Learning2gether with Phil Hubbard, Curation in CALL and TED Talk videos

Learning2gether with Phil Hubbard, Curation in CALL and TED Talk videos

>> Vance Stevens: We're live!

Hello, everybody. Somehow my video disappeared.

It's there, but that's my - it's just an avatar format.

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OK, well anyway, this is Vance Stevens in Abu Dhab... sorry, in L.A.

I'm living in L.A. now, if you want to know where I'm living.

Today is the 8th of December.

They move me around so much, you know.

And, anyway, it's the 8th of December 2013.

We're talking with a good friend of mine, Phil Hubbard,

from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

And he's been doing some really neat stuff in Cal.

I've known him for a long time in the Cal intersection Tea [missed words]

>> Phil Hubbard: Since we were kids.

>> Stevens: We were, 20 years ago
[Hubbard laughs]

>> Hubbard: reaching 30 [check]
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>> Stevens: Someone has a -- someone needs to have a headset on.

[missed words] is muted.

Errh not sure: it could be someone listening to the stream.

Yeah, if you're listening to the stream -- OK.

Their call has gone away [check]

Someone has corrected it, that's good.

All right, well, OK. Someone has announced in the stream chat that they're listening to it there.

So that's good, everything seems to be working.

We're doing a Hangout on Air, as we often do.

We're streaming it on webheadsinaction.org/live

At the moment we have six people in the hangout,

there's room for four more.

So if anyone is listening on the stream and would like to join us, they can.

And right now we've got Clare [check surname] and Jim Buckingham, Rita Zeinstejer and

let's see, and also Rob, Rob is there, and me, Vance Stevens. Rob Perhamus, is that correct?

Correct me if I'm wrong. Perhamus, Perhamus - how do you pronounce your name?

>> Hubbard: [missed words]

>> Stevens: it's Perhamus -- Perhamus, OK, Good, I'll never forget that again, all right.

Thank you very much, Rob. Rob is an occasional participant in our hangouts.

Well Phil, take it away and anybody who wants to --

by the way, you're all muted by default when you come into the hangout.

You can unmute yourself.

If you're going to unmute yourself and talk, please mute yourself again,

so we don't get keyboard noises and things like that.

And there's Elizabeth Anne, also shown up from Grenoble in France.

And Halima [check] in Tashkent has also joined us, I see.

>> Hubbard [check] I think we're great, well, hello, everybody.

It's Good Morning for me, a little early in the morning,

but the sun is beginning to show through the back window here.

Thank you all for being here from all over the world.

What I wanted to do today is talk about largely an idea and a project that I've been working on

for the last couple of years, very sporadically.

Unfortunately I get interrupted easily, as I'm sure all of you do,

so what started out as a -- what I hoped was going to be a much more robust collection of materials

has turned out to be a little more anemic

but I still think that I have enough here that I can demonstrate the idea

and especially share my thoughts about how to go

about dealing with this relatively new notion of curation,

although in some ways, maybe it's just a label for an old notion that we've had for quite some time.

So, let me give you a little bit of the background,

like several of the things I've worked on in the last few years,

like learner training.

This is something that has emerged out of my classroom experience

with an advanced listening and vocabulary class,

and I see Vance is showing some of the slides now.

The class is for graduate students at Stanford

and it's a really nice sandbox for playing with ideas,

because these are -- well, they're all in graduate school already,

they're, for the most part, in the high 90's onwards to the 100s in the TOFL IBT [check]

so they really are advanced in that sense.

And many of them are taking the course because we require them to do it.

So they're kind of a captive audience

but it's also a small course: we have a maximum 14 students in it

and it allows me to not only play around with ideas, but get a chance to the students afterward,

not usually with formal research, but just informally as part of our normal tutorial sessions

and find out what they thought about them and what I can do to make them work a little better. [5:35]