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Learning2gether with Jim Buckingham on Badges – an EVO MultiMOOC session

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Learning2gether Episode 197


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Sun Jan 19 1400 GMT Jim Buckingham – Badges and MultiMOOC

An Electronic Village Online event for Week 1 (Orientation) in MultiMOOC EVO session

Where: Google+Hangout

LiveStream

Time: 1400 GMT – Apologies, but our Google announcement was not correct
http://screencast.com/t/rADUoBLog

What’s it about? Jim Buckingham explains the concept of badges and how this concept applies in the MultiMOOC EVO session. In his words: ” I’m going to be hopefully sharing my interest and enthusiasm for what I think is likely to be one of the most fascinating Tech applications and strategies to impact on Education – Open Digital Badges in the foreseeable future. It has to rank up there with at least two other themes that are also attracting a great deal of my attention – MOOCs and Learning Analytics.”

I’ve been focusing on Open Digital Badges for a while now.. Was hoping for a pause to pursue an interest in exploring the other two but that just hasn’t happened yet.

My plan? Introduce you to Open Badges, evoke some comments on the topic, forward a draft on how we could proceed next, solicit your opinions on this, make the necessary revisions to that plan, and (in the interests of “connectivism”) see where we might go next.

Vance and Jim prepared for our event in this short video

Some URLs

Announcements

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MultiMOOC has been following Rhizo14

Fri Jan 17 Rhizo14 Hangout on Reconceiving Cheating in an era of Abundance


The above is audio from Dave Cormier and Rhizo14 Hangout this week (and without the long mic-mute gaps in the middle)
Download here:
https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/rhizo14-week1-cheating-as-learning_cut.mp3

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https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/event/rhizo14

http://davecormier.com/edblog/2014/01/16/rhizo14-live-session-unhangout/

Earlier this week

This event occurred at the end of the first week of EVO, Electronic Village Online, Jan 12-Feb 16, 2014.  Accordingly, there were numerous online events the previous week which we were following on Learning2gether and MultiMOOC.

Here is a sampling:

The official EVO BbC Elluminate Calendar

And check out http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen

Tue Jan 14 ePerfect Textbook EVO event – Using Google Hangouts for peer editing

Shelly Terrell will show how to use Google HangOuts to provide collaborative peer feedback to a Google Doc. She will also demonstrate how to add apps and use scripts to amplify your Google Drive.

The event (in Hangout) is listed here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cmff22nkun9btqfen7qchguv2kc

Tue Jan 14 NNEST EVO event – Myths and misconceptions about NNEST

Details: http://nnestevo2014.pbworks.com/w/page/70689274/Week1

In Webheads Elluminate vRoom http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Session Recording
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2014-01-14.0450.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75 

Tue Jan 14 ICT4ELT EVO event – The ins and outs of Yahoo Groups and Pbworks

Reminder from: ict4elt2014 Yahoo Group
Venue: Webheads Elluminate vRoom http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
Title: “The ins and outs of Yahoo Groups and Pbworks” with Teresa d’Almeida d’Eca & Fernanda Rodrigues
Recording: http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/w/page/72953672/The%20First%20Live%20Session 

Recording of the session on 15 January 2014:
FAST TRACK RECORDING of Session 1, Wed 15 Jan 2014 (1h35min) : http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p6oqgdtwnvc/—-
FILM CREW GROUP BUILDING, RECORDING of Session 1, Wed 15 Jan 2014 (1h36min):http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p4f7fu5zn18/

Wed Jan 15 EVO Mentoring session webinar with the Mentoring SIG at IATEFL Hungary

talking about setting up a mentor course and how learning about mentoring has impacted the professional life of the participants.

Where? Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Thanks to an ongoing grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/

Jan 16  iPad seminar

Host: http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/webinars

  • January 15th/16th: Creativity & Learning with iPads with guests Richard Wells (@iPadWells) from Auckland, New Zealand and Paul Hamilton (@PaulHamilton8) from Sunshine Coast, Australia
    Too often, iPads are viewed solely as consumption devices – good for little more than checking email and online research. However, in schools around the world, teachers are proving this theory wrong. Join Richard Wells (@iPadWells) and Paul Hamilton (@PaulHamilton8), as well as EdTechTeacher’s Shawn McCusker and Beth Holland, as they explore how iPads can inspire creativity and empower students to become creators of their own learning.

Wed Jan 15 Teachers Teaching Teachers

EdTechTalk – Teachers Teaching Teachers,

Teachers Teaching Teachers Studio and Chat hosted weekly by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community.

From the Learning Revolution calendar here http://learningrevolution.com/

Thu Jan 16 2nd Twitter chat for MOOC on Digital Curation

The second Twitter chat for the DIgital Curation MOOC is on Thursday 16th January at 9pm UK time.

If you missed the first one you can catch up here: http://storify.com/CredibleU/highlights-from-the-first-dcurate-twitter-chat

More info on this MOOC here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/71257706/2014_MoreMOOCs#MOOConDigitalCuration

Fri 17 Jan Stephen Krashen – Three topics

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Recording: http://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/p3t89mvge2t/

Fri Jan 17 1300 GMT EVO14: Why CLIL now?

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1590270-evo14-why-clil-now

Fri Jan 17, 2014 1pm – 2pm GMT (no daylight saving)

Nellie Deutsch – organizer

Sat Jan 18 1200 EST CR20 LIVE Weekly Show

CR20 LIVE Weekly Show – EduClipper and EduTecher Updates with Adam Bellow, Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular “live” web meetings. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this!

From the Learning Revolution calendar here http://learningrevolution.com/

Adam Bellow returning to provide us with information and updates on his amazing web tools and apps: eduClipper and eduTecher! This is a presentation you won’t want to miss! Adam Bellow is the Founder and President of eduTecher and eduClipper, free web tools that help students and teachers discover the best resources to enhance learning in and out of the classroom. Adam was invited to be the closing keynote speaker for the ISTE 2013 Conference in San Antonio and with his speech “Change the World” kept the crowd in the palm of his hand with a presentation infused with energy, humor and optimism receiving a rousing, standing ovation from all of us in the audience. He shared his passion for how technology can transform teaching and learning to make a difference in students’ lives. He is a co-author with Steve Dembo of “Untangling the Web: 20 Tools to Power Up Your Teaching,” a book available both as both a print version and an interactive ebook that features 20 web sites and tools with teaching tips and an online community to connect with other educators. Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular “live” web meetings. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Details to join the webinar: http://live.classroom20.com Follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20 Thanks so much for being a part of this community!

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Sun 19 Jan 1100 GMT Alexander Sokol – Path to family learning

“A Path to Family Learning (that can also be walked by some teachers)”

An EVO Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers event

More information here: http://yltsigevo2014.wordpress.com/times-dates/

Claire and Marc Siskin: LiveCode for Everyone!

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Learning2gether Episode 157

Sun Apr 28


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LiveCode is powerful but easy-to-use software that can be used to create language learning activities. It can now be used to create apps for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The apps can run on either IOS or Android devices.

The exciting news is that LiveCode is now for everyone! Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, LiveCode is now an open source product: http://www.runrev.com/products/Open-Source/Community-Edition-Overview/

The presenters will provide some brief background information about LiveCode and demonstrate some of its capabilities. They will explain how crowdfunding works. They will outline the process of going from a LiveCode stack (file) to a mobile app.

Recording:

Where: Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) generously provided by http://learningtimes.org 

Resources for LiveCode: http://www.edvista.com/claire/rev/ 

Shelly Terrell – Bring Your Own Devices

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Learning2gether Episode 156

Friday April 26th

Download: https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2013apr26shellyterrell-64k.mp3

Link: bit.ly/mlearningLINKS

What? 

Shelly will be highlighting experiences, lesson ideas, tips, and more from her recent BYOD training and classes in Slovenia and Croatia. See how to implement projects with various devices, how to prepare to work with large groups, troubleshooting problems such as no Internet connection and much more.

Recording

Where? Webheads Elluminate Webinar room http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

More info: http://edtechreview.in/index.php/dictionary/278-what-is-byod-byot

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Announcements:

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Evelyn Izquierdo and Miguel Mendoza on Podcasting, web-based recordings and videocasts: Dynamic and interactive ways to provide feedback

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Learning2gether Episode 155

Sun Apr 21, 2013

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Presentation deriving from their Electronic Village Online session, which Evelyn and Mike presented at the International TESOL Convention in Dallas, Texas, March, 2013

Elluminate Recording 

Where?

What?

During the last decade, the use of podcasts, web-based recordings and videocasts have become very popular in the ELT field, since they are powerful asynchronous tools for ESL/EFL students to learn the target language, develop and/or enhance oral skills, especially listening/speaking. However, these tools are not only excellent resources for students, but for teachers. They can be used to evaluate, provide feedback, or as means to reinforce classroom activities. In this session, Evelyn and Miguel will be sharing their experience in the use of screencasting to provide feedback in an interesting, dynamic and interactive way to ESL/EFL teachers who have taken the Podcasting 2011, 2012, & 2013 EVO sessions.

Handout with references:  http://bit.ly/WNwZHc

During the session, Evelyn shared these links:

Announcements:

Learning2gether with Maria Bossa – Brighten and Lighten your class with Web 2.0

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Learning2gether Episode 154

Download here:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2013apr14mariabossa-10-001-64k.mp3

We used this link to help us put in the URLs to Maria’s tools:

http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/Learning2gether_from_Maria_Bossa

Maria Bossa presented what she did for Cintia Costa, who reached out to Webheads to stimulate connections between the world at large and her students in Amazonia. In that presentation, Maria explained via Skype what she uses in her classes, including written material and online resources, as shown in the PPT made for that session.

http://es.slideshare.net/Pescada/brigthen-up-your-class-with-web-2

This has been a chance to record that presentation for a wider audience.

Where? Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate)

Bb Collaborate / Elluminate Recording 

Slides:

Brighten up your class with web 2.0 tools and recycled stuff… “A bit of creativity, tons of online resources and a small quantity of old things can make your class a different one”.

Tools and links mentioned:

Tools mentioned:

Tools to create AVATARS

Tools for digital storytelling

Songs

Videos

Extra tools – Different uses

Time to celebrate

  • Animal’s Day
  • Father’s Day
  • Mother’s Day

Tons of thanks & smiles to…

Sugata Mitra SOLE self-organized learning environment

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Announcements

Heike Philp – Web conferences for Continuous Professional Development

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Learning2gether Episode 145


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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’.

Recording 

(1h1min) http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p714rnpwb9s/

 

5th Virtual Round Table Web Conference

on Language Learning Technologies

17-19 May 2013

 

1st Virtual Round Table Conference November 2009

2nd Virtual Round Table Conference March 2010

3rd Virtual Round Table Conference 8-9 October 2010

4rth Virtual Round Table Conference 25-27 March 2011

5th Virtual Round Table Conference 20-22 April 2012

2. DaFWebKon 2013

3-4 March 2013

http://www.dafwebkon.com

SLanguages Annual Symposium

27-29 September 2013

4th SLanguage Annual Symposium October 2010

5th SLanguage Annual Symposium September 2011

6th SLangauges Annual Symposium September 2012 (summary is coming soon)

Story Sharing Web Conference 

of British Council Turkey

9th/ 10th February 2013

RSCON 

Reform Symposium

worldwide e.conference

3-5 May 2013

Announcements:

Heike followed up this event with a Film Festival later the same day

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19H4Hq1kSMccgF_1AqCGxgViWUHAFyArSCoMvpYQ-wjg/viewform

This was a final event in the 2013 MachinEVO session: http://machinevo.pbworks.com/

Vance Stevens hosts a post-EVO MultiMOOC streamed Hangout wrap-up

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Learning2gether Episode 144

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Here are the mp3 recording and YouTube link from this Hangout with Claire Siskin, Chris Fry, and Jeff Lebow.  Topics ranged from the full story of griefer-spammer James O’Reilly through to what we learned from MultiMOOC. And there’s more about that in the last just updated blog post at http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/applying-what-we-learned-in-multimooc-in-evo/ revising Writingmatrix so that it can once again share student writing worldwide.

Having got the hang(out) of it, Vance Stevens streamed a Google+ Hangout even more smoothly than was done last week and archived at these locations:

Topic? Discuss what we learned in MultiMOOC

Who? 

We were joined by Claire Bradin Siskin, Chris Fry, and Jeff Lebow among others

 

Where? 

Recording

What do you need to do?

  1. Listen in and view the stream and interact in text at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
    1. No special equipment needed apart from
      1. browser
      2. listening device
  2. Join the hangout (optional, but encouraged)
    1. Log in to Google+ / Gmail acct with Google ID / password
    2. Click on link to be provided on the day to join the Hangout
      1. Wear a HEADSET to avoid causing echo feed from speakers to mic
      2. Switch OFF the stream to avoid hearing distracting delayed offset broadcast repetition


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Announcements:

Dave Cormier discusses cMOOC and MultiMOOC, connectivism, and openness in learning

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Learning2gether Episode 139

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Venue

: Bb Collaborate / Elluminate, with thanks to http://learningtimes.org 

  • http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
  • Elluminate has been chosen over Hangout because there is a TILL Sunday Hangout event on ePortfolios at 15:00 that some MultiMOOC participants will be attending, and it will be easier to transition there from Elluminate rather than stopping one Hangout and joining another.

Recording:

Reaction:

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Dave talks here about his ideas on learning and differentiates the nature of what needs to be learned into David Snowden’s simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic.  cMOOCs he said were expecially good at promoting learning at the complex and chaotic levels.  Listen here and find out why.

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From the Wikipedia article on Cynefin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin

We expected to ask Dave about 

http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/08/08/response-to-critiques-of-open-course-educause-article-and-the-free-economy-generally/

And if conversation flags (not likely 🙂  …

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324339204578173421673664106.html

Announcements

Sun, Jan 20, 2013 – 15:00 GMT – Benjamin Stewart hosts TILL Sunday discussion of ePortfolios in Language Learning

The recording of the TILL Sunday event on ePortfolios in Language Learning, hosted by Benjamin Steward in a Hangout, is here
https://plus.google.com/102575233626552174136/posts/j8bQLxnNGxJ 


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On the agenda, 2 readings:

To this, Vance might add, for MultiMOOC participants: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/61341848/Me-Portfolios_2013  

Hangouts are created on the fly, so their URLs are not generated until just before the event.  Normally they are shared within circles.

If Benjamin Stewart and/or Vance Stevens are sharing circles with you, there are two things you can try

  1. you can Skype vancestev for more information
  2.  Also Vance will likely still be in Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ for the first 15 min of this event, with the recording off, and you can possibly find me there for text chat directions to the Hangout

 

If all else fails, try this next event
(looks like a GR8 DB8 but the Hangout will be interactive, whereas the following, though highly recommended, will be equally as entertaining as a recording) 

Sun, Jan 20, 2013 – 1500 GMT – IATEFL Webinar: ICT debate about IWBs

http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/263-20113-webinar-the-great-ict-debate.html

The great ICT Debate

IWBs: a fantastic teaching tool or non-interactive white elephant?
with Pete Sharma and Gavin Dudeney

Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have been around for a long time now. Few technologies have attracted such controversy. For some, they are a powerful teaching aid, while for others they are nothing more than an expensive waste of space, hopefully soon to RIP. Join us for this fascinating debate on the merits and future of the interactive whiteboard!

Pete Sharma will be defending IWBs, and Gavin Dudeney will be opposing.

Regarding the recording, at the above link, there is the following notice


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Jeff Lebow converges Hangout, Second Life, Elluminate, and WiZiQ for the EVO 2013 (Electronic Village Online) Mega-Launch

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Learning2gether Episode 137

Elluminate (Bb Collaborate) recording, thanks to http://learningtimes.org

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https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1197530-megalaunch-10-001-64k.mp3

Hangout recording

What was this about?

This is an annual EVO event where moderators for the EVO sessions listed at http://evosessions.pbworks.com meet from noon GMT in Google Hangout to talk about their sessions and take questions from interested participants.

Venue was to be decided, and turned out to be Google+ Hangout, Second LIfe, WiZiQ and Elluminate: http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/, all skillfully juggled by master wizard behind the curtain Jeff Lebow.

Ten people at a time can be in a Hangout, but the event was streamed so that anyone could listen to the stream while it was being broadcast or later via the recording.  The stream bounced in and out of Google+ Hangout, Second LIfe, WiZiQ, and  Elluminate, where people met up to speak about their sessions and get help if they were having trouble with Google Hangout.


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Participants had these instructions:

  • The stream URL or widget will appear at http://webheadsinaction.org/. There is also a text chat there.  You can visit there now to see last year’s example.
  • Anyone wishing to comment on the stream, or get help with Hangout can come to http://webheadsinaction.org/ and use the text chat there, or visit http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ for text and possibly voice chat.
  • The URL for the hangout will be available in those places and will be revealed at launch time.

Recordings:

What we planned would happen on Sunday

13:00 GMT, Jeff will start the hangout and we’ll start posting it’s URL wherever we can think of

13:30 (all times GMT) we’ll start gathering in the Hangout for mic checks and whatnot

 – Jeff will set up the stream and we’ll check that it works

 – Jeff will plant his audiobot in the Webheads Elluminate room so that the stream can be heard there

14:00 Jeff starts recording what’s going on in the Hangout

 – Those in the hangout can interact with us via voice and video (or avatar if it’s too early for that for you 🙂

 – Those listening to the stream at http://webheadsinaction.org/live can interact in text chat there

 – Those in Elluminate can hear the stream and interact in txt chat there, but the audiobot will have the mic

15:00 apprx we assess whether to continue in Hangout or move the show over to Elluminate

 – Jeff’s audiobot in Elluminate will release the mic and feed what is happening there to the stream

 – Participants in Elluminate can interact in audio and txt chat

 – Those in the stream at http://webheadsinaction.org/live can listen only but interact in text chat there

16:00 is Jeff’s bedtime and Vance’s dinnertime

Some caveats:

 – It might be best if all participants try to txt chat in the stream while the Hangout is in progress.  Txt chat in Elluminate is not visible to the stream chat and visa versa

 – If you are listening to the stream and then join the hangout or Elluminate room, mute the stream to avoid double audio

 – If planning to speak in the Hangout, please use a headset to avoid echo.  Jeff is a notorious audio stickler and will mute any echomongers 🙂 but you’ll be invited to resolve the problem and return.

– It will be easier for Jeff to bring you into the Hangout if you will visit http://plus.google.com and bring up your profile

 – In order to help with planning, Jeff thinks “it would be lovely if mods could use the doc below to arrange a tentative speaking schedule”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YXrrCeeOgyZUOv3YFLO1f8pUIFNyab-OG8LUJbCPny0/edit

And there is a screenshot at the bottom of this document showing how to activate your Google+ profile

All are welcome

Announcements:

Artifacts: 


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Last words from Jeff Lebow:

Jeff Lebow Hanging out at Vance Stevens’s live TAEdTech presentation on EVO at Al Hosn University Abu Dhabi

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Learning2gether Episode 136

Vance Stevens presented on Teacher-centered PD via TESOL Electronic Village Online: Free, Annual, Online at this live face-to-face conference 12 January 2013 – 

TAEDTECH Sig w/ TA Abu Dhabi Chapter “Addressing language Learning Objectives with the Help of IT”

Schedule and more information is at http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/213

Download:

https://learning2gether.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/vance-stevens-talks-evo2013-at-abu-dhabi-taedtech-sig.mp3

YouTube Hangout recording: 

Presentation abstract

To tune in to the stream, participants could:

Announcements

Other session recordings:

In the end we got recordings of the following sessions: