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- Wed February 13 noon GMT - Cross Cultural Issues.
Michael writes: "The course I'm in at the moment has raised this discussion
topic and I'm wondering if I could invite evonline members to an impromptu
discussion at Tapped In - BJ has promised to edit the transcript and put a copy
in the After School Online room at Tapped In
- March 8, Friday, 17:30 to 19:30 GMT, Vance Stevens
hosted a TESOL EVOnline Human_CALL chat on Distance Learning and Cultural
Considerations online at Tapped In, http://www.tappedin.org. Click here for a detailed description of the
session
- Wednesday, March 13, at noon GMT - Webheads in Action
discussion on "Issues in emoderation and chaos navigation." at
http://www.tappedin.org. Michael Coghlan
will host a discussion on emoderation using his paper at
http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/nw2001/emod_newlang.htm
as a reference. Shun's reaction to the session: "Hi, Michael, It was one of the
best sessions I ever attended at Tapped In. You were doing such a good job of
eModerating an eModeration session of the Webheads. The discussion and your
paper will certainly help me a lot in implementing my proposed CMC sessions for
my year 2002 students. Our academic year start in late April. Thank you again.
Shun Ito"
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Monday 18 March, 14:00 GMT - "The Magic of
Educational Technology for Language Teachers and Educators A Practical Overview
of Others' Experiences with Technology Implementation for EFL," a meeting of
the Educational Technology Special Interest Group EgypTESOL hosted by Ismail
Fayed with guests Vance and Dafne. Contact with ismailfayed should be
made in Yahoo Messenger. >>
Click here for presentation handout << |
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Dear great folks,
First, I would like to apologize for the late response. Second,
all my thanks and gratitude to Vance and Dafne, in specific, and to everybody
who particiapted in the Online session with EgypTesol last Monday. |
Personally, it was a great experience of how teachers could make use of
simple technology for their tecaching experiences. I guess also, I have
contributed with all of your help, to raise the awareness of some Egyptian
shcholars, in a way or another to get a better idea about how they can make use
of this technology for multiple purposes.
My boss here even suggested how we can try to make use of this method
we tried to connect some educatioanl centers in Egypt so teachers and
supervisors can make a wide and easy to access link, where they could exchange
their experinces and efforts, as is the case with list-serves. This is a
success story and not an end in its core. and I wanted to share it with you as
dear and active colleagues and pals.
Another point, is many thanks to Vance for the script. I would ask if
anybody made a recorded sound file of our session. In case yes, you may want to
add it to the files page in the list (after converting it to ra. or ram.). If
not, at least we can make sure to record it in a next future session.
Regards & Wishes, Ismail.
Susanne's response:
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#1 - It was interesting to read the log from Ismael's conference,
because I had to fill in the blanks here and there, and guess who many have
said what somewhere I could not read from the log, as well as aho lost their
connection and logged in again etc. When I met Dafne today in Tapped In, her
description of the chaotic confusion was very much like what I had imagined
already. These interconnections are fragile, you need a lot of training and
mutual support, and still, it is quite intersting and fun, even if the result
was not too perfect. I went to read Dafne's homepage prepared for the session,
too, being able to catch up part of what I missed. |
#2 - Hi Ismail, congratulations with the positive outcome of your
session! This kind of success stories make me feel our co-work here in webheads
in Action has actually been fruitful; as we have been following the steps of
Dafne who was new to making homepages and doing webconferencing only two months
from now, now all ready and well prepared to show up and present to your
colleagues! I talked with her on yahoo (text chat only for mac users :-(( She
was happily surprised of your positive feedback, as it had been a breakdown of
connection form her side, as well as Vance falling out. I think it is fun, as
well as thought provoking, to know how different the impression may be from
each side of the screen:-)
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Vance presented a demonstration at the Technology Fair entitled
"Webheads in Action: Community development online", Thursday, March
21, at 06:00 GMT (10:00 in Abu Dhabi) I had a web cam set up and invite
conference delegates to interact with any Webheads who come online.
50 word abstract: Webheads is a community of language teachers
and learners whose participants have met online weekly since 1998 to experiment
with synchronous web-based multimedia communications formats. We will
demonstrate use of such technologies, including video and voice, while
attempting to contact community members who can appear online for the occasion.
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Dafne's reaction to the above event:
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Hi Everybody,
Very early in the morning, 6:00 GMT I was starting my computers
and having my webcam ready to attend Vance's presentation at the Arabia TESOL
Conference. Vance was at "ivisit" and at Tapped In, and contacted me through
MSN. With my cup of coffee I joined him first at TI, then we went to a Yahoo
conference room, and the event started. Teresa and Arthur joined us there.
