http://vstevens.bloki.com/ 

Thanks for calling my attention to that.

Don't worry! We will do it some other time. BaWers will be around either in BaW or in the Webheads in Action, so there'll be no problem.

Have a nice weekend!

I made the quiz on HTML tags (and some other activities, have a look at my www.EnglishQuizzes.prv.pl  page) with an authoring tool called Hot Potatoes. I love the simplicity of it and endless possibilities!

About the scores: it is possible to set the option of getting the scores of the quizzes. However, I don't get them. I don't use the quizzes as tests - I prefer to think about them as learning/revising exercises. Students are allowed to take them as many times as they wish :-)

About DW/Moodle course - I am one of the participants. I have created some quizzes on Moodle - they are more like tests and there are some options for setting scores and converting them into school marks. I am still a beginner - trying to work it out!

BTW Did you see the "Computing jargon" quiz?
It's here:
http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/Archive/pdfs/computing.htm 

Cheers,

I think Tere used the same software with her students, did you , Tere?

Bee, I got it from Agata. In the meantime I did a couple of searches but I've come up with nothing as simple and practical as HandyBits. Thanks, Agata!

like you, I'm very fond of www.Handybits.com voicemail recorder; you can
use it for shorter voice messages and save them from the File menu to a
.wav file, so you do not have to send it by email. Another very useful
detail is that you can set the interface to use ten different European
languages, very helpful if your beginner students are not feeling
comfortable with English yet :-) - these languages are English (yes, or
course!!), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Nederlands,
Swedish, Norwegian -and my own little language, Danish

I'm also looking at voicemail for kids from Handybits now, cute :-) - clean
plastic fantastic very simplified interface as a kind of security shield
preventing kids from access to other sturr while they are supposed to
record, play and send. bt I don't see how to save a .wav file from the
childish level? The icon on my desktop is a juicy red strawberry!

Teresa and Agata, I listened to the great voice messages from your BaW4kids
blog, and it is a real pleasure to hear their efforts!

What a great idea it is to send your reflections on BaW as a voice file! Do
you mind sending them also as text?

I'll be putting up another text and two voice files from my students and
some photos later today in my 5th grade blog. I love today's message because
it reflects a class reality. And it came from one of the students.

There's also another interesting feature that those of you listening to the
voice messages will surely notice: the difference between the better and the
weaker students. BTW, I choose at random from a group of volunteers. I don't
force anyone.

http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/voicemessage.html 

It has been our pleasure to be here for everyone and what a great first complete experience it has been. The 'present perfect' is on purpose: it means we will continue to be here and at Wbheads in Action, where we hope to see many of you.

It's been hard work, but worth it all and extremely gratifying.

Our BaW4kids more private project has been very stimulating. Thank you, Agata, for having started it. And Handy Bits has been a delight.

Thank you all!

Hugs,

I also felt like experimenting a bit and recorded a message for all of you! I used Handybits and uploaded my page and .wav to my server.

The URL is: http://www.wsl.edu.pl/~azetka/vmes.html 

Hope it works!

Lastly, I've downloaded and tried out the voicemail for personal use and am
waiting excitedly to see if my brother in London and my friend who teaches
in Geneva receive their voice messages! Such FUN :)!

I'll try to catch up with my homework soon (I haven't looked at tasks to be
done this week yet),

bestest wishes to all of you,

Anyway, here's the url
http://dcyeh.com/sy0304/2ndsem/groupa_projects/tpr/ 

And this is the page that Daf and Arnold prepared:
http://home.planet.nl/~mhren000/tpr/ 

It does feel weird, everybody saying goodbyes and thank yous, and here I am still rattling about my class's activities and learning new tools. Folks, this isn't really goodbyes. We'll be having more discussions and things to talk about. Tools come and go, but the
webheads' spirit lives on.

Bob, I just figured out how to embed videos and voice in dreamweaver [yeeppeee]. how's the dreamweaver team comin' along? When's the nextsession?

At 11:24 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I have just created a new email box rkeffat@internetegypt.com. Please use
>this email. how do I change it for the yahoo webheads group.

If you go to the Becoming a Webhead Yahoo home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/becomingwebhead , and follow the edit my
member ship link it will let you subscribe with a new email address.

>I also would like to change it in learning times, but when I ask to join
>again, it automatically detects I am a member.

