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For the latest Webheads initiatives in weekly Sunday Seminars (since Sept 2010), visit http:learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded for the live event schedule, and http://learning2gether.posterous.com for the recorded podcasts.

Visit http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/calendar to see a Google calendar of Learning2gether events concatenated with the following events: Classroom 2.0 LIVE (in purple) - Future of Education (in teal) - EdTechTalk (in orange) - LearnCentral.tv (in green) - Edublogs Live Events (in blue)

YOU can STILL place your events on the calendar here: http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen = http://tinyurl.com/bookLT This is the 'official' calendar for booking the Learning Times Webheads Room at http://tinyurl.com/y3eh Oldie but goody: Susanne Nyrop's Webheads Customized World Clock

The information below is no longer being maintained.
Whatever appears below is for my own reference. If this is useful to you, please refer below. - Vance

Some time ago we started a Web 2.0 Wiki: http://whatsonline.pbworks.com/
The idea was to go there, log in to PBWiki/PBWorks, and record events you think others should know about

Convergences

• Check out what Sylvia Currie and SCoPE are up to: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/
• Blogstreams - Bee Dieu - The first Sunday of each month, 21:00 GMT in the Blogstreams Salon at Tapped In http://www.tappedin.org

Open Weekends@Knowplace: offer you the opportunity to sample various leading-edge topics presented by members of our international community. You need only an account at http://knowplace.ca (or http://knowmoodle.ca, or http://knowcoach.ca) to participate. .The format is asynchronous discussion forums, so you can participate at your convenience. All discussions open Friday 16:00 GMT and close Monday 07:00 GMT (when there's DST in Vancouver). The "three-day" weekend provides time for you to review the course materials and/or read and post to the discussions later on Sunday. The facilitator(s) will be checking into the workshop throughout the weekend at times convenient to their time zones.

• First-time visitors to Knowplace must register, http://knowplace.ca/moodle_1.4.3/course/view.php?id=69 Once you have registered, the course will be available to you at noon PDT, Friday .
• Novice users of Moodle, we recommend you browse through the Use Knowplace http://knowplace.ca/moodle_1.4/course/view.php?id=19 course.

There are also other calendars where Webheads post events they are organizing or attending:

• Vance maintains a calendar linked back to bookmarks on this page: http://my.calendars.net/eslhome_conferen
• Webheads in Action calendars: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/cal and http://www.webheadsinaction.org
• The Alado Webheads events calendar: http://my.calendars.net/webheads/
• The Tapped In calendar of ASO events at: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/do/CalendarAction - and as of late 2006 you can put it in your feed reader using the RSS Feed for the Tapped In calendar: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/do/CalendarAction?state=getFeed
• Barbara Dieu (Bee) has started a Webheads in Action group at Upcoming.org with an events calendar at: http://upcoming.org/group/2628/ (see her posting here: http://beewebhead.net/archives/327)

Archives

• Recordings of Webheads events at Learning Times are accumulating here: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1540820
• TESOL Members only can access more than 50 hours of audiovisual event cast recordings from the 2007 TESOL Convention, featuring 46 hot-topic sessions and all the plenary sessions. (For a complete list of 2007 TESOL event cast sessions, go to http://www.tesol.org/eventcasts ) The link below also enables you to access event cast sessions from the 2006 TESOL Convention in Tampa, Florida, USA. To access the 2007 (and 2006) TESOL Convention event cast sessions, go to http://training.creativityplus.com/tesol_email.asp If you have any questions, please contact TESOL Education Programs: edprograms@tesol.org

Second Life

• Fridays at 6 pm GMT there are meetings at Edunation in Second Life (during the summer 2008, and beyond?) e.g. Friday, 1 August 2008 11 am SLT (PDT), 6 pm GMT Meeting Point: Webheads Headquarters http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/79/37/21 (according to http://slexperiments.pbwiki.com/Weekly-meetings)
• The Teacher's Buzz group meets every 2 weeks in world, and is open to anyone teaching, or interested in teaching, in Second Life.. We hold informal discussion sessions and take field trips. See also the archive of past sessions at http://www.nmc.org/campus/Teachers_Buzz_Session / Webheads in Second Life links have been moved here
• There is a Google calendar of SLED Events in SL here: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=f3b7ubjteso0776u83v4i38qm8%40group.calendar.google.com

most current: George Siemens and Stephen Downes are organizing a Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course fom September 8 - November 29, 2008.

