TCC 2003 conference

TCC 2003: The Student Experience in Online and Hybrid Courses
Eighth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference (22-24 Apr. 2003
With an invited discussion panel of Webheads in Action leaders and students (Vance Stevens, Aiden Yeh, Dafne Gonzalez, Susanne Nyrop etc)

Teaching English as a World Language in the Information Age

6th international Belnate IATEFL conference, November 3-5, 2004
Minsk State Linguistic University - Minsk, Belarus
Teaching English as a World Language in the Information Age

This event was taking place in a computer lab, using an Elluminate classroom sponsored by the online Learning Times community. From my home office connection, I was co-moderating an all online Webheads workshop session with Dafne Gonzalez, Venezuela and Vance Stevens, UAE about Webheads in Action history and examples. We were also involved in the pre-conference planing commitee with Sergei Grid who is teaching at the University of Minsk and responsible for this succesful conference.
http://www.ir.bsu.by/kel/Teachers/onlinevents.htm

Invited guest teacher in TESOL classes

Using groupboard (with shared drawing tool), as a communication starter in a chat session with Buthaina Alothman's female students, Kuwait 2002 (from the archive)
http://alothman-b.tripod.com/sus_chat_090.htm
www.groupboard.com

Playing the Mystery guest online

From a Mystery guest in the virtual classroom

How many lives does a good olde Webhead have?

I had joined this workshop plus some other TESOL EVO workshops, well aware this was going to be a pretty tight schedule for me. I'm skimming, surfing and sometimes finding time to join a workshop live session or two. I'm working on Moodles, on blogs and now also soon on a TikiWiki, all of these projects would have been impossible for me to manage all on my own, but I flow around in cyberspace tinkering with tit & tat, grace to our amazing and inspiring Webheads community (that I joined back in 2001, hey, I'm a veteran) But I really wish to get on working seriously again with some older homepages that need updates. They were created with an outdated HTLM editor plastering lots of cryptic code strings into the HTML source code And I agree - to do so, careful reading is needed. At least, I swear I'm not as inactive as may seem from just reading this discussion. From that you might suspect some sort of web absence!

Just now I come from a joint fun project with Wendy - I'm a mystery guest in her EFL Grammar and composition class, encouraging her sutdents to ask all sorts of questions "about me". We got the inspiration from Bee but did not really know exactly how go come around this; would I post in the classroom blog directly, or what? I started a new account at Blogger as the Mystery guest, was reading their personal blogs and sent a few comments with invitations to my mystery blog, Wendy posted a message for her students, and then went sick and stayed away from school. This is a Blended learning class, but they're not yet familiar with blogging, Or were. Because they have really taken it now! As Wendy says, they all know where to find my blog, and how to post comments. They have asked all sorts of questions, and they know now that I live in Denmark, and it is just crazy how hard it was to figure out what to tell so they would become curious enough to ask, and what to hide so they would not know at once. And, even in Blogger (mac/Safari), I need to type in some code, to feed it with dollops of HTML, as Vance says. (over at the webpresence workshop - this is a semi-cross posting)

Keep smiling! We were just having some fun. The magic works. And hopefully they were forgetting all about grammar and style while communicating for getting to know someone unknown.
http://mysteryguest.blogspot.com and
Wendy's Advanced writing and grammar blog at http://ievcc.blogspot.com/ and
Wendy's meta-reflective, personal English Studies Blog at http://ievcc.blogspot.com/

Complicating or simplifying things with experimental blogs for online content and interaction?
Hmm, changing the tipping point perhaps!

virtual hugs,
yours ubiquitous
Serendipity Sus

(will cross post this to keep groups & blogs vibrant)

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Surviving and thriving online?
Meet the Webheads in Action - and 20 other presenters
in the knowtips 2005 online Tips & tricks conference
23-28 February 2005
@ http://www.knowtips.ca

A rose in white

A rose in white
Posted by: susnyrop.

I've posted some snow photos at http://susnyrop-winter.buzznet.com/ and they offer me the opportunity to Blog This. Another new feature to cross link and create a more consistent web presence :-) Now let me see how THIS works. Might be a good shortcut to share photos

Another blogging workshop

Although I've not been carefully updating this blog that was created for a workshop last year, I will start using it again, for the ongoing workshop on weblogging at the Electronic Village Online http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weblogging

Well well - I'm a bit behind because wer'e already in week 2. But I'm catching up later this week. I've added my pin on the Bravenet world guest map - so many participants, almost 100?

Sus