After a decade of inroads, SUCCESS in modeling blended learning in theory AND practice at F2F and online conferences
I've been trying to post this at http://vancestevens.tumblr.com/ but things were disappearing terminally. The second time around I started backing up as I went. The third time it all disappeared, out of memory I guess, I gave up and moved here:
I'm trying to document my history of online conferencing ...
2008
Leigh Blackall's Facilitating Online Communities course mounted a conference Nov 2-9, 2008. Presentations in the mini conference are listed here: ht tp://www.wikieducator.org/Facilitating_online_communit ies/course_mini_conference#8Nov- 7AM_GMT__Connecting_Online_in_Developing_Countries . On November 9, 2008 at 11:00 GMT - Minhaaj ur Rehman invited me "being the founder of Webheads will be highlighting the spirit of webheads and their efforts in the proliferation of ICT and CALL in ESL teaching" to be interviewed for his FOC08 course session of 30-45 mins on the topic of Webheads, its inception, development and goals.
I was invited to speak at the Network to Support Trainers in Europe’s first annual on-line conference on “the Training of Trainers” on 6 November, 2008 http://www.trainersineurope.org/conference/prog ramme/. The organizers had four speakers in each session and the title of my contribution was Teacher professional development in groups, communities, and networks.
Abstract: At the second WiAOC conference, Etienne Wenger (2007) gave one of our keynotes and I asked him if his ideas on CoPs had changed at all as a result of his interactions with Webheads. Surprisingly, he said that they had, especially regarding the nature of space occupied by the community. He said that we knew who we were in terms of domain and practice but that we had freed ourselves from constraints on space in spanning so many available spaces in distributing ourselves, and that this was a revelation to him in that we were clearly a CoP, but with very loosely defined boundaries. At that same online conference, Stephen Downes (2007) spoke to us about the distinction between groups, communities, and networks. A YahooGroup characterizes that first level of interaction, where a group forms to disseminate information, but might not necessarily be a community. A community implies greater interaction where members are impacting one another, and a community of practice suggests that this interaction is directed toward the professional development of all concerned. For some time Webheads have considered themselves a CoP but with so many more opportunities for connectivist knowledge to be disseminated across many groups and communities (Siemens, 2004), Downes's notion of individuals interacting as nodes in a complex and interlaced distributed learning network is the one that I think best fits Webheads in its current configuration. I think this is what Etienne was getting at when he said that Webheads had freed themselves from constraints on spaces in which to meet, and thus his notion of what characterizes a CoP might be merging with the connectivist network model (Stevens, 2007).
November 1, 2008 - I joined Dafne Gonzalez and Chis Hill in Second Life. Chis was presenting live at the Ohio TESOL conference at a Technology Session: Access to Virtual Worlds: How Languages are Being Taught in Second Life, abstract: "Second Life, an internet-based, multi-user virtual world, can provide access to education via the Internet. This panel of language teachers who have taught in Second Life will discuss research, methodologies and challenges for teaching within a virtual world." My slide show for my part of the presentation is here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/languag e-learning-resources-in-second-life- presentation
I adapted my workshop which was never given in Sudan to my possible appearance at the 6th International TELLSI Conference to be held at Guilan University on October 8 & 9, 2008 - http://prosites- vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/iran2008/web20 workshop.htm. However, my appearance in person in Rasht was thwarted by special permission not being granted by Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs) but we managed something live online. I awas at one point listed in the program here, http://www.guilan.ac.ir/files/o ther/Conference_Tentative_Schedule.pdf for 09:00 - 10:30 their time on Oct 9, 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. GMT.In the end the presentation was made and blogged here: h ttp:/tinyurl.com/iranpost and, even better, recorded and made available here: http://tinyurl.com/ uae2iran
080927 - Saturday, September 27, 2008, I was invited to assist at a distance along with Nellie Deutsch and Doris Molero in a presentation given by Buthaina Alothman at the Women without Frontiers International Conference 2008, held physically in Rhodes, Greece, on September 26-28. The presentation focused on ways we can promote peace and reduce discrimination against gender, origin, religion, and color in our societies through Cross-Cultural online projects in the Language Classrooms. Buth created a Wikispace with the abstract of the presentation, Guest Speakers bios, and slides of her previous presentation at the International Conference of WwF.org in 2004, and photo at: http://buthaina-wwf- peaceconf08.wikispaces.com. The session recording is at: http://tinyurl.com/ LT080927
At the August 6-9, 2008 WorldCALL congress in Fukuoka, Japan, http://www.j- let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd0/. My 45 min. session on Engaging collaborative writing through social networking listed in the program as http://www.j- let.org/~wcf/docs/Web_20080728.htm was given on Aug 6 from 17:25 to 18:10 Tokyo time, http://tinyurl.com/6b jk7r; or Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 08:15 GMT.
Nelba Quintana and I after we gave our presentation - photo by Joseph Dias
On May 29 I was invited to participate in an Elluminate session as a panel guest for 75 Superintendents from around Western NY who were discussin Current Internet Issues for Schools http://21stcenturylearning.wikispac es.com/Current+Internet+Issues% 2C+Obstacles+and+Challenges+for+schools- +Panel+Discussion
I had been asked to help "set the stage for this discussion and brainstorm challenges and obstacles to using the Web and Web 2.0 tools (the Internet) for teaching and learning" as one of a panel of "key leaders from around the globe." This session lasted for 50 minutes and ws part of an all day workshop. URLs:
May 10, I joined David Winet and Dafne Gonzalez in Second Life in Christopher Hill's live presentation at a conference put on by the Linguistics Department at Ohio University. He introduced Second Life and talked about how SL can be / is being used in teaching. http://esl.osu.edu/staff/hill/resources/secon dlife.html
The presentation was in the form of a panel discussion. He asked in- world panelists to give perspectives on what works well and what challenges are faced there. Chris Hill planned "to spend the first 20-30 minutes introducing SL to the audience in RL on a large projection screen, lecture-style. I'm going to show a couple of YouTube videos and then have the audience watch me navigate my avatar through SL, including the SL version of the OhioU campus, which is hosting the conference . After they're up to speed, I'll meet you at the OhioStateU island, TELRport. Some SLURLs are locked down, so use this one: http://slurl.com/secondlife/TELRport/89/211/24 This is the main entrance area of the island. We'll use SL voice chat for you to communicate with my avatar, which the RL audience will also watch on the big projection screen. You'll each have about 15 minutes, so introduce yourself and what you've done in SL. Dafne has a PowerPoint presentation http://dafnegonzalez.pbwiki.com/SL- COULD08; Dave is thinking of including a tour of interesting sites. A variety of perspectives is great. Vance will be basing his presentation on http://sl2ndchan ce.pbwiki.com/
May 7, 2008 at 17:00 GMT Barbara Dieu and I participated in a CPsquare Field Trip to Webheads. Bee and I set up a wiki for it here: http://beeva nce.wikispaces.com/cp2. There are numerous other links posted to Webheads in Action list. I was hoping to get a recording but this has not yet materialized.
The Writingmatrix team were invited to give an online presentation April 20, 2008, at http://www.instantpresenter.com/lancelotschool5. This presentation was meant to explain aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking. This session was billed as a discussion with the coordinator of the project, as well as with any other Writingmatrix project participants who might join us. It then developed that the session might include other EVO session moderators apart from Writingmatrix so was asked to keep our part down to ten minutes. The announcement is here: http://www.lancelotschool.com/Terminkalender/ details/EVO-Sessions-2008---The-Writing-Matrix-or-How -bloggers-connect-their-brain-neurons or http://tinyurl.com/3m yv8v and a recording of some kind might materialize.
I repeated my Exeter presentation at an event April 12, 2008, 11:15 to noon in Abu Dhabi, or 7:15 to 8:00 a.m. GMT at the Abu Dhabi Men's College in Abu Dhabi. I started with a short report from the LA SIG Preconference Event in Exeter (IATEFL) which I attended briefly, I then did the larger presentation on The Multiliterate Autonomous Learner: Teacher attitudes and the inculcation of strategies for lifelong learning, "with focus in particular on the influence of teacher attitudes towards technology as it might impact autonomy in the newer generations of learners."
On April 7, 2008 I was invited to present at the Learner Autonomy SIG Pre-conference event here: http ://learnerautonomy.org/exeter2008.html, scheduled as part of the 42nd Annual IATEFL Conference in Exeter http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/20 08/index.php. 7th-11th April 2008. My presentation was requested as a part of the "Autonomy and the language classroom: opening a can of worms!" project, http ://learnerautonomy.org/wormsindex.html. I am indicated as being 'keeper' of the Technology worm here: ht tp://learnerautonomy.org/wormsmay2007.html.
