Learning2gether Episode 160

The 6th VRT conference in 4 years took place over the weekend of May 17-19, 2013.  As usual, there was a stellar offering of presentations lasting most of each of three days.  Brainchild of Heike Philp, the conference was completely free and online and based itself at the following URLs:

• http://www.virtual-round-table.com/
• http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/6-vrtwebcon-conference-program

Twitter #tag: vrtwebcon (and why not tag it #learning2gether as well 🙂

Audio problems in Adobe were countered with an alternate live stream on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/vrtwebcon/app_190322544333196

Learning2gether sat back on Sunday May 19 and enjoyed the show … 

Sunday May 19 1400 GMT VLRT joins LTSIG with Nicky Hockly – Paul Driver on Embodiment, technology, and locative play

Adobe recording: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p986i73tokd/

Sunday May 19 1600 GMT special unconference / barcamp / edcamp program at VLRT hosted by Heike Philp, Vance Stevens, and Arjana Blazic

Adobe recording: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p3t7zoohn12/
Warning from Heike, this is a 7 hour recording (first 2 hours = unconference, last hour = ELTONS, forgot to switch off). Hopefully we’ll sort it out on the YouTube and mp3 recordings to follow.

This is copy/pasted from the program for Sunday May 19 (add 4 hours for UAE time)

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/6-vrtwebcon-conference-program

Announcements

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30459
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/may-17-19-heike-philp-hosts-3-day-virtual-language-round-table-we

Learning2gether Episode 159

Download mp3 file:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2013may12laine_maria-10-001-64k.mp3

In planning today’s session,  I thought the topic would be the flipped classroom, so I invited someone who’s presented on that topic before, Laine Marshall, to join us. Laine is also a participant in LTMOOC. Meanwhile I’m pleased to find that I have been learning about Instreamia in flipped classroom mode, as is any participant in that MOOC engaged in learning from the tutorials. I thought it would also be interesting to discuss how we are learning on a spectrum ranging from purist cMOOC to robo-graded xMOOC, and this was touched on in the discussion.

I also invited Maria Colussa to co-host. She has appeared with us previously in Learning2gether and Electronic Village Online.

Laine Marshall presented on Sunday, June 10, 2012 –  Three reasons to flip your classroom

• https://learning2gether.net/2012/06/11/learning2gether-with-laine-marshall-three-rea/
• Another reason: http://www.morrisflipsenglish.com/1/post/2012/06/explore-flip-apply.html

Where?

• Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) at http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
  Thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/
• Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-05-12.0635.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75

Announcments

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30449
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/laine-marshall-and-maria-colussa-ltmooc-and-the-flipped-classroom

Here’s an announcement of an uncoming MOOC on Flipped Classrooms from the venerable …

http://www.teacheronline.us/mooc/

Learning2gether Episode 153

Download:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/talkingvte-37.mp3

The view from down under: http://talkingvte.blogspot.ae/2013/04/talkingvte-episode-37.html

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Vance is in Melbourne.  Not that I have to fly all this way to connect, but Michael is dropping by on his way back from Tasmania, and while in the neighborhood why not connect with other Australian friends and colleagues.  We’ll talk informally on topics that may or may not range from/to

• What’s the latest (like this week) in veillance and wearable technologies
• Alex’s HCC presentation at ANU – 8th April 2013
• MOOCs and open learning (LTMOOC starts April 15, http://ltmooc.com/)
• The Adelaide Maker Faire (special ref to 3d Printing)
• Report from THETA Conference

http://talkingvte.blogspot.com meets Learning2gether

For more information on the session, including topics: http://sridgway.wikispaces.com/talkingvte37

Where?

• Google Hangout and Live stream of the event at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
• Alternate URL: http://webheadsinaction.org/wednesday-april-10-2013-michael-coghlan-and-vance-stevens-live-melbourne-talking-vte-stephan-ridgway
• Text chat: http://etherpad.mit.edu/VUuZowAaZm

Announcements

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30387
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/talking-vte
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30396
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1883
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/message/6812

Learning2gether Episode 152

Download:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/transform-and-tailor-your-teaching-with-twitter_001.mp3

Hangout recording from April 4, 2013

This event was a Hangout with simultaneous stream on http://webheadsinaction.org/live 

At the time you could have followed the event by

1. Joining the stream at http://webheadsinaction.org/live 
   1. listen to the simulcast
   2. interact with others in the Etherpad text chat http://etherpad.mit.edu/qnIN6WpaAn
2. Coming directly to the hangout

In her presentation, Rita discussed many

Tools complementing Twitter

• Twibes: http://www.twibes.com/
• TwitDoc: http://twitdoc.com/ and http://www.scribd.com/about
• TagDef: http://tagdef.com/
• The Tweeted Times: http://tweetedtimes.com
• GroupTweet: http://www.grouptweet.com/
• Monitter: http://monitter.com/
• Screenr: http://screenr.com/
• Spezify: http://spezify.com/
• Twitcam: http://twitcam.livestream.com/
• The StorySoFar: http://cwd.co.uk/storysofar/
• Twitterature: http://www.twitterature.us/uk/index.htm

Alternative URL

http://webheadsinaction.org/rita-zeinstejer-transform-and-tailor-your-teaching-twitter

More info: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/

Learning2gether Episode 151

Download:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/aamc-professional-development.mp3

I might want to edit the start of the mp3, when I get time – Vance

Learning2gether classroots weekly online professional development

This session was one of several being held this week at Al Ain Men’s College (AAMC) as part of an in-house professional development week.

Description of event: 

Learning2gether is a wiki which, since September 2010, has served to organize teachers in meeting online at regular times weekly to conduct free “class-roots” professional development seminars and discuss topics of mutual interest to teachers of ESOL in particular and educators in general. Presenters and participants range from expert to those merely interested in the topics. Participants come from all over the world, but from its inception there has been an effort to involve teaching practitioners in Arab countries through coordination with the TESOL Arabia TAEDTECH-SIG. Sessions are recorded, and a growing archive of recorded resources is accumulating at the associated podcast site. This session will introduce teachers to the endeavor and invite them to become involved.

Hangout recording

Webheads in Action recording archive: 

 http://webheadsinaction.org/vance-stevens-learning2gether-streamed-live-online-al-ain-mens-college-uae

Slides updated especially for this event

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether-classroots-weekly-online-professional-development

Place:

This event is being organized live at Al Ain Men’s College (AAMC) in Al Ain, UAE

The plan (assuming robust Internet and that April Fools does not intervene) is to:

• Set up live and face-to-face at AAMC for the appointed session
• Start a Hangout in Google +
• Put the URL of that Hangout here 
• Stream it live online at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
• Post the recording at http://learning2gether.net
  

Participants will be able to listen to the live stream on http://webheadsinaction.org/live

Anyone can interact as well in this live text chat at http://etherpad.mit.edu/CzKEv1s6wM 

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30369
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/vance-stevens-on-learning2gether-streamed-live-online-from-al-ain