On Feb 20, 2009 I gave a talk entitled "After a decade of inroads, SUCCESS in modeling blended learning in theory AND practice at F2F and online conferences" at AACE's Spaces of Interaction: An online conversation on improving traditional conferences. http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/ - Speaker schedule: http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/speakers/ - George Siemens's 4 min. introduction to the event: http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/intro/player.html - Ning http://aacecommunity.ning.com/ for conversation and brainstorming before, during, and after the presentations.

My abstract: I have been a long-time advocate and agitator for broadcasting online both into and out of on-site professional development events and conferences. In this talk I describe inroads made during the past decade from 1999 to the present in making conferences accessible to many more than just their physically present delegates. Having debunked the myth that if conferences were open to online access on-site attendance would drop off, a case is made for the opposite scenario: that broadening channels for conversation at conference venues is a win-win situation in which everyone benefits, and conferences where these channels are blocked are the dinosaurs doomed to extinction.

* You can follow the draft as it develops at http://tinyurl.com/aace-vance
* The slides are posted at http://www.slideshare.net/vances/success-in-modeling-blended-learning-in-theory-and-practice-at-f2f-and-online-conferences
* The presentation was recorded and is available here: http://aace.na4.acrobat.com/p92907860/

February 23, 2009 - I was invited to be a guest on It's Elementary Show #31 streamed live on the EdTechTalk Channel of the Worldbridges network with Lisa Durff, Jose Rodriguez, and Alice Mercer. For this program about Self Directed Learning and Online Professional Development, I joined guests Dennis Newson and Nick Noakes from EVO2009 Virtual Worlds and Language Learning. Links:

* http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/3645
* http://ourwebcast.wikispaces.com/February+23?responseToken=6efe05665fd17fe386248159f1d2a4c4

On February 19, 2009 we recorded a conversation between Vance Stevens, one of the moderators of the EVO 2009 < http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/ > session Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments < http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/ >, and three co-moderators of the Enhancing Lessons with Web 2.0 session: Robert Squires, Rita Zeinstejer, and Mary DiMonaco < http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/Enhancing_Lessons >.

These participants convened in order to brainstorm on how to maintain appropriate Communities of Practice for continuing interaction within their respective communities beyond EVO. The conversation took place in the Webheads Elluminate presentation room, generously provided by Learning Times, http://www.learningtimes.org/.

The session was recorded and can be played back here: http://tinyurl.com/090219-1800

During the course of the discussion, Vance took the opportunity to preview his slides for his presentation the following day, http://tinyurl.com/aace09vance

On February 12, 2009 EVO 2009 Multiliteracies participants had an informal conversation with Robin Good http://www.masternewmedia.org/about.htm on the paradox of 2.0, an EDUPUNK perspective on:

1. What is learning?
2. What should we really learn? (12 things to teach our kids)
3. How do we make it possible? (new environments, modeling, new learning paradigms, resources & people needed)

The event was recorded in Elluminate and is available for replay at: http://tinyurl.com/090212robingood

Apologies for taking so long adding information here, but Podomatic has been unreachable from UAE for the past several days. The problem has now apparently been resolved.

The idea for this conversation was conceived by Amy Meckleborg who, reflecting on how she was learning via a personal or distributed learning network through the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies session http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/, got to thinking it would be nice if she could introduce an upcoming class to 21st century learning modalities by finding an online presenter on the topic of mobile learning. She sent a message to the Yahoo Group to that effect and the rest is history.

Vance wrote the Webheads list and suggestions came pouring in. Vance thought of Sue Waters http://aquaculturepda.podomatic.com/ and Barbara Dieu helped us contact Alex Hayes http://www.slideshare.net/alexanderhayes/28082007-alexander-hayes. Both were exceedingly generous in their offers of support, but both were also in Australia, and Amy wanted her presenter to meet a class that met during their wee hours.

Meanwhile the Webheads list made suggestions and Mark Kramer http://mamk.research-update.info/ was not only nominated but seconded. Mark turned out to be equally generous in agreeing to meet Amy's class and the experience benefitted everybody.

The conversation was recorded in Elluminate and is available for replay at: http://tinyurl.com/090210kramer. Amy has created a stand-alone recording of the session and placed it here: http://tinyurl.com/bphneq (14.6 MB). She also rendered the Elluminate recording into mp3 and sent it to Vance, who is providing it to all subscribers via this podcast.

