Vance's GeekSpeek

Learner-centered do-it-yourself learning management systems: Practical aspects

Vance Stevens — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:27:24 GMT

Vance Stevens intended to record this presentation live at the 6th eLearning in Action conference held at the Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE. However there was a firewall or connectivity problem and my mic would not connect with the Elluminate server, so I gave the presentation "unplugged" and then went home and delivered it properly "plugged" with Audacity as the audience. http://diylms.posterous.com gives more details: - Direct link to this presentation posting: http://diylms.posterous.com/learner-centered-do-it-yourself-learning-mana - Conference URL: http://194.170.54.16/events/edtechpd2012/index.asp - Proceeds: http://shct.hct.ac.ae/events/edtechpd2012/articles/index.asp - This paper in the proceeds: http://shct.hct.ac.ae/events/edtechpd2012/articles/DIYLMS.pdf - Full version of the paper as an article in TESL-EJ, March 2012 Stevens, Vance. (2012). Learner-centered Do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems. TESL-EJ, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej60/int.pdf. Also at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej60/ej60int/ and the slides, which are referred to in the recording: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learnercentered-doityourself-learning-management-systems-practical-aspects Finally the tinyURL of this posting (and recording): elearn2012vance

Virtual Panel Discussion: "Those who cannot remember the past..."

Vance Stevens — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:42:01 GMT

November 13, 2009 at 18:00 GMT I was invited to join Graham Davies, Ton Koenraad, and Duane Sider (from Rosetta Stone) in a panel discussion at Lancelot Schools's Virtual Round Table Conference, hosted by Heike Philp: http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/events/virtual-round-table-conference My session was here: http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/events/virtual-panel-discussion-those The write-up is here: http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/page/conference-programme-13 Here is the recording: http://proj.emea.acrobat.com/p63251182/

Learner-centred do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems: live presentation at IATEFL ITSIG conference in Marrakech

Vance Stevens — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:12:45 GMT

I have been teaching research writing to NNS with NYIT on the ADMC campus as well as Academic Composition at HCT/CERT Naval College. Both contexts have required me to develop or adapt viable courses quickly, effectively gauge learner response and interest, and adjust materials on-the-fly to better meet learner needs. Flexibility, creativity, and organization beneficial to both instructor and student are achieved using DIYLMS (do it yourself LMS). Components include a wiki portal for course information, links pertinent to course content and management, and screencast and other tutorials. Google Docs are used for student collection of assignments. Teacher feedback can be given in-class directly on real-time, interactive instances of student writing for all to see via in-class projector, and for individual students to follow right there on their laptops, whereas effective feedback can be given between classes via a medium where it can be immediately seen, day or night, when students are revising their work. Another component, blogging, is used to showcase student work. I also use etherpad clones for certain classwork and Jing to create annotated screen-capture and screencast tutorials. There is more information about this presentation here: http://learning2gether.posterous.com/learner-centred-do-it-yourself-learning-manag

LearnTrends in Earth Day April 22, 2009

Vance Stevens — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:28:34 GMT

This recording harks back to April 21-22, 2009 when I moderated three hours of conversation being sustained online for 24 hours by Jay Cross and friends Harold Jarche et al. Jay is known for his Internet Time blog http://www.internettime.com/ and books/writings on Informal Learning.

The event from which this recording derives was based at the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation Ning: http://learntrends.ning.com/page/april-2009-event . The reason I'm posting this here now is that this Ning is no longer being $upported, but for as long as it remains online, there's a table with Session Descriptions here: http://learntrends.ning.com/page/april-2009-event.

Jay wanted to feature webheads in this program and he gave us three hours, 1000 to 1300 GMT on April 22, 2009. This recording is for the first hour when we were starting this marathon. All the conference sessions were held in Elluminate and the mp4 of the Adobe recording of the session was here: http://learntrends.ning.com/page/april-2009-video-page).

