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Vance Stevens on Learning2gether streamed live online from Al Ain Men's College UAE

Mon, 2013-04-01 16:01

Learning2gether classroots weekly online professional development

This session is one of several being held this week at Al Ain Men's College (AAMC) as part of an in-house professional development week.

 

Description of event: 

Learning2gether is a wiki which, since September 2010, has served to organize teachers in meeting online at regular times weekly to conduct free “class-roots” professional development seminars and discuss topics of mutual interest to teachers of ESOL in particular and educators in general. Presenters and participants range from expert to those merely interested in the topics. Participants come from all over the world, but from its inception there has been an effort to involve teaching practitioners in Arab countries through coordination with the TESOL Arabia TAEDTECH-SIG. Sessions are recorded, and a growing archive of recorded resources is accumulating at the associated podcast site. This session will introduce teachers to the endeavor and invite them to become involved. 

 

Hangout recording

 

Webheads in Action recording archive: 

 http://webheadsinaction.org/vance-stevens-learning2gether-streamed-live-online-al-ain-mens-college-uae

 

 

Place:

 

What:

This event is being organized live at Al Ain Men's College (AAMC) in Al Ain, UAE

The plan (assuming robust Internet and that April Fools does not intervene) is to:

 

Participants will be able to listen to the live stream on http://webheadsinaction.org/live

Anyone can interact as well in this live text chat at http://etherpad.mit.edu/CzKEv1s6wM 

 

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Jim Buckingham and Vance Stevens discuss relevance of "badge" systems for promoting PD amongst teachers both locally and globally7

Mon, 2013-04-01 04:54

Recording

 

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim's notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

 

James's vision of all of this? "some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it."

 

Some brainstorming ideas:

 

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Jim Buckingham and Vance Stevens discuss relevance of "badge" systems for promoting PD amongst teachers both locally and globally7

Mon, 2013-04-01 04:54

Recording

 

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim's notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

 

James's vision of all of this? "some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it."

 

Some brainstorming ideas:

 

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Jim Buckingham and Vance Stevens discuss relevance of "badge" systems for promoting PD amongst teachers both locally and globally7

Mon, 2013-04-01 04:54

Recording

 

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim's notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

 

James's vision of all of this? "some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it."

 

Some brainstorming ideas:

 

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Jim Buckingham and Vance Stevens discuss relevance of "badge" systems for promoting PD amongst teachers both locally and globally7

Mon, 2013-04-01 04:54

Recording

 

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim's notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

 

James's vision of all of this? "some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it."

 

Some brainstorming ideas:

 

Announcements

 

 

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Jim Buckingham and Vance Stevens discuss relevance of "badge" systems for promoting PD amongst teachers both locally and globally7

Mon, 2013-04-01 04:54

Recording

 

Where? Elluminate http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

What? Jim's notes: http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/245

Topics include

 

James's vision of all of this? "some sort of online community or even course (a la Coursera) where skills are learned by someone .. but vetted by an x number of peers, with the badge earned via successful peer review, and posting of the evidence supporting the application for a badge .. somewhere on the internet .. so others can learn from it.. and perhaps even build upon it."

 

Some brainstorming ideas:

 

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Learning2gether from live events webcast from TESOL 2013 in Dallas March 21-23

Sat, 2013-03-23 18:23

March 21-23, Learning2gether traveled to Dallas to help webcast live at from the Electronic Village and academic sessions taking place during the TESOL Convention

 

Many of these events were held in the Webheads Bb Collaborate / Elluminate room: 

 http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ 

 

For definitive updates to these events, please see the official sites:

 

Thu March 21 - CALL Academic Session: Gaming and Language Learning

Recordings:

 

Thu March 21  - TESOL CALL-IS Open Meeting 

Recordings:

Fri March 22 - Technology Showcase Event: Mobile Apps for Education
Recordings:

Fri March 22 - CALL-IS & Elementary Education InterSection Session: New Tools/Techniques in CALL

Recordings:

 

 

Sat March 23 - ITA, CALL, & VDM-IS InterSection Session: New Technology Horizons for International Teaching Assistants

Recordings:

 

Sat March 23 - ESP, CALL, & VDM-IS: Harmony in ESP Practice with Computers, Video and Digital Media

Recordings:

  • Bb Collaborate / Elluminate - 

 

The following links will be updated when the recordings have been harvested

Fri March 22 19:00 to 19:50 GMT - Webcasts from the EV Fair Classics

 

For each event at this time click on its unique webcast link 
(recommended technique: jump from one to the other)

 

Sat March 23 16:00 to 16:50 GMT - Webcasts from the EV Fair Classics

 

For each event at this time click on its unique webcast link 
(recommended technique: jump from one to the other)

 

 

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Real English® Subtitled - 17 - What are the Italians like?

