Learning2gether Episode 56

Wednesday July 27, 2011

Download: https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/moocast-july-27-2011.mp3

was a big day in Learning2gether.  Three events were scheduled starting at 10 a.m. GMT, each just an hour apart.  Here’s the play by play …

The Eportfolio CoP MOOC launches August 1 and goes until Sept 30, 2011

• https://sites.google.com/site/eportfoliocommunity/epcop-mooc
• https://sites.google.com/site/epcoplearnspace/
  

EpCoP kicked off their MOOC with an Introductory Webinar on that evening 8 pm Sydney time.

In Elluminate / Bb Collaborate: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz

The time where you are for this one might help you fix on the next one in one week’s time:

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=EpCoP+July+27%2C+2011&iso=20110727T20&p1=240&ah=1

Takeaways from the slide presentation, which you can see when the recording is made available:

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Then at 12:00 GMT  

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Jeff Lebow Hangs Out with Graham Stanley on Google+

To join in, you need to have a G+ account and have added Jeff or Graham to one of your G+ circles.

• The Hangout link can be found on Jeff’s +profile page at: https://plus.google.com/105999634356572746040
• This was streamed at http://eflbridges.net/live
• Announcement http://eflbridges.net/event/efl-teacher-hangout-w-graham-stanley
• Some links that came up during the conversation
  • http://vastpark.com/
  • Graham’s projects
    • http://www.itilt.eu/
    • http://aplanet-project.org/
    • http://blog-efl.blogspot.com
    • http://digitalplay.info/blog/
• Recording
  • http://eflbridges.net/audio/efl-hangout-w-graham-stanley

And finally at 1400 GMT

MOOCast, http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/p/moocast-studio.html

Week#5 MOOCast video, audio, & links posted at http://bit.ly/q5cMqe 

Convened, streamed, and recorded by Jeff Lebow and featuring +Rob Darrow +John Graves +Vance Stevens +Frank Stonehouse +Rebecca Hogue +Sanford Arbogast +scott lockman +Maizie Avihayil & +Clark Shah-Nelson in a great hangout.

Links shared:

Apart from those posted at http://bit.ly/q5cMqe Vance harvested these:

• We talked about the posts in this forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/edumooc/BgLg6dJK9Co/discussion
• Rebecca Hogue asked us if we were familiar with #lrnchat on Twitter
  • http://lrnchat.com/
  • http://edutweetups.com/2011/04/10/learn-chat-lrnchat/
• John Greaves
  • Created an iEtherpad at http://ietherpad.com/edumooc2011week5 so he could create a QR code from the URL that his phone could read so that it could then say what was in the ietherpad via the Wiki-to-speech Android app
  • Explained Open Allure responding to math, dictionary and scripted inputs in this YouTube video: 
  • introduced us to the concept of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy to characterize the way characters in a MOOC influence one another (in answer to Rebecca’s asking if we were actually creating knowledge here)

Recordings:

• https://plus.google.com/u/0/105999634356572746040/posts/V55gGP8fqDs

Learning2gether Episode 55

Virtual Worlds, Games and Interactive Fiction 

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On Sunday July 24, 2011 Baldric Commons (Graham Stanley) led us in a campfire chat at the Webheads HQ in Second Life about language education and developments in immersive online spaces.

Graham’s invitation was to “come and share what you know and are doing and hear what other people are up to in spaces such as SL, World of Warcraft, etc. If you are active in Second Life you are especially welcome to come share at this session.”

We added that those just interested in knowing more about the creativity for language learning possible in Second Life could come and interact or simply observe. “You don’t even have to come to SL for this one. You can peek through the window … We realize that Second Life can be difficult to navigate for some, so in order to make this event accessible to all, Gwen Gwasi (Heike Philp) will broadcast from Second Life in Adobe Connect, and you can come there as one of your options: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/sl. If you wish to join us there you can follow Gwen’s camera and see and hear what is going on passively in Second Life without actually entering that virtual space, All the while you can interact with Webheads in Adobe or TappedIn txt chat if you wish (or Skype, or Google+, or some other interactive space, if you care to nominate one).”

