Claire Bradin Siskin and Nina Liakos join Michael Coghlan for a discussion of Designing Learning for the Digital Age

Where: Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) 

• http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Recording:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-12-23.0455.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2012dec23mc

Michael’s slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/designing-learning-in-the-digital-age-a-discussion

This presentation was planned as an open and unscripted discussion of the results of a Worldwide OER survey conducted earlier this year, presented at the EuroCALL CMC & teacher Education SIG workshop in Bologna, and at CALICO 2012 in South Bend.

Participants were asked to read the following workshop paper

http://eurocallsigsbologna.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/4/5/8745414/colpaert_bologna_2012_eurocall.pdf

Participants were asked to discuss the following kinds of issues:

• epistemological (what do we mean by Open? what should be Open?),
• technological (what do we need to make this work?),
• psychological (what are the psychological barriers for teachers?)
• and juridical issues (who is going to profit from my work?)

Bb Collaborate / Elluminate presentation venue at:

• http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Recording

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-12-16.0934.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2012dec16colpaert

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one#.UIzfkAqgbLs.twitter

Edited by David Wiley

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/colpaert
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/29937

Where did it happen? LearningTimes Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) 

• http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Recording

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-12-09.0632.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2012dec09derya

Developing Technology-Infused Culture-Teaching Materials for ESL

How can we promote the creation and distribution of culture-integrated ESL materials that serve for intercultural competence in a way that also helps teachers’ confidence and ability in developing teaching materials by integrating technology and computers? In this presentation I will share a project that I implement in a graduate level course, named Cross-Cultural Issues in ESL, at the University of South Florida, for future ESL teachers where they create their own technology-infused culture teaching materials for ESL learners by incorporating cultural practices and products from non-target cultures. Such a project helps develop their technological pedagogical content knowledge as well as their skills and confidence in developing materials by integrating technology. We also compile those materials in a wiki named Teaching Culture as seen below, http://teachingculture.pbworks.com . I will share with you what we do, and how we do it, and students’ experiences and ideas about the project.

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/derya-kulavuz-onal-teaching-culture-integrated-esl

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See the Elluminate view at

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This event was planned to experiment with hooking up Google Hangout with Bb Collaborate / Elluminate

to see how it might work for the Jan 13 EVO Mega Kickoff.

Where did it happen? Google Hangout and Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

• Some of us visited http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ to touch base and get the
• URL for the Hangout (available when the Hangout started)

Recording

• http://webheadsinaction.org/content/learning2gether-evo2013-launchcast-brainstorm
• The TitanPad here includes Nina’s Granola Recipe, check it out, yum yum
  http://jefflebow.titanpad.com/3

Here’s the Hangout view …

What does Jeff know about How to Stream & Record a Google+ Hangout?
http://jefflebow.net/how-to-stream-record-publish-google-hangout-on-air

Learning2gether Episode 130

Nellie Deutsch is generally associated with EFL and educational technology. She is less known for her involvement in healthy living (nutrition), healing (distance healing with Reiki and herbs), sports (long distance running & swimming), and mindfulness practice. The session will be an informal discussion of Nellie’s experiences with mindfulness meditation practice, the Alexander technique, Reiki, and the Silva Method. Nellie decided to share her work on mindfulness and authenticity at a conference in October 2012. She co-presented a workshop on Mindfulness Practice and Leadership, gave a workshop on Authenticity and Leadership and led a mindfulness meditation practice at the Transformative Leadership conference in Virginia Beach organized by Atlantic University and the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment.

Screenshot showing Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) leading a discussion on Mindful Living with Technology, and mindful living on Virginia Beach

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Link to RECORDING of the Live Online Session:

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/999338-mindful-living-with-technology

Reference, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21071182

View on screencast.com »

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-nellie-deutsch
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/29859
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/29839

Learning2gether Episode 129

Heike Philp gave a charming presentation recorded here, showing us what she and participants in her MachinEVO session (Machinima, EVO, Electronic Village Online) created during the 2012 rendition of MachinEVO, while Heike and her team were learning along with the participants. The session is being given again this year: http://machinevo.pbworks.com/

Virtual location of the presentation: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/sl

RECORDING (57min):  http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p2dgsv274gb/

A machinima is a video taken in a 3D environment or in our case on EduNation in Second Life. These lean productions are being produced by screen recording one’s desktop. No camera equipment is needed, no actors and filming is not hampered by weather. They provide a rich multi-media resource for our learners, when using empty speaking bubbles as prompts. In this case it is immaterial whether text chat or voice chat fills the gaps, as it is the imagination of our learners, which is being kindled. How easy is it to create such recordings? This is the theme of this talk during which Heike Philp will relate the ins and outs of creating machinima. She will also introduce an idea for an EU funded project CAMELOT.

Here are some examples of these type of machinima

http://machinevo.pbworks.com/w/page/48340927/Week%201%20TRAILER%20%20%209%20Jan%20-%2015%20Jan

Heike reproduced the list from the link above in a comment to this post.  Vance has brought some of these into the main post here.  Because Posterous creates embeds for links to YouTube videos, I want to do this a few at a time to make sure this page will continue to load smoothly in our browsers.

Learn ENGLISH

Around the Campfire – Moon Theme

If I could fly….Introduction to First Conditional

If I could fly … Second Conditional

The untimely death of Peter Profit
Part 1:

Part 2:

Numbakulla

The Numbakulla Island Mystery

A Formerly Cool Kid

Briefly Alice

Anatomy Class

Audition for a Killer

There Will Come Soft Rains—an avatar enactment of the Ray Bradbury story: http://youtu.be/RcNN5MmmihA

Valentine Surprise—a funny review of some valentine customs:

Midnight Mystery—phrases associated with fears and actions connected to a home burglary: http://youtu.be/a_iINBN-njE

The Payback—the 4th and final part of a humerous mystery series made in Japan for ESL students:

Learning2gether Episode 128

Sunday, November 18, 2012 – Claire Bradin Siskin – What’s with the WOW?

The ESL Writing Online Workshop (ESL-WOW) Project will soon be launched!

Claire Bradin Siskin describes this free resource, an online multimedia program designed to guide non-native speakers of English through each stage of the pre-writing, while-writing, and post-writing processes:

1. Getting Ready to Write
2. Developing Your Ideas
3. Revising Your Work
4. Editing and Polishing.

ESL-WOW will be openly available to all individuals and educational institutions.

PowerPoint from session: whats_with_the_wow_11-18-12.ppt

Earlier today there was an

IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG webinar

Today’s seminar is with a group of four outstanding Australian educators, sharing how they set up a social network for teachers in their region: ‘Setting up a regional PLN on Twitter: AusELT’. In the webinar these educators will discuss Twitter and other online tools they are using to enhance this network.

This session will be particularly interesting to teachers who would like to set up their own local online networks at whatever level – at school level, city level, or even countrywide. The webinar will provide an excellent blueprint for how to seed and grow online networks for teachers.

More information about the webinar, including a link to check the time in your own country, the speakers’ bios, and a link to the webinar room (which will be live 30 mins before the event is due to start) are on the LT SIG website here:

http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/261-181112-webinar-setting-up-a-regional-pln-on-twitter-auselt.html