• The course Connectivism Wiki is at http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism.
• The course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Blog is here: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/.
• The course email list is here: Connectivism Google Group http://groups.google.ca/group/connectivism.
• Different conversations are (will be) aggregated on a Pageflakes here http://www.pageflakes.com/ltc.
• The conference tag is CCK08 - please use this for blogposts related to the course or for sharing resources via del.icio.us that you feel may be of interest to others. You can see articles other have tagged here: http://del.icio.us/tag/cck08.

October 2008
Archives: Webheads events | Other events

081113 October 13, 2008 The K12 Online Conference gets under way with its first asynchronous keynote presentation: http://k12onlineconference.org

081119 Sunday, October 19, 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.

081126 Sunday, October 26, 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.

November 2008
Archives: Webheads events | Other events

081102 Sunday, November 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.
• 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.

& Etc.

The following entities run occasional online events, details at the websites indicated:

• To quote from its web page, Boxmind is "the home of Academic Excellence, Online. Boxmind is an online education consultancy that, through a combination of expert advice, outstanding rich media content and proprietary software, assists academic institutions & corporations to exploit the full potential of the electronic delivery of educational material." It's not quite clear from the website how you can enlist the company's services or access the archive of lectures (except that there is a sample you can play) but the sample is a good model of this kind of delivery; at: http://www.boxmind.com/
• GEN -Global Educators Network is no longer active, but this URL was still up July 1, 2004: http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/vu/tlnce/PublicReg/.
• HorizonLive enables participants to chat with lecturer and each other throughout the events, free of charge. Space is limited, so register by going to the appropriate link in order to reserve your "virtual seat". Contact desktop@HorizonLive.com. Archives can viewed at: http://www.horizonlive.com/lecture/archive_lectures.html. Each event is free but space is limited, so register in advance at the website: http://www.horizonlive.com/lecture/index.html or contact desktop@HorizonLive.com. All previous lectures can viewed in their entirety at: http://www.horizonlive.com/lecture/archive_lectures.html <--old url, not sure about this one), or more recently: http://www.horizonwimba.com/community/archived.php. To attend the events, run the Webcast Wizard before logging to ensure the readiness of your computer for the live online events, which require the RealPlayer. The Webcast Wizard can be found at: http://ull.horizonlive.com/wizard/launcher.cgi . Find the upcoming events schedule here: http://www.wimba.com/community/upcoming.php
• Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). The webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. All times are Eastern time zone ... Please go to the Innovate-Live Portal at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ to register for the webcasts"; Innovate RSS feed available at http://www.innovateonline.info/innovate.rss.If you wish to participate in the webcasts, please register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ All times are EST (EST). You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone. If you cannot attend a webcast, note that it will be archived within the features section of the article itself shortly after the webcast. If you wish to participate in the webcasts, please register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ All times are EST (EST). You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone
• Tapped In has The TappedIn (2) Calendar at http://tappedin.org/cgi-bin/calendar/ti2calendar.cgi shows any events entered for month requested and can be displayed in GMT; a MEET ME list at http://www.tappedin.org/mailman/listinfo/meetme/. View the Tapped In calendar of ASO events at: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/do/CalendarAction
• To explore the World of Diversity, use Internet Explorer and go to http://diversity.ds.psu.edu:7000. Get a user name and password from Dr. Deborah Gill, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Pennsylvania State University-DuBois, djg25@psu.edu, or msdgill@aol.com. To find out more information, how to move around, how to talk, etc., in World of Diversity, please visit http://diversity.ds.psu.edu/World_of_Diversity/index.html ("New character" > information gives information on how to move around and "Conferences" has the conference schedule.
• e-Learning events are announced (in Spanish) at http://www.elearningworkshops.com/modules.php?name=Calendario
• Click here for more information at this site on online language teaching in general

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August 13, 2007

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