The Minecraft Monday event this month (Tuesday on the side of the world where I live) was quite interesting. It was a lesson in using maps to find your way in world. About of dozen of us convened in creative mode on the VSTE server where we were given a mission briefing using slides posted in Discord chat, an excellent illustration of how Discord can serve as a content resource for learning experiences crafted in Minecraft.
These slides basically showed those present how to bring up the coordinates of where they were exactly on their Minecraft server, and see which way they were heading in the Minecraft HUD (heads up display). They then showed what a map looks like and how to find youself on it, presented an explanation of how the XYZ coordinate system works in Minecraft, and finally explained how to get maps from cartographers in villages. It was apparently by trading for such a map that Jaz and K4 were able to discover the location of a Woodland Mansion, make copies of the map, and leave the copies in a chest in survival mode, showing where the Woodland Mansion was.
Having received our briefing, we warped over to survival where we found the chest at our arrival point. Opening it we each took a diamond sword and a map, plus bundles of torches and baked potatoes. Armed with knowledge of orienteering in Minecraft, we would use the map to navigate to the Woodland Mansion. Armed with diamond swords we would fend off any mobs encountered, the torches would help us light up dark places where mobs congregate, and potatoes would sustain us in our journey. I looked around for ketchup but I didn’t see any.
According to a Google search on Woodland Mansions, they occur only in dark forest biomes. So we were on the edge of a dark forest and would have to penetrate it in order to cross from the top right of the map to the bottom left where the mansion appeared as a structure-like icon. The vegetation in dark forests is so thick that we could start out by hopping treetop to treetop. But once you fell to the forest floor you could hardly see and had to put the diamond sword to use slashing foliage. But on the map we could see where there were rivers and if you found one of those you could swim down it and work your way closer to the mansion.
Suffice it to say they would be lethal. I see Dak went inside and encounted a Vindicator illager
Having found the place, Jaz made us weightless so we could fly around and look in the windows. The picture above was taken as I peered into all the windows.
Here are some more shots of the interiors
When I was killed later by a common zombie I discovered that this server had a /back command which would return you to your point of demise. I also discovered when I was slain that I respawned at the mansion. Interesting. I took a picture of its coordinates, but having a spawn point there would allow me to commit suicide on a later visit to this server and then revisit the mansion.
But I wouldn’t want to do that without permission or experienced companions, as that would spoil it. The reason they didn’t want us newbies going inside is probably that they want to systematically approach such places and mount an expedition that would lead the explorers to its treasures. But once they had neutralized the mobs the place would be only a giant house in the woods, nothing particularly useful or challenging. There’s one on the EVO Minecraft server in the vicinity of the 2019 spawn point (or was it 2018, the one where Dak built a huge boat). But it no longer contains any traps or surprises or treasures or its unique variety of guardian monsters.
When the sun went down, we were teleported to the village where the cartographer and other villagers lived in safety, since a huge wall had been erected around it, and golems employed to patrol the area. In the picture below, I’ve just arrived at the village, still carrying my map.
Still able to fly, I rise up to get a better overview …
Here are Jazmar and K4sons at the village …
Some of the villages seemed a little intoxicated (purple bubbles). If you right click on them you find that many have items to trade, as in the menu here:
There was a whirring sawmill blade. I asked what would happen if I stood on it. I was encouraged to try it and see. Nothing happened. In the next picture a golem is standing on it.
This was where Minecraft Monday ended, and some of the teachers there went off to meet their students online, which they apparently did in the evenings in this time of IsolatioN. But Jaz and K4 and I stayed around to see how Minecraft would behave when observed through a shared screen in Zoom. We wanted to test that because we would be giving a performance (not a presentation, that word causes anxiety) at the 2-day Virtual Round Table conference May 8 and 9, http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/
So we experimented with the screen share and I made a recording in Zoom. In the recording you can see the village at night where the villagers were mostly sleeping but the golems were on patrol, and we ventured outside the gate to attract some zombies. That may have been unnecessary since inside the compound at night, phantom birds attacked, and the movie has footage of K4 dispatching them with her enchanted bow (the kind that fires unlimited times with only a single arrow in your quiver, as long as you keep up the enchantment). K4 got a couple of them, it appears.
About VSTE
Basic directions to join VSTE Place, VSTE’s Minecraft world
To join the VSTE Minecraft server please email K4sons@gmail.com or lwalconc@gmail.com. If this is your first time, we need your Mojang Minecraft user name and your real name.
(choose multiplayer and add a server: Name VSTE Place IP 69.175.17.26:25565)
We are currently using version 1.15.2.
As a reminder, this server is for educators. If you are using your child’s account to participate please do not encourage your child to use our server.
To chat in Minecraft type T which brings up a line you can type in.
For voice we use Discord. Install it on your computer or mobile device. Our Discord channel is VSTE VEPLN Chat server. We can send you an invite to the channel through Minecraft the day of the meeting. If you have a discord account and have it live, just click the link we post and you will be able to join us.
Discord
Discord is a voice and screen sharing application that will run on your computer or mobile device.
Download and install it for free. Create an account.
Many of us use the same name for our Discord account as our Minecraft account to keep things simple.
Mon 4 May 1430 UTC TESOL Virtual Seminar with Liz England and Amira Salama – Navigating your TESOL career path
Registration: https://bit.ly/2VAKOgH
You have to sign in to your TESOL account in order to register for this event.
It is possible to create an account as a non-TESOL member at https://www.tesol.org/
DATE: Monday, 4 May 2020
Registration Deadline: 30 April 2020
TESOL Members: Free
Global Members: Free
Nonmembers: Free
I experienced difficulties while attending this. Music was played while we were waiting for the event to begin and the music kept disconnecting and reconnecting, same with sound quality when the event began. I found it very difficult to manipulate the text chat window due to lag. The even was scheduled up to midnight where I am, so I am very pleased to find there is a recording, here:
If you were not registered for the event it might be impossible to see the recording (at either link) since both require a login and the registration deadline was April 30.
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The original Webheads weekly meetings used to be held regularly for the first decade of this century in various online spaces, many archived here http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chatlogs.htm, traditionally at noon UTC on Sundays. These started out being meetings of Writing for Webheads, a precursor MOOC for people worldwide who wanted to improve their English in conversation and other interactions with native speakers. After Webheads in Action was formed in 2002, the meetings were mostly attended by teachers and educational technology specialists, and others who considered themselves in the process of becoming a community of practice.
Webheads never disbanded, though we did lie fallow for some time. When COVID-19 provoked us into moving online to a greater degree than in the interim, and at the instigaton of Webheads co-founder Michael Coghlan, we regrouped in the current format, falling eventually into the original time frame. This post archives the Sunday May 3 Noon UTC the Regular Weekly Webheads Revival Meeting #6, which was also Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN TALIN event 13, as well as Learning2gether episode 456
In these meetings we gather in Zoom to talk about Life in the Time of COVID-19. It’s an opportunity for virtual friends and colleagues to spend some time together and talk about how we’re spending our lockdown days, or anything else that may be on our minds. As with our original meetings, agendas are rarely set beforehand. It’s open mic; our meetings tend to be free-form and are tailored to the interests of whomever turns up. (But of course, if anyone wants to suggest an agenda in advance, they are welcome to do so.)
20:18:27 From Michael Coghlan : South Australian playgrounds to reopen after 11-day coronavirus-free streak
20:19:52 From Vance Stevens : yaaayyyy
20:20:41 From Michael Coghlan : Hello Graham!!!!
20:20:42 From Mirna Quintero : good
20:22:00 From Michael Coghlan : Isoman
20:28:13 From Michael Coghlan : in Australia the main things have been no gatherings of more than 10 people and ALWAYS observe 1.5 metres between people
20:29:09 From Chris Fry : In Spain it’s two metres
20:34:53 From Chris Fry : My wife and I left the house to go for a walk yesterday for the first time in seven weeks!
20:35:18 From Nina Liakos : Wow. We go for a hike every day the weather permits.
20:35:28 From Nina Liakos : We live next to a big state park.
20:37:02 From Laine Marshall : We only leave the house to walk around our quiet neighborhood – but we do that at least once a day.
20:39:10 From Michael Coghlan : no masks in Australia
20:43:08 From ElizabethA : worldometers.info (the world numbers site)
20:45:07 From Sus Nyrop : my ipad cannot manage the battery level is almost done, although I have the line connected. so perhaps I will fall out soon.
20:45:25 From Chris Fry : https://photos.app.goo.gl/G83jmEK8uwiud1tu6 me with my mask on
20:45:49 From Michael Coghlan : OK Sus
From Doris’s post on Facebook
20:47:59 From Chris Fry : https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
20:48:56 From Graham Stanley : http://covidvisualizer.com
20:49:22 From Vance Stevens : thanks
20:53:44 From Nina Liakos : That covid visualizer link that Graham put in is very interested!
20:53:50 From Nina Liakos : interestING
20:54:13 From Graham Stanley : yes, I like it as it is easy to move from one country to another
20:54:38 From Nina Liakos : Comparing the US with other countries like CHina is very sobering
20:54:49 From Vance Stevens : The links will all appear in the chat logs in the blog post of this event
20:54:55 From Nina Liakos : Trump has made America great in ways we could never have imagined
21:03:21 From Chris Fry : It’s great that the links we put in the chat are clickable again
21:04:25 From Chris Fry : I think I must stop and have lunch
21:04:51 From Michael Coghlan : I need to go to …lovely to see you all
21:05:04 From Nina Liakos : Bye Michael c u soon
21:05:12 From Michael Coghlan : See you next week
21:05:26 From Vance Stevens : bye I gotta go to
21:05:32 From Chris Fry : See you all next week
21:05:39 From Vance Stevens : bye chris
21:06:00 From Nina Liakos : Bye Chris
21:06:00 From ritazeinstejer : Bye, Cris
21:06:09 From Doris Molero : bye cris
21:11:50 From Vance Stevens : https://www.screencast.com/t/zjFBfHoGv
21:12:04 From Vance Stevens : For more webinars see https://tinyurl.com/learning2getheror https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
21:12:40 From Doris Molero : http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/
21:13:18 From Doris Molero : *KEYNOTE presentations*: by Gary Motteram, Nik Peachey, Mike Hogan,Graham Stanley , Joe Dale, and John Pathfinder Lester
21:13:44 From Doris Molero : Save the date! 8-9 May 2020, Friday and Saturday from 9am GMT (10am UK time) to about 7pm GMT (8pm UK)
21:14:03 From Mirna Quintero : we’ll keep in touch.
21:14:12 From Mirna Quintero : nice meeting you all.
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC
TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend. If you would like to propose an event or invite others to meet in conversation
Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
Wait for approval
Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time
You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.
Earlier Events
Mon 27 Apr 1300 UTC Rita Zeinstejer – Whither Jing?
Thu 30 Apr 1900 UTC – British Council / Graham Stanley, Remote Teaching: A Survival Guide for Schoolteachers
Schools all over the Americas, and indeed the world, are becoming more creative in developing solutions to keep students learning amid multiple school closures and the general disruption caused by Covid-19. In Uruguay, the British Council has been working in partnership with Plan Ceibal to cater for the lack of trained and qualified English language teachers in the country, project managing the remote teaching of 80,000 primary schoolchildren aged 8- 11. During the last 5 years, we have learned a lot about what makes a good remote teacher, and in this webinar, we’ll look at how best teachers can adapt to the new situation they now find themselves in.
I haven’t seen a recording but Graham (who was present at the Sunday May 3 Webheads Revival Meeting #6) tells me “Actually, they were all a variation on this one really: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtRkk6ml4hw&t=1s
Graham continues, “That one had a bit about using green screens in zoom and the other ones were without that and a more expanded section at the beginning”
Sat 2 May 1300 UCT NileTESOL TEYL SIG webinar with Deborah Healey on Trace Effects: Computer-Based and Game-Based Learning
The NileTESOL TEYL SIG is pleased to invite you to its upcoming online live event “Integrate it: Computer-Based and Game-Based Learning” on May 2nd on Zoom at 3 p.m. (CLT)
Our GUEST OF HONOR is the American and international senior educator: Dr. Deborah Healey.
Sat 2 May 15-1300-1500 utc – VSTE Second Life Saturdays – repeats each Saturday
If you don’t have a Second Life account get one, it’s free. We recommend setting one up at the Rockcliffe University Consortium’s Gateway here: https://urockcliffe.com/reg/second-life/
Download and install the software. While your Second Life viewer (software) is open click this link http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Soulgiver/155/144/58
and voila! Look for an avatar on VSTE Island and say, “Hey, I’m new!” We will take care of the rest.
Wondering how to ace webinars and virtual presentations? In this talk, Nik Peachey will share some of his top learning points from more than 20 years of experience in the development and delivery of digital education products. He will focus on the key factors that help make a webinar or a virtual presentation a success, whether it’s for delivering training, pitching a product, or delivering a virtual lecture.
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On April 28, 2020, Rita Zeinstejer introduced the topic of Jing: useful tool to record videos or images from your desktop. Now what?
