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  Relevant sites for newcomers 2002  
  Yahoo Groups EVO Sessions 2002  
Communities of Practice Webheads EVO 2002
Webheads in Action worldwide (an interactive map) TESOL 2002
Live Events with WiA Work leading up to TESOL 2003
WiA Online Conferences 2003
Chat and chat logs EVO Sessions 2003
Homepages Webheads EVO 2003
Blogs TESOL 2003
Webheads meet face-to-face 2004
Interesting pages EVO Sessions 2004
Courses, classes, workshops, studies et al. Webheads EVO 2004
Online Tools used (includes webcaming) Tesol 2004
Presentations 2005
Webheads in Portuguese, French, Spanish... EVO Sessions 2005
Papers Webheads EVO 2005
Theses by Webheads Tesol 2005
Books by Webheads Related sites
Logos Miscellaneous

 

YAHOO GROUPS

Yahoo Groups

    Yahoo Groups Help

Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Education

 

WEBHEADS COMMUNITIES

Webheads in Action
  Becoming a Webhead    
  Teaching & Writing for Webheads    
  Egypt Webheads    

 

Electronic Village Online 2002

What is EVOnline?

Comprehensive info on this free training program sponsored by TESOL

EVOnline 2002: Homepage

Info about the different online sessions available: 25Jan. - 25Mar. 2002

Webheads evonline session 2002

Invitation to enroll in "Webheads in Action"

Introductory message, enrollment instructions and useful tips

Enrolling in Yahoo Groups

Instructions for joining a Yahoo Group

Yahoo Groups Portal

Yahoo Groups home page for the Webhead community

Community formation online and its role in language learning: Portal page

Description of this eight week seminar and of other Webhead activities and groups, plus important urls and email addresses

Portal page 'mirror site'

"If you can't reach the Webheads in Action portal, try this one!"

Community Members

A roster of the members including a short profile/bio and relevant virtual info

Syllabus

Weekly activities, useful links, instructions on how to enroll in the session

Week 1

Overview and Organization of the course

  • use of Yahoo Groups

  • setting up and managing your Yahoo Group account/s

  • overview of useful tools for synchronous communication

Week 2

Tapped In

  • getting familiar with the environment

  • becoming a member & getting an office

  • meeting other Webheads

  • creating a virtual pet dog

  • creating, dropping and projecting notes

  • create and link to your own personal icon

Week 3

Text, Voice and Video

  • Yahoo Messenger (YM), MSN Messenger, ICQ. . . 

  • chatting with other Webheads

  • voice chat at YM

  • webcams at YM

  • voice and video chat on iVisit

  • PalTalk

  • Netmeeting via MSN Messenger

  • comparison: YM, Netmeeting & Tapped In

  • Groove and Pure Voice

Week 4

Some other interesting synchronous and threaded chat tools

  • Introduction to Blackboard & Team Blackboard site

  • Nicenet

  • discussion forums: Delphi Forums

  • GEN: the VirtualU Open Course software

  • Yahoo Groups

  • The LearnEnglish Chat, WebCT, EZBoard, BeSeen, Inforum.insite, Wimba, Groupboard

Week 5

Cyber-spaces for community formation

  • blogs and rubrics

  • creating your web page

  • html editors: Netscape Composer, Claris Homepage, FrontPage, Homebuilder, HotMetal

  • uploading files

  • adding codes to your page: Wimba & Groupboard

  • tracking your bookmarks: MyBookmarks, Backflip, iKeepBookmarks

Week 6

Faces in the community: developing our web pages

  • developing html skills: Hot Potatoes, color codes, absolute vs. relative links, mouseovers

  • enhancing your website with web statistics, chat room, search engine, dictionary

  • manipulating images: cropping & resizing, gif & jpeg, thumbnails, Thumbs Plus, PhotoDraw, Microsoft Photo Editor, ACDSee, Thumbnail Creator, Adobe Photoshop, photo file sizes

  • how to call media files from web pages: Real Media & the EMBED command

Week 7

Issues in e-moderation and chaos navigation

  • how do communities form online?

  • e-moderation

  • intuitive chaos navigation

Week 8

Wrap-up and where do we go from here?

  • characteristics of an effective online community

  • effective uses of CMC with students

  • reflections on what we've accomplished

  • creating a survey instrument

  • where do we go from here?