The idea was to stimulate conversations by pulling together voices at these times, with others besides Webheads joining in from around the world. It was informal, no slides, or maybe just a few. One of Jay's ideas is to have a web tour up showing a Twitter feed aggregated on #learntrends and this worked at the time: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=@learntrends

The time selected coincides with Earth Day, being celebrated by the webcasters at Earthbridges on http://earthbridges.wikispaces.com/Earth+Day+2009 I put Webheads down in the available time slot during this time, which happened to be 11:00 GMT, but I believe we went on at 10:00 GMT as it was a break time for students at the Petroleum Institute where I worked, and some checked in via live feed from computers in the library to join the conversation, so that a conversation with students at the PI about our environment became a recorded part of the LearnTrends event. I blogged feedback on the event at http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/04/learntrends-in-global-learn-day-april.html

Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking

Vance Stevens — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:46:58 GMT

I was invited to present a workshop on Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking (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 . This event was presented in conjunction with the writing course I am giving in Spain this summer for which I started a project with a number of teachers worldwide http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com, among them Rita Zeinstejer, who assisted from Argentina via Elluminate 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

"What is CALL? It's YOU!" - Plenary address April 14, 2007 at 'Technology CALLs You' conference in Ankara Turkey

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:40:55 GMT

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!" It was derived roughly from - my blog posting from Sunday, April 1, 2007 "What is CALL: Computer Assisted Language and Literacy" http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-is-call-computer-assisted-language.html - as well as from Webheads chat logs from October 29-Nov 3, 2001, http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm We webcast using Elluminate courtesy of Learning Times, http://tinyurl.com/y3eh starting with Dr. Senem Yildiz's presentation "Overcoming barriers and misconceptions to promote effective CALL". - The Elluminate recording with my presentation starting at 1 hour 13 minutes into it is here: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2007-04-14.0101.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75 - I edited an MP3 version with just my talk and podcast it at Vance's GeekSpeek: URL's used in the presentation are given in playnotes: - http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/ankara2007/whatiscall.htm and http://tinyurl.com/yvx6yd. - 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: - http://www.ankukolej.k12.tr/ankukolej/lise/anasayfa/lise.php - http://www.metu.edu.tr/~kilickay/images/poster.jpg - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/englishteachers2003/files/CONFERENCES/Ankara%20University%20/invitation_1.JPG

Summer courses in Spain 2007 - Lecture 3: Putting the forces in motion: Applying technology to foster writing through motivating online environments

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:23:48 GMT

Lecture 3: Putting the forces in motion: Applying technology to foster writing through motivating online environments For the third of my three lectures given as part of my short course on writing on the Internet 11th-13th July 2007 during the XXVI Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain, I was asked to focus on 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? - The text of this lecture is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2007/basque3.htm - The slide show is here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/lecture3-putting-the-forces-in-motion/ - The recording of Lecture 3 is here: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/play.jnlp?psid=2007-07-13.0325.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

Summer courses in Spain 2007 - 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

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:03:33 GMT

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 This is the second of three lectures given as part of my short course on writing on the Internet 11th-13th July 2007 during the XXVI Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain. The second lecture was supposed to address 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? - The text of this lecture is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2007/basque2.htm - The slide show is here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/lecture2-writing-and-collaboration-via-web-20-and-social-networking/ - The recording of Lecture #2 is here: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/play.jnlp?psid=2007-07-12.0344.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

Summer courses in Spain 2007 - Lecture 1: Multiliteracies and the changing landscape of communication in a world without arbiters of what gets published

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:11:51 GMT

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://writingmatrix.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 in the first one, here: 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? - The text of this lecture is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2007/basque1.htm - The slide show is here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/lecture1-san-sebastian-2007-internet-electronic-genre-and-writing/ - The recording (up to the point my computer crashed) is here

Getting the Most Out of Web 2.0 for ESP: advantages of using tags and technorati for a community of bloggers in the ESL/EFL/ESP classroom

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:12:48 GMT

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

The Multiliterate Autonomous Learner: Teacher Attitudes and the Inculcation of Strategies for Lifelong Learning

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:15:42 GMT

I repeated my Exeter presentation at an event April 12, 2008, 11:15 to noon in Abu Dhabi 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." - I recorded the presentation in Elluminate and stored the recording online here: http://tinyurl.com/468qrp. - I used the Exeter slide show with hyperlinks, http://tinyurl.com/5qmuxd - A photo album was put up to archive the event: http://picasaweb.google.com/tailearn/IndependentLearningResearchMorning2008 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/2008/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: http://learnerautonomy.org/wormsmay2007.html. - I produced a paper prior to this: Stevens, Vance. (2007). The Multiliterate Autonomous Learner: Teacher Attitudes and the Inculcation of Strategies for Lifelong Learning, in Independence,Winter 2007 (Issue 42) pp 27-29. Retrieved February 17, 2008 from http://www.learnerautonomy.org/VanceStevens.pdf. - The paper is also on my site here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/iatefl/exeter2008/lasigworm.htm and is mirrored as a blog post here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/07/multiliterate-autonomous-learner.html. - My slides are posted here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/lets-start-with-teacher-autonomy-multiliteracies-and-lifelong-learning/. or http://tinyurl.com/5qmuxd - Jo Mynard did a nice writeup of my talk on her blog here: http://iateflexeter2008.blogspot.com/2008/04/multiliterate-autonomous-learner.html

