirations for future project. We will also discuss the uses of Google Hangouts, Google Forms for gathering information, and wordpress for establishing a web presence for a project.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Eastern Connecticut State University – Willimantic, CT USA Eastern Coast (GMT-4)
ORGANIZED BY: David Stoloff, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

Global Buncee Book Vol. 2
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Asynchronous Collaborative Short Term Project – you can participate at any time, Informational Session, Tool Demo, Other
AUDIENCE: primary grade students (5-10), intermediate grade students (10-13), secondary grade students (14-19), teachers, administrators, organization leaders
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 30M | 2019-09-26 19:30 UTC – 2019-09-26 for 30 min 20:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE)  03:30 in Malaysia
DESCRIPTION: Check out last year’s first ever Global Buncee Book project that kicked off as part of World Read Aloud Day 2019 (https://michaeldrezek.com/2019/01/30/something-different-for-world-read-aloud-day/). Back by popular demand, Vol. 2 will launch as part of Global Collaboration Week. This year’s book will again focus on creativity, imagination and digital storytelling where classes around the globe can create a page and bring it to life with Buncee. In the end, each page will be read aloud by the participating class and stitched into a single digital book.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: Lake Shore CSD – Angola, NY, USA (EST)
ORGANIZED BY: Michael Drezek, An educator or educators at a non-profit school

MY HERO: Stories, Art and Film Celebrating Heroes Around the Globe
ACTIVITY CATEGORY: Informational Session
AUDIENCE: teachers, administrators, parents
LANGUAGE: English
LENGTH | UTC/GMT TIMES: 1H | 2019-09-26 20:00 UTC – 2019-09-26 for 1 hour 21:00 (YOUR OWN TIME ZONE) 0400 in Malaysia
DESCRIPTION: In our globally connected world, we have a great opportunity to learn from one another, to exchange stories, art, and films that honor those who are tackling the great challenges of our time and working to improve the quality of life for all. Learn how to integrated MY HERO with your students. We use media, art and technology on MY HERO to celebrate the best of humanity, one story at a time.
LINK TO FULL DESCRIPTION: www.globaleducationconference.org/page/gcw
HOST SCHOOL: MY HERO – United States EDT
ORGANIZED BY: Laura Nietzer, A non-profit organization

and the one blogged here, Thu Sept 26 1500 UTC – Learning2gether 422 Connective and Collaborative Tools for Impacting Social and Climate Change at Global Collaboration Week

Sept 1-30 2019 4th annual Virtual Worlds MOOC (VWMOOC19)

The fourth annual Virtual Worlds MOOC (VWMOOC19) will take place from September 1-30, 2019. The theme of the current MOOC is peace through learning and connecting online for instruction and learning via web technologies such as Second Life and Virtual Worlds. The MOOC will focus on connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching around the world through Virtual Worlds.

Sign up to access the live sessions, reflect, and receive a free certificate here: https://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=114

Syllabus:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10OnlkCliEnZllijiSkKLNkqf4vQSLKgihqun_keXTpA/edit?usp=sharing

Wed Sept 25 1600 and 1900 UTC – Live events at the 4th annual Virtual Worlds MOOC VWMOOC19

Thu Sept 26 1900 UTC – Live event at the 4th annual Virtual Worlds MOOC VWMOOC19

Mon Sep 24 midnight UTC – Dae Miami discusses Alt Space and VR at VSTE Space in Second Life

Alt Space and VR
Monday, September 23,  at 5 SLT, 20:00 ET, Dae Miami discusses Alt Space, a VR social networking world you can access with your PC, mobile device, or VR hardware! Come join the fun! Maybe we’ll agree on a time to try it together.

