Learning2gether Episode #434

Find out more about the Jan 20-29 Workshops in Thailand
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This plenary address was delivered live face-to-face at the ThaiTESOL conference in Bangkok, Thailand, and simulcast by Jeff Magoto as a live webinar recorded in Zoom for the benefit of the EVO Flipped Learning session – here: https://youtu.be/FXEhAHul0bU?t=662

Links to the text

• in Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13_yk92XbhOBQbvShSw1hXZYynyx5VKdfkoj1yBw_Ulw/edit?usp=sharing
• TinyURL for theWriteup: ThaiTESOL2020Vance: https://tinyurl.com/thaitesol2020vance 

Links to the slides

• In Google Slides
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uQXfSFR-DmULANanLm7N3oHDd5L6Hg4QYyqyu-y5l74/edit?usp=sharing 
• TinyURL for the slides, Vance2020ThaiTESOL
  https://tinyurl.com/vance2020thaitesol

If you arrive at one you can easily link to the other

From https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1725292/assignments/13587716 (link available to registered participants in the Flipped Learning EVO course for 2020)

I was invited, https://tesol.conferences.in.th/?go=invited_speakers, to give a plenary address at the 40th Thailand TESOL-PAC International Conference at the Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, at 13:30 on DAY 1: Thursday, 30 January 2020, on the topic of: The what, why, and how of flipped learning: Harmonizing diversity by developing skills in podcasting, webcasting, and digital storytelling The presentation was scheduled for 30 minutes including discussion, but was allocated 45 minutes in the schedule. Here are its proposal and abstract and some working notes for it, https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Gdg5HH8Yfp2xqJaOubKkIIYM5dhQ3QkpwLIrWnNHRU/edit?usp=sharing The event was held 13:30 -14:15 in Bangkok

The plenary was preceded by 2-weeks of English Language Specialist workshops in Thailand, which can be seen online now at http://workshops2020.pbworks.com/. The link was given out prior to the workshops to institutes where the participants were, which does not mean the links always reached the participants in advance, but this would have made it possible for the workshops to be flipped so that background information would have been previewed by participants, who would then focus primarily on the activities in the workshops themselves. Then after the workshops, all participants still had an archive of what they did at the same link.

Following the workshops I gave the plenary at ThaiTESOL on Flipped Learning and Jeff Magoto streamed it directly to the Flipped Learning EVO session as one of their weekly webinars. My plenary took place right after lunch, so I went to the auditorium ahead of time and got set up there and connected in Zoom with the Flipped Learning Webinar, so that the webinar was in session and on the big screen, audio issues more or less resolved, when the plenary audience arrived.

More about the EVO Flipped Learning session here:
http://evo2020proposals.pbworks.com/w/page/135536043/Flipped_Learning_in_language_teaching

The webinar began at 6 am UTC in Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/188490722

Announcements: Facebook

Also announced on the Flipped Learning canvas LMS as follows:

The announcement above and the link to readings (and viewings) can be seen by registered FLEVO participants here:

• https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1725292/pages/3-dot-6-live-webcasts-vance-stevens-on-wed-flevo-on-sun
• https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1725292/pages/3-dot-5a-extra-resources-readings

Getting ready for the big event

Outside the auditorium

Setting up with Jeff Magoto

The 2020 EVO Flipped Learning session figured prominently in my plenary address. For their part, for sharing my plenary with them, they sent me a certificate of participation in their session.

This video explains what I had planned here in its wider context

Follow on Tweets

• Setting up – https://twitter.com/VanceS/status/1222790704021176320
• Getting started – https://twitter.com/bobbistev/status/1222771084878958592
• Receiving recognition – https://twitter.com/bobbistev/status/1222785825420632064
• Audience impressions – https://twitter.com/bobbistev/status/1222785825420632064

More about the Jan 20-29 Workshops in Thailand

These are for an
English Language Specialist Project:  Workshops in Thailand January 2020

At http://workshops2020.pbworks.com/ find the HOME portal for a series of workshops conducted by English Language Specialist Vance Stevens at various universities and language centers in Thailand to English lecturers and undergraduate and graduate university English majors on using CALL (computer-assisted language learning) and technology for blended classrooms. The workshops model how teachers can create blended learning environments using free Web 2.0 tools and websites.

These workshops encourage and train teachers to learn best practices from peer models, in order to in turn model for their students how technology can best be utilized and applied appropriately in their students’ learning.