Meno Rich (Jeff Lebow) was also on hand to stream the event and make a recording as well. So you can compare camera work in the recording links below and help us decide who we should nominate for an Oscar 🙂

Where

• The campfire at Webheads HQ at Edunation in Second Life : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/66/165/23
• or peer through the window: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/sl

Announcements

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27968
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-graham-st

Recordings

• http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p900pgm3vx8/
• http://www.livestream.com/jefflebow/video?clipId=pla_028018b2-34e3-426e-9bac-f0cc070bb97f
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/105999634356572746040/posts/G7V3wmqFoGd

About the Webheads HQ

Working as always with Edunation owners Heike Philp and Randall Sadler, Dennis Newson has been energetic in getting the Webheads HQ in Edunation squarely on the map. An image of Webheads HQ is shown here:

Learning2gether Episode 54

Video streaming by Ustream

For a good idea what this will be like, check out the recording of

• the one that Jeff Lebow held last Wednesday (http://edtechtalk.com/node/4988)
• or this one the other day with Stephen Downes http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16011207

If you haven’t tried Google+ it’s worth checking out Google’s latest big connectivity tool.

• More information at the MOOCast Studio: http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/p/moocast-studio.html
• and more about Hangouts here:
  • http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1257349&rd=1
  • Including how to join a Hangout: http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1257349&answer=1349254 

When?

• Meet from noon GMT
  • at http://tappedin.org for further instructions
  • or at Jeff’s EduMOOCbridges studio
    http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/p/moocast-studio.html 
• Start Hanging Out from 13:00 GMT
  • http://tinyurl.com/2011july17gmt1300  
  • http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Learning2gether%3A+Hang+Out+with+Jeff+and+Vance+in+Google%2B&iso=20110717T13&ah=1 

Where? We’ll be Hanging Out in Google+

Vance will be in http://tappedin.org to help people get connected.  Here are some things you need to prepare:

• If you’re not on Google+ yet you’ll need an invitation. We can arrange that for you via http://tappedin.org, where we’ll hold our usual back channel from noon GMT.
• You’ll also need the browser plugin from http://google.com/talk. 
• Finally, your experience might be a lot happier if you use Google Chrome as your browser.

Announcements:

• @eveweb “Very frustrated with the Google+ hangout attempt today 😦 @jefflebow @vances @nelliemuller ” wanna troubleshoot it Sunday 1300 GMT?

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) July 14, 2011

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27940
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-hangout-in-goo

Learning2gether Episode 53

Wednesday July 13, 2011

There was a series of sessions on this day which we decided to archive as Learning2gether events. Most involved participants in each other’s PLNs, many of whom are brushing up against one another in the 2400 strong EduMOOC event taking place at the moment.

First up:

EPIC 2011: DEVELOPING NATIONAL E-PORFOLIO COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (Australia Series)
Wed 13 Jul 06:00AM New York / Wed 13 Jul 10:00AM GMT / Wed 13 Jul 08:00PM Sydney
Coach Carole. During the 9th International ePortfolio & Identity Conference, 11-13 July 2011, a few presenters will be online to share their experiences in building and sustsaining eportfolio communities of practice in the UK and Australia: Sarah Chesney, Alison Felce and Emma Purcell will present:’ A Tribe Learning to Survive? An e-portfolio community of practice’. Allison Miller and Carole McCulloch will present:’ Developing a national e-portfolo community of practice to foster emerging e-portfolio practice’. The first part of this session will be beamed out live from The IET, Savoy Place London, UK and the second part will be cofacilitated from South Australia and Victoria. Come and join us to explore the national goals the key outputs from these two exciting projects.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/166023

Reflections:

• The session was recorded in Elluminate (hoping for a link)
• Vance put what he learned from the first of these events in a set of links here:http://www.delicious.com/vancestevens/epic

Next up, Jeff Lebow organized a pair of events:

Join Jeff Lebow’s Next Scheduled MOOCast: July 13 at 1400UTC, http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/  . He has some ideas on the how we can use Google+ effectively, and mentioned some in this recorded event: https://learning2gether.net/2011/07/10/vance-stevens-and-jeff-lebow-will-lead-a-disc/

A couple of hours prior to the MOOCast, Jeff webast a discussion with Brad Patterson (of http://edulang.com/ , http://snapanda.com/, and the ELT Blog Challenge http://bit.ly/j6FpFO) that may be of interest to the language educators amongst us. We’ll start off around 1130GMT as we tune in to the week’s http://eltchat.com/ as part of the pre-show. Event takes place at: http://bit.ly/eWBoFL and additional info is at: http://eflbridges.net/event/ef​l-teacher-talk-webcast-w-guest​-brad-patterson.