That must be 5 pm SLT, or PDT time Sept 23; midnight UTC Sept 24 where you are

• https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Mon+Sep+23+2000+ET+-+Dae+Miami+discusses+Alt+Space+and+VR+at+VSTE+Space+in+Second+Life&iso=20190923T20&p1=4747&ah=1
• Countdown to the event
  https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=4747&iso=20190923T20&msg=Mon%20Sep%2023%202000%20ET%20-%20Dae%20Miami%20discusses%20Alt%20Space%20and%20VR%20at%20VSTE%20Space%20in%20Second%20Life

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Basic directions to join VSTE Space in Second Life

If you don’t have a Second Life account get one, it’s free. We recommend setting one up at the Rockcliffe University Consortium’s Gateway here:https://urockcliffe.com/reg/second-life/ Download and install the software. While your Second Life viewer (software) is open click this linkhttp://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Soulgiver/155/144/58 and voila! Look for an avatar on VSTE Island and say, “Hey, I’m new!” We will take care of the rest.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Soulgiver/155/144/58

Wed Sept 25 1800 UTC – EnglishUSA Associates free webinar on Assessment Providers & Services Part I

The following was posted on myTESOL Lounge on Sept 17, 2019. If you can access that list you can find the thread here:

https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=51f9014d-bc08-41aa-abf9-68f09ef2df9b&CommunityKey=a4e6ad60-89a2-4c3f-9e37-cb7e3acad5fe&tab=digestviewer#bm51f9014d-bc08-41aa-abf9-68f09ef2df9b

Cheryl Delk-Le Good

ESL Assessment Providers (Part I)
Description:
The first of two complimentary webinars on assessment (second one will be October 9) will feature several Trinity College, Michigan Language Assessment and Pearson Language Tests, all of whom specialize in different types of assessment tools & services. Participants will have the opportunity to dialog with the experts and learn what support is available from a variety of ESL assessment providers.

Key Objectives:
1) Contextualize the relationship between assessments used by your program and the assessments used by your institutions (if applicable) for admissions
2) Identify factors used to determine assessments used
3) Connect with assessment provider representatives and learn about support available
4) Learn about the accreditations which demonstrate test quality

Presenters (September 25):
-Alex Thorpe, Trinity College London
-Gad Lim, Michigan Language Assessments
-Jennifer Manning, Pearson Language Tests

Presenters (October 9)
-Marian Crandall, ETS/TOEFL
-Misty Wilson, IELTS

Moderator:
Cheryl Delk-Le Good, Executive Director, EnglishUSA

Click here to register (complimentary for everyone!)

Alternatively scroll down on the page you are directed to and at the bottom of the left side there is a direct registration link for this webinar

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ENiG-EexTOemru5ZZa9x0w

The webinar is free, no need to sign in, register with, or pay dues to EnglishUSA. You need to register with Zoom at the link above though.

Wed Sept 26 1800 UTC – TESOL free webinar – Dr. Phil Vahey on Supporting ELs Through Technology

TESOL has announced a free webinar being hosted by colleagues in the US Department of Education and the Office of English Language Acquisition on Supporting ELs Through Technology.

Connect with presenters from the Office of English Language Acquisition and Dr. Phil Vahey, director of strategic research and innovation for SRI Education on 26 September 2019, at 2 p.m. ET for an in-depth look at digital learning resources that can strengthen instruction of ELs.

In this one-hour webinar, you’ll receive an overview of the types of digital learning resources available to support ELs and learn about key findings on supporting ELs through technology from the 2019 National Study of English Learners and Digital Learning Resources. You’ll also receive recommendations and resources from two useful toolkits: the Educator Toolkit and the Developers Toolkit.

Follow up

Links to a recording of the webinar, a PDF of the slideshow, and relevant handouts were thoughtfully emailed to participants who, like me, were sleeping when the webinar took place. Here they are:

Link to the PowerPoint – https://manhattanstrategy.egnyte.com/dl/YmrIcKNekR
Link to the Webinar Recording – https://manhattanstrategy.egnyte.com/dl/9BqCffUoeN
Market Brief Article – https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/teachers-word-carries-weight-choosing-products-survey-finds/?mc_cid=13d0e2aedd&mc_eid=d647a1d168
Complete report and Educator and Develop Toolkits: www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/reports.html#ells
OELA Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ED.OELA/
OELA on Twitter – @ASKNCELA1