Learning2gether with ELTLive and TILL - Benjamin Stewart and Piry Herrera on Office 365

Sunday September 6, 2015 - 1400 UTC / GMT

What was it about?

Vance Stevens (#learning2gether http://learning2gether.net) intended to join forces with Jeff Lebow (#eltlive http://eltlive.com) in a bit of webcast spontaneity. Jeff had to bow out but we were joined by Benjamin Stewart, coordinator of TILL, Teachers for Interactive Language Learning

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106289715383230353120, and Piry Herrera, both using Office 365 this semester, but in slightly different ways. Join us and help guide the discussion, or listen to the stream and learn how these teachers in Korea, Mexico, and UAE approach their craft of teaching EFL.

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http://learning2gether.net/2015/09/06/learning2gether-with-eltlive-and-till-benjamin-stewart-and-piry-herrera-on-office-365/

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How this worked at showtime Sept 6, 2015

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The following is copied from the chatwing chat today

3 days ago

Good morning! Set my alarm so I could tune in although I'm not an Office 365 user. Always love to learn from Jeff and Vance! Greetings from Phoenix AZ.

3 days ago

I'm starting the hoa now, welcome

3 days ago

stream ok?

3 days ago

So sorry Jeff isn't able to be with us today! But I'll enjoy meeting Benjamin Stewart and the other people in the hangout. :-)

3 days ago

Hello! Greetings from sunny Argentina!

3 days ago

hi, hoa live link
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g3cfmnmsewuy4j6yiep4ykbjuua?hl=en
Join us if you wish

3 days ago

I know but I don´t know anything about this, so I prefer to lurk

3 days ago

welcome if you want to comment

3 days ago

you know about educational philosophy :-)

3 days ago

audio and video is coming through great for me! watching on youtube :-)

3 days ago

always great to see you Peggy, you inspire us with your interest

3 days ago

:-)

3 days ago

Hi Peggy, ok Vance I will prob jump in later I´m taking notes like crazy right now ;))

3 days ago

Hi Maria! Great to see you! :-)

3 days ago

so happy to see the emphasis on reflection in lesson planning for those future teachers! so important!

3 days ago

I noted that as well Peggy, so important!

3 days ago

also teacher trainers as models is critical

3 days ago

by using Office 365 does that make it possible for all of the students to see each other's work so it's not just going to the professors?

3 days ago

thanks for asking my question Vance! You are an excellent facilitator!

3 days ago

great response! once they get going further along in their training it will be a great way for them to help each other with peer feedback/suggestions realizing that is a great way to learn together. :-)

3 days ago

I'm sure the students really appreciate knowing exactly when they will be observed and what the tutor will be looking for via the calendar. Great idea!

3 days ago

seeing the screensharing great!

3 days ago

Maha Abdelmoneim

Hi all. Trying to watch on my cell. Laptop is acting up these days

3 days ago

do the students get automatic notification of the calendar events via email?

3 days ago

Hi Maha!

3 days ago

it must give them alerts on their mobile devices, but I'll ask

3 days ago

I'm really enjoying hearing about this teacher education program because I was a teacher education professor for Arizona State University for many years before I retired. :-)

3 days ago

great :-)

3 days ago

thanks! so exciting to see the use of mobile devices with the students! very accommodating to match them up for notifications via these devices!

seeing the screensharing now on youtube :-)

3 days ago

it works well

3 days ago

do the students have to pay for Office 365 or is it provided by the university?

3 days ago

they are fortunate they have a license

it's similar to Google Docs with office apps

3 days ago

lots of similarities between OneDrive and Google Drive :-)

3 days ago

what is one drive?

I'm guessing office equivalent to dropbox etc?

3 days ago

Hi - I'm wondering if everyone can use the email from any provider - I guess they just have to use Outlook - but can it be used with a gmail fro example

3 days ago

you can ask that ...

3 days ago

that is what he is showing us now

3 days ago

One drive is the MS online space - yep like dropbox or icloud

3 days ago

woops :-)

3 days ago

Microsoft One Drive and One Note

:-)

I just signed up for One Note this week because Angela Maiers used it to distribute her free ebook called Liberating Genius. :-)

3 days ago

I'm glad you guys are backing me up, I guess I missed it when I got up a moment to turn on the lights here

3 days ago

no problem!!! :-)

3 days ago

How can we get Angela's book?

3 days ago

One Drive seems to really help them to personalize/individualize the instruction and support for the students!

3 days ago

can you do about the same in Google ecosystem or are there clear affordances with Microsoft?

3 days ago

Last year my teacher trainers used onedrive for exchanging files - i.e. they were uploading and downloading rather than collaborating live in a Google doc!

3 days ago

I'm not completely clear about what the students are recording. Is it their reflection/synthesis of the lesson or is it the actual lesson being delivered in the classroom with students?

3 days ago

Hi Elizabeth! Welcome to the merry chat!

3 days ago

:-)

3 days ago

thanks! they are recording their sessions together to review later. Great idea!!

3 days ago

by having the students capture all of this documentation in One Drive throughout the program it will make it really easy for them to create a digital portfolio to use for many purposes including job searching :-)

3 days ago

great question Vance!

3 days ago

excellent point! it's good for students to learn multiple platforms/tools so they can move easily between them for use later when they are no longer in the program.

haha Vance! not renting this auditorium :-) Definitely keep going! Very informative!

3 days ago

yes, and be exposed to them by use them then it´s up to them to decide eventually, as usual it all depends on the teacher, right?

3 days ago

great use of video tutorials and announcements!

3 days ago

flipped learning

3 days ago

are we able to see his blog (Piry) or is it only for his students?

3 days ago

yes, we would like to have the link to Piry´s blog

3 days ago

I've asked in HoA chat, chatwing crashed Piry's connection

3 days ago

thanks :-) I'm sure it was too much bandwidth for him along with hangout and desktop sharing :-)

3 days ago

we've been muting our web cams to help Piry's bandwidth

3 days ago

the popup is showing great for me. I changed by resolution in youtube to the highest level (720HD) in Theater Mode :-)

would love to have his OneNote link (Benjamin) that he offered

love that transparency of sharing work and comments!

3 days ago

But surely the students need their own subscription? - I just checked it's $70 / year for an individual (that's if they want to collaborate on a document rather than just view)

3 days ago

can you ask, Anne?

3 days ago

yes @eannegrenoble I was wondering that too.

3 days ago

ElizabethA?

3 days ago

great point about the format similarities with Word online and their desktop versions of Word. Interesting to hear this comparison between Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive.

3 days ago

so students can work on their documents off line and it will automatically save to their Word Online? did I understand that correctly?

3 days ago

I understood that it synchs in the cloud

but they open the doc in Word, so not sure, do they have to upload the new doc?

3 days ago

do you know if the students have actually seen the conversations in the forum?

3 days ago

love it! Benjamin takes pictures of things on the board to post online later to help the students :-) great idea!

3 days ago

this is such a great model and shows what close personal relationships are possible with instructors like Benjamin and Piry! Such great communication!

3 days ago

it's great that students can help each other in the class conversations by being so transparent!

3 days ago

what happens with all of the student work/forums etc. after they leave the university? will they still be able to access everything they saved in One Drive or would they have to pay to subscribe to continue to access documents?

3 days ago

I also loved that Benjaming takes pics of boardnotes

3 days ago

aha! they can choose whether they want to edit in Word or Word Online

3 days ago

great job explaining this Benjamin!!!

3 days ago

Pity - I'm going to have to drop out - thought I would have liked to see what Benjamin can share with us (we who are outside the system)

3 days ago

absolutely!!!!

3 days ago

It will be in the recording and we'll post links here. So far all links posted in this chat have remained here forever

3 days ago

I'll check back here later .... please say thanks for me .... bye all

3 days ago

I need to work on getting presenters in chatwing, set up and ready to go, prior to the show :-) (note to self_

3 days ago

very similar to Google Drive! Excellent demo of this!

I'm sure that's a challenge, Vance because of the required bandwidth.

3 days ago

would the students have to personally pay for Office 365 after they leave the university to be able to continue to access those documents?

3 days ago

this has been REALLY informative! I've learned a lot! Thank you so much for providing this webinar!!

3 days ago

https://eduuaa-my.sharepoint.com/personal/lee_stewart_edu_uaa_mx/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=A3DNGsmssaOa%2bZuj0w65cyc8zM3Hp2gUc%2fOrsdPcNdE%3d&folderid=03cadcdd8a039457686d4aefbd54e5783

https://eduuaa-my.sharepoint.com/personal/lee_stewart_edu_uaa_mx/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=ItIOgXwHKDQV3xRlIBMc9uLc0u3Nw7qRsPP6HYXHRmc%3d&folderid=0960f8aa32dee434b886fec21c67ab074

Those are Ben's links

3 days ago

I say the same guys inspired and happy to hear about all of this! Thanks so much for sharing!

3 days ago

Thank you Benjamin, Piry and Vance! :-)

so impressed with the very thoughtful way your university is approaching the adoption of these tools!

3 days ago

great points about the portfolios!

3 days ago

Once they leave university they´ve already got a backpack of evidence of work they´ve done, a live cv

3 days ago

I was also a teacher education professor after I was a principal :-) So great to be here with all of you!

3 days ago

Maha Abdelmoneim

Would be good if portfolios can imported for students to take away

3 days ago

Time flew!

3 days ago

Maha Abdelmoneim

Thank you so much for another interesting session

3 days ago

Thanks for checking on the availability of the blog :-) Will look forward to seeing it if that becomes possible!

3 days ago

Maha Abdelmoneim

Very nice to meet you Peggy and Piry

3 days ago

thanks very much for joining us

3 days ago

Excellent webinar!

3 days ago

you were all a very present part of our conversation

thanks again for coming

3 days ago

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