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2005 TESOL Arabia
Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips
Learner Independence and IT SIGs of TESOL Arabia

http://ilearn.20m.com/pasteventsb.html#tttt

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:45 - 12:45 (05:45 -08:45 GMT)
at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi

Live and online webcast: Let's go blogging now, everyone is learning how, come on and go blogging with me

Vance Stevens presenting with online moderator Buthaina Al-Othman

This presentation was Webcast thanks to the Elluminate software provided by Learning Times http://www.learningtimes.org:
We used the Elluminate voice/webcam presentation room at http://www.tinyurl.com/y3eh

05:45 GMT - The first hour will be dedicated to those who don't already have blogs but have heard so much about them that they're ready to start their own. The objective is to teach people how to blog and expected outcome is for some blogs to be started online during the hour. Choices include Blogger (most popular) and Buzznet (easy to use), and for the more ambitious, why not start one of each? (and if you're really ambitious, you can start audio blogs and even video blogs).

  • For online interaction one on one between online tutor and online or on-site tutee, participants will use Tapped In http://www.tappedin.org from their lab computers.
  • I will conduct the session from a centrally positioned computer running Elluminate, which online participants can monitor, in addition to Tapped In, at http://www.tinyurl.com/y3eh. To establish presence, I'll webcast via voice and web cam through Elluminate, and it would be good (but optional) for online participants to have web cams running in Yahoo Messenger. I can display a number of those on the central whiteboard so the on-site audience knows who's with them from a distance and get feedback on their blogs as they put them online.

06:45 GMT - The second 1-hour session is for those who already blog and those from the first hour who are still interested but wondering what to do with their new blogs. We can discuss with the online tutors how they use blogs using the Elluminate voice tool. If the web cams degrade voice we might have to switch them off, but we can at least get screen images of you on web cam and paste them to the Elluminate white board.

  • In this section we regard blogs from the perspective of student and all other writers in search of platform, audience, and feedback, and from that of teachers seeking to establish portals for their student and professional learning communities, such as that at http://webpres2005.buzznet.com.

07:45 GMT - the lab at the PI will be available for self-access study for those who wish to continue on-site and online.

(More info about the past TTTT events can be found at http://ilearn.20m.com/pasteventsb.html#tttt). Members of the Webheads community of practice are invited and encouraged to attend from their respective locations and interact with the on-site audience.

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That was the plan ...

What actually happened was that the LT Elluminate portal failed to work properly. I believe it was a bandwidth issue in the lab I was working from. There were 20 people online from there the first hour and Elluminate worked for me only as long as I did NOT broadcast voice, show a video, or attempt screenshare. As soon as I did one of those I would lose the connection and the program would then attempt to reconnect. It succeeded and held the connection until I tried to speak, then I would lose it again. The second hour with only 6 people present, it was better. I was able to talk and conduct web tours, but lost the connection when I started my web cam. I did not attempt screen sharing. At least for that hour I was able to give a voice and web-tour presentation online (while showing web cam in Yahoo Messenger). For the first hour, the 15 min of glitches cost me some focus in my on-site audience. However, one innovation we had made at Buth's suggestion saved the day for the online audience. Buth had volunteered to act as 'producer' and was therefore able to moderate and hold the session together for those online. The result the first hour was that they had their session while I worked with the on-site folks to get them to start blogs. Four were produced at that session on April 14

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