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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:
080106 Sunday,
January 6, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads:
The Tapped In chat transcription is posted here: http://akayoglu_s.web.ibu.edu.tr/webheads.htm#06.01.2008
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin. This 1-hour
session will be looking more closely at some blogging projects.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080113 Sunday,
January 13, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net.
Sunday, January 13, 2008, at 16:00 GMT, was the EVO Kick-Off at
Worldbridges. Jeff Lebow conducted the event in the chat room at:
http://webheadsinaction.org/chat.
It was streamed and podcasted, and the URL will appear shortly here: ....
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
- Jan 11-13, 2008 - Google Earth - What's New? Location:
http://knowschools.ca Facilitator: Quentin
D'Souza, Canada Quentin D'Souza re-joins us with another visit to Google Earth
to explore all the new hidden dells and valleys that we might have missed since
our last visit. This is always a fabulous session by a great instructor. Do not
miss it. Google Earth is one of Google's most amazing products. During his
previous visit Quentin revealed to us some great ways to use it in a classroom
situation. Now you have another opportunity to learn from a master. Join us
this weekend, as we fly across the country, leap tall mountains, and hunt for
hidden treasures on Google Earth. Be sure to wear a pith helmet for our
explorations. About Quentin D'Souza: Quentin is currently an Elementary
Resource Teacher for Academic Communication and Information Technology for the
Toronto Catholic District School Board. His academic experience also includes a
Masters in Education from York University and CompTIA A+ certification. He was
nominated for The Learning Partnerships Technology Innovation Award in 2004.
This workshop will offer an opportunity to discover "the inside scoop" on the
tools others have found valuable OR maybe even those we want to avoid! Helen,
who is a "tool person" indeed, will facilitate this workshop.
080120 - On
Sunday, January 20, Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World
friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at
http://www.tappedin.org/ transcript link
to appear here eventually. Talk tonight was all about EVO mostly.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. Tonight
there was a webcast of the EVO music group conducted by Lee Baber and Elderbob
Brannan, linked from Lee's Drupal: http://musicbridge.com
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
- Jan 18 - 20, 2008 - "Facilitating with Moodle" Location:
http://knowmoodle.ca Facilitators: Mike
McLeod, Canada Haidee Foxwell, New Zealand Have you thought of working in
Moodle with your clients or students? This is an opportunity for you to learn a
few tips and tricks of working with Moodle. Which tools for which job? How do
I...? Offered regularly once a month you will have the opportunity to access
resources, to play in the Moodle Sandbox and to have fun. The sandbox is wiped
clean after each weekend, but if you would like to host an Open Weekend, we
will create a Moodle space just for you and support you as you develop its
content. About Mike McLeod, M.Sc., MTC Mike lives in Surrey, British Columbia,
Canada. He has been involved with online education for over 5 years, having
completed his graduate studies in computer science. Mike's main area of
interest is on the development and integration of XML Learning Objects into the
Moodle Learning Management System. Mike is a Moodle Certified Teacher (MTC)
About Haidee Foxwell Haidee lives in New Zealand and works for HRD Ltd., one of
the two Moodle partners in New Zealand. She tutors students online in various
courses including Microsoft Office and ICDL (International Computer Driving
Licence), and has also co-developed courses such as the ICDL courses which are
the only authorised online courses using Moodle in Asia-Pacific. Haidee is a
Moodle Certified Teacher (MTC) Mentor -Assessor
- Jan 18 - 20, 2008 - "e-Career Coaching" Location:
http://knowcoach.ca Facilitator: Carole
Cotton, Canada E-career Coaching is for you! Whether you describe yourselves as
career developers, job search coaches, job developers, case managers, career
counsellors, career advisers, knowCOACH is "your" virtual community. You will
benefit by enhancing your professional network even if you work only
face-to-face with clients be they individuals seeking employment and/or career
transitioning, or businesses with whom you are building relationships. Bring us
your tips, tricks and challenges. E-career Coaching weekends focus on your
needs, so let us know your passions and the pitfalls of your work. After all,
who else better appreciates the challenges than people who "toil" in the career
development field.
