Once a Webhead Always a Webhead

Social Media-Assisted Lifelong Learning

Vance StevensFebruary 11, 2014

http://ict4elt2014.pbworks.com/

http://webheads.info/

Connectivist learning and professional development

• Overcoming isolation• Why do people learn online• Writing for Webheads• Webheads in Action• Learning via CoPs and PLNs (ineffable)• WiAOC and Learning2gether• EVO: Becoming a Webhead

MultiliMOOC and ICT4ELT• cMOOCs and xMOOCs

Thinking SMALLhttp://tinyurl.com/small2014

Overcoming isolation

• Scarcity• Abundance

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Once upon a time (a digital story)

Sean Wilden yesterday at http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/318-121013-special-event-using-technology-in-teaching-principles-in-practice.html

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Why do people want to study online?

• Teachers instinctively prepared syllabuses

http://www.internettime.com/Learning/The%20Other%2080%25.htm

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Not to ‘work’ but to socializeWriting for Webheads participants rejected the ‘work’ but in 1997-1998 were attracted like moths to flame to …

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

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Webheads in Actionhttp://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads_evo.htm

http://callcolloq-tesol09.wikispaces.com/18.+The+Future+-+Res

earch+&+Practice

Learning the ineffable

• Groups• Communities - CoPs • Networks - PLNs

Stevens, Vance. (2009). Modeling Social Media in Groups, Communities, and Networks. TESL-EJ, Volume 13, Number 3: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/

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Webheads: Community

Attribution: http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/

From Slide 30 at http://www.slideshare.net/vances/modeling-social-media-in-groups-communities-and-networks-socialnetworking-2009-online-conference

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WiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009From Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way, 2007

http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way

From Slide 3 at http://www.slideshare.net/vances/modeling-social-media-in-groups-communities-and-networks-socialnetworking-2009-online-conference

WiAOC and Learning2gether

http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc_index.htm

http://learning2gether.net/about/

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Here a MOOC there a MOOC• http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/62555597/moremoocs• Http://www.connectivistmoocs.org/

From Karen Head: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/here-a-mooc-there-a-mooc-but-will-it-work-for-freshman-composition/41883

Stephen Downes’s definitive archive of knowledge on MOOCs (currently over 500 annotated references):http://www.downes.ca/mooc_posts.htm.

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What is a cMOOC (2008)• Massive Open Online Course• First one in 2008 CCK

https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/3-cck08---the-distributed-course

• The term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier

• You should be familiar with – George Siemens, connectivism

Siemens, G. (2004). Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. Elearningspace. Retrieved from http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

– Stephen Downes on CCKhttp://www.downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm

– Dave Cormier, rhizomatic learning http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/05/rhizomatic-learning-why-learn/

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xMOOCs

https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/All

https://www.edx.org/course-list

What’s with the MOOCs? How MOOC Learning Reaches Students through

TPD

Vance StevensHigher Colleges of Technology, UAE

AAMC / PACE / KBZACTitle slide from: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/how-mooc-learning-reaches-students-through-tpd

Stevens, V. (2013). What's with the MOOCs? TESL-EJ, Volume 16, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej64/int.pdf Also available at: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej64/ej64int/

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Some articles about Webheads• Yilmaz, B, and Stevens, V. (2012). Webheads in Action: A community of practice scaffolding multiliteracies skills in teacher professional development. Writing &

Pedagogy 4,1:135–146.

• Stevens, Vance. (2010). Webheads and Distributed Communities of Practice. Global Neighbors: Newsletter of TESOL's English as a Foreign Language Interest Section, EFLIS News March 2010 Volume 9 Number 1:http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/sec_issue.asp?nid=2994&iid=13069&sid=1

• Stevens, Vance. (2007). Webheads as agents of change in overlapping clouds of distributed learning networks. APACALL Newsletter 11, pp. 3-8. Retrieved December 18, 2007 from: http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter11.pdf.

• Stevens, V. (2004). Webheads communities: Writing tasks interleaved with synchronous online communication and web page development. In Leaver, B. and Willis, J. (Eds.). Task-based instruction in foreign language education: Practices and programes. Georgetown University Press. pp. 204-217. – There is a full text of a late draft of my article here, though references are not included: http://vancestevens.com/papers/webheads/taskbase_ch10june192003.htm – An earlier version has the references, and also images that were intended to illustrate the article: http://vancestevens.com/papers/webheads/taskbase_full.htm– Here is a Commentary: from the Linguis list, May 2005. AUTHORS: Leaver, Betty Lou; Willis, Jane R. TITLE: Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education SUBTITLE:

Practices and Programs PUBLISHER: Georgetown University Press YEAR: 2004 "CHAPTER TEN: Webhead communities: Writing tasks interleaved with synchronous online communication and web page development (Vance Stevens) Another instance of virtual classroom implementing writing tasks is described in this chapter. The author reports activities of groups of learners and teachers involved in online writing practices. The writing tasks were aimed at purposeful interaction and technology was a vehicle of implementing pedagogical principles not the driving force. The author's initiative for conducting an online writing and grammar course is reported to have been the starting point of this community of online writers called Webheads. The group interactions involved various topics including projects on which teachers interacted and themes and tasks of interest to learners. Cost, ease of use, multicasting capability, and cross platform adaptability were the criteria in selecting the tools for computer mediated communication. Email groups, web pages, and synchronous chat were the major modalities of interaction and implementation of tasks. After a brief discussion on evaluation and in the conclusion section the author mentions lowering affective obstacles and promoting a sense of community as the main message from the project and recommends that the model be applied in other situations. In an appendix some technology related issues are dealt with.

• Stevens, V. and Altun, A. (2002). The Webheads community of language learners online. In Syed, Z. (Ed.). The process of language learning: An EFL perspective. Abu Dhabi: The Military Language Institute. pp. 285-318. 2001mli_stevens-altun2mb.pdf. There is a pre-publication version of this paper at http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/t2t2001/proceeds.htm

• Stevens, Vance. 1999. Writing for Webheads: An online writing course utilizing synchronous chat and student web pages. A paper submitted for the 4th Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference: Best Practices In Delivering, Supporting & Managing Online Learning, April 7-9, 1999 - http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/hawaii99.htm

Find my slides with links intact at

http://slideshare.net/vancesSome slides in this presentation appeared in recent presentations of mine:

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/education-2020-presentation-how-can-the-mooc-model-be-applied-in-the-uae And

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/rscon4-27141110