Vance Stevens

Webheads in Action/Verschoor/ Izquierdo/Cruvinel Sunday, 08 November, 2009 This vibrant online community has changed the life of many educators worldwide. The purpose of the community is to help learning professionals understand the potential benefits of the appropriate integration of available Internet technologies into their teaching practice by first experimenting and learning in a hands-on, low-risk online environment before engaging their own learners. The purpose of this presentation is to show the audience how the members of this community work together all year long to promote professional development. Besides their own professional development, Webheads teach their students the new media literacies that will be required from them in their future jobs. Also, by engaging students in cross-cultural projects using Web 2.0 tools, they start accepting the differences which exist within different cultures, thus becoming better citizens. - Vance Stevens

January 29 - 31, 2010 Science Leadership Academy 55 N. 22nd St. Philadelphia, PA Table of Contents What is EduCon 2.2? The Axioms Keynotes and Panels Call For Sessions! Scheduled To Facilitate: Register For EduCon 2.2 Hotel Information What is EduCon 2.2? EduCon 2.2 is both a conversation and a conference. And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas -- from the very practical to the big dreams. - Vance Stevens

Flickr - Design that Connects- Carla Arena Thursday, 05 November, 2009 6:00 PM To 7:30 PM SA Western Standard Time Flickr is much more than just an online photo sharing space. It's a hub for educational experiments, networking and visually appealing inspiration to any educator. In this talk, participants will learn how Flickr has gone beyond the power of images by enabling the creation of networks and the connection of like-minded educators, schools and students through the various tools it offers. Examples of pedagogical use of the photo sharing platform will be shared, as well. - Vance Stevens

From Information to Knowledge:Creating your Own... -Nik Peachey Friday, 06 November, 2009 10:30 AM To 12:00 PM SA Western Standard Time Web 2.0 and social media have made it increasingly easy for almost anyone with an internet connection to become part of the digital knowledge sharing revolution. It has never been easier for teachers to take control of their own development and build their own personal and professional learning networks, but with the abundance of information now circulating on the world wide web, how do teachers quickly cope with the overload of information, track key sources and sift information so that they can turn it into useful knowledge? I hope that I will be able to help by sharing some useful digital tools and techniques that will help teacher stay connected to the information superhighway and create their own personal learning network without being overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of information. - Vance Stevens

Modeling Social Media in Groups,Communities and Networks -Vance S. Friday, 06 November, 2009 wiziq recording - Vance Stevens

The writeup of my presentation Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks by Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE Prepared for the AVEALMEC/ARCALL online conference on Social Networking http://avealmec.org.ve/ presented November 6, 2009 - Vance Stevens

23 pages of notes on an excellent presentation on From Information to Knowledge - Vance Stevens

an attractive page, good model for setting up a portal - Vance Stevens

After writing a Post on How to add Gadgets in Google wave, I thought I would Post all The Latest Available Gadgets for Google Wave. Here is The Complete List of available Google Wave Gadgets… - Vance Stevens

This report [is] about the extent of social isolation in America. A ... 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated, the size of their discussion networks has declined, and the diversity of those people with whom they discuss important matters has decreased. ... Americans have fewer close ties to those from their neighborhoods and from voluntary associations. Sociologists Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears suggest that new technologies, such as the internet and mobile phone, may play a role in advancing this trend. ... that the type of social ties supported by these technologies are relatively weak and geographically dispersed, not the strong, often locally-based ties that tend to be a part of peoples’ core discussion network. They depicted the rise of internet and mobile phones as one of the major trends that pulls people away from traditional social settings, neighborhoods, voluntary associations, and public spaces etc. - Vance Stevens

Presentation prep/notes for -> Open Educational Resources – A potential foundation for the future. Posted on November 5th, 2009 admin 1 comment Thursday November 5th, 4pm Eastern NA. GLOBAL TIMES In May i had the wonderful opportunity to try a live slide build as part of the WIAOC (webheads in action online convergence). They were a great crowd, and the build was awesome. It was the first success that I’ve had with that kind of live interactive slide building, and, well, I’m going to try it again this afternoon. Here’s how it works… I put together a dozen or so slides that are mostly blank with a single question on each slide… we import that slideshow into eluminate (or some other program that will allow for whiteboarding over slides). Each member of the audience is responsible for answering the questions, and I, your confused moderator, will present from the slides as they are being built by the audience. - Vance Stevens

Connectivism and Social Networking - George Siemens Thursday, 05 November, 2009 8:00 PM To 9:30 PM Greenwich Standard Time This presentation will explore networks as agents that have altered many of the assumptions held by traditional education. The core roles of institutions, curriculum, and educators are altered when control over conversations and information access shifts to learners. For many educators, this change is first reflected in innovative pedagogies (wall-less classrooms and global conversations) and personal professional development. However, the impact of emerging technologies and networks are much greater than only altering teaching. What will education look like when we shed the assumptions formed during the pre-digital era and adjust institutions to address needs of learners for a world of growing complexity and connectedness? - Vance Stevens

The book is published entitled: "Mentoring for 21st Century Skills It’s all about the Learning" Download the VITAE Project Handbook cover About the book: In this book, we present a collection of papers and articles which represent the varied backgrounds and interests of the authors, all of whom belong to the VITAE team who developed the materials and approaches which are outlined here. While some articles are practical in their focus, describing the application of pedagogic models and the experiences of the participants; others are more theoretical, offering in-depth explorations of the approaches taken in developing the VITAE model. - Vance Stevens

Join Alice, Bob and Cheryl as we talk to Tim Hart, from the University of Maine, College of Human Development and Mary O'Brien, 3rd grade teacher from Manchester, ME. We have a great conversation and learn a lot about Second Life and the courses Tim teaches and Mary speaks as a student and extraordinary builder in Second Life! Tim mentioned this article from the UMaine Today magazine where Lyra Hall talks about her experiences with John Sherblom's Communication and Technology Course. The Chat speaks volumes! - Vance Stevens

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave. Table of Contents This book's contents are freely available to view online. Click on a chapter to read it. see also our growing compilation of Wave-related links and video clips from across the web. - Vance Stevens

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Fun projects such as arcade glass recycling game and piano stairs to draw people off using elevator - Vance Stevens

This is the 80 min video of the first public presentation of Google Wave, the one that got everyone excited - Vance Stevens

here is the actual wave - Vance Stevens

Make diigo-like sticky notes and highlights on web pages and create urls that anyone can view without being signed in, seems like a good mash-up with delicious, you have to install it in your browser toolbar. works with pdf files, personal version is free. - Vance Stevens

The best way to learn a language is by talking to real people in the real world or online. So, Languages Out There combines the classroom with the street and online social media for a learning experience that is interactive, fun, and uniquely effective. In each session you learn a small amount of grammar and vocabulary. You practice it in the classroom or virtual classroom. Then you go out into the city with your teacher, or onto your favourite social network to use your new skills in real life, real time situations with fluent and native speakers. - Vance Stevens

Per Stephen Downes: "Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training This is an entire book available for free download (or, you can order a print version). Even if you don't have time to read the whole book, be sure to see John Traxler's Current State of Mobile Learning, which outlines major categories of mobile learning, discussion of a definition of mobile learning (which excludes the current generation of laptop and Tablet PCs), the case for mobile learning (on grounds of personal, situated and authentic learning), and attributes of an evaluation of mobile learning. Mohamed Ally, editor, Athabasca University, October 25, 2009 " - Vance Stevens