080122 - Tuesday,
January 22, noon UTC (GMT) - Vance Stevens was invited to be a guest
speaker for the EVO 2008 session, Getting the Most Out of Web 2.0 for ESP, on
the advantages of using tags and technorati for a community of bloggers in the
ESL/EFL/ESP classroom - http://evo08esp.pbwiki.com/Week%202.
The session was recorded:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2008-01-22.0130.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr
080123 - In
http://blogging4educators.pbwiki.com/,
Holly Dilatush wrote: "Is there anyone out there that might be able to join me
Wednesday morning Jan. 23, EST (Eastern Standard Time)/ GMT -5) at 11
a.m. ... and play in WiziQ? I've scheduled that as a play hour for myself and
would love to have anyone join in... open invitation! NO GUARANTEES as to
success, but will try! Hope someone will/can join me...." Someone helpfully
submitted the
Worldclock
time here.
080127 Sunday,
January 27, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
- Jan 25 - 27, 2008 - "Tools Potluck" Location:
http://knowplace.ca Facilitator: Helen
Kershaw, Canada Confused by all the myriad of open source and freeware tools
whizzing through cyberspace? Why not help each other out. Bring an open source
or freeware tool with you and share your tool.
An event to be held at the island of Edunation III in Second Life
Sunday January 27th 12.30 Second Life Time (20:30 UTC,
21:30 CET) Teen Grid Angst The session will be about the differences between
running educational projects on the Teen and Main Grids of Second Life and will
be sharing my experience so far of being involved in setting up a three-island
virtual self-access centre for language learners I'll be looking mainly at the
project that I've been involved with for the British Council, which recently
opened in beta on the Teen Grid. We have just started running a trial with EFL
students and I should be ready to report on the first impressions and have
their feedback for this session. There's more Info here:
http://www.theconsultants-
e.com/edunation/educationedunation.asp Hope to see some of you there! All
the best, Graham Graham Stanley http://blog-efl.blogspot.com
080203 Sunday,
February 3, 2008 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. This weekend there were numerous EVO events. For example
there was an SMiELT chat just prior to Blogstreams (see below)
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin. This 1-hour
session will be looking more closely at some blogging projects.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080203 Sunday,
February 10, 2008 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. This weekend there were numerous EVO events; e.g. a
Blogging for Educators chat recorded at http://tiny.cc/fxQ15 (or is it l5 - one or
el)
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080203 Sunday,
February 17, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080221 Feb 21:
NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session: Virtual World Project @ Otis College of Art
and Design Associate professor Mrags Writer (aka Michael Wright) took three
Classes of Otis digital sophomore students in world where they developed and
created content based on class-developed themes. The project, which was created
on the Otis Island, required team building, out of the box creative thinking,
introducing students to working with 3d & 2d virtual tools, working with a
budget (3000 lindens per class), and working with a limited amount of building
blocks (3100 primitives per class). Three hours of in-class time and 10 hours
of outside of class time were devoted to this project. None of the 55 students
had second life experience. The themes developed were “Heaven and
Hell”, “Pirates and Atlantis” and “Lost World and
Mythology”. The results of this project can be viewed in world, Second
Life, at the Otis Island (128,128,0). Wright will lead a tour and answer
questions. When: Feb 21, 9:00am PST
080222Registration is
now open until 2/19/2008 for the SL Conference entitled "Off the Grid:
Academics in a Virtual World" Date: February 22, 2008, 01:00
GMT, or http://tinyurl.com/228bpb for fixed
WorldClock time, or 5:00 p.m. PST [or, 10 a.m. on the 22nd in Japan] (please
come 15 minutes early to assure the presentation can begin on time) -
Conference Description This event is in cooperation with Avgi Isle (in Second
Life), The World Association for Online Education, and Capella University. An
hour will be devoted to roundtable discussions of uses for virtual worlds in
academic settings. Participate and learn from those that have tried - those
that want to learn - those that are moving into virtual reality worlds, in
order to enhance the academic experience for their learners. Share in an
exchange of ideas revolving around emerging technologies. Take a tour of Avgi
Isle in Second Life that uses elements of math, science, art, architecture,
collaborative learning, and many other areas of interest. After the roundtables
- small tour groups will be given guided tours of the island. Learn about all
the work that goes into planning, developing, and making an area in SL work.