When you log in to LearningTimes it will, as you say, remember your old log
in and take you straight in to the the community. What you have to do is
actually log out (see the last item on the navigation bar down the bottom),
then you create a new account with your new email address.

Good luck with your job hunting,

Dear friends,

Before we all say 'Hello again!' and start the first day of a new beginning in Webheading, I'd like to show you all a presentation I gave on Feb. 19 for over two hundred colleagues, teacher trainers and people from the Ministry of Education.

http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/papers/taguspark2004/tp04-online-communities.htm 

I think it's very appropriate for our last day for two special reasons: it brings together and wraps up several of my ideas about (building) online communities, and it focuses on Webheads in Action and Becoming a Webhead, though mainly on the latter. :-)

I hope you enjoy it. If you have any comments, I'd love to hear them! Send them along to me or to BaW.

It's been a great 9 weeks (for me)!

See you all online!

it was a great pleasure to meet yesterday in an improvised YM chat
session with university students fron Venezuela in Doris' class.
They were in a computer lab, and as soon as I had their invitations
to add them to my friends list, I could invite them one by one to my
conference.

Doris never tried this before, and I have only done this all on my
own a few times with fewer participants, so the beginning was a bit
of a challenge as they were so impatient and kept bombarding me with
private sweet messages, instead of waiting nicely in our shared
conference windos until I was ready to talk with all of them. So I
decided to ask Karen for help so we were two, and when Buth sent me
a message I invited her to join us. This made me feel less lost!

Buth showed us a homepage from a student chat I had with one of her
classes, but I was unaware about some techical bug that hindered
Buth to read what the Venezuelan students said, although I saw HER
contributions in our shared conference window, but I think they
liked to learn about the students in Kuwait, and to see their
picture, as well as mine; they even flattered me by calling me
pretty, and like most people I naively enjoy that kind of polite
compliment.

I was happy that we did not try to add voice, but started small with
text only. Sometimes the technical matters can overshadow the more
social interaction. Karen helped me a lot backstage to encourage me
to speak more about local, cultural and personal matters. At a first
glance I was not really able to evaluate the engagement of single
students in this session but found that the class was very open to
ask questions and also to answer so that we managed to get into a
true multilog (dialog with mutiple participants). They did not
speak to us teachers only, but also used their English to
communicate among themselves, something that can be pretty hard to
obtain in an f2f classroom.

At the end of our session, Doris expressed her gratitude and
pleasure about the readiness of Webheads that she has encountered in
this workshop, and we agreed to meet in two weeks from now with her
teacher colleagues who are eager to learn more about the advantages
of online communication at a distance, and for that occasion I
suggest that we invite some other Webheads to join us.

Dear Doris, this was a true pleasure! And dear Karen and Buth,
thanks a lot for being so ready to jump in and improvise; it was a
great help to me that I was not all on my own with this session.

It seems that the 'start small' piece of advice is holding on. I agree that with a larger conference it is best to stay with text, especially when people are inexperienced. With a smaller group, as happened with me and two of Anne Fox's students in Denmark, they caught on quickly and easily with voice (their first experience) and we went on for almost an hour. I'm really sorry that we didn't record the session, though. It was an unforgettable moment for me.

These interactions make for great moments and I'm glad that you gave us this very complete report! Thanks, Sus.

BTW, Doris, you can count on me for the chat with our colleagues, if necessary. It'll be a pleasure. :-)

Doris, I am really looking forward to learn how your class has enjoyed their
work in the computer lab with you, such as you promised me today to tell me
later - when I interrrupted your busy work just to share this little event
with you :-)

PS Tere, it is so good to know that you also with to meet with Doris'
colleagues and I feel sure we are many Webheads who are ready to accept
invitations from others as well, I think this kind of just-in-time
get-together may offer us great little opportunities to make some positive
promotion for the cause of online communication and knowledge building.

Class reunions are powerful events and I'll be delighted to share that
occasion with you.

Thanks Elizabeth and Mike for the Alado experience last Sunday, it was
so nice to have the opportunity to discover in an informal way the
interests of those present. And to gain comfort with the technology, blogs
and becoming familiar with everyone.

WOW... I am becoming a webhead !

Don't worry at all because of being lurker for
sometime.... That's normal. And this is a very active
group to participate all at the same time.

