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Learning2gether Episode 475
14th Webheads Revival Sunday Open Mic
and TALIN event #29

Navigation

Some thoughts on the effectiveness of Miro
An analysis of how Miro was used in this instance
Some tentative conclusions
Skip down to the Zoom Chat Logs
See our promotion and feedback for this event
Find out more about TALIN
Skip down to Earlier Events that happened since the previous Learning2gther post

Last week, Graham Stanley introduced us to Miro: https://miro.com/

His intent was to have us crowd-source COVID-19 teaching tools and find out what others had discovered that would be useful in this regard. The recording of that webinar is here:
https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/21/graham-stanley-hosts-13th-webheads-revival-weekly-sunday-openmic-inar-on-miro/

Tonight we pushed Graham’s idea further out the edges of the envelope, and Doris Molero expained through screenshare how she teaches English by having students develop narratives for virtual worlds.

Impressed by the reaction of others in the #webheadsinaction community of practice to the potential of Miro, I decided to explore the tool in more detail and carry forward Graham’s experiment. I came up with a Miro board at a URL which anyone with the link can view at https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kqaoBvw=/

If you were on the GS team, which Graham has renamed to ‘Webheads’, you might be able to Join the Miro board
https://miro.com/welcomeonboard/l3dQ7ALpfumQCCqbfDiFtuPOsTquLNmzyW563Bnz8Aumzq10oyLhb8R7MqGhzEwM

But if you’re not on this team already, and want to play, we’ll get you in. Then you can join us and we’ll see if together

• we can share with one another how this tool works and might be applied to our goals, and if
• we can teach one another even more subtleties of its use, and if
• we can gain practice and become more proficient in our understanding of Miro

How effective was Miro?

This is how the Miro board looked the morning after

I created a spreadsheet to track what was on the board when I seeded it on June 27, the day before the webinar, and what was added since then before, during, and after the webinar. I put the results in a Google spreadsheet and shared it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-u4sLfe6Wmw3RIdZDLQty9wgIpCYNKpIDAXXLkYlUoo/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a screen shot of the top part of that spreadsheet.

Analysis

I made a crude analysis of additions to the Miro board after it was seeded by counting the number of tokens added in each column after others had been invited to the board shortly after I had seeded it on June 27.  At least three users visited the Miro board before we met synchonously on June 28.

The day following the webinar, I again checked for activity. There had been 26 tokens added.  A token was any artifact contaned within a sticky note or other Miro object, including its hyperlink, but not counting the 3 sticky notes added as annotatons beside three of the sticky notes naming tools useful for synchronous meetings, or the comments made on the two templates added to the board.

These tokens, or artifacts, were added by around a dozen online and synchronous participants. Some of the asynchronous additions were made prior to the synchronous event which took place over the course of an hour where the Miro board was hardly the topic of discussion

That is, the Miro board was just there. It was simply presented to the webinar participants, there was some discussion over how they could access it, but it was clear to participants without further explanation what they could do. No one really talked about the board or discussed what they were adding to it during the webinar.

Most of the additions to the board were along the lines of what was requested on the board itself. The instructions were to look at the categories, decide if more categories should be added, and fill in sticky notes with names of tools (with hyperlinks) that could help learners accomplish tasks under those categories.

One additional category was added by a participant in the Facebook live stream, who also filled in a sticky note under that category (two tokens). Two participants in the webinar added additional templates to the one which had been seeded, just to see what would happen if they did that (2 more tokens, and the templates appeared in different corners of the board and did not interfere with the original template). One participant added another token, a drawing as shown below.

Tentative conclusions

During live sessions which I am hosting, I always find it difficult to focus on the board, I supposed because I have to monitor both it and the zoom recording. This experience and my rudimentary analysis suggests to me that Miro may be most appropriate for asynchronous use. Of course, this would depend on the context in which the board was being used, but as per these examples:

The day before the meeting, Heike and Laine had hooked up on the Miro board and I was notified in email of their conversation record:

Helaine “Laine” Marshall 23:34

yes, I do…… I love MIRO!!! I am going to use it in my online SOFLA training for Sign-in, whole group application, and reflection – 3 of the 8 steps!

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Then the day of the meeting, but before it had started, Hala found Laine’s message and asked
Hi Laine. How will you use it for ‘sign in’?

Chris Fry 20:25

There seem to be a lot of chat options: Zoom, Facebook, Miro!

Helaine “Laine” Marshall 20:29

@ Hala – When it is time for class, students arrive at the Sign-in Miro Board and respond to a prompt from me with their name.

marudelcampo 22:48

Hi Laine. It seems there is an integrated tool here at Miro to receive mentions and responses instantly from your workspace called Slack App. Have you used it with students?

There is also a comments function in Miro, also useful for asynchronous interaction

I hope to experiement with Miro further, and to learn more about how Laine  integrates it into her SOFLA model (synchronous online flipped learning approach). Laine presented her model at one of our earlier TALIN events, https://learning2gether.net/2020/04/14/laine-marshall-presents-sofla-synchronous-online-flipped-learning-approach-talin-webinar-8/, and explained to us its 8 steps:

The presenter takes the group through the eight steps of the model, which are presented for both teachers and professional developers: (1) Pre-Work; (2) Sign-in Activity; (3) Whole Group Application; (4) Breakout Group Activities; (5) Share-out Time; (6) Preview and Discovery; (7) Assignment/Follow-up; and (8) Reflections.

One final coda, days after the event, people were still posting sticky notes. I know because I continue to get alerts about them. I’ve added them to the spreadsheet here.

Zoom Chat Logs

Graham’s links on Escape Room Games have been reformated below for greater clarity

20:16:28 From Vance Stevens : https://miro.com/welcomeonboard/l3dQ7ALpfumQCCqbfDiFtuPOsTquLNmzyW563Bnz8Aumzq10oyLhb8R7MqGhzEwM
20:17:39 From sus nyrop : I am into Miro now
20:21:32 From sus nyrop : Hello hello, now you see me!
20:30:26 From Graham Stanley : I have a blog (on escape rooms) and

• we ran an EVO this year on escape room https://escaperoomelt.wordpress.com/
• At the Virtual Round Table, I did a workshop on online escape rooms using zoom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqUsPfXXLEk
• Here’s a video of a group of students doing the escape room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru64yBkU4uc
• And here’s another playtest of a zoom escape room I did with the RPG in ELT FB group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/497315184483521) https://zoom.us/rec/play/uMZ5cOD7-z83TNHHtwSDAKIrW47sLa6sh3BK-foKykvhASQCMVekYbcQYbY00bWo4pQipeGopod4KqHW?startTime=1590603081000&_x_zm_rtaid=wfcn9DRqRmmGtObuI7tUJA.1593345662119.ad250221f32cb60a98f2c813c3a5f455&_x_zm_rhtaid=123
• The games themselves you can find here: https://www.slideshare.net/bcgstanley/

20:36:47 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Thanks Graham
20:49:57 From Birgit Ferran : Thanks!
20:53:44 From Laine Marshall : I need to leave – working on deadlines.

Doris gave us a tour of her work helping students develop narratives in English based in virtual worlds. You can get in touch with her if you are interested in participating in her projects)
20:53:48 From Doris Molero : doris3m@gmail.com
20:53:59 From Laine Marshall : Bye everyone!
20:54:42 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Nice to see you Lane.

And one final bye from Sus, who sent this to me on a Facebook back channel
hey Vance, please say goodbye on my behalf, my dear old antique iMac just HATES the combo Zoom+Miro, everytime I have challenged this (also earlier on), it crashes after a while. BBFN

Halima arrived during the tour Doris was conducting for us around one of her virtual worlds

Promotion and Feedback

This event was posted to these Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020

And announced here: https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32664

And also streamed from Zoom on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/

What is TALIN?

TALIN stands for Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.

Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC

TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend.

If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation

1. Visit this page https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
2. Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
3. Wait for approval
4. Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time

You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.

More about TALIN, as presented at international online conferences

• I presented TALIN: Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN
  At the Virtual Round Table Conference May 8-9, 2020, leaving behind these archives
  • Slides https://bit.ly/talin2020
  • Video https://youtu.be/iOYPkmWPAiY
• I presented
  From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN
  At the Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology
  • Full text https://tinyurl.com/india2020vance
  • Slides https://tinyurl.com/vance2020india
  • Video https://youtu.be/3n0r4vLrf8M

Earlier Events

Sun 21 June noon UTC – Graham Stanley hosts 13th Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday OpenMic-inar

https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/21/graham-stanley-hosts-13th-webheads-revival-weekly-sunday-openmic-inar-on-miro/

Mon 22 June LearningRevolution starts hosting FOUR active weekly shows, details below

Visit Learning Revolution at: https://learningrevolution.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Sun-Thu 21-25 June Immersive Learning Research Network  iLrn 2020 Virtual Conference

Immersive Learning Research Network  iLrn 2020 Virtual Conference
https://ilrn2020.sched.com/

As a part of that Heike Philp announced …

Sun 21 June 2020 8am, 9am and 12pm PDT – Escape the (class) room game in Second Life

On Sunday, 21 June 2020 iLRN 2020 Virtual Conference (Immersive Learning Research Network) kicks off and we are part of their adventure tours. Randall and myself are offering Escape the (Class)room virtual adventures on EduNation, a total of three sessions: 8am, 9am and 12pm Second Life time (Los Angeles)

• The first of these is at 1500 UTC – https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Sun+21+June+2020+8am%2C+9am+and+12pm+PDT+-+Escape+the+room+in+SL&iso=20200621T08&p1=137&ah=1
• The 9 am session is therefore at 1600 UTC, and the 12 noon session would be at 1900 UTC

You will see that all of the three sessions are fully booked and many are on the waiting list.  If you have time, we highly appreciate your help. If you want to watch on as everyone is solving puzzles, feel free to watch the livestream or join us in Zoom.  Here are the links you will need to participate in whatever capacity you choose.

