This is the blog for the Becoming a Webhead 2007 session. We will be commenting on the presentations given by our international guest speakers
Becoming a Webhead is a free 6-week online workshop, part of the TESOL Electronic Village Online. We explore Web 2.0 tools and how to use them in our teaching practice.
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Call for Participation for WiaOC 2007
CONNECT: a free synchronous and asynchronous online conference for
teachers and education professionals
May 18–20, 2007
Webheads in Action, a world-wide cross-cultural online community of
several hundred ESL/EFL educators and other professionals, invites
your participation in CONNECT: Conversations on Networking,
Education, Communities, and Technology, a unique conference to be
held entirely online May 18–20, 2007.
The conference is called a convergence because it is intended to be a
fair or festival in which many communities of colleagues converge to
celebrate with us by presenting their work in a wide variety of
formats (See: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/about_CfP ).
Participation is free and open to all who are interested.
Keynote speakers include Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Etienne
Wenger, Barbara Ganley, Teemu Leinonen, and Leigh Blackall.
Aiden Yeh and Rita Zeinstejer were the Week 6 guest speakers.
Before the presentation started we still had a chance to have a glimpse at the surprise Teresa had prepared for the two guest speaker. We were all touched! 
Their presentations were just phenomenal!
What a great pair of educational examples the audience was able to take home! If you miss it, check the recording here! (best viewed in Internet Explorer)
Their presentations were truly eye-openers on the efficient use of educational technologies to enhance and motivate learning in a more meaningful and fun way.
We can only thank them for sharing with us such extraordinary blended learning experiences.
The challenge now is to follow their path and come up with so brilliant ideas as the ones they presented us with.
Hopefully next year, we will all surprise them with similar examples and initiatives, and let them know that we learned the lesson well. They will be proud.
Do you already have some ideas to get started? ;-)
Isabel has been involved in the creation of online, interactive exercises for a long time now
and hearing about her experiences and projects is always inspiring.
This time Isabel ventured in a new venue to deliver her presentation, as she agreed to
host it in ALADO. Many of the participants were very interested in the activities and examples
that Isabel showed them and as usual she was a success. This presentation was an eye-opener
and we are sure that our dear webheads to be will benefits a lot from such an alighting presentation.
We can hardly wait to see the practical results of this session.
Please do share your exercise links with us.
Andrew PinconAndrew Pincon is a very busy man as can be seen from his profile but as always, took time to be with us in
the BaW workshop and was our Guest Speaker today at 16.00 GMT in Alado.
All participants came away knowing more about his work based on over 30 years of international engineering
and business experience and his long-term collaboration with the Webheads after attending
a very interesting presentation.
http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1490320
Geoff Kaye
Jonathan Finkelstein http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1486984
On February 4th, 2007 at 17:00 GMT, Graham Stanley gave a presentation on Podcasting:
Thank you very much, Graham, for your wonderful presentation on podcasting today.
Your presentation introduces a lot of useful information and it is very stimulating!
Thank you also for giving us detailed instructions on how to use the tools you recommended for podcasting.
We have learned a lot from you and are motivated to use podcasting for our classes!
For those who missed the session, you can find all the information (recording, PPT, screenshots, etc.) at:
http://baw07.pbwiki.com/Graham-Alado 
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On Monday, Jan 29 at 21 GMT we got together at the Alado Webheads room to listen to our dear friend and colleague Barbara (Bee) Dieu. Bee shared with us her expertise in blogging.
As usual in Bee's presentations, participants got valuable information about blogging, and were able to interact in the text chat as well as with voice, asking questions to which Bee wisely had a reply for
On this screenshot, of one of the PPT slides, we can see a summary of the benefits we can get with blogging:
For those who missed the session, you can find all the information (recording, PPT, screenshots, etc.) at:
http://baw07.pbwiki.com/bee-alado
Thanks dear Bee for another yet wonderful session
Daf and the BaW07 team
Today, we had Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier from Worldbridges and EdtechTalk present live for us from a Skypecast and the Webheads in Action chat room . The presention was brilliantly seasoned with desktop sharing using Yugma 
We hope you enjoyed the session as much as we did :-) It is impossible not to get hooked to webcasting after listening to Jeff and Dave
If you fell for webcasting, Jeff is moderating the Webcast Academy EVO session!
Listen to the webcast, read the chatlog, and look at some screenshots taken during the presentation at:
http://baw07.pbwiki.com/jeff-dave-worldbridges
Once again we would like to thank Jeff and Dave for this delightful session!
I am sure Jeff and Dave would like to read your comments ;-)
Daf and the BaW07 team.
Yahoo! Messenger has been part of the Webheads communication tradition for a while now, as it is used quite frequently by its members to interact with each other and also to involve students in real communication scenarios with people from all over the globe.
That was also what happened today.
A considerable number of participants gathered online to attend our guest speaker’s presentation on YM. Once again, having Michael Coghlan hosting the week 2 presentation at YM has been a tradition that we mean to keep.
Thank you to the coordinators, moderators and co-moderators who were there to invite people for the conference.
A special thanks to Michael Coghlan who did a great job…well nothing else would be expected anyway!
And thank you to all the attendees. Without you this session wouldn’t have been possible here.
More about this amazing session can be found here: http://baw07.pbwiki.com/Mcoghlan-YM 
Thanks to BjB and her mastery of the environment and her professionalism, we all had an amazing tour of Tapped In today at 13.00 GMT.
If you were unable to attend, please consult the chat log here baw07.pbwiki.com/ti-tour
A great thanks to all who were able to attend the EVO kick-off webcast at 16.00 GMT on Sunday 14 January!
The recording is here : webheadsinaction.org
Please leave your impressions by replying to this post :-)
Dear participants,
Welcome to "Becoming a Webhead 2007" (BaW-07). We will be together for 6 weeks exploring and discussing different web tools and the best way to use them in our daily teaching practice. In this blog we will be discussing the weekly synchronous presentations given by experts in the different topics we will be dealing with.
Looking forward to an enjoyable and fruitful experience,
Dafne, Teresa and the BaW-07 team :-)
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