We all are very glad to see here again,

Kind regards,

You didn't need to sign off. :-( You could have set mail at 'No Mail' and continue a part of BaW. Anyway, we'll be here and expecting you when you return at the end of March, and maybe you'll also feel like joining the Webheads in Action. :-)

I don't know what tools did he use to develop it, but it's really so
cool.

http://mohamed.tantawi.net/ 

Hope you like it,

The readings have been an excellent underpinning for the 'hands on' aspect of the course. I enjoyed reading both
Teresa's articles on the use of chat and the webheads experience, as well Sus's paper on 'cyberanthropology,' way back
in the beginning of the course. Those readings helped me steer a more individual course, going more at my own pace
until I figured out which direction to take. Now there are so many options!

Personally, week 3 was overwhelming. My impatience at my lack of tech skills, and the overwhelming intensity of
suddenly interacting with so many people took it's toll. I now suspect there's a 'week 3' in any kind of human
development or learning. The constant support of others has been heartwarming. It's given me the courage to forge
ahead and be more patient with computer technology.

I look forward to BwH4KIDS activities, and keeping up with new colleagues in the webheads environment. It's been so
nice meeting you all.

I hope you all have a nice spring...and the Down Under folks, some nice cooler weather:)

I'd like to thank the moderators of this session for all they have
done to carry on the Webheads spirit. I know it can be both draining
and exhilarating to work with a group such as this. It's hard to
appreciate the amount of work that goes into this endeavor. It's
work done gladly of course, and the rewards are sublime. But still
it takes great effort and I'm happy to see the work continue while
enjoying a little break from doing it myself this time around.

I've always said that anything worth doing will be done whether you
are there or not (and the test of whether something is worthwhile can
be to distance yourself a little from it, and then you'll know). I'm
happy to know beyond doubt now that the work that Maggi Doty and
Michael Coghlan and I started back in 1997-1998, and that we carried
so effectively to teaching peers in 2001-2002, was not only
worthwhile, but that it can be replicated, and has been replicated by
ever-more enthusiastic moderators and participants, as the resources
and climate for this kind of activity continue to improve.

I think this group did an outstanding job of getting people on the
web in the form of blogs and blokis and moodles and personal websites
and voices and videos. It's been great getting to know new people,
and to know old pals better (Sus and her clay figurines! - just one
example).

I look forward to continued interaction with you in Webheads in
Action, though with your healthy propensity for sub-groups I wouldn't
be surprised if a number stayed right here. This means a
proliferation of groups but we have many analogies in Webheads. A
famous one concerns emoderating being like cat-herding. More
recently I put forward the ant analogy. We are like ants that
scatter in all directions and get into every nook and cranny and that
also bring sustenance back to the home port from time to time. That
analogy came originally from someone who meant to criticise my
management style, but the more I think about it, ants are enduring
and productive creatures, and it's a style I think we can exploit and
be proud of. Like it or not, the world IS chaotic and tends to
entropy, and it's up to us to make order out of chaos (Chaos
navigation, another Webheads analogy).

I hope you're still reading, in which case, please let me inform you
of a session some of us are giving at TESOL March 30. The program
and times in GMT are given here:

http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/pci2004.htm 

We'll try to webcast to the best of our ability, and we'll need help
in Tapped In from 18:00-18:45 GMT and with Voice and Video chats from
about 19:00 to 23:00 GMT.

Again, nice to have met you, thanks so much to the moderators, and
hope to see more of you online soon,

Looking back over the last six weeks, I am awe-struck. What would an old
geeky guy like myself have in common with all these English as a Second
Language teachers. People from places that I can hardly pronounce. Heck,
people whose names I have trouble pronouncing (thank goodness for text
chat).

Well, I will tell you what I think we had in common. We had a love of
learning in common...we all wanted to and did learn sooooo much. The more
the moderators slung at us, the better we liked it. By the end, we were
neck-deep in knowledge and floundering about as if in quicksand, but loving
every minute of it. If you are like me, you need look no further than your
bulging file of new "Favorites" to realize the rich resource of learning you
have been left with. The screen of my computer has a half-dozen or more new
link icons to rooms and places of e-learning that weren't there a short six
weeks ago. Most of us have a file of new applications and programs that not
only have we downloaded but we even know how to use them to produce even
more learning experiences. We came here hungry for knowledge and we now
leave bloated with wisdom. If I have to be over weight, let me be heavy
with things I did not know before.