• EduNation in Second Life – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/112/168/23
• Zoom Room – https://zoom.us/j/99213317115
• Livestream – https://www.youtube.com/user/letstalkonlinedotcom/live
  Powerpoint with further information – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jhG4WMUpUNjVYqUI5nyNVIe_JTsJcyBGWcjUqGZQ8RA/edit?usp=sharing
• ilrn2020 event listings –
  • https://ilrn2020.sched.com/event/ceKP/escape-the-classroom-games-in-opensim-or-second-life
  • https://ilrn2020.sched.com/event/ceKw/escape-the-classroom-games-in-opensim-or-second-life
  • https://ilrn2020.sched.com/event/ceM0/escape-the-classroom-games-in-opensim-or-second-life

Sun-Mon 21-22 June PanSIG 2020

This isr a local conference that is usually face-to-face but will be online due to the pandemic. It is happening this weekend, but please don’t forget the time difference as all times mentioned are Japan Standard Time. This conference does not solely focus on CALL/MALL but I think that some may be of interest to people in this group so wanted to share. Participation is free for attendees.

https://pansig2020.eventzil.la/

Mon 22 June – Jürgen Wagner Globinars are back

Presenter: Rüdiger Iwan – Co-founder of the International Network Portfolio (INP). Development of the “Das PerLen-Konzept®” from the portfolio approach since 2002 in German schools and abroad.

June 22nd 2020 | 19:00h – 20:30h CEST
Access Link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/learningperle

Wed 24 June 1900 UTC The NileTESOL PD Committee hosts Gamified PD for Teachers under Lockdown

The NileTESOL PD Committee is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom Session.

Topic: NileTESOL PD Committee Coffee Night (2). Gamified PD for Teachers under Lockdown

Time: Jun 24, 2020 08:00 – 09.00 PM Cairo. 06.00 – 07.00 PM UTC
Link: https://tinyurl.com/pdcommittee-coffeenight2
Plz confirm your attendance.

Wed 24 June 1300 EST – Credly Webinar on the need for non-degree credentials

Fri 26 June 1300 EDT – Annual TESOL CALL-IS Open Business Meeting in Zoom

This follow up just in from Heather Benucci

If you missed the 2020 CALL-IS Annual Open Business meeting, you can watch the recording here on our YouTube channel. While you’re there, be sure to subscribe to the CALL-IS channel to receive updates about new content and events!

Thanks to all who attended the meeting. Recording viewers, please see this agenda for a list of topics we addressed.

Also, the IS is actively seeking volunteers with expertise in tech-supported learning. If you’d like to share your skills and time with CALL-IS, please complete this online form.

June 26 Nile TESOL LTSIG event

And here is the YouTube recording from the event

Sat 27 June al day – Hack Education Unconference

HACK EDUCATION | The 14th annual unconference
Saturday, June 27 in Philadelphia | Free | REGISTER HERE
Hosted by: Steve Hargadon
Hack Education is the all-day unconference held the Saturday before ISTE. Now in it’s 14th year, it’s a great event for beginners and regular attenders alike! Come join us for an amazing community experience filled with interesting conversations in a highly social environment. An Unconference is a great way for people who are interested in the same topic to share, learn, and network in an open environment. Attendees create the schedule, decide what they want to learn, and choose which sessions they want to participate in. Sessions are not presentations but facilitated discussions. You don’t need to be an ‘expert’ – if there’s something you want to learn or talk about, come join us!

But apparently you hae to be physically present in Philadelphia to attend

Sat 27 June 1400 UTC TESOL Webinar on Shifting Affiliate Events Online

The Affiliate Network Professional Council (ANPC) invites TESOL members and non-TESOL members to join a free webinar on shifting affiliate events online with the information below. Please register in advance and share this information with your professional networks.

Shifting Affiliate Events Online: A Global Phenomenon
June 27, 2020, 10 AM US Eastern Time

Recording:

Presenters:

• Susan Gaer & Marsha Chan, California TESOL (CATESOL);
• Wayne Malcolm, Japanese Association for Language Teaching (JALT);
• Rana Khan, TESOL Conferences Professional Council;
• Lisa Dyson, TESOL Strategic Events

Session description: 

Restrictions on large gatherings as the result of COVID-19 have prompted many TESOL Affiliates to shift their conferences and professional development events online. In this panel presentation, representatives from CATESOL, JALT, TESOL International’s Conferences Professional Council, and TESOL International’s Strategic Events will share their experiences, lessons learned, and steps for planning and conducting online conferences and/or other professional development events.

Presenters’ Bios

• Susan Gaer is the President of CATESOL, which has been holding virtual events to serve its membership since March 2020. CATESOL is also planning for their Virtual Fall Annual Conference. These professional development activities have not only provided necessary support to educators where CATESOL serves during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also contributed to the solvency of the organization.
• Marsha Chan, BA, MA, Stanford University, is Sunburst Media President, Mission College ESL Professor Emerita, and serves CATESOL as Webmaster, Interest Group Chair, and Teaching of Pronunciation Interest Group Co-coordinator. As Pronunciation Doctor, she offers thousands of free videos for English language instruction at youtube.com/PronunciationDoctor.
• Wayne Malcolm has a doctorate of education from the University of Phoenix in the U.S. with a specialization in global competence, public speaking, and language assessment. Wayne teaches at Fukui University of Technology where he assists the student body in reaching their desired English language abilities and potential. An active member of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), Wayne has held many positions in the organization, from chapter to national officer. He is currently the Director of Program, who oversees the coordination of JALT’s annual international conference and educational materials exhibition.
• Rana Khan is chair of the Conferences Professional Council, TESOL International Association. She has also served as Conference Chair, Proposals Chair, and Secretary of TESOL Kuwait. She has extensive teaching experience from various educational institutions in Kuwait. Rana holds a master’s degree in English Literature and Business Administration besides a CELTA certificate. Currently, she works as English and Business instructor at Algonquin College, Kuwait. Her main research interests are learning management systems, CALL, and blended learning.
• Lisa Dyson began her meeting and event planning career with the USO of Metropolitan Washington in 1997 and was named Director of Conference Services (now Director of Strategic Events) at TESOL International in November 2006. Prior to that, she was Director of Meetings and Conventions for the Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry (PCMA). An active and engaged member of the meetings industry, she has held various committee positions for PCMA and served on several different advisory boards for convention destinations. Lisa holds a BS in Marketing and obtained her CMP designation in 2006 and DES designation in 2015.

Sat 27 June 1300-1500 utc – VSTE Second Life Saturdays – repeats each Saturday

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 link http://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.

About this intitiative, https://vste.org/upcoming-events-virtual-environments-pln/

Sat 27 June 10am ET -TESOL Affiliate Network Professional – Shifting Affiliate Events Online: A Global Phenomenon

The TESOL Affiliate Network Professional hosts a panel on “Shifting Affiliate Events Online: A Global Phenomenon”.

27 June 2020 at 10am ET
Read the description and register here. Registration is required.

Sat-Sun June 27-28 ELT Summit 2020 from P P Savani University, India

The ELT Summit 2020 is taking place on June 27-28, 2020.

Click here to register.  The conference registration closed on June 25, 2020.

We are happy to announce pre-conference and post-conference workshops.
These online workshops are free and open for all (first five hundred). All the participants will be presented certificates of participation.

Details about these workshops are as follows:

1.  Pre-Conference Workshop with Dr. Pushp Lata
Session Title: Academic Writing
Date and time: Saturday, June 20, 4.00 pm IST
Registration Link

2. Pre-Conference Workshop with Nik Peachey
Session Title: The Challenges of Creating Teacher Presence in the Remote Classroom – What makes a good online teacher?
Date and time: Monday June 22, 4.30 pm IST
Registration Link

3. Post-Conference Workshop with Dr. Parul Popat
Session Title: Literary Lab
Date and time: Friday, July 3, 4.00 pm IST
Registration Link

Sat-Sun June 27-28th ISTE Virtual Environments Network (SIGVE) 2020 ​Reunion in Second Life

2007:   OUR GROUP BEGAN!  WHERE ARE WE NOW?
https://venetwork.weebly.com/ven-reunion-2020.html

This is the event that Doris attended as “Pio” and which Kim Harrison (K4sons) attended and posted pictures to Facebook, which were shared with me and others in her PLN, and which I shared in Zoom, as you can see in the Zoom recording.

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Learning2gether Episode 474
13th Webheads Revival Sunday Open Mic-inar
and TALIN event #28

Navigation

Skip down to the Zoom Chat Logs
See our promotion and feedback for this event
Find out more about TALIN
Skip down to Earlier Events that happened since the previous Learning2gther post

Graham Stanley after ripping off his mask and revealing his true inner demeanor

In this week’s meeting Graham decided to have us experiment with an idea for facilitating sharing between collaborating peers. We were supposed to arrive prepared to share what we know about the tech responses we have seen to the school closures and to try out https://miro.com/ to document them in some way.

Graham started us off by inviting us to his Miro board.
According to Miro’s explanation of What is Miro,
https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017730533-What-Is-Miro-

Miro is the online collaborative whiteboarding platform that enables distributed teams to work effectively together, from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to planning and managing agile workflows. With Miro you can take advantage of a full set of collaboration capabilities, including video, chat, presentation, and sharing, to make cross-functional teamwork effortless and collaboration easier.

Miro is one of those sites without much explanation of what it does or how to use it (unless you dig for it, and then there’s a lot!). It has video tutorials and examples of how others use it. It appears designed as a tool that does not pre-judge what users might do with it; we’re supposed to figure it out.

Webheads took to this like ducks to water …

When Graham offered to show us this new app, Miro, I drew on my phonological resources. thinking of my granddaughter’s favorite drink when she comes to visit, and this lady from Milo, now in the Louvre.

It would have helped if they had called the app Miró. However, several of the participants in the chat were either from, or in, Barcelona, and they hit right away on the correct pronunciation. Birgit even googled the company and found that the Spanish artist was an inspiration for the whimsical output of this app.