The uStream Recording is here:
http://eflbridges.net/audio/efl-teacher-talk-w-brad-patterson 

To kick off his next initiative, Jeff left this message in the EduMOOC group on Facebook:

We’ll be MOOCasting again July 13 1400GMT at:
http://edumooc2011.blogspot.co​m/p/moocast-studio.html

All are welcome. We’ll be using Google+ Hangout for the gathering. As with previous MOOCasts, this will be an open-ended opportunity for EduMOOC’ers to share resources, ideas, and feedback about assorted eduMOOC topics and/or the MOOC itself.

You can replay the recording of this event here:
http://edtechtalk.com/node/4988

Sunday July 10 

Vance Stevens and Jeff Lebow lead a discussion on eduMOOC, the Massive Online Open Course running at this URL: https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/

• Vance is organizing his small corner of this MOOC here: http://www.scoop.it/t/edumooc/
• Jeff is organizing his MOOCbridges site here: http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/

Announcements

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27900
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning-2mooc-2gether-with
• If you can access this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/edumooc/browse_thread/thread/f8fe4762de0514f6#
  then you can read Vance’s invitation to the EduMOOCosphere to join us on Sunday 🙂

• Latest in #learning2gether & #EduMOOC podcast series with @jefflebow is available for download http://tinyurl.com/2011july10L2pod #taedtech

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) July 10, 2011

Recordings:

• Elluminate recording:
  • https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-07-10.0603.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
  • http://tinyurl.com/2011july10L2g
• uStream recording:
  • http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15910387#utm_campaign=synclickback&source=http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/edumooc-live-studio.html&medium=15910387
  • or http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15910387 or (http://tinyurl.com/2011july10L2pod)

Learning2gether Episode 51

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July 6, 2011

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An enjoyable open-ended discussion revolving around EduMOOC 2011
Participants: Jeff Lebow (Korea), Vance Stevens (UAE),  John Graves (New Zealand), Rob Darrow (U.S), Dave Cormier (Canada), & Osvaldo Rodriguez (Argentina)

http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/2011/07/moocast1-july-6-2011.html

Jeff Lebow has announced that MetaMOOCast #1 was scheduled

• at http://t.co/5JsM2Ho
• a.k.a. http://edumooc2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/edumooc-live-studio.html

Vance’s view on Skype:

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Rob Darrow’s reflections:

http://robdarrow.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/do-you-mooc/

At http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27682 David Winet writes:

I made this clip after watching a video film review with my students and realizing that watching the trailer while listening to the reviewer is much more engaging to the student than just hearing or reading the review.  I “ESL-ified”  the review by speaking slowly, using simple vocabulary, and glossing words and expressions both orally and using Youtube’s annotation feature (which can be turned on or off). Exercises, discussion questions could easily be added.

The technique I used is as follows:

1. Go to http://www.hd-trailers.net to download a trailer (I was unable to download this POC clip using the more common Youtube download methods — perhaps there was some kind of block on commercial movie trailers)
2. Convert the downloaded trailer to .avi (if it’s .flv or .mov, etc.).   Use http://www.Pazeera-software.com tools or find your own  free ‘something to .avi converter’ online.
3. Load the .avi file into Moviemaker version 2.6  (available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6ba5972-328e-4df7-8f9d-068fc0f80cfc   )
4. Click Tools/Narrate Timeline to add your spoken commentary on the voice track (over the video sound track). Prepare some notes so it flows better.
5. Click Tools/Audio Levels to make the movie soundtrack softer than your voice.
6. This is key! Save the movie as .avi (Save to my computer)
7. Upload to Youtube (you’ll need a Youtube account – free)
8. In Youtube add annotations as desired (see Youtube help for how to do this, it’s not hard)
9. Get the link and post it on Facebook, Twitter, here, etc.