When Adobe retires Flash at the end of 2020, Jing’s current video format .swf will no longer be supported by web browsers. Therefore, which tool can replace Jing as a free image capture and video recorder tool with capabililty of either saving to disc or upload of capture to the Web for immediate sharing? In this webinar Rita Zeinstejer discusses the issue with Webheads in Action, TALIN, and Learning2gether to share knowledge with us on this question that many of us will soon have to face.
21:06:19 From Chris Fry : could you let me in on my phone as well as the chat obscures half the screen on an iPad. I use my phone just for the chat
21:13:03 From Chris Fry : Thanks
21:15:52 From Maha Hassan : Hello from Cairo Egypt
21:16:02 From susana canelo : I love Jing
21:16:16 From Teresa : hi Maha from Lisbon
21:16:22 From Vance Stevens : Ahlan Maha wa Ramadhan Kareem
21:16:25 From susana canelo : That’s why I’m desperate here , LOL
21:17:25 From Maha Hassan : Thank you Vance and thank you for the invitation
21:17:40 From Maha Hassan : Hi Teresa
21:19:26 From Chris Fry : My Jing “sun” had disappeared! I found it the other day on my other monitor!
21:19:54 From Vance Stevens : You can go to your apps tray and find it there
21:20:17 From Maha Hassan : Hi Heike. How are you doing?
21:24:22 From Vance Stevens : if you save them to the web they can be found at screencast.com
21:26:11 From susana canelo : There’s a huge storm here, so Internet comes and goes
21:29:06 From Vance Stevens : stormy in Penang as well
21:40:19 From Maha Hassan : Thank you Rita. It was a pleasure
21:40:30 From Chris Fry : Thank you Rita
21:41:10 From Teresa : bye, everyone! stay safe and healthy!
21:41:29 From Heike Philp : Thank you very much Rita, I was tight up with a phone call and sadly missed most of the input – hope to catch up on the recording
21:43:03 From Heike Philp : It says Share screen
21:43:05 From Heike Philp : top left
21:44:13 From Heike Philp : I use it tons of times
21:44:17 From Heike Philp : the copy function
21:46:11 From Heike Philp : no
21:47:34 From Chris Fry : Download Jind from here – https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html
21:52:28 From Vance Stevens : Here’s another tool that operates similarly to Jing – Lightshot from https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC
TALIN events here are open to all and free to attend. If you would like propose an event and invite others to meet in conversation
Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
Wait for approval
Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time
You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.
Earlier Events
Sun 26 Apr Noon UTC Regular Webheads Weekly Revival Meeting 5 – repeats each Sunday
Mon 26 April – Russell Stannard Evaluating and assessing students when teaching fully online
You can find this recording-along with recordings of other IS webinars and convention sessions-here on the CALL-IS YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/call-is-youtube. Feel free to follow the channel to get notifications of uploads in the future.
TESOL CALL-IS cordially invites you to attend the webinar “Evaluating and Assessing Students when Teaching Fully Online: New Approaches to an Old Problem ” with Russell Stannard.
Date: Sunday April 26, 2020.
Time: 11:00 am / 3:00 pm GMT
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The date of this update is April 28, 2020 02:00 UTC
The video above is from the Sunday, April 26, 2020, noon UTC Regular Webheads Weekly Revival Meeting. This was RWWR meeting #5. During time of lockdown or for the foreseeable future, similar events are scheduled to repeat each Sunday in the TALIN2020 Zoom room.
We always announce these events in this manner:
Join us for our 5th Zoom meeting on Sunday, April 26 at Noon UTC to talk about Life in the Time of COVID 19 – an opportunity to spend some time together and talk about how you’re spending your lockdown days. Or anything else that may be on your mind 🙂
This week I added:
The agenda each week follows the precepts of Community as Curriculum – it’s open mic!
This event was posted to these Facebook Groups as an event shared from the TALIN group on Apr 25
20:01:26 From Steve : My picture says Steve, but I’m Dan Bassill from Chicago area
20:01:50 From Sus Nyrop : Hello Dan!
20:02:12 From Daf : hi everyone!
20:02:13 From Bee : Hello! Good morning/evening!
20:04:45 From Daf : hello, Teresinha!!!!
20:06:13 From Daf : hi Rita!
20:06:20 From Daf : Hey Hala!!!
20:08:18 From Hala Fawzi : Hi Rita!
20:08:29 From Hala Fawzi : Teresinhah!
20:13:39 From Elizabeth Anne : Hi – I have something to say about not using beaches
20:24:20 From Sus Nyrop : Randy Raimbow?
20:24:39 From Heike Philp : The liar tweets tonight
20:24:40 From Vance Stevens : rainbow?
20:24:45 From Heike Philp : its hilarious
20:25:30 From Heike Philp : its gone viral
20:26:02 From Nina Liakos : Randy Rainbow: “Andy” and other song parodies
20:26:07 From Heike Philp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkU1ob_lHCw
20:26:22 From Vance Stevens : thanks Heike
20:27:58 From Steve : Who had heard of ZOOM 8 weeks ago?
20:28:16 From Rita Zeinstejer : true!!!!
20:28:17 From Vance Stevens : hi I phone can you tell us your name?
20:28:41 From Daf : me
20:28:53 From Rita Zeinstejer : now who hasn’t?!
20:29:28 From nahirco2 : I had several sessions last year in Zoom
20:29:44 From Steve : The combination Zoom musicals are special treats, coming from high school kids, and pros. Creativity unleashed by crisis.
20:29:54 From Daf : I love these musical events all over the world.
20:30:21 From Heike Philp : I have a math task for you and am wondering what you think. It took 10 weeks to get to 200 000 (official) deaths, how many do you think it will be in another 10 weeks?
20:30:30 From Daf : hello Nahir, Doris!!!
20:31:40 From Vance Stevens : Daf you’re in
20:31:45 From Elizabeth A : I was booted out (first time on Zoom)
20:32:47 From Heike Philp : lovely to see you Doris
20:33:23 From Nina Liakos : Heike I have NO IDEA
20:33:39 From Steve : What countries are considering variations of Universal Basic Income as a result of Covid19?
20:33:40 From Doris Molero : Love to see you all… 🙂
20:34:12 From Heike Philp : I have a math task for you and am wondering what you think. It took 10 weeks to get to 200 000 (official) deaths, how many do you think it will be in another 10 weeks? – have a guess! (Heike, what was the answer??)
20:34:49 From nahirco2 : my sons are working from home and they were supplied the computers. Poe=wer and web is on the house
20:35:35 From Steve : Unless jobs move closer to poor people, few will be able to walk to work in big cities like Chicago
20:35:40 From nahirco2 : a nice project , Daf
20:35:56 From Elizabeth A : dream on Steve ( or do you know one ?)
20:36:38 From Elizabeth A : Universal basic income
20:36:56 From Bee : https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/19/21227275/neiman-marcus-bankruptcy-coronavirus-retail
20:37:15 From Steve : I think I heard that it’s being considered in Spain, Italy and Canada. Not close in USA. Yet.
20:38:18 From Elizabeth A : Take the mic & ask Daf.
20:39:04 From Elizabeth A : Here in France we don’t trust our gvmt 😦
20:42:20 From Heike Philp : Pathfinder Leicester
20:42:34 From Heike Philp : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavirus-zoom-fatigue-is-taxing-the-brain-here-is-why-that-happens/
20:43:44 From Steve : I think the Webheads were far better prepared for distance learning/teaching than most educators.
20:43:48 From Bee : Nature is a great healer… if you have the possibility of being next to it
20:44:56 From Nina Liakos : I am so grateful to have this big state park next to me, and to be able to hike there every day. Keeps us sane.
20:45:59 From nahirco2 : there is an app, sleepa we use it to hear the nature noises.
20:46:18 From Hala Fawzi : Thank you Heike for the link
20:46:24 From Hala Fawzi : Interesting
20:49:01 From Bee : I like the meditation app called headspace. https://www.headspace.com
20:49:06 From nahirco2 : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.relaxio.sleepo&hl=en_US
20:49:16 From Doris Molero : This is the video Ilistened to last night.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXzk5i4Ofe8
20:50:06 From Chris Fry : this video of the sea was very relaxing https://www.facebook.com/FinnHopsonPhoto/videos/2862724140432156/
20:52:09 From Michael Coghlan : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47169549 Finland basic income trial left people ‘happier but jobless’
20:52:11 From Heike Philp : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Werner he was one of the thinkers of basic income as the general manager of the DM a huge drug store.
20:53:12 From Daf : Sorry my grandchildren called me
20:55:40 From Michael Coghlan : But UBI is also cheaper for society as a whole. It actually costs less than paying unemployment benefits and all the infrastructure needed to administer it
20:56:14 From Heike Philp : correct Michael
20:56:22 From Jane Petring : Good point, Michael!
20:56:42 From Elizabeth A : maybe you could explain what UBI is Michael 🙂
20:56:56 From Heike Philp : and it is said to be less costly than taking tax from working people to support those without jobs
20:58:26 From Steve : Here’s the Andrew Yang website where he defines his vision for UBI. https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
20:59:51 From Michael Coghlan : Good site Steve – thanks
20:59:56 From Elizabeth A : We had a candidate in the presidential election who put it on the table (France 2017)
21:00:21 From Elizabeth A : he got 6% of the vote
21:00:44 From Michael Coghlan : It’s quiite a radical idea for many
21:01:05 From Michael Coghlan : but for me it seems a logical solution to many problems
21:01:07 From Steve : I only mentioned it because I think COVID19 will have such a drastic negative impact on economies all over the world.
Photo from Doris’s Facebook post
21:01:16 From Hala Fawzi : https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
21:01:24 From Michael Coghlan : Correct Steve
21:01:36 From Heike Philp : Jitsi is only good for 6-8 people
21:01:42 From Vance Stevens : webex
21:01:49 From Michael Coghlan : That potential negative impact is as scary as the virus itself
21:01:50 From Vance Stevens : steve is dan bassill
21:02:11 From Michael Coghlan : Aha – thought I recognised that voice!
21:02:17 From Heike Philp : The owner of Zoom worked at WebEX
21:02:40 From Hala Fawzi : https://www.webex.com/
21:02:52 From Rita Zeinstejer : cisco webex
21:02:59 From Nina Liakos : I wonder where the money will come from. Whole countries could go bankrupt. Mitch McConnell thinks it’s OK for states to do so. So where would countries get the $ for UBI? If they just print money, wouldn’t that spur inflation?
21:03:48 From Michael Coghlan : Nina – it may only work in economoies that already pay put a great deal in unemployment beefits
21:04:20 From Michael Coghlan : For thiose economies a UBI is apparently cheaper
21:04:20 From Steve : If people are out of work, they don’t pay taxes. If they have UBI they spend money, generate tax revenue. That helps pay for it. I’m not an expert, which is why I shared the Andrew Yang site.
21:05:08 From Heike Philp : great input Steve, these are the arguments
21:05:45 From Heike Philp : and the biggest issue is: will people continue to work if they dont have to
21:06:31 From Doris Molero : Sus Nyrop It was great. Very encouraging to be together. Unfortunately I had a computer breakdown on my very fragile and old Mac, I am at the Point where I have to consider the tedious process of a total cleanup reinstall… See you next time.
21:06:40 From Michael Coghlan : Time for me to go – goodnight from down here 😉
21:06:41 From Steve : Are any of you using Microsoft TEAMS?
21:06:59 From Nina Liakos : I think may people would work at what they love (art, music, public service…) when if they had to earn a living they would not be able to
21:07:13 From Daf : night, Michael!
21:07:30 From Elizabeth A : houseparty
21:07:48 From Chris Fry : time to go for me,too but to have lunch! Bye everybody
21:08:04 From Daf : bye Chris
21:09:18 From Jane Petring : It was good to see all of you! I need to go as well!
21:09:27 From Teresa : bye Jane!
21:09:37 From Elizabeth A : bye Jane
21:10:11 From Heike Philp : Are you using Classroom Onenote?
21:13:55 From Steve : It was great to reconnect with all of you today. Dan Bassill Good bye for this week.
21:14:42 From Daf : bye bye guys, see you next week!
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The date of this update is April 27, 2020 05:30 UTC
April 21-22, 2020, was a dynamic two days in this season of coming to grips with while avoiding catching COVID-19. It seems that there are online events happening all the time. In this period there were several but this week I particularly marked in my calendar two of them. Both were recorded.
The first was a webinar by Joe Dale. I met Joe Dale, and Nik Peachey as well, at the aPLaNet conference in 2012 at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey,. Since then I have blogged two of his webinars as
Episode 272: Thursday, May 7, 2015 – Learning2gether joined Juergen Wagner‘s event with Joe Dale – Planning a virtual field trip to New Orleans
The AppSmashing event was particularly memorable, and as you can see from the links above, both were replete with resources, well documented, hands-on, and meaty (Joe typically goes on for 90 minutes). Joe models an approach to engaging a distant audience by keeping them informatively entertained and busy with learning new tools for learning through technology. He is interactive with his online audiences and engages them via the text chats. He knows what he is doing and doesn’t mind the occasional glitch as he works through each hiccup. He is an skilled edutainer.
