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Announcing K12 Online!
Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006″ convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 with the theme “Unleashing the Potential.” A call for proposals is below.
There will be four “conference strands”– two each week. Two presentations will be published in each strand each day, Monday – Friday, so four new presentations will be available each day over the course of the two-weeks. Each presentation will be given in podcast or screencast format and released via the conference blog (www.k12onlineconference.org — give it a couple of more days, it’ll work 
) and archived for posterity.
THE FOUR STRANDS ARE:
Week 1
Strand A: A Week In The Classroom
These presentations will focus on the practical pedagogical uses of online social tools (Web 2.0) giving concrete examples of how teachers are using the tools in their classes. They will also show how teachers plan for using these tools in the delivery of their curricular objectives.
Strand B: Basic/Advanced Training (one of each per day)
Basic training is “how to” information on tool use in an educational setting, especially for newcomers.
Advanced training is for teachers who have already started using Web 2.0 tools in their classes and are looking for: (a) advanced technology training (eg. how to write your own blog template or hack existing ones), (b) new tools they can make use of in their classes, (c) teaching ideas on how to mash tools together to create “something new,” (d) a pedagogical understanding of how technologies such as Weblogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking sites, RSS feeds and others can deepen learning and increase student achievement, or (e) use of assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of Read/Write Web technologies in their personal practice and with their students.
Week 2
Strand A: Personal Professional Development
Tips, ideas and resources on how to orchestrate your own professional development online; the tools that support Professional Learning Environments (PLEs); how to create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger school community; how to effectively incorporate the tools into your personal or professional practice; or how to create a supportive, reflective virtual professional community around school-based goals.
Strand B: Overcoming Obstacles
Tips, ideas and resources on how to deal with issues like: lack of access to tools/computers, filtering, parental/district concerns for online safety, and other IT concerns while trying to focus on best practice in the use of Web 2.0 tools.
CONVENERS & KEYNOTES
For organization purposes, each strand is overseen by a conference convener who will assist and coordinate presenters in their strand. The first presentation in each strand will kick off with a keynote by a well known educator who has distinguished his/herself and is knowledgeable in the context of each topic. This year’s conveners and keynote presenters are:
Preconference
Convener: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Keynote: David Warlick
David Warlick is a 30 year educator, author, blogger, and Web 2.0 programmer. Since 1981, he has been using information and communication technologies to help people learn, young and old. When his school could not afford any software for it’s computers, he taught himself to program and wrote award-winning instructional games, before computers could even display in color. His blog posting are read around the world, and his free online web tools are accessed millions of times a week. At heart, David Warlick is a teacher, with a contagious passion and enthusiasm for helping people discover a brand new world of teaching and learning. David blogs at http://2cents.davidwarlick.com and podcasts at http://connectlearning.davidwarlick.com.
A Week In The Classroom
Convener: Darren Kuropatwa
Keynote: Bud Hunt
Bud Hunt teaches high school language arts and journalism at Olde Columbine High School in Longmont, Colorado. He is a teacher-consultant with and the Tech Liaison for the Colorado State University Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project, a group working to improve the teaching of writing in schools via regular and meaningful professional development. Bud is also the co-editor of the New Voices column of English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. A consumer of copious amounts of New Media, Bud blogs and podcasts about his practice and larger educational issues at http://www.budtheteacher.com.
Basic/Advanced Training
Convener: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Keynote: Alan Levine
Alan Levine is the Director of Member & Technology Resources for the New Media Consortium (NMC, http://www.nmc.org/ ). Before this, he spent 14 years evangelizing technology for the Maricopa Community Colleges, where he first hoisted a web server back in 1993 on a Mac SE/30. While at Maricopa, Alan was a key contributor to significant efforts such as Ocotillo, a faculty-led initiative that promotes innovation and drives change, created the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), a virtual warehouse of innovation that pioneered the use of RSS in syndicating learning object content, and developed Feed2JS, an open source software shared for allowing people to easily incorportate RSS content into web pages. Alan works from home in Phoenix, Arizona and publishes his work on CogDogBlog (http://cogdogblog.com/).