Graham Stanley, Dafne Gonzalez, Ronaldo Lima, Jonathan Finklestein, Teresa Almeida d'Eca, Carla Arena, Rita Zeinstejer, Aiden Yeh, et moi vraiment after dinner in New York City
On April 4, 2008, joint proposal, number 119652, titled, "CALL and SLA: Research, Applications, and Beyond " has been accepted for the TESOL 2008 convention program. I have been asked to "be prepared to present your session on 4/4/2008 from 9:30 AM to 10:15 AM and in Gibson Suite in the Hilton." This is part of a panel discussion and it could conceivably be done online as well. Abstract: 'Technology and Second Language Acquisition evoke consternation, innovation, and excitement. From any perspective, technology has had an impact on SLA. This session investigates current research on SLA, how research translates into best practices in CALL, land how future trends in SLA and emerging technologies may effect classroom applications.' I have been asked to address Emerging Technologies. The session is listed on p.7 here: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/docs/ convention08/AdvancedProgram.pdf. My slides have been posted to http://tinyurl.com/5t jtdy .
At this conference I also did a stand-in presentation of a workshop on Second Life for two presenters who had their workshop accepted in the EVO but did not turn up in NYC. In pulling this off I also engaged Christopher Hill and Graham Stanley to assist me live in New York, with Gavin Dudeney graciously meeting us at Edunation. We had about 30 participants and doubled them two to a computer. After explaining SL minimally, we got them to create avatars and befriend Dudeney Ge, who teleported them to his location, and got them morphing and off and running, flying, etc.
February 13, 2008, from noon to 13:15 UTC (GMT), have been invited to present online at the 4t h Inter-college Conference on Technology and Multiculturalism being organized by Elaine Hoter at Talpiot College of Education, to take place in Intwise (exact URL to be announced). Title: RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online
Abstract: Mutual understanding, key to harmony between peoples of different cultures, is often facilitated through the leveling impact of Internet connectivity. The widest area network, the Internet, is in aggregate peer to peer, with millions of nodes which tend toward commonality in outlook and agreement on content, Wikipedia being perhaps the classic example. Interactants often initiate encounters with some degree of anonymity and are generally met with openness by other interactants. Although there can be a downside to this (predation, spam) many aspects of the Internet, subsumed under terms such as connectionism and Web 2.0, lend themselves to effective peer-to-peer learning environments with reduced affective filters. In this presentation we can look at some of these environments and see how certain characteristics of connectivity on the Internet serve to diminish cultural barriers.
RSS and tagging are key to p2p collaboration over the Internet. Tags allow people to organize the information available through their distributed networks in ways that are meaningful to them, and social networking enables nodes in these networks to interact with each other according to how these tags and other folksonomic data overlap. When productive tags are identified, then RSS is used to monitor where web artifacts using those tags are accumulating, or being aggregated. This presentation will explore some of the ways that tagging can be used productively by people wishing to locate one another in order to discover more about each other's cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The WritingMatrix project will be used as an example of how basing interaction on tagging has enabled students in various parts of the world to interact with one another in the ways suggested here. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/rss-tagging -collaboration-online-264077/ or http://tinyurl.com/2b wfuy
January 14 - February 24, 2008 - I am participating in the 2008 TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) http://evo0 8sessionscfp.pbwiki.com/ Blogging for Educators. My 'extension' activity entitled "Exploring Tagging with Vance Stevens" http ://blogging4educators.pbwiki.com/Week3 is set for Week 3, January 28-Feb 3, 2008. Material for it will be drawn from this working paper: http://docs.google.com/View? docid=dr22kn2_24dpqdgg. URLs associated with B4E:
Tuesday, January 22, noon UTC (GMT) - I was invited to be a guest speaker for the EVO 2008 session, Getting the Most Out of Web 2.0 for ESP, on the advantages of using tags and technorati for a community of bloggers in the ESL/EFL/ESP classroom. http://evo08esp.pbwiki.com/Week%202. The session was recorded: https:// sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2008-01- 22.0130.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr
January 16-19 I was a presenter in the TCC TALO Connections unConference, or Future of Learning in a Networked World 2: http://fln w.wikispaces.com/flnw2_tcc which connects TALO with FLNW2 participants on the ground in Thailand and online throughout the world between the 16th and 28th January 2008. I plan to be present in Bangkok and Jan 16-19. There is a blog associated with this event here: htt p://learningnetworkedworld.blogspot.com/. Some of the events will be webcast, recorded, and/or podcast, with URLs here:
2007
Sunday December 23, 2007 - 16:00 GMT I was an invited guest on the Worldbridge Network Solstice 2007 Webcastathon, http ://www.webcastacademy.net/solstice2007. I blogged the event here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/12/ ustream-i-stream-we-all-stream-for.html and ...
I was an invited guest on a Webcast hosted by Paul Allison, with Susan Ettenheim and Lee Baber, on Wed Dec 5, broadcast over the Worldbridges Network http://www.edtechtal k.com at 9 p.m. EST or 2 a.m. GMT Thu Dec 6. Paul maintains the blog http:/ /www.teachersteachingteachers.org/ as an archive of the weekly show. His edit of our interview is here: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=145. I put the original recording at my podcast site: http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2007- 12-11T19_13_45-08_00
November 23- November 25, 2007, I hosted a Knowplace event on Google Notebook, running under this byline: - "Google Notebook Location: http://knowplace.ca Google Notebook is a free service offered by Google that provides a simple way to save and organize clips of information when conducting research online. Join the webhead cat- herder, Vance Stevens as he provides his own description of the many uses of Google Notebook. You don't want to miss this one. Facilitator: Vance Stevens" - The actual course location was http://knowplace.ca/moodle/course/view.php? id=213. After the course was officially shut down at Knowplace it was archived here: http://213.42.148.233/course/view.php? id=180
13:00 PM GMT Saturday, October 20 was the time of our "fireside chat", on the K-12 Online Conference Live Events (Fireside chats schedule: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=128) October 15-19 and October 22-26, 2007 - The Writingmatrix group Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Saša Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer answered this CfP http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=83 and were accepted to present “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating” at the K-12 Online Conference “Playing with Boundaries,” (presenters listed here: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=100). I also hosted an hour of the 24-hour conference wrapup, "When Night Falls" http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k1 2online2007schedule.html.
Abstract: "The presenters play with boundaries through the simple expedient of having student bloggers in different countries tag their blog posts with the unique tag term writingmatrix. Searching on that tag in Technorati, the student bloggers in four locations in three different countries have managed to locate one another's posts, leave comments for one another, and have subsequently interacted in other ways as well. The presenters explain how they started the project and how it has branched into other online and even face to face activities involving the students in the participant countries. The presentation is made not only through the voices of the presenters, but with the students themselves lending their voices through their blogs and videos." Presentations at this conference are all asynchronous except for the live chat events. The presentation itself can be found at these web artifacts:
Wesley Fryer left this comment at our conference presentation node http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=162: "Wow, what a GREAT presentation on so many levels. This was the best example of a “blended” presentation I’ve ever seen," and he followed up with a podcast at http://wesleypd.blogspot.com/2007/10/pd -reflection-on-motivating-student.html. Along the lines of our presentation, more content related to the conference can be aggregated at http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/k12online07.
070928 - I participated on Friday September 28, at 9 pm GMT in Rita Zeinstejer's presentation on "Emerging Technologies for EFL Teachers and Students: the Web 2.0 and its possibilities" http://ritaz.pbwiki.com/CollaborativeTechnologies using Learning Times Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh - Rita's presentation to teachers in Argentina intended to encourage us to "say something about your own experiences using any social software with your students--blogs, wikis, Google maps, Flicker...--, live for the audience for about 5 minutes ... My idea is showing a VERY simple ppt and providing precise concepts and examples not to overwhelm the web-phobics, but to give them a view of how life for educators has definitely changed as from the advent of Web 2.0, which I'm also going to define very briefly and in a simplified way. Your live presence would be GREATLY appreciated, since that is definitely the best way to produce a consciousness-raising impact on our teachers" My slide presentation was here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/vance -stevens-28-sept-2007/.
070905 I was invited to present online at the EuroCALL conference on 8 September from 11:15-12;00 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland (10:15-11:00-- GMT) as a featured online presenter in the Virtual Strand which includes streamed presentations from the conference, and conference blog and chat space, in addition to a limited number of invited, interactive, online presentations lasting approximately 40 minutes My paper entitled Mastering competencies for collaboration and aggregation in distributed learning networks can be accessed as indicated below. Registered delegates are expected to read the text in advance, so that during the presentation itself, I will join delegates in a chat room on a Blobber-enabled web-page for discussion and questions.
