Sun Nov 30 1200 GMT LEARNING2GETHER sits with Maha Abdulmoneim and Maria Colussa and her colleagues at Hello Little World.  

Session description:
In a recent Learning2gether event http://learning2gether.net/2014/11/23/learning2gether-with-ali-bostancioglu-about-his-preliminary-findings-from-research-on-webheads-cop/, Ali Bostangioglu presented findings from his research into the Webheads CoP. There was some discussion of who was a Webhead. For the purpose of Ali’s study, Webheads are members of either the Yahoo Group (about 1050 registered email addresses), the Facebook group (about 100), or the Webheadsinaction Google+ Community (135).  The point was made that the community likely extends to a wider network.
 
However, we had one participant there, Sebastian from Kerala, who mentioned in text chat that he was in the Hello Little World network. I recognized that this was the community that Maria Colussa identifies with in her Skype byline, and I asked Sebastian if he knew her. Indeed he did, and then I recalled that I have Maria in my circles as one of the Multiliteracies group, not Webheads. The point was being made through example that people like Maria and Sebastian, (and Maha Abdelmoneim another participant in online spaces such as "I have a Question" and in various MOOCs where Maria and I meet occasionally, and whom we invited to join us in our recent GEC presentation http://learning2gether.net/2014/11/18/maria-colussa-and-vance-stevens-present-keeping-your-batteries-charged-and-learning2gether-by-connecting-globally-with-other-educators-at-gec-online-conference/) might not identify themselves as Webheads but can be found actively interacting with us nevertheless in our wider networks.
 
This HoA seeks to gather colleagues from the wider network to meet with us and try to characterize something of the magic inherent in these wider networks.