Becoming a Webhead 2007

Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Blended Learning

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? ;-)

Posted by: baw07 at 10:05 | link | comments (3)

Isabel Perez Torres talks about Online Class Materials

Once again we had the pleasure of having Isabel Perez as our guest speaker in the

Becoming a Webhead Online Class Materials Session.

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.

Posted by: baw07 at 09:58 | link | comments (3)

Sunday, 11 February 2007

Open Sessions in DIMDIM

Moira Hunter
in DimDim

After moderating live sessions for guest speakers, Moira held three open sessions for participants in Week 4. During each two-hour session, participants dropped in to discover the features of this web-based open source virtual classroom which is still in its Alpha version.

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Fun was certainly had by some as deskstop sharing and application sharing were given a whizz and songs were sung with the beautiful audio where four people can speak together at the same time.

Please leave your comments below and we're all looking forward to seeing the Beta version!

Posted by: MoiraH at 22:56 | link | comments (7)

Saturday, 10 February 2007

ALADO and the WEBHEADS

Andrew Pincon

of
Alado

Andrew 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.

Thank you !

For those unable to be in Alado today, here is the recording.

Please be so kind and post your comments below.

Posted by: MoiraH at 20:24 | link | comments (6)

Friday, 09 February 2007

E-LEARNING ON A SHOESTRING

JANE BOZARTH

certainly had us holding onto our 'virtual hats'
today at 15.00 GMT!!

Have you all caught your breath back?

Thank you so much for coming and opening our eyes to the dynamic collaborative world of a whiteboard in a virtual environment with text and voice! It was a great experience, so much so that we didn't see the 60 minutes in your company just rush by!

If you were unable to be there at 15.00 GMT, here is the recording :

http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1490320

Thank you again, Jane :-))

Please leave your comments for Jane here because I know she'll be reading them

Posted by: MoiraH at 00:01 | link | comments (8)

Wednesday, 07 February 2007

DIVIDING THE BRIDGE : the jungle experience

Geoff Kaye
of
DiscoverE

got up very early in Australia to meet us in the virtual room DiscoverE at 20.00 GMT on Tuesday 6 February.

Geoff is an optometrist and researcher at the University of Western Australia and has a special interest in children (and adults) with dyslexia.

He has developed this online classroom to bring specialist services to those people who live in remote areas.

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We had a tremendous amout of fun, learnt a lot, asked lots of questions and interacted ourselves with the tools in this environment. All the ingredients for a great real-time event online!

For those unable to attend, the recording is available by clicking here:

www.compued.com.au/discovere/baw/recording

In the second session on Saturday 10 Feburary at 01.00 GMT, we had even more fun!

Thanks to your warm and patient online presence, all participants learnt yet more about the possibilites of the whiteboard, how to use this with uploaded files, with the web browser and to annotate web pages and files. We also discussed audio settings and did some troubleshooting. Great session.

Thank you Geoff :-))

Please leave your comments after this live online session here. They are really appreciated :-)

Posted by: MoiraH at 19:35 | link | comments (3)

Monday, 05 February 2007

LEARNING IN REAL TIME

Jonathan Finkelstein

of Learning Times

guided us with expertise through over an hour of interactive real-time learning, illustrating the vast potential of the virtual classroom as a powerful tool in our own teaching!

If you were unable to participate today at 15.00 GMT, you can see the recording here :

http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1486984

Thank you again Jonathan :-)

We hope you all enjoyed this 'hands-on 'learning session as much as we did today in Elluminate!

Please leave your comments and impressions :-)

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