This session demonstrates a wiki developed for my classes over time that colleagues in my teaching context started collaborating with, and how I created a wiki to help my colleagues create their own, in such a way that it modeled how learning can be facilitiated through a wiki, at http://kbzpd.pbworks.com
WebQuests and wikis provide vehicles for interactive, authentic projects that can become springboards for heightened research resulting in higher critical thought. A WebQuest is a kind of roadmap that takes the explorer on a journey through the many informative components of the World Wide Web. A wiki is like a web page that is always open to collaboration promoting editing and sharing of ideas and knowledge.
WebQuests and wikis provide vehicles for interactive, authentic projects that can become springboards for heightened research resulting in higher critical thought. A WebQuest is a kind of roadmap that takes the explorer on a journey through the many informative components of the World Wide Web. A wiki is like a web page that is always open to collaboration promoting editing and sharing of ideas and knowledge.
http://eslwikiwise.wikispaces.com/
An introduction to the what, why and how of using wikis in the ESL classroom. made for PD on site at Beverly Hills Intensive English Centre- 2010
Francine Harvey
http://eslwikiwise.wikispaces.com/
An introduction to the what, why and how of using wikis in the ESL classroom. made for PD on site at Beverly Hills Intensive English Centre- 2010
Francine Harvey
How to use the LearningTimes Bb Collaborate Webheads Virtual OfficeVance Stevens
This slide show explains how colleagues associated with Webheads in Action, Learning2gether, TESOL CALL-IS, and Electronic Village Online can use the LearningTimes Bb Collaborate Webheads Virtual Office
Abundance in teacher professional development: More than meets the eyeVance Stevens
Learning2gether episode 340 presented Sun Aug 7 noon UTC Vance Stevens at MMVC16 - Moodle Moot Virtual Conference
This Learning2gether Episode #340 is one of many online PD opportunities that are taking place literally as we speak, and if this is a representative moment, this extrapolates to an abundance of PD opportunities online at any given moment. Abundance implies e.g. free, easily accessible, available as per user interest in the manner of a berry bush. But institutional PD is often approached from a mindset of scarcity, meaning it is time-bound, tied to brick and mortar, and often driven top-down. This presentation will help viewers visualize the abundance in a way that this perspective can be shared with whomever is driving your PD through a scarcity paradigm.
Gamifying Teacher Professional Development through Minecraft MOOC at TESOL Ar...Vance Stevens
This is a recent update on the evolution of the community of practice that has developed after two years of EVO Minecraft MOOC. This documents to some extent how a community has truly formed and is gearing up for EVOMC17.
Learning2gether with EVO Minecraft MOOC and Gamification of Teacher Professio...Vance Stevens
This presentation is about a correspondence between two EVO (Electronic Village Online) sessions: 1) the EVO Minecraft MOOC (EVOMC16) and 2) Techno-CLIL (content and language integrated) approach to language development. There is much evidence that Minecraft can enhance language development; for example, the cases discussed in in an article by co-moderators of the EVOMC16 session (Smolčec & Smolčec, 2014). This presentation will suggest to educators interested in adopting the CLIL approach how they might consider Minecraft as a representation of content, and see how language development might derive from interaction in a gamified environment based on that content.
Learning2gether meets Moodle MOOC 7, EVO, and gamification in TPDVance Stevens
Vance Stevens has been presenting lately on gamification in teacher professional development in the context of EVO Minecraft MOOC. Today's talk expands the context to the 16th iteration of Electronic Village Online, currently in preparation, and its varying approaches to TPD. EVOMC16 takes an approach which appeals to its moderators, which is to learn about gamification through experiential play. Vance will talk about how this works in EVO Minecraft MOOC, and how anyone is welcome to join us in January, 2016.
Connecting Learning2gether with events like the Fall Blog FestivalVance Stevens
These slides discuss how Learning2gether, http://learning2gether.net/about
- Builds on decades-long experience with learners and colleagues in virtual spaces
- Helps coalesce a plethora of connectivist learning opportunities
- Reshapes our notions of engaging with students by modeling success in online and blended contexts
- Encourages all educators who enjoy connecting with peers to contribute their voices
- Works, and how you can contribute and participate
MMVC2015 - Teaching writing using voice tools on mobile devices and iPadsVance Stevens
This presentation updates earlier ones on how to use the voice affordances of iPads and other mobile devices to make writing as well as teaching writing and giving feedback increasingly easier and more effective when students are using such devices.than when voice tools are not appropriately enlisted. The presenter learns more every day about how to use these tools in teaching, and here he conveys what he has learned in hopes it will help other teachers of writing whose students are challenged when trying to write effectively on mobile devices.