Here is the abstract:
This talk begins by discussing terms in the title, especially 'aggregation' and 'distributed learning networks'. Regarding the latter, Downes and Siemens are strong proponents of the notion that functionality of networks is of prime importance to the knowledge embedded there, and therefore accessing this knowledge is key being able to utilize and develop the knowledge within the network. We look briefly at Web 2.0 and some impacts on education, and especially at how knowledge is organized there in folksonomies as opposed to taxonomies, and finally at heuristics aimed at aggregating this knowledge. We then apply these concepts to techniques specific to second language learning.
My colleagues and I have implemented interesting experiments in applying aggregation techniques in the teaching of writing, and its counterpart reading. These colleagues are not my institutional ones, but those in my distributed (online) communities of practice, who comprise a significant part of my distributed learning network. These colleagues and I conceived the Writingmatrix project, which became our means of learning how to aggregate content (what the students were writing) via tags (a prime element in folksonomies).
The remainder of the talk explains how students posting in blogs throughout the world used the tag 'writingmatrix' to make their postings visible to others in the project, and how similar techniques can be used to promote collaboration among students around the world and motivate them to read each other's postings, comment, formulate responses, and form partnerships conducive to learning outcomes. It is stressed that understanding the concepts is key to making the paradigm shift leading to opening minds to the transformational potentials inherent in connectivity facilitating interchange across the Web 2.0. Such notions impact reading, writing, and thinking, in CALL contexts worldwide, and enable applying these concepts to one's own language learning projects.
070831 - - Through a recommendation on Jay Cross' Internetime Ning, I was invited to speak in the second 20 min talk in a session taking place from 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 (so, about 9:30 Egypt time) on 31 August, in session 3 of the "New Learning for Sustainability in the Arab Region" meeting 30 August - 1 September 2007 at the Alexandria Library, in Alexandria, Egypt. The event is subtitled "Motivating Change: New Learning in Formal Education for Sustainable Development", and the conference seeks regionally-based experts working in informal learning, web 2.0, active bloggers, etc. (The organizers' blog is here: http://www.wel earnsomething.com). My presentation is written out here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.h tm; TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/39 8bnw
070901 -I had originally been offered an opportunity to mount a poster session at the parallel New Marketplace at New Learning for Sustainability exhibition (with wireless, available). My idea was to use the wireless to demonstrate some of the tools we use in Webheads and Worldbridges Webcast Academy. This resulted in my eventually being offered an additional slot for a workshop on Saturday Sept 1, 9 a.m to 11:30 a.m. in Egypt (06:00 to 08:30 GMT) on:
F.U.N. Fare - UnWorkshop on Computer Mediated Communications Tools for Distributed Social Learning Networks:
The two convergent communities of practice Webheads in Action and Worldbridges are constantly exploring new computer-mediated communications (CMC) tools for percolating knowledge through their overlapping distributed learning networks, many of which take on many properties of social networking. Members of those communities will be invited to join us online, and the (un)workshop will take place informally, without fixed agenda, in response to the direction suggested by the online participants and those present in Alexandria. Among the spaces we can explore (more to be added as they occur to me) are:
- The Webheads in Action and Worldbridges Drupal portals
Find us in the chat room here: http://webcastac ademy.net/chat (because we'll be streaming)
- Skype, with a demonstration of webcasting through Worldbridges Webcast Academy
Find Vance on Skype ID vancestev; stream at http://www .webcastacademy.net/listen. Jose Rodriguez has agreed to handle the backup stream, thanks Jose!
- Tours of Edunation and Boracay in Second Life
Offer friendship to Webhead Link and request teleport
- Elluminate and Alado voice and whiteboard-enabled presentation chat rooms
http://tinyurl.com/y3eh and http://www.alado. net/webheads
- Tapped In and Twitter text spaces
Join VanceS at http://www.tappedin.or g and log in to Twitter, follow VanceS
- Wikispaces and PBWiki
I'll set up a wikispace for my Virtual Strand plenary comiing up between Sept 5 and 8th
- Slideshare, Bubbleshare, Webshots, Voicethread, Flickr
- Facebook, Moodle, Pageflakes
070811 I was invited to teach a short course on writing on the Internet 11th-13th July during the XXVI Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain. The course is entitled "Learning to write in a global and plurilingual world" and my part is to give 3 talks (60' exposition + 15' debate) on Internet (Electronic writing, On-line learning to write, Electronic approach to language learning -focus on writing). There is more information about the university and these courses here: http://www.sc .ehu.es/cursosverano. In order to have something to talk about I instigated a writing project here: http://wri tingmatrix.wikispaces.com/. I created a Moodle component here: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view .php?id=46 and a course portal here: http://www.vancestevens.com/writing.htm. I also wrote out the text of each lecture, uploaded the slides, and left recordings of the lectures themselves as follows:
- Lecture 1: Multiliteracies and the changing landscape of communication in a world without arbiters of what gets published
Internet, electronic genre and writing. Several analogical literacy practices have migrated to Internet. Now we write emails, wikis, blogs, chats or webs. We read on a screen and write with the keyboard and mouse. How has Internet changed literacy practices? Which are the most relevant electronic genres in L2 learning, why, and how can we use them?
- Lecture 2: Web 2.0 and Social Networking: What you need to know about these concepts to get your students colloborating online, using tags, rss, and aggregation
L2 learning with an electronic approach. More and more L2 courses incorporate Internet and on line learning activities as part of the syllabus and teaching materials. How does this change our teaching practice? Which are the good teaching practices in an on line course and in a blended- learning course? What free and collaborative online tools exist to help us do it better? (On line learning platforms such as Moodle have become very popular in some secondary and university centres in Spain -but we cannot assume that all the students in the course will be aware of that fact…).
- Lecture 3: Putting the forces in motion: Applying technology to foster writing through motivating online environments
Resources and ideas for learning to write on line. Language technologies and engineering offer us powerful resources to help us write and teach writing, such as multi-user virtual environments, pen pals and class collaboration projects, blogging, wikis, Google docs and mapping tools. These greater-picture enhancements can make use of lower- level spelling software, readability analysis systems, automatic assisted translation, terminology data base, plurilingual textual corpora, etc. We also have software that register our writing process, huge on line writing labs, with lots of materials, outlines and information. How we can use these resources in the classroom and in on line courses? What implications do these resources have in the learning of writing?
070518 The Webheads in Action Online Convergence was held May 18-20, 2007. http://wiaoc.org, with archived presentation details at http://schedule.wiao c.org and http: //www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007; recordings linked from http://streamarchive s.net/. I planned and coordinated the conference, and participated in two presentations:
- I took part of an online panel discussion at WiAOC on May 18, 2007. http://wiao c2007apacall.pbwiki.com/ on Computer-mediated communication: CONNECTing in a multiliterate flat world, with Jeong-Bae Son, Andrew Lian, Debra Hoven, Klaus-Dieter Rossade, and Siew Ming Thang. Our presentation is described here http://web headsinaction.org/node/156 and the recordings can be found here: http://stream archives.net/node/46, http://stream archives.net/node/45 (Part 2), and/or here: http://stream archives.net/node/47 (Part 3)
- I organized a presentation entitled Writingmatrix: CONNECTing students with blogs, tags, and social networking, http://wri tingmatrix.wikispaces.com, with Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Doris Molero, and Sasha Sirk. I put my slides online here http://www.slideshare.net/vances/vance- writingmatrix-wiaoc2007/ and the other contributions are posted at http://web headsinaction.org/node/174. An audio recording can be found here: http://stream archives.net/node/48 and the Elluminate session can be downloaded from: https:// sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2007-05- 18.0447.M.FF88B318415986DF118835E10F8CB7.vcr
070421 I was invited to present a workshop (2 hours) at the TTTT (TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi chapter Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips 5) at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi on April 21, 2007 http:/ /ilearn.20m.com/news/newevents.htm on Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking. It was presented in conjunction with the writing course I am giving in Spain this summer http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view .php?id=46, for which I started a project with a number of teachers worldwide -http://wri tingmatrix.wikispaces.com, among them Rita Zeinstejer, who assisted from Argentina via Elluminate, and the recording is here: https:// sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/play.jnlp? psid=2007-04- 21.0050.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr. I posted the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/writing -in-a-flat-world-bettervblogging-through-social- networking/
The workshop covered:
- How to start a blog
- How to post to a blog
- How to edit a post
- How to TAG a post, and why you should do this
- How to open a http://www.bloglines. com account, and why you should do this
- What RSS is, and why it's important
- How to subscribe to RSS feeds generated by other bloggers
- How to organize and follow each other's updated blog postings
- How to open a http://del.icio.us account, and why it's important
- How to get the del.icio.us browser button and tag sites you visit
- How to see who's tagged YOUR pages and find other tags they are interested in
- How to aggregate content using the tags you've placed in your posts
070414 I was invited by Ankara University Development Foundation Schools, to be a Plenary Speaker at the annual ELT Conference held at the ATAUM Conference Hall, in Ankara, Turkey on April 14, 2007. The theme of this conference is "CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) – Technology CALLs You". The title of my talk is "What is CALL? It's YOU!" (derived roughly from my blog posting from Sunday, April 1, 2007 What is CALL: Computer Assisted Language and Literacy as well as from Webheads chat logs from October 29-Nov 3, 2001) . We webcast using Elluminate courtesy of Learning Times, http://tinyurl.com/y3eh starting with Dr. Senem Yildiz's presentation at 07:10 GMT. URL's used in the presentation are given in playnotes: h ttp://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/ankara2007/whatiscall.htm and http://tinyurl.com/yv x6yd. The slides for my presentation are here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/what-is -call-its-you-vance-stevens-ankara2007/
URLs provided by the organizers:
I was invited to participate in the1 hour - 45 min. Colloquium entitled: "CALL IS Electronic Village Online Communities" held on March 21, 2007 at the international TESOL Convention in Seattle, Washington State Conv Center/Room304 Hall C 8:30am ~ 10:15am PST http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/se ccss.asp?CID=1244&DID=6071. The event was Skypecast and the recording is posted at http:/ /www.webheadsinaction.org/node/154. On-site and distance presenters created a wiki for it here: http://coll oquium07.wikispaces.com with biodata here: h ttp://colloquium07.wikispaces.com/presenters. I created my presentation on the wiki here: http://colloquium07.wikispaces.com/Vance+Stevens , and have placed a slide show version here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2007seattleEVO/00.htm< /a>
January 21, 2007 - I was invited to give a short talk on the topic of "Benefits of using computers and technology in teaching: Focus on language teaching" by a company called Senaco, who asked me to speak at a meeting of its sales and technical staff in Abu Dhabi. I put the text from the PowerPoint slides up at my blog: http://adv anceducation.blogspot.com/, and I recorded the talk and placed it at my pod-blog: http://vanc e_stevens.podomatic.com/.