Personal Professional Development
Convener: Will Richardson
Keynote: Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh is an educational technologist and teacher of French and German. Based in the Edinburgh area of Scotland he frequently works around the UK and Europe, leading student and teacher workshops and conferences. He is an experienced workshop facilitator in the area of Web 2.0 technologies in education across stages and curricular areas. Ewan blogs at http://edu.blogs.com
Overcoming Obstacles
Convener: Wesley Fryer
Keynote: Anne Davis
Anne is known for seeing the educational possibilities in the use of
weblogs with students in classrooms, having implemented wonderful ideas and weblog projects with students and teachers in K-12 classrooms and at the university level. She currently works at Georgia State University in the Instructional Technology Center in the College of Education as an Information Systems Training Specialist. Her weblog, EduBlog Insights is a co-winner of the Best Teacher Blog in the second international Edublog Awards, a web based event that
recognizes the many diverse and imaginative ways in which weblogs are being used within education.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We’d like to invite you to submit a proposal to present at the conference. If you have something you’d like to share with the community, both people who are new to blogs and/or experienced bloggers please email the appropriate conference convener above with your ideas. The deadline to submit a proposal (just the proposal, not the finished product) is September 30, 2006. One of us will contact you to finalize the date of your presentation. Your presentation may be delivered in any web-based medium (including but not limited to…podcasts, PowerPoint files, blogs, websites, wikis, screencasts, etc.) and must be emailed to your assigned conference convener one week before it goes live, (see above strands) so that it can be uploaded to the server.
The conference organizers are:
Darren Kuropatwa
Darren Kuropatwa is currently Department Head of Mathematics at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known internationally for his ability to weave the use of online social tools meaningfully and concretely into his pedagogical practice and for “child safe” blogging practices. He has more than 20 years experience in both formal and informal education and 13 years experience in team building and leadership training. Darren has been facilitating workshops for educators in groups of 4 to 300 for the last 10 years. Darren’s professional blog is called A Difference (http://adifference.blogspot.com).
Sheryl is a technology/education consultant for the National Education Association (NEA), the Center for Teaching Quality, SRI International, the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Department of Education, the Miami-Dade Public Schools, the Alabama Best Practices Center and adjunct instructor in the School of Education at The College of William and Mary. She has had several journal articles and book chapters published, been featured on public broadcasting television and radio shows, and is a regular presenter at local, state, and national conferences speaking on topics of homelessness, teacher leadership, virtual community building, and 21st Century learning initiatives. Sheryl blogs at 21st Century Collaborative (http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/).
Will Richardson is known internationally for his work with educators and students to understand and implement instructional technologies and, more specifically, the tools of the Read/Write Web into their schools, classrooms and communities. A public school educator for 22 years, Will’s own Weblog (Weblogg-ed.com) is a primary resource for the creation and implementation of Weblog technologies on the K-12 level and is a leading voice for school reform in the context of the fundamental changes these new technologies are bringing to all aspects of life. Will is the critically acclaimed authour of the best-selling book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms (March 2006, Corwin Press).
Wesley Fryer is an educator, author, digital storyteller and change agent. With respect to school change, he describes himself as a “catalyst for creative educational engagement.” His blog, “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” was selected as the 2006 “Best Learning Theory Blog” by eSchoolnews and Discovery Education. He is the Director of Education Advocacy (PK-20) for AT&T in the state of Oklahoma.
Conference Tags: k12online, K12online06
If you have any questions about any part of this, email one of us:
- Darren Kuropatwa: dkuropatwa {at} gmail {dot} com
- Sheryl Nusbaum-Beach: snbeach {at} cox {dot} net
- Will Richardson: weblogged {at} gmail {dot} com
- Wesley Fryer: wesfryer {at} pobox {dot} com
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Many thanks to everyone who got this ball rolling! This is going to be quite an exciting event, and I’m sure it is just the beginning of fantastic global collaborations of this type!
I have been reading more and more about Web 2.0, and very excited to learn more about its use in education. We’ve been using some of the old LMS (WebCT, Moodle, Elluminate) etc, but this can move us ahead. Thanks
[...] I feel continually torn between empathy for the tautly-stretched teacher, whose remaining strength is comparable to surface tension on water, and the dream of rethinking the whole thing: making education what it could be. I am firmly convinced that EVERY school has the thinkers to do it. And they ind each other, even on the web. They are the idea-people who read, change, adjust, try, inspire, and truly model the excitement of learning. Every school has them, though they may be hiding behind their own door out of frustration: "Well, at least I can do it with MY kids!" Ask any "successful" person, and he/she can name at least one or two of these teachers he/she had somewhere in the dark past. Many of them are on all the blogs about web 2.0 and education, trying the new. [...]