Minecraft as a model for gamification in teacher trainingVance Stevens
Minecraft as a model for gamification in teacher training
By Vance Stevens
Khalifa Bin Zayed Air College, Al Ain UAE
Higher Colleges of Technlogy / CERT
Presented at XVIIth CALL Research Conference
Tarragona, Spain, July 6, 2015
Thursday March 26 from 15:00-16:30 EST, Nery Alvarado, Daniela Coelho, Ellen Dougherty and Vance Stevens held a workshop on "iPad-agogy: a Bloomin’ Better Way to Teach" Links for my part of this presentation can be found in this slide presentation and might be updated here http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing - while our wiki provides the information, applications, lesson plans, project-based learning exemplars, and web links covered in the workshop: http://tesol2015ipadogogyabloominbetterwaytoteach.pbworks.com/
The event was listed in the CALL-IS Electronic Village program: http://call-is.org/ev/schedule.php
Tesol 2015 featured presentation on Crossing Networks, Building Connections t...Vance Stevens
This presentation is from the TESOL Conference in Toronto, March 28, 2015, entitled Crossing networks, building connections: Inspiring always-on learners and teachers. The presentation covers 15++ years experience with learners and colleagues in virtual spaces practicing engagement in online and blended contexts. It examines the burgeoning of connectivist learning opportunities from pioneer days to the proliferation of those available today, and explores ways in which learning online reshapes our notions of engaging with students.
Learning2gether at the Spring Blog Festival 2015 - Blogging and Logging Conve...Vance Stevens
Learning2gether is an initiative of Vance Stevens evolving from synchronous meetings with Webheads in Action taking place weekly since 1998 and more directly from three WiAOC (WiA Online Convergences) in 2005, 2007, and 2009. L2g started in 2010 and has hosted conversations most weeks since, usually on Sundays (but for this occasion, on a Saturday). L2g encourages all educators who enjoy connecting with peers to volunteer to contribute their voices to perpetuating weekly conversations at our L2g venues. This presentation explains how L2g works and how you can contribute and participate.
Developing online listening exercises for natural EnglishVance Stevens
In our context, we can render the unclear audio to text by listening to it, parsing it mentally, saying it back into the SR engine, and then creating text manipulation exercises from it that force students to attend to certain details in the text / speech. We have created Hot Potatoes exercises where the audio is embedded in the exercise and the students can play the audio, complete the exercise, and get a score. This explains how and why we do it.
Making listening exercises with Hot Potatoes, BbLearn and GradebookVance Stevens
Making trackable listening exercises with Hot Potatoes, BbLearn and Gradebook
This KBZAC PD session was trialed Nov 26, 2014. It demonstrates how to use Dictanote to make quick transcripts of ATC broadcasts, embed the mp3 into a Hot Potatoes quiz, port it to Blackboard and integrate it with the Gradebook.
(it is planned to update these slides as more is learned about how to actually make this work - perhaps viewers could leave suggestions or comments in the discussion space here)
Vance Stevens live-streams workshop on Hangout on Air at GloCALL AhmedabadVance Stevens
The following information on the workshop is here: http://glocall.org/course/view.php?id=81&topic=0#section-8
Connecting Live Online with our Personal Learning Networks
by Vance Stevens
This 2-hour workshop will introduce the concept and importance of Personal Learning Networks and suggest ways that educators can engage in almost unlimited opportunities for professional development online. One such possibility is participation in weekly Learning2gether events (L2g) coordinated by the presenter. This workshop introduces two tools used frequently in L2g and shows participants how they can use them in their professional development. The first of these is Blackboard Collaborate (available on grant to L2g participants) and the second is Google+ Hangouts. The workshop will walk participants through the process of setting up and conducting events using each tool. Topics include using social media to advertise your events, how to moderate sessions using each tool, and how to archive them. Participants will learn how to stream Hangouts so that they can be attended by many more than the ten allowed in the Hangout itself at any one time.