2006
I presented at GLD X - Global Learn Day 10 - Sunday October 8 - for the program of the Gulf Region http://tinyurl.com/gsz bs The GLD timetable is here http://www.bfr anklin.edu/gldten/. My page is here http://ben300.com/GLDTEN/?p=39. My presentation is here:http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2006antwerp/gld10 _vance.htm and I made a recording and posted it on my podblog at: http://vanc e_stevens.podomatic.com
August 22, 2006 - I presented virtually via recorded video at the 12th International CALL Research Conference How are we doing? CALL & monitoring the learner, DIDASCALIA, University of Antwerp Language Institute 20-22 August 2006, more information at DIDASCALIA Research Centre: http://www.didascalia .be. The annotated text of my presentation can be found here: http://snipurl.com/vance2006antwerp. The video of the presentation can be seen here (55 kbps) and at better quality here: http://blip.tv/file/6 2861 (521 kbps). I received this feedback from Jozef Colpaert: "Your presentation was shown to some 15 people and was well received. We had a discussion afterwards on learner freedom versus teacher guidance in Web 2.0-based learning environments and associated constructivist approaches."
On July 6, I presented in French (from my mom's home in Houston) as part of a presentation hosted by Jean Michel Chaupart from France in conjunction with a congres in Paraguay. The event was la conférence internationale pour professeurs de francais latinoaméricains – XIVe.SEDIFRALE que a eu lieu le JEUDI 6 JUILLET, entre 20 heures et 21heures 30 GMT, sur la plate-forme de conférence : http:/ /www.portafolio.org/conference.htm qui supporte la voix + image webcam + présentation de pages web. Les diapositives sont disponibles pour consultation à l'adresse suivante: http: //www.cimted.org/carrusel/sedifrale/. For the text of my presentation in French, click here
June 23, 2006 - I was interviewed via podcasting on my views on various aspects of consulting. The interview was conducted by ElderBob Brannan and posted on one of his blogs, Rebuilding Indianola, at: http://rebuilding indianola.blogspot.com/2006_06_23_rebuildingindianola_ archive.html. The original recordings were those posted June 21 at http://vanc e_stevens.podomatic.com/.
April 20 I presented on Effective Strategies toward Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning at The Language Centre 6th Annual ELT Conference, Language Learning in the Cyber Age: Innovations and Challenges 19 – 20
April 2006 Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman http://www .squ.edu.om/lan/index.html. I used Learning Times / Elluminate at http://tinyurl.com/y3eh to webcast it, and I placed the handout with links to the PowerPoint slide show, URL playlist of the presentation, and webcast recording from here: http://tinyurl.com/m4o w6.
I webcast at Learning Times http://tinyurl.com/y3eh from the METSMaC 2006 “Making Connections” at 9:30 a.m. in Abu Dhabi, 16 March 2006 at the Beach Rotana & Towers Hotel Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates on Effective strategies for applying multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments by Vance Stevens Foundation Computing, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. http://tinyurl.com/m4o w6
Abstract: Multiliteracy is an important aspect of almost any curriculum nowadays. Teachers and students with good multiliteracy skills have a workable grasp of the many ways that technology intertwines with academic life, and are in position to actively gain control over those aspects directly impacting the learning environment and their professional development. Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of fast-changing technologies by adapting those most appropriate to their situations. These strategies begin with managing, processing, and interpreting a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications.
This presentation discusses effective approaches and strategies for responding to technology issues in the academic environment. It overviews tools and skills that help cope with information overload and discusses means of communication and interaction in Internet 2.0 environments, including using social networking, RSS, video, web cam, image, and voice technologies to gain familiarity with these tools and their applications in teaching through communities of practice which in turn model collaborative, constructivist learning settings.
It is hoped that teachers will leave this presentation with a greater awareness of the potentials of Internet 2.0 in the enhancement of optimal learning environments, and with some idea of a strategy that they might pursue to learn more about the topic, thus enhancing their own awareness of multiliteracy skills and how they might include these in curricula they develop for students
Robert "Elderbob" Brannan, Buthaina Al Othman, and I conducted a session for the TESOL / Electronic Village Online (EVO2006) sessions Monday, January 16 - Sunday, February 26, 2006 entitled Establishing and maintaining 'Web presence' Part 2: The Moodle. The proposal is here: http://si tes.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol /evo2006/gvs2006proposal.htm. The link for the sessions is http://webpages.csus.edu/~ha nsonsm/announce.html and the link from there to this session is http://webpages.csus.edu/ %7Ehansonsm/WebPresence.html
Tuesday February 14th I present from a distance at the invitation of Gavin Dudeney a talk entitled "Webheads: Communiities of practice in action" at a conference entitled ICT in ELT: putting the 'Learning' back into 'E-Learning' held face to face at the Manchester Conference Centre, 12-17 February 2006: http://www.britishcouncil.org/seminars- english-0563.htm. I gave a presentations at 10:00 GMT to the following specs: "Participants are all interested in ICT in ELT, on a teacher, traner and a ministry level and come from a wide variety of countries around the world. They will have seen a bit of group CoP theory, and looked extensively at Yahoo Groups beforehand. They will also have discussed, a little, what makes a good group. What I'd like you to do is present Webheads, a bit of history, what it does, how it has evolved and why they should probably think about joining it. Some nice anecdotes, practical experiences or whatever, and a look at the kind of courses you do, the Convergence, etc." Prior to the presentation there was lively interaction at the remote conference Moodle: http://www.britishcouncilinteractive.tv/moodle/c ourse/view.php?id=5 . My presentation was recorded at Learning Times http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtime s?go=1122376 and can be accessed directly here: https://www.elluminate.com/si te/pmtg.jnlp?psid=d2006213181.397826 ; Powerpoint slides here
2005
I organized and coordinated the WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Conference: Bridges across Cyberspace Friday and Saturday, November 18 - 19, 2005 and Convergence wrap-up Sunday November 20 http://www.wiaoc.org/< /a>; Moodle: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view .php?id=20. I was on a panel and gave a stand-alone presentation at this conference; replay here: http://schedule.wiao c.org. The Convergence featured guest speakers Curt Bonk, David Nunan, Dave Sperling, Randall Davis, and Joy Egbert. The conference is free and entirely online from November 18-20. More information here: http://www.vancesteven s.com/papers/evonline2002/convergence2005.htm and the Moodle: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view .php?id=20
Sat April 30 at 07:00 a.m. GMT I was invited to address an audience virtually at the Qatar Teachers English Network Conference (QTEN) conference in Doha, Qatar and was listed in the conference program as appearing Saturday, in room C107 in the Liberal Arts Building in the Qatar Foundation though physically present in Abu Dhabi: Blogging in online communities of practice: Impact on language learning and teacher professional development abstract: "Blogging is an Internet phenomenon with significant impact on both language learning and teacher professional development, It is now possible for students AND teachers to create their own web pages in minutes and, with minimal guidance, extend these to more elaborate web sites. This workshop will guide participants in creating and developing their own blog sites, and illustrate and discuss ways that blogs can be configured to create authentic, interactive, communicative, reflective, creative, and motivating learning environments that engage students and provide a means for teachers to further their ongoing professional development." http://prosites- vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/qten2005/vance stevens2005qten.htm The session was recorded and is here: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes ?go=805285. Incidentally, the slide presentation explaining how to create a blog in Blogger was updated in April 2007 and is available here: http://www.ho mestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/blogger_tutorial.htm
I gave an online 2-part workshop at The Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi UAE Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips Event for the Learner Independence and IT SIGs of TESOL Arabia April 14, 9:00 - 13:00 in Abu Dhabi. The presentation is at: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia/tttt2005/bloggi ng_now.htm or http://tinyurl.com/3jc 5o. The workshop was in two 1 hour blocks starting around 05:00 GMT . The two parts were on starting blogs, and the second hour got into what to do with them (e.g. how to use them as portals to learning communities such as that at http://webpres2 005.buzznet.com . (More info about the past TTTT events can be found at htt p://ilearn.20m.com/pasteventsb.html#tttt)
At the TESOL 2005: The 39th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition March 30-April 2, 2005 San Antonio, Texas, USA - http://www.tesol.org. Online participants were encouraged to participate in these events at http://www.tappedin.or g, http://www.alado. com/webheads, http://www.tinyurl. com/y3eh, and at Yahoo Messenger for web cams of multiple participants.