On February 10, 2009 EVO 2009 Multiliteracies participants had an informal conversation with Kip Yellowjacket http://www.esl-secondlife.blogspot.com/, Jennifer Verschoor and Nelba Quintana about Second Life in the Webheads Elluminate presentation room graciously provided by http://www.learningtimes.org/)

The session was recorded and is available via Elluminate here: http://tinyurl.com/090210kip

The slide show is here: http://www.slideshare.net/nelbaq/second-life-for-educators-1015995

On February 9, 2009 EVO 2009 Multiliteracies participants had an informal conversation with Cristina Costa to discuss http://www.knowmansland.com/ and http://www.slideshare.net/cristinacost/blogging-microblogginga-nd-podcasting-presentation

The conversation was held in Elluminate, graciously provided by http://www.learningtimes.org/)

This event was recorded: http://tinyurl.com/090209cristina

On Feb 5, 2009, the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies participants had an informal discussion with Stuart Selber, author of Multiliteracies for a Digital Age, in Elluminate (graciously provided by http://www.learningtimes.org/). The session was recorded and is available for viewing via Elluminate here: http://tinyurl.com/090205selber. There's more information about this lecture series here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/Events_Schedule.

There's more information about the book here:

• http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/titles/s04_titles/selber_digital.htm
• http://www.amazon.com/Multiliteracies-Digital-Studies-Writing-Rhetoric/dp/0809325519

And from previous renditions of Vance's Multiliteracies course:

• http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle5.htm
• http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle6.htm
• http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle7.htm

Stuart's picture is from http://ist.psu.edu/media/images/library/selber_s.jpg

On Feb 3, 2009, the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies participants had an informal discussion with Maggie Tsai, co-founder of http://www.diigo.com/ donated some of her time to show us how to use Diigo effectively, in Elluminate (graciously provided by http://www.learningtimes.org/) The session was recorded and is available for viewing via Elluminate here: http://tinyurl.com/090203maggietsai. There's more information about this lecture series here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/Events_Schedule

Maggie has also spoken on the Ed Tech Talk channel of Worldbridges, on at least the following shows:

• Making Connections #7 - 5/22/07:http://edtechtalk.com/node/1642
• Making Connecctions #16 - August, 2007:http://edtechtalk.com/node/2231
• Making Connections #28, February, 2008:http://edtechtalk.com/node/2899

Maggie's picture here was taken from Miguel Guhlin's photostream at http://flickr.com/photos/mguhlin/2626293177/

This episode records an informal conversation with Graham Stanley talking with the Multiliteracies EVO Session on Feb 1, 2009. We discussed Language Learning & Web 2.0 Technologies for our 21st Century Language Learners: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Emerging Technologies, based in part on Graham's video essay: http://www.pod-efl.com/video/Web%202.0%20&%20Language%20Learning.mov

The event was recorded and can be played back at http://tinyurl.com/090201stanley

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Curt Bonk (Indiana University) met with us in Elluminate to talk with us about a number of papers, particularly about Wikibookians. The papers are referenced here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/CurtBonk.

We struggled to get Curt's ppt slides uploaded to Elluminate while Curt soldiered on 45 minutes into his presentation without them. We eventually got them there and Curt kindly and patiently guided us (briefly) back through all 52. Fascinating insights into the world of Wikibookians,
recording online at http://tinyurl.com/090128curtbonk

Conversation with Doris Molero to discuss how she uses blogs and other web 2.0 tools to help her students get multiliterate, in Elluminate. Doris had connection problems midway through the session but Writingmatrix compatriots Nelba Quintana and Vance Stevens were on hand to complete the presentation and save the recording, here: http://tinyurl.com/090123doris

You can read more about our writingmatrix project here:

• http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/
• Writingmatrix: Connecting Students with Blogs, Tags, and Social Networking
• http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/Doris

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This is the mp3 version of an informal conversation with Gladys Baya to discuss Pageflakes, in Elluminate, recorded at
http://tinyurl.com/090122baya You can also view the slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/gladysbaya/pageflakes4-educators-presentation