Vance Stevens reports to RSCON5 Online from the Antwerp CALL 2014 conference ...Vance Stevens
On July 7-9 2014 Vance Stevens attended a conference entitled ANTWERP CALL 2014: Research Challenges in CALL. This presentation conveys impressions of the conference and encapsulate the dominant threads and research agendas to emerge, primarily through the conference Twitter stream, which serves as a model for delegate reflection on conferences
Feb 11 2014 MultiMOOC and ICT4ELT EVO sessions joint event - Once a Webhead a...Vance Stevens
Becoming a Webhead is not offered as an EVO session for the first time in ten years, but its moderators have created an alternative EVO session to follow on the collaborative spirit of BaW - ICT4ELT at http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com. Now that BaW is no longer being offered, its moderators think it important to introduce ICT4ELT participants to the Webheads <http: />, so they have invited Vance Stevens to join them in a live session in Week 5. This would be also an opportunity for ICT4ELT to get to know Learning2gether, at which, says Jose Antonio Da Silva, "there is always someone presenting something very interesting every weekend."
Chaos in learning: Engaging learners in resolving chaos through networkingVance Stevens
MultiMOOC is about chaos in learning and how to engage learners in resolving that chaos through networking with one another. This presentation introduces a connectivist take on chaos in learning, with its suggestion that sense-making can be enhanced through a network of learners. Taking the Cynefin distinction of simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic problems, MOOCs seem directed at the latter two. We look at some examples of how learning occurs in MOOCs and wind up with some implications for the future.
From teacher networked learning to transformation in your classroomVance Stevens
The Reform Symposium Conference is but one of a myriad of events taking place almost constantly now where teachers have opportunities for meeting in online spaces and sharing information and expertise with one another. The MOOC concept, whether xMOOC or cMOOC, provides steady often overlapping opportunities for deeper, more prolonged engagement not only with niche topics, but more importantly with others interested in those niches. Google Hangouts on Air now make it possible for anyone to simulcast an event, and many do, extending invitations to colleagues in a mushroom field of communities. It seems there is something of this nature going on every minute, and social media is working virally to spread the word among educators.
Stepping back to a wider perspective on this phenomenon, what is going on every minute is networked, connectivist learning. Open education, driven by learners connecting with other learners, is taking place around the clock, around the globe, in countless free spaces, bound only by the amount of time participants can make to engage and absorb the knowledge inherent in their networks. The possibilities this unleashes are only starting to be realized by the brick and mortar establishment. Not that we should quit our daytime jobs any time soon, but we should certainly rethink them.
This presentation will draw on present circumstances to inform how we might rethink our role as educators, or perhaps more importantly, encourage others to follow our example. The presenter has been involved in coordinating two virtual communities that have been interacting and learning from one another daily for the past decade. This presentation will show through representative examples how participants in these networks acquire the tools for re-thinking how they engage their students. Networked learning is ineffable in that it must be experienced to be understood, and those without that experience have difficulty grasping a full range of its affordances. As the behavior of participants in online networked learning changes, so their teaching styles change, and the better they are able to model for their students characteristics of what they find most effectively leads to their learning what they want to know in an increasingly interconnected world.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
The French Revolution Class 9 Study Material pdf free download
Flipping the flip: Organizing students around a wiki and training colleagues to do likewise
1. Flipping the Flip:
Organizing students around a wiki
and training colleagues to do
likewise
Fall Blog Festival Sept 21, 2014
Vance Stevens
HCT / CERT / KBZAC Al Ain UAE
2. My slides are always posted
at Slideshare.net
http://slideshare.net/vances
I’ve noticed that in the first few slides on sets posted at
Slideshare.net the hyperlinks don’t work. So, there are
some intro slides here to work around this problem.
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/fall-blogfest2014
4. Learning2gether:
Free Weekly Online PD
http://learning2gether.
net/
All Learning2gether
events are indexed
here
http://learning2gether.
pbworks.com/w/page/
34456755/archiveindex
This presentation is
done as a regular
weekly
Learning2gether event
as well as an event in
the Fall Blog Festival
2014
http://learning2gether.net/2014/09/21/learning2gether-with-the-fall-blog-festival/
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5. Toolkit for Shared Learning
This is part of an ongoing PD blog initiative where I work
http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.ae/2014/09/organizing-students-around-wikis-and.html
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6. Flipping the flip?
• I use a wiki with my students where I teach at
http://kbzac.pbworks.com
• Colleagues have started to appreciate using the
wiki in courses we teach mutually
• I have been asked to help train teachers to
create their own wikis at
http://kbzpd.pbworks.com
• As I teach my colleagues I model how a wiki can
archive the learning in such as way as to train
others who might use it later in a flipped context
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7. Flip-as-You-Go
This begs the question
• Is it best to prepare the course in advance
(so that students can theoretically use it to
prepare beforehand?)
• Or to create the course as you teach it?
