Develop Personal Learning Networks with Learning2gether

Learning2gether to
develop Personal
Learning Networks
to model collaborative learning
for teachers to use with students
Vance Stevens
English teacher coordinator, UAE Naval College
CALL technology trainer KBZAC / HCT / ADMC / CERT
Coordinator for Webheads in Action
aPlanet, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Sept 22, 2012

My presentations are always online

• This presentation on Slideshare
• http://www.slideshare.net/vances/
• How the tools can be applied with students
• http://vancestevens.posterous.com/a-small-research-

2012, Learning2gether
Vance Stevens, aPlanet Yeditepe
project-on-student-attitudes
• Teacher training in Web 2.0 toolkit for academic
presentation skills
• http://toolkit4Learning.blogspot.com

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Where is Learning2gether?
• 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.posterous.com

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Why Learning2gether
Why School? Threads in Will Richardson’s latest book
• Information scarcity vs. abundance
• Two approaches to the problem
• Deliver the old model better.

• Rethink it differently
• Herbert Gerjoy’s definition of illiterate
• Not those who cannot read or write,
• But those who cannot
• ‘learn, unlearn, and relearn’ 4

Richardson’s 6 ways to relearn
• Share everything (or at least something)
• Discover, don’t deliver, the curriculum
• Talk to strangers (filter and interact with
others in your personal learning
network)

• Be a master learner
• Do real work, for real audiences
• Transfer the power (over who drives
curriculum)

How to do these things is ineffable
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(must be experienced)

Alan November on Global Voice
“Can you imagine giving every kid a laptop and not changing the audience?
But changing the device? How do you reconcile that?”

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http://edtechcrew.net/

Alan November on Global Voice
This slide is not to present, but simply to document
Alan November’s remarks recorded in a podcast available from
• Ed Tech Crew @ ICTEV Ep 200 Interview with Alan November
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EG_iwLrVw
• From 4:15 in the video: “If we just take what’s going on right

now and allow children to have a global voice, under the
careful guidance of a teacher, then I think we’ll teach children
more about the ethics, social
responsibility, creativity, collaboration that is absolutely
essential in a global economy, Otherwise, it’s audience of one.
I mean, can you imagine giving every kid a laptop and not
changing the audience? But changing the device? How do you
reconcile that?” But what would you guys say, let’s give every
kid a laptop but they’re still only handing in their work to a 7
teacher? … that’s not transactional, that’s a waste of
money, that’s what that is.”

What is Learning2gether

• Class roots online teacher professional development
• Distributed http://classroots.org/

• Community of Practice

• PLN (Personal learning network)
• Models teaching through modeling learning
• A teacher models and demonstrates
• A student practices and reflects
• Wiki-based
• In theory, anyone can join, write in an event 8

PLN Connections:
TESOL Arabia Edtech-SIG

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http://taedtech.ning.com/events/

PLN Connections:
K12 Online Conference
• Tentatively planning a joint event in November

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http://k12onlineconference.org/

PLN Connections:
TESOL CALL-IS

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http://www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS

PLN Connections: EVO
Electronic Village Online

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http://evosessions.pbworks.com

PLN connections: etc.
And to Webheads in Action, IATEFL, aPlanet …

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http://aplanetconference.wordpress.com/

How Learning2gether began
• 1998-1999
• Writing for Webheads
• Weekly meetings each Sunday noon GMT at http://tappedin.org
• 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
• Bb/Collaborate = Elluminate grant from http://learningtimes.net
• 2002
• Webheads in Action http://webheads.info
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Writing for Webheads 1998-2002

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http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm

Webheads in Action since 2002
http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonl
ine2002/webheads_evo.htm

http://www.tesl-
ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej5
1/ej51int/

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More history
• Webheads in Action Online Convergence
• 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org
• Hosted in Elluminate by Learning Times
• We learned about “speed geeking” at WiAOC 2009

• We tried to organize one online:
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/teresa-almeida-deca-taggalaxy
• Speedlifing met with greater success:
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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Speed-lifing

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

How it works:
Event Planning Wiki

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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32204849/FrontPage

Upcoming events

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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded

Index to archives

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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex

Archive of podcasts
and live recordings

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http://learning2gether.posterous.com/

Scoop.it view with audio player

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http://www.scoop.it/t/learning2gether

Funding for Learning2gether
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 http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p96Wmn-
ER4QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=deci+soma+research+motivat
• be highly regarded professionally ion&ots=3cHPr-
t922&sig=ZqB8TGpkrvt2Wj8DKACBFgDTYzc#v=onepage&q
• feel good about themselves =deci%20soma%20research%20motivation&f=false

• Monetization would undermine cooperative mutual community
support (Deci, Soma experiments)
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Bb Collaborate/Elluminate grant
from LearningTimes

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http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Google +
Hangout
Screenshot showing
Jeff Lebow’s mashup
of Etherpad chat
with streaming
YouTube video

On completion of
the Hangout the
video is stored on
YouTube and made
available via its
YouTube link 26

http://learning2gether.posterous.com/luis-arnoldo-ordonez-hangout-with-jeff-lebow

What we learn 2gether
• How to put together courses quickly using
• Wiki http://acommunication.pbworks.com to serve as a portal to
display student work
• Some of the free Web 2.0 tools involved,
• Prezi http://prezi.com to mount online presentations

• SurveyMonkey http://surveymonkey.com - gather data in online
surveys
• Google Docs http://docs.google.com to negotiate content and
language interactively
• Jing http://jingproject.com to capture charts from SurveyMonkey
• Slideshare http://slideshare.net where students display their PPT
slide shows online
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• Blog http://blogger.com to reflect on what students had learned

How colleagues benefit

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http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.com/2012/09/introduction.html

Data show students benefit from
what we learn

They favored
the mind-map approach

They’d use prezi again and think
we should teach it to others

https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1pQxTmDCArZjG84lzY4C9UZAOJMt6N5
For qualitative data S5PJsgLGPnvPg/edit#heading=h.3gdoa4
from blog posts, visit km0b9q

Our upcoming Sunday events
• September 23, 2012 – Simulcast presentation from
BrazTESOL on Neuroscience in Education, 13:00 GMT
• September 30, 2012 – last day of 3-day SLanguages

Annual Symposium on AVALON
• October 7, 2012 – Carla Arena on Digital Curation
• October 14, 2012 - Vance Stevens: Web 2.0 toolkit for
academic presentation skills, EdTech Lounge Event
• October 21 and 28 – we welcome your participation
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Please join us 
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
• 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.
• Just join the wiki and write yourself in
• http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/cfp

My presentations
are always online
This one is at:
http://slideshare.net/vances

Develop Personal Learning Networks with Learning2gether

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