Learning2gether Episode 66

Sunday September 25, 2011

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Organised by Dennis “Osnacantab”

In the second of  the new embedded series: Webheads in Second Life Jeff Lebow will run an informal workshop on filming/recording in Second Life demonstrating the online program http://www.screencast-o-matic.com which he used for recording Graham Stanley’s recent inworld talk, archived here at https://learning2gether.net/2011/07/25/conversation-with-baldric-commons-at-webheads/:

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Where?

• Venue:
  • Webheads H.Q. EduNation, Second Life
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/81/17/23

  • Or catch the stream at: http://eflbridges.net/live

• Time: 15.30 GMT http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether+with+Jeff+Lebow+Sun+Sept+25+1530+GMT&iso=20110925T1530&ah=1

Announcements

• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1553
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28390 
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-jeff-lebow-screencasting-from-second-life 

This is what actually happened

When we all went into SL we were told we needed to update our SL browsers which takes time and in Jeff’s case resulted in some DLL errors which appeared when he tried to activate his voice there. So the purpose of our meeting, Jeff showing us how he screencasts from SL, was not possible. Although Dennis Newson and I were able to talk in SL, Jeff was not audible, and he therefore couldn’t stream voice via his avatar presence into the stream he had set up from SL.

It was after midnight in Pusan where Jeff is so he decided let’s not mess with this, let’s hang out. He set up a Google+ Hangout and invited us there. Meanwhile Scott Lockman had arrived in Second Life and Robyn had appeared in the Livestream.  Jeff pasted the invitation to join the Hangout in both the Livestream and SL chats, and Scott, Robyn and I made our way there. Jeff started streaming from the Hangout in the Livestream.

Which I doubt anyone was listening to, but at least it’s recorded, and could be podcast. Jeff quickly abandoned the original hangout for one with Extras, and invited us there. Here you get the ability to screenshare and integrate with Google tools; specifically presentation tools similar to PPT, a sketchpad tool which opens as a Google Doc, and a notes feature, which opens a Google Document in the Hangout. These all becomes part of your documents at Google Docs. It’s all so new and so entirely cool, we were all marveling at how much we all learn just by hanging out  together 🙂

Impressions:

Robyn’s: http://robynalbers.posterous.com/focusing-on-week-4

Multilit Yahoo Group thread: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1564

Jeff’s:

Video just finished uploading … 

If you’re interested in Hangouts (with or without extras), we also spoke about them quite a bit on today’s EdTechWeekly. 

Learning2gether Episode 65

Sunday September 18, 2011

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Learning2gether took part in SLanguages 2011 – 16-18 September 2011

Participants could attend either with their avatar in Second Life or as an observer via the Adobe Connect rooms where each session was recorded.

There will be a link to the recordings here when available

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Links:

http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2244249%3AEvent%3A24324&xg_source=msg_invite_event

Website or Map: http://www.slanguages.net
Organized By: Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi

Where?

• EduNation and AVALON Learning Islands
• ALL of the sessions were streamed in Adobe ConnectPro.  

Twitter hashtag is #slang11 http://twitter.com/#!/saved-search/slang11

Full Program 

• http://tinyurl.com/SLanguages2011
• https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1D3ngMANiLqT5uy9xggdFRQS0-TicjawSCSDop2r9zTA 

Program highlights and descriptions are accessible here

• http://tinyurl.com/SLanguages2011events or http://avalon-project.ning.com/events

Snippets 

View the YouTube recording here: http://youtu.be/kyRiqrVEBxc

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Hayo Reinder’s keynote at 3am SL time* | 10am GMT 

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Gameify your classroom : computer games and language aims, Baldric Commons

Learning2gether Episode 64

Sunday September 11, 2011

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Vance Stevens, a TESOL PP107 Multiliteracies event

Vance has made changes to the Multiliteracies course that he and colleagues have developed over the last several years, based on their experience and what has been learned from facilitating about a dozen iterations of the course.  In particular the course is more overtly rooted in the MOOC paradigm (where MOOC stands for miniscule open online course) with distinctly connectivist attitudes.  Assessment is done by what I call Me-Portfolios.  Accordingly we will try to make the course weave itself to some extent with what is happening the the EpCoP MOOC at https://sites.google.com/site/eportfoliocommunity/epcop-mooc (the E-portfolios CoP MOOC running through September) and the Change MOOC http://change.mooc.ca/ which started the day after this podcast took place.

