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.

1. Connecting Live Online with
our Personal Learning
Networks: Learning2gether
and Hanging Out
Vance Stevens Workshop at GLoCALL
Ahmedabad, India, Oct 9, 2014

2. No need to take notes
• All my slides are online
• http://slideshare.net/vances
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Ahmedabad 2014
http://screencast.com/t/ghD8CJkF1Tm5

3. Structure of this workshop
• 0900 GMT (1430 to 1500 IST) Why?
PLNs and Learning2gether
• 0930 GMT (1500 to 1530 IST) How?
• Bb Collaborate / Elluminate
• Google+ Hangout on Air (HoA)
• 10:00 GMT (1530 to 1600 IST) Setting up a Hangout
• Start the Hangout (HoA)
• Sets up event page
• Creates YouTube link which can be embedded
• Broadcast the HoA
• Invite participants OR …
• Provide its direct URL
• 1030 GMT (1600 IST to when they run us out of here)
Actually Hanging Out on Air!
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Ahmedabad 2014

4. This event will be streamed live
(at some point)
Thu Oct 9 1030 GMT at GloCALL Ahmedabad: Vance Stevens live-streamed workshop
on Hangout on Air announced at http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
On-site participants will be shown under the hood
• Taken through the steps of setting up and announcing a Google+ HoA
• On-site participants can enter the hangout
• Do sound checks
• Attenuate echo,
• Learn a little about Hangout netiquette.
The event has
• A Google+ event page
• An online space where the live stream can be viewed and where viewers can interact
with participants in text chat at http://webheadsinaction.org/live
• A direct URL for entering the Hangout (given out when we’re ready for participants)
We should start broadcasting the HoA by around 1600 local time (10:30 GMT) or …
• Where you are  we use http://timeanddate.com to give times globally
• Countdown
Vance Stevens at GLoCALL
Ahmedabad 2014

5. Connecting Live Online with our
Personal Learning Networks
The following information on the workshop is here:
http://glocall.org/course/view.php?id=81&topic=0#section-8
• Concept and importance of Personal Learning Networks
• Virtually unlimited opportunities for professional development
online
• E.g. Participation in weekly Learning2gether events (L2g)
• 25 Killer Sites for free Online Education: http://sco.lt/7VnQrB
• Two tools used frequently in L2g http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
• Blackboard Collaborate (available on grant to L2g participants)
• Google+ Hangouts
• Process of setting up and conducting events using each tool
• 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
• Using social media to advertise your events
• Model how to moderate sessions
• How to archive them
Vance Stevens at GLoCALL
Ahmedabad 2014

6. Why?
Why is your PLN vitally important and
How can you leverage it so everyone learns together?
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Ahmedabad 2014

7. Modeling to faculty
Interaction with a PLN / CoP of peers models behaviors often
translated into classroom practices
• Cristina Costa asked by Etienne Wenger when she knew she
was in a CoP? "When my practice changed"
• Jeff Lebow and Benjamin Stewart two prolific examples
• Cintia Costa in Amazonia
• Maria Bossa and Ayat Tawel connect Argentina and Egypt
• Argentina, Venezuela, Slovenia, Brazil
http://writingmatrix.pbworks.com project
• CTJ crowd in Brasilia
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Ahmedabad 2014
http://www.pinterest.com
/ctjonline/ctj-teachers-blogs/

8. Modeling to faculty:
Korea, Mexico
Benjamin Stewart
Jeff Lebow
http://edtechtalk.com
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Ahmedabad 2014
http://koreabridge.net/audio/elt-live-start-
semester-university-edition
http://edtechtalk.com/elt-live4-how-do-students-and-teachers-feel-about-
going-online-materials-assignments-and-portfolios

9. Connecting with students:
Berkeley to Boracay
Robert Wachman in Philippines with Contee Seely in Berkeley
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Ahmedabad 2014

10. Connecting with students:
Amazonia, Argentina, Egypt
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Ahmedabad 2014

11. How?
Process of setting up and conducting events using
Learning2gether tools: Bb Collaborate and Google+ Hangouts
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 at GLoCALL
Ahmedabad 2014

12. Bb Collaborate / Elluminate
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Ahmedabad 2014
Click here to see the Slideshare instructions
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/once-upon-a-time-28908911

13. Start a Hangout at Google+
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14. Select Hangouts on Air
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15. Create the HoA
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16. Name and start your HoA
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17. This creates an Event Page
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Ahmedabad 2014
https://plus.google.com/events/cf8kelr4u3eere73u1me5bqfbsk
You can START the HoA here in order to see and control its settings
The HoA does not activate until you click START BROADCAST