This is his profession; he performs for a fee but he leaves his work openly online for the benefit of others. I do the same, but my work is not in any kind of conflict with any paid practice. I used to tell people that working for free and gaining a reputation for quality of output was how I could be sure of getting my next paid job. I think Joe feels the same way. Like music you hear for free on YouTube, if you like it, you, or others like you, are more likely to engage the professionals to perform at your event.
So I made an effort to archive this event similarly to the previous two in a kind of digital recollection. Incidentally I do these recollections primarily so that I can recapture my own learning, and only incidentally in order to share them with everyone else. Enjoy 🙂
Tue 21 April – British Council hosts Joe Dale – Having a play! Simple interactive activities for remote teaching
At 10.00 BST Tuesday 21st April 2020, Joe Dale will be giving a 90 minutes FREE @BritishCouncil webinar ‘Having a play! Simple interactive activities for remote teaching’ aimed at English language teachers from Indonesia but the ideas are replicable for any language. Over 600 people have signed up so far.
The first part of the agreement is for all participants to acknowledge that their participant names and comments in the chat might be visible to others. Regarding the second part, I wish BC wouldn’t force acceptance of promotional materials in exchange for their academic offering. There is an opt-out – the user can forego access to the material on offer. Perhaps a fairer choice to the question, “Would you be happy for us to contact you occasionally?” would be
[ ] happy [ ] not happy
In any event, I agreed to both terms, and in retrospect, it was worth it! I took meticulous notes, including links from the text chat. It’s easy in Zoom for each person to capture the chat by right clicking on the chat, click select all, then copy. You can keep hitting select all over and over again, more is captured each time, and eventually hit copy, then paste somewhere. I did this to capture the links and to convey a much redacted sense of how the audience was responding to working through Joe’s presentation of so many tools.
I captured the selfie above toward the end of Joe’s talk, and the screenshot below as he was getting set up. Joe had just mentioned that there were 400 people present in this Zoom webinar workshop.
Mentimeter
The first topic introduced was Mentimeter, one of many sites that poll participants and then represent their responses graphically. Here are excerpts from the Zoom chat chosen to give a flavor of how the participants were responding in the workshop.
From Ahmad Riza to Everyone: 05:15 PM I’ve never heard before about menti.com From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:16 PM Q: Does this have to be done synchronously? or can we set a range of time when the participants can respond? From WAWAN PRASETYO to Everyone: 05:16 PM we are only allowed to give three question? is it right? From Laely Hidayati to Everyone: 05:16 PM it works for students who don’t want to talk or raise hands 🙂 From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:16 PM @dina, better synhronously Mentimeter https://www.menti.com/nuznjg5ij2
When you visit that link you see …
Partipant responses can generate word clouds
or bar graphs
Particpants react (excerpted)
From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:16 PM thank Ms Finita, but can be done asynchronously? From Diane Kenworthy to Everyone: 05:17 PM Q can we share this video with our colleagues and if so how ? @Diane ask your colleagues to join by getting the ticket or later you can see the recorded video on iTELL YouTube Q: May I share this webinar for my gangs to join? Got it. From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:20 PM @aryani: yes there are many types of questions From Erlyna Abidasari to Everyone: 05:21 PM That’s exactly what I am asking From Ahmad Zubaidi Amrullah to Everyone: 05:21 PM Another similar platform you can use is polleverywhere.com From Me to Everyone: 05:21 PM we participants can also have the graphics sent to our emails From Andry Yuriandi to Everyone: 05:21 PM So, it seems to me this kinda works like Google Form, doesn’t it? From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 05:22 PM I used mentimeter first time today, and when it said 2 slides max.. oop From eric turpin to Everyone: 05:22 PM it seems it accepted multiple submissions From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:23 PM @yuniar, max 3. @yohana, it can be used for any level
Wakelet
The next tool Joe showed us was Wakelet. Wakelet is useful for crowd-sourcing information from multiple respondents. Teachers can set up “collections” and have their students add to them.
And the participants’ most relevant conversation around the activity:
From Me to Everyone: 05:23 PM like padlet? From Joe Dale to Everyone: 05:23 PM https://is.gd/TILTTHURSjoedale I put Joe’s link in my browser and the link returned Click the link if you’d like to proceed to the destination shown: – Vance https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyCAO4T03ScPYzrsuyMOFktdodZ-a3h650oTT7Wm4qk From Me to Everyone: 05:24 PM with padlet you only get ONE for free now From Yuni Ifayati to Everyone: 05:25 PM oya? i think it is three pages for free From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:25 PM Q: I tried wakelet (thanks to Ms Finita’s webinar the other day) for work submission, but one post can only include 1 pic or 1 link? can we ask ss to post series of pics, like for showing process? From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:26 PM @Dina, one post one link 🙂 From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:26 PM Ms @Finita, any other suggested app for series of photo per post? Thanks 🙂
From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:27 PM @dina, photo story From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:26 PM @Ana, padlet is like virtual/digital sticky notes, where you or your students can post text/url/video/pics and give comments on the posts From Guiomar Mancho to Everyone: 05:27 PM Collaborators can now create subcollections so they can share with you an entire load of work if you want From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 05:27 PM We probs need a weekly discussion on [tool a] vs [tool b], if it’s not already covered by the internet like WAKELET vs PADLET; ZOOM vs WEBEX; JAMBOARD vs PADLET; iOS vs Android From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:28 PM Okay, I’ll check Photo Story out, thanks Ms @Finita. is it also easy to use, just by sharing link/code? From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:28 PM @yohana, no need… they can access padlet thorugh the link that you provide From Fernalia Kerukaspari to Everyone: 05:28 PM Wakelet’s UI reminds me of tumblr hehe. Cool, okay. This will be easy enough for me to figure out. From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:28 PM @yohana, so easy. even kids can do tthat 🙂 From Dewi Andrianie to Everyone: 05:29 PM interesting! From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 05:29 PM Google Keep has been my go to junkyard of LINKS and whatnots From Mochamad Fitriadi to Everyone: 05:30 PM is it like google classroom? From Daniela Bunea to Everyone: 05:30 PM is Wakelet similar to Diigo? I remember Diigo… From Joe Dale to Everyone: 05:31 PM 7f936ab From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 05:32 PM there are some similarities and differences among tech tools, don’t worry about comparing them. just pick tools which you think can support your teaching 🙂 From Bitadwi Rahmani to Everyone: 05:32 PM wakelet seems like Google classroom and or Edmodo,isn’t it From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 05:33 PM Edmodo is more like Facebook methinks From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 05:33 PM LOVE this – thank you 🙂 From Lany Rohmaniah to Everyone: 05:34 PM it works on android! yieeyyy From Stephanie Ellis-Williams to Everyone: 05:34 PM Q- How can I access it again, in a few weeks’ time? From eric turpin to Everyone: 05:35 PM how long will this wakelet page be available please ? From Joe Dale to Everyone: 05:35 PM 7f936ab From Rindu Handayani to Everyone: 05:36 PM I found it Joe thank you! I needed to log out first. From Nuriya Kuznetsova to Everyone: 05:36 PM That IS AWESOME))))) From Mochamad Fitriadi to Everyone: 05:36 PM it needs to enter the code again when we would like to access, or just open the web From Elisabeth Schaludek-Paletschek to Everyone: 05:36 PM Could you please post the LINK for the Wakelet? From Joe Dale to Everyone: 05:38 PM https://wke.lt/w/s/nS7g8O From eric turpin to Everyone: 05:39 PM how long can we access ? From Eva Deliana Bangun to Everyone: 05:40 PM I did it. interesting. From Vina Kanasya to Everyone: 05:40 PM Q: what is the different between using the code and the link? From Erlyna Abidasari to Everyone: 05:40 PM Q Can we set time or schedule event for wakelet? From Eduardus Erwan Nugroho to Everyone: 05:41 PM Q: is it completely free? From Grace Sabandar to Everyone: 05:41 PM @Eduardus: yes
Then Joe segued us into the next adventure, Whiteboard.fi. But first, he grabbed a reader off the web, https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/my-sea-creature, and showed us an exercise where we had to read a poem about oceans and then write down the number of sea creatures we found (multiple choice) – then read it again and this time write down the number of fishes (is a whale a fish? what about a jellyfish?).
Joe opened a workspace for us and instructed us each, all 400 of us, to go to our individual workspaces at https://whiteboard.fi/y4y / and draw a shark there. Here’s mine, and below my drawing you can find exerpts from the text chat.
From Joe Dale to Everyone: 05:46 PM y4y ttps://whiteboard.fi/y4y From Tati Maryati to Everyone: 05:46 PM I’m in From Mochamad Fitriadi to Everyone: 05:46 PM it seems like jamboard From Martini Darminto to Everyone: 05:47 PM I often take materials from British Council for my teaching but I am not familiar with applications you are talking about. they are really new for me. I just use google classroom in my teaching so far. Thanks for sharing. From Andry Yuriandi to Everyone: 05:47 PM your whiteboard is still blank? From Dian Nazaret to Everyone: 05:47 PM how to submit it? From Joe Dale to Everyone: 05:48 PM y4y From Tati Maryati to Everyone: 05:49 PM @Andry, just click on the link given by Mr. Joe From Atik Indarini to Everyone: 05:49 PM I got it From Negin Sedghi-Shabestari to Everyone: 05:49 PM can’t see anything on teachers screen From Lorentius Oky Pratama to Everyone: 05:49 PM how may students can join these whiteboard? because I need to handle 100 students in one same time From Emma Moore to Everyone: 05:49 PM if you refresh the page would the pictures appear maybe? From Negin Sedghi-Shabestari to Everyone: 05:49 PM oh ok thanks, internet needs to be faster! From Ferra Dian Andanty to Everyone: 05:50 PM how to send the drawing? From Mochamad Fitriadi to Everyone: 05:50 PM choose the pen picture From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:50 PM Q: you were saying abt students collaborating on one whiteboard, can you tell us again how? From Hana Prabaningtyas to Everyone: 05:51 PM It is a really fun tool to teach kids haha From Desan Priswandika to Everyone: 05:51 PM I can see my pic there From Guiomar Mancho to Everyone: 05:51 PM I’ve substituted the mini whiteboards we used in class for this. From Putri Ashri to Everyone: 05:51 PM I drew squidward 🙂 From Chandra Wiharja to Everyone: 05:52 PM I have drawn “Jaws” 😀 From Diane Kenworthy to Everyone: 05:52 PM Q Complete beginner to online teaching. What would you suggest are the musts Joe ? Zoom plus …. From Ana Winebrenner to Everyone: 05:53 PM Another way I can think we could use whiteboard is by giving students a phrase (or word that they have to draw). Then the other students take turns to guess what the sentences were From Bitadwi Rahmani to Everyone: 05:53 PM I can see mine…it’s so fun From Atik Indarini to Everyone: 05:53 PM I see my name From Lasmi Febrianingrum to Everyone: 05:54 PM I can’t see mine From Negin Sedghi-Shabestari to Everyone: 05:55 PM can you retrieve deleted one?
From Ermawati Herman to Everyone: 05:55 PM no From Me to Everyone: 05:55 PM heard of it but don’t know it From Lauren Spence to Everyone: 05:55 PM no From Fajarudin Akbar to Everyone: 05:55 PM Yes, I registed, I haven’t used it From Dyah Kristyaningsih to Everyone: 05:55 PM all applications you mentioned are new for me. From Dr.Vargheese K.J to Everyone: 05:55 PM Trying From Tati Maryati to Everyone: 05:56 PM shall the students save their picture before to make it appear on teacher’s board? From Elisabeth Schaludek-Paletschek to Everyone: 05:56 PM Is seesaw free of charge and can it be embedded in Teams? From Dina Iguna to Everyone: 05:56 PM Q: Is Seesaw similar with Edmodo? From Rini Anita to Everyone: 05:57 PM i have tontake notes on every apps.. since most of them is quite new for me.. but thanks joe From Rindu Handayani to Everyone: 05:57 PM can I change the language on Seesaw? Most of the students don’t understand English. From Dr.Vargheese K.J to Everyone: 05:57 PM From Upik Hastuti to Everyone: 06:01 PM so clear record joe… its cool… thanks From eric turpin to Everyone: 06:03 PM do you take into account GDPR when selecting tools ? From Elisabeth Schaludek-Paletschek to Everyone: 06:04 PM Q Can I use Seesaw for screencasting if I want to give feedback to a student’s work?
As the screenshot above shows (taken from my computer) some of these apps were overwhelming bandwidth with the app server suddenly being hit by 400 simultaneous users. A lot of the comments in the chat were about audio issues. Some lucky ones had good audio and were able to join the excercise, but others had echoing audio, couldn’t hear the audio, or as in my case, couldn’t reach the app at all. I’ve removed these comments from the transcripts to mitigate bloat.
