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Webheads Chat Logs from 2007

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Bookmarks here: several including ... 070211 | Bee's Aug 10 Merlot plenary 070810

Webheads 2006-7 Seasons Greetings are here: http://happywebhead2006-7.pbwiki.com/

As of the beginning of the year, sessions like the one below are still taking place each week from Sunday noon GMT for several hours:

Sunday, Jan 7, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

Sunday, Jan 14, 2006 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

On Sunday, Jan 14 at 15 GMT, there will be a webcast at Worldbridges to inaugurate the EVO sessions. Jeff Lebow has graciously accepted to host this session, as he did last year. You are cordially invited to attend this live event and to start enjoying the wonders of meeting people live in cyberspace. Dafne Gonzalez will give a short intro about EVO in general, and then each moderator will describe his/her session. Then, participants from the different sessions will have the opportunity to share their views with the audience. We will be using Skype (http://www.skype.com ) and the chatroom at: http://webheadsinaction.org/ (you will see the link to the chat room on the right side of the page. In order to listen to the session, you need to click on one of the sound channel icons If you want to participate in the talk (your choice), you need to have a Skype account, a headset, and go to our skypecast at: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=227659 which will open at 15:00 GMT.

The Open House for The Class of 2.1 and EVO2007 Webcast Academy Session. Sunday, January 14, 2007 1700GMT. We will be providing on overview of Worldbridges style of webcasting, explaining different ways to become involved during EVO2007, and answering any questions participants have. All are welcome. You can listen to the discussion by clicking one the media player icons at http://webcastacademy.net/ and join the text chat at: http://webcastacademy.net/chat If you would like to join in the discussion (as opposed to just listening), you can find the skypecast at: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=227659 In order to maintain audio quality, all those who participate in the voice conversation MUST use a headset (not speakers). Welcome to the Academy and on behalf of us Class of 1.x oldtimers, we very much look forward to meeting the Class of 2.1

The CALL Interest Section of TESOL, with the help and participation of countless Webheads, renewed their participation in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2007 season. This is a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2007 Convention in Seattle, WA. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2007 participants and those who can participate only virtually. You did not need to be a TESOL member to participate in a free, six-week, wholly online session of the EVO, Jan 15 -Feb 25, 2007. Dafne created a wiki displaying the various offerings. http://evo07sessions.pbwiki.com

Digital Gaming & Language Learning - Meet the Players 2 http://webcastacademy.net/ Saturday January 20, 1300GMT -Sandbox B Week One of the TESOL EVO2007 'Digital Gaming & Language Learning' session begins with two 'Meet the Players' webcasts (Last Wednesday & Today) - come and join us to meet the other participants and to chat about what's been said up to now and about gaming and language learning in general.

Second Life Library Special Announcements http://edtechtalk.com/
January 20, 1pmPST / 2100GMT -EdTechTalk A
January 21, 3pmPST / 2300GMT -EdTechTalk A
Our friends on Info Island [http://infoisland.org/] at the Second Life Library have a special announcement to make and we'll be streaming it in to Second Life and on the web.

Sunday, Jan 21, 2006 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

EVO Weekly http://webheadsinaction.org/ Sunday, January 21 1500GMT -Sandbox A A round up of the 1st week of EVO2007 and a look ahead to what's coming up during Week#2.

Webcast Academy Meeting 2.1.2 http://webcastacademy.net/ Sunday, Jan. 21 1700GMT -Sandbox A A weekly roundup of what's happened at the academy during the past week, troubleshooting of intern 'challenges', and prep for the next steps toward webcasting.

Women of Web2.0 http://womenofweb2.com/ Tuesday, January 23, 6pmPDT / 9pm EDT / 1am GMT -EdTechTalk - Webhead Cheryl Oakes, Jennifer, Sharon, & Vicki host a weekly discussion about educational Web 2.0 tools.

Meet Jonathan Finkelstein, author of the book 'Learning in Real-time' at our upcoming public live online event @ LANCELOT School, Wednesday, 24th of January 2007 at 8pm MET, New York 2pm. World Time: http://tinyurl.com/ywkgzp 'Learning in Real Time' published by Wiley/Jossey-Bass, is a concise and practical resource for education professionals teaching live and online or those wanting to humanize and improve interaction in their online courses by adding a synchronous learning component. The book offers keen insight... Jonathan Finkelstein of www.learninginrealtime.com will be available to answer all of our many questions during a 1h live author chat. After the official program, there will be an open ended chat session. More: http://tinyurl.com/szxca

Buthaina Alothman has arranged for a Guest Speaker for Week 2 of the EVO 07, ESP Potpourri, Anne Lomperis to use the Webheads vOffice at LearningTimes.org http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662 on Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 14:00-15:00 GMT.

At the EgypTesol 2007 Best Practice in TEFL SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION January 17 - 18, 2007 Cairo Sheraton Hotel and Towers Giza, Egypt http://www.egyptesol.org/, Webhead Monica Wiesmann-Hirchert met Randa Effat at the end of the conference. Monica presented on CALL and how some resources promote critical & creative thinking.Randa took pictures and will be uploading them soon.

Bee scheduled the Learning Times Webheads room for January 26th 21:00 GMT to 22:30 GMT http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662

Sunday, Jan 28, 2006 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

Becoming a Webhead 2007 http://webheadsinaction.org/ Sunday, January 28, 2007, 1500GMT -Sandbox A Worldbridges meets The Webheads Class of '07. We'll be providing an overview of Worldbridges communities and projects and letting Webheads know how they can participate.