Blog link (with slide presentation):

http://curiousvance.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/rethinking-multiliteracies/

If you are interested in this topic and would like to join the course, it is an “open online course” so you can join in if you like.  Here are our spaces:

• Course syllabus: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
• Yahoo Group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-vance-stevens-leads-a-discussion-of-multitliterac
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28331
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1497

Recordings (in Elluminate viewer and mp3 streamed from Dropbox):

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-11.0912.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• or http://tinyurl.com/l2g11sept2011 
• mp3 (thanks to Scott Lockman, who rendered it and stored it in Dropbox for us) has been moved to
  https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/091111-evomlit-orientation_session.mp3  

Here’s an example of making a screen shot using Jing (http://www.techsmith.com/jing/), saving the result to the Screencast cloudspace, and pasting its link at the end of this post, which Posterous displays as the image, below:

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For more information on the functional multiliteracies involved in this process see:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/1502

Learning2gether Episode 63

Sunday September 4, 2011

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Today’s Learning2gether session was quite informal.  It was labor day weekend in the USA and many schools are just now starting, so there were only three participants. These did not include the scheduled presenter Ilan Tochner, whose son had become sick and he had to take him to the hospital.

However Nellie Deutsch came for the presentation, and Indrit was there, so we had a conversation just the three of us.  It was a conversation ranging from the Multiliteracies course Vance is teaching starting September 5, 2011, to Nellie’s involvement with distance teaching of Reiki and the 7 chartras and pendulum therapy, to how we get paid in karma for teaching for free, and of course how these things relate to teaching online:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-04.0632.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• http://tinyurl.com/l2g04sep2011

MMVC11 Free Online MoodleMoot Conference (August 17-21)

online via WiZiQ http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org/

Program at http://www.wiziq.com/events/moodlemoot-conference-2011.aspx

Recordings: http://www.wiziq.com/course/1196-moodlemoot-virtual-conference-mmvc11

Sunday August 21 (as part of the MMVC11) 

At 13:00 GMT,  

9:00 AM in Toronto

Me-Portfolios: Putting the ‘me’ in Me-Learning 

Abstract: Vance Stevens has been teaching a course on multiliteracies and revising it for a number of iterations over the past several years now (http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com). One recent innovation was to set evaluation of the course by means of e-portfolios.  I have started referring to them as “Me-Porfolios” to draw attention to their constructivist/connectivist nature. The presentation describes the multiliteracies course and how it has recently evolved a MOOC approach with berry-bush supermarket presentation rather than prescribed guidance through course components.  MOOC stands for “massivie open online course” but I have suggested scaling the concept where “massive” becomes “miniscule”.

User choice in material to be covered makes it logical to encourage participants to adopt Me-Porfolios in (1) specifying their own course objectives and outcomes as they orient in the course; (2) presenting their individually tailored plan of achieving those objectives, and ; (3) documenting their accomplishments through an online portfolio linking to deliverables prepared in showcasing those outcomes. The presenter has found it wise to model e-portfolios to the participants as well as identify successful examples of e-portfolios. This presentation covers the literature on e-portfolios as presented in the course and shows the portal linking the Me-Portfolios prepared by the participants in the most recent rendition of the course.

Where?

• This event takes place in WiZiQ, at URL
• Full URL: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/592754-me-portfolios-putting-the-me-in-me-learning-by-vance-stevens

Session recording:

• http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/592754-me-portfolios-putting-the-me-in-me-learning-by-vance-stevens

Presentation materials:

• http://www.slideshare.net/vances/meportfoliosputting-the-me-in-melearning
• Write-up
  • http://tinyurl.com/meportfolio
  • or https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZQOLeYVDVClqh7sk3H00wRgXhCTCtwZy9Sj6xJLZAw/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

Announcements:

• has just posted slides for Aug 21 at 13:00 GMT #mmvc11 presentation on MOOC and Me-Learning #learning2gether #evomlit slideshare.net/vances/meportf…

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) August 18, 2011

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28210
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-vance-stevens-me-portfolios-putting-the-me-in-me-
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28215

• formally written presentation on MOOCs and Me-Portfolios for #MMVC11 at 1300 GMT today is at tinyurl.com/meportfolios#learning2gether #taedtech

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) August 21, 2011

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Learning2gether Episode 60

Sunday 21 August 2011

6pm GMT, 11am PDT

SUMMER FUN ON EDUNATION

Fabulous Felisimo & Friends

Come join us for a light-hearted circus and music show on EduNation with the Fabulous Felisimo and his One Boy Extravaganza Show.

Great entertainment featuring Kevvy Felisimo, a timeless Second Life artist with a fast-paced, audience interactive variety show of magic, music, juggling, telepathy and dangerous stunts. Fabulous Kevvy performs with a great sense of humour and superb music arrangements. Virtual virtuosity at its best.

Language learners and all young at heart are welcome.

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Where: EduNation Sandbox, http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation/107/155/23

Time: 6pm GMT, 11am SL Time

Your local time: http://tinyurl.com/21Aug6pmGMT 

Link to the Adobe ConnectPro room: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/sl 
where you can watch and enjoy without the need to get an avatar.

