Comments on Live Sessions
Leave your comments here, one after the other, in the corresponding session. First write your name in bold and the date (in brackets). Start writing your comment in the next line. If you're commenting on someone's comment, you can start with @Teresa, for example
Example
Teresa and Fernanda's tour of Yahoo Groups and Wiki (Jan 15)
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Ayat (Jan. 15)
I found this tour quite quite interesting and very useful because.....
Marijana (Jan. 15)
@Ayat: I totally agree because....
Svetlana (Jan. 15)
@Marijana: I 'm not sure I agree with you completely....
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Week 1
Teresa Almeida d'Eça & Fernanda Rodrigues
Tuesday, Jan. 15,
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
Vladimir Mitic (15Jan13)
Hello,
A very useful first live session. Some things have been clarified.
One question though. Are there going to be recordings of the sessions? 'Cause I'll be at work for the second one, and several others.
@Vladimir
Hi Vladimir,
Yes, there will be recording of the live session, I asked before living the session today as I had a student waiting. And I think it's really useful because we can use the recordings as tutorials, in this particular case on how to deal with this wiki (Débora)
Maria Rita
I would like to thank Fernanda and Teresa for their clear and useful tour of these two tools. I will be playing around as you suggested to learn more about the potential of pbworks which I am particularly interested in. I have followed courses using wikis but I had never edited pages or created my own wiki.
Flávia Uhlman
Hello, everyone. I've got particularly interested in the wiki tool to explore with the aim of designing a course, which I particularly haven't done so far. I've already created a PBworks wiki for the Neuroscience in Education and will have a little more time to see how it works. Thanks for Teresa and Fernanda for this session and answer to my questions. Best wishes to you all.
Sarath
Thank you, interesting and informative. I am going to experiment with the wiki and see how it can be used. I have used yahoo groups in the past but, new to wiki.
Anzhelika Vladyko (Jan 15)
Thank you, Teresa and Fernanda, for such an inspiring beginning! The session has been really useful and informative.
Irina
Thanks Teresa and Fernanda for opening a whole new world to me. The tools and resources you mentioned are really useful. I started exploring Voki and I'm enjoying it. Thank you!
Lucia Quiroga (Jan. 16)
Yesterday's session was quite interesting since we were shown how to play with wikis and how to use yahoo groups. I also found it useful to start thinking about the purposes of our classes over the tool we would like to use (blog, wiki, etc.) Congratulations, Teresa and Fernanda!
Débora Tebovich
Thanks moderators for the live session, it was really interesting and useful, I am new to Yahoo groups, and instructions on how move around were very clear to follow, yet no warranty I am not going to need extra help. lol Regarding the use of the wiki, I got familiar with PBworks during EVO 2012, but still find it challenging, can't say why but I find Google sites much easier, but I will watch the recording of the session every time I can't find my way around. Thanks for your patience!
Özlem Zengin
Thanks a lot Teresa and Fernanda for your informative session. It is my fist time to be introduced wiki pb works, which I found quite interesting and have already started to explore.
Best wishes to all :)
Bernard Alsina
Very well presented sessions by experienced people who obviously know their way around. But my honest impression of Wikis is not positive I'm afraid. I have seen Wikis many times before and never liked the `look` and functionality of them, they seem to look dated and complicated compared to the latest software, forums etc. And I'm not sure teachers have the time to spend on teaching people how to use it, if you can't learn to use it quickly - like the popular web places are. Yahoo Groups looks more intuitive. I would like the tutorials to be more focused on practical uses in teaching, but maybe that's coming! :-)
Tatiana Kharlamova (Jan. 16)
Thank you, Teresa and Fernanda. I haven't got much experience with the wiki and PBworks so now I am going to explore it. But I need some time to digest the information and understand how it works. And Tutorials are of great help.
MARIJA HUZJAK-SABAN (Jan 16)
Dear Teresa and Fernanda. I feel like I can't say anything original ,about my first experience with teleconference that somebody hasn't already said. It is simply great! I feel like being at the bottom of a huge mountain and it's going to be hard to climb to the top, but who cares? There are such helping and caring people around. They will give me a hand from time to tome on this steep hill so I feel very positive about the outcome. Thanks a lot!!!
Miriam Sheen Cuba (jan 16)
First of all I want to thank the moderators for this great presentation, you were very patient to tour us along the wiki page, and this was crucial for me because I had some doubts about the page. I guess you show all the tools we can use in this wiki space even you make examples to understand better. Thanks again
Bob Lejkowski-Clark (Jan 16)
Thank you Teresa and Fernanda for taking the time to show us around these 2 sites. I don't remember seeing this one last year so it was very useful to have a refresher on PBwiki and Yahoo groups. I think it will certainly be of use to the newbies too!
Norah Andrade Arce ( jan 17)
Thank you Theresa and Fernanda for giving us such important information , I think this will help many people in the group, especially those who are not cyber , in my case I am not an expert but I try to do my best every single class because the new students’ generation like to learn with these kind of tools.
Argyriou Eleni (jan 17)
Teresa and Fernanda I just saw the recording of your session. Thank you for your detailed tour of how yahoo groups and wikis work.
Sneza Filipovic
Thank you Teresa and Fernanda for this wonderful tour. It"s so informative and clear. Like Bob, I can"t remember having it last year, probably missed it. Anyway, this is a great tutorial for beginners particularly!
Kristin Shitara (January 20th)
I have been using yahoogroups for a few years now, but I haven't really paid much attention to the "extra" features. It was interesting to learn about the calendar and the database functions. I will have to try them out. I am new to wikis. I think they are great. It seems like they make a great substitute for webpages for those of us who aren't web designers, but need a central location on the internet for organizational purposes. I'm looking forward to creating my own and learning the ins and outs.
Sabrina Wilson (Jan 20th))
I watched Teresa and Fernanda's presentation on January 16th but haven't had time to comment till now.
I thought the information was very well explained.
It's so good to see what was being explained and have it available as a recording to go back to if needed.
I have some ideas brewing for how to use this with my students.
Thanks very much!!!
Amany Abd Elhameid (20th Jan)
I'd like to thank you Teresa and Fernanda for this useful session . I watched the record and I beneficial for me but as a newbie I find myself somewhat slow at practicing some extra activities mentioned by Fernanda. Thanks for your help
Teresita Mazzei (Jan. 20th)
Teresa´s description of the Yahoo group page was very informative, especially that about the left hand tools, such as Messages, Photos, Links to certain pages, Database, Polls , etc. One participant´s question whether a blog can do the same as a wiki was important and was very well answered by Teresa.
Fernanda´s tour through the wiki, showing us what each tool is for and how it is used was also very helpful. I had already seen some aspects of the wiki in another video by Fernanda, but reviewing those and learning about more wiki features was very refreshing. I am grateful for the information about www.shrinkpictures.com.
Now it is clear to me what the two centers - the Yahoo Group and the Wiki Center - are for. Before this presentation, this differentiation was not so clear in my mind. I am very pleased with this presentation by Teresa and Fernanda.
Lucy Yordanova (20th January)
Thank you, Teresa. Your session was very useful, informative and clear which helped me a lot because I am not familiar with how to work in YG. I find the "link" section especially useful because it can make our job much easier. :)
Thank you also to Fernanda. I thought these are two separate sessions :(. The wiki was a little bit more difficult to me at the beginning, probably because I didn't get an access to "edit" very fast, but now I am getting more confident. I will experiment these days until every thing is digested. Thank you for your efforts.
Kerry (Jan 21)
Sorry...going to add a negative comment here. I attended the live session and found it very difficult to concentrate on what the speakers were saying due to the amount of comments in the chat area which did not really relate to the content. I noticed that most of the chat comments were quite personal and seemed to be just a venue for acquaintances to reconnect with each other. I believe that during a synchronous activity, the emphasis should be on the content of the presentation. The chat area should be a place where participants without mic access can ask questions which should be answered by the comoderators who are monitoring the chat area. In this session many relevant questions went unanswered because too many participants were using the chat area as a coffee room.....pet peeve that I had to air../
@Kerry
I sent a message to the group about your comment. Hope you read it.
Teresa, 25Jan13
Mumi (22 Jan 2013)
Thanks very much for allowing us to see the Live seesions recordings and please receive my apologies or doing this so late. I am sorry i missed them last year and again this year.However, I have learned a lot from Fernanda and Teresa. I understand now the importance of yahoo groups as communication centers and have managed to recorde my information in the Database, created my Photo Album and learned more about all the possibilities it has. Thank you Teresa.
Fernanda, you have given me very good insights into how to use wikis. Last year I learned how to create blogs and I created blogs for my different courses at the university and asked my students to create their own blogs. This year my goal is to create a wiki since, as you said, it is better for organizing the information in a better way than blogs.
