This was for an online presentation Sun Feb 8
LEARNING2GETHER with Vance Stevens and ICT4ELT Once a Webhead always a Webhead
in Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
And there was an event set for it here by the ICT4ELT EVO Session at https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c0k438kijrc4opf9heg00384mig?authkey=CNb0nOLIzvGegQE ...
This presentation covers the different phases and aspects of the Webheads community of practice since the turn of the century
Writing for Webheads 1998 to early this century
Some kind of synchronous meeting almost every Sunday since 1998
Electronic village online 2001 to still going strong
Webheads in Action 2002 to still going strong
Becoming a Webhead 2004 to 2013
WiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009
Learning2gether 2010 to still going strong
Multiliteracies and MultiMOOC
ICT4ELT 2014 to still going strong
EVO Minecraft MOOC, evo2015
and of course, whither?
1. Once upon a Webhead …
Vance Stevens
speaking to participants in
the ICT4ELT EVO session
February 8, 2015
2. Writing for Webheads
• Writing for
Webheads
started
around
1998
• Lasted to
early this
century
There has been some kind of synchronous
meeting almost every Sunday since then
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
3. TESOL CALL-IS and EVO
• CALL-IS started Electronic Village at annual
TESOL conferences
• EVOnline started in 2001
• still going strong
Writing for Webheads: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm
EVO – http://evosessions.pbworks.com
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
4. Webheads in Action
• Webheads
in Action
was an EVO
session in
2002
• Still going
strong
http://vancestevens.com/papers/evo
nline2002/webheads_evo.htm
http://webheads.info
http://webheadsinaction.org
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
5. Becoming a Webhead
• Becoming a Webhead 2004 (2006?) to 2013
http://dafnegonzalez.com/baw-06/index.html
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
6. WiAOC
• Webheads in Action Online Convergences
took place in 2005, 2007, 2009
http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc_index.htm
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
8. Multiliteracies - MultiMOOC
• Started as a
course in
TESOL
Principles and
Practices of
Online
Learning, 2004
• Last one,
EVO 2014
http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
9. ICT4ELT
• ICT4ELT going strong
for two years now:
2014 to 2015
• Took up where BaW
left off
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112260850431340802054
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10. #evomc15
• EVO Minecraft MOOC, 2015
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112993649763396826671
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
11. Whither … Thinking SMALL
• Stevens, V. (2014). Connectivist Learning: Reaching Students
through Teacher Professional Development" in Son, J.-B. (Ed.).
Computer-assisted language learning: Learners, teachers and
tools. APACALL Book Series Volume 3. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/computer-assisted-language-
learning/; prepublication draft: http://tinyurl.com/small2014
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
12. Join us
• Webheads in Action
– http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webhe
ads
– https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11455032
1376936920900
– http://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction
• Learning2gether
– https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10950404
9211076695836
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
Vance Stevens on Webheads for ICTLT 2015
13. And they all lived happily ever after …
This has been a digital story about Webheads
All Vance’s slides are at
http://slideshare.net/vances