learning2gether31march2012
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Paper presented at the international TESOL Convention, Philadelphia, March 31, 2012 by Vance Stevens Artifacts in this presentation: This posting TinyURL: tesol2012vance Slides: http://slideshare.net/vances Event planner: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com Archive and podcast: http://learning2gether.posterous.com Learning2gether is a weekly online teacher professional development event that has gone on in one form or another for almost 15 years and which draws for viability on a base of over 1000 members of a vibrant community of practice (CoP) known as Webheads in ActionTRANSCRIPT
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Learning2gether to teach one another about learning
onlineVance Stevens
English teacher coordinator, UAE Naval CollegeHCT / ADMC / CERT
&Coordinator for Webheads in ActionTESOL Philadelphia March 31, 2012
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TinyURL: tesol2012vance http://tinyurl.com/tesol2012vance
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether31
march2012 Read the presentation in prose:
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/learning2gether-to-teach-one-another-about-le
You can hear the rehearsal recording and read the write-up here http://learning2gether.posterous.com/vance-ste
vens-presents-what-teachers-around-t
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 In theory, anyone can join, 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.posterous.com
Network connections TESOL CALL-IS: http://
www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS 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 podcasts and live recordings
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/
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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://tinyurl.com/y3eh
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1998-1999 Writing for Webheads Weekly meetings each Sunday noon GMT at
http://tappedin.org 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 Bb/Collaborate = Elluminate grant from
http://learningtimes.net 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 Hosted in Elluminate by Learning Times
We learned about “speed geeking” at WiAOC 2009 We tried to organize one online:
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/teresa-almeida-deca-taggalaxy
Speedlifing met with greater success: 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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Sunday April 1, 2012 IATEFL Wrapup
Hosted by Elizabeth Anne 14:00 GMT = 5 p.m. in UAE In Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
Register with Learning Times (benign) Please use a headset to prevent echo Check your mic and speakers using
tools / audio / audio wizard
Our next event
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Sunday April 8, 2012 TESOL Wrapup
Hosted by Vance Stevens 13:00 GMT In Elluminate
http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
TESOL Convention Online Wrapup
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Please join us http://learning2gether.pbworks.comThis is not just a request for participation in a one-off event. • 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
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My presentations are always online
This one is at:
http://tinyurl.com/tesol2012vance