Joe started by giving out the Quizziz quiz code number
From Joe Dale to Everyone: 06:05 PM 557683 From Joe Dale to Everyone: 06:05 PM joinmyquiz.com From Negin Sedghi-Shabestari to Everyone: 06:06 PM wow 500 From Sugeng Priyadi to Everyone: 06:06 PM quizziz is totally cool From Negin Sedghi-Shabestari to Everyone: 06:07 PM I am going to create a school pub quiz for our teachers From Grace Yeh Shiang to Everyone: 06:07 PM sounds like popcorns (as users popped into Joe’s teacher screen view) From Novi Pratiwi Lestari to Everyone: 06:07 PM I ever used it but I totally don’t know how to do it😂 From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 06:07 PM Q: what are the other share options? From Sugeng Priyadi to Everyone: 06:07 PM i like the user interface and all cute stuff From Dian Nazaret to Everyone: 06:07 PM interesting sound 😀 From Grace Yeh Shiang to Everyone: 06:07 PM seems like kahoots From Emma Moore to Everyone: 06:07 PM I didn’t realise that it was possible to record audio with quizizz so thats brilliant to know! From Kim Nio Kim Nio to Everyone: 06:07 PM How many people can join quizizz? From Anastasia Destiningrum to Everyone: 06:08 PM This is awesome I’ve been using quizizz with my s From Dian Nazaret to Everyone: 06:09 PM hear nothing
(several more such comments redacted here) From Emma Moore to Everyone: 06:10 PM if you’re on your phone or a tablet then make sure you don’t have it on silent, otherwise you can’t hear it! From Michele Storrie to Everyone: 06:11 PM the questions on my quiz came in a different order From Nina Ratna Suminar, M.Si to Everyone: 06:11 PM great fun From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 06:11 PM Q: Can you adjust the time limit for answers? From Anastasia Destiningrum to Everyone: 06:11 PM indeed, we can shuffle the order From Grace Sabandar to Everyone: 06:11 PM you can click the audio one or two times. From Nur Latifah to Everyone: 06:11 PM Q: how many questions can we make for this quiz (max) From Diana Nur Utami to Everyone: 06:11 PM quizziz is interesting From Grace Yeh Shiang to Everyone: 06:11 PM great game. From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 06:11 PM Q: Can you make the quiz Teacher-controlled (timed) or only student-controlled From Judy Carruthers to Everyone: 06:11 PM Thank you Joe. This is going to be fun From Erna Irawati, M.Pd. to Everyone: 06:11 PM the audio collided with Joe’s voice From Emma Moore to Everyone: 06:11 PM the order is shuffled so that if students are all in the same room playing then they cannot copy each other! From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 06:11 PM AUDIO : MINIMAL PAIRS From Vanessa Shimomura to Everyone: 06:12 PM Just with Seesaw, is it possible to insert multiple examples and templates when creating Seesaw activities? From Nita Oktifa to Everyone: 06:12 PM hard to listen to the audio. but it’s an amazing tool to be tried From Anastasia Destiningrum to Everyone: 06:12 PM quizizz rocks! :)) (others complain they can’t hear) From Jonathan Tanihardjo to Everyone: 06:12 PM can we get the participants’ score after all them are done doing the quiz?
From Michael Sihombing to Everyone: 06:13 PM @jonathan: yes. You can also get all of the score analysis From Joa Ria to Everyone: 06:12 PM The audio was good in my device From Dian Nazaret to Everyone: 06:12 PM I couldn’t hear anything..but that’s ok. im familiar with kahoot already. it’s similar, isn’t it? From Lasmi Febrianingrum to Everyone: 06:12 PM then, how to make this kind of quiz? From Nur Hadijah Saraswati to Everyone: 06:12 PM yes. we can download it. for our archive From Andry Yuriandi to Everyone: 06:12 PM I just forgot this is just a demo. I’m way too excited. From Nina Fatimah to Everyone: 06:13 PM q:is is possible to put a recorded conversation in quizizz and then use it for several questions? From Witri Oktavia to Everyone: 06:13 PM Can the answer in quizziz in the form of audio? From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 06:13 PM Q: Can YOU play the audio, – or does it only appear on sts’ devices: From Grace Sabandar to Everyone: 06:14 PM @Rachel: only appear on students’ device for this example From Nur Hadijah Saraswati to Everyone: 06:13 PM we can take some question randomly to make new test for feedback too. i have used it. 😁👍 From Fernalia Kerukaspari to Everyone: 06:13 PM I think a lot of the time, we can just try these ourselves and explore, too. Let’s discover ourselves 🙂 From Jonathan Tanihardjo to Everyone: 06:13 PM wow.. that would really help the teachers From Nur Hadijah Saraswati to Everyone: 06:14 PM yes, and the students feel happy to play it. From Erlyna Abidasari to Everyone: 06:14 PM What is good in Quizizz is you can modify the already existing quiz From Erna Irawati, M.Pd. to Everyone: 06:14 PM yep Erlyna, by teleporting it From Nur Hadijah Saraswati to Everyone: 06:14 PM they can’t cheat because the question will appear randomly.
Socrative
At this point in the webinar, some participants said they needed to leave and excused themselves, heaping praise on Joe for his efforts. Much of this has been redacted.
Socrative has a teacher and student logon. When you go to Socrative.com and click Login, https://socrative.com/#login, you are asked to login as either as student or teacher
If you are a teacher, you will log in to your account, where you can create activities. However, students are asked to log in with the number of the room the teacher has created for them where they can unlock the activity. In this way, students don’t need to have an account here to use the teacher’s activities; teachers create activities under their accounts and share their room numbers with their students. Students don’t need to create accounts here at all.
So Joe began by sharing with us his room number …
From Belinda Sydenham to Everyone: 06:15 PM https://socrative.com/ From Eva Deliana Bangun to Everyone: 06:16 PM what’s the room name? From Grace Sabandar to Everyone: 06:16 PM room name: 29701 From Vitha Venska to Everyone: 06:18 PM I used it for assessment and it’s good From Grace Sabandar to Everyone: 06:18 PM @Eric: teacher pace From lailatul muniroh to Everyone: 06:18 PM should we register first? From Grace Sabandar to Everyone: 06:19 PM @lailatul: no need, just go to student login and enter the room numbeR: 29710 From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 06:19 PM the text on a phone is tiny.. but you can screenshot it and blow it up in the ‘photos’ app From Me to Everyone: 06:19 PM I always show results, they like to compete From Joa Ria to Everyone: 06:19 PM very cool From eric turpin to Everyone: 06:19 PM thanks !
From Finita Dewi to Everyone: 06:20 PM https://charlala.com/draw From Grace Yeh Shiang to Everyone: 06:21 PM 3fymb From Andry Yuriandi to Everyone: 06:22 PM where should we type the code? From Hamed Ali to Everyone: 06:22 PM it takes some time From Stephanie Ellis-Williams to Everyone: 06:22 PM I am in but can’t submit From lailatul muniroh to Everyone: 06:22 PM so many apps….love it From Danielle Wansborough to Everyone: 06:23 PM I think charlala is supposed to be in beta mode now…some problems… From Ana Winebrenner to Everyone: 06:23 PM I just managed to submit my masterpiece From Novi Pratiwi Lestari to Everyone: 06:23 PM what’a the difference with whiteboard fi? From Rachel Applwby to Everyone: 06:23 PM like this: https://charlala.com/draw3fymb From Michael Sihombing to Everyone: 06:23 PM but cant see my masterpiece yet From Chandra Wiharja to Everyone: 06:23 PM Yeay, I got “Bravo! Look at your masterpiece!” From Nuriya Kuznetsova to Everyone: 06:24 PM THANK YOU from Noori)))))))))) From Belinda Sydenham to Everyone: 06:25 PM Fun and easy – lots of GREAT tools here – many thanks From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 06:25 PM @Rachel enter https://charlala.com/draw first, then enter the code 3fymb From Joe Dale to Everyone: 06:25 PM https://charlala.com/joe From Rinto Tampubolon to Everyone: 06:25 PM So, Charlala can be used as feed back from students too ya?
This was the final tool for today, here is a sampling of participant appreciation
From lailatul muniroh to Everyone: 06:25 PM great job, joe From Eva Deliana Bangun to Everyone: 06:25 PM lots of fun..thanks mr joe From Rinto Tampubolon to Everyone: 06:26 PM Thank you Joe From Neny Kartika Sari Susanto, M.Pd. to Everyone: 06:26 PM wow. a lot of interesting tools. Thanks Joe From Braja Kishore to Everyone: 06:26 PM lots f fun From Carolina to Everyone: 06:26 PM Thank you so much, Joe.. ^^
Joe and Finita
Joe, Finita, and Colm
Wrapping up (much excerpted)
From Anastasia Destiningrum to Everyone: 06:27 PM thanks so much for sharing useful apps :)) From Joe Dale to Everyone: 06:27 PM https://is.gd/bconlineworkshop From Joa Ria to Everyone: 06:27 PM never getting bored of Joe’s sharing 🙂 From Belinda Sydenham to Everyone: 06:27 PM It is actually reassuring to see things not going perfectly – gives me reassurance for the work I am doing online at the moment when things go wrong!! From Andry Yuriandi to Everyone: 06:28 PM Oh, yeah, Miss Finita, too. Thanks for tirelessly responding to us. From Chris Fry to Everyone: 06:29 PM Brilliant use of QR codes. Thanks a load Joe From Joe Dale to Everyone: 06:31 PM Google Jamboard, Wooclap From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 06:32 PM wooclap? From Me to Everyone: 06:32 PM similar to mentimeter From Joe Dale to Everyone: 06:33 PM Google Slides Q&A, yoteachapp.com From Me to Everyone: 06:41 PM people are asking for the program for tomorrow etc From Niar Yuniarti to Everyone: 06:42 PM https://itell.or.id/british-council-itell-webinar-series/ From Me to Everyone: 06:42 PM what is the YouTube link? From Rini Anita to Everyone: 06:42 PM thanks ITELL and British Council From RIZQI AMALIA RAMADHANI to Everyone: 06:43 PM https://itell.or.id – iTELL
Tue 22 April Learning Revolution
Wed 22 April 1400 UTC Learning Revolution Mini-Conference: Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning: Survive, Thrive, & Plan for What Comes Next
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Special Mini-Conference Recordings:
The recordings have been posted. There is link on the front page of LearningRevolution.com to access them. The direct link that the “link on the front page” takes you to is here, https://learningrevolution.com/erlinks
QUICK VIEW (Times are US Eastern Daylight Time)
I (Vance) was really looking forward to this conference. However the times EDT are 12 hours reversed from where I am in Malaysia, so when it began on April 22 at 10 am EDT, this was 10 pm for me. I knew I’d be able to see the recordings, so I caught the opening presentation by Candy Mowen at that time, went to bed, and woke up next day in time to catch the late evening presentations that must have taken place after a dinner break from 6 to 8 in the USA. The following are my impressions of the events I attended.
Engaging Online Learners
Presenter: Candy Mowen
Here are the most important aspects of online engagement
7 strategies for engaging online learners:
I slept through these that follow but I look forward to seeing the recordings
11:00 AM 1500 UTC A Guide To Setting Up Your School With “Google for Education” with William Poindexter (60 minutes sic)
11:30 AM 1530 UTC Culturally Responsive Teaching thru Remote Learning (60 minutes) with Zaretta Hammond
1:00 PM 1700 UTC Let’s Commit to Making Webinars Better (30 minutes) with Steven J. Bell
1:30 PM 1730 UTC Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes)
3:00 PM 1900 UTC Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen
4:00 PM 2000 UTC Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J. Bell
5:00 PM 2100 UTC A 7-step Plan to Improve Your Online Learning Program for Maximum Student Engagement (60 minutes) with Ernie Delgado
Learning and Leading During Emergency Remote Teaching
Presenters: A.J. Juliani, Katie Novak, & George Couros
From one of George’s slides
“Learning for students, learning about students, learning from students”
This presentation was a plethora of ideas and inspirations. It started with George asking us, on a scale of memes, how are you feeling:
This resonated: Resiliance = bouncing forward:
Ten ideas to meaningfully connect via remote learning:
Kate was the next speaker. She distilled the idea of engaging learners through taking advantage of the personalized nature of the medium as opposed to having to meet them in a group at a certain time in a classroom by giving them options and choices. So if for your class you had decided to get them all to conceptualize a bowl of rice (analogically speaking), online you could widen the scope into a Dinner Party:
AJ hit the keynote “Give students a reason for learning virtually” followed by the reasons such as digital project, naural phenomenon, empathy, problem awareness, geeky interest, etc. I think the relevant list might be in AJ’s slides here https://event.webinarjam.com/replay/2/qp3xosmi6i1irv4o but it comes in the form of a broadcast, which was nice of him to share, but not easily searched or clicked through (classic example of linear vs. random access).
From Richard Churchill to Everyone: 08:49 AM This webinar is FIRE From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 08:50 AM Absolutely LIT! Bring it OOONNNN From Kitty to Everyone: 08:50 AM Like a good book I am going to have to watch this a few time
From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 08:53 AM Please send a copy of this EPIC CHAT with the slides and recording… From Reba Matthews to Everyone: 08:53 AM How will we get access to this chat in order to get the twitter handles From A.J. Juliani to Everyone: 08:53 AM This is an EPIC Chat!!!! From McKenzie C to Everyone: 08:53 AM I copy-pasted the whole chat room into a google doc. It looks horrible, but the content is there. From McKenzie C to Everyone: 08:55 AM https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XHA7KOPD1w1vOxcckhBXRcxPgMaYIskYdiVz9MCcOwQ/edit?usp=sharing
From janicerobertson to Everyone: 08:55 AM So much of what George is saying echos a book I’m reading right now Kids These Days. Love these reminders; it’s about relationships. From A.J. Juliani to Everyone: 08:56 AM Kids These Days by Dr. Jody! From Carole McCulloch to Everyone: 08:57 AM Yes George, needing to empower our older learners too for Being Connected – equipment, wi-fi and networks. The Good Things Foundation is doing that for our Be Connected program in Australia. From Dariel Bernstein to Everyone: 08:57 AM Wait, I can’t lose the chat! I haven’t followd all the people yet!!