The question of what to call it settled, our merrie band of webheads set upon the app itself

Zoom Chat Logs

20:11:43 From Laine Marshall : https://go.miro.com/webinar-getting-started-with-miro-two
20:12:27 From Nina Liakos : Hi all!
20:13:26 From Vicky Saumell : It’s asked me to sign up and request access
20:15:37 From Graham Stanley : https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kqChte4=/
20:16:23 From Laine Marshall : there is integration with SLACK
20:18:59 From Nina Liakos : What’s the team name again?
20:19:23 From Rafaela Santoro : I cannot get in I see the wall
20:19:52 From Rafaela Santoro : I need an invitation too

20:26:43 From Michael Birch : Hi Everyone. Just got into Zoom. Do I need a link for this Miro board?
20:37:46 From Vance Stevens : hi Michael, you got one I presume
20:39:39 From Michael Birch : Yes thanks Vance. Entered the surreal world of Miro
20:47:35 From Laine Marshall : @ Vance & Graham – I emailed you a photo of my MIRO; I couldn’t figure out how to share it here
20:48:14 From Vance Stevens : great, is it something we should share here?
20:48:42 From Vance Stevens : I’ll definitely put it in the show notes
20:48:59 From Vance Stevens : screen share if you want to discuss it

Laine’s Miró; Laine eventually managed to upload this to Miro, or someone else did 🙂

20:55:08 From Hala Fawzi : I have to leave now. I am glad I was part of experimenting Miro. Thank YOU!
20:55:17 From Hala Fawzi : By everyone
20:55:20 From Hala Fawzi : Take care
20:55:35 From Hala Fawzi : Bye Graham and everyone:-)
20:56:47 From Laine Marshall : Joan Miro
Miro is the online. collaborative. whiteboard platform
Our main source of inspiration came from the Spanish artist Joan Miro.
About Miro | Meet the team | Our mission, https://miro.com/about/
20:59:56 From Laine Marshall : Laine loves Miro!!!
21:07:20 From Heike Philp : very cool idea Vicky!
21:10:34 From Heike Philp : I love learning 2gether with you all!!!
21:12:29 From Heike Philp : brilliant
21:13:07 From Vicky Saumell : http://linoit.com/
This is another sticky and photosharing app to replace Padlet now that the latter is no longer free – ^V^
21:13:42 From Heike Philp : awesome

Promotion and Feedback

This event was posted to these Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020

And announced here: https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32659

I was too busy to do much with this during the presentation, but I’ve since added some finishing touches and shared it publicly (for viewing) https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kqChte4=/

The webinar was streamed from Zoom on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/

What is TALIN?

TALIN stands for Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.

Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC

TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend.

If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation

1. Visit this page https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
2. Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
3. Wait for approval
4. Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time

You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.

More about TALIN, as presented at international online conferences

• I presented – TALIN: Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN
  At the Virtual Round Table Conference May 8-9, 2020, leaving behind these archives
  • Slides https://bit.ly/talin2020
  •  Video https://youtu.be/iOYPkmWPAiY
• I presented – From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN
  At the Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology
  • Full text https://tinyurl.com/india2020vance
  • Slides https://tinyurl.com/vance2020india
  • Video https://youtu.be/3n0r4vLrf8M

Teacher Vance has compiled and maintains a listing of COVID teaching resources here:
https://tinyurl.com/covid19teaching 

Earlier Events

Thu 18 June 1300 UTC – Free webinar – Vance Stevens and Heike Philp – How to effectively defuse Zoom bombers

https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/18/176470648/

Dilip Barad

#Webinar #FDP #VIT #TeachingEnglish
Talked about remote online teaching – remotely conducting collaborative sessions over #Google_Meet & #Google_Classroom using board writing and rubric features. 19 June 2020.

June 18 – Webinar conference on the impact of COVID-19 on the environment

Fri 19 June noon UTC – TESOL and JALT co-host a FREE 90-minute virtual event

On 19 June, 8am to 9:30 pm EDT, TESOL and JALT are co-hosting a FREE 90-minute virtual event with the four presenters who will be presenting at the TESOL/JALT Symposium in Kyoto in 2021. Topics covered include the role of stress in language learning, the connection between neuroscience and pronunciation teaching, the brain’s response to new environments, and the social neuroscience of learning. TESOL gratefully acknowledges the support of its Sustaining Partner, National Geographic Learning. Learn more and register for free.

Sat 20 June Curt Bonk hosts Silver Lining for Learning: Episode 14 – Innovators in the pandemic:

Innovators in the pandemic: Reflections & actions from coast to coast. With Rich Culatta, ISTE; Sophia Mendoza, Los Angeles Unified School District; Nikole Blanchard, The Dunham School, Baton Rouge, https://youtu.be/vcZVefTG4I0

Sat-Sun 20-21 June – JALT PanSIG Conference

JALT PanSIG Conference, https://pansig.org/

Online from June 20th
https://pansig.org/online-location

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The date of this update is June 24, 2020 10:00 UTC

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Learning2gether Episode 473
and TALIN event #27

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On Thursday,  June 18, at 1300 UTC, timed to coincide with 9 a.m. EDT in the USA

Vance Stevens and Heike Philp presented
How to effectively defuse Zoom bombers

Two CALL practitioners, both with decades-long experience in hosting online events, overview documents they have created explaining how they configure their Zoom meetings to prevent intrusion in the first place, and failing that, to defuse bombers if they manage to penetrate their defenses. We aim to demonstrate our approach to security in this meeting and wish to role model SMART security and not necessarily tightened security.

We planned to discuss these documents:

Heike Philp had prepared a document on Zoom security 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v2M2aKdEX07JvAL3BWEqrmiXyEzy87l4FApTLSZUQ9s/edit?usp=sharing

Heike had decided to put some of these notions into practice,

• Heike and Vance would co-host the meeting (and we modeled and explained how to set that up)
• We started with a waiting room, but Heike removed it at the outset, as there were only 10 participants, and thus there was no need for its certain purpose, which included to serve as a communication tool for late participants
• Heike provided guidance on how to actively mute and unmute people and co-host roles.
• We started the recording on time, but early arrivers would have seen what kind of preparation is required to make this Zoom meeting memorable and disturbance free.

Vance Stevens presented his document, Zoom settings to prevent Zoom bombers
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12cNCX-aWOLs7mJNDLybXlrbIqFE74anIywRhUV-XtQ4/edit?usp=sharing, and for this presentation, given a tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/vance2020zoom

The settings here are presented as in a manual, in the order you would find them in your Zoom settings

Therefore, Vance prepared a slide presentation to introduce the topics in a more logical order: https://tinyurl.com/zoom2020vance

• General settings that are best practice for all your meetings
• Security settings that must be set before you launch your meeting
• Security settings you can adjust during your meeting
• Other settings that must be configured prior to launch of your meeting

The text and the slides documents both link to one another

The webinar was free and no pre-registration was required 

Meeting details (Zoom room and password) were NOT posted on any social media site, but were distributed via links to the following wikis:

• The Learning2gether upcoming presentations wiki: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/
• The TALIN Google Doc giving details of upcoming events: https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

There is more about TALIN further down this page, here https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/18/176470648/#TALIN

This was an archetypical Learning2gether experience. Vance painstakingly and systematically compiled resources not only to share them, but in hopes of getting feedback on them (and when we get feedback, we learn). Heike brought her expertise to the banquet, revealing elliptical menus that others had not been aware of, and Laine Marshall is a power-user also with much to add to the discussion. Chris Fry’s comments on how whiteboards work and on obtaining passwords for mobile phones contributed to everyone’s knowledge. It would not be inappropriate to thank all of the participants in this session for walking so often together this far into our mutual learning journey.

Zoom Chat Logs

Participants: Besides co-hosts Vance Stevens and Heike Philp
Maryanne Burgos, Nancy Ackles, Lucy Alton, Chris Fry, Laine Marshall, Ilka Kostka, Simone Sandler (and Heike and Chris’s cell phones, which upped our partipant count to 11)