- Wed evening March 30 there was a webheads party event on-site in San Antonio at the The Houston Street Bistro organized by ElderBob Brannon and open virtually via wi-fi from 1800 San Antonio time (midnight GMT Thu).
For more information including where to post on other blogs: http://elderboblog.typepad.com/fiesta/2005/03 /post.html
http://elderboblog.typepad.com/fie sta/2005/03/on_march_30_i_w.html
h ttp://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/chat2005/chat2005.htm#elderparty
- Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Internet Fair: IEP, Higher Ed, Adult Ed 8:30-9:30 am (14:30-15:30 GMT); from the website at: http://darkwi ng.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2005/internetfair/05IFwed.html< /a> Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Chris Jones, Aiden Yeh, Maria Jordano, Vance Stevens, Dafne Gonzalez [presented] CALL IS's Electronic Village Online TESOL's CALL Interest Section. Each year the Electronic Village Online (EVO) offers the opportunity to participate in a professional development project and virtual extension of the annual convention. This presentation derived from the 14 sessions offered online in 2005. For six weeks, participants and ESOL experts from around the world engage in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. Based on a wide and varied range of topics--community support for ITAs, blogs and blogging, content based curricula, video online, lessons written with a word processor, Moodle construction, etc. --sessions bring together participants beyond the four-day convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible. The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. http://www.geocities.com/ehansonsmi/evo2005/ evo2005.html
- I was invited to present a talk entitled "The future is now: How CMC tools for professional development enhance learning environments for students" htt p://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2005/gvs_pres.htm at the CALL-IS Academic Session Thursday, March 31 8:30-11:15 (14:30-17:15 GMT) on Future Visions of CALL with Deborah Healey, Karen Price, and Jim Duber. Session abstract: "What is the future of CALL? Presenters will introduce you to the latest in state-of-the-art technology while demonstrating both commercial and freeware solutions. Future directions will be discussed." I created a website for the event at: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2005/call-is.htm. The session was webcast.and the recording is available at: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes ?go=774660. The session and my presentation begins at counter 4:27:45 on the recording. The event is listed under academic sessions for the 2005 conference on TESOL's website. More info: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/chat2005/chat2005.htm#050331call- is-academic
- I presented at the 2005 Classics Internet Fair, Thursday March 30, 2-3:30 in San Antonio, 20:00 to 21:30 GMT. URL for the event should be linked from http://www.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2005/ but wasn't last time I looked.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 17:00:00 GMT: I was invited to give a voice- enabled virtual presentation for the Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture Series, an entirely free, online presentation series in which experts in the field of higher education give hour- long interactive presentations, live over the internet via the Horizon Wimba OpenCampus virtual classroom. The bi-line on the session from the HWDLS website was: "Building Community Among Educators: Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online since 1998. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web-based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues." The text and graphics of the talk are here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/horizonlive/2005mar15vance.h tm. As of March 16 the talk is still listed as an upcoming one: http://www.horizonwimba.com/community/upcoming.php , but a recording should soon appear in the archives here: http://www.horizonwimba.com/community/archived.php ; or here: http://lecture.hori zonwimba.com/launcher.cgi? channel=stevens_2005_0315_1202_45
Friday Feb 25, 2005 15:00 to 16:00 GMT: At the Knowtips Conference http://knowtips.ca I was part of an online panel presentation entitled: Webheads – Intuitive chaos management in online collaborative interaction http://wiaknowt ips.buzznet.com/. Presentation description: "Webheads in Action With Susanne Nyrop, Vance Stevens, Dafne Gonzalez, Sergei Gridushko. Webheads in Action (WiA) is a robust community of educators worldwide. Active WIA participants bring evidence of strong bonds of online collegiality and loyalty, while questioning and reflecting critically upon our experiments, tinkering with free communication tools and environments. During the Knowtips conference, we'll engage in storytelling and discussion about such shared experiences. Join our narrative inquiry on how to help each other, moving from novice to practitioner to domain experts by inclusive participation, peer scaffolding and inspiration." My part of the presentation is entitled: The intuitive chaos manager as cat herder: Helping others to have F.U.N. navigating simplexity while developing cohesion in communities of practice online and the presentation itself can be found here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/horizonlive/2005feb25whjam.h tm or via its link in the presentation blog http://wiaknowtips.buzznet.com/user/? id=983482
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 14:00-15:00 GMT, at Learning Times http://www.tinyurl. com/3yeh: Teresa Almeda d'Eca and Vance Stevens gave a joint session as guest speakers in the TESOL sponsored EVOnline 2005 course entitled, The Use of Blogs in ESL/EFL http: //groups.yahoo.com/group/weblogging/. The topic was: Blogging Beyond Text and is now listed as "Jam session: Adding Sounds and Photos" http:/ /www.beewebhead.net/Evo05/week.htm. My presentation is here: http://webpres2005.buzznet.com/user/? id=871727. It explains how the links are achieved in your blogs, through postings and comments to each other's postings.
2004
Thursday, Dec 16, 2004 - At an event sponsored by the TESOL Arabia - Teacher Education SIG, held at the British Council, Abu Dhabi, 9:30 to 12:30 (05:30 to 08:30 GMT), Vance Stevens gave a workshop Communities of Practice for Ongoing Online Teacher Professional Development for Teacher Educators and K-16 teachers interested in collaborative networking in Teacher Education. Handout: http://sites. hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/evo 2005/webpresence.htm and abstract:
Students and teachers are increasingly meeting online to explore ways of using the latest free communications technologies that promote language learning and teacher training. These technologies include synchronous text, voice, and web cam -enabled chat services that are educational in nature as well as asynchronous tools such as blogs, groupware, and open source applications like Moodle. Accordingly it is becoming important for teachers to establish a Web presence in order to participate in robust online communities which often influence how these teachers interact with their students. The presenter will show numerous ways that an online presence can be maintained using free online tools, and give examples of how these tools are used to achieve pedagogical goals.
Thursday, November 3, 2004 at 11:00 - 12:20 GMT, Dafne Gonzales, Susanne Nyrop, and I were asked to give the lead presentation online, entitled "Intro To Asynchronous Communication Tools", during the Belarusian Association of Teachers of English (BelNATE) and Minsk State Linguistics University 6th International BelNATE-IATEFL Conference 'Teaching English as a World Language in the Information Age' (November 3 - 5, 2004). The aim of the on-line workshop was to bring together EFL teachers and specialists in an online session to demonstrate a number of synch/asynch tools available on the web.
URLs for the conference are:
Our Abstract: Why educators would want to get themselves online (and once that is established, then how?). This will be an overview of the tools available on the web, with references to further information to get participants started with any or all of them.