From Richard Churchill to Everyone: 08:58 AM https://learningathome.nlesd.ca/home You folks were amazing!!!! From Dariel Bernstein to Everyone: 08:58 AM BEST.HOUR.EVER
From McKenzie C to Everyone: 08:58 AM Don’t you close this chat out until I get the last bit! From Me to Everyone: 08:58 AM if you want the chat right click on it, select all, right click again, copy From Keishia Thorpe to Everyone: 08:58 AM Thanks
The presenters said they were creating a team but needed a name for. Of course the chat complied From McKenzie C to Everyone: 08:59 AM Team Virtual Dinner Parties From Me to Everyone: 08:59 AM Team Awesome
And finally, in the middle of the next session Peggy George to Everyone: 09:37 AM I loved this Tweet that George Couros shared in the last session from Daniel Hodge. :Today my students listed about 20 things they actually like about remote learning, and we quickly turned the list into changes I need to make to my classroom next year.” 🙂
Ten fantastic ideas for online teaching: Ditch that textbook
Presenters: Jon Corippo & Matt Miller and a merciless timekeeper
From janicerobertson to Everyone: 09:36 AM Who was that poet author? From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:37 AM Kirkegaard – Leap of Faith From janicerobertson to Everyone: 09:37 AM Tnx @ Helaine
From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:39 AM Great song “Anyway” Suzzy & Maggie Roche https://youtu.be/83KXqVFaWYk
From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:41 AM I invite guests to my online classes – colleagues, former students, etc. they love it – not just me From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:41 AM Yes! Guests are such a great way to shake it up. We’ve used that even in in-person format. We had someone from the State Department Skype in for a Q&A in a Public Archaeology class once. That was awesome.
Here the first speaker is abruptly cut short, by prearrangment, by the overly-assiduous timekeeper-from-hell 🙂
From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:41 AM OUCH!! From Peggy George to Everyone: 09:42 AM hahaha!!!! From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:43 AM 2-minute warning won’t work since that is the entire allotted time!!!
From Melissa to Everyone: 09:43 AM Yes! My students tried to take their texts home with them but our middle years team had already decided that we were ditching them going forward. From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:44 AM Oh wow does Bad Audio ruin Good Video. SO MUCH!! From Megan (She/They) to Everyone: 09:44 AM Where can I get those Pikachu headphones…. From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:44 AM https://www.amazon.com/Headphones-VoliBolt-Mumba-Over-Ear-Protection/dp/B07JZGN27W From Sara Schwartz Kendall to Everyone: 09:45 AM Or not Amazon… direct to company From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:45 AM Anything but Amazon if you have that option From Peggy George to Everyone: 09:46 AM when your voice cuts out it’s not usually the headphones but the internet connection From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 09:46 AM unfortunately, ZOOM was banned due to the zoombombing… and we have to use Google Meet… From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:46 AM Hey, Google Hangout has been working really well for me From Melissa to Everyone: 09:47 AM We use Microsoft Teams as our non-Zoom platform. This “fight club” format may be fun for you but it is cutting out good info. What is the tip about recording on slower resolution? Will slides and notes be shared? From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 09:48 AM WE have to use google meet. Yawn From Heather Kelly to Everyone: 09:49 AM We use Google Meet and with use of meeting codes, you can give students the code ahead of time. They can’t login to the meeting until you as the host have started the meeting. It’s also specific just to people within your school. You can also reuse the meeting codes simply by making sure that you are the last one to leave the meeting.
From Peggy George to Everyone: 09:49 AM Flip Hunt is a really fun idea!
From Cindy Gallagher to Everyone: 09:52 AM please go back to that slide on hours….that is important. From katherine.pioli to Everyone: 09:53 AM I second that From John Dorn to Everyone: 09:53 AM Yes please From Ms. Fitz to Everyone: 09:53 AM Yes, please show Time slide again. This is frustrating From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:53 AM Slide Wass Elem 1-2; Middle 2-3; high 3-4 one outside hour/day
From Peggy George to Everyone: 09:53 AM We’ll get the slides later
From Glenn Normore to Everyone: 09:55 AM cooking / baking has lots of Math From Sara Schwartz Kendall to Everyone: 09:55 AM and chemistry From Megan (She/They) to Everyone: 09:55 AM Yes, cooking and baking is great! And there is also some basic chemistry that can be discussed as well depending on age. From Heather Kelly to Everyone: 09:56 AM I LOVE this unexpected opportunity for the @Home Learning with my own kids as well. 🙂 From Erin Lipsitz to Everyone: 09:56 AM my littles have enjoyed the Dav Pilkey @ home resources and I have used the Flipgrid for them to share.
From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:57 AM As a public librarian, DO NOT MAKE AN EDITABLE PDF From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 09:57 AM Jesus – I need to make pdf editable…. really… no use? omg… omg… what am. I gonna do?
From Erin Lipsitz to Everyone: 09:59 AM excited about this new math resource! From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 09:59 AM Nearpod again.. gotta investigate From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 09:59 AM Is there a place we can get a list of all these awesome resources y’all are featuring? From Peggy George to Everyone: 09:59 AM https://mathreps.com/
From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 09:59 AM Leaving worksheets behind – so many wonderful alternatives – throw ‘em out! From Teresa Noverr to Everyone: 10:00 AM My gift to you: Jay Chou’s YEEHAW..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0AnG4AU5ao Best Chinese cowboy Eva\
From Helaine Marshall to Everyone: 10:02 AM is there any research on whether introverts or extroverts are adapting more easily to online learning in the K-12 domain?
From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 10:02 AM Oh! Someone in an earlier session had a great rec for “feeling the room” From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 10:03 AM Mad lib style – creating your quarantine name = The (how you’re feeling right now) (color of your sweatpants) (last snack you ate in 1 day that was intended to last for a week) From Willamae Johnson to Everyone: 10:03 AM yes, i like the getting to know your kids-openness From McKenzie Culberson to Everyone: 10:03 AM Mine was The Anxious Blue Yellow Cake
More about TALIN
This was Learning2gether episode 453 (because I attended and reported on these webinars) but it was not a TALIN event per se.
Then why would you, dear reader, want to know about TALIN?
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
So that’s why, being at home like most of us, so many of us are attending these webinars at this particular time. There are so many familiar names and faces in these events.
In fact, TALIN is trying to encourage events of this nature, so readers here are invited to visit our website and engage the rest of us with whatever expertise you can provide, or want to know about (because if you have questions, someone among us has answers 🙂
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Hope to see you all frequently online as we pass our days of lockdown as constructively as possible.
Earlier Events
Tue 21 Apr 1400 UTC Carla Arena on Simplifica – Nation-Wide Learning Experiences for Brazilian Students at home
These other two weren’t the only webinars I attended on these days. Here are some screenshots I made while watching Dr. Jared Borup give advice on Forming Online Communities while Apart.
Don’t try to be purr-fect …
Adapt – One of Jared’s colleagues provided a shot of her setup while conducting an online class from home.
Eventually you can improve your home setup. Here are shots of a more carefully planned home studio.
Dr. Borup concludes with videos covering a spectrum of his work online shot through the https://www.EdConnect.app/
Next it was Dr. Joan Kang’s turn to talk about props for online classrooms.
She advises: start with what you have:
Here she is conducting a treasure hunt at her home, armed with a hopper.
Wed 22 Apr 1800 UTC – Dave Cormier and Bonnie Stewart are giving webinars on tools for online learning
In describing his week-longteacher-training courses for colleagues in Canada, Dave provides copious resources (slides, videos).
“Key outcome – They got it. In one week people went from being nervous, sure they were going to do 2 hour live lectures every week and thinking they wanted to make the machine go PING! to thinking about how they could have a great class online. Like they really got it. We treated them like smart people, told them they were going to have to figure out the tech, supported them as much as we possible could and talked all day about pedagogies of care… and they got it.”
With Dave as their guide, how could they not get it?
The second and third webinars will take a sharper look at the tools available for students according to their age and grade. Those sessions will also offer teachers the opportunity to ask questions through the chat room
and since the sessions are recorded they’ll be made available afterwards.
According to the article these events are at 2 a.m. where I am, but if you want to register, try these links
Previously, there must have been a Webinar 1, and then
Webinar #2: Elementary Education – Monday, April 20, 2 p.m. EDT / 1800 UTC
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On Tue Apr 21, 1400 UTC, Carla Arena presented in the TALIN2020 Zoom room on Amplifica – Nation-Wide Learning Experiences for Brazilian Students at home – a national project in Brazil to provide content for k-9 students plus help educators develop professionally.
This was incorrect — actually Learning2gether episode 452 and TALIN webinar #10 🙂
The name Simplifica was also incorrect. I remember at the time that I was googling it and and asking Carla for it’s link, but we missed on reconciling the name of the organization before, during, or after her presentation, when I created this post.
Now, August 15, 2020, Carla has posted about the 5th anniversary of AMPLIFICA
So I’ve gone back and corrected the name everywhere I could find it 🙂
More about TALIN
This was Learning2gether episode 452 and TALIN event #10
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
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Zoom Chat Logs
22:00:24 From Teresa : hi Susana!
22:01:01 From susana canelo : Hi Teresa !!
22:01:10 From susana canelo : Good to see you !!!
22:05:16 From susana canelo : learning on the go
22:15:51 From Teresa : hi Sus!
22:15:57 From Vance Stevens : when did you begin this project
22:21:22 From Sus Nyrop : I think this is extraordinary and apparently many projects are fast forward in this unusual period!
22:21:47 From susana canelo : yes , Sus !!
22:28:33 From Sus Nyrop : audio is falling out a bit…
22:29:02 From Teresa : yes, a bit, Sus!
22:29:14 From Vance Stevens : hopefully it will be put together properly in the recording
22:29:16 From Sus Nyrop : (already better)
22:30:17 From susana canelo : brilliant !!
22:33:18 From carlaarena : Lemann Foundation
22:33:23 From Sus Nyrop : https://www.robertlehmanfoundation.org/
22:34:10 From carlaarena : https://fundacaolemann.org.br/en
22:35:05 From susana canelo : thanks !!
22:35:09 From Sus Nyrop : My link was not the right one, but still interesting
22:37:28 From susana canelo : What education authorities in Argentina are sending is really poor.
22:38:35 From susana canelo : still teacher centered
22:42:15 From Sus Nyrop : You are using “telegram”..?
22:44:45 From Sus Nyrop : I haven’t even tried whatsapp. I am lagging behind these days
22:47:05 From Laine Marshall : “Anyway”
22:48:09 From susana canelo : frozen
22:48:13 From Laine Marshall : suzy and maggie roche
22:48:23 From Laine Marshall : https://youtu.be/83KXqVFaWYk
22:50:04 From Laine Marshall : song to inspire you to do it “anyway”
22:58:13 From Laine Marshall : *suzzy*
Earlier Events
Sun 19 April noon UTC Barbara Dieu, Michael Coghlan and Vance Stevens host weekly Webeads in Action – TALIN hangout meeting
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Getting back to Sundays, noon GMT, right where we started 20 years ago, on 19 April Barbara Dieu, Michael Coghlan and Vance Stevens hosted yet another weekly Webeads in Action – TALIN hangout meeting – yet another meeting in the TALIN2020 Zoom room where we gather to talk about Life in the Time of COVID 19 and take an opportunity to spend some time together and talk about how we’re spending our lockdown days. Or anything else that may be on your mind :), as Michael puts it.
As it turned out, we ended up by talking about some of the finer points of using Zoom. We shared numerous tips on apps to use with students when teaching onlline, and you can find these in the text chat below. Laine shared her personal list of Zoom keyboard shortcuts from her Google Drive and a video of how to assign a co-host (in the chat) and Nahir walked us through using the shared whiteboard (lacks a way to insert images it turns out). If you’re looking for such tips, you’ll find it valuable to replay the video.
The meeting today was attended by, in the order of appearance in the video, Barbara Dieu or Bee as we affectionately know her, Vance and Bobbi Stevens, Michael Coghlan, Sus Nyrop, Laine Marshall, Doris Molero, Daf (Dafne Gonzalez), Nina Liakos, Lorena Zurbano, Rita Zeinstejer, and Nahir Aparicio, with Chris Fry and Michael Birch appearing in the text chat, the latter to inform us that we were competing with Adrian Underhill in the IATEFL Global Get-together, which was at that moment in its second day of broadcast.
