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

Learning2gether Episode 150

Download:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2013apr01badges-10-001-64k.mp3

Elluminate Recording URLs

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate
  • https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-31.0653.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75  
  • http://tinyurl.com/2013mar31badges  
  • http://goo.gl/Xcv6Z  

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim’s notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

• online PD: why it doesn’t seem to be taking off in UAE;
• current issues in IT?
• Some participants might want to discuss the recent TESOL Conference in Dallas, an unprecedented number of sessions at which were recorded.  Archives exist here:
  • https://learning2gether.net/2013/03/23/learning2gether-from-live-events-webcast-from/
  • http://callis2013.pbworks.com/
• Badges idea .. could it work and how?

James’s vision of all of this? “some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it.”

Some brainstorming ideas:

• Sunday, November 11, 2012 – Jonathan Finkelstein – walked us through Learning Times Badgestack
  • https://learning2gether.net/2012/11/11/jonathan-finkelstein-walks-us-through-learnin/
  • http://badgestack.com/
• Doug Belshaw:
  •  http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/open-badges-cra-28-february-2013
  • http://www.slideshare.net/eucunet/doug-belshaw-open-badges-overview
  • http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/category/doug-belshaw/
• Peter Rawsthorne
  • http://www.slideshare.net/prawsthorne/mozilla-open-badges-14035618
  • YouTube
    • Bootleg mp3 Downloadhttps://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/introduction-to-open-badges.mp3

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/jim-buckingham-and-vance-stevens-discuss-badges
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/30365  

Learning2gether Episode 149

March 21-23, Learning2gether traveled to Dallas to help webcast live at from the Electronic Village and academic sessions taking place during the TESOL Convention

Above, Vicki Holmes presenting on Word Clouds in the CALL-IS EV in Dallas, with co-presenter Ellen Dougherty Skyping in via small window lower right of screen, later expanded to full screen share so she could direct the workshop from Abu Dhabi – picture, Vance Stevens

Many of these events were held in the Webheads Bb Collaborate / Elluminate room: 

 http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ 

For definitive updates to these events, please see the official sites:

• At the CALL-IS TESOL Webinar wiki site: http://callis2013.pbworks.com/

Thu March 21 – CALL Academic Session: Gaming and Language Learning

Recordings:

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate – https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-21.0738.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4B…
• mp3 – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40757132/bootlegMP3/callisgaming-LEARNINGTIMES-V.10-0…

Thu March 21  – TESOL CALL-IS Open Meeting 

Recordings:

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate – https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-21.1417.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4B…

Fri March 22 – Technology Showcase Event: Mobile Apps for Education
Recordings: 

• mp3 – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40757132/bootlegMP3/mobileapps-LEARNINGTIMES-64K.mp3
• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate – https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-22.0758.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4B…

Fri March 22 – CALL-IS & Elementary Education InterSection Session: New Tools/Techniques in CALL

Recordings:

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate – https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-22.1054.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4B…
• mp3 – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40757132/bootlegMP3/toolstechniques-LEARNINGTIMES-V.1…
• Vance’s slides “Training Teachers in Web2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning EFL”
  http://www.slideshare.net/vances/training-teachers-in-web2 

Sat March 23 – ITA, CALL, & VDM-IS InterSection Session: New Technology Horizons for International Teaching Assistants

Recordings:

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate – https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-23.0720.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4B…
• mp3 – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40757132/bootlegMP3/ITAcallSPL-LEARNINGTIMES-V.10-001…

Sat March 23 – ESP, CALL, & VDM-IS: Harmony in ESP Practice with Computers, Video and Digital Media

Recordings:

• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate – https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-03-23.1313.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4B…
• mp3 – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40757132/bootlegMP3/Harmony-LEARNINGTIMES-V.10-001.64…

Fri March 22 19:00 to 19:50 GMT – Webcasts from the EV Fair Classics

Evelyn Izquierdo, and Miguel Mendoza at EV Fair Friday (picture by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith)