21:01:49 From Heike Philp : http://tinyurl.com/vance2020zoom
21:07:59 From Heike Philp : haha
21:11:41 From Laine Marshall : we need to remember there are three levels, each with different in-meeting menu options: host, co-host, participants
21:12:55 From Ilka Kostka : good point, Helaine
21:15:43 From Heike Philp : btw, I am looking down because I am taking notes
21:16:05 From Heike Philp : who experienced Zoom bombing?
21:16:14 From Heike Philp : I did twice
21:16:31 From Ilka Kostka : I haven’t experienced it, but I’ve heard horror stories about it.
21:17:22 From Lucy Alton : I haven’t had Zoom bombers yet, but I teach Adult Ed. and that may have something to do with it.
21:17:32 From Heike Philp : what have you heardß?
21:18:41 From Heike Philp : https://tinyurl.com/zoom2020vance
21:20:36 From Heike Philp : does everyone of you have a Zoom account?
21:20:42 From Laine Marshall : My question is about video, not audio. It seems there is no obvious way to disallow video for participants in the same way as you can force “no unmuting” of audio. Is that the case? And if so, is there a work-around?
21:21:50 From Heike Philp : No you are right Laine, there is no way to disallow video
21:21:54 From Lucy Alton : I have a personal account and also one through the community college where I teach. That college account has some controls on it set by the IT department.
21:22:08 From Heike Philp : but you can discourage it by selecting ‘start Zoom without video’
21:22:41 From Maryanne Burgos : What is an instant meeting?
Question answered: An instant meeting is convened for similar reasons that you might start a Skype of Facebook group chat, where you just want to meet with people spontaneously, and your personal meeting room is an available space for that. For this webinar I created a room just for that, with no intention of using it again, and with a password, nobomb, that I’ll never use again – Vance
21:22:52 From Heike Philp : however if someeone wants to use Video, you – as host or co-host can not stop it – but you can disable the video manually when they started the video
21:23:18 From Laine Marshall : Consider all our questions as a “parking lot” for after your slide presentation – no worries….. 🙂
21:24:17 From Lucy Alton : Free accounts have personal IDs.
21:24:49 From Heike Philp : every Zoom account has a personal ID and the free ones no longer can be hosted without password
21:25:44 From Lucy Alton : @Heike. Thanks! I didn’t know that. I haven’t really used mine. I set up repeating meetings for family and just turn that meeting on.
21:26:24 From Laine Marshall : WOW – thanks. Heike!!!! how did you find out they couldn’t re-start it after you stop in once? That’s awesome!!!!!
21:26:38 From Maryanne Burgos : I have a personal account and I just copy and send link to my friends. They do no need a password b/c in setting I check no password.
This is fine for friends and family but would be a risky practice with students or in a professional setting – Vance
21:29:15 From Laine Marshall : Is there a way to have a pre-message they see in the waiting room telling them to come in without video? I know you can message the waiting room only after the first person is waiting. Do those messages stay there for subsequent arrivals? (I have so many questions!)
21:30:42 From Laine Marshall : I use it to remind them to do the pre-work for the flipped session before entering!!
21:30:56 From Heike Philp : cool
21:34:41 From Laine Marshall : mine just says “on your phone?”
21:35:08 From Chris Fry : Click on the green shield at the top on an ipad and you can see the password
This regards how participants who check in from phones can get a meeting password. Since they cannot type alpha characters such as nobomb Zoom generates passwords for them and reveals them in the ways we discussed here – Vance
21:36:25 From Heike Philp : If I click on the green shield, I dont get the password on the windows machine
21:37:01 From Chris Fry : Works the same way with android phones. Maybe you have to click on the word Zoom at the top. There’s a down arrow next to it
21:37:12 From Heike Philp : @Laine, when you click on what?
21:37:55 From Lucy Alton : In upper left of my laptop screen, there is a letter i in a circle. Clicking there gets the meeting number and password.
21:38:37 From Chris Fry : just like on my desktop pc
21:38:37 From Lucy Alton : And a link that can be copied and shared.
21:38:49 From Heike Philp : oh I got this wrong with the password
21:39:01 From Heike Philp : under the phone settings
21:39:03 From Heike Philp : apologies
21:39:53 From Maryanne Burgos : How do you put people in your account?
21:40:15 From Heike Philp : hey Lucy – well done
21:40:20 From Heike Philp : yes this is where it is
21:40:50 From Heike Philp : The putting people on your account is only possible in an enterprise or institutional setting
21:41:06 From Heike Philp : people will have to be added to a zoom hosting group
21:41:27 From Maryanne Burgos : Thanks.
21:41:29 From Heike Philp : this was an answer to Maryanne
21:43:15 From Laine Marshall : Can Vance control the placement of his Zoom control bar b/c it intermittently shows up and blocks the lower piece of his slides?
21:44:06 From Heike Philp : This is a Google slides bar which covers the slides
21:44:14 From Heike Philp : and this can be disabled in Google slides
That’s good to know, I’ll disable it from now on. It has alway annoyed me – Vance
21:44:43 From Laine Marshall : Got it, thx Google slide bar disabling but not moving….
21:46:57 From Maryanne Burgos : no
21:47:09 From Maryanne Burgos : yes
21:48:16 From Laine Marshall : Do you pop out the chat? You can resize all your windows and see chat and participant pods and see it all
21:50:17 From Chris Fry : What about the whiteboard? It is an option when screen sharing, so if no screensharing is allowed, no problem. But don’t allow annotations by other people
21:51:53 From Lucy Alton : Does requiring registration make zoom bombing less likely?
21:52:18 From Maryanne Burgos : Sorry, I will have to leave as I have another Zoom meeting.
21:53:29 From Nancy Ackles : I, like Maryanne, must leave. I’m learning a lot and I’ll be sure to go to the recorded version of this webinar,
21:54:51 From Laine Marshall : @ Chris – could the “share content” option be a pre-meeting setting?
21:55:31 From Heike Philp : In answer to Chris, this named user control is only possible if people have a ‘shared Zoom account’ setting – I have one and am happy to show you – but you don’t normally need this
21:56:17 From Heike Philp : @Lucy to require people to register is only possible in the webinar version
21:57:07 From Chris Fry : @Laine, I think the Heike has the key. My experience with zoom is limited to doing school work with our granddaughter
21:57:50 From Lucy Alton : @Heike – We have registration option in the college’s account. I need to have my students register if I am going to use a poll for a quiz. I can pull up the report later and see their individual answers.
21:58:11 From Chris Fry : Streaming to YouTube offers closed captions which streaming to Facebook doesn’t.
21:58:21 From Ilka Kostka : Thanks so much! I learned a lot.
21:58:35 From Lucy Alton : Thanks so much! This was interesting and fun. I have to skip out and get to the same other Zoom meeting as Maryanne. 🙂
21:58:41 From Laine Marshall : The chat has lots of goodies in it, too!
It certainly does – Vance
21:59:56 From Chris Fry : I can never get closed captions on Facebook….
I’ve seen closed caption on Dilip Barad’s Facebook streams; I’ll have to find out from him how he does it – Vance
22:00:46 From Simone Sandler : Thank you! Running to another Zoom session!
22:00:52 From Laine Marshall : @Lucy, that is why I have TWO accounts – my own and the school’s!
22:02:02 From Laine Marshall : Want to see why Laine has no video today?
Laine then proceeded to Zoom bomb us 🙂
22:04:27 From Vance Stevens : thanks Chris, thanks for joining us

This is where the bomber appeared, at 58:19 in the recording. We were on speaker view in the recording, so it’s not here, but Heike took a photo on her cell phone … Heike??

Promotion and Feedback

Logo compiled from free images: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/animals-black-and-white-bomb-boom-985500/
and https://pixabay.com/illustrations/video-call-online-zoom-skype-video-5163145/

This event was posted to these mTESOL communities 

• myTESOL Lounge – https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=daff4479-5a33-439b-bc12-ae64da3a973f&CommunityKey=a4e6ad60-89a2-4c3f-9e37-cb7e3acad5fe&tab=digestviewer#bmdaff4479-5a33-439b-bc12-ae64da3a973f
• Applied Linguistics (ALIS) – https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=4163230b-71f1-43f5-9159-00d33cdd12c5&CommunityKey=fdbedf8f-e94c-48cd-8e2e-9741c89e5229&tab=digestviewer#bm4163230b-71f1-43f5-9159-00d33cdd12c5
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALLIS) –  https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=a3bb578f-d6e1-4b73-91a4-bc252c2fc1c0&CommunityKey=060d8cce-83b4-41da-9227-8d36ac69f8e1&tab=digestviewer#bma3bb578f-d6e1-4b73-91a4-bc252c2fc1c0
• COVID-19 Resources Group – https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=47e45994-e834-4a13-81d0-12582bbe4577&CommunityKey=80115161-470c-46be-bd23-849d1e8302a4&tab=digestviewer#bm47e45994-e834-4a13-81d0-12582bbe4577

These above notices are available only to logged in TESOL members

This event was posted to these Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020

And announced here: https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32655

The meeting was also live-streamed via Facebook on the TALIN group page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020/ and here is the embedded recording

What is TALIN?

TALIN stands for Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.

Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC

TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend.

If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation

1. Visit this page https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
2. Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
3. Wait for approval
4. Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time

You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.

More about TALIN, as presented at international online conferences

• I presented TALIN: Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN
  At the Virtual Round Table Conference May 8-9, 2020, leaving behind these archives
  • Slides https://bit.ly/talin2020
  •  Video https://youtu.be/iOYPkmWPAiY
• I presented
  From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN
  At the Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology
  • Full text https://tinyurl.com/india2020vance
  • Slides https://tinyurl.com/vance2020india
  • Video https://youtu.be/3n0r4vLrf8M

Earlier Events

Sun 14 June noon UTC – Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Meeting number 12

https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/14/webheads-revival-12th-weekly-sunday-open-mic-june-14-2020/

Mon 15 June 15 1500 ET Lizabeth England announces Let’s talk about our TESOL Career Paths! (in Zoom)

Following the great turn out we’ve seen for our events in the past weeks and with the lead of many TESOL affiliate leaders (including my own, Virginia TESOL), TESOL CPD leaders are offering a new opportunity to connect.

Let’s talk about our TESOL Career Paths!

Please join us on Monday, June 15, at 3 PM ET (7 PM Tuesday GMT*) for informal conversation, brainstorming and story sharing.  We are eager to support each other in these challenging days.  We may not have all the answers but we do have ideas to share and perhaps the beginning of a new way of looking at our professional paths.

*Learning2gether is fact checking this date and time

 By L2g calculatons, Monday June 15 in Washington DC is at 7 PM Monday June 15 UTC

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TESOL+Career+Paths+Monday%2C+June+15%2C+at+3+PM+ET+&iso=20200615T15&p1=263&ah=1

Join Zoom Meeting: su.zoom.us/j/7160283832
Topic: Zoom Meeting Invitation – TESOL CPD Zoom Meeting
Time: Jun 15, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 716 028 3832

Wed 17 June noon-3pm Pacific time – Library 2.0 miniconference on Small, Rural, Independent Libraries

Another conference Hosted by: Steve Hargadon …

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: “Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries,” will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 – 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). We currently have 3200 people registered for this event. Please join them and us!

This mini-conference will focus on innovation and innovative thinking in rural, independent, tribal, and other small libraries–as well as the many unique challenges that they face. A diverse array of keynote panelists and curated presenters will cover topics that will likely include:

• Innovations to provide Internet access and training to rural patrons;
• New ways that small libraries can offer services that the big urban libraries offer;
• Taking community partnerships to the next level;
• How workers from small and rural libraries can easily connect with each other to get ideas and keep innovating;
• Novel ways to fund special programs;
• Unique “Internet of Things” offers that are tailored to specific communities;
• Safety, security, and ways to deal with emergencies when the sheriff’s department is far away.

This event is being organized in partnership with Jim Lynch from TechSoup for Libraries, Kate Laughlin from the Association for Rural & Small Libraries, and The School of Information at San José State University.

This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.
REGISTER HERE
to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.
Please also join the Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.

Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0 conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. Each three-hour event consists of a keynote panel, 10-15 crowd-sourced thirty-minute presentations, and a closing 30-minute keynote. A schedule of when specific sessions will be given will be emailed to all registered attendees at the beginning of June. Register (free) as a member of the Library 2.0 network to be kept informed of future events. Recordings from previous years are available as well as a Library 2.0 YouTube channel.

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #smallruralindependent on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.