[...] I just left a blog-dropping at David Warlick’s 2 Cents Worth in response to a post about using wikis as mandatory student-made study guides. I hope it is not viewed as comparable to what the birds keep doing to my car when I leave it under the tree in the driveway. I feel continually torn between empathy for the tautly-stretched teacher, whose remaining strength is comparable to surface tension on water, and the dream of rethinking the whole thing: making education what it could be. I am firmly convinced that EVERY school has the thinkers to do it. And they ind each other, even on the web. They are the idea-people who read, change, adjust, try, inspire, and truly model the excitement of learning. Every school has them, though they may be hiding behind their own door out of frustration: “Well, at least I can do it with MY kids!” Ask any “successful” person, and he/she can name at least one or two of these teachers he/she had somewhere in the dark past. Many of them are on all the blogs about web 2.0 and education, trying the new. I hope the aformentioned tautly-stretched teacher has a chance to see some of it and join in. We all need to help that happen. Our kids need it. If you are one of the stretched teachers, fear not. Keep reading (just click links and see where they take you), and risk a comment once in awhile. No one will laugh, bite, or report you. It’s kind of like your first day in a really challenging class. Eventually you find out they’re all just like you. And, yes, there are points for participation! [...]
[...] So- back to the two approaches. Do we abort one for the other? Absolutely not. We joyfully join in K-12Online to "see" the new planet and we continue to translate the part of the vision that can infiltrate the groundwater so that existing classrooms can change -however gradually- at the same time. Then maybe a day will come when those who have been playing in the ancient soil mixed with new groundwater will be able to pick up their mudpies and take them to the new planet. Until then, I will play with mud while talking online with the new-planet folks and add compounds from the new planet to the old groundwater as often as I can. [...]
[...] The next opportunity is one that is getting a lot of props in the blogging world but not so much on the ACTEM listserv, K12Online. In a lot of ways my professional development time gets extended without the need to ask my district for money. For those of you who are hearing about this conference for the first time, the K12Online conference is over two weeks with different conference strands around using Web2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. [...]
[...] The next opportunity is one that is getting a lot of props in the blogging world but not so much on the ACTEM listserv, K12Online. In a lot of ways my professional development time gets extended without the need to ask my district for money. For those of you who are hearing about this conference for the first time, the K12Online conference is over two weeks with different conference strands around using Web2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. [...]
[...] I plan to give you a chance to play, so stay tuned, and be sure to attend the K12 Online Conference to Unleash the Potential. [...]
[...] Wesley Fryer has published a podcast about the K12 Online Conference for the School Library Journal. It is very good detailed overview of the conference which lasts for two weeks and four strands. OpenContent, Open Conference (Oct. 2006)In our October issue, ed-tech mavenWesley Fryer, author of the award-winning blog “Moving at the Speed ofCreativity,” writes in praise of open content. Staying on topic, hispodcast describes the first K-12 Online Conference (Oct. 23-Nov. 3),which will be freely available on the Web. [Read the related article:In Praise of Open Content] [...]
This looks great! I’m often struck by how far behind schooling tends to be as compared to the world outside the schoolhouse doors. This conference could begin to change all that.
[...] The second alternative delivery method I was made aware of was from Will Richardson. He was promoting the K-12 Online Conference. It takes place over the course of two weeks and has a theme of “Unleashing the Potential”. [...]
[...] Time to plug an important event that’s just getting started – the k12 Online Conference 2006. “The “K12 Online Conference” is for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 and will include a preconference keynote. The conference theme is “Unleashing the Potential”.” (More details on logistics, etc., and the full agenda). This conference is entirely online, entirely free, and incredibly important if you want to learn how to use Web2.0 social tools to work with today’s students, meet your curricular objectives, and enjoy a whole new world of opportunity in teaching & learning. If you’re already using technology, this conference will give you ample opportunities to advance your knowledge with: “(a) advanced technology training (eg. how to write your own blog template or hack existing ones), (b) new tools to make use of in your classes, (c) teaching ideas on how to mash tools together to create “something new,” (d) a pedagogical understanding of how technologies such as Weblogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking sites, RSS feeds and others can deepen learning and increase student achievement, or (e) use of assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of Read/Write Web technologies in your personal practice and with your students. (more on conference tracks here). [...]
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[...] I just participated in an online conference(K12 Online) which I write more about on our Technology blog, but there were sessions on so many web tools that students can use across the curriculum in innovative and creative ways. I saw one on Google Earth using a map of buildings of Las Vegas to teach shapes and volume in math, for example. Very interesting! [...]