Webheads @ WorldCALL2008

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Nelba Quintana
http://nelbaq.googlepages.com/home

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Nelba Quintana
http://nelbaq.googlepages.com/home

Hi again everyone,

I've just uploaded photos taken by Vance Stevens today at WorldCALL 2008 in Fukuoka, Japan and tagged them worldcall08.  The url for photos with this tag is http://flickr.com/search/?q=worldcall08&m=text

If you upload photos from the conference to Flickr or other onlne sites, be sure and tag them worldcall08 and (if at Flickr) they will aggregate here.

Nite nite all, from dark and pleasantly cool Fukuoka Japan (yawn)

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Vance Stevens
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com

Hi folks, regarding my session tomorrow, details here: http://vancestevens.com/papers/index.html#next
and my preliminary announcement here: http://webheadatwc3.posterous.com/well-try-to-connect-via-wiziq

I'm now in Fukuoka but not yet at the site where the presentation will be.  We spent the day today in workshops at Fukuoka University, where the webheads ladies and I were twittering happily away, but unfortunately this is not where we will be Aug 6, the day of my presentation (tomorrow).

Of course I have asked the conference organizers if there is wireless access? (answer: I think so), is it robust (answer: depends on how well set up they are?) etc.  There is no way really to find out how a convention center has configured for laptops of presenters, esp if the presenters need access to the LAN well before their presentations, without going there and seeing what is up with the network.  And I can't do that till tomorrow.

So tomorrow I will go in as early as possible and start playing with the network.  I'll see what I can get working.  If I can Ustream I might do that, or if I WiZiQ seems ok I might try and record my presentation that way.  I might go with Elluminate (highly reliable) ... checking now it seems fine; last test from UAE on my new laptop there was a network problem. I'll just have to see what works and then announce to the onlne community in which venue the event will be.

Tomorrow Aug 6 I'll send mail to the webheads list and on twitter in advance of the event (or try to, assuming I can connect from the convention center) and I'll let you know what I will do.

In case you're available and want to join us, the event is Aug 6 from 17:25 to 18:10 Tokyo time, or Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 08:15 GMT http://tinyurl.com/6bjk7r;

I'm hoping we'll get something working

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Vance Stevens
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com

Dear webheads, colleagues, friends around the world,

 

We are all have arrived to Fukuoka for now, but Vance will come from Seul tomorrow evening. These days are full of joy, happiness to meet so many webheads f2f, hug them and kiss in reality. But these days are very sad for all of us because we have lost a wonderful member of our big and friendly family - Lee Baber.  She will be always with us in our hearts and in our thoughts.

 

Below one of the meeting at the hotel in Fukuoka: Nina, Hala, Susan and Neny.

 

More will come soon.

 

Hugs to all of you from us.

Hala, Susan and Neny, Nina plus all the rest who walked and got tired are sleeping tight.

Tomorrow workshops.
 

This is the last attempt of testing how Autopost to Everywhere works from e-mail through Posterous.
The last minutes of getting things together before leaving. It sounds exciting and amazing. Can't wait to see all the webheads together. It should be a superb meeting with popular educators around the world, to learn from them and with them. Have a hope to get an access to the Internet (no other way) in Japan.
So, getting to work.
In my bag already: a camera(borrowed from a friend ;-) ) , an MP3 player, a voice recorder, badges for webheads, an umbrella from flaming sun (the worst thing for me - I might melt in Fukuoka), no lap top (somebody will bring), and some private things... and, of course, passport, electronic tickets for the flight to and fro.

You know, I am traveling the longest way: From home to Moscow by train (tomorrow), then from Moscow to Helsinki by plane, of course, then to Osaka and from Osaka to Fukuoka (Evelyn offered by boat, but I agreed to swim across the bay.) ;-)
We'll definitely post our impressions, pictures, and coverage of the WorldCALL Conference.

God bless you and us.

{{{{BIG HUG}}}}

 

Testing to see if it works.

Just wrote a blog post!!

Jennifer

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Jennifer Verschoor
http://jenverschoor.googlepages.com/home

Let's see if I understand how the works.  If I email this from a registered email address at post@posterous.com, it should end up here http://webheadatwc3.posterous.com/ and in the associated blog http://worldcall2008.blogspot.com/ . Plus the picture I attach here should get posted to the blog as well.  Let's try it with this announcement:

At the August 6-9, 2008 WorldCALL congress in Fukuoka, Japan, http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd0/. Vance and Nelba will present a session on Writingmatrix obliquely entitled "Engaging collaborative writing through social networking" on Aug 6 from 17:25 to 18:10 Tokyo time; or Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 08:15 GMT, http://tinyurl.com/6bjk7r.

According to the conference FAQs Internet should be available.  Therefore we will attempt to broadcast in WiZiQ (or perhaps Elluminate, whichever we can get working) AND invite Doris Molero to join us (at 4:45 a.m. her time; she says she'll already be up).  We'll also invite the others pictured in Doris's slide (the pic attached): Sasa Sirk and Rita Zeinstejer.

And if you can read this then you are invited as well.  Check back for more info later as we see what we can get working when we arrive on site.

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Vance Stevens
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com