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Daily Archives: October 21, 2014
K12Online14 Day Two – October 21, 2014
Welcome to day two of the 2014 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.
It’s the second day of an incredible 2 weeks. You can always come back and watch the sessions – everything is archived. Why not sit down with a friend or colleague to watch a session?!
Today’s sessions:
STORIES FOR LEARNING
PLN Power: A Personal Story by Jeffrey Bradbury
A Tale of Three Classrooms: How and Why We Read, Write, and Think for Each Other
by Jared Colley and Joel Garza
GAMIFICATION AND GAMING
“Creating A Classroom EDventure” by Harrison McCoy
The iPad’s Killer App by Ben Rimes
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Creating an Edventure in Your Classroom
Presenter: Harrison McCoy
Location: Arlington, Texas, USA
@hmccoy0615
Presentation Title: Creating an Edventure in Your Classroom
Presentation Description: Gamification is one of the hottest topics in education today. This presentation explores how to gamify the entire classroom by creating a gaming culture in which assignments are embedded in quests that earn participants points, badges, prizes and the ability to level up in a year-long game. This strategy teaches individual accountability, collaboration, community service, leadership, academic achievement in core content areas, critical thinking and problem solving.
Additional Information:
Check out my professional development blog at www.theothereduguy.blogspot.com
A Tale of Three Classrooms: How and Why We Read, Write, and Think for Each Other
Presenter: Jared Colley and Joel Garza
Location: Arlington, TX and Addison, TX
@jcolley8
Presentation Description: This presentation demonstrates how a good idea was born out of a collaboration involving three teachers who first set out to do something very traditional with their English classes. Growing from a shared interest to try something different, teachers experimented to understand the organic but deliberate aspects of one instance of collaboration, made possible by technology and open-minded spirits. In the beginning, however, the idea was largely traditional: to host a collaborative, inter-institutional paper conference for high school students. This is the story of how a traditional vision became the catalyst for 21st century learning practices – attempting, from there, to outline the emotional anatomy of such collaborative experiences.
New media presents promising opportunities for students and teachers together to think beyond traditional methods for collaboration, and our experience is a story about learning involving three classes that simultaneously engaged two literary texts in such a way. Collaboratively, students read more critically, thought more divergently, and synthesized their ideas creatively; they engaged in unexpected conversations, demonstrated knowledge through multiple media, and inspired creative thinking in their peers and us, demonstrating the relationship between teaching practices and student habits of mind. Digital/nontraditional collaboration empowered students to formulate questions for new audiences, to understand through practice the relationship between purpose, audience, and word – doing so by blogging articles, preparing videos, and recording audio mp3s. The story concludes with the final composition of traditional conference papers, shared inter-institutionally, and we seek to outline the logistics and emotional realities of such an endeavor.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
A Tale of Three Schools
Additional Information:
Celebrating James Joyce’s Dubliners
Celebrating Richard III
The iPad’s Killer App
Presenter: Ben Rimes
Location: Mattawan, Michigan, United States
@techsavvyed
Presentation Description: For the hundreds of thousands of apps on the iPad, there is one often neglected app that already comes pre-installed; the Camera App! Exploration of the world around us using video and images allows students to capture elements of curiosity and real world examples of concepts for assessment, demonstration of knowledge, and creating engaging learning opportunities. This screencast/video will give educators ideas to challenge their students to capture the world around them and move past gamification, towards more playful learning experiences that rely more on intrinsic motivation, rather than extrinsic devices, badges, and stimuli.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.techsavvyed.net/presentation-links
PLN Power: A Personal Story
Presenter: Jeffrey Bradbury
Location: New Jersey
@teachercast
Presentation Description: What happens when an educator starts educating outside of the classroom? Why do so many teachers spend their free time blogging, podcasting, conference presenting and much more? What if the work they are doing outside of the classroom is impactful to their work inside of the classroom? What if… the work that happens inside the classroom is transferred back to the work happening outside of the classroom? In this presentation, Jeff Bradbury takes a look at a very personal subject all based on the work happening both in and outside of the classroom walls.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.TeacherCast.net