Promoting Peace via Cross-Cultural Online Projects in the Language Classroom

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:24:24 GMT

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. - Session Wikispace: http://buthaina-wwf-peaceconf08.wikispaces.com/WwF_Conference08 - The Elluminate recording is at: http://tinyurl.com/LT080927 or https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2008-09-27.0028.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

Modeling social media in groups, communities, networks: Nurturing your PLN for ongoing professional development (TESOL Arabia, 2010)

Vance Stevens — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:45:28 GMT

I was invited to present at the TESOL Arabia Conference 12 March, 2010 at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE on "Modeling social media in groups, communities, networks: Nurturing your PLN for everyone’s *ongoing professional development" - Abstract: This presentation examines social networking in groups, communities, and networks. Teachers must be trained not only IN use of social media, but THROUGH use. This presentation suggests how teachers interact with communities of practice and distributed learning networks where participants are modeling optimal ways of using social media in teaching. I recorded the presentation on ZU's robust and ubiquitous wireless. - I blogged the event here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2010/03/nurturing-your-pln-for-everyones.html - Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/nurturing-your-pln-for-everyones-ongoing-professional-development - Elluminate recording: http://tinyurl.com/100312vance-dubai or https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-03-11.2346.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

Thinking SMALL: TESOL CALL-IS - from vision to reality and beyond

Vance Stevens — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:44 GMT

I was an Invited Speaker at two sessions at the 43rd Annual TESOL Convention in Denver Thursday March 26 through Saturday March 28, 2009: One was at the anniversary event "Celebrating 25 years of CALL: Forging new pathways" put on by the CALL Interest Section. ABSTRACT: "As the CALL-IS celebrates the 25th Anniversary of its founding, former CALL-IS chairs and experts in CALL reflect on historical and current developments in theory, research, and practice. Having witnessed the changes over the years, they will highlight major achievements, paths that have been forged, and intriguing future directions." The colloquium was organized by Sandy Wagner. Other speakers were Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Claire Bradin Siskin, Phil Hubbard, and Karen Price. There is a wiki at http://colloqtesol09.pbwiki.com/. Vance Stevens spoke after Roger Kenner, and Deborah Healey on the beginnings of CALL and the CALL-IS—from vision to reality and beyond The "vision to reality" part of my presentation was started at Stevens, V. (2003), How CALL-IS Began, which first appeared in an email sent to all CALL-IS members in Fall 2003 via the TESOL organization, and now resides here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/newsletter/callis_began.htm I address the "beyond" part in this blog posting: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/03/celebrating-25-years-of-call-forging.html - My slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/celebrating-25-years-of-call - The session was recorded at http://tinyurl.com/cd3jep or https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-03-26.1302.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr The recording here was extracted from that Elluminate file. Accoustics were so poor at the beginning of the session that the talks by Roger Kenner and Deborah Healey were incomprehensible and had to be edited out. The recording begins with my talk, which is clear, and then continues for another hour with questions and answers, a talk by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, and so on.

APACALL at WiAOC: Technology innovations for language learning and teaching

Vance Stevens — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:49:19 GMT

For the third time in 5 years I coordinated the 3rd bi-annual Webheads in Action Online Convergence held May 22-24, 2009, http://wiaoc.org. Events are listed here: http://wiaoc09.pbwiki.com/schedule I participated in two presentations on May 22, 2009, this one entitled "Technology innovations for language learning and teaching." This was a panel discussion comprising participants drawn from APACALL (http://apacall.org): Jeong-Bae Son (Australia); Vance Stevens (UAE); Antonie Alm (New Zealand); Andrew Lian (USA); and Siew Ming Thang (Malaysia)

21st Century Skills for Professional Development Online with Marian Heddesheimer and Jennifer Verschoor