Michael Birch made the right choice. I assumed that if you missed one, you should be able to find a recording of the other, but looking for the IATEFL event recordings I found this notice on the IATEFL website: Members of IATEFL will have access to the recordings of these sessions after the event, by logging into the ‘My Resources‘ section of the IATEFL website
This was the 4th of our resurrected Webheads in Action weekly meetings, to revive those that were held regularly for the first decade of this century in various online spaces, traditionally at noon UTC on Sundays.
These meetings tend to be free-form and are tailored to the interests of whomever turns up, unless someone sets an agenda beforehand
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
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Zoom Chat Logs
20:01:13 From Chris Fry : sorry. I won’t be able to make it today. I’ll watch the recording
20:01:28 From Bee : http://jitsi.org
20:03:00 From Chris Fry : I have tried jitsi meet, but prefer Zoom
20:04:21 From Michael Birch : Hi Sorry I’m sort of half here – I’ve got Adrian Underhill doing IATEFL talk.
20:07:28 From Daf : hi everyone!
20:07:57 From Bee : Hi there!
20:17:59 From Rita Zeinstejer : tahank you, Vance 😉
20:19:41 From Vance Stevens : some network thing Rita, nothing I could do
20:21:38 From Vance Stevens : I have set up this for suggestions of what works, https://tinyurl.com/covid19teaching
From Doris’s Facebook post
20:23:32 From Sus Nyrop : I have found that the Zoom background only works in GREEA, which means that anything GREEN will get the desired background! Including myself in my green cardigan.
20:23:56 From Doris Molero : Exactly.. Sus
20:24:12 From Sus Nyrop : an interesting feature I think 🙂
20:25:00 From Vance Stevens : BeRGuest scenario
20:25:13 From Vance Stevens : BRGuest?
20:25:27 From Rita Zeinstejer : good idea!
20:26:39 From Sus Nyrop : We had a collaboration with another web head in Belarus, called The Mystery Guest. Sergei Grid was the name. students were thrilled and quite active talking and asking questions
20:27:09 From Vance Stevens : sergei! cool, get him here next Sunday
20:28:44 From Daf : hi Nahir!
20:29:24 From Nahir Aparicio : Hi Daf!
20:32:01 From Doris Molero : Besitos Nahir!!!
20:32:19 From Nahir Aparicio : Besitos Doris!
20:32:23 From Nahir Aparicio : and to all!
20:32:30 From Vance Stevens : how to work with Jamboard
20:33:22 From Vance Stevens : besitos grandes
20:33:29 From Nahir Aparicio : I seem to have lost my voice . It’s good it didn’t happen during my class yesterday
20:34:00 From Vance Stevens : can you do a system check on your mic Nahir
20:34:36 From Nahir Aparicio : will do
20:37:29 From Nahir Aparicio : There is a whiteboard in Zoom
20:41:31 From Vance Stevens : https://www.screencast.com/t/kHyt1bLkbaD
From Doris’s Facebook post
20:42:02 From Bee : Kahoot
20:42:06 From Vance Stevens : live worksheets
20:42:07 From Bee : Live Work Sheets
20:42:07 From Daf : liveworksheets
20:42:19 From Michael Coghlan : Learning in Real Time – Jonathan Finkelstein
20:42:35 From Vance Stevens : do you have a link Michael?
20:42:44 From Michael Coghlan : let’s see
20:43:16 From Bee : I use Edpuzzle for questions on videos – it can be connected to Google Classroom
20:43:24 From Michael Coghlan : https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Learning+in+Real+Time:+Synchronous+Teaching+and+Learning+Online-p-9780787979218
20:43:47 From Doris Molero : Edpuzzles
20:44:03 From Vance Stevens : playposit as well
20:44:18 From Sus Nyrop : whatever happened to learning times?
20:44:27 From Vance Stevens : it’s still there, available
20:44:41 From Laine Marshall : PlayPosit took over Zaption – so it’s basically the same as that
20:45:13 From Daf : jigzone
20:45:16 From Doris Molero : jeesaw
20:45:18 From Vance Stevens : I thought it was something canon
20:45:23 From Doris Molero : jigzone
20:46:30 From Michael Coghlan : https://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/effective-facilitation-of-synchronous-environments
20:47:01 From Sus Nyrop : Daf also mentioned Kahoot. My first experiences were not so happy, participants not getting the idea of a mindmap
20:48:37 From Sus Nyrop : solitude?
20:48:43 From Nina Liakos : Self Organized Learning Environment (India) SOLE
20:48:53 From Bee : Ok…Mitra
20:54:21 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : SOLE is very effective for reading comprehension too
20:55:23 From Nina Liakos : CTRL A
20:56:54 From Laine Marshall : When you Skype chat session is completed, right-click on any of the messages in the conversation and choose “Select All” from the dropdown menu.
With all of the messages selected, right-click on any message and choose “Copy Selection” from the dropdown menu.
20:57:01 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Organised_Learning_Environment
20:57:48 From Vance Stevens : http://learning2gether.net
21:03:32 From Vance Stevens : this is what I see https://www.screencast.com/t/CBfQ0DwP8
21:05:15 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : For Zoom, are the settings different for different memberships? With Zoom Pro membership, we seem to have two hosts and also breakout rooms on demand and without presenting this.
21:05:27 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : *pre-setting
21:05:41 From Vance Stevens : https://www.screencast.com/t/im3MeC1eyR
21:05:41 From Laine Marshall : Keyboard Shortcuts for Zoom: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMF-IXZDNs9d_WuPWJF8A6-4CLxgZGJx/view?usp=sharing
21:07:45 From Sus Nyrop : Vancec, are you a pro zoom user?
21:07:50 From Vance Stevens : thanks laine
21:07:57 From Vance Stevens : TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
21:08:06 From Vance Stevens : yes I am a pro zoom user
21:08:41 From Daf : same here
21:08:51 From Bee : I think that they have lifted the time limit
21:09:04 From Bee : For secondary schools at least
21:09:10 From Daf : I usually have 1 hour sessions
21:09:27 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : Zoom are currently offering this for free to schools
21:09:54 From Bee : Yes, Lorena. This is what I have read.
21:16:51 From Doris Molero : F.U.N (Frivolous Unanticipated Nonsense, http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun15.htm)
21:23:26 From Sus Nyrop : I think this is another reason to have a co -host (just like we did in Learningtimes back then)
21:23:48 From Sus Nyrop : co-host can help as door keeper
21:26:08 From Sus Nyrop : Laine – you are my hero! you are producing learning material all along!
21:27:18 From Laine Marshall : How to make co-host and also get gallery view
21:27:21 From Laine Marshall : https://youtu.be/PTJyASY3F7E
Earlier Events
Tue 14 April 1400 UTC Laine Marshall presents SOFLA – Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach
Online teaching and learning are more critical now than it has ever been. Does your organization know how to make the shift from in-person teaching to a digital classroom? Maintaining standards for instruction, testing, and evaluation can be done online, but having the right tools and framework before getting started will set your organization up for success.
Attend our free, live webinar where we’ll talk about how your professional association, external training provider, or even higher ed institution transition from live events to online, all while maintaining a high standard of instruction.
You’ll learn:
How to shift to online teaching
What tools work best for validating skills
How to create a scalable, repeatable teaching course that drives demand for your organization
Fri 17 April 1600 UTC NileTESOL LTsig – New Opportunities in Online Teaching
As most of us are moving to online teaching these days, it’s important to know more about the opportunities we’re offered in this new mode of teaching. Nile Tesol LTSIG would like to invite you to its upcoming online event next Friday April 17th at 6pm Cairo Time (4pm GMT). The theme of the event is ‘New opportunities in online teaching’. Stay tuned for more details about the session topics, speakers and full program.
IATEFL held this special online event, the IATEFL Global Get-together, a two day professional development web event organised by IATEFL and offered free of charge to the worldwide English language teaching community,
Click on the links on this page to see the programme for that day and see the exciting range of speakers and sessions planned.
You do not need to register for this event, simply click on the link for the webinar room each day in order to join in.
If the webinar room is full at any time during either of the days, then head over to the IATEFL Facebook page where we will be sharing the event as well on Facebook Live.
We will not be offering certificates of attendance for this particular online event, and PowerPoints will not be made available during or after the event.
Members of IATEFL will have access to the recordings of these sessions after the event, by logging into the ‘My Resources’ section of the IATEFL website.
Sat April 18 0900 to 2000 UTC- Day 1 of the IATEFL Global Get-together
10.00 – 10.15 UK time – Welcome and introduction – Harry Kuchah Kuchah, President of IATEFL
10.15 – 11.00 UK time – What’s new in the English language? – David Crystal
Followed by …
11.15 – 12.00 UK time – Be a ‘smart’ teacher: focus on your wellbeing – Tammy Gregersen
12.15 – 13.00 UK time – IATEFL Associates getting together session 1 – Lou McLaughlin, Maria Marta Mora, David Fernando
13.15 – 13.45 UK time – Inclusive ELT materials: principles for design, selection and use – Alex Popovski, Anne Margaret Smith, David Valente, Rob Hill, Varinder Unlu
14.00 – 14.45 UK time – Observing ourselves – Will Nash
15.00 – 15.45 UK time – How to empower learners through the Sustainable Development Goals – Carol Read, IATEFL Past President
16.00 – 16.45 UK time – Integrated tasks in standardized assessment and positive washback – Yasemin Arşın
17.00 – 17.30 UK time – Thinking outside the box – Dana Poklepovic, BESIG Joint Coordinator – Mike Chick, representing ESOLSIG – Wayne Rimmer, representing PRONSIG
17.45 – 18.40 UK time – Tell us a timely tale – David Heathfield
18.45 – 20.00 UK time – IATEFL Quiz Night – Trustees, Shaun and Colin
Sun April 19 0700 to 1800 UTC- Day 2 of the IATEFL Global Get-together
11.00 – 11.45 UK time – Press PLAY, press REC; don’t press STOP: Enhancing video use – Gareth Rees
12.45 – 13.30 UK time – Kitchen table teaching: Affective teaching online – Adrian Underhill, Past President of IATEFL
13.45 – 14.30 UK time – In this classroom, you’re empowered, welcome and safe – Hala Ahmed
14.45 – 15.30 UK time – How do we teach when teaching online? – Laura Edwards
15.45 – 16.15 UK time – Sustainable online teaching and learning – Andy Hockley, Cecilia Lemos, Sophia Mavridi, Lawrie Moore, Tyson Seburn
16.30 – 17.15 UK time – Breaking down communication – Steve Lever
17.30 – 18.15 UK time – Panel: Moving to teaching online – Moderator: Andy Johnson; Panel: Andy Johnson, Heike Philp, Joshua Underwood, Sandy Millin
18.15 UK time – Close of IATEFL Global Get-Together 2020 – Gabriel Diaz Maggioli, Vice President of IATEFL
Recordings? On the IATEFL website it says Members of IATEFL will have access to the recordings of these sessions after the event, by logging into the ‘My Resources‘ section of the IATEFL website
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Laine Marshall presented this webinar in Zoom on
SOFLA, Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach
“for Webheads and everyone else….” on Tuesday, April 14, 1400 UTC (10 am in NY)
In her announcement, she included this
IMPORTANT NOTE: Pre-Work – This is Flipped PD, so there are a few short tasks to complete prior to the session. It won’t take long and it will make the session more enjoyable for you and for the group!
SOFLA Model: Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach (Marshall, 2017). most closely replicates actual classroom teaching and provides dynamic, interactive, spaces both asynchronously and synchronously to create fertile spaces for learning. The presenter takes the group through the eight steps of the model, which are presented for both teachers and professional developers: (1) Pre-Work; (2) Sign-in Activity; (3) Whole Group Application; (4) Breakout Group Activities; (5) Share-out Time; (6) Preview and Discovery; (7) Assignment/Follow-up; and (8) Reflections.
The last step in the SOFLA model is Reflection:
Use this link to reflect on your experience in the SOFLA session. This provides wrap-up for you and feedback for me!
This event was webinar #8 organized through TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
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Zoom Chat Logs
22:00:56 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : hi from Punta del Este! Uruguay
22:01:03 From Vicky Saumell : Hi, Susana!
22:01:08 From Youssef Zaky : Hi from Egypt
22:01:09 From Vicky Saumell : And Alicia!
22:01:20 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : Hi Vicky!
22:01:21 From Daf : Hi everyone!
22:01:25 From susana canelo : Hi Vicky !!!
22:01:30 From Montaser Ahmed : Hi everyone
22:01:42 From susana canelo : Wow Alicia !! It’s been a long time !
22:02:06 From Montaser Ahmed : Please mute everyone
22:02:20 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : Sure Susana!! so nice seeing you back again!
22:02:38 From Galaxy Note8 : hello from Egypt
22:05:37 From Vicky Saumell : Essential for flipping
22:05:40 From Laine Marshall : https://forms.gle/nzbH5ooYWApiC9cj9s://bit.ly/SOFLA-TALIN
22:05:48 From Youssef Zaky : It was such a short-three-task
22:06:03 From Youssef Zaky : I loved the article sOoOO much
22:06:15 From Youssef Zaky : YES
22:06:16 From Daf : yes
22:06:17 From Vicky Saumell : yes
22:06:18 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : yes
22:06:21 From Heather Smyser : yes
22:06:25 From susana canelo : yes
22:06:30 From Montaser Ahmed : No
22:08:10 From Youssef Zaky : I loved the article sOoOO much
22:08:15 From susana canelo : leave the link here please
22:08:22 From Vance Stevens : https://bit.ly/SOFLA-TALIN
22:10:11 From Youssef Zaky : The internet is NOT stable.