Gladys's pageflakes is: http://www.pageflakes.com/gladysbaya

Informal conversation with Vance Stevens in Elluminate (graciously provided by http://www.learningtimes.org/) to discuss developments since Revisiting Multiliteracies in Collaborative Learning Environments: Impact on Teacher Professional Development (TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 2: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej38/int.html The session was recorded: http://tinyurl.com/090118vance

George Siemens was kind enough to speak with our Multiliteracies group on January 19, 2009 about (what do you think?) connectivism; talking on different ways in which learning can be described as networked, and the importance of looking past external connections to focus on conceptual connections as a measure of depth of understanding. Vance's notes on the occasion are here:
http://vancestevens.tumblr.com/post/71536391/connectivism-learning-theory-or-pastime-of-the and the live session was recorded in Elluminate (with slides and concurrent text chat): http://tinyurl.com/090119siemens. Amy Meckelborg is using Elluminate software to convert the Elluminate recordings to the mp3 files that are being podcast in this set of resources for Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments, a 2009 EVO session: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/

The picture is from http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/2691825948/

These are some notes on a session I moderated with Kim Cofino, author of the very cogent blog post Making the Shift Happen (Always Learning, Feb 24, 2008): http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen/. The occasion was a live meeting in Elluminate (donated by Learning Times) as part of the Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments course http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/ being held Jan 12 to Feb 22, 2009 as part of the 2009 EVO (Electronic Village Online) sessions. Kim’s event took place on January 18, 2009 http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/Events_Schedule.

The session was recorded: http://tinyurl.com/090108cofino
and is being podcast here.

The session addressed how it was that Kim has been able to make that shift happen. In making her points she showed us two links:

In essence there is a particular mix in effect at the International School of Bangkok. First, the administrators there have hired practitiones of the foresight and calibre of the likes of Kim Cofino and Jeff Utecht. Kim explained how she had started implementing changes where she was. First she got the teachers talking about what changes were desireable and defining the outcomes they would like to see. They came up with these documents which give 3 requirements for 21st century multiliteracies:

* http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2007/10/04/essential-understandings-for-21st-century-literacy/
* http://isb21.wikispaces.com/

The requirements are to develop:

1. Effective Learnings
2. Effective Collaborator
3. Effective Communicators and Creators of content online

In order to implement these changes Kim worked closely and hands on with the most interested teachers. She actually goes to the classrooms and helps the teachers in the class, modeling the behaviors needed both on the job and in her reflective blogging later. She gets the teachers working in teams. Their students use Skype, wikis, Voicethread, and similar tools to connect with experts and other learners. She also brings the learning into other ‘places’. When I saw her in Bangkok she had just started her Wired Wednesdays, at which our FLNW group made presentations to a dozen interested instructors and administrators at ISB. I made two blog postings at the time (the first of which seems to be wanting a password to play the Ustream now … that’s new!)

* http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/01/future-of-learning-in-networked-world.html
* http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/01/future-of-learning-in-networked-world_23.html

Another success that Kim has had has been to have groups at her house for Social Saturdays. She Twittered a recent one where she had people over to take part in the K-12 online conference, where she played the recordings and encouraged folks to watch, listen, think, and reflect over pleasant food and beverages.

It was great talking with Kim, an interview well worth listening to and replaying

Vance chats with Minhaaj Rehman, Nellie Deutsche, Bee (Barbara Dieu), Doris Molero, and Doug Symington 'bout this crazy little thing called Webheads. The occasion is a broadcast of FOC08 (Facilitating Online Communities). Nellie made a screencast recording with uTIPu and posted it here: http://blip.tv/file/1448382

Note: I edited the podcast recording to cut out the pauses &etc. you hear on the Blip TV recording, which is the uncut version.

This presentation was given on Aug 6, 2008 at the WorldCALL conference in Fukuoka, Japan. The presenter was Vance Stevens supported by Nelba Quintana physically present in Fukuoka plus two other Writingmatrix teachers Sasa Sirk and Rita Zeinstejer joining online from the remote audience. The slides are at http://slideshare.net/vances and the original Elluminate recording is available here: http://tinyurl.com/5bdpvh. There are more details about the presentation at http://vancestevens.com/papers/index.html#080806

Vance Stevens was invited to present online at the EuroCALL conference http://www.eurocall2007.com/ on 8 September in Coleraine, Northern Ireland (10:15-11:00-- GMT) as a featured online presenter in the Virtual Strand which included streamed presentations from the conference, and conference blog and chat spaces, in addition to a limited number of invited, interactive, online presentations lasting approximately 40 minutes: http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/eurocall/conference_format/virtual-strand/index.html. The Google Group homepage http://vsportal2007.googlepages.com/home. points to the Virtual Strand link to the presentation.