18. Get HoA and YouTube links
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You can do everything up to Start Broadcast to prepare your HoA, including get
people in the HoA to help them check settings, while remaining offline

19. Sample Embed Codes
YouTube stream and subsequent recording
<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/efsIoEoxQ0g"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Etherpad
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450"
width="950"
src="http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/GlobalEd13HoA"></iframe
>
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Ahmedabad 2014

20. Set up your streaming page
• Instructions on how to embed the YouTube video
and Etherpad chat into your blog or wiki web
page, here:
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/70926447/how2Hangout
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Ahmedabad 2014
Set up your Etherpad space
• You can comment any time here:
• http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/GlobalEd13HoA
• More information at http://etherpad.org
Set up a Chatwing space
• You can comment any time here:
http://chatwing.com/vancestev
• http://chatwing.com

21. Unique interaction in 4 spaces
• Here you can find examples of the different kinds of text
chats in the four spaces available
http://learning2gether.net/2013/11/03/learning2gether-with-
evo-moderator-training-week-2-hangout-on-air/
• In the hangout itself
• In chat associated with being logged in to Google
• In the EtherPad chat sidebar at right
• In the EtherPad main display space
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Ahmedabad 2014

22. Have F.U.N. with HoA
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Ahmedabad 2014
For more information
Stevens, V. (2013) Tweaking Technology: How Communities Meet Online Using
Google+ Hangouts On Air with Unlimited Participants. TESL-EJ, November 2013–
Volume 17, Number 3. Available http://www.tesl-ej.
org/wordpress/issues/volume17/ej67/ej67int/
Extending Google+ Hangouts to way beyond 10 participants: Vance Stevens’s
presentation at the 2014 TESOL Arabia conference in Dubai UAE

23. Setting up a Hangout
Using social media to advertise your events
How to moderate sessions
How to archive them
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Ahmedabad 2014

24. Here, we walk conference
participants through the process
On-site participants will be shown under the hood
• Taken through the steps of setting up and announcing a Google+
HoA
• On-site participants can enter the hangout
• Do sound checks
• Attenuate echo
• Learn a little about Hangout netiquette
On-site participants shown how to set up
• A Google+ event page
• An online space where the live stream can be viewed and where
viewers can interact with participants in text chat at
http://webheadsinaction.org/live
• A direct URL for entering the Hangout (given out when we’re ready
for participants)
Vance Stevens at GLoCALL
Ahmedabad 2014

25. Using social media to advertise
your events
• Listserves
• Facebook groups
• Google+
Communities
• Twitter
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Ahmedabad 2014

26. Hangoutiquette
• Wear ear phones to avoid echo
• Mute and unmute when
• Using keyboard
• Taking mobile phone calls
• Do sound checks
• Considerations for iPad
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Ahmedabad 2014

27. Let’s Hangout
Visiting the actual Hangout at 10:30 GMT
http://webheadsinaction.org/live
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Ahmedabad 2014

28. How this works at showtime
• You can listen to the stream in the video embed.
• You can chat with us in real-time in the Chatwing embed
or open it in a new window here http://chatwing.com/vancestev
• You can listen to the stream at its YouTube URL
http://youtu.be/efsIoEoxQ0g
• If there is space available (up to 10 people) you are welcome to join us
in the Hangout on Air
• It will be a public hangout in the profile of VanceStev on Google+
• It has an event page:
https://plus.google.com/events/cf8kelr4u3eere73u1me5bqfbsk
• You can join us via the direct link to be posted here just prior to show time
• If the Hangout is full, listen to the stream and interact with us in the text chat
• You can let us know if you want to join the Hangout
• We will let you know when space comes available
• When you enter the Hangout
• Wear a headset to avoid broadcasting speaker sound back into the Hangout
• Switch OFF the stream as it is on a delay and will create an echo for you
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Ahmedabad 2014

29. Anyone can listen to the stream
http://webheadsinaction.org/live
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Ahmedabad 2014

30. Join the Hangout on Air live
• Easiest way is if you have
the direct URL for the HoA
• We publish this at
http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
• And at
http://webheadsinaction.org/live
If you miss it, find the
archive recorded at
• http://learning2gether.net
• And the archives are
indexed here:
http://learning2gether.pbwor
ks.com/w/page/34456755/arc
hiveindex
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Ahmedabad 2014

31. Thank you
Join us in Hangout some time -
Find out when and where at
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/
Or http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
Info and archives: http://learning2gether.net
Vance Stevens, vancestev@gmail.com
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com