Archive/Schedule of Synchronous Sessions

Events associated with WIA sessions between Jan.-Apr. 2002

Webheads' Cybertours

Online experiences reported by WIAs (last updated 6 Sep. 2004)

Happy Hallowebhead

Webheads celebrating Halloween 2002 (3 Nov. 2002)

    Celebrating Halloween Vance's mouseover Boo! + reports of the event from a few Webheads (3 Nov. 2002)

 

Work leading up to TESOL 2003

Events facilitated by Vance Stevens and Webheads in Action Work leading up to and at the TESOL Convention 25-29 Mar. 2003. Baltimore, Maryland, USA
EVonline Training for Moderators Oct 21 - Nov 29, 2002: Portal Page "Aims to help facilitate the training for moderators during the 2003 EVOnline sessions by providing a model for community building for trainers and trainees on the web"

EVonline Training Yahoo Groups Portal

Yahoo Groups home page for the Evonline Training Program 21 Oct. - 29 Nov. 2002

 

Electronic Village Online 2003

EVonline Sessions 2003: Homepage

Info about the different online sessions available: 20Jan. – 7 Mar. 2003

Webheads evonline session 2003

Communities of practice online: Reflection through experience and experiment with the Webheads community of language learners and practitioners Description of the EVonline eight-week workshop: 20Jan. - 7 Mar.2003

Week 1

Welcome to the Webheads community of practice (CoP)
  • getting organized: what you need to do to participate
  • what is a CoP?
  • who are the Webheads?
  • what have we done so far?

Week 1 wrap-up

All the threads that were discussed this week

Week 2

What are communities of practice?
  • what are communities of practice?
  • how do communities form online?
  • what conditions lead to emergence of communities of practice?
  • how do communities of practice operate?

Assignments Page

Week 2 wrap-up

All the threads that were discussed this week

Week 3

Online communication tools that facilitate interaction of participants in a virtual community and their role in language learning
  • the role that both synchronous and asynchronous tools can play in language learning
  • how they can be used in our daily practice with students
  • practical uses of both these tools in language learning
  • how to organize online sessions with students
  • how 'newbie' students can be introduced to these communicative  tools
  • pros and cons of using chat and email in the language learning process

Week 3 wrap-up

All the threads that were discussed this week

Week 4

Theoretical underpinnings of communities of practice and their relationship to pedagogy
  • how CoP theory relates to Webheads
  • how it difers from traditional education: paradigm shifts
  • is a CoP efficient?
  • latest developments
  • Dafne's questions on CoPs

CoP Theory Overview

Chris Johnson's clear and concise "illustrated mindmap/garden metaphor/graphic metaphor" of the underlying concepts of a community of practice

Glossary of Chris Johnson's four diagrams on CoPs

Week 4 wrap-up

All the threads that were discussed this week

Week 5

How participation in a community of practice informs and influences the participants' personal teaching practices

Week 5 wrap-up

All the threads that were discussed this week

Week 6

Aspects of the quality of instruction utilizing computer mediated communication
  • what elements provide quality to e-instruction? are these elements the same for f2f instruction?
  • is interaction a fundamental element of quality? what is the role of interaction in promoting quality in e-instruction?
  • what is the role of the e-moderator?
  • how should we evaluate the quality of e-learning?
  • how does e-literacy affect the e-learning process?
  • how can online communities handle the digital divide?

Week 6 wrap-up

All the threads that were discussed this week

Week 7

What we've learned: Wrap-up and consolidation
  • what you think were the most important issues raised in the seminar
  • thinking about where we go from here

Case study of a community of practice

Colloquium to be presented by a panel of Webheads of Action at the TESOL 2003 Convention:  25-29 Mar. Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Communities of Practice: Webheads Reading List Annotated Bibliography: a list of books/articles compiled by Chris Johnson in the order he thinks is logical
Communities of Practice: Theory overview Chris Johnson's clear and concise "illustrated mindmap/garden metaphor/graphic metaphor" of the underlying concepts of a community of practice
Classification of Independent Variables Chris Johnson's "structure  determined to uniquely identify distributed online CoPs"

Glossary of Chris Johnson's four diagrams on CoPs

Compiled by Teresa Almeida d'Eça (2003)

What is a Community of Practice?