We intend to demonstrate to participants how they can establish their online presence and be empowered to upload photos they can link to, create simple web pages, etc. Our presentation put these in a perspective of WHY educators would want to put files and web pages online (and once that was established, then HOW?). In other words, this was an overview of the tools available and enough of an explanation with reference to further information to get participants started on any or all of them. A PDF of the PowerPoint slides is here (2.15 Mbytes): http://sites. hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/belnate20 04/belnate041103.pdf
Some of the tools are:
Friday, October 29, 2004 20:30 to 21:30 GMT, I agreed to conduct session 7 on Learning From Others - Learning in a Social Context at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/theenglishwork shop;
Wednesday Aug 25, 12:00 to 14:00 GMT, at a Cyberlangues http://cyberlang ues.online.fr/ atelier (workshop) on blogging - Barbara Dieu made an online presentation on blogs at http://www.alado. net/webheads. I was invited to join this presentation and present (in French) my work on building communities through photoblogs at http://mahdia200 4.buzznet.com and show as an example of blog journalism my travel photoblog at http://vancestev ens.buzznet.com. The text of my presentation appears here: http://sites.hsprofes sional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2004/chat2004.htm#04 0825
July 19 - 31, 2004, I gave a series of workshops in an English Language Specialist Program http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/ Tunisian Summer English Institute for secondary school teachers - "New Information Technologies in ELT - IT Networks in ELT" in Mahdia, Tunisia. The request was to combine lectures and demonstrations with hands-on workshops and activities with a view to giving participants ideas, methods and materials they would be able to put to immediate use in their own classrooms. The course objectives were to introduce concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects in preparatory and secondary schools, digital content, production and exploitation, online tutoring, management and optimization of ICT spaces and networks and ICT quality control.
The courses started with a look at a number of sites which explain the principles of good online tutoring. During the course of these workshops I created a blended learning environment working face to face with the participants to help them explore a set of community building tools for interacting with each other online. The progress of the workshops and the syllabus evolved was recorded at http ://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tunisia2004/mahdia.htm. At the top of these pages, there are links to our YahooGroup, the pictures we took and placed at Ofoto, the blogs created at Blogger and Buzznet, and web sites created using Tripod. The most developed of the two syllabi is here: http://tinyurl.com/47s nq. The workshops were meant to establish:
- that in order to use online tools effectively with students, teachers need to familiarize themselves with the tools in benign collaborative settings (that is, with each other first; not use them without practice with students straight away).
- the importance of encouraging what I call F.U.N. or Frivolous Unanticipated Nonsense ...
- the benefits of taking advantage of the spontaneous and sometimes unexpected or serendipitous aspects of the medium, which sometimes involves a teacher making a paradigm shift in attitudes toward the nature of learning, rather than hold to less flexible teaching styles that might not apply to multiliterate learning.
Participants formulated a set of principles that applied to the group, learned to use various tools for interacting in constructivist learning environments such as the one created in the workshops, and learned just enough HTML to let participants fine tune (really use) some of these tools. It was challenging to make it all fit together and make sense and be effective by the end of the workshop, and also to put in place a mechanism by which activities started at the workshop would continue after the workshop ended on July 31.
Sunday, May 23, 2004 at 12:15 GMT- An M.A. TEFL Conference entitled Developing Teacher Practices for Turkey was held at Bilkent University. The audience and speakers were alumni of the M.A. Bilkent program. reunion at Bilkent University MA TEFL program. The program URL is at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~matefl/. This reunion was celebrated with a conference, where William Grabe, Bill Snyder, Fredricka L. Stoller and Kimberly Trimble were invited speakers. They expected approx. 150 EFL instructors all around Turkey. A joint proposal was accepted: "Sustaining an online community: Webheads experience" for an online presentation with Arif Altun (Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu Turkey) physically present at the Bilkent MA TEFL Reunion Conference (with Vance Stevens connecting online from The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE). The online venue for the presentation will be http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes ?go=27366. Our abstract:
Language learning is an ongoing engagement, which requires learners to experience authentic use of language. Webheads, which is the name of an online community promoting just that, comprises a number of communities of practice of language students and teachers who meet regularly online to explore ways of using the latest free communications technologies that work over the Internet for language learning and teacher training (for more information see, http://www.webheads.info). Webheads use emerging and existing technologies both in their weekly synchronous meetings and in asynchronous messaging within the group. One part of the Webheads mission is to introduce teachers and students to CMC environments despite many of those involved being novice computer users.
This presentation will be a demonstration of the tools used to sustain such online communities of learners and teacher-collaborators. The on-site participants will have the chance to meet the initiator of this group, Vance Stevens, and interact with a remote audience of Webheads, who will tune in live and online for the occasion using the tools being demonstrated to allow us to hear their voices and view their web cams. The participants will also have the opportunity to discuss with the online guests the advantages and disadvantages of using these tools with students and other teachers. Consequently, the opportunities, limitations and strengths of joining an online community will be examined together with Turkish participants.
On Tuesday, May 18, 14:30 - 16:00 GMT (9:30 am - 11:00 am, CST) Vance Stevens (Webhead's Leader, Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Teresa Almeida d'Eça (Lisbon, Portugal) were scheduled to present "Building Online Communities for Professional Development" at the First Tutor/Mentor Leadership e-Conference Overlay to the face-to-face Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference being held at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago on May 17 and 18, 2004.
Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. GMT - Tools used to create online communities of learner- and teacher- collaborators A Demonstration and Workshop by Vance Stevens as a TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi Chapter special event held at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, from 10:00 to noon local time. Helping with the second lab: Phil Cozens
We met starting at 5:00 a.m. GMT in TappedIn, Yahoo Messenger, and the Learning Times Webheads room: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes ?go=273662 . This event kicked off in the theatre where Michael Coghlan, Buthaina Alothman, and I did the Global Learn Day presentation on November 16, 2003. See a copy of the flyer here. Below is a description of the event, and there is more information on the online_events page:
Webheads comprises a number of communities of practice of language students and teachers who meet regularly online to explore ways of using the latest free communications technologies that work over the Internet for language learning and teacher training http://www.webheads.i nfo. These technologies include synchronous text, voice, and web cam -enabled chat services that are educational in nature http://www.homestead. com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/software.htm. The use of these tools is simpler than many people think and Webheads have consistently introduced teachers and students to CMC environments despite all concerned being novice computer users. Webheads have in turn documented their experiences with these tools and used them to work collaboratively on numerous student projects http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun00.h tm. This event was planned in two parts.
First there was a demonstration of the tools used to create online communities of learners and teacher-collaborators http://www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/papers/cairo2004/workshops/demo.htm . The demonstration was in the PI Auditorium and introduced the auditorium audience to a remote audience of Webheads who tuned in live and online for the occasion so that we could use these tools to hear their voices and view some of their web cams.
There was then a regrouping in the language labs at the PI where workshop participants experimented with the tools hands-on to communicate more closely with the online participants. Workshop participants were able to discuss with the online participants the advantages and disadvantages of using these tools with students and other teachers, and compile lists of pros and cons on the whiteboards.
March 30 to April 3, 2004, I was invited to make the following presentations at the 2004 TESOL Conference in Long Beach, California.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 from 17:00- 24:00 GMT or 9 am - 4 pm in Long Beach
Click here for the 'handout'
With colleagues from Webheads I am presenting a PCI or 'pre-convention institute' on Enhancing Online Communities with Voice and Webcams (2xzax) .This is a major 6-hour event where I and five colleagues arrange for participants to experience hands-on use of chat (text only, and voice and web cam enhanced) in safe, educator-friendly online environments. Any and all online participants are welcome to join us. Dafne Gonzales is organizing the online participants and has set up a sign-up page for this event here: http://www.geocities.com/bawebhead/pc i-invitation.html
Objectives, participants will: · become familiar with easily implemented technologies to enable interactions in text-based chat augmented with voice and web cam; · through interaction with peers, extrapolate to pedagogical advantages of using media-enhanced chat with students; · increase awareness, through community-building techniques, of the effects group solidarity can have on individual student output and improvement. For example, using images and voice on a communal web page helps emulate face-to-face community interaction, facilitating natural communication practice for the learner; · working in groups by level, devise chat projects for students that can be implemented on return to work/school.
We presenters will show sample class projects demonstrating a wide range of potential uses of chat for language learning. These case studies will show how much students and teachers enjoy participating in such projects, meeting other students and educators online, and entering an environment that fosters community support and out-of-class language development. Hands-on activities include: · using voice and webcams to chat with online partners worldwide, · creating or joining online communities, · and preparing photos and sound files for upload to shared web spaces.
Buth's photo-record of the event: http://alothm an-b.tripod.com/tesol2004_pci_webheads.htm
Thursday, April 1, 2004 Internet Fair: 16:30 to 17:30 GMT, 8:30-9:30 am in Long Beach
Christine 's handout is here.