Meet the developers and artists that inhabit the Isle. An added bonus will be
freebies for all that attend. Attendees Can Attend in One of Two Ways
- 1.
In SL: for those who have avatars, the in-world transport link is provided to
registrants.
- 2. In a virtual meeting room: for those who do not have
avatars, the URL login and password is provided to registrants.
Registration Information and How to Register The conference is provided at
no cost to WAOE members. Members need to have a login/pw to the WAOE Ning
Social Network to login and post your registration. There are two Forum topics
about the conference: See "Details of the 2/21/2008 SL Conference for WAOE
Members" for dialogue about the conference. See "2/21/2008 REGISTRATION" to
post your registration. Registration is required in advance to assure you
receive the details of how to attend. Seating can only be secured through
advance registration. Registration is open through 2/19/2008.
- Step 1. Go
to http://mywaoe.ning.com Click the Sign Up and follow the prompts. Note that
to attend the WAOE conference, you will submit a request to join WAOE Ning. No
membership fees are involved.
- Step 2: Your request from Step 1 will
result with your login/pw to get into the WAOE Social Network site. Next, you
post your name in the 2/21/2008 SL REGISTRATION forum as follows:
- o - Go
to http://mywaoe.ning.com
- o - Enter
your email and password. Note that as a WAOE member, you will have access to
WAOE social network, 2/21/2008 SL Conference details and REGISTRATION, and much
more
- o - Click the Forum tab, select the Forum entitled: REGISTRATION for
2/21/2008 S/L Conference, and follow its instructions. Another Forum topic
entitled: "Details of the 2/21/2008 SL Conference" is where dialogue about the
conference will take place
080224 Sunday,
February 24, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080229 - The third
monthly session of Education@EduNation taking place this Friday February
29th from 12:30 - 13:30 PST - a special session on educational games in
Second Life with Jeremy Koester (Jeremy Braver in SL) - check here for your
time: http://tinyurl.com/35t4zc Here's
Jeremy's introduction: I am first of all an educator. My heart is to work with
learners in interactive learning environments. I am the Founder and President
of Gaming and Learning in Second Life. I consult with educational entities
regarding learning and technology. I am currently working on my graduate degree
in Instructional Technology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (ant.
'08). Gaming and learning is a passionate interest of mine. I regularly present
my educational technology findings at large conventions such as SLBPE, SLCC,
TCEA and CAMT. I want to be a part in shaping the future of education and how
America addresses it's educational needs going into this digital, global
environment. I will be talking about Gaming and Learning in SL as an
organization. Participants will learn about what GaLiSL is, what we do, and
also get a chance to play a game that Jeremy Braver (Jeremy Koester-RL)
designed. The game is called 'Windbag'. It's a whimsical game of social
bluffing where everyone has a good laugh and learns at the same time. Be sure
to sign up beforehand at Edunation III:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edunation%20III/202/27/21/%20
More about Education@Edunation here:
http://www.theconsultants-e.com/edunation/educationedunation.asp
080302 Sunday,
March 2, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin. This 1-hour
session will be looking more closely at some blogging projects.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080309 Sunday,
March 9, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080316 Sunday,
March 16, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
In conjunction with CALICO 2008 there is a workshop on virtual worlds
running on Wednesday, March 19. Graham Davies will be lurking in Second
Life sometime in the early evening, which he says is "(6-7pm UK) time - which
corresponds to morning time (10-11am) on the West Coast. If you see my avatar
name, Groovy Winkler, pop up in the online list then I would be happpy to join
you briefly to say hello. I usually hang out in the EUROCALL Headquarters on
EduNation III island, which can be found at:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/9/29/22/
... BTW, there will be two presentations in Second Life - at a distance - at
EUROCALL's CMC SIG conference in Padua, Italy, 17-19 April 2008. Mine is one of
them, an introduction to the EUROCALL HQ, and David Richardson (Kalmar
University, Sweden, aka Davric Rinkitink in SL) will be presenting the Kamimo
Island project, which is a project that aims to foster oral production skills
in English. Their online courses in SL are running right now:
http://www.humsam.hik.se/distans/existstud/op/opbusinesspages.htm
David Richardson will be online in SL on March 18." That's Groovy's I mean
Graham's message.