Chris Jones - Definition, Purpose, Leadership, Characteristics. What holds a community together? (2003)

  Communities of Practice Resources (a partially annotated list of references) Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (9 Feb. 2005)  

 

Electronic Village Online 2004

EVOnline 2004: Homepage Info about the different online sessions available: 26 Jan. - 5 Mar. 2004
  Electronic Village Online Sessions 2004 ESL Mini Conference  

webheads evOnline session 2004

Becoming a Webhead: A hands-on workshop on how to use Web communication tools for language teaching and learning Homepage of the 6-week workshop with links to different activities and Web pages: 26Jan. - 6Mar. 2004

Mirror site

    Week 1 Getting acquainted with Yahoo Groups. Introductions. Exploratory survey.
    Week 2 Synchronous communication tools: Tapped In, Yahoo Messenger, MSN.
    Evaluations of Michael Coghlan's session  
    Week 3 Virtual classrooms and other tools.
    Week 4 Building an online presence: Creation of Web pages and use of images.
    Week 5 Developing class materials: Online surveys and worksheets, and interactive exercise creators.
    Week 6 Wrap-up: Conclusions and reflections. Becoming a member of the WiA CoP.
    Chat sessions Includes .ppt presentations, voice presentations and chat logs of the text presentations.
      Dafne's Webboard "Let's have a discussion on e-learning and the use of CMC tools for language learning  

 

Electronic Village Online 2005  

EVOnline 2005: Homepage Info about the different online sessions available: 17 Jan. - 27 Feb. 2005

webheads evOnline session 2005

Becoming a Webhead: A hands-on workshop on how to use Web communication tools for language teaching and learning Homepage of the 6-week workshop with links to different activities and Web pages: 17Jan. - 27Feb. 2005
    Week 1 Getting acquainted with Yahoo Groups. Introductions. Exploratory survey.
    Week 2 Text and Voice synchronous communication tools: Tapped In, Yahoo Messenger and MSN.
    Week 3 Building an online presence: Blogs and Web pages.
    Week 4 Virtual classrooms and voice mail.
    Week 5 Developing class materials: Online surveys, worksheets, and interactive exercise creators.
    Week 6 Blended learning. Wrap-up: Conclusions and evaluation. Graduating as a Webhead in Action.
    Chat sessions Includes .ppt presentations, voice presentations and chat logs of the text presentations
      Chaos Navigation in a  Graduation Ceremony Agenda, certificate, chatlogs and screenahots (27 Feb. 2005)  
  Maintaining 'Web presence' (YGroup) Vance Stevens (17 Jan. - 27 Feb. 2005)  
      Establishing and maintaining
'Web presence'
(portal page)
Vance Stevens (17 Jan. - 27 Feb. 2005)  
  Establishing and maintaining 'Web presence' (photo blog) Vance Stevens  
  Using Weblogs in ESL/EFL Classes Aaron Campbell, Barbara Dieu and Graham Stanley (17 Jan. - 27 Feb. 2005)  
  Making the Transition from ESL to ESP Buthaina Al-Othman and Christine Parkhurst (17 Jan. - 27 Feb. 2005)  

 

webheads' home pages

Aiden Yeh

A list of her projects and papers

    Linkable list of student projects  
    CV  
  Andy Pincon (Digi Bridge)    

Anne Fox

Arif Altun

Arlyn Freed

 

    Webheads in Action (WiA): Links to members' Homepages and Artifacts

A list of 'all' Webheads with links to homepages, 'accomplishments', country and location, compiled by Arlyn Freed

 
      Database of 2002 Discussion Topics    
  Arif Altun (last updated 8 Apr. 2003)  

Arnold Mühren

Selected work

Arthur McKeown

Barbara Dieu/Bee

Site Map (using Inspiration)

Barbara Dieu's Library (KeeBook: Nov. 2003)

BJ Berquist

Buthaina Al-Othman

EFL Home in Kuwait

Candace/Candy Pauchnick

Chris Johnson

Chris Jones

ESL Internet Course

Christine Bauer-Ramazani

Claire B. Siskin

Technology in Language Learning Workshop (Fall 2002)

Dafne González

    Dafne's Nook (Dafne's first Web page)  

    From WiA learner to e-moderator

Dafne talks with Webheads about the planning and implementation of her first online course

    Publications  

Damian Damianopoulos

Don Carroll

  Doris Molero A Web Journal (2004)  
  Elderbob (Robert Brannan)    

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith

Fernanda Rodrigues

  James Simpson    

János Blasszauer

Janós' EFL E-den

Spring Day 2003 in Hungary (Janós was the Hungarian representative of this European project) (broken link)

Jean Michel Chaupart

João Fernandes

Welcome to English Online

Why and How I got interested in computer assisted learning

John Steele

John Steele's Online ESL Palace

Jorge Villegas Language Center (UPB)

Lena Parshina

Maggi Doty

María Jordano

Maria's WiA Corner

Michael Coghlan

Articles/Presentations/Websites

Original Songs (music and lyrics)
Busking in Israel (1981)

Michael Marzio

Real English

Nigel Caplan

Bibliography on Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication in ESL (last updated 4 Jan. 2003)

