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Daily Archives: December 14, 2009

Announcements

Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism Debate Finals

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The 2009 global debate project for middle schoolers, the Eracism Project (a Flat ClassroomTM Project www.eracismproject.org) will hold the finals of Eracism on the private Eracism grid on ReactionGrid on Thursday, December 17 at 9:15 am EST – 10:15 EST.  Although the students and judges for this project will be in-world, the presentation will be streamed live with a backchannel as part of the K12 Online Conference 2009 to CCiTV Live at http://ccitv.cciu.org/.

Student finalists will be debating “Differences Make us Stronger” in the impromptu style debate moderated by Bernajean Porter (http://www.digitales.us) with the final vote on the winner taken from the judges and student participants in the project who will be in the virtual world.  This final debate is the culmination of an 8 week debate project that began with sixteen teams from 12 classrooms in 7 countries and is now down to two debate teams from Shorecrest Preparatory School in Florida and Westwood Schools in Georgia.

The organizers of the project recently shared a presentation as part of the K12Online Conference about how the project was founded, the methodologies and tools used to make the debates “feel” as synchronous as possible, even when in the asynchronous environment of VoiceThread.

Sponsors of this project include: Elluminate, VoiceThread, ReactionGrid, and Wikispaces.

Date: Thursday December 17, 9:15 am EST – 10:15 EST.

Announcements

K12Online09 Day 6 Presentations: 14 December 2009

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

Today’s presentations include:

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

KEYNOTE: BRINGing it OUT a Notch
Diego Leal

Telling the World: Flat Classroom Student Summit in Practice
Julie Lindsay

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM

KEYNOTE: A Peek for a Week – Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom
Rachel Boyd

To Those Who Want to Rock-Don’t Suppose Compose!
Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny

Comunicacion 2.0 en el aula
Pilar Soro 

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

HELP DESK
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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
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2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

Comunicacion 2.0 en el aula

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Presenter: Pilar Soro
Location: Tarragona, España
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Comunicacion2.0 en el aula

Presentation Description: En el aula de segundo de primaria utilizamos algunos recursos de la web 2.0 para mejorar nuestra comunicación oral y escrita. El microblogging, mensajes con webcam y grabación de audios son alguno de los ejemplos que presento.

In the second grade classroom use some Web 2.0 resources to improve our oral and written communication. The microblogging, messaging with webcam and audio recordings are some examples that present here.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Tutora Virtual

Additional Information:
http://eskola.cat
Twitter
Tutora Virtual
Skype: pilaras7

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

For Those Who Want to Rock, Don’t Suppose, Compose!

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Presenter: Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny
Location: Northbrook, Illinois
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: For Those Who Want to Rock, Don’t Suppose, Compose!

Presentation Description: Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny, two music teachers discuss the creative process of composing music in the digital age. All links can be found at http://musictechie.pbworks.com


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http://musictechie.pbworks.com

Additional Information:
Carol Broos  twitter plurk
School website www.carolbroos.com Professional blog www.beatechie.com
Carol Vrotny – twitter School Music Video website

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM KEYNOTEA Peek for a Week – Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom

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Presenter: Rachel Boyd
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Twitter: @rachelboyd

Presentation Title: A Peek for a Week – Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom

Presentation Description:
A peek for a week inside a kiwi junior classroom of 6 year olds. Come and see what we get up to in our classroom learning during a week using a variety of online and web2 tools.

Please note that due to this presentation also being visual it is best viewed with audio AND visuals in movie format.

Presentation:

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Additional Information:
Twitter
Rachel Boyd Wiki
NZ EduBlabberings blog
Room 9 Nelson Central 2009 blog
Room 9 Nelson Central Wiki

2009 2009-Kicking It Up a Notch

Telling the World: Flat Classroom Student Summit

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Presenter: Julie Lindsay
Location: Beijing, China
Twitter: @julielindsay

Presentation Title: Telling the World: Flat Classroom Student Summit

Presentation Description: The world is their audience, literally, when high school students embark on a Flat Classroom Project. As a culmination to the 12-14 week global collaborative project students have the opportunity to present their research and findings in real time through a virtual classroom. Guests internationally are invited to attend and ask questions and interact with the students. This experience goes beyond the usual classroom sharing model and promotes awareness of the scope of a global audience, confidence in public speaking and enhanced cultural exchange. This session shares highlights from recent Flat Classroom Student Summits and provides a pedagogical approach that allows safe collaboration and sharing and pushes the limits of classroom experience into a blended 21st century and Web 2.0 model.
This session will showcase best student work from the Flat Classroom project and show how students present their research and learning to an international audience. Using a virtual classroom, students from around the world present to their peers and to educators and guests and field questions. The aim of this session is to show how powerful an online learning community is and how Web 2.0 tools can support and enhance the learning experience globally. Participants will be exposed to tools and methods for facilitating this style of online showcase.

Presentation:

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com/K12+Online+09

Additional Information:
Julie blogs at E-Learning Journey’s
Follow her on Twitter

2009 2009-Kicking It Up a Notch

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH KEYNOTEBRINGing it OUT a notch

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Presenter: Diego Leal
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Twitter: @qadmon

Presentation Title: BRINGing it OUT a notch

Presentation Description: The amazing innovation we are seeing in many classrooms around the world still has a small impact, when compared to the size of our educational systems. How do we bridge the divides to go bigger? This presentation will explore some divides, from a Colombian perspective, and will propose some ideas that could help in bridging them.

La fabulosa innovación que vemos en muchos salones de clase alrededor del mundo todavía tiene un impacto pequeño, en comparación con el tamaño de nuestros sistemas educativos. ¿Cómo creamos puentes para cerrar las brechas y crecer más? Esta presentación explorará algunas brechas, desde una perspectiva colombiana, y propondrá algunas ideas que pueden ayudar a crear puentes para cerrarlas.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://bioan09.wikispaces.com

Additional Information:
Twitter: qadmon
Blog: http://diegoleal.org/blog

Questions for discussion / Preguntas para discusión

  • ¿Qué brechas observa usted en su entorno? ¿Usted ha experimentado alguna brecha de primera mano? / Do you see any divides in your own environment? How so? Have you experienced a divide first-hand?
  • ¿Qué saltos piensa usted que puede llevar a cabo para atender esas brechas? / What kind of ‘jumps’ can you do in order to do something about those divides?
  • ¿Cuáles son los aspectos de nuestra visión que debemos repensar, si quisiéramos superar las brechas? / What aspects of our vision need to be thought again, if we want to overcome the divides?