080323 Sunday,
March 23, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
The fourth in the EduCation@EduNation series of presentations in Second
Life (http://www.secondlife.com) will be held next Sunday 30th March at
12:00 PST (Second Life Time), 19:00 UTC/GMT or 21:00 CET. Check
here for your local time: *http://tinyurl.com/3dfn7z *The special guest this
time round is Jeremy Harmer, http://www.jeremy-harmer.com/, the well-known and
best-selling ELT author and international speaker, and it will be his first
public event in Second Life - he'll be behind the avatar Dirk Beatty. The
session is entitled "Watching Teachers Watch Themselves" and will be a
real-world talk (rather than being about SL education) looking at teacher
observation and how teachers perceive their work and their teaching practice.
The session concerns the teacher observation Jeremy carried out whole preparing
the new edition of Jeremy's book, 'How to Teach English' [ Pearson Longman,
2007]. So, be sure to sign up quickly to ensure a place next Sunday (by
visiting http://tinyurl.com/3awkys - the sign-up stands on EduNation III - it
promises to be a lively session which teachers worldwide will undoubtedly enjoy
and benefit from. Hope to see some of you there! Regards, Baldric Commons /
Graham Stanley
080330 Sunday,
March 30, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
At the TESOL conference in New York City April 2-5, Webheads were
preponderantly present. Webheads tweets were captured at
http://twemes.com/wiany. Events were
organized on http://wia-in-nyc.pbwiki.com. Lots of
photos were taken and posted online:
080406 Sunday,
April 6, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin. This 1-hour
session will be looking more closely at some blogging projects.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080407 - At the
IATEFL conference in Exeter, 7th - 11th April 2008
Webheads were again represented:
- Graham Stanley presented at a pre-conference event on 'Digital Audio
for Language Learning' to be held through the Learning Technologies SIG. He
writes "So far there are 40 people signed up for the event, which will be
looking at good practice in listening to and creating digital audio with and
for language learners. We will be spending most of the time looking at podcasts
and for this reason, I would be particularly interested in hearing from any
Webheads who are still actively podcasting with their students or who use
podcasts in class. Please share with us any URLs of recent work you have done
or that you have come across. I'll be compiling resources that come out of this
meeting and those that Webheads suggest at
http://pod-efl.wikispaces.com ".
- Webheads participated in the Exeter Online website which "allows
remote participants to take part in one of the world's biggest ELT conferences
through a variety of resources including: - video recordings of selected
sessions - audio recordings of selected sessions - live streamed plenaries and
events - moderated special interest discussion forums - chat sessions - blogs
and photo albums To visit the Exeter Online website, go to:
http://exeteronline.britishcouncil.org
. The first time you visit the site, you'll need to create your own free user
account - http://exeteronline.britishcouncil.org/login/signup.php
This initiative builds on the earlier collaboration between the British Council
and IATEFL in Aberdeen last year, which brought together 1,600 teachers and
trainers at the actual conference, and 2,500 online. This year we expect a much
larger audience, and this is a real opportunity to take part in the biggest
online ELT training community. Timetable The launch of the site gives
all remote participants a chance to register, familiarize themselves with the
site and get to know fellow participants. Forum moderators are already in place
and ready to start the discussions which will lead up to the official
conference on 8th April. Once the live conference has started, participants
will be able to enjoy some of the live sessions and other events happening in
Exeter. For more information on the conference and the online site, please see
the Exeter Blog at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/exeter2008blog
We look forward to meeting you online, and hope that you will share this
information with your colleagues worldwide. Gavin Dudeney [ Secretary, IATEFL ]
and Julian Wing [ British Council Exeter Online Project Manager ]"
080413 Sunday,
April 13, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080420 Sunday,
April 20, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
- The Writingmatrix team have been invited to give an online
presentation April 20, 2008, either 16:00 or 17:00 GMT at
http://www.instantpresenter.com/lancelotschool5.
