[...] I’m trying really hard to get everything done with all my appointments today, and before I hit the road tomorrow for the next week and a half.  I am also trying to keep the corner of my eye on the K12 Online Conference, for which the keynote was just announced.  [...]

Oh my goodness, David – your keynote is incredible! I am sitting at my teacher desk (at this moment in time), prepping for a week, and you’re out there at the train station, talking about time and information… Thanks for all you are doing – wonderful! – Mark

Loved the keynote — very very much.

Now — excitedly — waiting for the conversation at 3pm (PST)

Jen

You were there then, I am here now!

David, you are so creative. Great work!

So while Mark was sitting at his teacher desk, I was lying in bed with my wife watching the first half of the keynote. We then woke up this morning and watched the second half on the bus (downloaded it to my computer) on the way to work. Information today does not know time, it sits and waits for you, and when you are ready, it is ready for you.

This is the exact reason why you can get college credit for attending this conference anytime between now and Dec. You do not need to be here now, you can be here then. This is a unique and amazing opportunity, I’m glad to be a part of it.

So where were you when you watched David’s keynote?

Can’t wait for the conversation 7am (China Standard Time) Oct. 17, 2006

That was an awesome experience, folks. Thank you so much for all of your hard work. It is going to be an exciting next few weeks. I hope my brain holds out for all of the new learning that is going to happen.

Hi David, I still have to watch the second half of your keynote – but I worked it would be available for download at 9.30 pm last night here Adelaide, Australian time and set my newly upgraded wireless connection to work. Absolutely fantastic and I am definitely going to use this as part of an organised K12 staff PD session – it will look pretty cool on an interactive whiteboard. The line up of expertise for this conference is awesome, you could never assemble so many top line educators for one conference if it wasn’t online. The fact it hasn’t been done before means that no-one has a preconceived notion of what a presentation should look like and the sky’s the limit. David does that beautifully by creating something not possible in a traditional keynote – this is going to be great!

David,

There was a different type of humour in your keynote: How many keynote speakers get interupted by a little old lady, while delivering in the local greenway … David that was hilarious! You are obviousily a man with patience.

The presentation was great. I’m hoping that the conference, and the theme of your keynote, with the direction off the rails, will also provide some interesting models for realistic implementation throughout the conference.

I’m excited!!

My music teacher (I am an LMS at an elementary school) came into the library for help on using the multibay cd/dvd burner. I was listening to the keynote. He was SO IMPRESSED, he needed the URL so he could download and listen too. It was awesome David, and thanks for making it very interesting. MY personal favorite was the interruption by the mature lady (and other??) who just flat out admitted they were being nosey, but were obviously impressed. I’m sure you were the talk of their supper that night.

Enjoying this keynote from home after a long day at work…now 8:30 pm …I’m a derailed elementary principal in Washington State. I’m excited about the conference…Great Job David!

All I can say is WOW! I have only heard about half of the keynote presentation so far, but it is WONDERFUL! It’s downloading to my iPod now so that I can take it with me to school tomorrow.

This conference already has me amazed. I feel like a little kid waiting just a few more days for Christmas to arrive…the countdown to the main gig continues.

David, thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas so clearly. Bravo!

[...] At about 9.30 pm last night I went onto the K-12 Online Conference website and downloaded the fantastic David Warlick pre-conference keynote address. It said 84 MB and I thought, “Good chance to see how my newly upgraded broadband access can handle this via my wireless router.” Not a problem, and before 20 minutes was up, I was listening and viewing David’s keynote (which, by the way, was excellent although I didn’t get past the part where’s he’s in the park, watching dog walkers go by). As I’ve blogged previously, I’ve got a presentation of my own on the boil for Week Two of the before mentioned conference and I’ve tried to be creative and inclusive – my spare time in the evenings has been spent putting it together as a webcast and it too will end up being a higher MB product. I have to work a lot harder and seem to spend a lot longer than most getting things right in the creative process so in the spirit of Web 2.0, I reached to a few people on my Learning Network in the K-12 sector to contribute an audio snippet to weave into my presentation. By the way, I left this idea until Friday and then only gave my respondents three days to get back! But I left easy steps for podomatic and then, the contributions trickled in – Al sent me his as an e-mail attachment (2MB) – would have been a problem over dial up. Rachel uploaded hers to her own podomatic account – quite indepth answers and that also was easily accessed and downoloaded via my broadband connection. Greg, who co-opted Jedd, sent his in as an mp4 file (Mac user!) and with broadband had hassles with podomatic. Jedd just deposited his shorter files in my account and so did Mark, after a few goes. Jo sent me hers this morning after an unsuccessful go last night and Doug all the way (from here, anyway) from Alaska had emailed me several times as he battled his dial up and then a few hours back, a internet outage at his school. He sent me an apologetic and slightly frustrated email: Graham, I was ready to record my bit this afternoon. I had the mic. I set up a new podomatic account and ran a test, like I mentioned in a message to you earlier today. Then the net went OFF at about 10 AM. Something happened to the fiber optic cable that connects the whole northern part of Alaska to the rest of the world. A railroad crew doing some maintenance, the story goes. We’ve been offline all day. Weird. [...]