Thanks again my dear ladies for all this information, I will certainly put it into practice.
Nora Brussolo (Jan. 25)
I have listened to the recording of the session and am really thankful for all the clear information given. I knew a bit about how Yahoogroups worked but I had no idea about wiki. A few years ago I learnt to use blogs and had a try at my classes, now that I found out this new tool (wikis), I´ll give it a try.
Vance Stevens
Thursday, Jan. 17
13:00 - 14:00 GMT
Fabrizio Bartoli (Jan 21st)
I couldn't attend live but eventually managed to find the recording and watch it. It was a bit hard to get a record of the huge amount of interesting links submitted. I realized clicking on the link does not work and the session is quite heavy for downloading. At the end I used jing to capture the pages I was interested in and/or an open office doc to paste the links but I'm sure there must be a better and faster way to save links while listening. As soon as I have the time I'll go through the wikis he mentioned about
Maria Rita (Jan 19)
It was nice to hear something about the history of Webheads in Action. You are pioneers. Thank you for sharing. With each live session, we get to know you better.
Kristin Shitara (Jan 20)
It was interesting to hear about the berry bush model of learning on the internet. I have not quite adjusted to it. It bothers me that I can't keep up with all the messages on the yahoo groups, yet I know that it is impossible for me to read comments from 240 some participants. I think it is difficult for some personalities to just pick a few good pieces of information and not worry about what they are missing. This is a new learning strategy for some people, but I suspect the younger generations who have grown up with the internet have already mastered this particular learning strategy. The webheads are a friendly and helpful group of people. I'm happy I joined the course.
Sabrina Wilson (Jan 20th)
I watched this (Vance's presentation) live on Thursday January 17thbut only now have time to comment.
I loved hearing about the history. I have attended a few of the Sunday sessions that Vance hosts and they were all very interesting. I guess I'm a floater or lurker because I don't always contribute but hang around and listen. I feel I'm a bit in-experienced to add anything at the moment but hope this will change soon. I love the fact that we can watch live sessions we've missed as recordings because I can't attend all of them due to some of them being run during my work hours. I think there are about 260 people on this course and only about 30 could attend so everyone else can watch them when they get a chance. Brilliant!!!
Argyriou Eleni (Jan 20th)
Hi Vance!! I saw the recording of your session. I have joined EVO sessions since 2008 and I enjoyed this trip to the past and I also liked seeing colleagues from all over the world. What I remember is that at that time I didn't have a broadband connection and I was really stiving not to lose my connection and listen to moderators without pauses. Rough times make us stronger though.
Lucia Quiroga (Jan 20)
Hi! I watched the recording of the session: since this is my first time in the EVO courses, I am really surprised of the long history of these sessions. It is hard to think of a time when there were no wikis and no facebook! So I am looking forward to learning more about virtual environments and about the tools mentioned for building tutorials and using screenshots. I also feel relieved with the concept of the "fishing metaphor" that you used, since it is just impossible to keep updated with all the information available. It is still hard to adapt to the new learning methods that communication technologies and internet are leading us into. But that is just the challenge!
Teresita Mazzei (Jan 20th)
I found Stevens´ history of Webheads in Action - how it all began and what it is now with the technologies that have come about and the perseverance of the people involved in it - was very interesting. The information about tools for tutorials was new to me and I am very keen to learn more about them.
Lucy (20th January)
Dear Vance, thank you so much for this interactive session. You have been doing a great job in the web. All this world is so new to me... you have been there for so long, but now that I heard about the berry bush approach I feel much more comfortable and less scared :)). Your talk gave me a berry for today, great. I hope I will learn much more these days and will manage to filter better and become more confident.
Miriam Sheen Cuba (january 22)
I saw the recording of the session and I t was really interesting to learn about you, this is my first time in an EVO course and I was a great pleasure to meet you Vans. The presentation showed the history of Webheads in Action and I see you have been working with these courses for a long time and you know I didn’t know that??? So now I have to thank Mr. Michael Krauss for sending me your information to participate in this course. I am also very pleased to work with the pioneers this is amazing!! Besides the history information you showed other tools like JING to capture images and it is incredible how one tool can help you save time and enhance your class. Thanks for this great presentation.
Norah Andrade Arce (january 22)
I couldn't attend to the live session but I managed to find the recording to watch it . Since this is my first time I participate in an EVO course, it was good to learn about you especially to know you are the pioneers. I have attended many TESOLS in the USA but I have never heard about you, so now this is a great opportunity to learn about you and to learn about these internet tools. I find JING a very useful to work with a great variety of images, I was exploring it and I find it very easy and helpful. Thanks Vans
Nora Brussolo (Jan.25)
Yesterday I could listened to the recording of the session. I really enjoyed seeing the faces of those who are sharing this experience and found the information about Jing very useful. I have downloaded it to try it, unfortunately something went wrong and I still couldn´t use it but I will insist. Next step will be to do a research on the sites and pages mentioned during the session. Thanks.
Week 2
Ayat Tawel, Jose Antonio Silva (JA) and Teresa Almeida d'Eça
Wednesday, Jan. 23,
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
Carol 23.1.2013
I really enjoyed the session today and learnt a lot. This is the second live session I've attended now and already I'm feeling more comfortable in there and more able to comment/ask questions , and everyone is so friendly and helpful. In the first session I attended I found it difficult to concentrate on the presentation and all that was going on in the comment stream at the same time! but I'm getting used to that now and it's great how everyone can support each other and answer each others ' questions. I find taking part in a live session is very different to listening to a recording afterwards, somehow for me 'live' is more motivating and leaves me feeling very enthusiatic and ready to get stuck into using the tools - I guess it's because you're connecting with real people. Perhaps this is how our students feel too? So thank you again for today's session.
Flavia (Jan. 23rd)
I really liked the LIve Session today, mainly to see how many tools are already available to us. I'd really like to discuss more on the applicability of those tools in real teaching situations. We had little time to discuss that. Tks to all moderators and Bawmates for the valuable opportunity today. See you around soon.
Tatiana Kharlamova (Jan. 24)
@Carol: I would completely agree that the session was really useful as it gives an overview of the tools which can be used in teaching, though it is still difficult for me to catch up with both the presentation and the comments. I hope I will manage to do it step by step. Practice is of great help here.
Ayat, Jose Antonio and Teresa, thank you for the presentation. Every time I attend the live session I admire how skillful you are at presenting complicated things and giving necessary comments.
Catherine Boissier (Jan 24)
Just enjoyed my third live session this year, this time with JA and Ayat giving clear and interesting explanations of how to use some audio tools. Wonderful, as usual. Am looking forward to Michael later on. Thanks to all, as usual.
Flávia Uhlmann (Jan 25)
Well, first of all, thanks Teresa and Fernanda, for the help thru all this universe of Web2.0 tools I've been learning to deal with during this Baw2013 course. Everything has been amazing. All the sessions are profitable especially to have a near contact with all of you and all the participants. It's a shame we don't have more time to explore the teaching pros and cons of each resource - like to have a forum discussion. Have you all thought of this too? Best wishes to all of you.
Lucy (24th January)
I missed the live session, but I just listened to the recordings. I liked Vocaroo because it seems really easy and user friendly. I tried also Eyejot, but my Linux didn't recognize my mic and my Windows didn't recognize my camera. Strike from my both operation systems :)). I will try on later and will share the results. I very much like Voxopop and have recorded a message, this tool is also easy to use and great fun. Thank you for the presentations.
Mitja (Jan 25)
Thanks for a wonderful presentation (again). I must admit I haven't heard of these tools before, but I think they are great and I can't wait to try them out in class. I especially liked Vocaroo and the Eyejot this feature.I'm sure they will come useful in our self-study e-classroom.
Teresita Mazzei (Jan, 25th)
Fernanda, Ayat and Jose Antonio´s presentations were very didactical. Four interesting tools were introduced to us: Vocaroo, Sound Cloud, Voxopop and Eyejot. Now I am more knowledgeable about these tools and am sure that I will use at least Vocaroo, Voxopop and Eyejot (including is feature `Eyejot it´) for my classes, blogs, webpage and, maybe, wiki. Of value were also Fernanda´s sharing with us the link www.authorstream.com and Ayat´s explanation about how to do our Task 3 of Week 2 with Voxopop.