Nigel on the Net

Renata Chylinski

  Rick Rosenberg    

Rita Zeinstejer

Achievement Profile (ESL MiniConference, Jul. 2003)

  Sonja Metta Elsegood    

Susanne Nyrop

Winner of the Funniest Live Online Learning Moment: The LOLA Awards (Learning Times, Oct. 2004)

Portfolio (2004)

Teresa Almeida d'Eça

Tom Robb

Vance Stevens

Venny Su

Yaodong Chen

 

BLOGS

Blogs Miscellaneous on blogs from Webheads et al.
My suggested blogs Maria Jordano's collection of links on blogs and blogging
Creating a blog in Blogger Aiden Yeh (4 Oct. 2004)
Research on the use of TEACHER blogs to research motivation (a discussion forum) Renata Suzuki (May 2004)
Blog Rubric Bee Dieu (May 2003)
Web-Blogs!!!! Buth's brief intro to blogs for her students. Includes links to her students' blogs (Spring 2003)
Chat on Blogs Arif, Dafne, Rita and Sus chat about blogs and blogging (3 Feb. 2003)
Blogs EVOnline 2002: Week 5 (2002)

 

Blogs by Webheads
Agata Agata's Two Cents Agata Zieba-Warcholak's personal blog (Feb. 2004)
Aiden Aiden Yeh's Academic Writing Course Student blogs (university) (Mar. 2004)
Aiden Yeh's Writing II Web Journal Aiden Yeh's teacher blog (Apr. 2004)

scwriting

Aiden's teacher-student blog for her writing class students (university) (Mar. 2003)
  My lips are sealed...sometimes    
AnnaK Friendly Class 4E Anna Korey's teacher blog (Feb. 2004)
    Class 4E Anna Korey's student blog (Mar. 2004)
AnneF Street Life A project blog (Jun. 2003)
BaW Becoming a Webhead 2004 Blog for the BaW participants with a list of the blogs several of them created - Created by Dafne Gonzalez (Jan. 2004)
  Becoming a Webhead 2005 Created by Dafne Gonzalez (Dec. 2004)  
Bee Bee-coming a Webhead Bee's personal blog: Comments/Links/Ideas on Blogging and Learning Online (Jan. 2004)

    Bee Online (listen to Bee's 'welcome' voice message)

Collective class blog leading to individual student blogs (high school) (May 2003)
    Bee Online2 Collective class blog leading to individual student blogs (high school) (Aug. 2004)
    Bee-coming a Webhead Bee's video-conferencing experiment with Venny in Taiwan (Jun. 2004)
    Bee-coming a Webhead Webheads at TesolArabia Abu Dhabi Chapter (Apr. 2004)
    Blog Rubric (2nde)
Belnate Belnate Conference Blog Created by Sergei Gridyushko (Jun. 2004)
Buth

090 Summary Writing

Buth's teacher-student announcement blog for her university students (Fall 2003)
  My Ongoing Learning Process    
Candace Yahoo 360: My Page Candy, Yaodong's and their students' blog  
ChrisJ Structure 3 Chris Jones' teacher-student blog for her grammar students (university) (Mar. 2004)
  Blog for Internet Class (Fall 2004)    
  ESL Internet (Spring 2005)    
  Structure 3 Links to Grammar exercises  
Chrissan Chrissan's Blog This blog is a modest try-out of this rather scary techie stuff. (Jan. 2005)  
Daf Blogging my thoughts away Dafne (Jan. 2005)  

Daf's Raco

Dafne's welcome to the world of cyber blogs (Mar. 2003)
Videochat blog Dafne Gonzalez (Apr. 2003)
W4W A blog for co-writing an online paper for an online conference - Dafne Gonzalez (Feb. 2003)
Damian Damian's Blogging Experience    
Doris Doris's Web Journal Created by Doris Molero for her CMC:Online Tools workshop (July 2004)
Elder-Bob Elderboblog Elderbob/Robert Brannan personal blog (Feb. 2004)
  ElderUniversity Elderbob experimenting with Blogmeister (9 Jan. 2005)  
  L-derBobEd Elderbob's blog for the ESL/EFL blogging workshop  
  On the Trail (latest post)

On the Trail (first post)

Elderbob/Robert Brannan celebrates re-enactment of the Western Trail, a famous Texas cattle drive (26 Aug. 2004)  
    On the Trail Blog: Frontier History Elderbob Brannan (The Bandera Bulletin, 1 Sep. 2004)
Webheads Fiesta ... a buffet of virtual and f2f webhead goodies rarely encountered... (Mar. 2005)
Elizabeth Elizabeth Hanson-Smith:: weblog A personal blog
Graham