Bravo David!

The first time I saw/met you was in a formal conference environment. You were excellent, rekindling an enthusiasm for learning and the immense potential these tools have in our classrooms (Just ask any of my colleagues – they hear it every day!!).

But this time…it was even more special…even though you were there then and I was here now (and I watched half yesterday here at school and the other half late last evening at home) this keynote had an innate sense of intimacy. The way you moved around to illustrate and convey ideas, it reminded me of how my kids send video clips to tell their stories to their Grannie who lives three hours away. It was personal and a truly amazing learning experience. I only wish I could have particpated last night.

What a GREAT idea for a conference. Don’t get me wrong, there is still a valuable place for the traditional conference (where else can we share a beer or two together??!!), but this experiment will surely take its place in the repertoire of learning essentials.

I have been peddling the conference to our staff. I’ll be interested to hear their thoughts.

On top of all this, after being an avid consumer of your blog (and a few others) and promoter of learning-based blogs in our school, your enthusiasm has encouraged me to finally take up blogging on a personal/reflective (professional development) basis.

Thanks, eh?,
Jeff

[...] David Warlick’s keynote video for the first annual K12 Online Conference is now available for viewing. It’s the first of over 40 presentations in the next two weeks that will be posted to the conference blog, and David’s video is a great way to get prepared to participate. And even if you don’t check out any of the other upcoming stuff, you’ll get a lot just from the video. [...]

David:

I liked your challenge for educators to stop acting like immigrants and start acting like natives. I think this is right on target, and I really like the metaphor to language learning and acquisition. I can relate to this as a Spanish language learner. At some point a new mindset is needed for the language learner, when they even stop thinking in the old language and start thinking in the new one. This is a huge jump, but I think it really defines “fluency” when it comes to language. This is what we need to do in the digital environment as well, I think. We need to think as well as teach digital.

I also loved the railway metaphor, and the idea that information does not travel in rows. I think we have kidded ourselves for years thinking that learning could and should take place in a hierarchical, top down and linear process. I think learning has always been more dynamical and chaotic than linear, but the information environment today empowered by the hyperlink makes that even more apparent– and concretely visible.

Thanks so much for sharing such great insights, and getting our conference off to an outstanding start!

David, I’m particularly impressed with the fact that you began your talk by stating that you are not comfortable yet with this form of teaching. The way I see it that’s the sign of a great teacher, somebody’s who’s willing to continuously learn. As teachers we need to continue to stress the importance of learning to our students. When they see us trying to learn something new it is far more powerful than anything we could say. I”m very much looking forward to more of this conference.

Andrew Pass
http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html

[...] No, i’m not talking about the Race for the Netxtel Cup.  I’m talking about the conference that I have waiting for ever since I wanted to become an educator, the K12 Online Conference.  The keynote address by David Warlick was extraordinary and is only adding on to the thoughts are spilling out of my head and hopefully into my writing (also listening to “The Who” helps me a great deal).  His keynote address was basically the viewership watching the human side of an individual who thinks and discusses educational issues with an ora that resembles “the force”.  When he speaks, his tone and demenaor instantly make you realize the human side of things and helps put in perspective the details of his educational anecdotes and information.  [...]

I was less than 50 miles away from where David created it when I was watching the keynote. Yet I was able to watch it after attending an open house night at my children’s elementary school, getting them tucked into bed, making their lunches for tomorrow and laying out their outfits for picture day.

That is the beauty of Web 2.0. It comes to you when you are ready. And yet, I feel that its full power eludes me. I have a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and six years as a computer technical support engineer, one year as a programmer. Yet, I haven’t gotten the RSS feed from my blog working the way I want. I don’t have Technorati tags on it, but I don’t really get how they work. How do we expect teachers, who are up to all hours grading papers and preparing lessons after THEY get home from open house and put their kids to bed, to figure this stuff out? We have to push to make it less cumbersome. The tools have to become more user friendly.

David, thanks for the links that will help me further down the road of Web 2.0.

Wahoo David!
I just want to “get in line” and thank you for your very creative presentation and terrific story telling! Thanks for including the “senior” guests!! They are so sweet and brought a very human element to your message!

Interesting how many of us watched your pre-conference message in more than one sitting… me included! As Jeff U. said, it’s wonderful that technology can “wait” until we are ready.

