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Let's get together teach and build a mini-MOOC we can all share. This is a sink or swim project that will work in an hour or crash and burn, although we should all have fun trying. ((I still have not tested this, I tried to create an account to use collaborate but I have not been given access))
For this session, we will teach each other how to use Blackboard Collaborate. While we are teaching each other we will record the project and share the recording with everyone. Then we'll build training offline and hope to share it with everyone within 24 hours which will help everyone learn how to use collaborate for the rest of the conference.
Homework, learn Blackboard collaborate on your own, volunteer to teach us all something, we'll record it with Camtasia Studio screen recorder then assemble it with SofTutor Authoring Tools and Share it with SofTutor FP (Freeware Player), we may make a web based version as well for those who cannot run SofTutor.
The video we'll create will be free for everyone to use CC-by-sa. Note the conference will be recorded by blackboard as well and may be licensed differently.
We may depending on demand we may hold 2nd session to update and modify the training, then refine it again.
We think SofTutor (software tutor) would be an ideal platform to share this content with others, SofTutor was designed to teach software. However, maybe you have a better idea as well and you'll want to take the free mooc video and build your solution to share with us.
We'll try to encourage 2nd language teachers to re-explain parts of this training session in their own languages. We may continue this off line or in a 2nd session if necessary.
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My co-collaborators from DePaul Univ, Chicago and U of I, Champaign were disappointed. I'm not sure I can convince them to present again. But I may re-pitch something, we did at Ed Tech between collaboration between kids. Kids sharing skills.
Bummer I think this would have been amazing to bring teachers together worldwide to teach and share.
Kind of like a reverse mooc would that be a coom? (if a mooc is massively teaching students, then maybe a coom might be a massive group of teachers creating a universal course.) lol
Feel free to edit your proposal. You can remove the commercial information for your product and add language that relates to our goals of global collaboration, connecting classrooms and increasing educational access for all. Right now as it stands, there are no clear ties in your proposal to the mission of this conference. The major focus is on technology tools. I'm happy to approve your proposal if you follow our established guidelines.
Thanks,
Lucy
We just submitted another proposal.
Collaborative Video Learning
how does that look?
I wasn't planning on representing a company so I modified this slightly. Is that better?
Commercial pitches for products are not allowed unless you are a sponsor of the conference.You are promoting the use of your product, SofTutor. Also, this is not a technology conference and the proposal is not written to correlate to our mission. Please review our information and revise if you would still would like to be considered.
http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2013-call-for-present...
http://www.globaleducationconference.com/notes/The_GEC_Mission_Stat...
http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2013-conference-strands
Thanks,
Lucy
Hi Randy -
Are you representing a for profit company? Companies need to be sponsors of the conference to participate as outlined in our call for proposals.
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
Conference Co-Chair