View teaser on YouTube:
 

There was no recording, but Heike Philp blogged the event here: http://avalon-project.ning.com/profiles/blogs/summer-fun-fabulous-felisimo-friends with numerous photos from Caliburn Susanto’s Photostream

Heike asked me to repost these here, to help recreate the flavor of the event:

Learning2gether Episode 59

Sunday August 14

Trainer: Mary Roussell [Maria Pinto]

Date:  Sunday 08/14/2011

Time: 12:30 p.m. GMT / 5:30 a.am SLT / Vzla 8:00 a.m.

This event was part of the SLExperiments Building Workshop series: http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/w/page/41730278/Building%20and%20workshops

Place:

• EduNation Sandbox
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/103/155/24
• Adobe observation deck: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/sl
  You can come here to observe, and hear, what is happening in Second Life.
  Heike Philp is the camera operator.

Description

Come and join us to play around with creating a learning setting using Builder´s Buddy Scripts. Workshop materials will be available with already built objects to create your setting. SL skills needed: opening a box, rezzing/moving/linking objects, building a cube, content tab editing, basic script editing, and camera control. PLUS (very important!)  knowledge of working your way around your Inventory.

Menu of the workshop: three settings related to language teaching with the spicy Builder´s buddy scripts on side. Knife and fork will be on your building grid. Be on time to reserve your grid!

Duration 1 hr, then another 15mins for questions and testing (if needed)

This session will be recorded from the Adobe observation deck.

Announcements:

• http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/w/page/44263175/Creating%20learning%20scenarii%20with%20builder%27s%20buddy%20scripts
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28149
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/weekly-learning2gether-event-in-second-life-with-mary-roussell-ma
• http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/w/page/44263175/Creating%20learning%20scenarii%20with%20builder%27s%20buddy%20scripts

Adobe recording:

• http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p94mlpdtqte/ (43min)
  Builders’s Buddy Workshop Sun, 14 Aug 2011, 11am PDT)
• http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p7me6h472p5/  (14min)
  at the end of Mary’s session where she explains how to go about to create a learning scenario – in this case her own Builder’s Buddy workshop – how to test and evaluate it)

Learning2gether Episode 58

Sunday August 7 

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The Narrows and the Shallows: A discussion of the book and concepts set out by Nicholas Carr

Hosted by

• Michael Coghlan
  • http://michaelc.podomatic.com/entry/2011-07-12T07_08_48-07_00
  • print version http://tinyurl.com/6xcej6g
• Vance Stevens
  • http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/08/narrows-and-shallows.html

Recording:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-07.0641.M.AF779F1A4A45AEA2628AB03E907BBB.vcr&sid=75

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28059
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28072
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning-2mooc-2gether-the-narrows-and-the-shallows-with-vance-st

Learning2gether Episode 57

Sunday July 31

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Learning2gether at the Reform Symposium e-Conference

RSCON3, took place from Friday, July 29 to Sunday, July 31*, 2011 and the announcement said “we hope you will join us for what promises to be our biggest yet global online conference for everyone concerned with education. With more than 75 presentations and 12 keynote speakers it is sure to be an incredible event! Organised by educators for educators, it is FREE but will offer more valuable and inspiring PD than money can buy!”

http://reformsymposium.com/

These people have gone to great lengths to present the schedule in any time zone you wish.  Here’s the one for GMT: https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmiH3CkSSpYxdGVZbXJvc3ZBcW43OUJUcVpRb0d2WEE#gid=29

Only one of John Davitt’s three favorite devices was digital:

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8:30 to 9:30 GMT – Opening Keynote
John Davitt
Free Learning
John will explore five simple  access points for innovation and creativity in learning
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.90375ABE5ED61F289CE945E7DF8009

• John Davitt was talking about Freelearning:
  http://digiteacher.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/john-davitts-freelearning-creativity-matrix/

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10:00 to 10:30 GMT – Simultaneous Presentations

1. Bethany Cagnol
   Classroom Management and Solutions for Tertiary and Adult Education – English teachers are often left on their own when confronted with poor behavior in the language classroom. In this interactive talk, we will discuss the challenges and possible solutions to several discipline issues. The speaker will also ask participants to express their frustrations and encourage others to offer solutions. (UTC+2)
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.5173D27D8704999F474FB74B8C925C
2. Dina Dobrou
   WEB 2(too).0(verwhelmed)?
   Networking, Professional Development and Web Tools for classroom use are the three main topics that this presentation will focus on. Sharing my experience with tips on what to expect, how to get started and how NOT to get overwhelmed while getting a taste of all three invaluable areas. (UTC+1)
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.17552DA90C8D7B5B4ADB054AA46E59
3. Alastair Cameron
   Celebrating Learning Platform Best Practice
   A fly by look at ways learning platforms are transforming the lives of educators, students and families around the world. (UTC+1)
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.3605DB3CCA154FF9B12B2BCBFE7A42
4. Chris Mayoh
   Pupils as Teachers – Digital Leaders in the Classroom
   This session will explore how Digital Leaders projects in educational establishments help students to become independent learners, whilst developing confidence, ICT and leadership skills. Chris will outline the project he has run at his UK primary school and guide you through the process of setting up your own student-led project.
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.8318532520BC3AB0EAD33801049127