I had the opportunity to present a workshop today on “Emerging Technologies That Are Changing ‘What and How’ Students Learn” to our admin team. (Actually, “you” presented this workshop for me!) I attended the Eluminate chat and watched your keynote last night and knew that I had to include your message. This, plus the “Did You Know” presentation from Karl Fisch (which you also inspired) gave my admin team plenty to think about!

I thank you, and all the folks who have worked so hard to spread this very important message…. what a great time to be an educator …. what a great time to be a student!! Wow!

Outstanding, David! Your “documentary/reflection” is on the level of Ross McElwee’s work (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568478/) (another N. Carolinian, btw).

I love the whole metaphor of “leaving the rail”… the conversations, the learning is now happening on these “side trips” more and more. Certainly it’s been that way for me for the past two years—where I’ve received more and higher quality prof. development in my car (with Podcasts) than previously in my 11 yr. career.

Kudos and thank you!

Bob Sprankle

[...] There has been much talk the last couple of weeks around the Edusphere (nice little buzz word) about the upcoming K12 Online Conference, but I have refrained from mentioning it here because I wasn’t sure what to say.  I didn’t quite know what part I wanted to play in the conference and how I wanted to get my teachers involved, but I finally think I have figured it out.  [...]

[...] The K12 Online Conference officially begins next week, but you can check out David Warlick’s pre-conference presentation entitled “Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning” at http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=26 [...]

[...] Update: I saved this as I left school and was planning to add tags, references to the k12online conference and David Warlick’s keynote (good portion of the inspiration for this) and headed home. When I got home, I found this email waiting for me.. On the Wiki I put my home work from LA on there!!!!!!!!!!! [...]

[...] So despite having to do a final workshop today with a group of high school students back in Liverpool, last night I just could not sleep. I’d be surprised if my brain shut off for even a couple of hours. I laid in bed directing the MacBook Movie I should have been making on this trip, catching snippets of the kids, the technologies, the travel. In my fog, it was a great movie. I kept thinking of David’s keynote and Alan Levine’s presentation (coming up next week), how fun and interesting I found them, and how much I’d love to make my own. But here’s my dirty little secret…getting up in front of hundreds of people and delivering a message is something that no longer bothers me, but I still feel horribly shy about going up and talking to people one on one and, even more, capturing it digitally. I really envy those who can do that easily. Another challenge to work through. [...]

[...] k12online06, Microblog, Web 2.0, wiki.   Add to EdBloggerNews    Print This Post The K12 Online Conference has kicked off! Today sees the keynote for the ‘Basic/AdvancedTraining’ strand by Alan Levine entitled I Did Not Know You Could do THAT with Free Web Tools, the keynote for the ‘A Week in the Classroom’ strand by Bud Hunt entitled Journey through the Week as I Journey Up (or Down) the Road, and Vicki Davis’ Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum (in the ‘A Week in the Classroom’ strand). I still haven’t watched David Warlick’s pre-conference keynote (Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning), so I’ve a bit of catching up to do! Bookmark:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

I have been struggling to find time to finish the keynote address. I have started and stopped many times at different times throughout the day – interrupted by students, my family, etc. I also found myself going back and reviewing parts of the address to let it sink in. This was the magical part of this online conference – engagement that transcends time and space – very appropriate to David’s introduction. I downloaded the keynote to my MacBook Pro so I could travel with it. I have “spent time” with David in my classroom, on my back porch, and in my bedroom. What other conference can offer that level of intimacy?

I have heard the concept of learn, unlearn, and relearn before but hearing it again affirmed what I am currently doing in my physics classroom. I think the way we tackle things using inquiry and technology that supports the process creates the type of graduate that David refers to. I took bits of David’s keynote and shared them with my AP physics students. We have a discussion area for our class and they reflected on what was said. I’ll share some of their comments in a later post.

[...] It’s probably a combination of these, although I’d probably put the emphasis on the first and last ones. The conversation bloomed somewhat via the comment thread, leading to Others talking about this issue on their blogs. I’ve been meaning to post about if for a while and, being inspired by Dave Warlick’s pre-conference keynote for the K12 Online Conference, I’ve decided to vodcast my thoughts on this… [...]

[...] The conference is being held via Read/Write web technologies that we discussed during our professional development day last Spring. I will be forwarding along sessions that I find particularly relevant to Collegiate, but please take a look at the Conference Pre-Keynote and the Conference Agenda for session details. [...]

[...] David Warlick’s 2006 K-12 Pre-conference keynote: Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning [...]

[...] This podcast is our discussion about David Warlick’s keynote for the conference. [...]

[...] And David’s keynote here [...]