Vance's paper entitled Mastering competencies for collaboration and aggregation in distributed learning networks is linked from http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13493912. Participants were expected to read the text in advance (ha ha), so that during the presentation itself, Vance would join delegates in a chat room on a Blobber-enabled web-page for discussion and questions. Blobber doesn't work well, so Vance steered participants to a Skypecast at the time he would be at the Blobber thingy, hence the need for the stream. Participants included Jose Rodrigues mentoring on the stream, Lisa Durff backup streamer, Moira Hunter, and Michael Shade, Penny from Australia, and others in the chat room. Thanks all, recording finally edited and posted here June 2008; for more information http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1325 - Vance

Paul Allison is the prolific blogger and technophiliac educator and host of Teachers Teaching Teachers, a weekly fixture on the Worldbridges EdTechTalk channel. On Dec 5, 2007 Paul interviewed me via Skype and caused us both to reflect on whether the Internet has reached the stage where it can be used as-is with students of all ages, or will we need much longer the protection of walled gardens. At least that was Paul's take. You can listen and form your own opinion, and find where Paul podcast an edited version of this original recording at http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=145.

At the end of the http://glocall.org conference in Hanoi, fellow Webhead Don Hinkleman stopped me or a brief interview on Webheads and on the subject of the talks I had given there: on the role of syndication, aggregation, and mashup in language learning materials on the Internet, and on starting CALL from scratch in under-resourced countries such as Vietnam.

This is the 3rd of 4 webcasts scheduled for September-October 2007 in conjunction with Vance's class on Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments, part of the TESOL Certificate Program:
Principles and Practices of Online Teaching:
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/portal2007.htm

This webcast was streamed on the Worldbridges Network as part of the Webcastacademy, http://www.webcastacademy.net

The audio was edited to get it down to around 20 megabytes

This is a recording of a talk given on January 21, 2007 to a meeting of Senaco company sales staff and representatives from Finland. They had been on my website http://www.vancestevens.com and they asked me to talk to them on technology in language teaching. I spoke of the transition in Internet use from read-only to read-write Web and concluded by asking how they might deal with the impact of open source and free software on their business model. Unfortunately I was not able to record the ensuing conversation (mic didn't pic it up).

Hi everyone, just to get us started, when shall we have our conference in May? Leave a comment and I'll see it via RSS feed.

For more information, or to volunteer to help, visit http://wiaoc.org

Vance

Thanks to all who replied to this post. Apart from helping us to set the dates for May 18-20, 2007 we also settled on a theme: CONNECT - Conversations on Networking, Ecucation, Communities, and Technology. Well done, Webheads. Use the above link to keep up with planning.

These are Vance Stevens's recorded remarks contributed to Global Learn Day Ten October 8, 2006.

The text of these remarks can be found at: "http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2006antwerp/gld10_vance.htm">http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2006antwerp/gld10_vance.htm

On September 21, 2006 Sheila Vine and Valentina Dodge interviewed me (Vance) for half an hour or so regarding my moderation style with Webheads. I was happy to learn they classified Webheads as a community of practice they considered "successful" and the interview touched on what factors contributed to that; i.e. Webheads community members sustaining their community and goodwill toward one another in countless collaborations since 1998 including over 400 weekly online social meetings throughout that time.

The topic of the chapter in the book that authors Sheila and Valentina are preparing pertains to impact of gender on moderation. Most of the interview was about moderation in general but there were questions relating the topic. I tried to skirt the issue but I might have been trapped once or twice (but I think I got away with it

Anyway, I'm sure there are gender impacts but this is the realm of psychology and not really my field of expertise. Also I hope I successfully managed to avoid stereotyping. Overall I think that if there are gender influences that these are positive ones. In bringing up children for example, men and women might approach the task quite differently, but if women tend to be more emotional and men more rationale, I'm sure you can find where the opposite is true in particular cases.

Whatever the reasons, I like webheads just the way it is ...

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