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The date of this update is June 19, 2020 09:00 UTC

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Learning2gether Episode 472
12th Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Open Mic
and TALIN event #26

Navigation

Skip down to the Zoom Chat Logs
See our promotion and feedback for this event
Find out more about TALIN
Skip down to Earlier Events that happened since the previous Learning2gther post

It’s hard to describe our events for a proper archive, because they are basically open mic, and people are likely to talk about almost anything. We did have one incident in this one. I had gone in my “office” for the meeting, around a critical corner from the wifi router in the living room, and I started to get notices pop up on my Zoom window that my connection was unstable. Then while i was talking, everyone else in the chat froze one by one (there were only two there besides me at that point) and then I lost my connection to the chat. The Zoom window closed, but then came back on again, and I was returned to the meeting. I had made Graham a co-host, so the meeting was still in progress. I remember seeing a notice appear that the host had locked the meeting, but I had just successfully re-entered, so I checked, I was still host and I hadn’t locked the meeting as far as I knew. There was a lot happening on my screen, so I ignored it, and we carried on.

However, IF I had checked our room settings, I didn’t think to at the time, I would have seen that the room was indeed locked. This only gradually became apparent to us. In the first place, time passed and no one else was joining us. That was unusual, so I checked the Facebook stream. There were people there and they were complaining of trouble getting into our meeting. Two people were requesting the password (thinking that must be the problem, so I took the time to provide it to them). But Chris Fry reported in the Facebook live chat that the room was locked. I checked, we fixed it, and others started joining us in the room.

All tolled we had Graham and Nina and I in the first part of the conversation, and were joined near the end by Michael Birch, Chris Fry,  and Birgit Ferran (on her iPhone).

Zoom Chat Logs

Here are Graham and Vance at the start of the meeting:

Graham was our missing link man during this chat, meticulously documenting whatever came up in conversation.

20:33:04 From Vance Stevens : Glenn Kirschner – do you know this guy?
20:33:28 From Nina Liakos : I don’t
20:33:49 From Vance Stevens : google and check his podcasts / YouTube
20:35:49 From Graham Stanley : will do… https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2
20:36:44 From Graham Stanley : https://www.youtube.com/glennkirschner2
20:39:17 From Nina Liakos : Heather Cox Richardson
20:40:29 From Graham Stanley : https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
20:42:54 From Vance Stevens : Jacob reese moog or mogg
20:44:07 From Graham Stanley : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rees-Mogg
20:52:26 From Chris Fry : Hi
20:54:43 From Graham Stanley : Ludic Language Pedagogy llpjournal.slack.com
20:55:11 From Graham Stanley : https://www.llpjournal.org/
20:55:26 From Chris Fry : I must go and have lunch. I posted a couple of things on the Facebook page about the JALTCALL 2020 online
21:00:12 From Vance Stevens : pl. vj
21:00:16 From Vance Stevens : ok chris
21:00:21 From Vance Stevens : cheers
21:00:36 From Vance Stevens : Zoom controls https://docs.google.com/document/d/12cNCX-aWOLs7mJNDLybXlrbIqFE74anIywRhUV-XtQ4/edit?usp=sharing
21:13:29 From Michael Birch : learning2gether.net

We’re beginning to suspect that Graham might be our Zoom bomber, hard to tell, except for the color of the t-shirt, could be a clue … 

Promotion and Feedback

This event was posted to these Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020

And announced here https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32646

And streamed from Zoom on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/

What is TALIN?

TALIN stands for Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.

Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC

TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend.

If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation

1. Visit this page https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
2. Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
3. Wait for approval
4. Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time

You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.

More about TALIN, as presented at international online conferences

• I presented TALIN: Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN
  At the Virtual Round Table Conference May 8-9, 2020, leaving behind these archives
  • Slides https://bit.ly/talin2020
  •  Video https://youtu.be/iOYPkmWPAiY
• I presented
  From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN
  At the Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology
  • Full text https://tinyurl.com/india2020vance
  • Slides https://tinyurl.com/vance2020india
  • Video https://youtu.be/3n0r4vLrf8M

For more information on upcoming webinars, see http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
or https://tinyurl.com/talin2020, and for an index of past events see http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/34456755/archiveindex

Earlier Events

Sun 7 June noon UTC – Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Meeting number 11

and notes from JALTCALL2020
https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/07/weekly-webheads-sunday-revival-meeting-11-and-jaltcall-2020-online/

Tue 9 June 0830 UTC CERES hosts David Carless on Students generating and using feedback in online learning environments

Professor David Carless from the University of Hong Kong will be the next speaker in the CERES (Centre for Educational Research) online seminar series at Liverpool John Moores University on the topic of: “Students generating and using feedback in online learning environments”.

This event is aimed at academics, researchers, teachers, students and practitioners who are interested in developing an awareness of feedback and online education.

There is a link to ‘Webinar Series’ in the left sidebar of the CERES website and there you can get tickets for this event at this link

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/students-generating-and-using-feedback-in-online-learning-environments-tickets-104519731330

Also on that page it gave the time of the event on Tue, June 9, 2020

The room link and password will be sent by email to registered participants 2 hours prior to the start of the event. All registered participants will be held in a waiting room prior to being admitted by the host.

Title: Students generating and using feedback in online learning environments

Abstract

Teacher transmission models of feedback are largely ineffective: they fail to engage students; they are often too late in the process; they are labour-intensive and unsustainable for teachers. Instead, students need to be coached and motivated in generating, processing and using feedback. In online learning environments, a repertoire of student-led strategies might include: peer audio and video feedback; collaborative writing through wikis or GoogleDocs; and curated eportfolios. Teachers may also want to establish their social presence to reduce isolation in distance learning through screencasting or video feedback. Effective feedback processes involve shared responsibilities, with teachers designing feedback opportunities and students using feedback to enhance their work. These kinds of teacher-student partnerships are a complex undertaking that require flexibility, negotiation and trust to overcome social distancing and discourses of students as consumers. Less can often be more. Feedback processes need to be actionable for students, and workload-friendly for teachers.

Biography

David Carless is Professor of Educational Assessment at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, and a Principal Fellow of Advance HE. His signature publication is the book Excellence in University Assessment: Learning from Award-winning Practice (2015, Routledge). He was the winner of a University Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016. His current research focuses on teacher and student feedback literacy to enhance the impact of feedback processes. His most recent book, Designing effective feedback processes in higher education: A learning-focused approach, co-authored with Naomi Winstone was published by Routledge in July 2019. Further details of his work are on his website: https://davidcarless.edu.hku.hk/

For more information on CERES seminars please follow us at @ljmu_ceres on Twitter or join our mailing list. This event is organised by the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) in the School of Education at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.

What happened

Dr. Carless introduced peer feedback in general and settled quickly on the notion that he favored peer feedback

He often stopped and took questions from the audience. Here it was nice to hear from Hala from Sudan, now in Bahrain

He went on to discuss various ways to provide feedback

1. Screencasting
2. Curated eporfolios
3. Authentic feedback as designed by Dawson, Carless, and Lee, 2020
4. Social media feedback

Dr. Carless ended with these recommendations

The webinar was recorded and the recording link should have been distributed among registered users. I don’t see where I receieved that link in my email.

Tue June 9 1600 UTC – Africa TESOL presents Decentring EFL

https://www.facebook.com/AfricaTESOL

Please join us as we begin our Decentring ELT webinar series!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84379609176

Thu 11 June 1030-1230 – Webinar on post pandemic perspectives on higher education

The time given in the poster is 1030-1230. It is not specified, but this is likely to be the time in India

Instructions are to scan the code to register

Thu 11 June 1500 UTC – ICIS & SLWIS Webinar: From Contrastive Rhetoric to Intercultural Rhetoric Research

The webinar aims to honor Robert Kaplan’s legacy and discuss Contrastive Rhetoric to Intercultural Rhetoric Research and its applications for TESOL professionals nowadays.

Time: Jun 11, 2020 11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Presenter: Dr. Ulla Connor

Dr. Connor is Director of the International Center for Intercultural Communication and Zimmer Endowed Chair at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis. She has taught ESL/EFL/ESP and teacher education in many countries and contexts, including public schools, colleges, and in professional and community workplaces. Her publications include the books Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-cultural Aspects of Second Language Writing (CUP, 1996) and Intercultural Rhetoric in the Writing Classroom (U of Michigan Press, 2011).

The webinar was recorded

Fri 12 June 1300 UTC Nik Peachey webinar on Creating Rapport in the Remote Classroom

Nik Peachey hosts a frequent webinar series. This one was on Creating Rapport in the Remote Classroom where Nik would be sharing some tips and advice for how to build stronger rapport with remote students.

Nik has gener

ously made the presentation slides available here:
Building Rapport in the Remote Classroom

Subscribers will have access to a recording of the session.
• You can sign up for a teacher subscription: https://payhip.com/b/CBtT
• School subscriptions are also available at: https://payhip.com/b/79aW

Fri 12 June 12:30-1:30pm – Stephanie Power-Carter to discuss Theorizing and languaging blackness

Dr. Faridah Pawan has posted to MyTESOL Lounge that

On Friday, June 12^th, from 12:30-1:30pm, Professor Stephanie Power-Carter will engage in a conversation based on research her 2019 joint research with Zakeri and Kumasi, on how black youth in a community literacy intervention program (CLIP) use languaging to make visible their agency and resilience “by situating, negotiating, contesting the perception of their own as well as those of others” (p. 198). (See attachment). Faridah Pawan and Michelle Benegas (TEIS Chair and Chair-Elect respectively) will moderate.

Professor Power-Carter is in the Department of Literacy, Culture and Language Education at Indiana University. Her research and teaching interests include a broad range of issues covering equity and inclusion, specifically around the area of African American youth literacy and education, sociolinguistic ethnography, critical race theory, Black feminist theory, research on whiteness, and critical discourse.

Join us for an hour-long conversation (30 minutes of discussion about the research and 30 minutes of Q & A).

Date: Friday, June 12

Time: 12:30-1:30pm

Location: iu.zoom.us/j/92003458344

Meeting ID: 920 0345 8344

Power-Carter, S. M., Zakeri, B. & Kumasi, K. (2019). Theorizing and languaging blackness. Using the African philosophy of Ubuntu and the concept of Sawubona. In R. Beach & D. Bloome (Eds.), Language relations for transforming the literacy and language arts classroom (pp. 195-215). Routledge.