Blog-EFL

Graham Stanley's blog (Jul. 2003)

    ELT Weblog workshop

Graham's "blogging input session at the British Council in Barcelona" (14 Oct. 2003)
Hala Collaborative knock on the door Hala Fawzi (May 2005)
IsabelP Isabel's ESL Site Blog Isabel Pérez
JaneP Enablog Jane Petring's blog (Apr. 2004)
  Of Bikes and Blogs: Cycling to Fluency, an Innovative Approach to Language Learning Jane Petring (Sep. 2004)  
Rascalsblog Jane Petring includes useful blog resources (May 2004)
Kyi Kyi Shwin's Xanga Site Kyi Shwin's thesis blog (Jul. 2004)
Laine Laine's Blog Laine Marshall's reflective blog (Oct. 2003)
MariaI Maria Irene's blog Maria Irene Urriola (24 Jan. 2005)
MariaJ Teaching Experiences Maria Jordano (Jun. 2004)
  MJ's suggested blogs Maria Jordano  

Michael

Ivy

Rome EFL Blog Michael Ivy  
Norbella My_learning_blog Norbella Miranda's first blog with reflections on learning and teaching (Sep. 2004)
Renata Getting there Renata Suzuki's "journal and workpad for developing thoughts on teaching" (Mar. 2004)
Grankageva's journal Renata Suzuki's personal blog (Feb. 2004)
Rita Fabulous trips Rita Zeinstejer (Feb. 2005)  
SaraM EFL/ESL Teachers Blog Sara Martín's Web journal with a focus on possible blog-based activities (Feb. 2004)
Sergei goin' upstream A meeting place to interact after class - Sergei Gridushko with a Mystery Guest (Mar. 2005)  
Sus

Susnyrop's K-log

Susanne's blog on "participation, learning and collaborating in virtual learning environments" (Jul. 2002)
  World Around Webheads Sus' Online Learning, Collaboration and Communication Trajectories (Started 31 May 2004)  
Teresa Have Fun with English Teresa's teacher-student blog for her 5th grade students (Dec. 2003)

Let's Blog!

Teresa's teacher-student blog for her 7th grade students (Mar. 2003)
  Teresa's Blog for "The Learning Classroom" Course Teresa reflects on the course readings and sessions (18 Sep. 2004)  
Tim Nall Blinger A linguistics and ESL blog by Tim Nall
  EFL Geek    
Vance

Vance's WeBlog

Vance's way of keeping track of information encountered while surfing (Mar. 2003)

    How to create a BLOG using Blogger

Vance Stevens (31 Aug. 2003)
    Adding Links and Pictures to your Blog Template Vance Stevens (20 Apr. 2004)

Oasis Achievers in Summer 2003 at the Petroleum Institute

Vance's "secondary / high school students in the UAE who have been working on their blogs" (Summer 2003)

"Blogging has been an excellent way to instill a motivating sense of audience in my students" (email to Webheads, 9 Aug. 2003)

Wendy English Studies Wendy Seale-Bakes' resource for English language learners and colleagues (Dec. 2004)

 

 
Blokis
Bee Bee's Bloki
Daf Daf's Bloki
JeanM Fle & Tice Jean Michel Chaupart's bloki in French for teachers of French as a FL in South America and the Caribbean
Teresa Teresa's first bloki  
Yaodong Yaodong's Bloki

 

   
  Photo blogs    
Buth Vance Stevens' Webcast for QTEN Conference in Qatar Created by Buth (5 May 2005)  
  Michael's MVP for the CU Conference in Adelaide Created by Buth (4 May 2005)  
  Elizabeth's Video Webheads MVPresentation Created by Buth (29 Apr. 2005)  
  Teresa's Webcast Building Online CoPs Created by Buth (23 Apr. 2005)  
  Vance's MVPresentation on Blogs Created by Buth (22 Apr. 2005)  
Candace Candy's photoblog    
Daf Daf's photo blog    
  Rhythm in Architecture Includes brain maps created by Daf's students  
Eliz. Thompson Place Elizabeth Hanson-Smith  
Renata Onegreenleaf: Swimming in the Sea Renata Suzuki (23 Jul. 2003)  
Teresa Webheads Teresa's face-to-face meetings with Webheads (Feb. 2005)  
Vance Vance's China Blog A blog created during his visit to China (Jul. 2004)  
  Christmas 2004 Vance Stevens (Dec. 2004)  
  Audio blogs    
  Adelaide, Education and Life Michael Coghlan  