There are two workshops in 4 and 2 modules respectively. The modules are designed to be delivered in the amount of time allocated to those workshops at each presentation location in Thailand. Details can be found at http://workshops2020.pbworks.com/

Earlier events

Sat 11 Jan EVO Minecraft MOOC kicked off its 6th season in Discord and Minecraft

https://learning2gether.net/2020/01/11/evo-minecraft-mooc-kicks-off-its-6th-season-with-electronic-village-online/

Sun 12 Jan 1400 utc EVO kickoff meeting

The EVO20 annual Kickoff event is on January 12, 2020 at 2 PM UTC (9:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

• Where? join the meeting in ZOOM – https://zoom.us/j/245943047
• Recording of EVO20 Kickoff https://youtu.be/LoFPRp5N0Xk
• The event is announced on the SMORE for sending out to social media: https://www.smore.com/sbzya-participation-for-evo20
• Access the EVO2020 Kickoff slideshow here

Sat Jan 11 – EVO 2020 sessions begin now until Feb 16

More information, http://evosessions.org

EVO is Electronic Village Online. Its annual 2020 sessions go from Jan 11 to Feb 16 this year.

There’s more information here http://evosessions.org/ and a Call for Participation here: https://www.smore.com/sbzya

In 2020 there are 15 sessions

• 2020 EVO Minecraft MOOC
• CEFR VS Assessment
• Classroom-based research for Professional Development
• English for the Workplace
• Escape the Classroom! 
• Flipped_Learning_in_language_teaching 
• Getting Online as a Teacherpreneur
• Grammar for TESOL 
• ICT4ELT20
• Immersive Language Teaching and Learning
• M4TEVO20
• Mentoring teacher-research
• TECHNO CLIL 2020
• TEFL2YL EVO20
• Tools for Student Collaboration

Click on the links to find out how to sign up

The following invitation was generated from Heike’s Ning …

Invitation to EVO session Immersive Language Learning in Virtual Worlds 11 January 2020 – 16 February 2020 Call for participation: Immersive Language Teaching and Learning To talk to others live online is the best and sometimes cheapest way of practicing a language in real-time with via internet. Virtual environments offer opportunities to meet speakers of other languages and native speakers alike but there are many 3D spaces out there and sometimes it is difficult to decide which one to join. Which virtual world is suitable for language education? What kind of equipment or software do you need? How long does it take to get to know this world before we introduce this to our students? Is this virtual space safe for our learners?  Come join to find out. For a period of 5 weeks we meet online twice or three times a week to explore some 12 different virtual 3D environments and look at how these could be used for language teaching and learning. An EVO session is a free online workshop aimed at professional languageeducators with teaching experience, language consultants, language schools or publishers.Everyone can attend even without a fast computer and you do not need an HMD headset nor any special technical skills. We will meet in a video conferencing solution called Zoom and will use screensharing to showcase. We hope our participants join us actively in trying to evaluate these environments to come up with our top 5 virtual spaces suitable for language learning. For more information see http://vlanguages.pbworks.com and we look forward to you signing up using this Google form https://forms.gle/DDtKoB8TiVPsuFUr8

Jan 21 Vanessa Paz Dennen and JiYae Bong describe research on participants a MOOC that focused on social media use

Posted in MyTESOL Lounge, https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=b61e8024-8b22-4635-86be-784225f6dd14&CommunityKey=a4e6ad60-89a2-4c3f-9e37-cb7e3acad5fe&tab=digestviewer#bmb61e8024-8b22-4635-86be-784225f6dd14 Faridah Pawan

The URL below is the recorded conversation undertaken on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Vanessa Paz Dennen and JiYae Bong from Florida State University describe their research on the dialogues and the engagement patterns of an international group of participants a MOOC that focused on social media use. Although their perspective is that of instructional designers and researchers, their insights may be of use to the TESOL audience interested in the online medium as a medium of instruction.  As with all ongoing research, the speakers demonstrate constant problematization at several levels including at the theoretical level (Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions theory) and in the appropropriateness and adequacy of the conceptual categorizations of “national,” organizational and tool cultures.  Pedagogical implications are discussed with the caveat that there is much that remains unknown and to be explored. URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG0ZTFzAZAM Paper: Dennen, V. P. & Bong, J. (2018). Cross-cultural dialogues in an open online course: Navigating national and organizational cultural differences. TechTrends, 62,  383–392. doi.org/10.1007/s11528-018-0276-7