A follow-up post in ‘myTESOL Lounge’ reported on a “powerful, generative and provocative conversation with Professor Power-Carter for 47 minutes. In the Q & A session in the last 3 minutes, we were rudely zoom-bombed despite precautions.” The event apparently was was disrupted by someone expressing, “I hate white people.”  Several other similar comments were made in the thread.

Sat 13 June 1300 utc – myTESOL Lounge Live discussion on Continuing Teaching Professional Development Amidst This Pandemic

Saturday’s discussion in the MyTESOL Lounge Live series will be held on Zoom at 9 a.m. EDT (New York) time on June 13^th

Hosts: Romualdo Mabuan from the Lyceum of the Philippines University in Manila

and Rebecca Sagot who supervises schools for the Philppines Department of Education in Davao del Norte

Meeting Theme: Continuing Teaching Professional Development Amidst This Pandemic: Practices and Reflections

Grab your favorite beverage, get comfy, and join us for myTESOL Lounge Live!

We understand that TESOLers worldwide are adjusting to these uncertain times. Teaching remotely and juggling your kids’ schooling while worrying about your family’s health and going a little stir-crazy at home is becoming our new normal. During these uncertain times we all need the support of our community. Now you can come together with your peers, share how you are coping, and have a little fun in a new way at myTESOL Lounge Live!

FREE and open to members and non-members, myTESOL Lounge Live! is an online hosted conversation space for English language educators. All you need to participate is a device with an internet connection. Once you sign up, instructions for joining the conversation will be emailed to you.

To register, visit this web page: www.tesol.org/attend-and-learn/mytesol-lounge-live  and click on the Sign Up link.

Sat 13 June 1300-1500 utc – VSTE Second Life Saturdays – repeats each Saturday

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 link http://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.

About this intitiative, https://vste.org/upcoming-events-virtual-environments-pln/

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Learning2gether Episode 471
8th Webheads Revival #11
and TALIN event #24

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At these meetings, we always talk about whatever those present want to talk about.

In this session we talked a little about COVID-19 (of course) and what’s going on these days in the USA and around the world with regard to racial incidents. We also talked a bit about the JALTCALL 2020 online conference that Heike and I had both attended earlier that day. We compared notes on sessions we’d attended and expanded on a term that had come up during that conference, ERT, or Emergency Remote Teaching.  Heike and I introduced our Zoom configuration tutorials. 

• Heike’s Zoom bombing – how to be prepared and how to prevent it
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v2M2aKdEX07JvAL3BWEqrmiXyEzy87l4FApTLSZUQ9s/edit?usp=sharing
• Vance’s Detailed look at your Personal Zoom Meeting Settings, where I copy/pasted images of my Personal Zoom Meeting Settings and annotated them to show why certain settings were invoked
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/12cNCX-aWOLs7mJNDLybXlrbIqFE74anIywRhUV-XtQ4/edit?usp=sharing

And we also indulged, as usual, in a bit of F.U.N.

http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun22.htm

Cast of characters, in order of appearance in the text chat

1. Vance Stevens
2. Michael Coghlan
3. Heike Philp
4. Graham Stanley
5. Chris Fry
6. Maha Hassan
7. Maru Del Campo Velasco
8. Halima Kalanova
9. Nina Liakos
10. Laine Marshall

You can view the Facebook streamed video recording here

Promotion and Feedback

This was our logo for the TALIN event this week. That’s Graham Stanley in FaceRig garb.

This event was posted to these Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020

And announced here: https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32643

Zoom Chat Logs

After Nina and I had chatted for a moment, Heike arrived wearing her finest goggles.

20:02:08 From Vance Stevens : https://www.screencast.com/t/6ipPwirMr
20:03:48 From Vance Stevens : https://www.screencast.com/t/bR4sbLaaq
20:20:20 From Heike Philp, Belgium : https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/85
20:20:31 From Heike Philp, Belgium : Paul Raine ELT.digital

Michael appeared fresh off the beach, followed by Graham, being extra careful not to infect others during these extraordinary times

20:21:22 From Graham Stanley : Here’s the manual for the game ‘Keep talking and nobody explodes’ https://bombmanual.com
20:21:43 From Heike Philp, Belgium : RPG in ELT
20:22:27 From Graham Stanley : https://www.facebook.com/groups/497315184483521
20:24:21 From Graham Stanley : https://jamboard.google.com/d/1BiZU7LiBpY6jB8T4vfvwbOku5a1b6weSljzjAxHIffY/viewer?fbclid=IwAR0sX9cKoi7moKaDyquQsaAU4WLK_u0zi5vbfM21HSfMgHk0DSZhHjb06p0
20:32:50 From Heike Philp, Belgium : hi Graham, the game the students played is called The Quiet Year!
20:33:09 From Chris Fry : And I’m afraid I must be going. It’s lunch time here. I’ll try and catch the rest on the recording later
20:33:39 From Maha Hassan : good afternoon, good evening everyone 🙂
20:33:53 From Graham Stanley : Heike, that’s the same game we played last week
20:34:14 From Graham Stanley : https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year
20:34:25 From Heike Philp, Belgium : exactly the same game
20:34:29 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Good morning/afternoon everyone
20:34:40 From Heike Philp, Belgium : it is created by Alder not by the lecturer
20:34:47 From Heike Philp, Belgium : sorry for the misinformation
20:36:27 From Vance Stevens : Sun 7 June noon UTC – Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Meeting number 11
20:36:38 From Vance Stevens : https://www.screencast.com/t/hbYICRByjvhi

Here’s the original meme

and my follow-up

20:40:01 From Vance Stevens : https://docs.google.com/document/d/12cNCX-aWOLs7mJNDLybXlrbIqFE74anIywRhUV-XtQ4/edit?usp=sharing
20:47:18 From Halima Kalanova : Hello to ALL
20:47:34 From Nina Liakos USA : Hello Halima
20:48:14 From Halima Kalanova : Sorry for being late
20:53:04 From Heike Philp, Belgium : hi Halima
20:53:18 From Heike Philp, Belgium : ERT
20:53:36 From Heike Philp, Belgium : Emergency Remote Teaching
20:53:49 From Halima Kalanova : Heike,How are You,dear Teacher!!!
20:55:35 From Heike Philp, Belgium : Hodges, More, Lockee, Trust & Bond, 2020
20:57:09 From Heike Philp, Belgium : live online – synchronous
20:57:20 From Heike Philp, Belgium : remote teaching
20:57:36 From Heike Philp, Belgium : asynchronous = online learning
20:59:03 From Laine Marshall : what about f2f – is that OK for synchronous or does that imply in-person only?
20:59:47 From Nina Liakos USA : I think of f2f as being in the same physical space
21:02:13 From Heike Philp, Belgium : nice thought f2f
21:02:31 From Halima Kalanova : Heike,Plz POST in Chat about Blended Learning!
21:02:43 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Here the terms being used are Remote Learning and Online Learnin
21:03:04 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : +learning
21:03:07 From Heike Philp, Belgium : Remote Learning and Online Learning
21:03:16 From Heike Philp, Belgium : or is it Remote teaching and online learning?
21:03:54 From Heike Philp, Belgium : Graham you are still frozen
21:05:55 From Nina Liakos USA : I have to leave now. It’s been fun… see you next week
21:06:29 From Vance Stevens : bye nina
21:06:43 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : In a gobernment conference this week the terms used were Remore Learning and Online Learning. The focus is on Learning, teaching role
21:06:45 From Graham Stanley : here’s the link to the ERT article https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning#:~:text=Emergency%20Remote%20Teaching,mode%20due%20to%20crisis%20circumstances.
21:06:47 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Bye Nina
21:06:55 From Vance Stevens : cheers graham
21:08:20 From Laine Marshall : Thank you. Also, because you pushed me to do that demonstration, I know use SOFLA with my professional development work
21:10:19 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Thanks everyone
21:11:10 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : Enjoy dinner Vance
21:11:30 From Laine Marshall : I never ever regret joining these meetings!!!!
21:11:34 From Halima Kalanova : Thank you!

Notes from JALTCALL 2020

The JALTCALL 2020 online conference was held on Saturday and Sunday 6-7 June from morning to late afternoon  Japan time on both days.

The event was masterfully hosted at https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la.
At that page you can read:

During these interesting times, we find ourselves building something new and exciting through the amazing efforts and huge patience of a wonderful group of presenters and sponsors including our keynote speaker, Dr. Charles Browne. More than ever this is a conference that aims to bring us together and showcases the role that technology can play in this endeavor. The role of technology in the classroom suddenly finds itself in the spotlight and we look forward to seeing you all on June 6th and 7th.
Gary Ross & James York, JALTCALL2020 Online Co-chairs.

Look and feel

The home page had an iterative design structure which I found annoying at first (because it wasn’t linear) but came to appreciate once I’d quickly familiarized myself with it. Familiarity had fully occurred by the time I got logged in.

Before, that, if you tried to access the full schedule it would be suggested that you log in. If you couldn’t do that, it would tell you you needed a ticket. There were paying options (and I heard at the closing that presenters had to pay to present, if I heard that right) but one of the options was a “Welcome” free ticket. Once you’d registered and obtained that you could access the full schedule. There was a pdf “block” schedule which might have been handy if I’d wanted to print it and carry it with me, but since I was sitting in one chair the whole time, all I needed was the online schedule, many pages long and covering both days, which was useful for searching for particular presentations. But there was also a schedule for presentations about to start or happening now. Once I’d found that one, there was no further need to figure out what time it was or where we were in the program. Having chosen a presentation, you could easily click on the Zoom rooms to be taken there. Some presentations had streaming options, again just a click away.

The conference was professionally produced but had a friendly, relaxed ambience. You could enter the rooms with or without video (I always chose without). Once there you were requested to switch off webcams and mute mics during presentations. Almost all complied with the latter, the former was tolerated. During question sessions participants were invited to activate their mics and web cams. Besides giving rise to fruitful discussion at the end of each webinar, there was also the ongoing text chat, which as Dr. Charles Browne, usually referred to as ‘Charlie’, pointed out in the closing session, enriched the interaction among participants much more than would happen during a sit and get presentation at a live conference (unless there existed a robust Twitter or other chat app such as Yo!Teach, back channel).

