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WEBHEADS Online Community of Practice of Teachers and Educators Practicing Peace and Professional Development through Web 2.0 and Computer Mediated Communication

Webheads used to meet live online on Sundays from around noon GMT, at http://tappedin.org.
Webheads still meet online occasionally. Find our upcoming events listed at Learning2Gether.
Recordings are archived at the Learning2gether podcast blog

The precursor Webheads student group 1998-2003 Writing for Webheads The original Webheads in Action Electronic Village Online 2002 Portal Worldbridges: Webheads in Action Visit Webheads HQ in Second Life, Edunation In 2003 at TESOL Baltimore, Webheads in Action mounted two online & f2f events A pre-convention workshop entitled Reflection through experience and experiment with a communities of practice online and a colloquium entitled Case study of a community of practice The three free worldwide, online Webheads in Action Online Convergences WiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009 2007 Convergence Partners: in 2010 WiAOC morphed into the weekly seminar events Learning2gether Becoming a Webhead 2004-2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 and other webheads offshoots: Learning with Computers -- MultiMOOC   Join the Webheads YahooGroup mailing list Add your event to one of many Webheads Events Calendars   Teresa's comprehensive list of links to Webheads activities Webheads Online Chat Archives 1998-2008 Aggregations Spezify, using tag: webheads and webheadsinaction Flickr photo-encounters: http://www.flickr.com/groups/webheadsinaction/pool/

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Webheads in Action in the Literature

Stevens, V. (2018). Webheads. In Liontas, J. (Ed.). The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Wiley-Blackwell. 5824 pages. Available as an online resource at http://www.tesolencyclopedia.com. ISBN: 978-1-118-78422-8; Online ISBN: 9781118784235; DOI: 10.1002/9781118784235 - Also available: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/archive/9781118784235eelt0458webheads.pdf

Yilmaz, B, and Stevens, V. (2012). Webheads in Action: A community of practice scaffolding multiliteracies skills in teacher professional development. Writing & Pedagogy 4,1:135–146. Available: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/pdfs/yilmaz_stevens_pdf2012webheads.pdf. Also from ResearchGate.

Stevens, Vance. (2010). Webheads and Distributed Communities of Practice. Global Neighbors: Newsletter of TESOL's English as a Foreign Language Interest Section, EFLIS News March 2010 Volume 9 Number 1. The article comes from a paper delivered at the March 2009 TESOL Conference in Denver. It was submitted in October 2009 to the TESOL EFL IS Newsletter to be published as part of a summary of the EFL Academic Session there. My draft of that submission is here: http://tinyurl.com/vance2009denver. The article is preserved online as a part of that summary here:
Canagarajah, S., Stevens, V., Nishino, T., & Hoelker, J. EFLIS Academic Session 2010. Global and Local Perspectives: Evolving Communities of Practice in EFL. EFLIS News, 9(1) (March 2010). Available https://www.tesol.org/news-landing-page/2011/11/08/eflis-news-volume-9-1-(march-2010). The article is articulated in a blog post here: https://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/04/global-and-local-visions-webheads-and.html and has an accompanying slide show here https://www.slideshare.net/vances/the-webheads-and-distributed-communities-of-practice

Stevens, Vance, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Saša Sirk, Doris Molero & Carla Arena. (2008). Writingmatrix: Connecting Students with Blogs, Tags, and Social Networking. In Stevens, Vance & Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Co-editors. (2008). Special Feature: Proceedings of the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 2007. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a7.html

Stevens, Vance & Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Co-editors. (2008). Special Feature: Proceedings of the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 2007. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/toc.html (and, A Word from the Editors: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/fromed.html)

Stevens, Vance. (2007). Webheads as agents of change in overlapping clouds of distributed learning networks. APACALL Newsletter 11, pp. 3-8. Available: http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter11.pdf.

Stevens, Vance. 2006. Guest Editor's Introduction: Proceeds of Webheads in Action Online Convergence: Volume 2. In Stevens, V. (Ed.) IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group Teaching English with Technology A Journal for Teachers of English ISSN 1642-1027 Vol. 6, Issue 3 (August 2006). Available: http://www.tewtjournal.org/issues/past-issue-2006/past-issue-2006-issue-3/

Stevens, Vance. 2006. Guest Editor's Introduction: Proceeds of Webheads in Action Online Convergence: Volume 1. In Stevens, V. (Ed.) IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group Teaching English with Technology A Journal for Teachers of English ISSN 1642-1027 Vol. 6, Issue 2 (May 2006). Available: http://www.tewtjournal.org/issues/past-issue-2006/past-issue-2006-issue-2/

Stevens, Vance. (2005). Behind the scenes at the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, November 18-20, 2005: TESL-EJ, Volume 9, Number 3. http://tesl-ej.org/ej35/int.html. Also on ResearchGate.

Stevens, Vance. (2005). APACALL Co-sponsors Webheads in Action Online Convergence, November 18-20, 2005. In Innovative Language Learning #8 (APACALL Newsletter) http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter8.pdf . My original submission is at:http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/apacall_news.htm

Stevens, V. (2004). Webheads communities: Writing tasks interleaved with synchronous online communication and web page development. In Leaver, B. and Willis, J. (Eds.). Task-based instruction in foreign language education: Practices and programs. Georgetown University Press. pp. 204-217.
Available: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/archive/2004taskbased_webheads.pdf

Stevens, V. and Altun, A. (2002). The Webheads community of language learners online. In Syed, Z. (Ed.). The process of language learning: An EFL perspective. Abu Dhabi: The Military Language Institute. pp. 285-318. 2001mli_stevens-altun2mb.pdf. 

Stevens, Vance. 2001. Developing a Community in Online Language Learning. In Syed, Zafar, and David Heuring, eds. Tools of the Trade: Teaching EFL in the Gulf. Proceeds of the Military Language Institute's 1st annual Teacher-to-Teacher Conference, May 3-4, 2000, Abu Dhabi (UAE) pp 85-101.
Available: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/archive/2000mli_webheads.pdf

Stevens, Vance. 1999. Writing for Webheads: An online writing course utilizing synchronous chat and student web pages. A paper submitted for the 4th Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference: Best Practices In Delivering, Supporting & Managing Online Learning, April 7-9, 1999 - http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/hawaii99.html

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