We also had a love of humanity in common...look back at that map that was
posted that shows where all of us were. Multi-national...in fact, well
beyond any definition of "National". I don't recall ever once, seeing even
one comment that had to do with a denomination or national affiliation or
political party or any of the accoutrements of politics. We were all one
huge happy cyber nation. Far too busy to worry about mundane things like
politics. So many nations represented but all in constant communication
with one another toward a single common goal...the betterment of us all
through learning. Now why can't the rest of the world take such an
approach? The humanity showed itself in so many ways....helping each
other...helping others...giving, giving, giving...hardly ever taking. I
believe that every person here had their sleep pattern disrupted at least
once just to get up in the middle of the night to hear someone in some far
distant land talk about some new-fangled invention that would influence the
rest of our lives. And when I think about the rest of our lives,...even
if you wanted to, how could you take back the things you have learned here.
Those very things have changed each and every one of us. You may not have
noticed it just yet, but this experience over these six weeks will have
profound effects over our lives in the next several years. The things we
know today put us head and shoulders above the rest of the swarming crowd.
These very things have and will continue to give us a unique insight into
who we are and why we stand here on this big blue marble of a planet.

We also had our sense of innovation in common. It was our desire to seek
out "a new way" that bound us together for these short six weeks. There is
not a one of you that is less than an innovator. Some of you will advance
what you have learned further than others but everyone of us will use this
knowledge to create new learning spaces and new learning experiences for all
those that rely on us. We have all discovered the nature of collaborative
experiences. How many of you borrowed an idea from someone else here to
make a new thing of some idea of yours. And then sent it back to the person
you borrowed it from with a bow around it as a gift of learning and a thank
you for the experience of sharing. Don't believe me?...scan the
emails...look at the number of times "Thank you" was written... Innovation
hung so heavy in the air, that many of us taxed our poor ancient computers
to keep up with the technology of possibility. How many of you bought a
microphone so you could share the sweet music of your voice with us? How
many put up a web-site to share their work with us? How many posted a blog
to share their inner most thoughts about life and learning with us?
Innovation was the password into this group.

We all had our sense of community tweaked. We will all walk away from this
experience with a much deeper understanding of what community means. Not
just that physical space in which we live, but that emotional space that we
all have in common. I know now who my neighbor is and can be. I know now,
how things can be done. I know now, how much others need me to help them do
the tasks of their day. I know now, how much I need them to share my day
with. I shall never forget the day that Susanne rang me on the Yahoo IM to
see if I could help a guy in China set up a power point to show his class
pictures from the lady in Denmark. In this little box on my desk was a
living community of people of many ages spanning many hours of time and
thousands of miles of space, just to be able to share the experience of
being. And late last night, when Susanne again asked a favor and I joined
her and Renata in Aiden's classroom, all the while listening in my other ear
to Venny's advice of how to set up a home server. These people are my
neighbors. I have never met them, but to me they live just down the block
and around the corner. They are a part of my neighborhood, mainly because
of this puny six week course in community development. They are now my
friends.

So my friends, I guess I was wrong, the six weeks is over....or the rest of
the course is just beginning. I came here to plead with you to let me in
the remedial class as if I had not learned enough, but my reflection reveals
this rich tapestry of experience that you have gifted me with. The six
weeks is gone, but the many more years has begun...This is not a good bye,
this is a Hello. It is a Hello to the events yet unfurled.

To every single one of you, I take my hat off. You have been among the
finest folks I have ever met. You have proven to me my business motto...it
is never too late to become the person that you always wanted to be. You
have proven that life is a wonderful up-lifting experience. You have
proven that learning is one of the loftiest goals that any of us can seek.

I shall not say good bye, but I will tell you all...this has been a
wonderful time for me....Thank you one and all.

Bob, let me tell you that I almost cried while reading your message. Your feelings reflect those I had after my 8-week session back in 2002 when I joined the Webheads in Action session. I remember saying in my self-evaluation for the session, that even if I had not learned anything about CMC, the friends I had made in the journey were enough
to make the experience worthwhile, and two years after that, I stick to those words. So many valuable, caring, hardworking people getting together in a session is a bless.