I was only able to attend the following Sunday sessions

10:40 – Online speech: utilizing speech recognition in the classroom today
https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/1 –  Gary Ross and Stephen Henneberry

This talk demonstrated a free online system for practicing conversation that utilizes the speech recognition and synthesis capabilities built into modern browsers.

11:20 – Developing a language learning system that appropriates the affordances of VR
https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/29 – Koichi Shibata and James York

This presentation concerns the current iteration of a VR system designed to promote speaking skills as participants carry out collaborative tasks.

13:00 – Survey of recent research in MALL in Japanese EFL Contexts
https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/60 – Edo Forsythe

This presentation provided a survey of the CALL-related research literature in Japanese EFL contexts from the previous seven years. The presenter provided examples of how various technologies from computers to smartphones to video cameras to virtual reality devices are being employed in English classrooms in Japan.

Edo Forsythe presented a mind-blowing listing of research suggesting uses for MALL in EFL classes and I started collecting screenshots when he started focusing on smart phones. He mentioned some studies which he adapted in his own classes, and stressed that the over-riding theme in many is that students tended to prefer using smart phones to computers.

15:20 – Engaging with the world: Reddit in the university classroom #16
https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/16 – James York

This presentation introduced a pedagogical intervention designed to promote university-level students to participate in communities of English speakers from around the world using online affinity spaces such as those found on Reddit, Twitter, and online forums.

James got his students posting on Reddit and engaging with native / random speakers, despite it’s not being kid-safe. James clearly felt that this was not a problem in his context, but he warned others to be aware of this. The students apparently got into it – James showed numerous examples of his students’ interactions on Reddit and of their reflectons on what they did.

One of his students was a master at “gun plastic”?
He discussed his models on this Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunpla/

Here is a template for a reflection on https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunterWorld/

Things to be aware of; e.g. that Reddit is NSFW, not safe for work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave

I took this Gallery shot at the end of the presentation

And another shot of James taking questions and wrapping up

15:20 Robert Anthony – Does the platform matter?:
Using “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” on multiple devices
https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/28

The presenter reported on “a study …  in which four groups of young adult Japanese learners of English played the cooperative puzzle game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes over four one-hour gameplay sessions. The game requires learners to cooperate by exchanging information quickly and efficiently in order to solve a series of information gap tasks, leading to the production of much spoken English and thus the potential for peer-based language learning.”

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a commercial video game that has been adapted for use in the EFL classroom. The goal of the game is to defuse a series of briefcase shaped explosives. Participants engage in one of two roles, either as a “defuser” who is tasked with solving puzzle modules or the “expert” who holds a manual and must relay information to the defuser. The virtual bomb explodes if the participants fail to solve the puzzles before the timer runs out.

I arrived a little late for this one, I missed the game demo, but in our later Webheads Weekly meeting we found that Graham Stanley was familar with the game (no surprise there).  You can search this page (ctrl-f) for the name of the game and find where it came up in our text chat, and see that Graham provided a link to its manual, https://bombmanual.com

It’s obviously a game that promotes reading, speaking, and listening skills (if NNS students will use the target language), since one player refers to the manual and gives the “defuser” oral instructions to defuse the bomb before it goes off. Have a look at the manual and if you decide to play, wear appropriate PPE.

16:40 – Closing Forum #92 – https://jaltcall2020.eventzil.la/session/92

Gary Ross, James York, Dr. Charles Browne, Erin Noxon, Louise Ohashi

This was “A discussion of where we move on from here. Scheduled to finish at 17:10 but may run over.” It might have done, but not by much. I grabbed a selfie with James York and Louise Ohashi, hardly representative of what actually transpired, and Louise’s subsequent post promising videos and watch parites.

For now, check out the JALTCALL YouTube site as the pre-recorded sessions are there.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhE5SaHY-VRHKDDgZbPAEg

More about TALIN

TALIN stands for Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.

Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC

TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend.

If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation

1. Visit this page https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
2. Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
3. Wait for approval
4. Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time

You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.

More about TALIN, as presented at international online conferences

• I presented TALIN: Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN
  At the Virtual Round Table Conference May 8-9, 2020, leaving behind these archives

• Slides https://bit.ly/talin2020
•  Video https://youtu.be/iOYPkmWPAiY
• I presented
  From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN
  At the Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology
  • Full text https://tinyurl.com/india2020vance
  • Slides https://tinyurl.com/vance2020india
  • Video https://youtu.be/3n0r4vLrf8M

Earlier Events

Wed 3 June Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology held in collaboration with TALIN and Learning2gether

https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/03/vance-stevens-presents-from-small-to-talin-at-the-online-international-webinar-on-elt-technology/

Sat 6 June 1300-1500 utc – VSTE Second Life Saturdays – repeats each Saturday

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 link http://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.

About this intitiative, https://vste.org/upcoming-events-virtual-environments-pln/

Sat 6 June 1500 UTC Opportunities and challenges in TESOL career path development during pandemic

Opportunities and challenges in career path development in the TESOL Affiliate Network during the pandemic

Has your teaching been affected by the pandemic? Would you like to know what your fellow teachers are thinking around the world? Join us for a session of the TESOL Affiliate Network Professional Council (ANPC) and the Career Path Development Professional Learning Network (CPDPLN) where we will be discussing opportunities and challenges in career path development in the TESOL Affiliate Network during the pandemic.

Recording

An email was sent to registered attendees saying that “the recording can be viewed and shared beyond registered attendees via the recording on YouTube.”

Session leaders from the ANPC: Georgios Kormpas and James Papple
& from CPDPLN: Liz England and Amira Salama

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Learning2gether Episode 470
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The video above [https://youtu.be/3n0r4vLrf8M] was recorded in Camtasia from the live stream of the plenary sessions on Wednesday June 3, 2020, from the online International Webinar on ELT & Technology held in collaboration with TALIN and Learning2gether.
The video was edited to remove technical glitches and irrelevant material, leaving my presentation inact in its entirety.

Vance Stevens delivered one of the plenary talks at the ELT conference, entitled
From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN: Teaching and learning in IsolatioN

Here are its presentation links

• Tiny URL for the slides: https://tinyurl.com/vance2020india
• Tiny URL for the full text: https://tinyurl.com/india2020vance

The two link to one another, so if you remember one, you can find the other

Abstract

Thinking SMALL is something I have been writing and talking about for the past decade.This presentation introduces a rationale for thinking SMALL about social media assisted language learning. SMALL can be considered as a viable and emerging subset of the more traditionally used term, CALL (computer assisted language learning).

As teachers form communities of practice and explore the affordances of social media tools in collaborating with and learning from one another, they need to understand how they might model for their students how they too can use these tools in their own learning, rather than expecting only to be taught disembodied concepts. Meanwhile COVID-19 has descended upon our societies and caused a major rethink in how we approach and deliver learning opportunities for students. Social media tools are now paramount, as is the need for teachers to learn to master them. This is learned by forming communities of practice and modeling best practices to one another as we are doing in this conference. By being here you are learning about and actually using tools that you can take back to class with you, especially if that class is online.

But don’t let the learning stop here. TALIN is one of many enablers of teachers teaching teachers now that people are being forced to enter the SMALL online world due to the social distancing constraints on teaching in an era of pandemic. TALIN has sprung up to help teachers practice what they have learned by presenting what they know to one another, online, in ways that model for them how they might in turn teach their students.

More about the plenary speakers

The plenary speakers were, in order of appearance in the program:

• Vance Stevens – Malaysia – Speaking on
  From thinking SMALL on social media assisted language learning to TALIN: Teaching and learning in IsolatioN, 0:27:35 at https://youtu.be/gCIXiRapr_Q
• Ania Lian – Australia – Speaking on
  Remote teaching and learning of English language in higher education contexts: Experiences and research from a country where distance learning is a norm, not a calamity, 1:12:55 at https://youtu.be/gCIXiRapr_Q
  
• Heike Philp – Belgium – Speaking on
  Is teaching live online the new normal?, 2:11:15 at https://youtu.be/gCIXiRapr_Q
  

These videos are queued to the respectively correct starting points for each speaker in the 3-hour long recording of all three plenary session #8 in the sequence of events at the #ELTcon. To reach those starting points you might have to log out of YouTube before clicking on the links because when you are logged on to YouTube it will track where you last viewed this video and return you to that point, overriding the code included in the link that was intended to tell YouTube exactly where to start in the long video. For that reason I have included the start times in the entries above; in case the links don’t work for you unless you log out of YouTube.

The facebook stream of the plenary sessions is here, https://www.facebook.com/eng.dept.bu/videos/684464965676412/

About the Online International Webinar on ELT & Technology

On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2 and 3, Dilip Barad held a free, amazing, online
International Webinar on ELT & Technology
in collaboration with TALIN and Learning2gether

Dr. Dilip Barad is Dean of the Faculty of Arts – Dept. of English, at MKBU, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilipbarad/
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
https://www.mkbhavuni.edu.in/mkbhavuniweb/

The International Webinar on ELT & Technology was an online discussion on Technology and Teaching with special reference to English language teaching.

In post-conference mail, Dr. Barad wrote:

The main objective of our endeavour was to give experience and practice of presenting papers online so that we feel confident and become future ready academicians. To a greater extent, we feel we have successfully empowered many of our participants, strengthened their confidence and made valuable contribution in ‘capacity building’ of our students, young scholars and teachers.

You can access your presentation as well as others’ from this page on webinar website – https://sites.google.com/view/webinar-eng-mkbu/elt-technology/livestream

The Webinar was held in Google Meet, and simulcast on YouTube and Facebook http://www.dilipbarad.com/webinar

• Connect live in the Google Meet webinar room
  https://meet.google.com/esz-osbn-csx
• Livestream to YouTube and Facebook; info here
  https://sites.google.com/view/webinar-eng-mkbu/elt-technology/livestream

Here are the numbers of viewers of the YouTube and Facebook streams as of June 7, 2020

How dey do dat?

