Working Schedule for WiAOC 2005:
Webheads in Action Online Convergence

Friday November 18 | Saturday November 19 | Sunday November 20
http://users.prof2000.pt/wia/oc/schedule.asp

Bridges across Cyberspace

Friday and Saturday, November 18 - 19, 2005
and Convergence rap-up Sunday November 20

For abstracts and more information, see the dynamically generated schedule here: http://users.prof2000.pt/wia/oc/schedule.asp
You can interact with the presenters in the presentation venues listed below. Additionally, almost (if not) all synchronous voice events can be heard via Wordbridges simulcast at: http://worldbridges.com. If you have any trouble reaching the live interactive events, try accessing the audio stream.

Presenters: Help with presentations at Presenters Assistance Moodle; more information here
HelpDesk: Reception at http://www.tappedin.org for online help during the convergence
Social Networking: WiACoP Room at http://www.tappedin.org for back channel discussion

Who's Who at WIAOC 2005?

Put YOUR face on the map at http://www.frappr.com/wiaoc2005

Robert "Elderbob" Brannan will host a week-long Internet 2.0 Smorgasborg starting the weekend before the convergence with talks planned to include search engine strategies, folksonomy, tagging, social networks, cybraries, and more. See http://www.elderbob.com/schedule.htm for latest updates (including appetizer Nov 4).

As part of the runup to the WiAOC online conference Elderbob Brannan will host a week-long Internet 2.0 Smorgasborg with talks planned to include search engine strategies, folksonomy, tagging, social networks, cybraries, and more. At Knowplace during the week of Nov 13 through the 20th, there will be daily asynchronous learning experiences with forums, polls, resources and anything else Elderbob can think of to give that might be of value to the explorer. The forums will follow on at eBob's "Building Bridges" Moodle at Worldbridges (where podcasts of all 5 or 6 Smorgasborg presentations will be archived).

Sunday, Nov.13, 17:00 GMT, Elderbob Brannan, "What You Need to Know About 2.0", on Worldbridges/livewire during an Ed Tech Talk webcast.
Monday, Nov 14, 17:00 GMT - Dr Ran Hock http://www.oss.net/ will be a special guest, addressing participants on "Search Engine Technology" at Worldbridges/livewire
Tuesday, Nov 15, 17:00 GMT - Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/ will provide collaborative explorers her view of "Folksonomy" at Worldbridges/livewire
Wednesday, Nov 16, 17:00 GMT - Dr. Rashmi Sinhar http://www.rashmisinha.com/bio.html will tour us around her thoughts about "Tagging" (tentative, not confirmed)
Thursday, Nov 17, 17:00 GMT - Dr. Judy Breck http://goldenswamp.com/ will introduce to the concept of "Social Networks" at Worldbridges/livewire