Susan Borg was telling me today that she was going to miss my yahoo icon coming and going and I asked her if she was going to delete me from her buddy list, because I will be there, we will be there, or here or wherever it is we are ;-)

Webheads means a lot to me personally and professionally. I can say that WiA has changed my life, and it feels good to know that we have been able to project our enthuasiasm, and that we are able to pay back what so generously has been shared with us during these 2 years.

Let's not say good bye, let's say, hey, see you tomorrow at Van's presentation!

I am not ashamed to say that tears were rolling down my cheeks by the time I got to the last couple of paragraphs. I was very moved by the heartwarming and humane way in which you touched so many relevant aspects of these six weeks. Sentences suc as:
-- "a love of learning in common. . .",
--"a love of humanity in common...",
--"We were all one huge happy cyber nation. Far too busy to worry about mundane things like politics [thank God!]. So many nations represented but all in constant communication with one another toward a single common goal...the betterment of us all through learning [and of our students through us]. Now why can't the rest of the world take such an approach? [it would certainly be a much better and wiser place!!!]",
-- "You may not have noticed it just yet, but this experience over these six weeks will have profound effects over our lives in the next several years. . ." [how true! we also said this about our WiA session two years ago],
-- "The things we know today put us head and shoulders above the rest of the swarming crowd. . ." [on several occasions a couple of Webheads, including myself, have stated that we are breaking ground. I sincerely believe we are],
-- "Innovation hung so heavy in the air, that many of us taxed our poor ancient computers to keep up with the technology of possibility. . ." [it's a pity that many school boards and departments don't value what many of us are doing despite the fact that we aren't doing it for them, but for 'our students'!],
-- "We will all walk away from this experience with a much deeper understanding of what community means. Not just that physical space in which we live, but that emotional space that we all have in common. . ." [the emotional and social spaces are 'must' ingredients in creating this sense of comunity. They have been two very strong elements in keeping WiAs together for two years, and going stronger and stronger thanks to you all! :-) ],
-- "In this little box on my desk was a living community of people of many ages spanning many hours of time and thousands of miles of space, just to be able to share the experience of being. . .",
-- "the rest of the course is just beginning. . .",
-- "This is not a good bye, this is a Hello. It is a Hello to the events yet unfurled. . ." [you had me worried there until I saw this sentence :-) ],
-- "You have proven that life is a wonderful up-lifting experience. You have proven that learning is one of the loftiest goals that any of us can seek. . .", [especially collaborative learning in which so much is shared and experienced more or less intensely together!].

I thank you, Bob, for such a beautiful piece of deep inner warmth, humanity and sensitivity. I'm very happy to have you as a Friend and a far richer human being to have taken part in these very special six weeks with all the BaWers. And I thank you all for that.

This is not the official last day of these EVO sessions (for us tomorow), it is the first day of a new beginning in Webheadery!

this was even before I was engaged in Webheads in Action. I think we ought to post it to our reading list of this week as it is very relevant to our topic of being part of a community of practice like Webheads in Action (Please do not forget to join our yahoogroup , EVOnline2002_webheads as you will then become part of a greater "tribe")

Below is a quotation form the introduction of our little paper about social and technical aspects around online community building:
On the internet it is possible to find numerous examples of subject oriented and thematic networks developed because of common interests during a common practice. In this article, we present four internet-based networks of practice, all working within the realm of 'learning and education'. The professional exchange of experience may be traced directly in the ongoing open communication, and more indirectly in common projects developing over time, thus demonstrating signs of personal as well as professional development of the individual and the project team. As a starting point, we will distinguish between locally situated communities of practice, collaborating on one school, and the inter-locally distributed sociotechnical (2) networks of practice where participants may be situated in different geographical sites all over the world, but still working or studying in closely related fields.

The situated knowledge is usually understood in relation to someone present in a place where a certain knowledge is executed during an activity of practice. Without an approach to common practice, it is difficult to bring our knowledge into movement. Most often, tacit knowledge or unarticulated practical knowledge and skills, travel with less ease than the more separable and independent ideas and opinions embedded as text mediated communication.

Anyhow, I enjoyed listening to your stories very much.

Well done!

