Heike Philp took us through the highlights of various online conferences she has organized, been a part of, and most importantly, recorded.
As Heike said: “Top level guest speakers, a global audience, a lively chat and a sharing of know-how can all be had from the comfort of your home. What inspired me to start the first web conference was however another reason because truly I love to travel to conference just as much as attending them. What motivated me to run web conferences is the fact that there are so many parallel sessions at each conference! One can actually spend all of this time and money and attend the conference and still miss more than half of the program. Not so in the case of web conferences. During a web conference all of the sessions can be recorded. And they are being watched … “
Noting that the Virtual Round Table WebCon, the DaFWEBKON for teachers of German, and the SLanguages Annual Symposium attracted some 4,500 synchronous participants in total, but that the recordings have been watched over 23,000 times, Heike supports the proposition that these recordings may serve as the ‘Khanacademy for language teachers’.
Sunday, January 15, 2012 – Special EVO Triple-header, all but a small part of a SUPER SUNDAY of STREAMING instigated by Jeff Lebow; see http://jefflebow.net/node/283
EVO Open Hangout (part 1) – Stop by the Google+ Hangout to share EVO Week#1 discoveries, challenges, confusions and/or just some quality webhead connnection time
Next was the first in a series of EVO sessions, where we invite EVO Moderators to join us at around this time the next few Sundays to discuss their sessions with other EVO participants at large, from noon GMT to 13:30 GMT –
In this event we hear from the moderator of MachinEVO, Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi
MachinEVO is an EVO sessions workshop for video productions of language learning conversations in Second Life http://machinevo.pbworks.com http://machinevo.ning.com
MachinEVO is all about producing films of language learning conversations undertaken in Second Life. A film of Second Life (SL) is called a machinima and it is derived from a combination of machine and cinema. Essentially it means recording the screen of the application Second Life. A machininma uploaded onto a video sharing site may also be playing on a mobile app increasing the accessibility of these productions.
Location: The session took place in Second Life, at EduNation and English City
for more details including the meeting room URL posted nearer the time of the event.
An hour after this finishes… The TESOL EVO/IATEFL LT SIG session ‘Teaching and Learning Languages through Gamification’ has its first synchronous session on Sunday 15th January at 17.00 GMT
00:00GMT –http://bit.ly/y4YvFJ – EdTechWeekly#208 – Dave Cormier, Jeff Lebow, Jennifer Maddrell, & John Schinker return from another hiatus to catch-up on the latest edtech new and topics (this will also be streamed at edtechtalk.com/live which will likely have the more active chat room)
01:00GMT – http://bit.ly/ACzejO – EVO2012 Open Hangout (part 2) – For those who are unable to participate in part#1 and/or want more hangout time.
