September 29, 2010 

Announcement:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/26657  

Overview:

Mark Pegrum’s book From Blogs to Bombs (http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mr2) was used recently as core reading in the multiliteracies course whose portal is here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com.
More recently, Mark has been touring Australia with Gavin Dudeney giving workshops on Digital Literacies. Mark and Gavin have agreed to reunite to discuss this topic with Vance Stevens and any other colleagues who would like to drop by and chat online.

Recording:

• http://tinyurl.com/2010sept19recording
• https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-09-28.2311.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr 
  
• Vance’s GeekSpeek Podcast link: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2010-12-10T02_43_29-08_00
• Direct link to recording: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-12-10T02_43_29-08_00.mp3

September 26, 2010  

Announcement:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/26625  

Overview:

Jennifer Verschoor, EdTech coordinator and (online) teacher trainer in Buenos Aires, whose blog “My Integrating Technology Journey” is available at http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/, shows us around her blogs and wikis for teaching ESL and young learners.

Early in the presentation she has with her special guests Vicky (7) and Melina (4), who blog at http://www.vickylearningenglish.blogspot.com 

Jennifer’s teacher training presentations are very much in demand in Buenos Aires and we’ll be honored to have her join us for a tour of her work.

Recording:

• Adobe recording: http://connect.pi.ac.ae/p57572846/
• Vance’s GeekSpeek Podcast recording:
  http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2010-12-10T08_33_01-08_00
• Direct link to recording:
  http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-12-10T08_33_01-08_00.mp3

Learning2gether Episode 4

September 19, 2010  

Announcement: 

Overview:

Vance Stevens is invited to give a presentation in Elluminate to the IATEFL YLTSIG group, hosted by Dennis Newson. The talk is entitled “Shifting sands, shifting paradigms: Challenges to developing 21st century learning skills,” and we have agreed that a variation on the talk I gave at CALICO in June will be suitable: On this topic, I’ve written out a text here https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddkc6v4f_162cw45m8c9 and adapted the slides from here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/shifting-sands-shifting-paradigms.

Recording:

• http://tinyurl.com/yltsig100919recording
• Full URL of Adobe recording: http://connectpro10829081.adobeconnect.com/p22996704/
• Vance’s GeekSpeek podcast link: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2010-11-27T19_20_01-08_00
• Direct link to recording: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/enclosure/2011-06-27T09_05_50-07_00.mp3

Learning2gether Episode #3

September 15, 2010  

Overview:

This chat with Alexander Hayes featured in the TESOL pp107 Multiliteracies course.  In preparation Alex asks that we have a look through these documents –

• https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1_TGVgWsJjbx5f0wxLQPSSjdsAluvF2Bgpnk9XMw1K4Q
• and http://picasaweb.google.com/alexanderhayes1969/PhdSchematics?feat=directlink

Vance asked Alex to look at the slide show here

• http://smarterware.org/6561/what-to-expect-from-google-me?
  which he intended to ask Alex about with respect to a podcast he left online recently at the Australian eLearning09 conference: http://talkingvte.blogspot.com/2009/12/elearning09-alex-hayes-streamfolio.html

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Reflections:

• http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-with-alex-hayes-from-edupov.html

Eluminate recording:

• http://tinyurl.com/150910alexhayes (1 hr 15 min)
• https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-09-15.0557.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

Learning2gether Episode #2

Date:   September 5, 2010  

Announcement:  http://webheads.grouply.com/message/149

The Grouply list no longer exists, and the event was not recorded by L2g (unless Heike made one)

Overview:

This event was held at EduNation in Second Life, hosted by Heike Phelp and others at this SLURL
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/79/50/22. Heike introduces the three new owners of EduNation I and III, who are taking over from Gavin Dudeney on 1 October 2010 (EduNation III) and 1 November, 2010 (EduNation I)…

1. Randall Sadler aka Randall Renoir, assistant professor of the Illinois University and member of CALICO, Computer Assited Language Instruction Consortium.
2. Paul East, CEO of Pyramid Group, http://www.thepyramidgroup.biz – provider of specialist English training (ESP), translations and interpreting in 58 languages, online training, French Academy and commercial partner to TU Dresden (EU projects).
3. Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi, CEO of LANCELOT School GmbH, an accredited teacher training center for language teachers in the use of virtual classroom technology and virtual worlds, co-initiator of two EU funded projects, LANCELOT and AVALON.