Sunday, Feb 4, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is a learning and teaching project using a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-12, in rich educational tasks. http://questatlantis.org It is designed and managed by a team of educational innovators at Indiana Univeristy Centre for Research in Learning Technology lead by Assoc Prof Sasha Barab (and supported by NSF grant funds). We will very soon begin training for teachers interested in implementing QA in their classrooms in 2007. The training will involve being online in QA for three weekly sessions (using a skypecast for audio dialog). The course is intended to get you up to speed with all the tools of QA and to register your class and make curriculum choices, such that you will be ready to teach in QA at the end of the three weeks. Wednesday 7th February Instructor: Bronwyn Stuckey

Jane Bozarth presented on Thursday 8 February at 15.00 GMT in the Learning Times/Elluminate Webheads room at http://tinyurl.com/y3eh, in conjunction with Week 4 of the EVO 2007 BaW07 session workshop, on webconferencing

070211 Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 - Ismail gave a presentation on Web 2.0 for educators and students presence online - 9:00 - 10:00 am GMT. He says: "The original title of my presentation was "Web 2.0: Students Gateway to Online Presence and Collaboration". Below, please find the overview about this topic. Personal Language Learning Environments (PLLE) is a new widely spreading global phenomenon among individuals and educators. Teachers and Students need to consider potentials of such tools available for creating their online presence and encourage their collaboration while learning. O'Reilly's phrase about such technologies, or what he called "Web 2.0", has coined this proposed second generation of Web-based services. In this presentation, the participants will be presented to some of the web-based tools available for educators to guide their students create their online presence. The focus of these tools will be building collaboration and sharing among educators. It can be considered a great way to help students develop learners' autonomy and "folksonomy". I will be using yahoo and skype for initial contacts. If I received more emails of people interested, I might use Alado. Let me know of your pace, and we can arrange it accordingly."

Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

February 16 - 18, 2007 Facilitator: Elderbob Brannan - Elderbob's Korner: Using GoogleMail http://knowcoach.ca GoogleMail is but one of several internet mail systems. However, it's one of the great ones and also one of the most misunderstood ones. Join me, as we look at what GoogleMail does and how it can help you in your work whether you use it as a stand alone Email system or as an adjunct to some other system. There will be no stamps to lick for this session. And if you don't have a G-mail Account, you can get one at the session.

070218 Sunday, Feb 18, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

23.30 GMT: http://timeanddate.com/s/atb Graham Stanley requests your participation in the discussion at the first meeting of the newly formed 'Language and Culture Exchange' group in Second Life. This group was established to promote language and culture exchange through the creation of a dynamic language and culture lesson database and a coordinated learning and exchange program in Second Life. Join the Skypecast here:http://tinyurl.com/2rn7gt Please IM eflbridges if there are any problems You can also listen to the stream at Worldbridges (http://www.worldbridges.com - Sandbox B). We'll also be at iMagiLEARNING island in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/imagiLEARNING/42/190/21/

070225 Sunday, Feb 25, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

Open Weekend, March 2 - 4 - Return of DimDim The folks at DimDim, the open source web-conferencing company, check back in with us to show new improves and the integration capability with the Moodle. You'll have a chance to actually explore the DimDim conference and take the controls. You don't want to miss this one. Location: Knowplace http://knowplace.ca - Host: Sundar Subramanian Bio: Co-founder and Director of Project Management at DimDIm. Sundar has worked on web services at CA; on peta-byte networking at AT&T submarine systems (later Tycom); and on atomic energy reactors. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Drexel University and a BS in Electronics Engineering from Bombay University. He is currently trying to restrict his internet usage to "only 20 hours/day" "Elderbob" Brannan Bio: Elderbob, from Grand Prairie, Texas, USA, is Co-ordinator, Open Weekends @ Knowplace. He has a degree from Tarelton State University and is currently completing his Masters at University of Texas, at Brownsville. He is also a ElderCoach and Infopreneur with his own business, Elderbob.inc.

How to Access Open Weekend Discussions: 1. You need only an account at http://knowplace.ca to participate. Open Weekends @ Knowplace offer you the opportunity to sample various leading-edge topics presented by members of our international community. The format is asynchronous discussion forums,so you can participate at your convenience. Synchronous sessions may be offered as well. 2. All our discussions open Friday at 9 a.m.(1600 GMT) and close Sunday at midnight (0700 GMT) Pacific time. The "three-day" weekend provides time for you to review the course materials and/or read and post to the discussions later on Sunday. The facilitator(s) will be checking into the workshop throughout the weekend at times convenient to their time zones. To take a look at upcoming knowweeks go to: http://knowschools.ca/moodle/course/category.php?id=8 - expect Ramona Dietrich and Cristina Costa's three part ICT Series on Podcasting, a session on Wiki's hosted by elderbob, and much, much more.

070304 Sunday, March 4, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

070308March 8-9 - TALO (Teach and Learn Online) is holding a Swapmeet in Adelaide and has been threatened with distance presentations by both Vance Stevens and Barbara Dieu. It's an unconference which is by nature unorganized, but you can check the wiki at http://talo.wikispaces.com/swapmeet07a and see if you can understand what's going on. I blogged this around this date at http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com

070311 Sunday, March 11, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

070318 Sunday, March 18, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm. Vance couldn't make this one. I was at a METSMaC Conference in Abu Dhabi. I tried to connect from there via wireless but the coverage in the conference presentation rooms was sparce.

070321 At the Interneational TESOL Conference in Seattle: March 21 - CALL IS Colloquium TESOL 2007 entitled CALL IS Electronic Village Online Communities at: 8:30AM - 10:15AMPST (15:30 - 17:15 gmt) Skypecast and text chat links here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/147 - This colloquium introduces several Electronic Village Online session leaders, who discuss their participation in this free, wholly online venture involving more than 1,000 global participants annually. Presenters talk about the challenges they faced and how they create viable communities in a virtual environment.

The CALL Interest Section of TESOL had Webhead participation in several Web casts live from the 41st TESOL Convention in Seattle. The first set of events (6 Web casts) were from the Electronic Village (EV) Fair Classics, and were hosted by Alado.net (audio/webboard/text chat). Each event is 25 minutes long: http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/2007/IF_Classics/webcast_schedule07.htm Or http://tinyurl.com/25vqss. Instructions for entering Alado.net and participating can be found at http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/2007/IF_Classics/webcast_instructions07.htm Or http://tinyurl.com/yrkyta. The events are:

Webheads produced some amazing artifacts from this event. The blog address must go here, and Rita created a YouTube video of our gathering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEOGOSnpwk

070325 Sunday, March 25, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there.. Vance wasn't here, traveling from Seattle to UAE at just this time.

070401 Sunday, April 1, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

Anne Fox planned a skype conference Monday April 2nd at 6pm GMT "when I would like to speak with 2 or 3 people about acculturation when you move countries. It doesn't matter whether you went for six months or whether you are still there after 40 years. I'm aiming for a discussion of about 45 minutes length. It would be interesting to talk about whether culture makes a difference with regard to teaching and learning but I am happy to talk about any relevant aspects of a stay abroad. Please mail me with your skype ID if you think you might be interested and able to join a Skype conference."

070408 Sunday, April 8, 2007 Vance was in Malaysia on Redang Island, no Internet available, so cannot verify that Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; mets at http://www.tappedin.org/ but it usually meets on Sundays. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

070414 - Senem Yildiz and Vance Stevens were Plenary Speakers at the annual ELT Conference Ankara University Development Foundation Schools, whose theme was "CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) – Technology CALLs You", in Ankara, Turkey on April 14, 2007. The title of Vance's talk was "What is CALL? It's YOU!" (derived roughly from the blog posting from Sunday, April 1, 2007 What is CALL: Computer Assisted Language and Literacy as well as from Webheads chat logs from October 29-Nov 3, 2001). Both talks were webcast this using Elluminate courtesy of Learning Times, http://tinyurl.com/y3eh starting with Dr. Senem Yildiz's presentation, and the recordings are at http://tinyurl.com/3ybto8. My presentation is at the 1:13 point and the URL's used in the presentation are given in playnotes: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/ankara2007/whatiscall.htm and http://tinyurl.com/yvx6yd.

070415 Sunday, April 15, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

070420 Brought to you from IATEFL, Aberdeen, live chats in Second Life - Baldric Commons (aka Graham Stanley) and Frank Spearmann (aka Kyle Mawer) have kindly agreed to host two chat sessions in the space on EduNation, provisionally titled "Language Learning in Second Life". The two sessions will be spread so as to allow maxmimum access timewise, and will be at the following times: Friday April 20, 20:30-21:30 GMT, 21:30 - 22:30 (UK time) Saturday April 21, 9:30-10:30 GMT. This conference involved many Webheads and the event was archived online, URL forthcoming if I can remember to dig it out.

070422 Sunday, April 22, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

070429 Sunday, April 29, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities. In case we're Skypecasting, visit http://www.skypecast.com and find us in what's On Now or Starting Soon.

May 2007

070506 Sunday, May 6, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities.

070506 Sunday, May 13, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities.

070518 wiaoc2007 The WiAOC 2007 Webheads in Action Online Convergence took place 18-20 May 2007: http://wiaoc.org. This is a free, global, online conference put on by Webheads, and all the recorded events are posted at http://www.webheadsinaction.org. Search http://www.technorati.com on the tags wiaoc or wiaoc2007 to glean reactions

The WritingMatrix team organized a presentation entitled Writingmatrix: CONNECTing students with blogs, tags, and social networking, http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com, with Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Doris Molero, and Sasha Sirk. I put my slides online here http://www.slideshare.net/vances/vance-writingmatrix-wiaoc2007/ and the other contributions are posted at http://webheadsinaction.org/node/174. An audio recording can be found here: http://streamarchives.net/node/48 and the Elluminate session can be downloaded from: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2007-05-18.0447.M.FF88B318415986DF118835E10F8CB7.vcr

Dear Teresa and Fernanda, and all good webheads

I just came back from a lively 5 days Dialog meetings in Portugal invited by CPsquare. This was my first opportunity to meet live with about 18 people and collaborate on real work, plus having set two days aside for semi structured dialog sessions on how to work from a community of practice aspect in organisations, education and community.

We had a guest evening in Setubal (where we stayed outside of town ) and we invited Teresa and Fernanda as local representatives and role models for Becoming Webheads in Action. I can tell you that Webheads have become pretty famous in this context as inspiration for innovative teacher professional community building online.

One of our practice tasks was to convene workshops for THEKA school librarians (in Porto) on web 2.0 for community of practice building as a follow up on sessions with Etienne Wenger - an event which helped us form d hoc groups and motivate participants to get into their own dialogs.

Another task was validation of a EU project on social inclusion, EQUAL where web 2.0 was used for empowerment of community building. Both of these projects had Beverly Trayner as leader and she beautifully managed to prepare and keep the flame burning for our collaboration project as well as for our dialogs, our household practicalities and transport arrangements. Kudos to this ladylike bunch of sparkling energy!!

I've been priviledged to meet and work for almost a week with people like Bronwyn Stuckey and Nancy White whom I already met online in the Networking 2002 conference, and with veteran CPsquare leaders Etienne Wenger and John Smith.This seem like an old dream of mine coming true. And, I've been working on this for many years. So, being able to convene this Webheads /CPSQ dialog around a festive dinner table in a small restaurant in Setubal made me feel extremely happy.

Fernanda's pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124287188@N01/show/

Dear Sus,

It was a very special treat to meet you for the second time f2f five years later and be able to have dinner with you in Lisbon on May 22.

I took Sus to the same place where Joao and I took Rita and Hector in Bairro Alto. We both had a very typical Portuguese dinner that started with green beans on a batter and then fried (peixinhos da horta or "little fish of the vegetabel garden"). We drank some nice wine, had a great talk, and then went for coffee at a local pub. As true Webheads, we didn't stop talking till I left Sus at her hotel.

Then the CPSquare group was very nice to have Sus invite Fernanda and me for dinner last Sunday (May 27) in Setubal. In the true Webhead spirit, we hugged and hugged again when we met, and then had a nice talk over a glass of Moscatel, a local apperitif wine. As the CPSquare people came in, I met John Smith, Nancy White, Bron(wyn) Stuckey and Etienne Wenger, among others. A curiosity: we sat at the dinner table in alphabetical order of first names. It was a wonderful dinner at a local typical restaurant. There were 20 of us. There were many short toasts, but my favourite was Bron's fantastic praise to Webheads: the warmest online community she's ever come across. And she came across several when doing research for her PhD diss. As Sus said, Webheads have made an impression on CPSquare.

Thanks, Sus, for introducing me to this community! It was a very interesting experience.

Hus, Teresa

Friday May 25th - the Second Life Best Practice in Education Conference - something quite special - apart from the presentations, there is a lot of activity going on (there are around a hundred booths/vendors at the NMC Outreach sim, for example) Details of presentations are here: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/abstracts and http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/PresentationSchedule Webhead Graham Stanley is presenting with Kyle Mawer, about the Teen Grid project we're working on for the British Council, and going into some detail about using Second Life for language learning: "ESL, Second Life and Teenagers : Learner Autonomy for the Digital Natives" Friday 25th May @ 04.00 SL time (11.00 GMT) and streamed at Worldbridges, and in the Skype conference (Skype name: eflbridges) - it'll be recorded and available as a podcast later if you can't make it; take a look at this photo to get an idea of how the space has been organised (this is a snapshot of the NMC Outreach Sim) : http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/510698727_43058915f9.jpg. Chris Swaine (Chris Eggplant) will also be presenting the SL competencies framework he's been working on, and which has been discussed a lot recently on this list (see presentation schedule for details) - from an email by Graham http://blog-efl.blogspot.com "PS: I've spent so much time on this email I'm also going to blog it!"

070506 Sunday, May 28, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities.

070603 Sunday, June 3, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities.

WORLDBRIDGES COLLABORATION WORKSHOPS - Jeff Lebow announced Sunday, June 3, noon EDT (1600GMT) a time to get together and work on items on the Worldbridges To Do list. We discussed some of these during Thursday's Development meeting. [http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/1669] For those who have expressed interest in joining the next Webcast Academy session and/or interns who would like to work on webcasting challenges they've encountered, we can also break out into small groups to provide webcasting assistance if desired. For those who are at the beginning of their 'webcasting journey', you can get started by downloading items from the Webcasting Kit [http://www.webcastacademy.net/Webcaster_Kit] looking through the Book of Webcasting [http://www.webcastacademy.net/Book_of_Webcasting] and checking out the screencasts for your OS. [http://www.webcastacademy.net/Screencasts] Included on our To Do list is figuring out the next step for the Webcast Academy, so stay tuned to the site for information about upcoming events and sessions

070605 Hala Fawzi http://halafawzi.wikispaces.com/ invited everyone to her first webcasted presentation at the BC, Khartoum on the 5th of June at Alado http://www.alado.net/webheads/id1.html - "Out of Isolation Circles: Web2.0 for Teacher Professional Development". Hala writes " This is the first Webcasted presentation in Sudan for English language teachers, actually for teachers in all fields. What I want is for those teachers to go home 'deadly' convinced of the benefit of using Web tools for TPD. Your presence is will help me stay on my feet! I hope to see some of you there!" Hala has placed here slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/halafawzi/ppp-final

070610 Sunday, June 10, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm to fathom more possibilities.

070617 Sunday, June 17, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; met at http://www.tappedin.org/

From an email sent to Webheads on June 20 - One of my students is going to give a presentation today on some ways forward for the environment. We will view the YouTube video posted by Andrew Pincon that I found on [Aiden's] site. We will also discuss the ethics of business at this time. If you or anyone else in the community are free at 5:20pm GMT, you are welcome to join our class. We already have some students from Uruguay and Egypt joining us. We will be using the Interwise Discovere platform. I will be there at 5:20pm to give you a brief overview. Here's the link: http://www.compued.com.au/discovere/montana Robert Squires English Language Instructor/ Special Projects Coordinator English Language Institute The University of Montana Missoula, MT http://www.umt.edu.oip/elp

070619 There is a free online event at the initiative of the E-learning Networks Project of the national training system's e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework . Anyone interested in the latest trends and developments in using technologies for education and training is invited to participate in e-Trends to be held from 19 - 20 June. Registration at http://networksevents.flexiblelearning.net.au/

Tuesday 19 June 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST

070622 June 22-24, 2007 Blogging Across the Curriculum" http://knowplace.ca/ How does one utilize blogging in the classroom environment. Join these two great instructors in a discussion of how to use blogging in whatever type of class you teach. See how blended learning can achieve outstanding results. Bring examples of what you want to do with your class and let's see how we can incorporate this great tool into your curriculum http://knowplace.ca/moodle/course/category.php?id=7 Facilitator: Cristina Costa Co-Facilitator: Ramona Dietrich

070623 The first Annual Second Life Languages Symposium (SLanguages 2007) was held on EduNation in Second Life on Saturday 23rd June 2007 - http://edunation.theconsultants-e.com

On Saturday, June 23 from 8-2 Eastern, Jeff Cooper and David Weksler will conduct a hands-on workshop at NECC 2007 entitled "Online Collaboration: Transforming Curriculum Through Technology Beyond NCLB". An overview of the workshop may be found at http://snurl.com/necc2007 The room has videoconferencing, several Web 2.0 tools and much of it will be mirrored using Tapped In. During the last 3 hours participants will work on setting up professional development groups and K-12 classes at Tapped In. There will also be mini breakout sessions, where educators may spend between 15 minutes and an hour in conference with the participants using Tapped In, videoconferencing, and/or several Web 2.0 tools. If you are interested in attending, or participating and sharing your expertise, please contact Jeff Cooper directly at jbcoops@gmail.com to be placed on the calendar. This is your opportunity to collaborate and support educators as well as picking up useful technology tips and tricks for the next school year.

070624 Sunday, June 24, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there.

Chris Jones send this on July 14, but it would have taken place around this time: "Hi, Webheads, I've been traveling for the past 2 weeks since I met up with Susan Berg in Florence ... Susan was a wonderful hostess and indeed it was like meeting up with an old friend. Our classes did an email exchange about 3 years ago when I still taught in Arizona. She showed me some of the lovely countryside around Florence, and I enjoyed meeting her family while she prepared a yummy Italian lunch. It was really a treat to meet her and spend a day with her."

June 27, Cris Costa writes: "Barb and her husband came to the UK on vacation and we went biking during the weekend. It was a great fun to meet Barb again. Here is the link to the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristinacosta/sets/72157600221218948/ we do have to keep a register of these WiA meetings.

070701 Sunday, July 1, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. Vance, jetlagged in Texas, overslept Webheads but attempted to touch base nonetheless with a 2007.07.01 09:50:22 Login

070708 Sunday, July 8, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there

next -070811 Vance was invited to teach a short course on writing on the Internet 11th-13th July during the XXVI Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain. The course is entitled "Learning to write in a global and plurilingual world" and was 3 talks (60' exposition + 15' debate) on Internet (Electronic writing, On-line learning to write, Electronic approach to language learning -focus on writing). There is more information about the university and these courses here: http://www.sc.ehu.es/cursosverano. In order to have something to talk about Webheads Rita Zeinstejer, Sasha Sirk, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, and Vance instigated a writing project here: http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/. Vance created a Moodle component here: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=46 and a course portal here: http://www.vancestevens.com/writing.htm. Vance also wrote out the text of each lecture, uploaded the slides, and left recordings of the lectures themselves as follows:

  1. Lecture 1: Multiliteracies and the changing landscape of communication in a world without arbiters of what gets published
    Internet, electronic genre and writing. Several analogical literacy practices have migrated to Internet. Now we write emails, wikis, blogs, chats or webs. We read on a screen and write with the keyboard and mouse. How has Internet changed literacy practices? Which are the most relevant electronic genres in L2 learning, why, and how can we use them?
  2. Lecture 2: Web 2.0 and Social Networking: What you need to know about these concepts to get your students colloborating online, using tags, rss, and aggregation
    L2 learning with an electronic approach. More and more L2 courses incorporate Internet and on line learning activities as part of the syllabus and teaching materials. How does this change our teaching practice? Which are the good teaching practices in an on line course and in a blended-learning course? What free and collaborative online tools exist to help us do it better? (On line learning platforms such as Moodle have become very popular in some secondary and university centres in Spain -but we cannot assume that all the students in the course will be aware of that fact…).
  3. Lecture 3: Putting the forces in motion: Applying technology to foster writing through motivating online environments
    Resources and ideas for learning to write on line. Language technologies and engineering offer us powerful resources to help us write and teach writing, such as multi-user virtual environments, pen pals and class collaboration projects, blogging, wikis, Google docs and mapping tools. These greater-picture enhancements can make use of lower-level spelling software, readability analysis systems, automatic assisted translation, terminology data base, plurilingual textual corpora, etc. We also have software that register our writing process, huge on line writing labs, with lots of materials, outlines and information. How we can use these resources in the classroom and in on line courses? What implications do these resources have in the learning of writing?

070715 Sunday, July 15, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; weekly meeting at http://www.tappedin.org/.

On July 16, Clair Bradin-Siskin wrote: "I just returned from Brazil, where I had the good fortune to meet up with several Webheads in São Paulo and Brasilia. It's a wonderful country and Brazilians are wonderful people, but getting to meet Webheads along the way added a special dimension to my trip. It's such an advantage to get to know people with whom I already share so many interests. A warm thanks to Barbara Dieu and Erika Crunivel for their hospitality and especially for assisting during the workshops -- I don't know how I could have done without them! Also thanks to Ronaldo Lima, Jr, Claudio Fleury, and José Antonio Da Silva for their company and friendship. There are photos here: http://www.edvista.com/holidays/07/brasil/webheads/index.html and more photos here: http://www.edvista.com/holidays/07/brasil/workshops/index.html

070722 Sunday, July 22, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; weekly meeting at http://www.tappedin.org/.

070725 - Surely, some Webheads must have participated in the July 25 12-hour online Summer festival at http://www.tappedin.org/. The blurb: "From rap to storytelling, from science to games, the festival leaders will take you on a journey to put fun in your classroom for both you and your students. Even the Pre-Festival Tips and Tricks are fun! Here are some quotes from recent participants: Very helpful for me since I am a beginner on-line learner/teacher... Very good tutorial... This is a great place to visit... moderator is nice... Learning how to navigate was a great highlight... I got started through a master's class I'm taking as an elective. The highlight is all the resources available and the helpfulness of everyone I've met here so far... I learned a lot about Tapped In and think it has many valuable resources. It's a whole community I never knew existed! Visit http://tappedin.org/tappedin/web/festival/ for more Festival information. One-time Webhead KeikoS agreed to: conduct Official Pre-Festival Tips and Tours (PT) at the following times ... Wednesday 18 July 2007 at 5pm Friday 20 July 2007 at 5pm Sunday 22 July 2007 at 1pm Sunday 22 July 2007 at 5pm Tuesday 24 July 2007 at 1pm Tuesday 24 July 2007 at 5pm "

070727 Anne Fox informed us that the current show of the Absolutely Intercultural podcast at www.absolutely-intercultural.com is mainly about podcasting and Second Life in education. The Second Life interview features Webhead Nicky Hockley talking about Edunation. And the next show, due out on July 27 will feature Michael Coghlan, in his role as an Australian rather than an educator (and his daughter) as well as Carla Arena in a child themed episode.

070729 Sunday, July 29, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/. Topics were educational theory and Writingmatrix http://www.vancestevens.com/writing.htm. Following the Webheads meeting there was (scheduled) a live webcast event on the Worldbridges Network, a town hall meeting: http://www.worldbridges.net

Carla's reaction: "I was thinking about what you mentioned about the Webheads yesterday in our TI meeting. When I searched for the Webheads, you're right full of nothing-to-do-with-us. I was wondering if you could kindly invite the group to tag our stuff in a way that we could see what each other is doing through the tagging system. I was making some searches and realized that if everybody started just tagging "webheadsinaction", then we'd really have a convergence of what is spread on the wide spaces of the Net. By the way, Bee is the one consistently tagging webheadsinaction. I'll just get back to my new blog and rename my tag! Well, just an idea that would expand this networked tagging world. http://www.technorati.com/tag/webheadsinaction "

>Mine: Now why didn't I think of that?? Carla's suggestion is so obvious it smacks of brilliance. I was re-listening to Konrad Glogowski and Christopher Sessums talking on Personal Learning Environments - Exploring Professional Development in a Networked World, their talk at the WiAOC convergence, where Konrad was making the point that for teachers to teach blogging, they need to be blogging themselves, otherwise it's a case of do as I say, not as I do. "Now here's the kicker" he said. The students (in teacher training programs) are generally into social networking in the friends and recreation side of their lives but are not using these tools in their professional work. Why, he wondered, do they not see how the social networking tool can help their teaching? So here I've been giving talks on getting students collaborating by using tags common to the group that wishes to converge their web artifacts, and have not, as Carla pointed out, suggested that webheads do the same in the course of their everyday social networking. So hear ye hear ye, the tag is webheadsinaction Use it liberally. And at this page http://www.technorati.com/tag/webheadsinaction you'll notice an RSS feed. Add that feed to your bloglines to monitor results. Thanks, Carla, Vance

And later that evening: Webheads had a great chat at noon GMT this morning, the time of our regular meeting each Sunday noon GMT in Tapped In http://www.tappedin.org . This morning some of the chat was about writingmatrix. Webheads are bloggers and are very interested in this project. Some said they would like to join us at our live chat this evening. If you wish to join us at Tapped In (if it's your first time) just log in as a GUEST and be sure and tick that you are of age, and that you want to chat (and you have to have Java in your browser to chat). To find out more about the writingmatrix project you can see my latest lectures at http://www.vancestevens.com/writing.htm And you can visit this URL in Technorati http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/writingmatrix to see the latest blog posts where people have been tagging their posts writingmatrix cya at 02:00 GMT, at Tapped In if you would like to join us. All are welcome, Vance

070801 - Webcast Academy session 1 prepares participants to record, edit and upload an intro audio.Homework to complete Session #1 due August 1/2, 2007. (Homework: before session #1 July 25/26 Download the software and try it out to see that it works. Listen to as many webcasts as you can, participate in the chat. Get familiar with the Book of Webcasting.) . The current organizers Cheryl Oakes (Women of Web 2.0) and Susan Ettenheim (Teachers teaching Teachers) have requested:

At http://www.Edtechtalk.com site you will see a calendar of events. Listen to some of the great webcast shows. While you listen you can also participate in the chat, which will help you get practice multi-tasking.

Find the Webcast Kit, download and try out the software for your operating system/computer. At http://webcastacademy.net/screencasts/orientation1-2/index.html there is a screen cast made from the last class. This will help you navigate the site. You will need the headphones in order to talk and not give everyone feedback or echo. The versions will not be the same as the screen shot. Listen to the whole little video for instructions on downloading and recording your introduction.

Find Curriculum Topic 1, then locate Basic Audio Editing, here you will find directions for making your first audio which will be your introduction! When you are using your software for recording and have questions, please use the help in your menu of your screen. Also check out the forums and leave questions and check the threads that have already been started.

070802 - Cristina Costa discussed her thesis at CPsquare's dissertation fest: http://conversations.cpsquare.org/WebX?50@@.3bb3c631. It took place via Skype or phone call Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 20:00 GMT (http://tinyurl.com/yshaex) This page explains the telephone conferences: http://conversations.cpsquare.org/CP2_Help/CP2_HS_Conference.wrp?293@@. Afterwards, Cris said: "I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support and especially thank those who were there with me sharing their perspectives about this fabulous Community. It meant a lot to me! It was a great discussion too. ... I jotted down some of the questions that arose during the conversation and tried to answer them. you might also have something to say. I am sure you do. http://www.knowmansland.com/learningpath/ "

Webheads Sophie and Michael Coghlin and Eric Baber were instrumental in Chennai (Madras) India, August 3 - 5, 2007, a three-day conference “New and Emerging Technologies”.http://ltsig.org.uk. Talks and workshops.included: Talks on: Talking to the Digital Natives: Building Connections and Community on Web 2.0 Exploring Wikis for Written Language Beyond the language classroom: Mobile learning with Podquests Speaking and Listening Online and at a Distance Evaluating user responses to students’ blogs, wikis, forums Using mobile technology to teach soft skills in ESL/EFL classrooms E-learning: The myth and the reality Using Interactive Whiteboards to Teach English as a foreign language Fostering Collaborative Reflectivity among Teacher Trainees through Asynchronous Discussion Forums. E-assessment as aid to ESL/EFL learners: Planning, Designing, and Managing the Tools. A Web-based Audio Reader for Extensive Reading and Extensive Listening The Role of Teachers and Online Community Networks in Facilitating Social Interaction Developing Video-Based Materials for Teacher-Trainers of ESL Workshops on: Training Learners for Autonomy in Web-based Listening Using Wikis in Language Learning and Teaching From Video Production to Video Blogging Blogging and Learner Autonomy Using MOOdle

070805 Sunday, August 5, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there.

070810 - Bee Dieu has been invited to deliver the final keynote for the annual Merlot International Conference (MIC), which will be held in New Orleans from August 7th-10th. http://conference.merlot.org/2007/ . "Merlot is an online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy. The site hosts a collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm. Bee has opened a wiki to document the process of putting this keynote together (brainstorming, technical issues, suggestions, readings, inspirational pictures and the lot). On the home page, you will find the physical and virtual venues and time (Friday 10th at 13:00 GMT), a Frappr Map, where you can add your photo and shoutout if you are planning to attend, and the Twitter account she will be using to give quick updates (start following merlot2007onlap) . She will also be posting photos to my account on Flickr and tagging them merlot2007onlap (the same tag I will be using all over to refer to this event). http://merlot.wikispaces.com. Here are the different ways you can participate online: http://merlot.wikispaces.com/Help"

070811 - Some of us took part of the Webcastacademy Internship and are having great fun with the Webcasters' team led by Cheryl Oakes, Susan Ettenheim and Jeff LeBow (of course!). One of our colleagues there, Jose Rodriguez, had an online Webcast, EFL Best Practices http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1105, on Saturday, Aug 11th, at 16:00 GMT http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=11&year=2007&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=0, and just after Jose's show, at 17:00 GMT, we had some great fun with Jeff's GraduationCast http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1123. Jeff put out an impressive webcast portfolio at http://webcastacademy.net/node/1036. It's about time Jeff graduated, he's been kicking around the WCA for so long!

070812 - Sunday, August 12, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; met at http://www.tappedin.org/. Among the topics, a joint presentation at WorldCALL in Fukuoka, Japan, next August.

070819 Sunday, August 19, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there.

070824 Friday, August 24, 2007Yaodong Chen teaches Chinese classes at DiscoverE at 07:00 GMT each Friday and also at 00:00 (midnight) GMT Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays - See http://www.study.com for details

070826 Sunday, August 26, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there.

070831 Friday, August 31, 2007Yaodong Chen teaches Chinese classes at DiscoverE at 07:00 GMT each Friday and also at 00:00 (midnight) GMT Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays - See http://www.study.com for details

070901 On Saturday Sept 1, 9 a.m to 11:30 a.m. in Egypt (06:00 to 08:30 GMT) Vance Stevens is giving a F.U.N. Fair - UnWorkshop on Computer Mediated Communications Tools for Distributed Social Learning Networks as part of the "New Learning for Sustainability in the Arab Region" meeting 30 August - 1 September 2007 at the Alexandria Library, in Alexandria, Egypt. The event is subtitled "Motivating Change: New Learning in Formal Education for Sustainable Development", and the conference seeks regionally-based experts working in informal learning, web 2.0, active bloggers, etc. (The organizers' blog is here: http://www.welearnsomething.com). My presentation is written out here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm

UnWorkshop abstract: The two convergent communities of practice Webheads in Action and Worldbridges are constantly exploring new computer-mediated communications (CMC) tools for percolating knowledge through their overlapping distributed learning networks, many of which take on many properties of social networking. Members of those communities will be invited to join us online, and the (un)workshop will take place informally, without fixed agenda, in response to the direction suggested by the online participants and those present in Alexandria. Among the spaces we can explore (more to be added as they occur to me) are:

070902 Sunday, September 2, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#02.09.2007

070906 Friday, September 6, 2007Yaodong Chen teaches Chinese classes at DiscoverE at 07:00 GMT each Friday and also at 00:00 (midnight) GMT Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays - See http://www.study.com for details

070905 There was a EuroCALL Virtual Strand at the EuroCALL conference http://www.eurocall2007.com/ taking place from 5 – 8 September in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The Virtual Strand includes streamed presentations from the conference, and conference blog and chat space, in addition to a limited number of invited, interactive, online presentations lasting approximately 40 minutes. Vance Stevens was one of the featured presenters: http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13493912 and http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/eurocall/coleraine2007.htm

  1. The EuroCALL conference site: http://www.eurocall2007.com/
  2. EuroCALL Virtual Strand 2007 Google Group portal: http://vsportal2007.googlepages.com/
  3. The Virtual Strand blog is here http://eurocall2007.blogspot.com/
  4. If you sign up for the discussion list, messages are here: http://groups.google.com/group/VSChatEuroCALL2007/

070909 Sunday, September 9, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#09.09.2007

070916 Sunday, September 16, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#16.09.2007

070923 Sunday, September 23, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#23.09.2007

070928 - Friday September 28, at 9 pm GMT - Rita Zeinstejer is giving a presentation on "what Web 2.0 can do for educators" or rather "what educators can do with Web 2.0" using Learning Times Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh - in order to encourage us to "say something about your own experiences using any social software with your students--blogs, wikis, Google maps, Flicker...--, live for the audience for about 5 minutes ... My idea is showing a VERY simple ppt and providing precise concepts and examples not to overwhelm the web-phobics, but to give them a view of how life for educators has definitely changed as from the advent of Web 2.0, which I'm also going to define very briefly and in a simplified way. Your live presence would be GREATLY appreciated, since that is definitely the best way to produce a consciousness-raising impact on our teachers" http://ritaz.pbwiki.com/CollaborativeTechnologies

070928 - Friday September 28, at 9 pm GMT - Rita Zeinstejer gave a presentation on "Emerging Technologies for EFL Teachers and Students: the Web 2.0 and its possibilities" http://ritaz.pbwiki.com/CollaborativeTechnologies using Learning Times Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh - Rita's presentation to teachers in Argentina intended to encourage us to "say something about your own experiences using any social software with your students--blogs, wikis, Google maps, Flicker...--, live for the audience for about 5 minutes ... My idea is showing a VERY simple ppt and providing precise concepts and examples not to overwhelm the web-phobics, but to give them a view of how life for educators has definitely changed as from the advent of Web 2.0, which I'm also going to define very briefly and in a simplified way. Your live presence would be GREATLY appreciated, since that is definitely the best way to produce a consciousness-raising impact on our teachers. " My

070930 Sunday, September 30, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#30.09.2007

Nellie Deutsch in Israel and Nalin in Sri Lanka) are conducting an online seminar starting on October 2nd and ending on the 22nd at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/view.php?f=278 via Moodle on e-learning in developing countries: Description: What are some of the challenges developing countries face in implementing e-learning programs? How can we work together to overcome barriers? What are the success stories? Join us for this 3-week seminar to better understand the realities and to propose solutions..

071007 Sunday, October 7, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#07.10.2007

Michael Coghlin asked Webheads to join him in a session at a local conference Monday, October 8, 2007 at 01:30 GMT. "This means most webheads in Europe and the Middle East will be asleep, but if anyone in Asia or the Americas would like to join me I'd love to hear some webhead voices live. I'll be in my Elluminate space at http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=235631 The topic is Developing Online Community, and the conference theme is "how language learning shapes communities, both positively and negatively, in theory and in practice."

071014 Sunday, October 14, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm for more possibilities.

José Antônio invited us to join us in "celebrating teacher's day next Monday October 15. I have decided tohave my students blogging about it and I have shared my experience and pespective on teachers and teaching. If you fell like leaving a comment or having your students to do so, it would be great. To tell you the truth, you are all teachers to me. Here is the link http://topflex.wordpress.com Happy teacher's day in advance Abraços José Antônio"

071020 13:00 PM GMT Saturday, October 20 - The Writingmatrix group Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Saša Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer presented “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating” at the K-12 Online Conference “Playing with Boundaries.” (time of our live fireside chat http://tinyurl.com/2qwznc, according to the K-12 Online Live Events (Fireside chats) schedule: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=128)

The presenters play with boundaries through the simple expedient of having student bloggers in different countries tag their blog posts with the unique tag term writingmatrix. Searching on that tag in Technorati, the student bloggers in four locations in three different countries have managed to locate one another's posts, leave comments for one another, and have subsequently interacted in other ways as well. The presenters explain how they started the project and how it has branched into other online and even face to face activities involving the students in the participant countries. The presentation is made not only through the voices of the presenters, but with the students themselves lending their voices through their blogs and videos.

Other conference info:

071021 Sunday, October 21, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#21.10.2007

071022 Nellie Deutsch in Israel and Nalin in Sri Lanka) are conducting an online seminar starting on October 2nd and ending on the 22nd at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/view.php?f=278 via Moodle on e-learning in developing countries: Description: What are some of the challenges developing countries face in implementing e-learning programs? How can we work together to overcome barriers? What are the success stories? Join us for this 3-week seminar to better understand the realities and to propose solutions..

October 26 - October 28, 2007 - "WIKI 101* Wacky Wikis seem to be the newest darling in the Web 2.0 world. A friend of mine declares that "the wiki movement is the most significant social phenomenon of our time ." Join Elderbob for an exploration of Wikis, including a definition and description of various kinds of Wikis, how to edit Wikis, and share some ideas about how Wikis can be used in classroom situations. Facilitator: Elderbob Location: http://knowplace.ca. For more information about Knowplace and how its weekend events are organized, click here

071028 Sunday, October 28, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#28.10.2007

071102 - November 2- November 4, 2007 - "E-learning in Un- and Under-developed Countries" Location: http://knowplace.ca Nellie Deutsch and Jose Antonio Da Silva hosted a weekend exploration of elearning methods for educational development in un- and under-developed countries. Special guest, Ken Banks was to join in on Elluminate at 12:00 PDT on Saturday, November 3, to explore his unique view toward using cell phones in Africa. Elderbob demonstrated how simple it is to set up a cell phone website and they explored how such sites can be used in education. Facilitator - Nellie Muller Deutsch Co Facilitator - Jose Antonio Da Silva Co Facilitator - Ken Banks Co Facilitator - Elderbob Brannan

071104 Sunday, November 4, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm for more possibilities.

071111 Sunday, November 11, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#11.11.2007

071118 Sunday, November 18, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#18.11.2007

071123 - November 23- November 25, 2007 - Google Notebook Location: http://knowplace.ca "Google Notebook" is a free service offered by Google that provides a simple way to save and organize clips of information when conducting research online. Join the webhead cat-herder, Vance Stevens as he provides his own description of the many uses of "Google Notebook". You don't want to miss this one. Facilitator: Vance Stevens. After the course was officially shut down at Knowplace it was archived here: http://213.42.148.233/course/view.php?id=180

071125 Sunday, November 25, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#25.11.2007

071126 November 26, 2007 - Dafne Gonzales must have had something to do with Graham Stanley's being in Caracas, as evidenced from the picture posted against the date indicated:

The photo is from this page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamstanley/page2/, and the above photo is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamstanley/2068647846/. Graham was in Caracas for the AVEALMEC event, http://avealmec.pbwiki.com/AVEALMEC.

071201 - The Consultants-E are pleased to announce the first in a new series of monthly events, Education@Edunation: Title: SL Teaching Tools Time: Saturday 1st December, 08.00-09.00 (SL time)17.00-18.00 (UTC) Place: Edunation III Conference Crossover Space (EduNation III 202, 27, 21) Details: Dudeney Ge will be be giving an introduction to some of the tools available for teaching in Second Life (free gift for teachers included!) Education@Edunation is a series of free monthly talks, workshops and discussions on education in-and-outside of Second Life, organised by the Consultants-E (http://www.theconsultants-e.com/) Meet fellow educators and trainers at Edunation III for sessions dealing with: · Teaching Tools · Teacher Training · Gaming & Education · Materials Design · Language Education and many more...from seminars to pecha kucha sessions Location The events will take place in the Seminar Area of EduNation III, one of the Consultants-E sims in Second Life. You can find the island using the Search facility in Second Life, or by following this URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edunation%20III/202/27/21/ You can also go directly to EduNation III- 202, 27, 21 Maximum 100 particpants

Graham Davies wrote on another list: Gavin Dudeney (The Consultants-E) gave an interesting and very informative presentation on teaching tools in Second Life on 1 December 2007. You can see and hear the whole presentation in the archive space on Edunation II. Teleport to this SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20II/53/162/22

071202 - Many Webheads participated in the seminar Nov 12 through Dec 2, 2007 at http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=668 - Social Media in Education Facilitators: Tia Carr Williams, Ian MacLeod, and Therese Weel; Live Session Moderators: Paul Stacey and Sandy Hirtz. Description: What are the implications for educators and learners as they move towards greater use of social media? In this seminar we will seek to define exactly what social media is, its uses in education and the implications for educators, learners and administrators. This seminar discussion and presentations are organized in collaboration with BCcampus Online Learning Communities. Recordings of Elluminate live sessions * Tues November 13 Tia Carr Williams and Ian MacLeod | The Social Media in Education Landscape | Elluminate Recording Thurs November 22 Jason Toal | Tagging Recording Thurs November 29 (recording of) Brian Lamb | Exploration, Implementation, and Innovation - The website models all manner of social networking tools.

071202 Sunday, December 2, 2007 Vance was on a break, hiking in Oman, and could not attend Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at http://www.tappedin.org/ and decides what to do from there. See http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm for more possibilities.

071207 December 7 - 9, 2007 - "Digital Photo-Stories: Enhancing Creativity" Location: http://knowplace.ca Facilitators: Ramona Deitrich, Portugal and Webhead Cristina Costa, UK Increasingly, classroom teachers are encouraging students to work on collaborative presentation projects in an effort to bring forth higher levels of creativity while at the same time teaching lessons about software, and collaboration as a learning method. This session will explore several ways that digital photo-stories can be used to accomplish this end. I tagged a lot of the resources here and added them to my del.icio.us at http://del.icio.us/vancestevens/digital_storytelling

071209 Sunday, Dec 9, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#09.12.2007 On this Sunday we took WiZiQ for a spin, and the session is recorded at http://tinyurl.com/2xmdux. After this, Moira and I took Oovoo for a spin, http://www.oovoo.com. We liked it.

December 14 - 16, 2007 - "The Second Annual Knowplace (s)Knowfest" Location: http://knowplace.ca Facilitator: Elderbob Brannan, USA There is a Holiday "feel" in the air about this time of year. It is called many things in many places, but it commonly celebrated as a holiday by almost everyone. To honour this feeling and this holiday, we present the Second Annual Knowplace (s)KnowFest (sounds like "snowfest", but means sooo much more!) This year's holiday theme is provided in four major categories: * Humour- * Culture- * Multimedia- and * Food Menus

071216 Sunday, December 16, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#16.12.2007

071223 Sunday, December 23, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#23.12.2007 On this day, we went to WiZiQ. Visit http://tinyurl.com/37kuyx to find the first recording. Somehow the session didn't get set for the 120 minutes I had specified, so we got bumped and had to start another session. The second part is at http://tinyurl.com/23dyll

071230 Sunday, December 30, 2007 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#30.12.2007

Our most recent chat is the one above ^
These chats are being posted online at http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm

Our next online chat is never any later than this coming Sunday, noon GMT (for about 2 hours on Sunday, 1 hour or so on Saturday). What time is that where you are? Check: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html What will happen when we meet? Who knows? (Just about anything!) But click here to get an idea, and stay on for whatever's on at http://www.worldbridges.net. Meet us at Tapped In, http://www.tappedin.org

There is a schedule of other ongoing online events here: http://www.vancestevens.com/online_events.htm. You can enter your own upcoming events on our Web 2.0 calendar here: http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen

You are welcome to join us at any of the locations given at the top of this page!

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