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Learning2gether Episode 483
20th Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Sandbox Open Mic-inar
and the 37th and final TALIN¹ webinar

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On August 9, 2020, Webheads in Action were at it again, in the usual open mic-inar format.

 

In this video: https://youtu.be/z71i0eZ0E00 Minnie from China shows us an app, DingTalk, that she and 70 other students in her group were using to learn English under the direction of Han Chee, a teacher living in Texas who has been involved in teaching English online to Chinese for some time. Chee joined us in the discussion, as did Doris Molero, Heike Philp, and Maru Del Campo. Doris asked Minnie to participate in her project where she is having her students develop personal narratives of a visit to the terracotta warriors in Xian, China. Minnie showed us her collection of Chinese classical musical instruments and promised us a concert soon. Stay tuned!

Before that, Vance had explained the transition from TALIN¹ – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, to TALIN Squared – Teaching and Learning in the New Normal, as explained at https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

Many of us realize that we are all passing through a world where the old normal was the problem. Many are hoping to return somehow to that old world, and hopefully some of the things we truly miss and wish to preserve will be recoverable. But if we see that in many glaring respects, the old way of doing things was unsustainable, so how do we escape the all too obvious untenabilities of the old order and carry ourselves into a more enlightened future? And as regards education, and so much else, what does that future look like when we do emerge from this pandemic and are in a position to recover from the overriding disease of which the pandemic was but a symptom, in our past?

• McNeel, B. (2020, April 29). Latino Superintendents: ‘Going Back to Normal’ Not Their Goal After Coronavirus Crisis. The 74.
  https://www.the74million.org/article/latino-superintendents-going-back-to-normal-not-their-goal-after-coronavirus-crisis/
• Richards, E. (2020, April 29). What schools will look like when they reopen: Scheduled days home, more online learning, lots of hand-washing. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/04/29/coronavirus-schools-reopen-online-homeschool/3031945001/
• Alvarado, L.  (2020, July 14). Online learning Is not the problem, bad design Is: Before claiming that online learning sucks, remember that poor design leads to poor outcomes. Medium. https://medium.com/the-faculty/online-learning-is-not-the-problem-bad-design-is-48442982b5e3

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Zoom Chat Logs

20:07:17 From Heike Philp : Rethink
20:07:48 From Heike Philp : Podcasts
20:08:19 From Heike Philp : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08gt1ry/episodes/downloads
20:14:05 From Vance Stevens : http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/
20:14:52 From Heike Philp : I love Learning2gether
20:15:16 From Vance Stevens : https://www.facebook.com/groups/talin2020/
20:19:17 From Heike Philp : Dingtalk
20:19:25 From Heike Philp : looks like Skype

In the image below, Minnie is recording her voice as she talks us through the app

Below, she converts the recording to text by selecting an option in the app

Here is the result of the speech to text … 

Now she requests a translation of the transcribed speech

In this way, students can speak to one another, get text renditions of that speech, and translations of the speech to text into their native language, all in one app

20:27:43 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : ROSETA stone
20:34:43 From Doris Molero : Can you write the name of the app in the chat?
20:41:12 From Vance Stevens : chromebook
20:41:15 From Doris Molero : chromebook
20:42:49 From Heike Philp : fyi, I am on the road now… am listening using mobile
20:44:25 From Doris Molero : Great! always connected!
20:49:25 From Vance Stevens : Stevens, V. (2002). A day in the life of an online language educator. TESL-EJ 6, 3. http://tesl-ej.org/ej23/int.html
20:51:01 From Vance Stevens : Wu, Junjie Gavin. (2018). Mobile Collaborative Learning in a Chinese Tertiary EFL Context.TESL-EJ, Volume 22, Number 2, Available: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume22/ej86/ej86int/. Also available at: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej86/int.pdf; pp. 1-15.
21:05:16 From Vance Stevens : Xian
21:07:20 From Maru Del Campo Velasco : You are so wonderful Doris!

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 posted as a message at this Groups.io,:
https://groups.io/g/webheadsinaction/message/32695

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

What is TALIN?

Sunday August 9 could be the last time we hold what we call a TALIN webinar, as we transition from TALIN¹ – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN to TALIN Squared – Teaching and Learning in the New Normal, as explained at https://tinyurl.com/talin2020

So, what does TALIN², Teaching and Learning in New Normal, look like?

TALIN as an idea and concept continues as long as educators are operating under circumstances that force them to grapple with meeting their students online and engaging them in quality education. But now that this is becoming the new normal, speakers are less attracted to presenting in a forum dedicated to the purpose for which this movement was started. It has come time for TALIN to merge into mainstream Learning2gether, which has been going on since 2010 b.c. (before covid).

At my blog post here:
https://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2020/04/teacher-training-in-time-of-covid-19.html I noted that Webheads in Action had been experiencing a revival that

accelerated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This prompted me to take yet another initiative which I called TALIN, Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN. 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.”

I go on to report that TALIN

has held or is planning a webinar every two days through the first three weeks in April. I expect this to be sustained for as long as schools are closed for the pandemic, but the group is under my https://Learning2gether.net umbrella, and its activities should extend the number of podcasts produced under that project since 2010 to well over 450.

TALIN gained greater traction than expected, and by now, since March 30, we have had 37 open mic-inars and more formal webinars conducted under the TALIN umbrella and increased the number of Learning2gether episodes up to 483.

Looking back on this, we see that this set of webinars was prompted by a desire expressed by Webheads co-founder Michael Coghlan to revive the Webheads weekly meetings on the assumption that we all shared a need for online contact to help counteract the anomie of lockdown.

Soon afterwards Jane Chien and I organized our Best of EVO presentations in three separate sessions online in response to the cancelation of the on-site event scheduled at the Denver TESOL convention. These events were timed to take place in the same week in which they were originally scheduled to be held at the physical conference, as a proof of concept that such events need not be postponed due to inability of participants to convene face-to-face.