22:12:18 From rehab di : I have very slow internet connection also
22:12:26 From Vance Stevens : I think it will be ok on the recording
22:13:05 From Vance Stevens : welcome rihab and Yousef, where are you connecting from?
22:13:40 From Youssef Zaky : If I got your Q right, It’s from Egypt
22:14:38 From rehab di : I’m from Egypt
22:14:40 From Vicky Saumell : 3
22:14:41 From Heather Smyser : 3
22:14:44 From Daf : 3
22:14:47 From susana canelo : 3
22:14:47 From Youssef Zaky : 33333333
22:14:54 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : 3
22:14:56 From Maha Hassan : 4
22:14:57 From Vance Stevens : use it as often as is practical
22:14:57 From Jeff Skolnick : 3
22:15:00 From Vance Stevens : 3.5??
22:15:15 From Montaser Ahmed : 3
22:17:30 From Vicky Saumell : can we have the link for that?
22:17:52 From Laine Marshall : https://flippedlearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FLIP_handout_FNL_Web.pdf
22:18:46 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : 3
22:18:48 From Heather Smyser : 2
22:18:51 From Vicky Saumell : 3
22:18:53 From Vance Stevens : 3
22:18:58 From Daf : 3
22:19:04 From Youssef Zaky : 3
22:19:09 From Jeff Skolnick : 1 & 2
22:19:15 From susana canelo : 3
22:20:25 From Vance Stevens : I use Jing (techsmith)
22:21:08 From susana canelo : Jing, too
22:21:17 From Vance Stevens : MALF?
22:22:14 From Vance Stevens : 18 paticipants at the mometn
22:23:09 From Vance Stevens : 19 participants, welcome Somaia
22:23:49 From sandip jadhav : hi everyone!
22:24:00 From susana canelo : Hi
22:28:02 From Vance Stevens : thank you, ten at night here, what time is it for everyone else?
22:28:20 From Vicky Saumell : 11.30 am
22:28:27 From susana canelo : 11:27 a.m. in Argentina
22:28:28 From Daf : 16:30 In Spain
22:28:38 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : 11-30am in Uruguay
22:28:42 From Laine Marshall : http://go.playposit.com
22:28:45 From Vance Stevens : 🙂
22:30:25 From Jeff Skolnick : In Australia
22:31:46 From Youssef Zaky : YES
22:31:55 From susana canelo : yes
22:32:17 From Youssef Zaky : D
22:32:29 From Jeff Skolnick : B
22:32:30 From Vance Stevens : c or d
22:32:38 From Maha Hassan : b
22:32:41 From Vicky Saumell : D
22:32:44 From Daf : b
22:32:51 From Heather Smyser : b
22:32:58 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : b
22:33:02 From susana canelo : b
22:33:02 From sandip jadhav : b
22:33:07 From Youssef Zaky : B
22:33:08 From Soheir Albahrawy : b
22:33:28 From Vance Stevens : slap forehead 🙂
22:33:43 From Vicky Saumell : ha ha
22:33:43 From sandip jadhav : wow!
22:33:52 From sandip jadhav : instant feedback
22:34:30 From Vicky Saumell : 50%
22:34:31 From Vance Stevens : depends on how much the students are talking
22:34:33 From Jeff Skolnick : 50
22:34:40 From Maha Hassan : 25
22:34:43 From Vance Stevens : 75
22:34:43 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : 75
22:34:45 From Montaser Ahmed : 50
22:34:46 From Daf : 40 -50% depends on class
22:34:48 From Youssef Zaky : 10%
22:34:49 From Soheir Albahrawy : 10
22:35:05 From Galaxy Note8 : 75
22:35:25 From Vicky Saumell : I know it’s not about tools, but this is great!
22:36:08 From Youssef Zaky : 40%
22:36:11 From susana canelo : 20
22:36:14 From Vicky Saumell : 20%
22:36:34 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : all these questions are focused on online training, right?
22:36:34 From Jeff Skolnick : 20
22:36:38 From Somaia Elnaggar : 30
22:36:53 From Vance Stevens : mine just shout out, if they’re paying attention
22:37:04 From susana canelo : LOL
22:37:52 From Vicky Saumell : mine too!
22:38:42 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : true
22:38:44 From Vicky Saumell : true
22:38:48 From Daf : T
22:38:49 From Jeff Skolnick : True
22:38:49 From Kathleen Smith : true
22:38:56 From susana canelo : true
22:38:56 From Vance Stevens : I use edpuzzle, similar to play posit, true
22:38:59 From Youssef Zaky : Truly true
22:39:22 From Youssef Zaky to Vance Stevens(Privately) : Is there any free versions?
22:39:32 From Vicky Saumell : loved it!
22:39:38 From susana canelo : loved it !!!!
22:39:40 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : liked it
22:39:43 From Youssef Zaky : Liked it
22:39:43 From Vance Stevens to Youssef Zaky(Privately) : love everything you share
22:39:46 From Jeff Skolnick : I loved it!
22:39:51 From Montaser Ahmed : Loved it
22:40:41 From Vicky Saumell : new tool, new possibilities
22:40:54 From Montaser Ahmed : Great, but I guess it takes a lot of preparation
22:40:58 From Vance Stevens to Youssef Zaky(Privately) : because you push the OUTER edges of the envelope
22:41:24 From Vance Stevens to Youssef Zaky(Privately) : it’s ok, we can stick around
22:41:41 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : So, postit will be used to complement your synchronous class, right?
22:44:15 From Vance Stevens to Youssef Zaky(Privately) : which Pinker?
22:45:02 From Youssef Zaky to Vance Stevens(Privately) : Please, you are sending messages to ME ONLY, change the message sending option into “Everyone”
22:45:20 From Vance Stevens to Youssef Zaky(Privately) : darn, sorry
22:45:37 From Youssef Zaky to Vance Stevens(Privately) : No worries
22:46:38 From Vance Stevens : It defaults to the last one who contacted YOU and who notices that you status has changed. Zoom should fix this.
22:46:57 From Daf : how long are your synchronous classes?
22:47:36 From Vance Stevens : brb
22:47:45 From Vance Stevens : I’m listening
22:51:51 From Vance Stevens : take your time 🙂
22:53:33 From Laine Marshall : perusall.com
22:53:54 From Vance Stevens : http://perusall.com
22:55:41 From Vance Stevens : the only true social e-reader
22:56:13 From Vance Stevens : peruse all (I guess)
22:58:25 From Vance Stevens : we’ll open up for comments shortly
22:58:48 From susana canelo : Thanks !!
22:59:23 From Laine Marshall : https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/flipped-learning-in-tesol/188186
23:00:23 From Vance Stevens : no problem no time limits
23:01:39 From Vicky Saumell : yes
23:01:45 From Kathleen Smith : yes
23:01:45 From susana canelo : yes
23:01:47 From Daf : yes
23:03:12 From Laine Marshall : https://forms.gle/4JBsvhos85tqwcpTA https://bit.ly/Reflect-4-14-20
23:03:27 From Vance Stevens : https://forms.gle/4JBsvhos85tqwcpTA
23:04:05 From susana canelo : Thank YOU !!!
23:04:13 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : thanks for such ideas and eneergy!
23:04:14 From Vicky Saumell : Thanks! Seeing the framework in action was great!
23:04:34 From Daf : Thanks a lot, Laine!
23:10:20 From Vance Stevens : online learning, is it cold or is it WARM 2003
23:10:51 From Vance Stevens : liu Long Island University
23:12:46 From susana canelo : Videos should be short
23:14:16 From Montaser Ahmed : Where did you learn that from?
23:14:32 From Vance Stevens : EVO Electronic VIllage Online
23:14:48 From Vance Stevens : http://evosessions.pbworks.com
23:14:50 From Montaser Ahmed : Thanks
23:15:25 From Vicky Saumell : I’m afraid I have to go. Thanks for a lovely Session, Helaine!
23:15:26 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : all this is organized in….?
23:15:41 From Vance Stevens : free to use and share
23:15:59 From Vance Stevens : I use images.google.com advanced search
23:16:21 From Vance Stevens : advanced setting free to use and share
23:16:48 From Montaser Ahmed : Thank you so very much
23:16:58 From Montaser Ahmed : Awesome!
23:17:30 From Daf : Great pres, Laine!!!!
23:18:42 From Daf : You can use Moodle, Canvas, Edmodo
23:18:50 From Daf : me too
23:19:15 From Daf : I use Moodle and wikis (PBworks)
23:21:18 From Vance Stevens : and Second Life?
23:22:07 From Daf : gotta go. See yo soon!
23:22:25 From Daf : Thanks Laine and Vance!
23:22:32 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : Second Life….would be very useful nowadays
23:22:44 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : I used to teach back in times.
23:23:01 From Vance Stevens : 🙂
23:24:08 From susana canelo : Thanks for your inspiring words !!
23:25:38 From Vance Stevens : TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, more information at https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
23:25:40 From susana canelo : I’m sorry, I have to leave !!! Thanks !!
23:26:03 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : see you susana!
23:27:06 From Montaser Ahmed : Will the recording be made available?
23:27:17 From Laine Marshall : http://screencast-o-matic.com https://screencast-o-matic.com/blog/video-learning-spaces/
Professor Shares 3 Big Benefits Of Video Learning
23:29:29 From Alicia Barbitta – Focus Inglés Empresarial : Thanks Vance and Laine indeed. I must leave. I always follow emails for years. See you next time!
23:29:47 From Vance Stevens : https://learning2gether.net
23:30:53 From Maha Hassan : Thank you Laine. Thank you Vance. I have to leave now. See u soon. Stay safe
23:32:37 From Vance Stevens : best Maha
23:33:57 From Laine Marshall : LearningRevolution.com See the schedule
23:34:21 From Laine Marshall : Friday April 17 : Online Pedagogy: It’s not just tech tools.
23:38:35 From Laine Marshall : David Rosen: Equivalencies, limitations, Advantages
23:41:00 From Laine Marshall : LINCS Community
23:41:59 From sandip jadhav : voice issue with me
23:42:03 From Vance Stevens : TALIN – Teaching and Learning in IsolatioN, more information at https://tinyurl.com/talin2020
Earlier Events
Mon 13 April noon UTC Vance Stevens and Michael Coghlan host weekly Webeads in Action – TALIN hangout meeting
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Join us for another Zoom meeting where we to talk about Life in the Time of COVID 19 – an opportunity to spend some time together and talk about how you’re spending your lockdown days. Or anything else that may be on your mind 🙂
This is the 3rd of what we hope will become a revival of the regular Webheads in Action weekly meetings that were held regularly for the first decade of this century in various online spaces, traditionally at noon UTC on Sundays.
These meetings tend to be free-form and are tailored to the interests of whomever turns up, unless someone sets an agenda beforehand
When? Monday, April 13th at Noon UTC
Where? Vance’s TALIN2020 Zoom room There were at least 14 participants present
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
In the video, I mentioned that there had been a change to the TALIN Google Doc and Facebook pages, but no one could tell me what it was. Maybe my cat knows …
We needed a logo , so my cat made one for me. He did a good job, but now I can’t find my mouse !! 🙂
Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC
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You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.
Zoom Chat Logs
20:03:03 From Michael Coghlan : Lovely backdrop Mbarek!
20:03:17 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : Hello
20:03:26 From Daf : Hi everyone!
20:03:43 From Michael Coghlan : Hi there Daf!!!
20:04:01 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : Dafne Gonzalez?
20:04:08 From sandip jadhav : hi everyone
This is sandip from India
20:04:28 From mbarek akaddar : Hi all
20:06:13 From Hala Fawzi : Hello lovely webheads
20:06:22 From susana canelo : Hello !!
20:06:37 From Hala Fawzi : WoW. Dafne is here. How amazing!
20:06:49 From Hala Fawzi : Hello Daf. Long time 🙂
20:07:41 From Hala Fawzi : Just like how I disappeared, but once a webhead forever a webhead 🙂
20:07:52 From Hala Fawzi : Hi Susana
20:08:11 From Hala Fawzi : Hello Nellie, the queen of Moodle!
20:08:33 From susana canelo : Hi Hala !! Great to have you here !
20:08:47 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : pls everyone mute when you are not speaking
20:09:12 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : we are hearing Minnarets
20:09:29 From Daf : Hi Michael!!!!
20:09:39 From Daf : Halinha!!!!
20:09:40 From susana canelo : Hi Michael !
20:10:29 From Daf : We missed you to halinha!
20:14:36 From Hala Fawzi : Missed you too, Dafinha!
20:15:38 From Hala Fawzi : Hi Sus!
20:15:43 From Daf : Sus!!!
20:16:23 From Hala Fawzi : OL
20:16:27 From Hala Fawzi : LOL
20:16:27 From Chris Fry : I wanted to share this offer from OUP https://www.oxfordlearnersbookshelf.com/
Support for teachers, parents and learners during Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Sign in or register for FREE access to 148 Graded Readers until 30 Jun 2020
You can listen to the readers, too!