Vance Stevens — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:16:20 GMT

January 10 - 19, 2010, I taught a course entitled 21st Century Skills for Professional Development Online as part of the program of The Petroleum Institute AUP Computing Professional Development and Community Courses. The course began with a 1-hour presentation explaining the annual TESOL-sponsored Electronic Village Online (http://www.slideshare.net/vances/you-can-participate-in-electronic-village-online-2882887) and proceeded in four 1.5-hour face-to-face class sessions. Skill-building began with synchronous tools and RSS feed readers and proceeded in the second week to synchronous tools. Marian Heddesheimer from Germany and Jennifer Verschoor in Argentina were invited to the last session, which was recorded and can be played back here: - http://tinyurl.com/100119evomlit or - https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-01-18.2319.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr Other online spaces include: - The course was announced via a flyer that became a Google Doc and portal for the course: http://tinyurl.com/21centuryskills4pdo - Our blog: http://justcurious.posterous.com became our most interactive conversation space for the course and has since developed into one of Vance's favored online spaces for practical applications of educational technology.

Deborah Pincon interviews Vance Stevens, October 17, 2010

Vance Stevens — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:53:03 GMT

Overview: Deborah Pincon is in the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and is conducting a qualitative analysis of the types of support Webhead members provide to one another in the context of mediated (virtual) communication and small groups. To begin the study, she interviews Vance Stevens to get a feel for the overall goals and history of the Webheads. This will be followed by content analyses of some postings to the Webheads YahooGroup and interactions at virtual conferences, and interviews of other Webheads members, after which she will submit her research for publication.

Debby has graciously consented to allow the initial interview to take place as one of our regularly scheduled Sunday teacher professional events, and to welcome everyone to attend. There is more information about Webheads at http://webheads.info

Announcement: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/26742

Elluminate recording:

Learning2gether to achieve the aha! moment

Vance Stevens — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:58:14 GMT

Vance Stevens delivered "Learning2gether to achieve the aha! moment" as a plenary given at ELTAI in Vellore, India, on Friday, June 17, 2011. This podcast is a version recorded before a live online audience: Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether-to-achieve-the-aha-moment Abstract: This talk introduces Learning2Gether (http://learning2gether.pbworks.com) and explains how it came about, and how it draws on and expands its participants’ personal learning networks so that knowledge is transferred informally and peer to peer. A crucial aspect of the learning that takes place there is where teachers model to one another how to use Web 2.0 tools to leverage learning through networking, and to apply these to classroom and other professional development opportunities. This talk is couched it in the perspective of how teachers achieve the aha! Moment, where they 'get' how technology can become a critical enabler of what they ordinarily try to do pedagogically in their classrooms. In this presentation I will try to provoke an aha! moment by illustrating how a PLN works to enhance such learning by getting people from other virtual spaces to join us in real time, live and online. The session was recorded in India; however whereas the live show was clearly audible, the recording mic had shorted so whereas there is video, there is no sound in the recording, which you can view here: http://www.wiziq.com/class/info.aspx?5mA7G8fKaxkH75ANyzpaLVstvMQM1okLE9P2u1V5ptHharf19GVSOfNYTUlBIf2nt7WYnWPUU4W4XO5FHWQKG1cj7tnvIwvv0TcYVNnAH5U%3d The Elluminate recording is here: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-06-26.0631.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75 and the TinyURL is: http://tinyurl.com/2011jun26vance Announcements: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/27835 http://taedtech.ning.com/events/learning2gether-with-vance

Vance chats with Jennifer Verschoor about blogs and wikis for teaching ESL and young learners

Vance Stevens — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:22:54 GMT

Jennifer Verschoor - Blogs and wikis for teaching ESL and young learners

Date: September 26, 2010

Announcement: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/26625

Overview:

Jennifer Verschoor, EdTech coordinator and (online) teacher trainer in Buenos Aires, whose blog "My Integrating Technology Journey" is available at http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/, shows us around her blogs and wikis for teaching ESL and young learners. Early in the presentation she has with her special guests Vicky (7) and Melina (4), who blog at http://www.vickylearningenglish.blogspot.com
Jennifer's teacher training presentations are very much in demand in Buenos Aires and we'll be honored to have her join us for a tour of her work.

Recording: http://connect.pi.ac.ae/p57572846/

Vance Stevens chats with Mark Pegrum and Gavin Dudeney about Digital Literacies

Vance Stevens — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:06:14 GMT

Date: September 29, 2010

Announcement: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/26657

Overview:

Mark Pegrum's book From Blogs to Bombs (http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mr2) was used recently as core reading in the multiliteracies course whose portal is here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com.
More recently, Mark has been touring Australia with Gavin Dudeney giving workshops on Digital Literacies. Mark and Gavin have agreed to reunite to discuss this topic with Vance Stevens and any other colleagues who would like to drop by and chat online.

