Becoming a Webhead 2006

About 30 excited BAWers got together at the Webheads in Action office today at 17:00 GMT eager to follow Isabel Perez’s presentation: “Creating Materials for Blended or Online learning.” Just as the time to start approached, chit-chatting was intense, and all participants were enthusiastically gossiping, when Daf asked for “silence” and introduced our presenter:
“Isabel Pérez is an [...]

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Hey BaWers!
It was wonderful to see so many of you at Alado today
As usual lots of enthusiasm, many questions about Alado, and tons of humor.
                               
Who attended the session?
Moderators and Comoderators: Teresa (Portugal), Daf (Venezuela), Chrissan(Sweden), Barb (Germany)
Participants: Aiden, Amanda, Analía, Angeles, Annie, Berta, Carla, Cecilia, Claudia, Cora, Cris, Daniele, Erika, Gladys, Hala, Horacio, [...]

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More than 30 participants eagerly attended Barbara Dieu – Bee – and Graham Stanley presentation on Blogging and Podcasting at the Alado. First Barbara focused on different types of blogs, then she explained the advantages of RSS feed. Finally she explored some of the pedagogical implication of this extremely dynamic tool. Bee pointed out that [...]

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The 2006 edition of Becoming a Webhead included, for the very first time, a live webcast presentation at WorldBridges. Dafne, Teresa, Hala and Leanne welcomed over 50 participants from BaW and other EVO sessions to hear firsthand from Jeff LeBow and Dave Cormier, the site’s founders.
          
The Q&A format brought several participants into the [...]

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A record number of WebHeads-to-be attended the first voice conference of BaW 2006, enjoying Michael Coghlan’s excellent overview of voice chat. 33 participants from all five continents heard “The Voice” detail how chat can be used in today’s ESL classrooms. Michael’s oration was backed by a selection of slides, and questions and comments were posted [...]

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Dear Friends,  
We are finishing our first week, and you have already explored some asynchronous tools, the distribution list, the forum and the blog. We will start now “playing” with synchronous tools, that is, real time communication, and the first place we have visited is Tapped In
Thanks to the almost 40 participants who joined us today [...]

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Yes! This year’s session started with a “grand opening” at Worldbridges. As announced by EVO coordinator, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, the session was scheduled for 15:00 GMT, yet over 20 participants had started exploring such an interesting environment about half an hour before.
This being my second time as a BAWer, I felt ready to try this tool. [...]

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It is a pleasure to have such a diverse audience

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Hi everybody,
Welcome to our third round of the Becoming a Webhead workshop! Before you create your own blog, you can explore this one, and write your opinion about the use of blogs.
Looking forward to reading your comments,
your co-moderators,
Daf   and
                                 Tere

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