Friday Nov 18, 2005

Time in GMT	*Venue*	*Presenters*	*Event*	*Details*	*Confirmation and Registration*	*Status*
Click on the link to see the time in your city or one near you.	Where you go to join this presentation	Name of presenter(s) and links to profile(s)	Title of presentation and links to online materials	Any further description of the session		Pre-conference notes regarding this presentation
02:00-03:30 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Hala Fawzi*	Curtis Bonk	Blended Learning: Frameworks, Models, Stories, and Examples		*confirmed* Invited keynote address
04:00-04:50
05:00-05:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	worldbridges Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Hala Fawzi*	Amir H. Soheili-Mehr and Kimberly A. MacDonald	Introducing Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for Non-Native English Speaking Teachers (NNESTs) : A WebQuest		not confirmed, but enrolled in presenters' moodle	given time requested in proposal
06:00-06:50
07:00-07:50
08:00-08:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Hala Fawzi*	David Nunan	English Language Teaching: Current Trends, Challenges and Internet solutions		*confirmed* Invited keynote address
09:00-09:50
10:00
11:00-11:50 Vance Stevens, emcee		Joy Egbert	The end of CALL and how to achieve it You may enter the Moodle as a guest and read the paper, or you can register for the conference here and subscribe to the forum associated with this event (forthcoming).	Plans to have people read paper and asynch about it for the first day and 1/2, then do a text chat for the hour starting at 1p Istanbul time on Friday to wrap up the discussion	*confirmed* Invited keynote address	Volunteer coaches: Arif Altun and Sedat
12:00-12:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	(did not specify venue in proposal)	Geoffrey Cain	Creating Community With Blogs		(has not confirmed)
13:00-13:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Pablo Cancelo Universidade da Corunna Spain	Enhancing Speech recognition in ESL through XML databases		*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle course	requested information on Windows Media Server ??
14:00-15:30 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Curtis Bonk	OOPS, Did I mean to share that: Opensource, Opencourseware, and the learning objects of tomorrow		*confirmed* Invited keynote address
16:00-16:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Chris Jones	Live Interviews in Voice Chat with Intermediate ESL Students Click here to link to the presentation materials			*confirmed* and willing to do it again on Sat., Nov. 19, anytime between 1600 and 2200. Would like to practice LT.
17:00-17:30 Vance Stevens, emcee	(did not specify venue in proposal)	Uwe Klemm	Wiki in the EFL Classroom: Filmanalysis and creative writing		(has not confirmed)
18:00-18:50 Vance Stevens, emcee		Dave Sperling	Dave's ESL Cafe: A Reflection on a Decade of Building an Online Community		*confirmed* Invited keynote address
19:00-19:50 John Hibbs, emcee	Tapped In	Joel Bloch	Technology in the L2 Composition Classroom		not confirmed, but enrolled in presenters' moodle
20:00-20:50 John Hibbs, emcee	Horizon Wimba's Live Classroom Please click on this Wizard link ahead of time	Matt Wasowski	Take the next step beyond your Course Management System Click here to link to the presentation materials			*confirmed*; sent pdf file Oct 20 and awaiting word on where to link it.
21:00-22:30 John Hibbs, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Hala Fawzi*	Dafne Gonzalez and Leticia Esteves	Enhancing collaboration through chat in ESP: A conversation analysis		*confirmed* and Dafne is enrolled in presenters' moodle
22:00-22:50	Worldbridges Webcast	Elderbob Brannan	Cybraries and Cybrarians: an interview with Ted Nellen.	Ted Nellen will conduct a cyber tour of his cyberlibrary and talk about the importance of "Cybraries and Cybrarians"	confirmed and enrolled in the Presenters' Moodle course
23:00-23:50 Michael Coghlan, emcee	Alado Webheads Room and Tapped In	Jeff Cooper and David Weksler	Tapped In: Professional Educator's Collaborative Click here to link to the presentation materials		*confirmed* Jeff is enrolled in presenters' moodle