This presentation explains aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to
filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide
collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts
writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each
other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking. This
session will be a discussion with the coordinator of the project, as well as
with any other Writingmatrix project participants who might join us. It appears
at the moment that the session might include other EVO session moderators apart
from Writingmatrix so I've been asked to keep our part down to ten minutes.
Keep an eye on the announcement here:
http://www.lancelotschool.com/Terminkalender/details/EVO-Sessions-2008---The-Writing-Matrix-or-How-bloggers-connect-their-brain-neurons
or http://tinyurl.com/3myv8v
080427 Sunday,
April 27, 2008 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. Today we played with LT/Elluminate and helped Rick
Rosenberg to get there there with intent to join him later in the week for a
presentation he was giving in Amman, Jordan (which in the event, never
materialized. We also watched a fascinating video about Wikipedia (48 min, so
get comfortable, but worth it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMSinyx_Ab0.
We kept coming back to the topic of this video in the chat, as many
participants were watching it together.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080504 Sunday, May
4, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin. This 1-hour
session will be looking more closely at some blogging projects.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080511 Sunday, May
11, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080518 Sunday, May
18, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship thru
lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at
http://www.tappedin.org/. This Sunday
Nergiz made some comments: "Today, in TappedIn, we tried out both visual search
tools that were mentioned here http://www.kartoo.com/ and
http://www.searchcrystal.com/home.html.
We typed in our names, Webheads and other key words. It was a lot of fun. But
is there more to it? I wonder how we might use these with our students? Any
ideas?" and then "I know http://summize.com/
and like it. I heard about http://www.tweetwheel.com/ today in
TappedIn for the first time and have just tried it. I love it! It looks great
and it's really interesting to see who else is connected with your friends.
Lovely! Thanks again! Nergiz ."
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080523 - The Second
Life Languages 2008 conference starts at 10am PST (18.00 GMT) 23 May
2008 and ends at 10am PST (18.00 GMT) 24 May 2008. For more
information visit http://www.slanguages.net/home.php
and then log on to SL. Participants are requested to use the use the
tag/keyword "slanguages2008" whenever possible in online artifacts referencing
their participation. The program is posted here:
http://www.slanguages.net/program.php.
080525 - Sunday,
May 25, 2008 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.
- Today there was a chat with Nelba Quintana's Writingmatrix group at
10 a.m. Argentina time (which I believe is noon GMT) on Yahoo Messenger. The
topics were Twitter and Technorati.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
Carla Arena writes, May 30, 2008: We'd like to thank everybody
who could join us today at
http://webheadsinaction.org/peopleandplaces.
We had a wonderful time chatting with Mike. Time just flew by, and we just felt
like taking the next plane to Adelaide. Thanks, Mike for such a cultural trip
to your country. For the ones who couldn't be there, here's the podcast:
http://peopleandplaces.bloxi.jp/ Our main goal with these chatcasts is to raise
cultural awareness, learn more about our friends and their countries, and make
the resources available for classroom use in any creative way you can think of.
There were some minor audio problems due to skype, but for most of our chatcast
we had clear audio. Wait for more! Next month we pack and go to Japan! Enjoy
the trip. -- Carla and Cris http://peopleandplaces.bloxi.jp/
Tag: placeswithpeople
Cristina Costa writes: "The Evolve project
http://www.evolvecommunity.org is
organising a series of Open International on-line events and seminars. The
objectives are: • To provide a space for participant driven discussion and
debate • To promote critical inquiry and discourse • To allow for the
presentation of ideas in progress • To share expertise, ideas and future
thinking around common research agendas" The first event took place May
30 in Elluminate - http://tinyurl.com/6emm9f (no Password
required). Barbara Dieu (http://www.evolvecommunity.org/bdieu/bio
) was Keynote speaker for our first event, organized around the theme Social
software in Schools and Institutions. Barbara's presentation is entitled Social
Media in English Language Teaching:
http://www.evolvecommunity.org/bdieu/2008/05/09/hello-world
and its recording is here http://tinyurl.com/55hcaj (would that be
http://elluminate.jiscemerge.org.uk/play_recording_confirmation.html
?). You can also find a recording of the keynote and slides here
http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/2062
080601 Sunday,
June 1, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin. This 1-hour
session will be looking more closely at some blogging projects.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
June 4, 2008, Rita Zeinstejer inaugurated her new Multimedia
Center with a demonstration of its potential wherein her students got onto
Yahoo Messenger and interviewed several of the webheads, such as Vance, Hala
...
