Free online mini-conference September 11, 2009 via Dimdim
The conference will be held in Dimdim and it will be possible to click on the meeting links here closer to the actual time of the virtual conference. No need to pay, no need to join Dimdim, just click on the meeting link and have your headphones plugged in and tested beforehand. More detailed instructions here.

The programme is below. Click on the time to find out what time that is for you in your part of the world.

9:00 GMT Helen Keegan
Wiki treasure hunt on the topic of mentoring.

10:00 GMT Teachers and Technology Nicky Hockly, Director of Pedagogy, The Consultants-e
This session looks at some free Internet-based resources and tools, providing practical examples of how they can be used by language teachers in the classroom.

11:00 GMT Ups and downs
Niels Damgaard, senior advisor Biblioteksentralen, Oslo
What works and what doesn’t when teaching teachers and librarians information literacy and Web 2.0 in Norway via internet over the last 10 years.

Lithuanian strand
12:00 GMT Social software for teaching and learning (in Lithuanian)Gytis CIBULSKIS, e-learning expert,
Socialinės tinklaveikos priemonės mokyme bei mokymesi

13:00 GMT Roundtable
VITAE partners discuss questions and issues raised by the project and conference participants. You can add a question or raise an issue in the project discussion area here at http://vitae.ning.com
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WiAOC 2009 follows on the success of our first two completely free online global convergences in 2005 and 2007 (links at http://wiaoc.org ) This year's unConvergence will be a celebration of the work of educational professionals from a variety of fields in a wide variety of formats.

Tracks

- Ubiquitous and Lifelong Learning
- Emerging and Future Educational Technology
- Educational Technology Worldwide
- Technology Innovations for Teaching and Learning
- Virtual Worlds and Learning

Keynote Speakers
May 22, 2009

11:00 - Dr. Sugata Mitra -
Self Organised Learning and Mediation Environments - the future of schools?
University of Newcastle, UK, Hole in the Wall: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/sugata.mitra

13:00 - Kim Cofino - Moving A Community Forward
http://mscofino.edublogs.com/ / http://mscofino.wikispaces.com

and Jeff Utecht (presenting jointly, both from ISBankok)
http://www.thethinkingstick.com / http://www.jeffutecht.com/

Jeff was dominant force in organizing http://learning2cn.ning.com/

14:00 - David Warlick - Cracking the Native Information Experience
http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?page_id=325

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

15:00 GMT - Nancy White
Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities

May 23, 2009
15:00 GMT - Prof. Jozef Colpaert
Distributed learning, personal goals and the role of communities

17:00 GMT - Alec Couros
Open & Networked Teaching for Educational Transformation

http://couros.ca

May 24, 2009

07:00 GMT - Jo Kay and Jokaydians
09:00 GMT - Angi Malderez
On Mentor Roles

11:00 GMT - Alexander Hayes
Valuing Connected Community : Balance In Uncertain Times

17:00 GMT - Dave Cormier
You Can't Collaborate Alone - Community as Curriculum for Life Long Learning

1900 GMT - Wesley Fryer

StoryChasing: Empowering Students as Digital Witnesses (Part 2 of 2)

 

Fun and Games in professional development

 

Game-based learning (GBL) is being implemented more and more as a central approach rather than an optional add-on. See for example the new Quest2Learn high school opening in the fall in New York.  GBL also has an illustrious history in professional spheres such as the army, business, aviation and the medical world.  If GBL is effective for learners then why not in our professional development? In this session I invite you to try out three professional development games or simulations to fnd out for yourself whether you can learn anything or anything different in this way. Why not have a go at the games and tell us about your experience in this WIAOC  Ning discussion?

 

What you can do:

Try out the following games and report back on your experience.

Diffusion of Innovation Simulation (about 90 minutes)

Mentoring Ms Montfort (about 30 minutes)

Social Media game (needs playmates! and also to be adapted to a teaching context)

 

See you in Elluminate May 24, 18:00 GMT to talk more about this!