Wed, 2013-03-20 20:34
Real English® Subtitled - 17 - What are the Italians like?
Users of the Real English site have asked for the Subtitled version of this clip, so here it is. The main site with lessons for the videos are here: http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp and the MOBILE SITE with our videos and lessons is here: http://bit.ly/realenglish-mobile From: realenglish1 Views: 16 0 ratings Time: 03:45 More in Education
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Taps for Tapped In after March 18, 2013

Mon, 2013-03-18 14:24

Farewell to TappedIn

End of an era:

 

Theresa Almeida d'Eca, Nina Liakos, Michael Coghlan, Vance Stevens, David Weksler, and Jeff Cooper met at Tapped In one last time and set up a wiki at http://tappedin2013.pbworks.com/ 


You are invited to join and contribute URLs to or upload the artifacts you have

managed to save from TappedIn.

 

 

Vance has saved a couple here:

 

Where?

 

Another one bites the dust:

 

Outcome ...

We set up a wiki at http://tappedin2013.pbworks.com/ which you are invited to join and contribute URLs to or upload the artifacts you have managed to save from TappedIn.

 

Check back here to see what we've accumulated and help with the display, if you wish.

 

Announcements:

 

Also on tap for this evening ... 

Sun Mar 17 1500 GMT - IATEFL Webinar: Rethinking the Language Classroom - From Mobile to Learning

 

 

with Carla Arena (Brazil)

 

When: Sunday 17 March 2013, GMT 15:00
Find the time in your time zone by clicking this link.


Where: The event takes place in the IATEFL online conference room.
http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/265-17313-webinar-rethinking-the-language-classroom.html

 

See the schedule for remaining webinars in this series: http://ht.ly/fXMsQ

 

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Screencast demonstrating Real English® Mobile

Mon, 2013-03-11 15:16
Screencast demonstrating Real English® Mobile
The Mobile Real English® site is here: http://bit.ly/realenglish-mobile The lessons for ALL of our YouTube videos ON THE TRADITIONAL Real English® site are here: http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp Basic information and updates about the mobile site are posted twice a week here: http://www.real-english.com/mobile-info.asp From: realenglish1 Views: 28 1 ratings Time: 06:08 More in Education
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Veillance Hangout with Alex Hayes and posse

Sun, 2013-03-10 15:44

In which Vance Stevens hangs out with Alex Hayes and friends, talking about veillance, augmented and augmediated reality, and issues around wearable technology ...

 

The event was being streamed at http://webheadinaction.org/live but the recording was compromised when Google Hangout went off air only 15 minutes into the Hangout, but we got these records:

  • The video link before we went off the air
      
  • A composite mp3 audio of the first 15 minutes, an apology, and the last 40 minutes of the conversation
    if (FlashDetect.installed) { $('flash_embed-Hlovncffmr').show(); $('quicktime_embed-Hlovncffmr').hide(); } else { $('quicktime_embed-Hlovncffmr').show(); $('flash_embed-Hlovncffmr').hide(); }   
  • Alex's blog post of the event: http://veillance.me/blog/2013/3/10/veillance-discussion  

 

The link points to 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11tv8zesBfGJkRDhqJJOKKwVBysE_ybn668Do5HmX3rQ/edit  

 

This sent out everywhere:

 

Join us in Google Hangout this Sunday at noon GMT to discuss with experts this fascination topic.

 

As usual with Hangouts, we can't start them until right before the event, so we will post the direct link to the hangout at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com and also at http://webheadsinaction.org/live. That's where you can go to listen in on the stream and join in the text chat, in case you can't or don't want to get into the hangout itself. But be aware that the stream can only be set up right at noon GMT, when we start the hangout.

 

If you are hanging out with us, be sure to wear a headset (otherwise the sound from your speakers back into your mic could cause echo). And if you enter the hangout be sure to mute or switch off the stream (otherwise you'll hear two sound channels, each overlaid at a disconcerting lag from the other.)

 

Meanwhile, here's more from Alex:

 

Vance Stevens from Webheads and I are running a Google Hangout for anyone interested in joining us - http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#SunMar10noonGMTnbspVeillanceHangoutwithAlexHayesandposse. The time of the event where you are, 1400 GMT, is given at this link.

 

The topic you will see is Veillance - the domain with all it's disciplines such as surveillance, sousveillance, dataveillance, uberveillance and so on. We are sure to also speak of education, engineering, diffusion of innovation, privacy, personal security and a host more emergent themes & technologies.

 

We think it is pertinent topic given that we are on the brink of Google Glass going live soon, that Vuzix and host of other augmented and augmediated reality hardware is set to become distributed and visible throughout our communities worldwide.

 

A podcast was recently distributed by IEEE ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/geek-life/profiles/steve-manns-better-version-of-reality) and featured Professor Steve Mann whom I'm working closely with on this event -http://veillance.me

 

Have a listen to the podcast. It's is very revealing, insightful and will serve as the base point for our discussion. You will note that I have invited Steve to join us here in this discussion. I've also invited a number of others whom have I just met virtually

 

Some background

Wed Feb 27 Coach Carole organized an "in depth look at Augmented Reality through the eye of Christopher Winter"

What if your students could stand in any room and by looking through their phones camera, be presented with an entirely new virtual world? What if instead of 30 students crowding around one physical object, they could each have an almost tangible replica on their desks to study, even when at home? Augmented Reality is not a new technology and was in fact in danger of fading out before it really had chance to make an impact. The fact was that holding a piece of paper up to a webcam in order to see a 3D object on a desktop computer is neither engaging nor fun. It was less than intuitive and quite cumbersome.  Fast forward to the present day and thanks to the mobile revolution Augmented Reality is not just an option, but an integral part of effective mobile delivery 

 

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Vance Stevens, Rita Zeinstejer, Nelba Quintana: Widening the audience for student writing with Writingmatrix and Paper.li

Sun, 2013-03-03 19:39

 

Panelists: Vance Stevens, Rita Zeinstejer, Sasa Sirk, Nelba Quintana

 

What is this about? 

 

What is Writingmatrix?

A few years ago, Vance Stevens coordinated Nelba Quintana and Rita Zeinstejer in Argentina, Doris Molero in Venezuela, and Sasa Sirk in Slovenia in a global project to put student writers in touch with each other through blogging, by tagging their posts 'writingmatrix'.  At the time, the students were able to locate each other's blogs by using Technorati.  However Technorati has since tightened what its searches will return in order to reduce clutter for whom it perceives are the most important users of its services (not casual educators). Therefore Technorati no longer works well for this purpose.

 

Meanwhile, one of the serendipitous outcomes of conducting the recently ended EVO MultiMOOC session was a greater understanding of how Paper.li works. Accordingly we have been experimenting with Paper.li in hopes of using it to achieve connections between student writers a world apart that worked so well when we could use Technorati effectively. Some results of these experiments were reported in these webcasts URLs:

 

Today's webcast seeks to bring some of the original Writingmatrix team together to talk about what made the project a success and speculate on how Paper.li might help us to revise the project. 

 

Recording

Where: Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) 

 

Announcements

 

From http://support.paper.li/entries/20023257-What-is-Paper-li- 

So how does Paper.li work? 

Anyone with a Twitter or Facebook account can log-in and create a paper. We provide you with easy to use tools to select your content. You choose your content streams and can create queries and searches based on Twitter users, #tags, keywords, Facebook, your own Twitter timeline, Google+ users, RSS feeds and more.

 

After you have chosen your sources, we go to work. Behind the scenes, it goes something like this: we extract all tweets that include URLs based on your content selection we extract the content found on these URLs:

  • text, e.g. blog post, newspaper article

  • photo, e.g. Flickr, yfrog, Twitpic, ...

  • video, e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, ...

  • analyze the extracted text for language ( EN, ES...) and for topic, e.g. Politics, Technology, ...

  • surface the day's most relevant articles (using paper.li magic)

  • construct a newspaper frontpage using the filtered articles, photos and videos

Please note: Currently Facebook and Twitter are seen as two separate accounts by Paper.li. This means papers created under one account will only show under paper settings for that account. If you create a Paper.li under your Facebook account, it will not be visible in your Paper Settings when you are logged in under your Twitter account. And vice versa. We are working to change this.

 

From Kristi Hines: http://www.stayonsearch.com/how-to-use-paper-li-the-daily-twitter-newspaper 

What Types of Content Does Paper.li Pull?

Paper.li selects specific types of tweet to generate content for a paper. First and foremost, it is looking for tweets with links, as the title of each “story” on the paper will link directly to the page, blog post, article, etc. If there are any images on the page, blog post, article, etc., it will sometimes pull those as a thumbnail for the news story. It also pulls tweets with links to videos from YouTube, BrightCove, and other popular video sharing sites for the media section. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a link directly to the video, however. Some videos are pulled from blog posts with an embedded video.

 

How Does Paper.li Choose Content?

This one is a mystery to me. I thought it *might* be based on tweet popularity until I saw that some of the tweets added to the paper had been the first tweet for a link done within an hour of the paper’s creation. It could be based on the influence of the Twitter users in the list, but I’ve seen some users with little authority get their tweets listed as well. So essentially,it’s completely random.

 

Getting the Right Content for Your Audience

This means that getting content on a particular topic based on a user or a Twitter list may not be as easy as you think. Not only may some members of your following or Twitter list not stick to tweeting about one topic, but some members may tweet something that gets misinterpreted by the paper, as seen below.

 

So how do you ensure your papers have the right content for your audience? There really is no guarantee. I would say that out of the three options for paper creation, hashtags seem the way to go, although some tags are overly abused, such as #linkbuilding gets repeated by the same users over and over and sometimes for services, not useful content. So use Paper.li at your own risk!

 

 

From Ryan Taft: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/paper-li-grow-brand-awareness-traffic/ 

How Does Paper.li Work?

Paper.li allows users to create their own online newspaper through links shared on Facebook and Twitter. Once set up Paper.li automatically collects links from within Facebook or Twitter, organizes them into an easy-to-read newspaper format, complete with imagery, headlines, and article descriptions. Subscribers receive their online newspaper each day filled with top stories around the same content topic as your website. It’s a great way for you to automatically aggregate online content relevant to your website topic and push it out to your online community ... If you’re on Twitter, you can configure the system to tweet your Paper.li newspaper automatically.

 

You can have up to 10 content streams from which to pull article links from ... You can organize them in the order of importance. If you choose a Single Twitter User and a Twitter Keyword, you can rank them in order of importance of where Paper.li should pull articles from first, second, third, etc. The options include:

Single Twitter User

Your Twitter Stream and the people you follow

Twitter List

Twitter #Hashtag

Keywords on Twitter

Keywords on Facebook

RSS Feed

Single Google+ User

Keywords on Google+

 

Breakthrough

 

As a result of our session, Rita did some further investigation, and wrote us ...

 

Hi, Vance and all,

 

Quite enthusiastic at “revisiting” our project, I’m now exploring a different tool –Tweeted Times (formerly known as The Twitter Times), a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account, which I find more reliable than Paper.li.

 

If you compare today’s edition in both, you’ll see many more entries in TT, which are postings I made yesterday in Twitter –some of them via Scoop.It –in fact, Paper.li does not show any!!! Which means that, for some reason, Paper.li ignores some postings, even when they come via Twitter.

 

Take a look at the page I opened at TT http://tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/writingmatrix/en and let me know what you think.

 

Here's what I think ...

 

Tweeted Times does indeed seem to be doing a better job than paper.li.  It not only gets the Scoop.its that were missing from Paper.li but it also picks up the paper.liitself.

 

I think you're on to something here, Rita

 

Not only that, this is a great illustration of true MOOC like behavior, where the idea is to assemble 1000 participants (webheads) on the upshot that one of them might be able to stimulate one or more of the others (Rita) to come up with a breakthrough as a result of a collaboration that couldn't have happened with such a result in a much smaller grouping, which would lack critical mass for significant probability of achieving such a breakthrough.

 

still pondering that one ...

 

 

 

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Heike Philp - Web conferences for Continuous Professional Development

Sun, 2013-02-24 12:54


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Heike Philp took us through the highlights of various online conferences she has organized, been a part of, and most importantly, recorded.

 

As Heike said: "Top level guest speakers, a global audience, a lively chat and a sharing of know-how can all be had from the comfort of your home. What inspired me to start the first web conference was however another reason because truly I love to travel to conference just as much as attending them. What motivated me to run  web conferences is the fact that there are so many parallel sessions at each conference! One can actually spend all of this time and money and attend the conference and still miss more than half of the program. Not so in the case of web conferences. During a web conference all of the sessions can be recorded. And they are being watched ... "

Noting that the Virtual Round Table WebCon, the DaFWEBKON for teachers of German, and the SLanguages Annual Symposium attracted some 4,500 synchronous participants in total, but that the recordings have been watched over 23,000 times, Heike supports the proposition that these recordings may serve as the 'Khanacademy for language teachers'.

Recording 

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


5th Virtual Round Table Web Conference

on Language Learning Technologies

17-19 May 2013

 

1st Virtual Round Table Conference November 2009

2nd Virtual Round Table Conference March 2010

3rd Virtual Round Table Conference 8-9 October 2010

4rth Virtual Round Table Conference 25-27 March 2011

5th Virtual Round Table Conference 20-22 April 2012

   

2. DaFWebKon 2013

3-4 March 2013

http://www.dafwebkon.com 

 

SLanguages Annual Symposium

27-29 September 2013

 

4th SLanguage Annual Symposium October 2010

5th SLanguage Annual Symposium September 2011

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

 

Story Sharing Web Conference 

of British Council Turkey

9th/ 10th February 2013

RSCON 

Reform Symposium

worldwide e.conference

3-5 May 2013


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

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

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


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

Mon, 2013-02-18 07:47

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

 

Topic? Discuss what we learned in MultiMOOC

 

Where? 

 

Recording

 

What do you need to do?

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

 


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Real English ® 43 Subtitled - Introduction to the Past Simple for Beginners

Mon, 2013-02-11 08:06
Real English ® 43 Subtitled - Introduction to the Past Simple for Beginners
Users have been asking for the Subtitled version of the videos, so I'm delivering. The interactive lesson for this clip is here: http://www.real-english.com/reo/43/unit43.asp The lessons for ALL of our YouTube videos are at http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp From: realenglish1 Views: 15 0 ratings Time: 00:51 More in Education
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Vance Stevens hosts EVO MultiMOOC HANGOUT and stream

Sun, 2013-02-10 14:01

This Sunday Vance Stevens planned to host a live online session to explain in greater detail how to get started with Google Reader, as described in this blog post:

http://multiliteracies.posterous.com/following-blogs-by-subscribing-to-their-rss-f

 

You could use this technique to follow student blogs or blogs from any group or individual you wish to follow.  I had offered to help participants set up their Google Readers hands-on to find all the posts in blogs that have been written to reflect on certain EVO sessions.  But the participant mix took the conversation into other directions.

 

Session recording

Here are the text chat windows we embedded to provide a backchannel to the live stream

We encountered a problem through choice of Sync.in.  After 8 participants had joined the chat it would allow no more (and we were relying on that chat to disseminate the Hangout link on the fly).  We didn't realize until 15 min. into the program that people could hear the stream but couldn't communicate with us or figure out how to join the hangout, but eventually stragglers made it in and informed us, so tweeted the Hangout link and put it up at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com and created the second TitanPad text chat below.

 

Plan B Text Chat

 

Significance of the event

There is another very interesting aspect of the session this Sunday.  It was the first time I conducted such an event in a Hangout On Air, and streamed the video at http://webheadsinaction.org/live

The procedure is explained in the video show below, direct link to the video: http://webheadsinaction.org/painless-magic-vance-learning-jeff-lebow

 

This procedure overcomes two limitations of hangouts. One limitation is that you can only have 10 in a Hangout at a time.  The other is that it's hard to tell people where you'll be hanging out because hangouts are designed to be found through your circles and other social features of Google + so there is no URL to give out until the Hangout actually starts.  Thus, many Hangouts are announced, but participants can't enter because there are ten there already, and the participants are left standing outside a locked door, which is not colleaguial.

 

http://webheadsinaction.org/live overcomes both these problems.  First, I can embed an Etherpad clone chat there where anyone can interact.  I can put the hangout URL there and others can click on it and join the chat, or if you are having problems you can get help in the chat (in practice we ran up against the 8 participant limit in Sync.in, which we will avoid for this purpose in future).  Secondly, since the YouTube embed that lets you play the recording later HAPPENS to stream the event while it's in session, then anyone can visit the URL where that link is embedded and listen to the stream.  So if the Hangout is full, hundreds more can listen in and interact in the Titanpad chat (thousands? tens? no idea actually). We can also announce on the stream when places become available in the Hangout and participants in the Hangout can be rotated in and out that way.


So one purpose of the session will be to Learn2gether about Google Reader how to follow class sets of blogs. But in so doing we'll see how to stream a Hangout so it can reach beyond just the ten in the hangout itself.  

 

Testing prior to the actual event

I tested this at around 1300 GMT with Kalyan Chattopadhyay.

It worked fine as you can see from this recording

(sorry for messing around setting up, but I was checking on other computers that the stream was being broadcast, when Kalyan responded to my call to verify that it was being broadcast worldwide )

Learning how to do this

This is the video in which Jeff Lebow coached me on learning this technique.  It can be found also here: http://webheadsinaction.org/painless-magic-vance-learning-jeff-lebow

 

Announcements

 

Holly Dilatush graciously agreed to share her comments here which she posted to Google + as we were meeting together.  It seems she was having F.U.N.

 

I just heard Jeff's Sae-hey-bok-mahn-ee-pah-deu-sey-yo! (or something close!) i will never forget that expression = Happy New Year in Korean!  Happy New Year, all! 

I use the exercise balls, too... great idea for non-squeak!  [I'm typing more notes as I listen!]  Fun, fun, f.u.n.! 

So much fun to see you all!  

[EVO_Drama_2013 is rather quiet, too, though it's picking up a lot today for some reason]

I haven't signed up for kubbu = too many things to keep track of and testing my ability to say "No." (or at least, "Not now").  Every new post about it tempts me to go sign up and play, too.  But as of today I have not signed up.  

Interesting observation.... watching the hangout recording = we don't see who is talking... 

psychedelic flashes!  (Why?) Are there really colors flashing in her room? (not sure who that is).

Oh... listening to Rita talking about Webheads... yes, yes, yes!

Grinning!

Jeff:  Worldbridges  

"Learning is chaotic" (Vance) 

Vance was punished?!  No, no, no... come back, Vance!

How quickly we feel frustrated!  So many options!  Isn't it amazing that we are navigating all of these (or at least some of these) =  I used to give up but now keep trying most of the time = often without thinking twice. 

Podcasting = I do need to revisit this... was frustrated with this in the past.  Isn't it interesting what we choose to follow, why, and when/why we give up?  

Anyone know Blog Talk Radio ?  

"Can you hear me now?"  :D

Come to Paraguay!  

no more isolation!

Vance is back!

Stael (sp) = how to pronounce 

Nina lost in Google Hangout Toolbox?

free speech = debates = culture = discussion / "don't/can't" discuss culture 

English language = helps change the culure (interesting)

I'll put a plug in for everyone to check out process drama techniques as a way to enhance = check out EVO_Drama sessions

Vance's voice gone again!   and back again!

:D

On WizIQ, it's advised to close Skype and any other programs that use microphone... if you are the one who started the class... so I wonder if this is what caused Vance's disconnects?  [But I do NOT know what I'm  talking about, do not understand the behind-the-scenes tech stuff! ...just passing along a possible tip?]

Trace Effects game = another I've passed on for now...  How do we keep up with all the things we attempt to keep up on.

OK... sorry guys, have to stop listening... but these hangouts on Air recordings make me feel less left out (won't make TESOL this year; didn't make TESOL last year, and miss seeing everyone in person; this is the next best thing!).

keep sharing the "cognitive surplus" (Nina)

Smiles to all,

Holly 

 

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