080608 Sunday,
June 8, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080615 Sunday,
June 15, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
Cristine Costa was in Ohrid/Macedonia June 15-21, 2008 taking
part in a Summer school on Technology Enhanced Learning & Knowledge
Management http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2008
. She writes "We have started a Twemes on the topics we are exploring and we
would love to hear from you and your ideas/ experiences. Let's share
reflection. Let's connect! Please help us show the power of the community in
action. The Summer School participants will appreciate and learn in context.
Your contribution in invaluable. Let's learn/ twitter together!
http://twemes.com/scohrid We have already been picked up by twittscoop ;-)
http://www.twitscoop.com/snapshot/2008/6/16/5a011034abcb66b38be94c8ee9dd3b5d2e6f6bb0.html
Thank you for caring! Cris"
Some events:
Doris Molero de Martins wants you to check out "Announcing our weekly
meeting in WizIQ!" on International Collaboration! About the session:
Introducing WiZiQ Friday, 20 June, 2008 9:30 PM To 10:30 PM SA Western
Standard Time The Ning Link is here:
http://grade11.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1250255%3ATopic%3A26318&xgs=1&xgi=i18ujbT
and
the
WiZiQ recording should be available here.
080622 Sunday,
June 22, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
Graham Attwell is hosting A new series of Sounds of the Bazaar on
Mondays evenings. And apparently the sounds lead to a get together in
Second life...what else can you ask for? ;-) You are all welcomed to take part
in it. Bring a friend too!
http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/06/sounds-of-the-bazaar-live-3/
- Or is it Wednesdays?? 080625 Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - Christina
Costa and Graham Atwell are "back with another LIVE Sounds of the Bazaar
internet radio broadcast. The programme will go out LIVE Wednesday at 1415
Central European Summer Time (13.15 BST). Interviews, features, music, poetry
and more. Guests include John Pallister from Wolsingham School, Gunter Beham
from the EU APOSLE project, the kids from Cwmglas primary school in Swansea and
Nicola Witton and Scott Wilson from the Emerge ARGOSI project. Please try and
join us for some summer fun. You can listen to the programme by going to
http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/emerge.mp3.m3u
in your browser. The programme should stream form your MP3 player of choice. We
will have a chat room operating alongside the programme - go to
http://client11.addonchat.com/sc.php?id=302479.
The chat will be hosted by Cristina Costa. And if you would like to come on the
programme just drop me an email - graham10@mac.com or skype me." Copy/paste
from
http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/06/sounds-of-the-bazaar-live-tomorrow
080628 Seth Dicken
invites us to "come along to a test online meeting / video conference we are
holding at 09.00 C.E.T on Saturday 28th June. We're going to discuss the
things you can do with your classes using online meeting tools like Dimdim.
Find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/5sh2ow To join the
meeting, just click on this URL: http://tinyurl.com/6zlrt7
- Dimdim is an open-source online meeting/video conferencing website /
software package. It has all sorts of handy features like a shared whiteboard,
shared desktop, Powerpoint slides and PDF sharing. It's free to use for up to
20 participants, and if you host it yourself you can have unlimited
participants. It supports multiple audio chats and text chats, but
unfortunately at the moment it only supports one video feed. Read more about it
here: http://www.digitalang.com/2008/06/open-source-online-class/
Download it or sign up to use it here:
http://www.dimdim.com/registration/Dimdim_Signup.html
080629 Sunday,
June 29, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080706 Sunday,
July 6, 2008 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 had just arrived in Tashkent, unable to find an
Internet cafe in an unfamiliar city, hopes someone will send a transcript.