• Shaping the Way We Teach English Leslie Opp-Beckman (U of Oregon)
  • Session recording: http://tinyurl.com/tesol-webcast1-rec
• Moodle for Teachers Nellie Deutsch, Atlantic U 
  • Session recording: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1059483-moodle-for-teachers-m4t-live-streaming-from-tesol-2013-call-is
• Oh, What a Site! Google Sites for Language Learning Sandy Wagner (Defense Language Institute at Monterey)
  • Session recording: http://tinyurl.com/tesol-webcast2-rec  
• Podcasts, web-based recordings, & videocasts: Dynamic and interactive ways to provide feedback Evelyn Izquierdo and Miguel Mendoza (Universidad Centrale de Venezuela)
  • Session recording: http://tinyurl.com/tesol-webcast3-rec
• EVO Mentoring Daniela C. Wagner-Loera (Maryland English Institute, Maryland USA) 
  • Session recording: http://tinyurl.com/tesol-webcast4-rec

Sat March 23 16:00 to 16:50 GMT – Webcasts from the EV Fair Classics

• Women Teaching Women English (WTWE) Leslie Opp-Beckman (U of Oregon),Rawan Yaghi (Bednayel Public School, Lebanon), Deanna Hochstein (U of Oregon), Deborah Healey (U of Oregon)
  • Session recording: https://unbmail.unb.ca/OWA/redir.aspx?C=NrlVHNlFEkGdw3Ij26cYGBuG0R054s8IhgilzhJMQ_cR7ISUT2WXxYXqVVz5TWxbKq83WRTaOYE.&URL=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Ftesol-webcast5-rec 
• EVO: Multiliteracies MOOC – Vance Stevens (Al Ain Men’s College UAE), Claire Bradin Siskin (Universidade Agostinho Neto) 
  • Elluminate recording: http://tinyurl.com/tesol-webcast6-rec
  • Download the mp3: https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/6-tesol-webcast-6-64k.mp3

Vance Stevens presenting MultiMOOC at EV Fair Saturday (picture by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith)

• Student Projects and More Using Nicenet.org – Jim Bame, Utah State U 
  • Session recording: http://tinyurl.com/tesol-webcast7-rec

http://wia-in-dallas.blogspot.com

Learning2gether Episode 148

Farewell to TappedIn

End of an era:

Theresa Almeida d’Eca, Nina Liakos, Michael Coghlan, Vance Stevens, David Weksler, and Jeff Cooper met at Tapped In one last time and set up a wiki at http://tappedin2013.pbworks.com/ 

You are invited to join and contribute URLs to or upload the artifacts you have

managed to save from TappedIn.

Vance has saved a couple here:

• Here is a Jing screencast of the Webheads in Action space set up by Sharon Holdner 

  
  View on screencast.com »

• Vance’s virtual environment, illustrating how a screen shot can become a shareable URL:

  
  View on screencast.com » 

Where?

• http://tappedin.org, meet in reception, as in days almost gone by
• Also, so we can voice chat, and share URLs, drop by our Elluminate room:  http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
  (You can be in both places at once) 

Another one bites the dust:

• We all know that Posterous will disappear on April 30, but …
• Google Reader ??!!!
  http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/r-i-p-google-reader/

Outcome …

We set up a wiki at http://tappedin2013.pbworks.com/ which you are invited to join and contribute URLs to or upload the artifacts you have managed to save from TappedIn.

Check back here to see what we’ve accumulated and help with the display, if you wish.

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/farewell-to-tappedin 

Also on tap for this evening …

Sun Mar 17 1500 GMT – IATEFL Webinar: Rethinking the Language Classroom – From Mobile to Learning

with Carla Arena (Brazil)

When: Sunday 17 March 2013, GMT 15:00
Find the time in your time zone by clicking this link.

Where: The event takes place in the IATEFL online conference room.
http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/265-17313-webinar-rethinking-the-language-classroom.html

See the schedule for remaining webinars in this series: http://ht.ly/fXMsQ

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/iatefl-webinar-rethinking-the-language-classroom-from-mobile