[...] Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning by David Warlick – I enjoyed this keynote address.  I especially liked the way Mr. Warlick addressed the role of the learner in today’s world. [...]

I started typing my apology to the group for arriving late at this conference, (picture me tip-toeing in through the door at the back of the room, glancing around, looking for a free seat – they’re all at the front, I can’t interrupt by just walking up there…), and I realized, there is no “late”. No apologies are needed! David, as you pointed out at the beginning of your talk the “here, there, then, now” doesn’t matter. I’m accessing the information in “my” here and “my” now.

David, as many others have mentioned, I too really appreciated your train metaphor. Let me share with you some of my sidetrips from your main line:

-I was immediately engaged by your warm, informal style and knew I was hooked for an evening of exploration. So I hit the pause button, made a hot chocolate, pulled up a comfy ottoman and settled in.
-I opened a new tab in my browser to have a look at the wiki you set up as you were describing it. I scanned the list of your session attendees who had set up wiki pages. I hit pause again to check some of those out.
I read the wikis of people I know or have encountered on listservs, at conferences etc. and then started working my way through the wikis created by Canadian educators. (I had no idea there would be such good “attendance” by educators in my own province). I noticed your responses on many of those wiki pages and discovered that I’d been thinking of wikis as products, not finished products, but products just the same. I hadn’t thought of wikis as conversations.
-Back to listening again, this time to how to make our blogs available to other people. I opened another tab to have a closer look at hitchhikr. Neat tool! I hit pause again, generated tags on hitchhiker and opened another tab to visit one of my own blogs (Ontario Blogs). I edited one of my posts so I could paste in the tags I’d generated in hitchhikr. It worked great…I didn’t know I could do that.
-Back to listening again…

And on it went for three hours! I listened, explored, tried things out, reflected and joined the conversation. My here…my now…my journey…

Thanks for the ticket!

Diane

[...] I continue to be captivated by what David Warlick discussed in his K-12 Online pre-conference keynote regarding “side trips” for learning. Often the “side trips” are the most engaging and worthwhile parts of the school experience for learners, and the times when learning opportunities can become most differentiated. Our present K-12 educational climate of “mandated standards for all learners” assumes that a single mold is going to work for everyone. It hasn’t, it doesn’t, and it won’t. Again this does not mean we have lower expectations for student and teacher achievement: it should in fact mean we have HIGHER expectations. I don’t think we should or must have UNIFORM expectations for everyone, however. [...]

[...] Read more: here [...]

[...] I was planning to use an excerpt from David Warlick’s pre-conference keynote for K12Online 2006 about “Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning” to frame the discussion. Often I think the learning experiences which can be most memorable and engaging for our students ARE the “side trips” that we take within or from our curriculum and scope and sequence guide. If you buy that, the case for virtual field trips is pretty clear I think. [...]

[...] I’m going through some old notes I scrawled on pieces of scratch paper (and even a few napkins from time to time) from podcasts I’ve listened to this fall. Some of the ideas below are from David Warlick’s K-12 Online pre-conference keynote, along with Clarence Fisher’s excellent K-12 Online presentation, “Globally Literate.” There may be some other sources here, but those are the main ones I can decipher from my notes. [...]

[...] Last night I finished editing a fifteen minute video I’ve been planning for several weeks. It is titled “Roads of Learning in the 21st Century,” and extends the metaphor of “learning on the rails” and “taking sidetrips for learning” shared by David Warlick in his preconference keynote address (in video form) for the 2006 K-12 Online conference. I use the metaphor of the railroad to talk about schools and learning in the 21st century, including the issue of school reform. This video requires free QuickTime player software – right click or control click and choose SAVE TARGET AS or SAVE LINK AS to save the video to your hard drive: [...]

David,

I watched your keynote back in October and took a lot from the messages you provided. I just watched it again for the K12 Online Course and found new things to take away from it. I’m curious how it would play in a couple of years as the technology evolves the way information is delivered and processed.

This summer I’m going to keep a mindful eye on providing more opportunities for my students to take the sidetrips so the journey is more than the final destination.

Thank you.

[...] Here are some of my thoughts concerning David Warlick’s keynote address to the 2006 K12 Online Conference. [...]

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[...] I sat there chatting to James, I was having a flashback to Dave Warlick’s keynote session from the 2006 K12 Online Conference where he talked about derailing education and about getting [...]

[...] to report no one on my staff new who David Warlick was!!) I pulled up the Quicktime video of his opening keynote from last year. I played and fast forwarded to show how he made his opening keynote, being in his [...]

[...] K12 Online Conference was all the bait I needed.  I tuned in live to the opening keynote on October 16, 2006, which was given by David Warlcik. The title of the keynote, Derailing [...]

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