Learning2gether Episode 76

Learning2gether Sunday, Dec 4, 2011, 15:00 GMT

Who? Peggy George joins us to talk about
The K12 Online Conference showing now at a computer near you

Recording

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-12-04.0730.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2011dec04pgeorge  

Where?  Blackboard Collaborate/Elluminate

• http://tinyurl.com/y3eh,or for those challenged by TinyURLs
• http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662

What?

The 2011 edition of the annual K12 Online conference runs from now through December 13,
http://k12onlineconference.org/. The conference features dozens of asynchronous presentations plus one live event at the culmination called “The AfterGlow”– all hosted by some of the most transformative educators in the field.  See the schedule at
http://k12onlineconference.org/?page_id=824 where you can access links to all of the blog posts and recordings for each presentation.

Peggy George is a retired elementary school principal and university pre-service education professor in Phoenix, AZ who is currently one of the co-hosts for the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars on web 2.0 tools for educators. She describes herself as one of the conference “workerbees” otherwise known as an “organizer.” The main creator/convener is Wes Fryer and there are 4 strands to the conference, each with their own conveners. Peggy’s main responsibility right now is to upload the presentations daily to iTunesU at the same time they go live on the blog.  There’s a video here  that shows how to subscribe to Classroom 2.0 iTunesU recordings, and I’m sure Peggy will show us how to do that for K12 recordings as well. Specific instructions for subscribing to the K12 Online Conference iTunesU recordings can be found here: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=646 

Peggy might also do a web tour of the conference blog and even play a teaser video in web tour which would open it in participant browsers. She can also show us the slides she prepared for a Classroom 2.0 LIVE show Nov 12 with Kim Caise and Lorna Constantini. This is the link to the blog post with the recording, chat, links, and LiveBinders link with all links shared during the session.

http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2011/11/k12-online-conference.html

See the next items down in this wiki for more information on the K12 Online Conference, or visit the  main website/blog: k12onlineconference.org

Anouncements?

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28677
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-1500-gmt-dec-4-peggy-george-talks-about-k12-onlin

• About to set up at Elluminate tinyurl.com/y3eh with Peggy @pgeorge set to help us #learning2gether about #k12online. Join us in 20 min.

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) December 4, 2011

• Elluminate recording of #learning2gether w/ @pgeorge discussing #k12online gr8 – You didn’t have to be there, check out tinyurl.com/2011dec04pgeor…

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) December 4, 2011

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28687

Followup from Peggy:

Hi Vance,
I really enjoyed being able to share about the K12 Online Conference with you today and hearing about your experiences with the conference and many other opportunities for free online learning!! I hope people who weren’t able to join us will take some time to listen to the conversation. 🙂

Since you weren’t familiar with Livebinders I thought you might like to see a few more. I started a Scoop.it to compile lots of great resources and examples of Livebinders and you can access all of them here.

http://www.scoop.it/t/livebinders

I add new things to it daily so it is a growing compilation of tons of great Livebinders. 🙂

I also created a Scoop.it on Screencasting because Lorna Costantini and I will be presenting a week-long MoodleMeet session on screencasting in March this year. I wanted to collect lots of resources related to screencasting and “flipping the classroom” so I’ve been working on that and adding new things every day. You can access that scoop.it here.

http://www.scoop.it/t/screencasting-for-online-learning

Thanks for inviting me to contribute to the Webheads community. It was great to be able to “give back” for all of the great connections and learning I have experienced as a part of that community.

Learning2gether Episode 75

November 27, 2011

Learning2gether with Aiden Yeh in conversation with Vance Stevens

about Intersections: Between Aiden’s recent dissertation on  

Facilitating online teacher professional development

and Vance’s MOOCing about with Me-Portfolios: Putting the ‘me’ in Me-Learning

• http://www.slideshare.net/vances/meportfoliosputting-the-me-in-melearning

Recording

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-11-27.0730.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/2011nov27yeh 

Where:

• Elluminate: http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
• Full URL: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28650
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-aiden-yeh-in-conversation-with-vance-stevens

• Posted gr8 Elluminate recording with @motherchina Aiden Yeh at learning2gether.posterous.com/learning2gethe… @pgeorge was there but didn’t once mention #k12online11

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) November 28, 2011

View on screencast.com »

Download: https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1013036-2011-11-20jimbuckingham-64k.mp3

What it is to be a Professional in EFL instruction today

and the need to be learning, sharing, testing ideas

Jim Buckingham, coordinator of TAEDTECH in UAE, discussed the topic with Vance Stevens, Elizabeth Anne, Laura Stoutenberg, and Claudio from Brazil popping in at the end

See: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/142?