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It was the most interesting online session I have attended (well, I
haven't been to too many so far). There was Vance welcoming his f2f
participants introducing them to us: "This is Tere in Portugal,....and
explaining about Webheads. We even had the opportunity to talk to some of
them.Tere felt like fish in the water, welcoming and asking questions to the
participants. At the same time, I was talking to Sus at TI, who was trying to
get her new webcam ready and to download yahoo messenger. She managed to
download yahoo and we were able to talk a few words. Vance, as usual, was
everywhere.
Unfornately for me, my audio application started to crash and all of a
sudden I was disconnected from Internet and could not go back on line for a
couple of hours. I think I made a screenshot at a given moment to post to my
webcam page.
Thanks Vance for the invitation. Are we invited to join you at the
California session?
cyberenjoying, Daf
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Teresa, This is AWESOME! Thank you for this great demo page -- I
sent it to everyone on our faculty with the subject line "This is Our Future"
-- you put pictures to what words could not describe, I can't thank you enough.
Arlyn |
Teresa responds:
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Dear Arlyn,
Yes, it is difficult to describe in words what goes on, because
so much goes on at the same time. But it is especially difficult to describe
what goes on 'inside' -- before, during and after this type of event. At least
inside me, though I guess most of our WiA friends feel the same way. It's
excitement and many other feelings simultaneously. |
As you say, Arlyn, and I agree 100%, "this is our future", and I love
being a part of this future, today! Above all, with such a great community, who
has taught so much in such a short time and in such a pleasantly fun and
motivating way.
Susanne writes:
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Arthur, Teresa and Dafne, you are making such wonderful examples
on how newcomers have become community builders in the sociotechnical community
of practice we are exploring during the Webheads in Action. This is what I call
sociotechical competencies demonstrated by your readiness to online presence,
your ability to navigate in the chaotic environments, and documenting the
practice on the fly, Teresa's commented screenshots from both webcams and text
chat, invites for a travel thorugh a virtual landscape of supportive peer
scaffolding, carried along by wireless electronic social interactivity.
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I have edited the Tapped In log and will place it on my homepage (I
must use this example in my thesis as an obvoious eyeopener, unless someone
would have any objections;) you can link to it from here in a short while, and
I may add more to it later on:
http://home19.inet.tele.dk/susnyrop/webhead/abudhabi.html
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Saturday, March 30, from 1:00 to 3:00 GMT in Davis
i.e. Friday, March 29, from 17:00 to 19:00 PST in Davis - Vance will be
setting up and preparing his presentation next day with CALICO Conference
technical staff. If you're online at that time please check in with your web
cam or microphone or just computer keyboard and help test the connectivity from
the Webheads presentation room at Davis, California. Find me at
http://www.tappedin.org or on Yahoo or
MSN Messenger, vance_stevens |
Vance did you finally manage to make technology work? I hope so.
Greetings, María Irene >>
Vance responds: Yes I did, thanks María Irene. And
thanks all who turned up for the 'rehearsal' yesterday. We had about 9 people
in the chat room, plus a dozen more at tapped in.
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I usually stay up working until 1 or 2 am because my neurones work
better (?) at those hours, but last night, or may I say this early morning, I
was more awake than ever because I was waiting to attend Vance's rehearsal of
today's presentation at the CALICO Conference (I was also having hot coffee).
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15 minutes before the event, Vance sent a mail saying that he was on
his way, but that he was having some tech. problems. Sus sent another because
she was also fighting with her new Mac. I went to TI and Sus and I met at
Vance's office, soon, other Webheads joined us. I was broadcasting my webcam.
We were all in high spirits waiting for Vance, and finally he showed up, being
welcomed with a standing ovation from his Webheads fans. Most of us joined him
at a yahoo conference, and others, including Sus, stayed at TI following our
set up movements from there. We counted 9 Webheads in the conference room:
BJB,John, Aiden (whose husband was sitting on a sofa, enjoying his wife's
cyberexperiments after a hard day's work at the hospital), Lena, Yaodong, Venny
(with daughter Annete),"mysailing"(Sus?), Vance (surrounded by computers) and
myself. We all tried our mics, some our webcams, and Vance outlined the plan
for his real presentation. Vance saw his son Glenn on line and invited him to
join the conference (we listened to his voice). After that, we went back to TI
and from there tried ivisit, without much success. I was able to see Vance's
image, and the name of other people in the room, but we were not able to
communicate with each other, which we did through TI.
It was almost 4am here in Spain, Vance had to leave, Sus stayed talking
to Vanny's daughter and it was time for me "to hit the sack". We missed Tere,
and I volunteered to phone her, but nobody had her phone number (her
luck!):-)). Tere, I tried some screenshots, but I do not why I was not lucky
this time :-(. There was a point when my webcam got lost in the server (may the
cyberelves wanted to try it). After some hours of sleep, I am working on some
rubrics for my online course, and waiting for the big event.
Good Luck Vance! and thank you for these unforgettable, very special
moments.
Daf
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After the two hour pre-CALICO test session where I just managed
to have Vance's soft voice and webcammed body language on my screen in iVisit,
Venny made his little daughter Aneta, five years old, act, smile and speak to
me; she has a fine English voice and can sing happy Birthday and the Alphabet
song, also used in Danish schools when I was a kid. Even though I was on text
only, we managed to have a longer session, and I shower hed some of my beloved
Grandchildren pictures :-)) I even think she kissed me goonight, all the way
from Taiwan! This really made my night. |
Vance's comment: For my part, it was nice to meet Venny's
and Aiden's kids, and Aiden's husband the doctor.
What to expect in the sessions today
At 19:00 GMT I will set up my computer and it may take a minute to get
it online. Once it does come online and I get into Tapped In, the audience will
be able to see how I contact everyone and get our web cams going, initiate
voice chat, etc.
At that time I'll give a brief presentation on Webheads using Yahoo
voice and showing our urls. I'll be juggling windows on the screen.
If anyone has a web cam up and/or is in the voice chat, I'll ask you to
address the group giving your statement on how Webheads works, why people
appear online the way they do, how the community formed, and how it helps
people.
So I'll give a set presentation and then we'll show them all about
Chaos Navigation for 20 min or so from around 19:20 or 19:30.
Hope to see you all there,
Vance
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Saturday, March 30th, at 19:00 GMT (11:00 a.m PST) -
at the CALICO 2002 Annual Symposium: Creating Virtual Language Learning
Communities, http://calico.org/CALICO02, University of
California, Davis - Vance gave a demonstration of "Webheads: online community
building since 1998" at which all Webheads are welcome to participate in
various online venues. |
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OK, five minutes before bedtime, and it looks like I'm
volunteering myself to write a quick summary of this afternoon's presentation
on Webheads that Vance gave at CALICO in Davis, CA. I'm sure he'll fill you in
on the full details, but here's a "heads-up". |
Vance was live and direct with real people in Davis, and thanks to a
webcam operated by an unsuspecting audience member (who's not going to win any
Oscars for his work), we were able to see Vance and the audience. Over Yahoo
Messenger, a group of webheads from around the world (myself in Philly, Dafne
in Spain, Aiden in Taiwan, Rita in Argentina and Peter in Greece ... and no
doubt other people I've missed - apologies) were able to hear Vance's
presentation and contribute by voice, conference text, and chat on TI. Susanne
projected her website from Denmark, and also let everyone play with her
"groupboard". Elizabeth Hansom-Smith (of Human_CALL and TESOL fame) seemed
particularly interested in this technology. Dafne spoke very eloquently about
community formation through the Webheads program, and I babbled something about
Team Blackboard.
The audience liked it so much, they didn't want to leave. Our last view
from the webcam was of Vance hauling Elizabeth H-S over his shoulder and
carrying her out of the door. OK, I made that bit up.
Anyway, I had a great time, and I was particularly impressed with the
way that you can see and hear and lecture in real time from the other side of
the continent, or indeed world, using free software and a less than hi-tech
computer system (Pentium I laptop and and 28K dial-up in my case).
That's my bit. Folks, please add anything I've missed out. Next stop,
Salt Lake City ...
Cheers, Nigel
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Times here are GMT. What time is that where you are?
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html
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BIG Thanks to all the following
people, who responded to this appeal: As part of the organization, I'd like
to get some of our community members to commit to being online at a certain
place and time for around an hour each week. You don't have to 'know' anything
to 'anchor' a session. As anchor-person, you only have to know how to get onto
any synchronous communication client, where you can sit back and wait for
others to join you.
Find the Tapped In calendar here, updated each month:
http://www.tappedin.org/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.cgi
The LearnEnglish Chat,
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/chat_frame.html
, is a free chat for learners of English that doesn't require any registration
and has no advertisements either, in the same spirit as the rest of the
LearnEnglish site, http://www.learnenglish.org.uk .
LearnEnglish is provided by the British Council. It is open 24x7 and although
scripts are recorded it is not moderated except for the six hours a week when I
am there as the teacher (Chris_teacher). The average numbers of learners at
each session is about 5.
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