I'm reporting live from a just wonderful session of live storytelling in Aiden's class with Taiwanese university students. We met in Alado; and started to tell our stories; I had prepared a little story so I just read it aloud - I had already been experimenting with recording in HandyBits, and ended up with uploading two zipped .wav files temporarily in our BaW Yahoogroups file folder. The text is saved on a homepage at http://susnyrop.bloki.com : It was pretty interesting for me to learn that the students found it very peculiar that a grandmother would know how to use computers for anything; even their own parents only used computers for playing games, so they wanted me to be a good example form their parents :-)

Renata was nervous when she called me in YM right after I got up in my early morning, in good time before our session; she told me had not prepared anything special so I was really impressed to hear her tell a good slice of her life story about how she came to Japan as a young woman, lived in the country and could not date a man, she knew not one word of Japanese but had to learn it very fast because nobody understood any English, and how she fell in love and got married to a full blood Japanese. Her two sons are raised as Japanese children and only know English as a foreign language spoken by mother Renata only. She even started her speak with playing some music with a relevant song text about making your life a full circle, and she linked to a homepage - what a good idea for an introduction! I think the students were emotionally touched by her narrative, and they had so many good and thoughtful questions to ask her. They were very well prepared to improvise their questions - it was great to hear how the students were laughing and having fun during this session, sharing one microphone. Many of them demonstrated that they also speak Japanese, and one even said a few sentences in German; these students are ready to meet the world, as they are really good at foreign languages.

At the end, Bob was also telling us how he retired from his job some years ago and decided to start on his own with the Elder university, And how he was setting up a server just now - with the help of Venny who is a good old Webhead in Taiwan!!! I think this made our full circle

I hope that my Alado recording was OK, I need to go for now but will check the quality later.

Wow! oh boy! Now that you have all said so many wise, heart warming and
insightful words to describe our shared experiences, I feel almost
speechless for now.

I might be a less sentimental nature, because instead of tears this
evaluative echange of poetic participatory enthusiasm really made me laugh
for instant happiness and pleasure, while reading your messages, one by one
I heard myself speaking out loud in the lonesome office (and no microphone
connected):
Yes Yes! This is what it is all about! This is the kind of working flow that
makes our learning pleasant!

Just wanted to give you a huge Webheads hug and get some sleep

PS Bob, I really hope for you and Venny that your server is obeying orders
now and that Moodle 1.2 will start making sense? I'm looking so much forward
to learn more about how we can collaborate the Moodle way, and weave our
webbed dreams together in new constellations.

You have already been asked to complete a questionnaire for the EVOnline team with your comments about the different sessions you participanted in. Now, We have created a survey (anonymous)to ask for your feedback about this specific session. We would highly
appreciate your comments :-)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=76050406868 

I thank you all and especially the moderators for this interesting workshop.
Although I have been very silent this last two weeks I have enjoyed the
workshop very much and learned a lot. Thank you all for giving me this
wonderful experience!

I'll sign off our list till end of March since I'm away for a couple of
weeks. Once I'm back I'll register again and look forward to joining you
again.

Personally, I have learnt so much, I was aware of all the things we have done and have tinkered with them before but it was great to have the motivation and guidance to lead me through them and experiment with them with other people and to hear about the successes and hiccups that other people have when they come across new technology. I sometimes feel learning about technology is like learning a language in that I personally feel I have my own technology interlangauge so to speak, I come across things and think that would be great but I never seem to really assimilate it properly, but this time I feel that I got all the right tools at exactly the right time and I am ready and wanting to use them more effectively in my teaching, so thank you everyone for giving me such a wonderful gift that will not only enrich my teaching but more importantly, the learning experiences of my students.

As for community building, it is great to see technology connecting people and bringing them together in a positive way, since so much of modern life disconnects people instead of connecting them, and I believe connecting people and bringing them together to share is so important as I believe that it is the relationships we have with people that make life wonderful.

Happy Webheading and hope to meet you on-line again soon

As you know, all the material and 'human' resources we will continue their presence online! :-)

Thank you for such comprehensive reflections. They help us all - BaW
moderators and EVO2004 coordinators -, to whom I will forward your message.

I'm very happy that you always felt 'present' in spite of the restrictions
in your country, and that the Site Index and ChatLogs pages were useful.
Creating a 'sense of belonging to a community' was one of our objectives and
I'm glad you felt a part of us and have now joined Webheads in Action.
Welcome to the 'mother community', Kyi! :-)

I have also learned a lot from all the interactions and mutual help along
these nine weeks (some of us started early, as you know) and hope to
continue learning with our ongoing projects - BaW and WiA.