 

webheads MEET FACE-TO-FACE

2005

Sus and Barb Chap meet in Farum Reported by Sus (1 Jul. 2005)  
  Webheads in Trollhättan again! Barb Chap visits Chrissan (25 Jun. 2005)  
  Sus and Chrissan in Trollhättan, Sweden Chrissan (11 May 2005)  

 

Two Australian Webheads Meet Michael Coghlan meets Georgina Nou at a conference in Adelaide (2 May 2005)  
  Teresa and Graham Stanley meet in Lisbon Created by Teresa (15 Feb. 2005)  
  Teresa and Rita meet in Lisbon Created by Teresa and yet to be completed (14 Jan. 2005)  
  Fabulous trips (Rita & Tersa meet in Lisbon) Rita Zeinstejer (Feb. 2005)  

2004

Karen's Trip to Japan Posted by Venny (24 Dec. 2004)  

 

Karen Garcia meets Renata in Yokohama, Japan Created by Dafne (22 Dec. 2004)  
  Teresa and Joti Teresa meets Joti, Michael Coghlan's son, in Cascais (11 Dec. 2004)  

 

Webheads in Action meet f2f with Learning Times in the Big Apple! Buth Al-Othman and Dave Winet meet Jonathan Finkelstein and Hope Kandel (26 Aug. 2004)

Buth and Mike Marzio meet f2f in the Big Apple Buth Al-Othman (16&23 Aug. 2004)
Mike and Valerie meet Buth and Muthla in NYC Mike Marzio (Aug. 2004)

The Valencia pages Teresa, Dafne, MariaJ and Arnold meet in Valencia (Jun. 2004)

Teresa and Jean Marc Dieu Teresa meets Jean Marc, Bee's son, in Lisbon (13 May 2004)
Dafne meets Jacqueline Chaupart Daf and Jacqueline, Jean Michel's daughter, meet in Valencia, Spain (22 Apr. 2004)
Webheads meet at APPI 2004 Joao Fernandes, Claire B. Siskin, Luisa R. Rosa and Teresa meet in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal (Apr. 2004)
     Portugal 2004: APPI 2004 Conference Created by Claire B. Siskin (Dec. 2004)  
Webheads meet at TESOL 2004 & more Chris Jones (Mar-Apr. 2004)
Webheads meet at TESOL 2004 & more Buthaina Al-Othman (Mar-Apr. 2004)
Teresa's f2f meeting with Webheads Teresa and several Webheads meet in Long Beach for TESOL 2004 (Mar-Apr. 2004)

 

2003

Vance, Buth and Michael meet in Abu Dhabi These three Webheads meet for the time f2f to webcast their presentations for Global Learn Day VII (16 Nov. 2003)

A Webhead Meeting in California

Michael Coghlan meets Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (Jul. 2003)

Elizabeth and Michael Coghlan (a short video)

Michael takes a ride on the River Otter, Sacramento, CA (Jun. 2003)

Dafne and Arnold

Meeting in Holland for the IACSEE Conference in Egmong aan Zee (Jun. 2003)

Dafne and María

Dafne visits María Jordano in Córdoba for the CETA conference (27 Apr. 2003)

Dafne and María

Dafne and María meet in Valencia, Spain (4 Apr. 2003)

 

2002

Dafne meets Webheads at TESOL 2002

TESOL 2002 Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (9-13 Apr. 2002)

Teresa and Susanne

Susanne's highlights from a day at Teresa's school and house in Parede, Portugal (Apr. 2002)

Vance, Aiden, Ying Lan and Venny Su

Presentation at The 4th Wen Shan Conference on English Teaching - Taipei, 25Oct2003

 

INTERESTING PAGES

Carnival Carnival in Brazil, Portugal and elsewhere presented by Dafne, Susanne and Teresa (10 Feb. 2002)

    The Webheads' Hefty Hangover Site

The after effects of a genuine Samba party! - Susanne
  Catherding (short video file)    
      Serendipitous herders: cat herders Vance Stevens explains the meaning of the expression (13 Jan. 2005)  
Cooking lesson Recipes from Spain, Denmark and Portugal presented at the TI Summer Carnival 2002 by Dafne, Susanne and Teresa (Jul. 2002)
  Baked Codfish Teresa Almeida d'Eça (6 Jul. 2002)  
  Paella Cooking Lesson (for the TI Summer Festival 2002) Dafne Gonzalez (Jul. 2002)  

    Writing a Process Paragraph on 'Paella'

Buth's directions for a student task based on Dafne's 'Paella' cooking lesson (Fall 2002)

