Connecting Live Online with our Personal Learning Networks: Learning2gether and Hanging Out

Vance Stevens Workshop at GLoCALLAhmedabad, India, Oct 9, 2014

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No need to take notes• All my slides are online• http://slideshare.net/vances

http://screencast.com/t/ghD8CJkF1Tm5

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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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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

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Connecting Live Online with our Personal Learning NetworksThe 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

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Why?Why is your PLN vitally important andHow can you leverage it so everyone learns together?

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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

http://www.pinterest.com/ctjonline/ctj-teachers-blogs/

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Modeling to faculty: Korea, MexicoBenjamin StewartJeff Lebowhttp://edtechtalk.com

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

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Connecting with students: Berkeley to BoracayRobert Wachman in Philippines with Contee Seely in Berkeley

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Connecting with students: Amazonia, Argentina, Egypt

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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

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Bb Collaborate / Elluminate

Click here to see the Slideshare instructions http://www.slideshare.net/vances/once-upon-a-time-28908911

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Start a Hangout at Google+

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Select Hangouts on Air

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Create the HoA

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Name and start your HoA

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This creates an Event Page

https://plus.google.com/events/cf8kelr4u3eere73u1me5bqfbsk You can START the HoA here in order to see and control its settingsThe HoA does not activate until you click START BROADCAST

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Get HoA and YouTube links

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

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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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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

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

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Unique interaction in 4 spaces

• Here you can find examples of the different kinds of text chats in the four spaces availablehttp://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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Have F.U.N. with HoA

For more informationStevens, 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

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Setting up a HangoutUsing social media to advertise your eventsHow to moderate sessions How to archive them

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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)

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Using social media to advertise your events• Listserves• Facebook groups• Google+

Communities• Twitter

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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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Let’s HangoutVisiting the actual Hangout at 10:30 GMThttp://webheadsinaction.org/live

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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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Anyone can listen to the streamhttp://webheadsinaction.org/live

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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.pbworks.com/w/page/34456755/archiveindex

Thank youJoin 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