The EV Online proposal titled "Professional Development through 2004 EV Online Sessions" is organized by Suzan Moody, Randall Davis, and Malika Lyon. The fair takes place from 8:30-9:30 each morning of the convention (Wednesday-Saturday). I am involved in my role as one of the coordinators for the annual EVOnline events. That aspect of the program is being organized by Christine Bauer-Ramazani, whose handout is at http://ac ademics.smcvt.edu/cbauer- ramazani/TESOL/2004/InternetFair/EV2004.htm.
Friday, April 2, 22:00 to 23:00 GMT, 2:00 - 3:00 pm in Long Beach, in rooms 103 A-C of the Long Beach Convention Center.
Click here for a 'handout'
I was invited to present in an Electronic Village Special Event, The Internet Classics Fair. My presentation will connect conference participants with members of the Webheads community of practice who will join online from locations distant from the conference. As I have done at this conference the previous two years, I will set up a web cam and use this and voice chat software to enable the local and distant participants to communicate and interact with one another. According to the invitation: "This invitation is based on the high quality of the presentation you gave for either the 2002 or 2003 TESOL Internet Fair. This "invitation only" forum will feature the best presentations from the past few years of Internet Fair presentations. It is a means to bring back some of the best, thus providing access to those who may have missed these exceptional examples of Internet use for ESL/EFL instruction."
Presentations at the 9th EFL Conference: "INTEGRATING EFL SKILLS: STRATEGIES FOR THE TEACHER, CREATIVITY AND ASSESSMENT" Wednesday through Friday January 21-23, 2004 - at the Center for Adult & Continuing Education, The American University of Cairo ht tp://www.aucegypt.edu/Conferences/EFLconf/
December 18, 2003, 9:00 to 10:00 GMT - I was a keynote speaker, presenting from a distance, at a conference in Cairo. Title of presentation: Teacher professional development in online communities of practice: How does this impact language learning? The thesis was that only through use of CMC in professional development does its use with students become second nature. The chat was webcast from this chat room: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes ?go=273662.
Sunday November 16, 2003 10:00 to 11:30 GMT Michael Coghlan and I were key presenters for the Global Learn Day VII presentation on "Meet the Webheads: An experiment in world friendship through online language learning." The presentation was cybercast live from the Lecture Hall, Bldg 1, Room 100 at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi. Buthaina Othman flew from Kuwait to Abu Dhabi especially to be on hand to present: http://alothman- b.tripod.com/esl-ef_wia_gld_files/frame.htm. Buthaina took pictures and archived the event at her website: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/wia-buth- gld.htm.
Global Learn Day is an annual event that circumvents the world in a 24 hour broadcast, and involves presenters on various aspects of education and IT and participants meeting in voice chat online from all over the globe. It starts at midnight GMT at the International Dateline in the Pacific and moves for 24 hours or more west around the globe, picking up presenters as it progresses. For more info: http://bfranklin.edu/ gld/; see also the blog at http://www.bfrank lin.edu/blog
Webheads in Action is a community of practice of language teaching/learning practitioners interested in exploring how the interests of language learners can be furthered via community formation online when facilitated through text, voice, and webcam enabled synchronous and asynchronous computer mediated communication - http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonl ine2002/webheads.htm
Oct 25, 2003 I was invited to be Guest Speaker at the The 4th Wen Shan Conference on English Teaching The Department of English National Chengchi University October 25, 2003. I discuss my philosophy of teaching (constructivist, communicative) in the context of how we used to teach in the mid seventies and early 80's, and how we wished we could teach even then, and how computers changed what was possible for language teachers to do, culminating in Creating Environments for Teaching and Learning Languages Online for the Webheads Community of Language Learners and Teachers. Ying Lan Liu, Aiden Yeh, and Venny Su were on hand to help me co- present.
Some Webheads teachers and students participated in the online Teaching in the Community Colleges Conference, April 22, 2003 - Click here for more information - Eighth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference April 22, 2003 from 1000 GMT to April 25, 2003 at 0930 GMT http://tcc.kcc.hawai i.edu ; Writing for Webheads had their presentation Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 16:00 to 16:50 GMT in the Hibiscus chatroom, accessible from http:// chat.kcc.hawaii.edu/run.biapchat: . For more information on the presentation, see http://makahiki.kcc.hawaii .edu/tcc/2003/preconf/presentations/stevens.html; chat log: http://makah iki.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/conference/chatlogs/steven s.04.22.2003.1600.html
Saturday December 14, 2002 8-9 a.m. GMT, at the Education Technology Special Interest Group of EgypTesol Electronic Oasis, at the EgypTesol Conference (December 13- 15 2002), Sheraton Heliopolis http://www.egyptesol. org
Main Presenter: Ismail Fayed, Integrated English Language Program - II, Giza, Egypt
Joint presenter: Vance Stevens, Amideast UAE/MLI Project, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Demonstration, with Internet access: A visit with Webheads online community of practice for language learners and teachers
Abstract: Writing for Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online for over 4 years now. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web-based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues. More recently, the community has formally expanded to embrace language teaching professionals in a community of practice called Webheads in Action. These communities come together online every Sunday for a regular session at noon GMT. On that session, we will try to convene members of the community online to demonstrate 'live' our use of free and easily accessible text, video, and voice enhanced synchronous communications technologies, while showing conference delegates around the Webheads community.
IWebheads in Action members may access the following files from our Yahoo Groups portal:
In the October 2002 Issue 59 of ...ON THE TAPIS which can be read online at http://www.tappedin.org/info/newsletter/oct02.html
[1] Smooth Sailing for TAPPED IN and Global Learn Day VI
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The 24-hour marathon global voyage, which showcased highly innovative activities in education and Internet technology, has docked for another year, but the ripples and waves that this ship generated will linger. Several TAPPED IN members participated in the event, which was "imagineered" by TAPPED IN member John Hibbs. Vance Stevens did a terrific job showcasing the WebHeads, a group of language teachers and learners that meet each Sunday in TAPPED IN. Antonio Diaz, a member of the GLD crew, served as an important bilingual resource as the ship sailed through the South American time zones. Antonio has a bilingual newsletter online at http://www.bilingualnewsletter.com/. Several TAPPED IN members came aboard during the voyage to offer much appreciated support to the TI community presenters and were inspired by the rich diversity of the GLD presentations. Archives of the event can be seen at http://www.bfran klin.edu/gld6/.
Global Learn Day 6, Sunday, October 13, 2002 - http://www.bfran klin.edu/gld6/
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Vance Stevens and Webheads present A visit with Webheads online community of practice for language learners and teachers: http://users.voice- alert.com/gld6/6151.html in the European (UK) part of the program. We have cited the following links as being related to our presentation / work:
- http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonl ine2002/webheads.htm
- http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstev ens/files/efi/webheads.htm
- http://www. vancestevens.com/papers/
For some insights into this event ...
e-Merging e-Learning Conference at Higher Colleges of Technology Men's College, Abu Dhabi, UAE, http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/admc internet/eeconference/ee2002/Program.asp
A visit with Webheads online community of practice for language learners and teachers, noon GMT, Sunday September 8, 2002. Abstract: Writing for Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online for almost 4 years now. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web-based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues. More recently, the community has formally expanded to embrace language teaching professionals in a community of practice called Webheads in Action. These communities come together online every Sunday for a regular session held at about the time of this demonstration. Therefore we have an opportunity at this session to convene members of the community online to demonstrate 'live' our use of free and easily accessible text, video, and voice enhanced synchronous communications technologies, while showing conference delegates around the Webheads community.
A transcript with video images of our presentation is here: http://sites.hsprofessional .com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2002/wfw020908.htm
Net Working 2002, http://f lexiblelearning.net.au/nw2002/, an online conference held 19-30 August, 2002
What's all the fuss about? An online presentation by Vance Stevens to be given as part of Michael Coghlan's session, Cross Cultural Communication 0nline - perspectives from around the globe - presented by the Webheads Community, http://users.chariot.net.au/~ michaelc/ccc/pres.htm, Wednesday, August 21, GMT 12.30 pm. A follow-on session was held Thursday, August 22, GMT 12.30 am.
Logs and other relevant URLs for the Webheads presentation on Cross Cultural Communication are:
At: TESOL 2002: Language and the Human Spirit - http://www.tesol.org/ April 9-13, 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah
- 14:30 GMT to 17:15 GMT; 8:30 to 11:15 in Salt Lake City, Wednesday April 10, 2002, I was an invited panelist on the CALL-IS Academic Session, event number #1952 entitled "Theory Meets Practice in CALL" - Presenters: Joy Egbert, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Deborah Healey, Vance Stevens, Thomas Robb, Lynn Hendrickson. This event was successfully webcast: look here for details. My presentation for this session, The Changing Face to Face of CALL, is here.