Where? Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

• Full URL: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662
• Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-11-20.0453.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• TinyURL for recording: http://tinyurl.com/l2g20nov2011 

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/buckingham-discussion
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28641
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1593
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/EVO_Moderators/message/6352

• Elluminate discussion on ESOL professionalism tinyurl.com/l2g20nov2011 from yesterday’s #learning2gether #taedtech event w/ moi et @buckinsand

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) November 21, 2011

• 
  View on screencast.com »

Learning2gether Episode 73

Sunday Nov 13, 2011

Learning2gether through EVO Moderator Training – Week 3

EVO, or Electronic Village Online http://evosessions.pbworks.com/, is an annual program of free teacher professional development sessions, which take place in January and February each year.  Sessions are vetted in December and moderators are required to undergo training in the course of setting up their sessions in online spaces.

Those interested in Learning2gether today can help acculturate moderator-trainees in this week’s live online EVO moderator training:
http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/5965201/Week3#ChatWeek3

Topics:

• Features of Tapped In – getting a virtual office
• Managing Skype
• Questions about Yahoo Groups
• How is your syllabus and the training  going so far?
• Keeping participants motivated – tips and tricks

When and where?

• At noon GMT
  http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether+and+EVO+moderator+training&iso=20111113T12&ah=1
  • Begin in http://tappedin.org
  • The moderators will be experimenting with Skype, so you could try and connect with them
    (but you’ll need to go to TappedIn reception first to find where to connect on Skype)
• Then at 13:00 GMT
  http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether+and+EVO+Elluminate+event&iso=20111113T13&p1=2&ah=1
  • They move to Elluminate/LearningTimes at 13:00 for the speed geek session on EVO

The EVO sessions attract participants who are practitioners in education, particularly ESOL, but who might be interested in any aspect of a given topic and might have any level of technological expertise.  Therefore it would help in training if educators such as those coming on this announcement would like to drop by and join in the conversations and activities associated with the training, and contribute their expertise.

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-evo-moderators-in-training
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28629

Learning2gether Episode 72

On Nov 6, 2011

Learning2Gether was again represented by EVO (Electronic Village Online) Moderator Training

EVO, or Electronic Village Online http://evosessions.pbworks.com/, is an annual program of free teacher professional development sessions, which take place in January and February each year.  Sessions are vetted in December and moderators are required to undergo training in the course of setting up their sessions in online spaces.

According to the Week 2 syllabus for EVO moderator training:

http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/5965200/Week2

scroll down to find …

“7. Chat Week 2 – Join us for a chat at Tapped In. Ask all the questions you want. The chat this week will be with the Webheads at noon GMT. We will also join the Webheads in Elluminate/LearningTimes at 13:00 GMT for a speed-geek session.”

Learning2gether Episode 71

Sunday October 30, 2011 – Learning2gether

The event this Sunday evolved spontaneously.

As Laine Marshall said today, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28578, we are all creators here, so although no live event was planned as a Learning2gether one, when we went to http://tappedin.org at noon GMT we found the place full of Webheads and others from EVO, Electronic Village Online, conducting training sessions for moderators.

See http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/5965199/Week1#ReadourWeek1Chatlog

for the context and a link to the chat logs

Event organizers and personalities included:

• Carla Arena
• Teresa Almeida d’Eca
• Michael Coghlan
• Nina Lyulkun
• Svetlana Obenausova
• Marijana Smolcec
• Michelle Worgan

Learning2gether Episode 70

Sunday October 23, 2011

Dennis Newson in conversation with Susan Hillyard

More information: http://www.countryschool.com/ylsig2/upcoming_discussions.php

Susan Hillyard holds a B.Ed. from Warwick University (U.K.) in Dramatic Arts and Sociology and has worked as a classroom teacher, a Head, or a teacher trainer in eleven countries, using drama for education and language learning.

She has taught at two major teacher training colleges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is currently based. She is Educational Advisor for The Performers Theatre and former Educational Consultant. She has co-authored a Resource Book for Teachers “Global Issues” for OUP, and has authored and taught an online course : From Learning Creatively to Teaching Creatively.

In Argentina she’s the driving force behind the provision of English language teaching  in special schools, shanty town schools, hospital schools, orphanages and home visits to students with severe and terminal illnesses.

For this challenging  project,  she has been very busy designing a new curriculum  to teach English through Drama, starting with storysacks and having the teachers become materials writers, collating all the syllabi and materials in document form whilst supervising and coordinating the implementation of this creative and innovative project.

Where ? Click here to join in

http://connectpro10829081.adobeconnect.com/r9lzwlxcn3s/

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-dennis-newson-and-susan-hillyard
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28542 

Learning2gether Episode 69

Sunday October 16, 2011

Download mp3:
https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2011oct16nellie_vance.mp3?

