This slide show is updated from 2013, on Learning2gether classroots weekly online professional development - This session was one of several held this week at Al Ain Men's College (AAMC) as part of an in-house professional development week in April 2013. It was updated on Aug 25, 2013 for the annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference MMVC13 Description of event: Learning2gether is a wiki which, since September 2010, has served to organize teachers in meeting online at regular times weekly to conduct free “class-roots” professional development seminars and discuss topics of mutual interest to teachers of ESOL in particular and educators in general. Presenters and participants range from expert to those merely interested in the topics. Participants come from all over the world, but from its inception there has been an effort to involve teaching practitioners in Arab countries through coordination with the TESOL Arabia TAEDTECH-SIG. Sessions are recorded, and a growing archive of recorded resources is accumulating at the associated podcast site. This session will introduce teachers to the endeavor and invite them to become involved.

1. Learning2gether class-roots weekly
online professional development
Vance Stevens
Khalifa bin Zayed Air College
HCT / AAMC / PACE
&
Coordinator for Webheads in Action
Updated for Moodle MOOC, June 2, 2013
Updated in 2013

2. Slideshare of the 2012 TESOL Philadelphia presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether31march2012
Read the 2012 TESOL Philadelphia presentation in prose:
http://learning2gether.net/2012/03/30/learning2gether-to-
teach-one-another-about-le/
Hear an mp3 of March 4, 2012 Learning2gether rehearsal
http://learning2gether.net/2012/03/04/vance-stevens-presents-
what-teachers-around-t/
Read the 2012TESOL Arabia proceedings publication
Stevens, V. (2013). Learning2gether: Wiki-based worldwide
teacher professional development. In Davidson, P., Al-Hamly,
M., Coombe, C., Troudi, S., and Gunn, C. (Eds.). Achieving
Excellence through Life Skills Education. Dubai: TESOL Arabia.
pp.342-351. Version available online:
http://tinyurl.com/tacon2012L2g.
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My presentations are always online

3. Class roots online teacher professional development
Distributed
Community of Practice
PLN (Personal learning network)
Models teaching through modeling learning
A teacher models and demonstrates
A student practices and reflects
Wiki-based
Anyone can join wiki, write in an event
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What is Learning2gether
http://classroots.org/

4. Event planning wiki: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/
Upcoming events:
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded
Index to archives:
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex
Archive of podcasts and live recordings
http://learning2gether.net
Network connections
TESOL Arabia: http://taedtech.ning.com/events/
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Where is Learning2gether?

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Event Planning Wiki
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32204849/FrontPage

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Upcoming events
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded

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Index to
archives
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex

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Archive of live recordings
http://learning2gether.net

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Network Connections:
TESOL Arabia Edtech-SIG
http://taedtech.ning.com/events/

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Network Connections:
TESOL CALL-IS
http://www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS

11. What funding?
No funding at all, ever, since 1998
No hidden agendas, truly cooperative
Rely on Cognitive Surplus (Clay Shirky)
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-cognitive-surplus-drives-us-to.html
Intrinsic motivation of people to
Share, help others
be highly regarded professionally
feel good about themselves
Monetization would undermine cooperative mutual community
support (Deci, Soma experiments)
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Funding for Learning2gether
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p96Wmn-
ER4QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=deci+soma+research+motiv
ation&ots=3cHPr-
t922&sig=ZqB8TGpkrvt2Wj8DKACBFgDTYzc#v=onepage
&q=deci%20soma%20research%20motivation&f=false

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Elluminate grant from LearningTimes
http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

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Live streaming via Hangout
http://webheadsinaction.org/live

14. 1998-1999
Writing for Webheads
Weekly meetings each Sunday noon GMT at Tapped In (defunct)
Archives of logged chats
All: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chatlogs.htm
Turkey meets China in 2001: http://prosites-
vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm
2000 - 2002
Online events at conferences where we put students in touch
with teachers using voice (HearMe, no longer available)
Bb/Collaborate = Elluminate grant from http://learningtimes.com
2002
Webheads in Action http://webheads.info
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How Learning2gether began

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Writing for Webheads 1998-2002
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm

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Webheads in Action since 2002
http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonlin
e2002/webheads_evo.htm
http://www.tesl-
ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/

17. Webheads in Action Online Convergence
2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org
Each hosted in Elluminate by Learning Times
We learned about “speed geeking” at WiAOC 2009
We tried to organize one online:
http://learning2gether.net/2009/06/14/teresa-almeida-deca-
taggalaxy/
Speedlifing was also well received:
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
Learning2gether came about in 2010 to
Enhance quality of our weekly meetings
Avoid more 3-day = 72-hour webcastathons
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More history

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Speed
lifing
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html

19. Any coming Sunday or Monday after noon GMT
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersn
eeded#Nextupcomingevents
Current venues used
Live stream via Webheads in Action Drupal portal
http://webheadsinaction.org/live
Stream via Google+ Hangout with embedded EtherPad
YouTube recordings rendered to mp3 and podcast
In Elluminate via grant from http://www.learningtimes.com/
http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
Please use a headset to prevent echo
Check your mic and speakers using
tools / audio / audio wizard
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Our next upcoming events

20. Please join us 
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
and http://learning2gether.net
This is not just a request for participation in a one-off
event – WE RELY ON YOU!
• If you are seriously interested in professional
development and would like to join in our activities,
we welcome your participation.
• Even better, we would appreciate your SHARING with
colleagues something that YOU know at these events.
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32205261/cfp

21. Vance’s presentations
are always online
(creative commons, attribution, share alike)
http://slideshare.net/vances