    How to cook Paella

One of Buthaina's 'English for Science' students, Amina Hasan, describes the cooking process (click on Activity #3 in the Outline)
  Rita's Argentinian Empanadas Rita Zeinstejer (17 Jul. 2002)  

Cooking with Webheads (map)

Dafne's interactive map of recipes by Webheads
Creating a personalized World Clock Susanne Nyrop (10 Nov. 2003)
  Thank you all!!! Dafne's birthday cards (Oct. 2003)  
Dafne's self-portrait (drawn at her Groupboard page) Submitted to the Art Competition of the NetWorking 2002 online event (Aug. 2002). Dafne was awarded 1st prize! Her comments: "I am so bad at drawing that I could have never imagined that I would get a prize for any drawing of mine. Another marvel of this virtual world."
Dive Logs for Vance Stevens Vance in one of his diving expeditions (13 Jun. 2003)
Easter basket (broken link) Dafne's Easter present to all Webheads (18 Apr. 2003)
Happy Hallowebhead Webheads celebrating Halloween 2002 at Tapped In (3 Nov. 2002)
    Celebrating Halloween Vance's mouseover Boo! + reports of the event from a few Webheads

Interesting Websites Webheads have created

Links to many pages created as a result of participation in this session - Vance Stevens (last updated 6 May 2005)

NotLess: Nyrop's Online Trajectory Log Entries of Serendip Samples

Susanne Nyrop (Sus, I think this was your first blog!) (16 Aug. 2001 - 12 Jan. 2002)

  Playground for Webheads (Welcome to the GroupBoard) Susanne Nyrop  

Slow train coming?

"Platforms may be for trains, but without them getting students course ready can be a Slow Train Coming." - Michael Coghlan

Valencian Fallas 2002

Dafne created this page on this outdoor celebration in Valencia, Spain

Webheads in Action and Me: Personal Impressions Teresa's impressions (8 Mar. 2002)

    Webheads Self-Assessment

Teresa's self-assessment of the 8-week EV Online Training Program (25 Mar. 2002)
  Dafne's reflections on these 7 weeks Dafne Gonzalez (Mar. 2002)  
  CoPs Online: Reflection through experience and experiment with the Webheads community of language learners and practitioners Dafne's KeeBook experiment (25 Jan. 2003)  

7 weeks of WiA - still one more week left, reflections and assessment

Susanne Nyrop (14 Mar. 2002)

Webheads in Action Database

Created by Fernanda Rodrigues

Webheads in Action Postings Count (27 April 2003)

Created by Tom Robb

    Comments and statistics

Damian

    Graphic of contribution rates

Created by Damian

    Reading numbers with an interpretration

Susanne's interpretation of WiA postings

    Count of WiA postings

Created by Susanne
  The LOLA Awards Sus wins 2004 LOLA: Funniest Live Online Learning Moment (Oct. 2004)  

 

logos

 

WiA logo

János Blasszauer (5 May 2003)

 
  Another Logo for Webheads in Action Dafne (5 May 2003)  
  Ismail's WiA logo Ismail Fayed (15 Mar. 2004)  
  Fernanda's Wia logos Fernanda Rodrigues (15 Mar. 2004)  
  Logo studies Aiden, Elizabeth, Bee and Vance  
  Vote for your favorite WiA logo Created by Dafne (7 Mar. 2004)  

 

ONLINE TOOLS & platforms USED

  CMC Tools Poll Fernanda Rodrigues  
      Results    
  Tapped In Sundays at 12:00 GMT  

vClass

Alado Webheads Room    
      Webheads Alado Calendar    
  Learning Times    
      Elluminate vClass    
      Webheads Virtual Office    
      Michael Coghlan's Office    
      Susanne Nyrop's Office    
    Exploring a New Webcasting Tool: A Virtual Classroom at Elluminate Buth gives a comprehensive report on her different experiences with Elluminate's vClass

Chat

Some CMC clients promoting language learning throgh chatting online Vance Stevens (last updated 7 Apr. 2005)  
  Yahoo Messenger    
      Getting a Yahoo ID Chris Jones (updated Nov. 2004)  
      Logging in, Adding and Accepting Friends Chris Jones (updated Nov. 2004)  
      How to Archive Messages Chris Jones  
      Initiating Chat and Starting a Voice Conference Chris Jones  

    Setting Yahoo Messenger to save logs automatically (broken link)

Dafne explains the procedure through images

  Yahoo Groups    
      Instructions for Enrolling in Yahoo Groups Vance Stevens (15 Nov. 2001)  
  MSN Messenger    
  iVisit    
  PalTalk    