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WiZiQ hosted a “Conversation with Vance Stevens  – Reputed Coach, Online Facilitator” to feature in their new initiative, Conversations on WizIQ, interviewed by Nellie Deutsch. This is part of a WiZiQ series in which they “bring luminaries for a conversation … We would be conducting this interview online on our platform using the virtual classroom. This interview would be about you and your experience. We would be focusing on how you have excelled in your field and are helping people through it. This interview would be joined by students as well as teachers from around the globe.”

Recording in WiZiQ,

• http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/624234-conversations-with-vance-stevens-reputed-coach-online-facilitator
• http://tinyurl.com/2011oct16wiziq  

Announcements

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28486
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/l2g16oct2011

Ready for conversation with @nelliemuller in WiZiQ starting 15:30 GMT (in 20 min) #learning2gether #evomlit #taedtech wiziq.com/class/info.asp…

— Vance Stevens (@VanceS) October 16, 2011

This conversation follows an interview that Vance Stevens conducted with Nellie Deutsch

• Episode 64: Sunday September 4, 2011 – conversation between Nellie Deutsch and Vance Stevens https://learning2gether.net/2011/09/04/68424195/

Learning2gether Episode 68

Sunday October 9, 2011

Download: https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/john-graves-stigmergy-wealth-of-network.mp3

John Graves, Stigmergy and the Wealth of Networks

 John Graves presents on his Wiki-to-Speech presentation tool:

• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/jgraves1141
• John demonstrates how W2S can speak the text accumulating in an EtherPad clone, on the fly, on his mobile telephone, first part of the Week#5 EduMOOCast July 27, 2011: http://jefflebow.net/node/238
• September 10 WiZiQ explanation: http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/166249-Wiki-to-Speech-Workshop
• This video demonstration was generated directly from Wiki-to-Speech):
  

Where? Appropriately, in Wiki-to-Speech (tune in to see how that works 🙂

• Jeff Lebow has graciously agreed to stream this and record it as a Google+ Hangout with room for half a dozen visitors in the session itself plus live stream at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
  Here’s how it works: You can
  • find Jeff Lebow on Google+ Hangout to connect.
  • consult the Google+ Hangout Guide: http://jefflebow.net/node/248 
  • or forget the Hangout, simple visit http://webheadsinaction.org/live
    • to listen and view the live stream
    • to participate in the text chat monitored by participants in the live feed 

Announcements 

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28470
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2together-sunday-oct-9-john-graves-and-wiki-to-speech  

Recordings

• http://www.archive.org/details/JohnGraves-StigmergyWealthOfNetworks

Comments

• This ‘comment’ was posted to the Multiliteracies YahooGroup –
  The CoolCast mentioned the work of Yochai Benkler. If anyone is interested in his latest work, there is a podcast of him at http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/podcasts/mediaberkman/radioberkman/2011-09-20_benkler.mp3. 

 Joel Bloch
The Ohio State University
ESL Composition Program 

• Also, there is the following information atBerryBush Books,
  http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/34612250/BerryBushBooks
  

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

Benkler, Y.(Yochai). (2006) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. Retrieved on February 17, 2011 from http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf

More by Benkler:

• Yochai Benkler’s TED talk http://www.ted.com/speakers/yochai_benkler.html
• Benkler, Y. and Nissenbaum, H. (2006). Commons-based peer production and virtue. The Journal of Political Philosopy 14, 4: 394-419. Retrieved May 1, 2011 fromhttp://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/jopp_235.pdf

Learning2gether Episode 67

Sunday October 2, 2011

Download:
https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/multiliteracies-gradcast.mp3

Kate Robbins and Robyn Albers present Me-Porfolios developed during their recent PP107 Multiliteracies course

 This was the last day of the latest 4-week round of the 2011 TESOL Principles and Practices of Online Teaching courses. Participants in the PP107 Multiliteracies course were invited to show and discuss the “Me-Portfolios” they developed during the course. Kate Robbins and Robyn Albers accepted the invitation to discuss the appropriateness of the approach taken in this course on their professional development, and changes to their practice that evolved during their participation in this session, as evidenced in their Me-Portfolios. For more information see:

• http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/multilit-results/
• http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/46028583/2011pp107focus
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/messages

Where?

Jeff Lebow kindly agreed to host this session as a Google+ Hangout. Here’s how it works:

You can

• find Jeff Lebow on Google+ Hangout to connect.
• consult the Google+ Hangout Guide: http://jefflebow.net/node/248 
• or forget the Hangout, simple visit http://webheadsinaction.org/live
  • to listen and view the live stream
  • to participate in the text chat monitored by participants in the live feed      

Announcements

• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/efiwebheads/message/6548 (by mistake 🙂
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28428 (this is the right one 🙂
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-sunday-15-30-gmt-with-kate-robbins-and-robyn-albe rs

Followup and commentary

• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1586
• http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/voila-oct-2-2011-gradcast-for-ppot-multiliter/