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K12Online09 Day 3 Presentations: 9 December 2009

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Welcome to day three of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

If You Host It They Will Come
Jennifer Wagner

Options for Building Your Teacher Website
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

Orientation into Second Life
Alan Hudson, Deborah Butler, Lawal Mohamed

LEADING THE CHANGE

Digiteens: Digital Citizenship from Digital Teenagers
Vicki Davis

You Might be a 21st Century Leader if”¦
David Wells

Whither Eportfolios
Drew Buddie

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Whither ePortfolios

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Presenter: Drew Buddie
Location: Rickmansworth, UK
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Whither ePortfolios

Presentation Description: A somewhat provocative viewpoint of what constitutes an ‘ePortfolio’ and a very brief cursory overview of the use of one ePortfolio tool that can be integrated within a VLE. The presentation will suggest that ePortfolios are ubiquitous, its just that they are not seen as such. How can non-traditional ePortfolio formats be formalised, accepted and given authority? In fact what IS an ePortfolio?

(Presentation is not yet available on DotSub)

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://k12online.ning.com/profile/DrewBuddie

Additional Information:
I am @digitalmaverick on Twitter.

2009 2009-Leading the Change

You Might Be a 21st Century Leader if…

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Presenter: David Wells
Location: Montpelier, VT
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: You Might Be a 21st Century Leader if…

Presentation Description: 21st Century School Leaders are critical to the success of students and the advancement of technology integration in our schools. But would you know a 21st Century Leader if you saw one? My presentation describes how the standards for good leadership match up with the standards for being a 21st Century Leader.


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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://principalofchange.wordpress.com/you-might-be-a-21st-century-leader-if/

Additional Information:
Come be part of my personal learning network!

Blog: principalofchange.wordpress.com
Twitter: principalwells
Second Life: Lupin Writer

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Digiteens: Digital Citizenship by Digital Teenagers

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Presenter: Vicki Davis and Westwood Schools Students
Location: Camilla, Georgia, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Digiteens: Digital Citizenship by Digital Teenagers

Presentation Description: Much of digital citizenship education focuses on adults compiling information to share with students, this method provides a framework for students to conduct authentic research with global partners on the aspects of digital citizenship and creation of action projects at their schools. This presentation’s goal is to: 1) demonstrate the efficacy of a project based approach to digital citizenship education, 2) provide insight into teen-mentoring of younger students, 3) effective coaching practices for teachers and educators wishing to encourage a project based learning approach to digital citizenship, 4) an overview of the aspects of digital citizenship salient to teenagers around the world and what they think the message of educators should be to their students, and 5) a concrete experience allowing students who have thoroughly researched this topic to share their thoughts with a global audience and engage in global discussion on this.

This is a compilation of student views, research, and beliefs as it relates to digital topics and how these should be taught in schools.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org

Additional Information:
Digiteen Project: a Flat Classroom project.

The information in this presentation refers to the following Digiteen Projects:
Digiteen 2007
Digiteen 2008
Digiteen 09-2
Digiteen 09-3

Vicki Davis,
Cool Cat Teacher Blog @coolcatteacher

Digiteen Action Projects
http://supersocialsafety.blogspot.com @socialsafety

2009 2009-Getting Started

Orientation in Second Life

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Presenter: Alan Hudson, Deborah Butler, Lawal Mohamed
Location: London, United Kingdom
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Orientation in Second Life

Presentation Description: New users of virtual worlds can find the interfaces and controls of 3D platforms difficult and confusing. Currently in Second life new users initially find their avatars in a space for orientation with other new users and possibly with helpers and guides to assist them. This video looks at different approaches to the design of these areas.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk

2009 2009-Getting Started

Options for Building Your Teacher Website and Why YOU Should

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Presenter: Cyndi Danner-Kuhn
Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Options for Building Your Teacher Website and Why YOU Should

Presentation Description: Every educator needs to build and maintain his or her own teacher Website. Technology provides teachers with more effective ways to communicate with students, their families, and the community than ever before. This session will help you learn how to use technology to communicate with different audiences through your classroom website. There are endless benefits of a maintaining a classroom Website. A classroom website gives students Resources, Relevance, Connections, Access and Experience. This session will provide links and resources to simple tools that allow any teacher, regardless of technical know-how, to create a live Website for free. The best way is for schools to install and support a tool that allows teachers to create Websites easily, but since many schools are not at that point yet, teachers should given both the encouragement and the freedom to build their own sites. You can make use of some very good tools for building free, live classroom Websites. I may leave out your favorite, so please add yours to the list, or tell us know what tool your school is using and what you like and dislike about it!

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Supporting links blog post

Additional Information:
www.cyndidannerkuhn.info
iChat (AIM) cyndidannerkuhn
Twitter/Plurk: cyndidannerkuhn
Skype: cyndidannerkuhn
Delicious/Diigo: cyndidannerkuhn

2009 2009-Getting Started

If You Host It, They Will Come

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Presenter: Jennifer Wagner
Location: Murrieta, California, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: If You Host It, They Will Come

Presentation Description: A chat with Jen Wagner about Online Projects. Ideas of how to start planning your own project. Several projects will be highlighted as “examples” and “possibilities”.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/k1209

Additional Information:
Jen’s Blog: www.jenuinetech.com/blog
Jen’s Resource Page: jlwagner.pbworks.com
Jen’s Projects: www.jenuinetech.com
Jen On Twitter: jlwagner