- Friday, April 12, 20:30-21:30 GMT; 2:30 - 3:30 pm in Salt Lake City - Vance Stevens presents Writing for Webheads and Webheads in Action: Community Formation Online and its Role in Language Learning at a second "special Internet fair session for Classic ("tried and true, reliable, amazing, memorable, etc.") previous Internet Fair presentations. The Classic IF schedule is here: http://darkwing.uore gon.edu/~call/ev2002/ifclassic2002.html
CALICO 2002 Annual Symposium: Creating Virtual Language Learning Communities - http://calico.org/CA LICO02 March 26 - March 30, 2002, University of California, Davis.
- "Webheads: online community building since 1998" was demonstrated with live and online participants throughout the community on Saturday, March 30th, at 19:00 GMT (11:00 a.m PST).
Proposal Abstract: Writing for Webheads is an ongoing 'experiment in world friendship through online language learning' whose participants have been meeting weekly online for almost three years now. During that time, Webheads have experimented with numerous synchronous and web -based multimedia communications formats, and presented at several live and online conference venues. We will demonstrate our use of the latest synchronous communications technologies, including video and voice, while showing delegates around the Webheads community. The presenter will present from a remote location and convene members of the community entirely online for the demonstration. - In fact, I was able to travel to the conference and present in person, but several other Webheads attended at a distance to demonstrate the concept suggested in the proposal. (The 'handout' for this presentation is here: http://www.vancestevens. com/papers/tesolarabia2002/calico2002.htm)
TESOL Arabia 8th Annual International Conference: "Critical Reflection and Practice" - March 20-22, 2002, Hilton Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It
- I presented a demonstration at the Technology Fair entitled "Webheads in Action: Community development online", scheduled Thursday, March 21, at 06:00 GMT (10:00 in Abu Dhabi) I will have 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.
The ELT online conference (ELToc) - http://www.eltoc.com& lt; br />November 10 & 11 2001, NetLearn Solutions
Further information about the Webheads ELToc session:
The Webheads Community of Language Learners Online, a demonstration by Vance Stevens and Arif Altun, Wednesday Nov 7, 12:00 GMT, at The Teacher to Teacher 2001 conference, November 7 & 8 2001, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Vance gave a plenary address entitled Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind at a conference in Cyprus May 5th and 6th, 2001, http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/cyprus2001/. Michael read a paper at the conference in Cyprus from his home in Adelaide, and Webheads were of course present at both events.
March 14, 2001 - Webheads figured prominently in Vance’s presentation on online chat tools at the 2001 TESOL Arabia Conference in Dubai, http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/arabia2 001/ . At the conference, Moral and Michael appeared in our Excite voice chat room. Moral said a few words to a rapt audience, followed by Michael’s explanation of the Webheads concept and how we had become good friends and productive colleagues without having actually met for three years. John Steele meanwhile was holding down the fort in Homestead and Tapped In.
Webheads featured at an Australian online conference called Networking 2000 held between November 1 and 14: http://f lexiblelearning.net.au/nw2000/
At the ESADE and IATEFL Computer SIG joint event "CALL for the 21st Century" June 30th - July 2nd, 2000, Barcelona, Spain Community Building Tools for Online Language Learning A presentation by Vance Stevens and the logs of the chats during the session linked from http://members.tripod.com/vstevens/efi/ch000702.h tm.
The presentation started with Ying Lan giving the opening presentation via HearMe of who she was and who webheads is and what its importance is. Then Michael and Maggi came on and took it from there. Moral was in the Palace and had a long convers ation with Antje, a delegate at the conference. This was displayed at the front of the room, though unfortunately, the palace had been cloned and not installed separately at each station, so no others from the conference could join us there virtually. But Moral did a great job carrying that part of our conference, and all in Barcelona was watching from their seats at their own computers. Meanwhile, Maggie in China was at the Homeste ad chat having conversations with whoever dropped by there. And at the very end, just as we were wrapping up, Sorsah came along.
In sum, another great presentation by Webheads at another successful conference. I was particularly impressed with the contribution of our two online students, Moral and Ying Lan, who gave what amounted to an eloquent presentation of their Writing for Webheads class and the work they've been doing in it for the past couple of years. You can read what they said at: http://www.homestead.com/vstevens/files/efi/ ch00070p.htm
Webheads presented at the CTELT 2000 Alternate Assessment 4th Annual Conference "Current Trends in English Language Testing" May 10-11, 2000 Zayed University - Dubai Campus (UAE) Community Building Tools for Online Language Learning A presentation by Vance Stevens
· The logs of the text chat from the conference is at http://lightning.pr ohosting.com/~vstevens/ctelt2000/ch000511.htm
· The conference website is at http://dbm.hct.ac.ae/sponsors/ctelt2000/info.html
· The conference is sponsored by the TESOL Arabia's Testing and Teacher Education SIG (Special Interest Group): http://taesig.8m.com/ ;
· Anyone wishing to join our presentation online can do so by joining us in voice chat at http://www.chariot.net.au/~mich aelc/hearme.htm, text chat at http://www.h omestead.com/vstevens/ , or in The Palace, efi.virtualscholar.com on port 9998 between 10:30 and 12:15 GMT, May 11, 2000.
· See http://members.tripod.com/vstevens/efi/software.h tm or http://www.homestead.com/vstevens/files/efi/ software.htm (mirror) for further instructions.
· Vance’s presentation handout is at http://w ww.netword.com/vance@ctelt2000
Webheads presented in Abu Dhabi on May 3, 2000, at the Military Language Institute’s Teacher to Teacher Conference 2000 “Tools of the Trade” held May 3- 4,2000 at Al-Nahyan Base, Abu Dhabi, UAE. http://t2t2000.cjb.net/ . The handout for the presentation is at http://www .netword.com/vance@t2t2000. Webheads present were Maggie and Moral at the Palace, and Maggie and Nicia in the voice chat. Maggie was also at the Homestead Chat. Teacher Webheads included Shabana from Dubai, Claudia from Austria, Jason at ESADE in Spain, and Chi -Chin in Illinois, all at the voice chat site.
Michael Coghlan and Vance Stevens presented at the Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April 12-14, 2000 - Michael’s report is cited as:
Coghlan, M. and Stevens, V. 2000. An Online Learning Community -- The Students' Perspective. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April 12-14, 2000. Retrieved May 6, 2005 from http://www.chariot.net.au/~mic haelc/TCC2000.htm (presenter website). More information can be found at http://sites.hsprofessional.com /vstevens/files/efi/reports.htm#000412
At this presentation, besides Michael and Maggi and Vance, there were also Gloria, Ying Lan, MaggiE, and Dave Kees, or dk on the lists, from Guangdong. DK had become interested in our class through his interactions with Vance on TESLCA-L, where he had learned that one of our students, Maggie, was from Guangdong as well. A log of the presentation was also made (see below)
· The log of our chat was retrieved May 6, 2005 from: http:// www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/tcc2klog.htm
· Post conference threaded discussion was retrieved May 6, 2005 from: http:// www.homestead.com/prosites- vstevens/files/efi/tcc2k_tl.htm
· Conference archives retrieved May 6, 2005 from: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/previousconferences.html
These logs were also here May 6, 2005 but the links from these pages are no longer valid:
· http://members.tripod.com/vstevens/efi/tcc2klog.h tm
· Ensuing discussion: http://members.tripod.com/vstevens/efi/tcc2k_tl.h tm
The annual TESOL Conference in Vancouver, March 2000 - Vance presented at several sessions on topics related to Webheads. Most were discussion sessions and cameo appearances at other people’s presentations, but one was a presentation on the community building aspects of the class, and there was also a live and online demonstration as part of an invited presenters session. Michael, Maggi, Ying Lan, and Moral performed online before an audience of around 100. The handouts and reports can be found at http://lightning.prohosting.com/~vstevens/papers/te sol2000/T2000online_files/frame.htm (start at Slide 5)
Presentation on Writing for Webheads at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, March 2000 – WFW was the subject of a demonstration held live and online in Abu Dhabi. After cameo appearances at web fairs mentioned below, this was the first time the Webheads appeared at a conference presentation live and online as a session in their own right. Michael appeared at the Palace and in the voice chat along with Ming. The handouts and writeup are at http:/ /www.netword.com/vance@tesol2000zu .(this link discovered not working April 22, 2005 and I have written the host for an explanation)
This site was featured at the Fourth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April 7 - 9, 1999. Click here for a revised version of the paper, Writing for Webheads: An Online writing Course Utilizing Synchronous Chat and Student Web Pages. The log of the presentation (given on WebChat) is at http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/ tcon99/chatlog/Stevens_V_040899.html If this link dies, try this one.
This site featured at the New York TESOL '99 Web Faire, March 10, 1999, CALL-IS Electronic Village, at http://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/TESOL99 /presenters.html. Maggi and Michael both appeared at the Palace and chatted with passers- by. Student reactions:
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