Dilip was kind enough to share a Google Photos album showing pictures of Command Central at MKBU. Here is a sampling:

Dilip appears to have turned link sharing on, so if you want to view more photos of the setup, I encourage you to visit https://photos.app.goo.gl/n3EjZXDWNSebvUwE9.
It’s an eye-opener!

Tue 2 June – First day of the free Webinar on ELT & Technology – Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions began on Tuesday, see the schedule here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT-MmAA45q2JcBaVF0wed4m8gRBerUh8Qgs7370Iw6XistMhgI4bH7PLiIO0yko-W5HP6udu8bWklDc/pub

The event was streamed on Facebook

and on YouTube

It was all working very well

Wed 3 June – Second day of the free Webinar on ELT & Technology -Parallel and plenary sessions

Schedule for June 3
The full schedule is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT-MmAA45q2JcBaVF0wed4m8gRBerUh8Qgs7370Iw6XistMhgI4bH7PLiIO0yko-W5HP6udu8bWklDc/pub

COVID-19 was a palpable presence in the topics prevented.
This teacher coined the term coviducation

Blast from the past

Vance and Dilip at the 6th International and 42nd Annual ELTAI Conference held at VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology), Vellore, India, 16-18 June, 2011

Promotion and Feedback

This event was posted to these Facebook Groups

• Learning2gether – https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
• Webheads in Action – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
• EVO Multiliteracies MOOC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
• Learning with Computers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/
• TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020

https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32641

More about TALIN

TALIN stands for Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.

Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC

TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend.

If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation

1. Visit this page https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
2. Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
3. Wait for approval
4. Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time

You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.

After the Virtual Round Table Conference May 8-9, 2020, there’s even more about TALIN here:
https://bit.ly/talin2020 and https://youtu.be/iOYPkmWPAiY

Earlier Events

Tue June 2 midnight UCT or Mon 1 June 2000 EDT – Monthly VSTE Minecraft Monday

https://learning2gether.net/2020/06/02/monthly-vste-minecraft-monday-for-june-advanced-cartography/

Tue 2 June 1500 UTC  Annette Benson presents at Intercultural Learning and Development Online with HubICL

The ICIS/ TESOL Leadership invites you to a special webinar entitled: “Intercultural Learning and Development Online with HubICL (Intercultural Learning Hub).” HubICL is an online resource and collaborative space for educators, administrators and researchers interested in facilitating intercultural learning.

PRESENTER: Annette Benson,Senior Public Relations Consultant for the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR) at Purdue University. Annette manages all areas of the Intercultural Learning Hub (HubICL) and has many years of experience in administering ESL programs, leading diversity and integration initiatives, and providing intercultural learning opportunities for faculty, staff, and students.

WHEN: Tuesday, June 2nd, 11:00 a.m. EDT
WHERE: The webinar is accessible through Zoom. To register, complete the following: Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ICIS Webinar: Intercultural Learning & Development Online with HubICL. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Roxanna Senyshyn
TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section

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Learning2gether Episode 469

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On Tuesday June 2, on or after midnight UTC if you are physically west of the Date Line, but still Monday, June 1, at 2000 EDT if you were on the east coast USA … well whatever  day or time it was, it was time for the Monthly VSTE Minecraft Monday

K4sons announced this just hours before the event:

Last month we had fun sharing what we have learned about orienteering in Minecraft and following some cartographer villager made maps to treasure and hidden structures; see https://learning2gether.net/2020/05/05/vste-mindcraft-monday-teaches-orienteering-and-prepares-for-upcoming-virtual-round-table/

This month Beth_Ghostraven, a middle school library media specialist, and VSTE VE PLN administrator, is going to take us a step further. How does she make and use maps of places she frequents in Minecraft? How does she fit them together and make those beautiful wall hangings?

If there is time we have a new map from our cartographer that we can all follow together.

Teacher Vance’s commentary …

Here, we gather in world for a really fascinating session on map making and map sharing and putting your maps up on walls in frames and then some admins flying around and filling them in collectively, the rest of us watching the maps fill in on the wall.

Here I’ve picked up a copy of a map from the chest. Next I’m checking to see if my map forms a piece of the map tapestry on the wall. Below we can see the maps starting to fill in where they are affixed to frames on the wall.

The people showing us how all this was done streamed their minecraft views into discord. Unfortunately nothing was streamed or recorded outside Discord or Minecraft, but the quality of knowledge flowing out of this group is astounding. I’ve spoken to them about recording / streaming future events.

I recorded screen shots. They were streaming what they were doing live into Discord’s streaming facility. My first screenshot is of my Discord window showing the LIVE button and where I should activate it (i.e. top row second block from left)

Beth put a map in her hand and streamed herself walking around with her map. Either it’s filling in from where she is walking, or if it’s a copy of a map that someone else has, then it’s filling in with where they are traveling.

Here she shows how the map in her hand, which in this picture someone else flying around out there is fillng in, is being reflected in its section of the large composite map displayed on the wall.

Here she shows how she can hold a map in her ‘off’ hand (the one that normally can hold a shield) so she can carry a defensive weapon in her active hand (or, shown here, another map, but it should be her diamond sword). The idea is that she can carry the map as she would a shield and have it available at all times, leaving her sword hand free for quick response

Some people were placing location markers on the maps they were filling in. Someone wanted to know how they did it The answer appeared in Discord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsV6irBi4hU&t=217s

There were two more links in the Discord chat from today:

• https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Map
• https://booklady9.edublogs.org/2016/03/01/minecraft-in-survival-mode/

The pictures above were all made with a screen capture tool. I used Jing (but it could have been any tool). In order to invoke the capture tool I had to put Minecraft on pause so I could move my cursor outside the Minecraft window and then align crosshairs over the parts of the screen I wanted to capture.

At some point during my screen capturing I realized that I could keep the Minecraft game running if I would simply array my windows on the screen and then hit the print screen key to capture my entire screen and then paste each full-screen capture into Paint, and save that as a JPG file. This produced the screenshots below where I’ve got what I was seeing from in-world in Minecraft tucked down in the lower left corner of what was being streamed by someone else (either K4sons or Beth Ghostraven) into Discord, like this …

At this point we are being shown the wall on which have been placed maps made from paper and a compass (you make paper from cane which grows near the water and a compass by putting a block of redstone surrounded by iron ingots). When the maps are placed in frames on a wall (in correct order, not sure how that’s done exactly, but there are videos all over YouTube that explain it) then you can create composite maps that get filled in as players in the game with copies of those maps carry them around, thus filling in their own copies which fill in the terrain wherever they happen to be wandering.

Below you can see me in my turtle-shell helmet that allows me to breath-hold for long periods underwater standing on a high point, and my view from that high point at lower left.

Below we are being shown how to orient with the map using our HUD (heads up display) which we can toggle in by pressing F3.

More about VSTE

Basic directions to join VSTE Place, VSTE’s Minecraft world. 

To join the VSTE Minecraft server please email K4sons@gmail.com or lwalconc@gmail.com.

If this is your first time, we need your Mojang Minecraft user name and your real name.

The VSTE Place IP address is 69.175.17.26:25565 (choose multiplayer and add a server: Name VSTE Place IP 69.175.17.26:25565)

We are currently using version 1.15.2.

As a reminder, this server is for educators. If you are using your child’s account to participate please do not encourage your child to use our server.

This Google doc has more info about the server:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rrwGjJDu3lgZuqZ7udrM8-DAMyofF186a78__ciEem8/edit?usp=sharing

Communication

• To chat in Minecraft type T which brings up a line you can type in.
• For voice we use Discord. Install it on your computer or mobile device. Our Discord channel is VSTE VEPLN Chat server. We can send you an invite to the channel through Minecraft the day of the meeting. If you have a discord account and have it live, just click the link we post and you will be able to join us.

Discord

• Discord is a voice and screen sharing application that will run on your computer or mobile device.
• Download and install it for free. Create an account.
• Many of us use the same name for our Discord account as our Minecraft account to keep things simple.
• Our channel is https://discord.gg/cBFFzU
• It helps us to be able to play Minecraft in one screen and listen via Discord with earbuds or headphones.

Earlier Events

Sun 31 May noon UTC – Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Meeting number 10

https://learning2gether.net/2020/05/31/176470383/

Mon 1 June 0530 UTC Bron Stuckey hosts Getting back in the swing with Minecraft

Bron Stuckey posted this on Facebook …

GETTING BACK IN THE SWING
#Minecraft Meeting this week talks Lesson Planning to Maximize Minecraft’s Curriculum Value.

Was Wednesday 27th May 3.30pm Sydney, Tuesday 10.30pm Seattle.
NOW CHANGED to Monday, June 1 

This link takes you to a Microsoft Teams site: https://bit.ly/MinecraftLesson

Come share lessons ideas and learn about a 5 step model to make sure the curriculum drives the learning.

Mon 1 June – Moodle MOOC 15 – Moodle for Teachers Online School begins

Nellie Deutsch would like to invite us all to join a free online professional development course on Moodle for Teachers Online School. The name of the course is Moodle MOOC 15 an annual online event organized and facilitated by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, an experienced English language teacher, academic writing coach, e-learning and blended learning researcher, technology user, and Moodle expert.

The course is for beginners and advanced Moodlers. Participants, who are beginners, will learn how to teach and manage a Moodle course. Advanced Moodlers will learn how to manage a Moodle website. Participants, who complete the tasks, receive a certificate of completion as well as weekly digital badges. Learning to Moodle on Moodle MOOC 15 takes members of the course to another level of learning. Members of Moodle MOOC 15 experience learning as they develop new learning and teaching skills. The course is based on teamwork, social learning, learning by doing, learning by teaching, and peer project-based learning.

Moodle is an amazing learning management system that provides everything teachers need to engage learners with each other, the content, and the facilitator of the course. Collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication are key aspects of learning and Moodle has them all. Do you use Moodle with your students? If not and you’d like to use it on Moodle MOOC 15 https://moodle4teachers.org/enrol/index.php?id=268. Moodle MOOC 15 begins on June 1, 2020.

Watch the following YouTube video for further information. Subscribe and hit the bell for more videos from Moodle MOOC 15.
https://youtu.be/YFw_ypTHNiw

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The date of this update is June 7, 2020 10:30 UTC