Saturday Nov 19, 2005

Time in GMT	*Venue*	*Presenters*	*Event*	*Details*	*Confirmation and Registration*	*Status*
Click on the link to see the time in your city or one near you.	Where you go to join this presentation	Name of presenter(s) and links to profile(s)	Title of presentation and links to online materials	Any further description of the session		Pre-conference notes regarding this presentation
00:00-00:50 Michael Coghlan, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Renata Suzuki and Karen Garcia	Threads of Reflection: Teacher Blogs in Action		*confirmed* Karen and Renata are both enrolled in the presenters' moodle course
01:00-01:50 Michael Coghlan, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Candace Pauchnick and Yaodong Chen	Live-web Conference Between Students		*confirmed* Candace and Yaodong are both enrolled in presenters' moodle	would like some practice with LT
02:00-02:50	Worldbridges Webcast	Elderbob Brannan	Tools of Web 2.9 an explorations with Elderbob	ElderBob continues the discussion of Web 2.0 Desserts and WiA Convergence: Tools for Web 2.0 at	confirmed and enrolled in the Presenters' Moodle course
03:00-03:50
04:00-04:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Jeong-Bae Son, Thang Siew Ming, Vance Stevens, and Andrew Lian	APACALL Panel Discussion		*confirmed* and Vance is enrolled in presenters' moodle
05:00-05:50
06:00-06:50	(did not specify venue in proposal)	John Clayton	Web based survey techniques and procedures			*a.m. or p.m.??*; can mentor people on Moodle
07:00-07:50
08:00-08:50
09:00-09:50	Alado Webheads Room	Arnold Muhren	Setting up Classroom Enquiry Workplaces in Moodle		*confirmed*
10:00-10:50
11:00-11:50	presumed to be presenting at Alado Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Buthaina Alothman*	Daniel Bassill	Creating a Network of Purpose: The Tutor/Mentor Connection		not confirmed, but Daniel is enrolled in presenters' moodle
12:00-12:50	Learning Times Webheads Room Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Buthaina Alothman*	Anne Fox and Laura Llobet	Teaching Culture! A multi-national blended course for teachers of adults in Europe		*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle
13:00-13:50	Alado Webheads Room Randall Davis has reserved LT/webheads for preparation	Ton Koenraad	Task design for Network-based language teaching		*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle course	accepted and awaiting confirmation - Arnold Muhren is coaching
14:00-14:50 Producer: Dafne Gonzalez	Alado Webheads Room Randall Davis has reserved LT/webheads for preparation	Teresa Almeida d'Eça	Going global with the Webheads in Action			*confirmed*
15:00-15:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Randall Davis	The role of multimedia content on the Web and how to create it.		*confirmed* Invited keynote address
16:00-16:50	Tapped In	Graham Stanley	Interactive Listening Mazes		awaiting definitive confirmation, and enrolled in presenters' moodle	given time requested in proposal
17:00-17:50	Alado Webheads Room	Soraya Halfaoui	the Construction of Social Identity in a CMC Context: a Sociolinguistic Analysis of an Algerian Context		*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle course	Alado working now; Teresa to coach?
18:00-18:50	Learning Times Webheads Room	Susana Trabaldo and Peggy Patterson	Negotiating for Meaning Across Borders with CMC			*confirmed -* Rita Zeinstejer has offered to coach thes presenters, and she is available from 17 hs on the same day if anyone else wants assistance.
19:00-19:50	Learning Times Webheads Room	Ismail Fayed	Using Online Facilitation to Encourage Students Participation in Collaborative Projects Online: Good Deeds iEARN Project in Action Click here to link to the presentation materials	I expect to use L.T or Alado & Yahoo Msgr in my presentation, but will also be glad to use moodle when you finish with its setup. Other slides, links, or URLs will be linked to the presentation through the link I mentioned above later.	*confirmed -* and enrolled in presenters' moodle	Rita Zeinstejer to be asked to assist Ismail
20:00-20:50	Learning Times Webheads Room	Chris Jones	Live Interviews in Voice Chat with Intermediate ESL Students Click here to link to the presentation materials			Repeat event *confirmed*
21:00-21:50	(did not specify venue in proposal) Helpdesk at Tapped In: *BJ Berquist*	Meena Singhal and Walid Sabbagh	Script-O! - An Online Tool to Create Web-Based Activities and Quizzes	Planning on a powerpoint with audio and upload it to a site and use yahoo messenger to interact with attendees.		*confirmed* Requests coaching - Buthaina Al Othman has offered to help
22:00-22:50 Michael Coghlan, emcee Producer: Dafne Gonzalez	Learning Times Webheads Room Helpdesk at Tapped In: *BJ Berquist*	Rubena St. Louis	Encouraging student independence in FL learning		*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle course	Dafne will be coaching Rubena St. Louis, before and during her presentation. If somebody else needs coaching, on the Saturday schedule, let Daf know
23:00-00:30 Michael Coghlan, emcee	Alado Webheads Room Helpdesk at Tapped In: *BJ Berquist*	Aaron Campbell, Rudolf Amman, and Barbara Dieu	P2P weblogging in EFL/ESL and the Dekita.org project		*confirmed* Aaron is enrolled in presenters' moodle