Voice

mail

HandyBits    
  SitePal    
  Web-based Voice Recording Jim Duber's demo  
  Audioblogger    
      Audioblogging - Summary of Options Michael Coghlan (2 May 2005)  
Skype  
      Playing with Skype Dafne, Arnold et al. report on their first experiences with Skype (23Nov03)  

    Review of Skype

Sent by Barbara Dieu (8Dec2003)
      Skype Problems Confirmed Robin Good (23 Nov. 2003)  
      The Online Audio Interview Recorder: Skype Recorder vs. iVocalize Robin Good (25 Dec. 2004)  
Another Experience with a New Webcasting Tool! Buth reports on her visit to Geoffrey Kaye's Conference Room/vClass at Compu.Ed (Aug. 2003)
MJ's CMC & Collaboration tools Very useful information gathered by María Jordano
  MJ's elearning Resources compiled by María Jordano  
  Dafne's Webboard (a friendly discussion on e-learning and the use of CMC tools for language learning) Dafne (Apr. 2003 - Feb. 2004)  

Description of Electronic Supports used for an Online Course

Created by Dafne

On Survey Creators

Dafne comments on some survey creators

Team Blackboard

Complete instructions on how to join the 'Blackboard' site + useful links - Dafne, Nigel, Susanne and Teresa (Week 4, 2002)

  Bravenet    
Webheads' interactive guest map Created by Dafne with Bravenet
  Wimba became HorizonWimba    
  Wimba    

Webheads and new Wimba Tool: Voice Direct

Dafne created this page with Webheads' impressions on this most recent 'toy' of ours

Wimba Voice Direct

Teresa's first attempt with this new 'toy' (8 Feb. 2003)

Wimba Voice Direct

Fernanda's first attempt at Voice Direct with Teresa as a guide

Wimba Voice chat login: directions

 

Teresa
  Movie Maker    
     My story Michael Coghlan (2004)

 

 
  Tutorials    
  10+ steps to vreating simple HTML files Vance Stevens (last updated 23 Apr. 2005)  
  How to create a Blog using Blogger Vance Stevens (31 Aug. 2003)  
      Adding Links and Pictures to your Blog Template Vance Stevens (last updated 20 Apr. 2004)  
  Blogger tutorial Aiden Yeh (2004)  
  How to use FREE hosts for your web spaces (GeoCities & Tripod) Vance Stevens (last updated 5 Jun. 2005)  
  Creating Web Pages for Beginners Dafne Gonzalez  
  How to Build a Website using GeoCities Buthaina Al-Othman  
  Exporting your Bookmarks into an .html file Kaen Garcia (Mar. 2004)  
  Creating a Personalized World Clock

 

Susanne Nyrop (10 Nov. 2003)  
Webcaming
Using Voice Online (demo with Michael Coghlan, 17 Sep 2002) Created by Teresa
Aiden and The look! (8 Sep 02) Created by Teresa
Internet Fair (TESOL 2002) Created by Teresa
Vance at his parents' in Houston (Apr. 2002) Created by Teresa
Sunday chats (24 + 31 Mar. 2002: Easter) Created by Teresa
TesolArabia (21 Mar 2002) Created by Teresa
The first time Chris [Jones] broadcasted her webcam (2002) Created by Dafne
Teresa's first attempts at webcaming (Feb. 2002) Created by Teresa

 

Related sites

Teaching for Webheads

Formation of "a list with a difference"

WFW: Writing for Webheads

List of tools for online communication: info on chat areas and sites used by Webheads

WFW: Writing for Webheads

Reports, studies and research

TESOL Course Materials Online

A description of the EVOnline 2002 sessions and where to find the materials and selected presentations from the 2002 CALICO and TESOL Conferences

Training teachers

Resources assembled "under the umbrella of training teachers in the use of technology"

 

MISCELLANEOUS

The World Clock

Full version

  Training Teachers (resources) Vance Stevens (last updated 16 Aug. 2003)  

Copyright and Intellectual Property

Vance's resource page on the issue

Viruses, Worms, Trojans: Protection and Information

Web page maintained by Vance Stevens

  Comments on Rubrics found Online Dafne Gonzalez  
  Description of Electronic Supports used for an Online Course Dafne Gonzalez  
  On Survey Creators Dafne Gonzalez (Feb. 2003)  
  Resources for Web Accessibility Claire B. Siskin (May 2002)  
  Speed Test Andy Pincon  
      Broadband Speed Tests Indicated by Andy Pincon  

 

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