Gavin will maintain EduNation II and this way the sandbox, the conference facilities and other communal facilities will remain. The webheads headquarters on EduNation will remain free of charge. This is an unconditional (Second) life long lease!

Recording: Event held in Second Life, no recording

Announcement of commencement of Speedgeek series

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/26414

This is to announce a new series of Sunday Professional Development sessions which will meet from noon GMT at http://tappedin.org and then move on to the venue for the scheduled event.

Some context for this is posted here:
http://curiousvance.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/21st-century-skills-for-professional-developm/

This explains that for this month of September there will be several events occurring simultaneously. This series is being cast also

• as a PD series for a newly rejuvinated TESOL Arabia EdTechSIG http://taedtech.ning.com where I’ve taken on the role of online coordinator,
• for a TESOL PPOT course on Multiliteracies starting soon at http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
• for a face-to-face course proposed for my workplace,
  https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1O7s8v3jC8J0OX-4PNNQW9E0bgL0r9goYhfFjXZs3o9o
• as well as an effort to breathe more life into what we’ve been doing each Sunday from noon GMT at Tapped In, http://tappedin.org

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The archive that could have died at Posterous on April 30, 2013 HAS BEEN FULLY RECOVERED here on WordPress, http://learning2gether.net, if anything, improved and patched up better than before.  Enjoy!

QUICK LINK to our NEXT EVENT:
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#Nextupcomingevents

For the best overview of our work since 2010, see our index to our weekly webcasts:

• http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/34456755/archiveindex
• We also have an ancient weekly chat history going back to 1998, documented here
  http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chatlogs.htm

How to find us:

• Join our Google+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109504049211076695836
• We tweet on hash tag #learning2gether.  Vance will endeavor to update that tag by the weekend before a Sunday or Monday event, so if you search on that tag in Twitter, you should find information of where and when the next event takes place.  
• You can find detailed information about all our upcoming events at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com, where you can find details of our program, when and what we learn together, free, online.
• On any Sunday, look for us in the Etherpad text chat in the widget here: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/65975391/leave_us_a_message. We’re usually there from noon to 1400 GMT, and if you miss us you can leave a message.

Learning2gether events are part of a participant-driven professional development series planned as a part of the ongoing (since 1998) Webheads in Action community of practice and professional development movement http://webheads.info, lately with the involvement of the TESOL Arabia EdTech SIG http://taedtech.ning.com and more recently still TESL Toronto http://tesltoronto.org/

The above slideshare was a part of a presentation recorded live at Al Ain Men’s College UAE: https://learning2gether.net/2013/04/01/vance-stevens-on-learning2gether-streamed-liv/

Events are normally recorded and archived

• Index of recordings:
  http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex
• Archived here:
  http://learning2gether.net 

We appreciate when people volunteer to give up presentations.  If you would like to present to our community you can either write Vance Stevens at vancestev @ gmail.com or JOIN the wiki below and write in your presentation details directly on the wiki (many do this, but if you are not known to our community, please write Vance and request approval as a “writer”; otherwise your request will be approved at the “reader” level.

Visit http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/ to find:

• The call for presentations at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/cfp
• The schedule for upcoming presentations at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded
• Listings of past presentations at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex

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Normally the events take place any time after noon GMT each Sunday or Monday.  In theory presenters can nominate any time or online venue they wish and we will try to go there.  Normally we meet in the Bb Collaborate / Elluminate Webheads Room provided us on a grant from Learningtimes http://learningtimes.com or in Hangout streamed from our Webheads in Action live portal hosted at a Drupal maintained by http://worldbridges.net (connect via the links below).

• LearningTimes Elluminate Room
• Webheadsinaction.org Hangout Portal

Note that times given for Learning2gether events are GMT unless otherwise noted.

Use http://www.timeanddate.com/ to find local times where you are.

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Our very first SpeedGeek was …

Teresa Almeida d’Eca – TagGalaxy 

June 14, 2009

http://wiaoc09.pbworks.com/SpeedGeeking
Teresa’s brief 5 min presentation was recorded here:

• http://tinyurl.com/090614tag-galaxy
• https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-06-14.0559.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr