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Elluminate (Bb Collaborate) recording , thanks to http://learningtimes.org megalaunch.10-001.64K.mp3 Listen on Posterous Hangout recording What was this about?
learning2gether-hangout-2012-12-09.mp3 Listen on Posterous See the Elluminate view at View on screencast.com » This event was planned to experiment with hooking up Google Hangout with Bb Collaborate / Elluminate to see how it might work for the Jan...
Jonathan Finkelstein will explore and unpack the need for digital badges and microcredentials in formal and informal learning settings, which Finkelstein is pioneering as part of major initiatives with groups such as the Smithsonian Institution, the New York City Department of Education, Yale University, WCET, and programs for schools, museums, libraries, and other nonprofit organizations across the globe. Finkelstein will share examples of new educational programs and online communities that leverage digital badges to build ongoing relationships with learners, foster engagement, and acknowledge learning that often goes unrewarded or unrecognized. Badges also help learners showcase discrete skills and competencies that have value in their current professional and social lives. We’ll look at how even formal educational programs can leverage the benefits of microcredentials.
It's summertime. Self-respecting teachers are many away on holiday. So how can they engage in Learning2gether? Well, summertime is good for just hanging out. In this podcast Vance Stevens HangsOut with Jeff Lebow and Jeff shows us how to stream and record and manage chats and archives using the simplest of Web 2.0 tools.
Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 12:00 GMT Beyza Yilmaz tells us about her MA thesis entitled: BELIEFS OF MEMBERS OF AN ONLINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE ON THE EFFECTS OF MEMBERSHIP ON TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
April 15, 2012 Dan Bassill of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC describes the four part strategy he has developed to support the growth of a mentor-based youth-development strategy and how it might be applied to problem-solving process in any social sector and in any country. Dan will also talk about how youth in high schools and colleges can take a significant role in this process and how this will enhance their own learning, problem solving and communications skills while also creating future leaders who are better prepared to solve social and environmental problems via world-wide learning and collaboration. Dan says "While I apply this strategy to what I do to help kids in poor neighborhoods of Chicago, I feel the model applies to any problem solving effort." You can review the 4 part strategy at http://tinyurl.com/TMC-4-Part-Strategy. Dan talked about how he conceives channeling knowledge into action through a 4-part strategy he articulated through mindmaps and other visuals. His work has a lot in common with that of Webheads, MOOCs, and EVO (which I have argued possibly IS a MOOC) in that he taps cognitive surplus to leverage volunteer effort while trying to scale and sustain through getting the attention of (i.e. the information out to) the business community to show them how their interests coincide with those of the Tutor/Mentor Institute.
Sunday, March 4, 2012 Vance Stevens previewed the presentations he will give at TESOL Arabia on Friday March 9, and at the TESOL 2012 convention to be held on 28-31 March 2012 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, "Learning2gether to teach one another about learning online"
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WEBHEADS-colpaert-V.10-001.64K.mp3 Listen on Posterous This presentation was planned as an open and unscripted discussion of the results of a Worldwide OER survey conducted earlier this year, presented at the EuroCALL CMC & teacher Education SIG...
Derya-LEARNINGTIMES-V.10-001.64K.mp3 Listen on Posterous Where did it happen?
Dan Bassill does some remarkable work applying his past business experience to his present passion for improving the lives of disadvantaged kids in Chicago through his tutor mentor programs. The mechanisms he sets up for that are interesting, instructive, and relevant to communities of practice which rely on the cognitive surplus of like-minded volunteers.
Sunday July 1, 2012 - Remembering Graham Davies - Graham's friends and professional contacts plan to talk an hour or two about Graham Davies, who passed away in late June, 2012. If you knew Graham, or knew of him, join us
Sunday June 10, 2012 - Laine Marshall Three reasons to flip your classroom with Laine Marshall, LIU Hudson Helaine (Laine) directs the Language Teacher Education Programs at LIU - Hudson - Graduate Centers of Long Island University, USA. She collaborates with her colleague, Nancy Lemberger from LIU-Brooklyn on cross-campus online programs in TESOL and Bilingual Education. For this session, Laine will share her experience flipping her Fundamentals of Linguistics class this spring semester for the first time. There were many surprises in what occurred when she decided to try the flip. She hopes to generate discussion on the rationale for the flipped classroom, what students and courses are best suited for this model and how it has worked out in her class. One of her students, Edith Ramirez-Lopez, will join in to provide the learner perspective. Recording: Adobe Connect - http://liu.adobeconnect.com/p1hwzxrdzu3/
Sunday, April 8, 2012 - TESOL RAP-UP, at 14:00 GMT Mary Hillis and Vance Stevens guide a discussion of reflections on the TESOL conference
Sunday, March 25, 2012 Susan Hillyard told us about her work in Argentina with English in Action, entitled Teaching English through Educational Drama to Students with Learning Difficulties.
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