20:16:51 From Nellie Deutsch : Thank you, Chris.
20:17:42 From Hala Fawzi : Yes
20:18:01 From Nellie Deutsch : Sometimes, you need to reload the class to renew your audio.
20:18:17 From Vance Stevens : https://www.oxfordlearnersbookshelf.com/
20:18:17 From Daf : Thanks Chris!
20:18:41 From susana canelo : I’m copying links.
20:18:56 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : Thank you 🙂
20:19:21 From susana canelo : Thanks Chris
20:19:46 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : Do you need an access code?
20:20:22 From Chris Fry : No just sign up. It’s free
20:20:22 From Hala Fawzi : https://elt.oup.com/?selLanguage=en&cc=us
20:20:34 From Nellie Deutsch : How many are teaching at F2F schools, remotely?
20:20:37 From mbarek akaddar : Sorry but I can’t hear anything. My audio system has aproblem
20:20:44 From Hala Fawzi : Thanks Chris.
20:21:23 From Chris Fry : We can hear you
20:21:26 From Daf : I have a problem with my screen. Will brb
20:22:39 From ElizabethA : Audible _ a book reading site_ has made all its children’s books free for the duration
20:26:21 From Daf : sounds great!
20:26:40 From Chris Fry : Wow!
20:28:22 From Daf : not here
20:28:35 From susana canelo : We don’t know , here in Argentina
20:28:54 From Vance Stevens : You can share links related to covid-19 here https://tinyurl.com/covid19teaching
20:29:17 From susana canelo : Thanks Vance !!
20:29:31 From sandip jadhav : in India shut down has been extended
20:30:28 From Vance Stevens : for how long Sandip?
20:31:24 From ElizabethA : here’s the British council 2 min videos for children https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/short-stories
20:31:34 From Vance Stevens : thanks
20:31:37 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : thank you Elizabeth
20:31:42 From Chris Fry : I’ve been watching a lot of webinars on these three sites Association for Language Learning TiLT http://www.all-london.org.uk/site/index.php/webinars/
20:32:17 From Chris Fry : British Council Teaching English webinars: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/support-teachers-teacher-educators
20:32:43 From Chris Fry : Teach from Home – Google Includes “For a step-by-step guide, download the Teach from Home Toolkit in your language” https://teachfromhome.google/intl/en/
20:34:00 From sandip jadhav : The federal authorities are keeping close eyes. In state of Maharashtra(mumbai) , districts have been categorized as red, orange and green zones. Red zone will have lock down,in remaining parts it will be lifted on 30 april
20:34:28 From Vance Stevens : we’re on lockdown till Apr 28 in Malaysia
20:34:46 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux to Vance Stevens(Privately) : wanted to add to what’s next in schools
20:34:54 From susana canelo : Difficult to manage, Sandip. Worrying indeed
20:35:12 From Hala Fawzi : I love this: Paying more!
20:35:13 From Chris Fry : This is where I watched the OUP webinars https://www.youtube.com/user/OUPELTGlobal
20:35:44 From Daf : We are in lockdown until april 26 but we have been told it might be extended until mid may
20:35:48 From Vance Stevens to Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux(Privately) : ok
20:36:01 From Hala Fawzi : It’s crazy
20:36:06 From Chris Fry : Try Edmodo instead of a LMS
20:36:24 From susana canelo : Using Classroom at the moment
20:37:00 From Daf : The main problem here are the students who have no access to technology
20:37:09 From susana canelo : Yes Daf
20:37:14 From Hala Fawzi : I agree, Daf!
20:39:05 From Daf : I’m scared about how our lives will change” after” this
20:39:46 From Daf : So nice to see you again Laine
20:40:28 From Vance Stevens : http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#Tue14April1400UTCLaineMarshallpresentsSOFLAnbspSynchronousOnlineFlippedLearningnbspApproach(note – this link will be moved to https://learning2gether.net in a post dated April 14, 2020)
20:40:32 From Sus Nyrop : I don’t really know what flipped learning is.
20:40:43 From Laine Marshall : Pre-work link https://forms.gle/nzbH5ooYWApiC9cj9
Bit.ly link: https://bit.ly/SOFLA-TALIN
20:41:11 From Nellie Deutsch : Pre is great if people bother to do it. Sorry… I’ve had no go with it when it comes to public meetings.
20:41:24 From Hala Fawzi : It’s invalid
20:41:32 From Chris Fry : I was interested to hear in one of Heike’s webinars that many teachers who have to teach online have been told that they and their students cannot use webcams
20:41:38 From Vance Stevens : try the other one
20:43:30 From Hala Fawzi : attended your session last week
20:45:36 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : Vance has to enable this in the setting
20:45:44 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : and then you can start it from the meeting
20:48:16 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : Elizabeth, you look changed!
20:50:52 From susana canelo : Wow !! What a question !!
20:51:25 From Elizabeth Anne : having difficulty finding the OUP download the app to work offline
20:52:07 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : @Elizabeth, do you have a tablet or an ipad?
20:52:22 From Hala Fawzi : They are not listened o especially if the parent are teachers, who happened to be busy with heir students.
20:53:37 From Vance Stevens : self management college in brighton?
20:54:08 From Vance Stevens : ian cunningham
20:54:24 From Daf : I’ve been helping teachers around here, but it should indeed be done internationally
20:55:23 From Hala Fawzi : There are many educators who have stories to tell the world after this is over
20:55:25 From susana canelo : A huge challenge Lorena
20:55:32 From Hala Fawzi : Stores to tell
20:55:49 From Elizabeth Anne : @heike I went back to my laptop ( ipad memory limited)
20:56:07 From Laine Marshall : Here is one I am doing on Friday for Learning Revolution: For Learning Revolution, Online Global Conference, 4/17/20, Online Pedagogy
TITLE: The webinar you didn’t know you needed: Online Pedagogy – It’s not just tech tools.
Webinar Link: Go to http://LearningRevolution.com (Note: you need to join the free conference Learning Revolution to view the webinar) Link posted in Schedule of Conference, in your Time Zone, a few days ahead of the event. 11 am EDT
Pre-work link : https://forms.gle/ksuSnURrpx4B9F5b7 or http://bit.ly/Pedagogy-LearningRevolution
Short Session Description: With the focus on tools for instructional technology, there comes an expectation that pedagogy remains essentially the same. This is clearly not the case, as this webinar demonstrates. Learn how to Create Fertile Spaces for teaching and learning online.
20:56:45 From Hala Fawzi : Thank you for sharing
20:56:54 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : I was talking about Dr Ian Cunningham. He founded the Self-Managed Learning college in Brighton.
20:57:30 From Nellie Deutsch : Thank you, Lorena.
20:57:40 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : you are welcome:)
20:57:45 From susana canelo : Thanks Lorena !!
20:58:35 From Vance Stevens : http://tinyurl.com/talin2020
20:58:42 From Daf : Maybe from now on they will start looking for information
20:59:43 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : Can I tell you more about the Virtual Round Table and an invitation for symposium moderators?
20:59:46 From Hala Fawzi : I have to go now. It was great being around you
20:59:59 From Hala Fawzi : Stay safe dear webheads
21:00:14 From susana canelo : Stay Safe , too
21:00:15 From Hala Fawzi : Bye all
21:00:22 From susana canelo : bye
21:00:25 From Daf : bye for now, halinha
21:01:12 From Nellie Deutsch : Actually, it’s 27 years.
21:01:13 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : @Sandip pls mute
21:01:37 From sandip jadhav : sorry
21:02:30 From Vance Stevens : no problem, you’ve been very good about thiat in this session
21:02:34 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : amazingk
21:02:48 From Sus Nyrop : @sandip it was very sweet to hear a child’s voice.
21:03:20 From susana canelo : Everywhere the same problem
21:03:33 From susana canelo : Teachers here use WhatsApp !!!
21:03:37 From susana canelo : frustrating
21:03:40 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : haha
21:03:54 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : yes! when the learner is ready the teacher appears
21:04:42 From Daf : sounds good!
21:04:46 From sandip jadhav : that’s my daughter asking me to play with her
21:05:06 From susana canelo : Do it Sandip !!
21:05:21 From susana canelo : Hi Cat !!!
21:05:24 From Daf : remember our WIAOC unconference?
21:05:32 From sandip jadhav : her mum is taking care now
21:06:44 From Sus Nyrop : Goodbye for now, it is a pleasure to follow the TALIN development process. hugs at a distance, from Sus in Denmark!
21:06:55 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : bye Sus
21:07:03 From Daf : bfn Sus
21:07:56 From susana canelo : Same feeling
21:07:59 From Vance Stevens : from Lucy Grey, I am starting to host Zoom sessions for parents and educators interested in chatting and collaborating. I am not sure what this will look like or about dates and times, but if you are interested in participating, send me an email at lucy@globaledevents.com or follow me on Twitter @elemenous and the hashtag #globaled20.
21:08:46 From susana canelo : They want to do things the same way they’re used to.
21:10:13 From sandip jadhav : I am Nellie’s student
21:10:32 From sandip jadhav : one of the participants of Nellie’s moodle
21:10:48 From susana canelo : So I learnt a lot from you, Nellie !!
21:11:02 From Vance Stevens : Link to this doc: http://bit.ly/thedailyconnect
21:13:21 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : I just signed up on the Learning Revolution NING site, the first page kills you with the amount of links mentioned there…
21:14:24 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : Be invited to the Virtual Round Table Web Conference 7-9 May, http://www.virtual-round-table.com – am looking for symposiums
21:15:38 From Michael Coghlan : I need to go everyone = lovely to see you all ….
21:15:51 From Chris Fry : Useful language for distance learning https://www.luizotaviobarros.com/useful-language-distance-learning/
I found this very amusing and potentially useful for students
21:15:52 From Lorena Zurbano Ruiz-Casaux : Thank you
21:16:08 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : thanks Chris
21:16:28 From Daf : Nice seeing you all guys!!!!
21:16:31 From Elizabeth Anne : bye everyone 🙂
21:16:36 From Elizabeth Anne : thx
21:16:39 From susana canelo : Thanks everybody !!!
21:16:47 From susana canelo : Thanks Vance !!!
21:16:59 From Daf : thanks! Glad to be back here!
21:17:22 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : LOVE – Live Online Virtual Engagement?
21:17:26 From Daf : my food is in the oven. Late lunch
21:17:37 From Chris Fry : Thanks everyone. See you on Sunday
21:18:13 From Daf : bye everyone!
21:18:31 From Heike Philp let’s talk online : hi DaF – drop me your email
Earlier Events
that happened since the most recent previous Learning2gther post
Fri 10 Apr 1400 UTC Susana Canelo on TALIN talking about Quarantine Experiences
Fri 10 Apr 1600 UTC – NileTESOL TESG webinar on Teaching and Developing Speaking Skills
TESIG would like to invite you to their first online live event on Zoom application that will take place on Friday, April 10th at 6:00 p.m. The event includes three informative and engaging sessions which will help you teach speaking virtually and online in this hectic time.
The sessions will be recorded and you will not miss anything.
Susana Canelo proposed this Zoom meeting to share “Quarantine experiences, teen students in Argentina and Webheads – How a class opened up to the world to make everyone feel that we are in the same boat.”
She was joined in this event by Vance Stevens and Buthaina Alothman. and was planning to share the story behind her recent meeting with Webheads in Action: Buthaina, Ibrahim, Ramona and Bahana
The meeting was held in Susana’s Zoom Room, giving Vance permisson to record on Fri Apr 10 – 11:00 a.m. in Buenos Aires, 14:00 UTC
And here is Susana’s version of the event on Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/406616725. Hers might be a little different from mine (Vance’s) since she was the host of the event, and I was recording what I saw in my view of the Zoom event.
The idea for TALIN was prompted by suggestions in numerous cross-fertilizing communities of practice that there was needed a space where members of these CoPs could meet online and talk informally to one another about how they are dealing with changes in their personal and professional contexts and what they are doing to help others in this trying time of pandemic.
Learning2gether can host TALIN events in Zoom during times of isolation/lockdown if they are intended to be recorded and shared with the wider community, and if they take place between 02:00-14:00 UTC
Click on “Request Edit Access” to the left of your profile picture at the top of the page
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Write in your event on the schedule. Give the time in UTC if you can, and give the time in your location also as a double check on time
You can host the event yourself, but if you want Learning2gether to host it and promote it, please allow enough time to check that I am available, at least a few days in advance.
Thu 9 April 11a.m. in Columbia – Martha Ramirez on Polleverywhere
I saw this on the morning of April 10 in Penang Malaysia. It was posted yesterday in Colombia but I’m not sure when that would have been since it’s was still yesterday in Colombia when I saw it just now. It says the event is tomorrow. Let’s check the video link
Martha’s presentation on Polleverywhere starts at 2:05:17… it’s in Spanish 🙂 and it was at first not permissible for embedding: https://youtu.be/5KNtoGCrhhQ?t=7517
but that appears to have changed, so here it is:
Here’s another one by the prolific Martha Ramirez, posted on Facebook April 17, 2020
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