Recordings

• Eluminate:
  • https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-07-03.0621.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
  • and the TinyURL is: http://tinyurl.com/2011july3l2g 

Announcements:

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-david
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27790
• and for July 3: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27879

Vance Stevens delivered “Learning2gether to achieve the aha! moment”, the plenary given at ELTAI in Vellore, India, on Friday, June 17, 2011, before a live online audience:

• Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether-to-achieve-the-aha-moment
• Abstract: This talk introduces Learning2Gether (http://learning2gether.pbworks.com) and explains how it came about, and how it draws on and expands its participants’ personal learning networks so that knowledge is transferred informally and peer to peer. A crucial aspect of the learning that takes place there is where teachers model to one another how to use Web 2.0 tools to leverage learning through networking, and to apply these to classroom and other professional development opportunities. This talk is couched it in the perspective of how teachers achieve the aha! Moment, where they ‘get’ how technology can become a critical enabler of what they ordinarily try to do pedagogically in their classrooms. In this presentation I will try to provoke an aha! moment by illustrating how a PLN works to enhance such learning by getting people from other virtual spaces to join us in real time, live and online.

The session was recorded in India; however whereas the live show was clearly audible, the recording mic had shorted so whereas there is video, there is no sound in the recording, which you can view here:

http://www.wiziq.com/class/info.aspx?5mA7G8fKaxkH75ANyzpaLVstvMQM1okLE9P2u1V5ptHharf19GVSOfNYTUlBIf2nt7WYnWPUU4W4XO5FHWQKG1cj7tnvIwvv0TcYVNnAH5U%3d

If you visit the WiZiQ recording you will find images of Vance gesticulating and you can read in the chat that there was indeed a sound problem.  So we’ll reconstruct it aurally on June 26

Recording

• Eluminate https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-06-26.0631.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• and the TinyURL is: http://tinyurl.com/2011jun26vance 
• Vance’s GeekSpeek podcast link: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2011-06-27T09_05_50-07_00
• Direct link to mp3 recording: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/enclosure/2011-06-27T09_05_50-07_00.mp3
  

Announcements:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27835
• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-vance

Meanwhile, this from

Our scheduled presenter didn’t appear, but I started recording anyway when those present started talking about how networks work to promote learning any time, any year, via a robust PLN. Ali Boumousa, one of the original Webheads from 2002, got us discussing the nature of informal learning environments which are always there, always-on, and always available to participants as needed.  This led us to discuss the media aspects of social media, how all media and such networks have in common that they are a continual firehose of information which we need to learn to sip from.  When Ali raised the issue of techniques for filtering efficiently from our multiple streams of information overflow, we mentioned Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows http://www.theshallowsbook.com/ and then got to talking about MOOCs, which I had mentioned as a curriculum model in slide 13 in the plenary address I recently delivered at the ELTAI conference in Vellore,http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether-to-achieve-the-aha-moment

http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/33070273/Week2EVO2011

Meanwhile, multitasking, I was trying to locate our scheduled presenter on Skype.  I saw that Dave Cormier, whose work I’d referenced here, was online. So on a whim I Skyped him, interrupting his guitar practice Sunday morning in Prince Edward Island, Canada, but he agreed to pop in and join us in Elluminate for a stimulating conversation.  The result was an enlightened, spontaneous, recorded discussion, and the event itself serves to illustrate how a PLN works.

Announcement:

• Cameo appearance by @davecormier livens conversation on MOOCs and eportfolios at #learning2gether rec’d: http://tinyurl.com/2011jun19cormier

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) June 19, 2011

Recording:

• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-06-19.0601.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
• Tiny URL version: http://tinyurl.com/2011jun19cormier

Ayat Al-Tawel (from Egypt) and Maria Bossa (from Argentina) are two EFL teachers who would like to share their international collaboration project. They have both worked with their students so they can interact with each other, not only to practise their English, but also to go beyond the walls of the traditional classroom to meet other cultures, customs, traditions and likes. This Sunday they’ll tell us about their students’ collaborations between Egypt and Argentina; e.g.http://photopeach.com/album/17qcpq4?ref=fb

Recording:

• Eluminate http://tinyurl.com/2011jun12l2g 
• and the full URL is: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-06-12.0657.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75

Announcements

• http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-ayat
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27764

• delightful presentation by Ayat Tawel and Maria Bossa in Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh happening now #taedtech #learning2gether

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) June 12, 2011

• Collaboration twixt Ayat Tawel and Maria Bossa wows Webheads- #learning2gether Eluminate recording http://tinyurl.com/2011jun12l2g #taedtech

  — Vance Stevens (@VanceS) June 12, 2011

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