Sunday Nov 20, 2005
Arnold Muhren can help with Alado on Sunday

Time in GMT	*Venue*	*Presenters*	*Event*	*Details*	*Confirmation and Registration*	*Status*
Click on the link to see the time in your city or one near you.	Where you go to join this presentation	Name of presenter(s) and links to profile(s)	Title of presentation and links to online materials	Any further description of the session		Pre-conference notes regarding this presentation
01:00-01:50 Michael Coghlan, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Karen Garcia and Renata Suzuki	Making a time capsule with the webhead's vision and mission on this first convergence		*confirmed* Karen and Renata are both enrolled in the presenters' moodle course	This presentation is asyncronous and should be taking place throughout the conference
02:00-02:50		Tom Leverett
03:00-03:50	presentation withdrawn
04:00-04:50	Worldbridges Webcast	Buthaina Al Othman and Rita Zeinstejer	The Skype Worldbridges Project for EFL in Different Cultures: Argentina & Kuwait Click here to link to the presentation materials			confirmed; a demo, not a workshop
05:00-05:50
06:00-06:50		Jessica Montgomerie
07:00-07:50
08:00-08:50
09:00-09:50	Participants should register here for the "Bridges Across Cyberspace" course	Ruth Vilmi	Language learning through global communication: a dozen years of people-to-people interaction	Students must register there with Moodle. The enrollment key is 'webheads' My skypename is 'iwe_admin'. They should add me to their Skype contacts if they'd like to be invited to join the Skype conference.	*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle course
10:00-10:50 moderator needed	Learning Times Webheads Room	Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney	Making IT, or Faking IT?	http://www.theconsultants-e.com/	Gavin is enrolled in presenters' moodle
11:00-11:50 Andy Pincon, emcee	Alado Webheads Room	Andrew Pincon and Clarisse Croteau-Chonka	Online High Growth Industry Workforce Training
12:00-12:50 John Hibbs, emcee	Use this link for Irish radio stream	John Hibbs, Bruce Girard, Bonnie Bracey, Stephen Downes, Arun Mehta	A Sixty Minute Conversation Designed to Substantially Increase Audience Size and Participation	Irish radio b/cast to 13:00 (can go over if needed) You can access this presentation in 3 modes: Listen only -- Use this link for Irish radio stream Listen and talk and text chat - over the net by Talking Communities/alado exact url to be provided. Listen and talk - over the phone by our phone room, at your long distance expense - to an American call center 603-413-8003 Text chat technical help here	*confirmed* John is enrolled in presenters' moodle
13:00-13:50 John Hibbs, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Stevens wrapup with Webheads	Converging on the Bridges across Cyberspace		*confirmed* and enrolled in presenters' moodle
14:00-14:50 Vance Stevens, emcee	Learning Times Webheads Room	Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Mike Marzio	Video Online: Prospects and Community		*confirmed* Elizabeth is enrolled in presenters' moodle	2nd preference; might exchange times with Jeff and Dave?
15:00-15:50	EdTechTalk Worldbridges Webcast	Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier	EdTech Talk	Regular weekly webcast of EdTechTalk	not confirmed, and regular webcast has shifted to 15:00 GMT	Worldbridges
16:00-16:50 From here on, John Hibbs can emcee presentations in Alado, Vance Stevens presentations elsewhere	Tapped In	Dongping Zheng, Robert Brewer, and Michael Young	English Language learning in a Game-based Multi-User Virtual Environment: Quest Atlantis Connects Middle School Students in China to the World			2nd pref is Nov 19
17:00-17:50	Worldbridges Webcast Helpdesk at Tapped In: *Buthaina Alothman*	Elderbob Brannan	Web 2.0 Smorgasborg	Emily Chang of E-hub on Tools of Web 2.0 (tentative, not confirmed) http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/
18:00-19:50	(did not specify venue in proposal)	Elaine Hoter and Harry Markowicz	Joining the hearing and Deaf communities		*confirmed*
19:00-19:50	Special venue: Keynote conference.com	Dave Winet	Free and Low-cost Realtime Online Teaching Tools	enrolled in presenters' moodle	*confirmed*	1st preference; 2nd Nov 19
20:00-20:50	Breeze presentation room	Susan Bates	Webheads Sharing Session in Breeze	Join Webheads in a discussion on Cool Online Teaching Techniques. Topics will include Interactive Communication with Breeze, Webcam and Text Chat with Yahoo Messenger, Creating Partnerships with Classes Worldwide, Blogging, Skype projects, online materials design, and teacher training.
21:00-21:50	Helpdesk at Tapped In: *BJ Berquist*
22:00-22:50	Helpdesk at Tapped In: *BJ Berquist*
23:00-23:50	Helpdesk at Tapped In: *BJ Berquist*

Accepted but awaiting response regarding scheduling:

Thomas Leverett and Jessica Montgomerie, not yet scheduled, but enrolled in Presenters' Moodle course
Rescheduling? Mercedes Rossetti - Training English teachers in a blended modality

Starting some FAQ's:

http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/webheads/tutorials/elluminatealadohints.doc
There is also a recording of Andy helping with presenting at Alado. http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/webheads/sessions/18apr04-alado-andy-aiden-me.htm
audio check prior to an Alado presentation: http://80.60.224.77/moodle2/mod/resource/view.php?id=295
Voice Technology Tools Handout with links to help pages : http://alothman-b.tripod.com/evonline_voicechat_tools.htm
TappedIn Guide with links to illustrative screen: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/evonline_tappedin_directions.htm
Worldbridges Livewire listening guide http://worldbridges.com/livewire/?p=25

Notes:

We are in process still of determining where each presenter will speak. At the moment what is known is given on our working schedule (this document). Abstracts appear at our dynamic schedule. There will soon appear here and at our Moodle information directing participants to FAQs and instructions in accessing these presentations. So please check back periodically between now and conference time.
For all presenters we'd like to have links to a pic, to a profile (we could use the one in the Moodle when all presenters are registered there), to your presentation if it has a URL online, and to the venue where you'll be presenting.

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Working Schedule for WiAOC 2005:
Webheads in Action Online Convergence