080713 Sunday,
July 13, 2008 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 was in Khiva in Uzbekistan, unable to find a Java
browser that would connect through the firewall, hopes someone will send a
transcript.
080720 Sunday,
July 20, 2008 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 managed to attend this chat from Samarkand in
Uzbekistan.
080727 Sunday,
July 27, 2008 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 was in Tashkent, unable to find a Java browser
that would connect through the firewall, hopes someone will send a
transcript.
080803 Sunday,
August 3, 2008 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 got on from Tomato PC across from Hyundai Dept.
Store in Sinchon in Seoul.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin.
080806 - Many
webheads attended the August 6-9, 2008 WorldCALL congress in Fukuoka,
Japan, http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd0/.
Additionally
Webheads are maintaining a blog here:
http://webheadatwc3.posterous.com/
which is cleverly associated with http://worldcall2008.blogspot.com/.
There is also a Webheads at WorldCALL 2008 wiki:
http://webheadsatwc3.wetpaint.com.
Twitter posts will be aggregated here: http://twemes.com/worldcall08 and the
preferred tag is obviously worldcall08. Photos are being aggregated
here: http://technorati.com/photos/tag/worldcall08
080810 Sunday,
August 10, 2008 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 left early for Inchon airport in Seoul and managed
to get online using the free wireless there.
Dennis Newson created a very interesting blogpost dated today about
doing a guest lesson in an SL classroom with Nergiz Kern. Dennis aka Denos
alias Osnacantab http://eflinsl.blogspot.com/
080817 Sunday,
August 17, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship
thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at
http://www.tappedin.org/
080824 Sunday,
August 24, 2008 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. Today Minhaj joined and we tried to visit Elluminate to
help someone (Nelba?) to use the space for an upcoming presentation but there
appeared to be too many issues for too many people (in my case, frequent
timeouts from my office) so the test was not a flawless one.
080828 Thursday,
August 28, 2008 at 15:00 GMT Nergiz Kern presents in WiZiQ about: * SL
experiments, which is the name of a wiki and a group of language teachers
interested in teaching in SL * Her first course in Second Life:
http://www.wiziq.com/public/session.aspx?detail=23530_Exploring-Second-Life-for-Language-Teaching-and-Learning_teacher_Nergiz_Kern
080831 Sunday,
August 31, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080907 Sunday,
September 7, 2008 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.
- Each Sunday following the Webheads meetings there are usually live
webcast events scheduled on the Worldbridges Network. Offerings change
periodically, and the exact events and timings can be found at
http://www.worldbridges.net. All
events are podcast from the site with show notes and RSS feeds available for
subscription.
- Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - Join in first Sunday of each month at
21:00 GMT http://www.tappedin.org
- Bee hosts the monthly Blogstreams Salon session at Tappedin.
- Most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (during the academic year) there
are free 3-day seminars conducted at Knowplace, often by Webheads. See
http://knowplace.ca for details.
080907 Sunday,
September 14, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World
friendship thru lang. learning TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION; met at
http://www.tappedin.org/ and then moved
to http://tinyurl.com/wiziq10yrs
for a session recording. A wiki was set up at
http://webheads10years.wikispaces.com
080921 Sunday,
September 21, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World
friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; meets at
http://www.tappedin.org/. This Sunday
was the kickoff for the next WiAOC 2009, Webheads in Action Online
unConvergence. A wiki was started at http://wiaoc09.pbwiki.com (thanks to Carla
Arena who grabbed that bull by its horns).
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092706 -
Saturday, September 27, 2008, I was invited to assist at
a distance along with Nellie Deutsch and Doris Molero in a presentation given
by Buthaina Alothman at the Women without Frontiers International Conference
2008, held physically in Rhodes, Greece, on September 26-28. The presentation
focused on ways we can promote peace and reduce discrimination against gender,
origin, religion, and color in our societies through Cross-Cultural online
projects in the Language Classrooms. Buth created a Wikispace with the abstract
of the presentation, Guest Speakers bios, and slides of her previous
presentation at the International Conference of WwF.org in 2004, and photo at:
http://buthaina-wwf-peaceconf08.wikispaces.com.