Elluminate Recording: http://tinyurl.com/2010sept19recording

Shifting sands, shifting paradigms: Challenges to developing 21st century learning skills

Vance Stevens — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:06:41 GMT

On September 19, 2010 I was invited to give a presentation to the IATEFL YLTSIG group, hosted by Dennis Newson. The talk entitled "Shifting sands, shifting paradigms: Challenges to developing 21st century learning skills," was first given at CALICO in June 2010. On this topic, I'd written out a text at https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddkc6v4f_162cw45m8c9 and created slides posted here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/shifting-sands-shifting-paradigms. This event coincided with my TESOL PPOT 107 Multiliteracies course. Here are some more relevant URLs: * The Adobe Connect RECORDING of the event: http://tinyurl.com/yltsig100919recording * The flyer for the event prepared by the YLTSIG of IATEFL: http://tinyurl.com/yltsig100919flyer * The presentation document giving links and annotations to content mentioned in the presentation: http://tinyurl.com/yltsig100919gdoc * I seeded this link to a tag in Delicious with two sites linked; by the end of the presentation there were 25 sites tagged here: http://www.delicious.com/tag/yltsig .

PLN: The paradigm shift in teacher and learner autonomy

Vance Stevens — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:56:34 GMT

This presentation explains a dozen tools and paradigm shifts that teachers should apply in transformative ways to working with their students, how Web 2.0, tagging, and RSS are crucial to this process, and how teachers can develop their own personal learning networks to practice continuous lifelong learning and 'teacher autonomy' before applying these concepts to students.

The presentation was recorded at this session Aug 11, 2010, LaPlata, Argentina
http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/LaPlata
The text of the presentation is written out here:
http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/PLN
The slides with all the correct links are here:
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/pln-the-paradigm-shift-in-teacher-and-learner-autonomy

Doris Molero interviews Vance Stevens May 22, at WiAOC 2009

Vance Stevens — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:23:09 GMT

For the third time in 5 years I coordinated the 3rd bi-annual Webheads in Action Online Convergence held May 22-24, 2009, http://wiaoc.org. Events are listed here: http://wiaoc09.pbwiki.com/schedule I gave two presentations on May 22, 2009. This is the first one: Doris Molero's arranged interview with Vance Stevens at the WiAOC 2009 online convergence on the topic of "Integrating technlogies in the EFL Class and Web 2.0 as multiliterated agents" Unfortunately Doris was not able to actually appear for the interview due to connectivity problems, so Vance and friends carried on to interview one another. - The blog post here describes the situation at the time of the interview and gives answers in prose to the questions Doris intended to ask: http://tinyurl.com/090522molero or http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/05/vance-is-interviewed-by-doris-molero.html - An Elluminate recording of the session was made and can be accessed here - The raw audio can no longer be found at the Worldbridges site here (perhaps it will reappear one day :-) http://worldbridges.info/wiaoc09/audio/WiAOC09-May22-0200GMT.mp3 The recording here begins with Vance talking about Webheads and the nature of informal learning, but turns to the friends who were there as each takes the mic and relates what projects they were working on. The people present and whose voices are recorded here include Nina Liakos, James O'Reilly, Bronwyn Stuckey ... (these are off the top of my head).

Mireille's Interview with Vance Stevens

Vance Stevens — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:59:32 GMT

On August 3, 2009 Mireille Massue conducted an interview with me as one of her interncasts for the Webcast Academy class of 4.1. Among the questions asked: 1. What are Webheads? What do they do and how are they connected to Webcast Academy? 2. What makes a successful community? 3. How is the webheads community getting involved in Second Life. She also asked me to think of a question that I would like to answer but had never been asked in an interview before. I asked my Twitter network for suggestions and got two responses: 1. Nergiz Kern suggested "Why do you spend so much time doing things for free? What do you get out of it?" 2. Claire Bradin Siskin asked "If you could have any superpower, what would it be?" (eg, time travel) Mireille's show notes with links to some of the sites we mentioned are posted at http://www.webcastacademy.net/audio/mireilles-interview-vance-stevens

SUCCESS in modeling blended learning in theory AND practice at F2F and online conferences

Vance Stevens — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:43:39 GMT

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/

EdTechTalk addresses the question: What is self-directed learning?

