Paper presented at the international TESOL Convention, Philadelphia, March 31, 2012 by Vance Stevens Artifacts in this presentation: This posting TinyURL: tesol2012vance Slides: http://slideshare.net/vances Event planner: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com Archive and podcast: http://learning2gether.posterous.com Learning2gether is a weekly online teacher professional development event that has gone on in one form or another for almost 15 years and which draws for viability on a base of over 1000 members of a vibrant community of practice (CoP) known as Webheads in Action

1. Learning2gether to teach one
another about learning online
Vance Stevens
English teacher coordinator, UAE Naval College
HCT / ADMC / CERT
&
Coordinator for Webheads in Action
TESOL Philadelphia March 31, 2012

2. My presentations are always online
TinyURL: tesol2012vance http://tinyurl.com/tesol2012vance
Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether31march2012
Read the presentation in prose:
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/learning2gether-
to-teach-one-another-about-le
You can hear the rehearsal recording and read the
write-up here
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/vance-stevens-
presents-what-teachers-around-t
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3. What is Learning2gether
Class roots online teacher professional development
Distributed http://classroots.org/
Community of Practice
PLN (Personal learning network)
Models teaching through modeling learning
A teacher models and demonstrates
A student practices and reflects
Wiki-based
In theory, anyone can join, write in an event
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4. Where is Learning2gether?
Event planning wiki: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/
Upcoming events:
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded
Index to archives:
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex
Archive of podcasts and live recordings
http://learning2gether.posterous.com
Network connections
TESOL CALL-IS: http://www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS
TESOL Arabia: http://taedtech.ning.com/events/
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5. Event Planning Wiki
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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32204849/FrontPage

6. Upcoming events
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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded

7. Index to
archives
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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex

8. Archive of podcasts
and live recordings
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http://learning2gether.posterous.com/

9. Network Connections:
TESOL Arabia Edtech-SIG
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http://taedtech.ning.com/events/

10. Network Connections:
TESOL CALL-IS
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http://www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS

11. Funding for Learning2gether
What funding?
No funding at all, ever, since 1998
No hidden agendas, truly cooperative
Rely on Cognitive Surplus (Clay Shirky)
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-cognitive-surplus-drives-us-to.html
Intrinsic motivation of people to
Share, help others http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p96Wmn-
ER4QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=deci+soma+research+motiv
be highly regarded professionally ation&ots=3cHPr-
t922&sig=ZqB8TGpkrvt2Wj8DKACBFgDTYzc#v=onepage
feel good about themselves &q=deci%20soma%20research%20motivation&f=false
Monetization would undermine cooperative mutual community
support (Deci, Soma experiments)
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12. Elluminate grant from LearningTimes
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http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

13. How Learning2gether began
1998-1999
Writing for Webheads
Weekly meetings each Sunday noon GMT at http://tappedin.org
Archives of logged chats
All: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chatlogs.htm
Turkey meets China in 2001: http://prosites-
vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm
2000 - 2002
Online events at conferences where we put students in touch
with teachers using voice
Bb/Collaborate = Elluminate grant from http://learningtimes.net
2002
Webheads in Action http://webheads.info
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14. Writing for Webheads 1998-2002
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http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm

15. Webheads in Action since 2002
http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonlin
e2002/webheads_evo.htm
http://www.tesl-
ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/
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16. More history
Webheads in Action Online Convergence
2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org
Hosted in Elluminate by Learning Times
We learned about “speed geeking” at WiAOC 2009
We tried to organize one online:
http://learning2gether.posterous.com/teresa-almeida-deca-taggalaxy
Speedlifing met with greater success:
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
Learning2gether came about in 2010 to
Enhance quality of our weekly meetings
Avoid more 3-day = 72-hour webcastathons
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17. Speed
lifing
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http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html

18. Our next event
Sunday April 1, 2012
IATEFL Wrapup
Hosted by Elizabeth Anne
14:00 GMT = 5 p.m. in UAE
In Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
Register with Learning Times (benign)
Please use a headset to prevent echo
Check your mic and speakers using
tools / audio / audio wizard
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19. TESOL Convention Online Wrapup
Sunday April 8, 2012
TESOL Wrapup
Hosted by Vance Stevens
13:00 GMT
In Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
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20. Please join us 
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
This is not just a request for participation in a one-off
event.
• If you are seriously interested in professional
development and would like to join in our activities,
we welcome your participation.
• Even better, we would appreciate your SHARING with
colleagues something that YOU know at these events.
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32205261/cfp

21. My presentations
are always online
This one is at:
http://tinyurl.com/tesol2012vance
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