(You explain, demonstrate, archive what you
did at the end of each lesson)
• Or both?
This presentation is an examination of the latter
approach, a sort of Flip-as-You-Go method
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8. Fall Blog Festival Recording Link
This presentation was recorded in WizIQ
Click on picture to access the recording
This session demonstrates a wiki developed for my classes over time that colleagues in my
teaching context started collaborating with, and how I created a wiki to help my colleagues
create their own, in such a way that it modeled how learning can be facilitiated through a
wiki, at http://kbzpd.pbworks.com
Vance Stevens Fall Blog Fest 2014 rev.24/9
9. Why this works for students
• Clear assignments
• Clear tasks with
links to course
documents, other
materials, media,
and online spaces
used
• Archive of past
assignments
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11. Affordances for teachers
• Clarity in setting up courses so others may
follow them
• Create record of syllabuses taught, useful
when repeating similar courses
• Create library of materials used; media,
documents, etc.
• Open and shareable
– Can share resources by links
– Can GOOGLE for resources
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12. Open and shareable
• A colleague remembered I had set up
instructions for students to download and
install Audacity
• She asked me where are they?
• (I didn’t know offhand; it’s an organically
developed site)
• I suggested we Google “kbzac” and “audacity”
• We were feeling lucky Bingo!
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13. Open means
you can
Google it
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14. How best to deliver
materials for a new course
• I am a teacher on a newly restructured aviation
English course
• Welter of new materials drove colleagues to explore
online spaces to organize resources; e.g.
– Dropbox
– Google Drive
– Google Docs
– Showbie
– LAN
– WIKI !!
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15. Some preferred the Wiki Way
• Small team used my wiki for collaboration on
course development and implementation
– We could set up common materials, notices,
assessment strategies on one page
– Each team member could have own page
– Facilitated sharing because wiki members
uploaded files to the wiki (each has a link)
– From the wiki we could link to spaces others were
using (though not the other way around )
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16. Introducing
http://KBZPD.pbworks.com
Other teachers wanted to use the wiki approach
• I started teaching them by creating a wiki
where I could archive lessons so others could
catch up
• The archive can then morph into a flipped
lesson
• This models approach to online course design
that teachers could adopt in creating their
own wikis organically for students
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18. Wiki approach to designing blended
learning environments
• Develop your site as a tutorial
• Lots of links to
– resources subsumed under tutorial
(annotated, not just list of resources)
– Other participants’ wikis to showcase other’s work
and promote collaboration
• Illustrate concepts with screen shots from Jing
– Get it free from http://jingproject.com
• Set headings (H1, H2, etc) to create Table of
Contents
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19. Drawbacks to wikis
• Text-ish
• Navigation needs to be designed
• Clunky placement of graphics
• HTML sometimes needed to correct bugs in
wiki display
(This can be an affordance!)
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20. Affordances of wikis
• Revision history, can revert to previous versions
• Sidebar and Table of Contents to facilitate
navigation
• Education resources stored at the wiki
– Each resource has a link
– File sharing; others can download
• From the wiki itself or
• from those links
– generous space allocation
• HTML can be used to augment, embed, etc.
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21. Revision History
An old page from
development of this wiki
is used to illustrate how
to generate a Table of
Contents
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22. Why Table of Contents?
This is from
Revision History
This is the
current pager
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23. How to create a Table of Contents
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24. Finding my workshop on Link Loops
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25. Why Link Loops?
http://vanceposterous.wordpress.com/2012/06/13
/teaching-teachers-how-to-create-simple-link-l/
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26. What are link loops?
• Not everyone understands the concept of
hyperlinking, so in training we may have to
start there
• Link to from a teacher’s portal to anything
else, and from there link back again
Find this explained here in KBZPD wiki
http://kbzpd.pbworks.com/w/page/85843726/purpose_page
#Section2hasthreepartsletscallitLinkLoops
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27. Example link loop …
This portal http://tinyurl.com/ncpd2012june
Loops back
to here
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28. Just in Time vs. Just in Case
Modeling evidenced in what a colleague created
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29. Thanks for your interest in this
presentation by Vance Stevens at
the Fall Blog Festival, 2014
More information about this presentation from
vancestev@gmail.com
• http://www.slideshare.net/vances/fall-blogfest2014
• Learning2gether:
http://learning2gether.net/2014/09/21/learning2gether-with-
the-fall-blog-festival/
• WizIQ recording - http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/
2092922-fall-blog-festival-organizing-students-and-teachers-
around-a-wiki