Chris Jones (Jan. 25)
I watched the recording of this session yesterday. One advantage of that was that I could stop the recording after each tool and try it out. I had fun with eyejot.com by sending an anniversary message to my sister and brother-in-law. I recently bought a new mic, and it was good to get it set up in two different tools. Note that one tool needed to be set for "line-in" and another for "microphone" when I tested the mic. Otherwise the recordings I made were soundless. I'm trying to keep a record of my progress with tools, and you can see my notes (and silly eyejot.com recording) here: http://edtec2002.pbworks.com/w/page/62997401/BAW%202013%20Practice I'm showing this mostly to give you an idea of how you might track your progress on a wiki.
Nora Brussolo (Jan. 25)
I´ve just been listening to the recording of the live session and am really thankful for the clear explanations given. I have already been "playing" with Voxopop and brainstroming on how I can make use of it in the class. From this sessions I also liked the special feature on Eyejot that allows us to send our messages directly from the page we want our mates and/or students to search. I am learning a lot and as everything is practically new for me it´s taking me ages on the computer, exploring, exploring and exploring.
Maria Rita (Jan 26)
I've just finished listening to the recording and I would like to thank you for your clear presentations. I find these tools very useful and I had time to bookmark them. I tried to add Vocaroo to my wordpress blog - the blog I use for my EFL classes - but I didn't succeed. I liked Eyejot and found Teresa's presentation perfect but I don't think I will be able to use it with my young learners. I don't want them to upload pictures and videos of themselves on the Internet and I usually do the same to make them understand the importance of safety on the Internet.
Sneza Filipovic
This was such a useful session and I am so sorry I wasn`t there with you. I listened to the recording, some parts twice! I have already used some of the tools and will definitely try the others. My congratulations to all of you!
Michael Coghlan
Thursday, Jan. 24,
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
Flávia Uhlmann(Brazil - Jan. 25th)
Now, I think I finally learned how to post comments here, Teresa and Fernanda!! Great Session! Michael is awesome! This session brings lots of resources and I'd really like to have the slides. Is it possible to download them? Or we just have access to the video? All my best wishes of great achievements to all of the World Webheads!
Faith (Kuching-Jan. 24th)
I really liked today's live session. Currently I am a teacher-mentor, so I use many asynchronous tools to communicate with my mentees. As well some of my mentees, who are teachers of English in elementary publics schools in Malaysia, are using asynchronous tools (mainly Facebook and YouTube) in their teaching practice. I had a discussion with some mentees about using synchronous tools for speaking and listening practice. Has anyone had success using synchronous tools for teaching listening and speaking with young learners (ages 7-9)?
Lucy ( 24th January)
I really enjoyed today's live session for a couple of reasons. First of all, it was very informative and presented a lot of different tools and resources. I will try some of them during the weekend. Secondly, the comparison between asynchronous and synchronous tools was something we could all think about. I especially liked the recipe for effectiveness, thank you, Michael. I have the feeling that nowadays a lot of our colleagues get obsessed with the idea of using IT and they become more computer geeks that EFL and ESL teachers. Michael, you are right that people who work with technologies think differently and process information differently, but very often they are odd and they speak their own language and sorry, but I cannot agree with you that only they will succeed :((. I don't want to be like this and that's why your recipe is awesome. The thing that I enjoyed most in your presentation was the interactiveness and the involvement of the people and for me this is the most important feature of using IT in class. Thanks again, Michael. Hope to meet you again online or offline, in synchronous asynchronous communicative environment :)).
Catherine B (24 Jan)
What a pleasure to hear Michael again. Yet another clear talk with many interesting points to note & try out later. His relaxed attitude and willingness to get us to participate during the talk were welcoming and motivating. Thanks to all the team.
Maria Rita (Jan 25)
I have just finished watching the recorded session. It was really helpful; I loved your clear recipe for success. I use some of the tools mentioned, but I would like to try others. Since I teach young learners and teenagers I tend to work in controlled environments such as a class blog or a virtual classroom. I would like to use synchronous tools for enhancing speaking skills but I have to learn how to get to the right balance between bold and noisy students and shy, passive participants.
Week 3
Graham Stanley
Monday, Jan 28
20:00-21:00 GMT
Week 4
Arjana Blazic
:00-:00 GMT
Claudio Azevedo
Saturday, Feb. 9
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
Week 5
Special Session: Ayat Tawel, Claudia Carrill, Maria Bossa, Marijana Smolcec, Sharon Betts
Rita Zeinstejer
Wednesday, Feb. 13
at 13:00-14:00 GMT
Rubena St. Louis
Friday, Feb. 15
at 18:30-19:30 GMT
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