Laura Loves Languages

Can’t tell you how jazzed I am to be going to New Orleans to spend the week with my MERLOT fam. Doubly so since the emphasis is on  the Humanities this year with History, Music and World Languages featured disciplines.Could not be a more appropriate venue.

I will be blogging, no doubt, about the keynote of my wonderful friend Bee who has made it possible to follow her presentation virtually, in the event you cannot come in person. Check it out, in her own words. You are invited!!!:

 You may participate in her presentation according to Bee by:

• blogging about it (tag your post merlot2007onlap)
• photographing/recording/making a video of it and displaying your production online (remember to tag it using merlot2007onlap)

BEFORE AND AFTER

• joining this wiki and adding your suggestions or questions (see brainstorming, reflection, questions and criticism )

DURING

• listening to it and interacting with the online participants and presenter directly from the Merlot Conference Room.
• listening to it online from your home through the webcast (see explanation below) being streamed from the Webheads in Action page
• listening to it through the webcast and interacting online through chat with participants on Boracay Island in Second Life (you need to become a member of SL and download the SL software first if you do not have it)
• listening to it through the webcast and interacting through chat with participants in Alado.
• listening to it through the webcast, interacting through chat with participants inside Second Life. (see co-presenters in the communities)

A Live Interactive Webcast is basically like a global radio show that is produced and accessed via the internet. A discussion between two or more more parties using a telephony program is streamed live so that many listeners can tune in and, when desired, call in to the show host and participate in the discussion. These shows usually include the use of a text chat room so that listeners and discussion participants can communicate with each other during the show. Telephony + Two-way audio capturing + live streaming = Live Interactive Webcasting. (Source - Webcast Academy Curriculum ”

I hope all of you do come. I met Bee because of such a collaborative, interactive environment. What an exciting world.