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Learning2gether class-roots weekly online professional development Vance Stevens Khalifa bin Zayed Air College HCT / AAMC / PACE & Coordinator for Webheads in Action Updated for Moodle MOOC, June 2, 2013 Updated in 2013
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This slide show is updated from 2013, on Learning2gether classroots weekly online professional development - This session was one of several held this week at Al Ain Men's College (AAMC) as part of an in-house professional development week in April 2013. It was updated on Aug 25, 2013 for the annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference MMVC13 Description of event: Learning2gether is a wiki which, since September 2010, has served to organize teachers in meeting online at regular times weekly to conduct free “class-roots” professional development seminars and discuss topics of mutual interest to teachers of ESOL in particular and educators in general. Presenters and participants range from expert to those merely interested in the topics. Participants come from all over the world, but from its inception there has been an effort to involve teaching practitioners in Arab countries through coordination with the TESOL Arabia TAEDTECH-SIG. Sessions are recorded, and a growing archive of recorded resources is accumulating at the associated podcast site. This session will introduce teachers to the endeavor and invite them to become involved.
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Learning2gether class-roots weekly online professional
developmentVance Stevens
Khalifa bin Zayed Air CollegeHCT / AAMC / PACE
&Coordinator for Webheads in Action
Updated for Moodle MOOC, June 2, 2013
Updated in 2013
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Slideshare of the 2012 TESOL Philadelphia presentation http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether31march2012
Read the 2012 TESOL Philadelphia presentation in prose:
http://learning2gether.net/2012/03/30/learning2gether-to-teach-one-another-about-le/
Hear an mp3 of March 4, 2012 Learning2gether rehearsal http://learning2gether.net/2012/03/04/vance-stevens-presents-
what-teachers-around-t/
Read the 2012TESOL Arabia proceedings publication Stevens, V. (2013). Learning2gether: Wiki-based worldwide
teacher professional development. In Davidson, P., Al-Hamly, M., Coombe, C., Troudi, S., and Gunn, C. (Eds.). Achieving Excellence through Life Skills Education. Dubai: TESOL Arabia. pp.342-351. Version available online: http://tinyurl.com/tacon2012L2g.
My presentations are always online
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Class roots online teacher professional development
Distributed Community of Practice PLN (Personal learning network)
Models teaching through modeling learning A teacher models and demonstrates A student practices and reflects
Wiki-based Anyone can join wiki, write in an event
What is Learning2gether
http://classroots.org/
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Event planning wiki: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/
Upcoming events: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded
Index to archives: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex
Archive of podcasts and live recordings http://learning2gether.net
Network connections TESOL Arabia: http://taedtech.ning.com/events/
Where is Learning2gether?
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Event Planning Wiki
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32204849/FrontPage
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Upcoming events
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded
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Index to archives
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex
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Archive of live recordings
http://learning2gether.net
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Network Connections: TESOL Arabia Edtech-SIG
http://taedtech.ning.com/events/
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Network Connections: TESOL CALL-IS
http://www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS
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What funding? No funding at all, ever, since 1998 No hidden agendas, truly cooperative Rely on Cognitive Surplus (Clay Shirky)
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-cognitive-surplus-drives-us-to.html
Intrinsic motivation of people to Share, help others be highly regarded professionally feel good about themselves
Monetization would undermine cooperative mutual community support (Deci, Soma experiments)
Funding for Learning2gether
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p96Wmn-ER4QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=deci+soma+research+motivation&ots=3cHPr-t922&sig=ZqB8TGpkrvt2Wj8DKACBFgDTYzc#v=onepage&q=deci%20soma%20research%20motivation&f=false
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Elluminate grant from LearningTimes
http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
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Live streaming via Hangout
http://webheadsinaction.org/live
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1998-1999 Writing for Webheads Weekly meetings each Sunday noon GMT at Tapped In
(defunct) Archives of logged chats
All: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chatlogs.htm Turkey meets China in 2001:
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm
2000 - 2002 Online events at conferences where we put students in touch
with teachers using voice (HearMe, no longer available) Bb/Collaborate = Elluminate grant from
http://learningtimes.com 2002
Webheads in Action http://webheads.info
How Learning2gether began
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Writing for Webheads 1998-2002
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm
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Webheads in Action since 2002 http://vancestevens.com/papers/e
vonline2002/webheads_evo.htm
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/
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Webheads in Action Online Convergence 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org Each hosted in Elluminate by Learning Times
We learned about “speed geeking” at WiAOC 2009 We tried to organize one online: http://
learning2gether.net/2009/06/14/teresa-almeida-deca-taggalaxy/
Speedlifing was also well received: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
Learning2gether came about in 2010 to Enhance quality of our weekly meetings Avoid more 3-day = 72-hour webcastathons
More history
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Speedlifing
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
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Any coming Sunday or Monday after noon GMThttp://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded#Nextupcomingevents
Current venues used Live stream via Webheads in Action Drupal portal
http://webheadsinaction.org/live Stream via Google+ Hangout with embedded EtherPad YouTube recordings rendered to mp3 and podcast
In Elluminate via grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/ http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ Please use a headset to prevent echo Check your mic and speakers using
tools / audio / audio wizard
Our next upcoming events
Please join us http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
and http://learning2gether.net
This is not just a request for participation in a one-off event – WE RELY ON YOU!• If you are seriously interested in
professional development and would like to join in our activities,we welcome your participation.
• Even better, we would appreciate your SHARING with colleagues something that YOU know at these events.
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32205261/cfp
Vance’s presentations are always online
(creative commons, attribution, share alike)
http://slideshare.net/vances