11:00 to 12:00 GMT Panel Discussion with Phil Hart, Jo Hart, Edna Sackson, Cecilia Lemos, Berni Wall

Assessing Assessment
What is effective assessment? Are their alternatives? How do we replace standardized testing? How can teachers forced to do standardized testing make this as painless as possible?
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.8CA1538FC7A0516A5D4FD30F7C7C02

Learning2gether

Our regularly scheduled program today will co-opt what is going on at http://reformsymposium.com/

Noon GMT, meet at http://tappedin.org and then fan out into …

12:30 to 13:00 there are 4 Simultaneous Presentations

1. Heidi Siwak
   App-titude For Learning: How Grade 6 Students Designed an App for the Iphone and Made the World our Classroom.
   Little did I know that Twitter would lead my class from Dundas, Ontario, Canada to Ian Chia in Australia and Cynthia Jabar in New York City as we engaged in a project-based learning experiment: creating an Augmented Reality tourism app of our town for the Iphone. Learn how we did it and how to connect your classroom to the world. (UTC-4)
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.45049C6A256C8981875FABF3CA54BE
   
2. David Warr
   Language Garden – making beautiful materials, like grammatical mind maps.
   Language plants are like grammatical mind maps. They look like little plants, or trees made of language. Words branch off from each other, so learners have access to a wonderful array of language. This presentation will show how you can make language plants, for free, using an online tool, and we will do some interactive activities, that are so much fun. Educational fun, let’s say. (UTC+1)
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.0DEC6F35BE1817FB48E2FD713FCC6D
   
3. 3
   Vicky Loras
   Multiculturalism in the Classroom
   “This talk will delve into the topic of multiculturalism in the classroom.  I will be speaking about the significance of integrating the beauty of diversity in their classroom, in order to achieve the inclusion of everyone and broaden the mind to accept difference and cultures from all over the world. (UTC+2) https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.E1C5C475C3E97E9EE4CEB915407B44
   
4. Cecilia Lemos
   Alternative assessment and electronic portfolios: sharing a successful experience and ideas
   We’ll take a look at different types of alternative assessment we can use with students, the benefits and difficulties of them. I’ll show the successful experience with electronic portfolios as sole assessment tool in my school and give ideas on how you can take the alternative route. (UTC-3)
   https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.7B8B9F9C74BA22527A17CE1CD4394E
   Vance attended this session:

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13:00 GMT, return to http://tappedin.org, compare notes, and then …

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In this session we engage in some real SpeedGeeking …

13:30 to 14:30

Technology Smack Down
Sign-up
Technology Smack Down
Anyone can present his/her favorite website or tool in 2 minutes.
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.CC4DC066CD8F7E5FC0F9BDA37E6877

Presenters:

• Lisa Dabbs on LiveBinders
• Mark Barnes on Today’sMeet, an easy to set up ad hoc chat space
• Jan Roberston on Posterous + Voice Memo (an awsome combo) – record in Voice Memo and post right to Posterous
• Mark Barnes on Diigo
• MaryBeth Hertz was going to talk about Pic-Lits, Kelly Tenkely took over to describe it, cool tool for vocabulary and writing, and with IWB or even projector
• Lisa Dabbs talked about Wetoku, a great tool for interviewing, allows students to interview around the world, interviewee comes to a link (doesn’t need an acct)
• Julia Taylor was talking about Glogster
• Cecilia Lemos talked about Lingro, http://lingro.com, glosses words in Internet text
• Tinashe Blanchet – on Instructure Canvas LMS, integration with Twitter, Facebook, GoogleDocs, delicious, http://instructure.com
• Keley Tenkely on Otomatoon, animation easy for students, helps students conceptualize, create a visual glossary (and html5)
• Candace Townsley on TenMarks, free for teachers, set up a class for activities (Candace is a maths teacher, the site gives automated feedback on maths problems)
• Evridiki Dakos on Wallwisher
• Shelly Terrell on Mouth Off iPhone app, kids love it for showing wild mouths that speak on the phone
• Mike Hogan on
  • http://www.bigthink.com – Interviews with interesting people in short segments suitable for ESOL
  • and Entrepreneur App at http://entrepreneur.com – which Mark reads on the way to work and then uses it in class with students

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/28010
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning-2mooc-2gether-with-th