The session recording is at: http://tinyurl.com/LT080927 |
080928 Sunday,
September 28, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World
friendship thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; met at
http://www.tappedin.org/. Keynote
speakers at the upcoming WiAOC conference topped the agenda.
081005 Sunday,
October 5, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship
thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; met at
http://www.tappedin.org/. A committee
was formed to invite keynote speakers to the upcoming WiAOC conference.
Morteza Barin managed to get a wireless connection for his laptop and
make it possible for Vance Stevens to present via Elluminate at the annual
TELLSI conference in Rasht from his office in Abu Dhabi:
http://www.guilan.ac.ir/files/other/Conference_Tentative_Schedule.pdf
on Oct 9, 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. GMT.In the end the presentation was
made and blogged here: http:/tinyurl.com/iranpost and, even
better, recorded and made available here: http://tinyurl.com/uae2iran
081112 Sunday,
October 12, 2008 Webheads in Action/Writing for Webheads: World friendship
thru lang. learning 12:00-14:00 GMT ; met at
http://www.tappedin.org/. A committee
was formed to invite keynote speakers to the upcoming WiAOC conference. Minhaaj
announced that he would soon be in the UAE and Morteza came on to talk about
his presentation with Vance at the recent TESLLI event in Rasht
Webheads continues to meet regularly each Sunday noon GMT into 2009.
However Vance is thinking how this can be turned more into a Web 2.0 record.
Meanwhile also, here's an event I recorded for 2009.
Buthaina Alothman scheduled workshops 7:20-7:25 GMT on Feb 25, 2009 in
Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/3eh. Buth
has invited several guest speakers during her 2 workshops designed for 70 EFL
teachers working in the Foundation Program of Qatar University, abstract and
proposal at:
http://quniv-workshop0902.wikispaces.com/Abstract+%26+Proposal
- The first workshop is for Group A that comprises 35 EFL teachers and
is scheduled on Wednesday, February 25th, at 7 am - 9 am GMT.
- The second workshop will be for Group B that also has 35 EFL teachers
participating and is scheduled on Thursday, February 26th, at 9 am - 11 am GMT.
The first hour of each workshop will be a power point presentation
during which each guest speaker talks for five (5) minutes. The plan of Day 1
is at: http://quniv-workshop0902.wikispaces.com/MVPresentation_Plan
and the plan of Day 2 at:
http://quniv-workshop0902.wikispaces.com/MVPresentation_Plan2
Since the same workshop of Day 1 will be repeated on Day 2, the
following is my visualization of how the two events can be organized:
- Vance and Michael will talk about the Webheads as a successful
example of a Community of Practice online for EFL/ESL teachers. Vance could
talk on Feb. 25th, at 7:20 - 7:25 am GMT, and Michael could talk on Feb. 26th,
at 9:20 - 9:25 am GMT, or just leave it to the two of you to decide or agree on
which day and time is suitable for you.
- Doris and Nellie will talk about their experiences using Nings &
wikis for their EFL classes. Doris could talk on Day 1, i.e. Feb. 25th, at 7:30
- 7:35 am GMT , and Nellie could talk on Day 2, i.e. Feb. 26th, at 9:30 - 9:35
am GMT, or just leave it to you ladies to agree on the day and time taht is
suitable for each of you.
- Carla and Cris will talk about their experiences using Flickr and
Twitter for their EFL classes and Personal Learning. Carla could talk on Day 1
at 7:35 - 7:40 am GMT, and Cris could talk on Day 2 at 9:35 - 9:40 am GMT, or
just leave it to you ladies to agree or decide on which day and time would be
convenient for each of you.
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!
If you have photos of any f2f meetings with Webheads,
please post them to our WebHeads f2f site at
http://webheads-f2f.pbwiki.com/
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