• https://learning2gether.net/2020/04/03/best-of-evo-2020-not-cancelled-moved-online-a-webcastathon-over-two-days-in-3-parts/#Part1recordings
• https://learning2gether.net/2020/04/03/best-of-evo-2020-not-cancelled-moved-online-a-webcastathon-over-two-days-in-3-parts/#Part2recordings
• https://learning2gether.net/2020/04/03/best-of-evo-2020-not-cancelled-moved-online-a-webcastathon-over-two-days-in-3-parts/#Part3recordings

Over the next four months, we heard from Barbara Dieu and Susana Canelo from quarantine in Brazil and Argentina, and we learned about SOFLA (Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach) from Laine Marshall, Simplifica from Carla Arena, and what to expect from Jing’s replacement tool from Rita Zeinstejer. We had a tour of Minecraft conducted by the EVO Minecraft MOOC and VSTE communities at the 2020 Virtual Round Table conference, an introduction from Karen Schwarze on using Natural Language Processing in English Classes, and a webinar from Nick Peachey about useful tools while teaching in lockdown. An incident at Nick’s webinar caused Heike Philp and I to then carry out a systematic study on how to prevent Zoom bombers and present our findings in a series of TALIN webinars.

Dilip Barad in Maharashtra shared with us the remarkable means by which he conducted remote hands-on workshops for huge classes in India, and then he invited Heike Philp, Ania Lian, and I to participate in one such webinar a few weeks later. Meanwhile Heike had taken us on a Virtual Campus tour in OpenSim and Susan Marandi had introduced us to her students taking her CALL professional development courses in Iran.

When Graham Stanley started appearing regularly at our events in his virtual Facerig and real-world pandemic face mask guises, he had us play-testing Miro and interactive storytelling games. When Laine Marshall and Ilka Kostka produced an article for TESL-EJ on SOFLA for a column I was editing, I trialed the idea in a virtual workshop I was giving for doctoral students in Morocco.

When Gavin Dudeney thoughtfully broached the question recently, “Why the Obsession With Tools?” some of us realized we indeed had such an addiction which we have recently started to question, as well as develop, and justify as best we could, keeping in mind best practices.

We’ve had many engaged and engaging participants as well in our open mic sessions, and I may have even left out a presenter or two, but the full list of all 37 TALIN webinars can be found in our archive of TALIN¹ webinars here,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCMVUGgGXIPOVHru54Jd-KcvCL-R1U_9DieCZ1U2RXg/edit#heading=h.yqegqcfk99e0

All this shows us that this effort has been thoroughly worthwhile, but now we are beyond the emergency online teaching stage for which TALIN¹ was created. Now many of us are entering TALIN² and having to decide how to cope with returning to school, or continuing to teach online, or both. So by moving into TALIN², we enter a phase where we go beyond Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) and enter the era of school reopenings.

In taking that ongoing discussion back to Learning2gether, I have no intention of shutting off the flow of webinars; I only mean to channel it from Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, which was where we began and where we met teachers trying to grasp, and help each other with, Emergency Remote Teaching, into a New Normal which is hard to imagine at this writing.

Some schools are attempting to reopen across the board, some are opening fully virtual, and some are attempting a mix of blended, hybrid, covid, you name it. Teachers around the world are wondering how to plan, what to do, what will happen, and very soon now, we’ll all be wanting to know, what happened?

If you have something to contribute to that conversation, please join us at future Learning2gether events, which is where I’ll be channeling energies from now on, as we see what happens with TALIN Squared – Teaching and Learning in the New Normal. It has a new superscript, TALIN², but same hash tag, #talin2020

We can continue to hear each other’s TALIN² stories in the Facebook group community. The webinars continue as episodes here and at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com .

Earlier Events

Sun 2 Aug noon UTC – 19th Webheads Revival Weekly Sunday Sandbox OpenMic-inar

https://learning2gether.net/2020/08/02/fun-at-the-19th-webheads-revival-weekly-sunday-sandbox-openmic-inar-with-green-screens-and-facerig/

Sat 8 Aug 1300-1500 UTC – VSTE Second Life Saturdays – repeats each Saturday

VSTE recommends 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

et 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/

Sun 9 Aug 1630 India ELTAI Webinar Series on Techniques to learn ESL

ELTAI Webinar Series 2020 – Session 17
“Multiple Techniques to Learn English as a Second Language”

09 August 2020 (Sunday) 4.30 pm – 5.30 pm

Register at https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/ELTAI17

Moderator: – Akansha Saxena

Speakers

• Alex Anderson, USA
• Vaishali Pradhan, Nepal

Special Guest:

• Lalita Pradeep, Director, SIET, UP

Fri-Sun 7-9 Aug 9th annual 3-day MMVC20

Join educators worldwide at the 9th annual 3-day MMVC20
Moodle MOOT Virtual Conference 2020 (MMVC20)

August 7-9, 2020 (ZOOM Meetings)
https://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=249

Events are scheduled here, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmO9ak_X2JQKYT3ut9t-9UIVVmemBAFrL60g8BYsE78/edit. Timings are:

• Fri Aug 7 – from [ 0900 EST / 1300 UTC ] to [ 1500 EST / 1900 UTC ] 9 pm to 3 am in Malaysia
• Sat Aug 8 – from [ 0900 EST / 1300 UTC ] to [ 1500 EST / 1900 UTC ] 9 pm to 3 am in Malaysia
• Sun Aug 9 – from [ 0800 EST / 1200 UTC ] to [ 1500 EST / 1900 UTC ] 8 pm to 3 am in Malaysia

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The date of this update is August 12, 2020 04:00 UTC