Vance Stevens — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:08:53 GMT

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

EVO 2009 conversation with Vance Stevens (Multiliteracies) and joint moderaters of Enhancing Lessons with Web 2.0

Vance Stevens — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:18:53 GMT

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

EVO 2009 Multiliteracies - Conversation with Robin Good

Vance Stevens — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:53:13 GMT

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

EVO 2009 Multiliteracies session informal chat with Mark Kramer

Vance Stevens — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:07:42 GMT

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.

EVO 2009 Multiliteracies session informal chat with Kip Yellowjacket, Nelba Quintana, and Jennifer Verschoor

Vance Stevens — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:04:54 GMT

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

EVO 2009 Multiliteracies session informal chat with Cristina Costa

Vance Stevens — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:57:28 GMT

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

Stuart Selber talks with the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies group about his book Multiliteracies for a Digital Age

Vance Stevens — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:56:56 GMT

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:

And from previous renditions of Vance's Multiliteracies course:

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

Maggie Tsai talks to EVO 2009 Multiliteracies participants about Diigo

Vance Stevens — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:37:19 GMT

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/

Speaking with Graham Stanley, in session with Multiliteracies EVO 2009

Vance Stevens — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:25:05 GMT

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 talks to the Multiliteracies group about Wikibookians

Vance Stevens — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:06:49 GMT

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

Doris Molero talks about her experiences with Writingmatrix to the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies group

Vance Stevens — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:56:51 GMT

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:

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Gladys Baya talks about Pageflakes to the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies group

Vance Stevens — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:32:51 GMT

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

Vance Stevens discussing Multiliteracies

Vance Stevens — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:14:17 GMT

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

Conversation with George Siemens on Multiliteracies and Connectivism

Vance Stevens — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:11:21 GMT

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/

Informal chat with Kim Cofino, author of Making the Shift Happen

Vance Stevens — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:06:17 GMT

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

Talking 'bout Webheads

Vance Stevens — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:02:44 GMT

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.

Engaging collaborative writing through social networking

Vance Stevens — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:04:07 GMT

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

Presentation at Virtual Strand, EuroCALL Coleraine, Sept 2007

Vance Stevens — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:30:25 GMT

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

Is the Internet Enough? Vance Stevens interviewed by Paul Allison

Vance Stevens — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:13:45 GMT

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.

Interviewed by Don Hinkleman in Hanoi, Nov 4, 2007

Vance Stevens — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:10:16 GMT

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.

Talking Multiliteracies Webcast Sept 30, 2007

Vance Stevens — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:44:10 GMT

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

Benefits of using computers and technology in teaching: Focus on language teaching

Vance Stevens — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:33:59 GMT

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).

Dates for WiAOC 2007 now set for May 18-20, 2007

Vance Stevens — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:33:43 GMT

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.

Deleting Online Censorship

Vance Stevens — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 20:43:28 GMT

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

Talking 'bout my my my - My Moderation (the Who?? what?)

Vance Stevens — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:09:11 GMT

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 ...

In your advisory role to Webheads, how do you define your consultant relationship

Vance Stevens — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:15:08 GMT

This is the 1st of 6 questions which Elder Bob asked me to address on the topic of What is a Consulant? Myths vs. realities

As consultant for Webheads, how do you qualify success?

Vance Stevens — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:09:25 GMT

This is the 2nd of 6 questions which Elder Bob asked me to address on the topic of What is a Consulant? Myths vs. realities

How do you term your consultancy a success?

Vance Stevens — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:05:55 GMT

This is the 3rd of 6 questions which Elder Bob asked me to address on the topic of What is a Consulant? Myths vs. realities

How do you continually broaden your technical skills?

Vance Stevens — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:03:51 GMT

This is the 4th of 6 questions which Elder Bob asked me to address on the topic of What is a Consulant? Myths vs. realities

How do you get to know your clients?

Vance Stevens — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:59:27 GMT

This is the 5th of 6 questions which Elder Bob asked me to address on the topic of What is a Consulant? Myths vs. realities

How does the interenet affect the way in which we communicate with clients

Vance Stevens — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:53:11 GMT

This is the 6th of 6 questions which Elder Bob asked me to address on the topic of What is a Consulant? Myths vs. realities