Good luck in your dissertation and all your endeavors, Kyi. Please count on
us for anything you may need. We are 'all for one and one for all', as the
three musketeers. :-)

By the way... I am becoming sag with all those
goodbyes... :( I would like to remind all of you that
have participated as attendants to this session of
Baw, that is just the beginning!!!

I would like to thank you all of you your great effort
to read articles for each week, design you own
websites, blogs and suggesting new fresh ideas.

I am very very glad to look behind and see all those
marvellous things created thanks to your interest and
motivation.

Ironically, now that the six weeks is over, my schedule should lighten up a bit as one of the courses I was juggling has just finished. So, I'll enjoy in the delights of playing around with some of these new tools and sites and catching up on a few lost threads.

I consider myself a dedicated teacher, but I am truly in awe of the extent of your dedication to this group. Thanks again.

What you felt in Week 3 is absolutely natural, but you have a positive attitude - the attitude of a fighter and a winner! - because you will carry on, 'forge on'. You won't give up. Besides, you felt comfort in the support of others and that comes with the sense of belonging to a community. It's no wonder you also saw "cyberspace as a more humanized teaching and learning environment". I'm glad, because that's how I see it. How can see it otherwise after two years in such a fabulous community as WiA?

Thank you for your sweet words about my articles. It's great to know that they touch people, especially when they're based on such a significant experience in my life.

Leah, a very mini Baw4kids project is going on between Agata and me with my students, and we're only waiting for others to make suggestions. We'll be waiting!

It was also very nice meeting you and all the remaining BaWers. It's been a great 6-9 weeks!

BTW, I'm sure you will be in good company when you say that you will go back, digest things and experiment with them. It happened when Daf, Sus and I did the Webheads in Action session. And it's happened to me again with BaW. I didn't have time to explore and try out a couple of tools.

How can anyone forget the students when they are our no. 1 priority? But you're quite right. Just think: How could I have carried out what Agata so appropriately suggested if it hadn't been for my students' excitement and being there with me, mixed with a little extra work on my part? It certainly has been worth it all, including the extra load of carrying my laptop and all the necessary gear with me four times a week! Thanks,

http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/papers/taguspark2004/tp04-online-communities.htm 

I think it's very appropriate for our last day for two special reasons: it brings together and wraps up several of my ideas about (building) online communities, and it focuses on Webheads in Action and Becoming a Webhead, though mainly on the latter. :-)

I hope you enjoy it. If you have any comments, I'd love to hear them! Send them along to me or to BaW.

It's been a great 9 weeks (for me)!

See you all online!

A logo for WiA. Select your favorite
logo.

o Logo 1
o Logo 2
o Logo 3
o Logo 4
o Logo 5

To vote, please visit the following web page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/surveys?id=11682019 

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
web site listed above.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/becomingwebhead/ 

It's in Files and it's called 3wialogos.

I personally vote on the round version because I think it conveys the idea of Webheads all over the world.

Besides Vances' versions and Sus' WIAbluestamp, all in the same Files section, Fernanda also has her own version at

http://mfr.doc.info/wia.jpg 

Looking forward to your comments.

Just one question: are the outlines of the faces in the round image blurred on purpose? It seems that they are a bit more "in focus" in the rectangular logos.

Again, I like them very much!

Yes, today is the first day of the rest of your lives as Webheads.

As you have noticed throughout our workshop, we did not intend to
make you experts at ONE tool, this was not a course. A course has a
beginning and an end. We started a never-ending process of learning
and professional development. This was as a showcase of tools, we
wanted to open the door of CMC tools for you, and then as Webheads
you have the opportunity of deeply explore those tools which you feel
are more appropriate to your contexts, and we will be here to learn
with you, to explore with you, to answer and to ask questions, to
grow together.

Today, we invite you to attend our Sunday session at Tapped In, let's
say this will be your graduation ceremony, and we invite you to join
our Webheads in Action CoP at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads 

Let's keep on webheading..

See you at TI in a while,

Todays' chat log is now at

http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/webheads/baw/logs/7mar04.html 

Take a look. It was an interesting and fun session, as usual.

Have a great week!

Welcome to the gang!