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By Wesley Fryer ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Email this post Email this post ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

This is a FREE conference open to ANYONE by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape. Please see the “For Participants: Getting Started” page on our conference wiki to get started with the K-12 Online Conference. If you are a vendor or affiliated with a vendor, please see our Goals and Values page for clarification about vendor participation.

In 2009 we are using three primary sites for our conference:

  1. Our conference Ning is our conversation hub.
  2. Our conference blog (this site) is used to share announcements and news.
  3. Our conference wiki provides information to help participants and presenters get the most out of our conference.

In 2009, conference presentations will be cross-posted to both our conference blog and conference Ning. In addition to scheduled live events, asynchronous discussions surrounding conference presentations and activities can be posted on individual conference presentation blog posts, In our conference Ning on submitted videos, in Ning groups for each year’s respective strands, and in the Ning discussion forum. In addition, participants are encouraged to post about, cross-link to, and embed conference presentations and content. The official “tag” for blog posts, Flickr images is k12online09. The official twitter hash tag for this year’s conference is #k12online09.

The conference is a total volunteer effort and is envisioned, planned and implemented by 4 co-conveners and a small group of subcommittees.

2009 Co-Conveners

  • Elizabeth Helfant is the Upper School Coordinator of Instructional Technology at the Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School (MICDS) in St Louis, Missouri. She tweets as ehelfant. Elizabeth convenes our 2009 “Leading the Change” strand.
  • Jose Rodriguez: is a third grade teacher in Los Angeles, CA actively promoting tech use in the elementary classroom, webcaster on the worldbridges network, exploring language learning on the web, and reaching out to educators in the Spanish speaking community. Jose convenes the 2009 “Kicking it Up a Notch” strand.
  • Maria Knee is an experienced educator and sees herself as both a teacher and a learner. She teaches kindergarten in Deerfield, New Hampshire. She connects her students to the world through a classroom blog and skype chats, and she webcasts on the worldbridges network. She is the recipient of the 2008 Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-based PK-2 Education sponsored by ISTE. Maria convenes the 2009 “Week in the Classroom” strand.
  • Wesley Fryer is an educator, author, digital storyteller and educational change agent. He is the director of the non-profit “Story Chasers Inc.” which presents the “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” digital storytelling and oral history project. Wes blogs at www.speedofcreativity.org. Wesley convenes the 2009 “Getting Started” strand.

Subcommittees

  1. Public Relations Committee
    1. Chair: Patrick Woessner
    2. Lisa Parisi
    3. Theresa White
    4. Paula Naugle
    5. Paula White
  2. Live Events Committee
    1. Kim Caise
    2. Peggy George
    3. Susan van Gelder
    4. Lisa Durff

An archived version of our conference “about” page from 2008 is available. We will add links to “about” information from the 2007 and 2006 conferences as well, to give credit and share thanks for the MANY people who contributed to make those conferences successful experiences for everyone.

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12 comments for “About”

  1. you had a 2007 conference in october — can’t find the date for next year’s conference, can you let me know?

    Posted by tw23 | December 7, 2007, 11:04 am

  2. How come there has been -0- marketing/advertising for this conference? I spend a lot of time tracking ed tech conferences and I just learned about it through Larry Ferlazzo’s blog.

    Posted by John Thompson | September 26, 2008, 3:39 pm

  3. The conferences I normally attend are sponsored by an entity of some sort. A library association or a technology group for example… It appears to me in a quick browse that four people got together to put on a show. I do see evidence of committee involvement. Am I missing something or is there a sponsor?

    Posted by Debbie Hall | October 27, 2008, 12:46 pm

  4. Hi Debbie– the K-12 Online Conference does not have a sponsor or sponsors like a traditional conference. Elluminate does provide us with virtual meeting rooms for our live events, and the College of William and Mary provides our hosted server space for presentation files, and we have their logos on our homepage. Other than that we do not have formal organizational support outside our committees. As far as committees, if you’ll look above these comments in this “about” page post you’ll see our current committee structure and the people serving on those committees for our current 2008 conference. Our conference is far more than “four people putting on a show.” The heart of the conference is our 41 presentations, which are put together by educators around the world, and the conversations which ensue around them. I’d encourage you to visit our conference wiki to get more info:

    http://k12online08.wikispaces.com/

    We have also published four different audio podcasts this year for “behind K12Online” that gives more info about the conference and our process running it:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/k12online

    Posted by Wesley Fryer | October 27, 2008, 1:41 pm

  5. This is fabulous. I can’t believe I’m just now finding this conference.
    Since this is all volunteers, how does one get involved with the next one?

    Posted by Linda Eller | November 16, 2008, 1:35 pm

  6. Linda: We’ll put out a call for volunteers for the 2009 conference. The actual call for proposals should go out in late Spring.

    Posted by Wesley Fryer | November 20, 2008, 12:20 pm

  7. Just checking in to see if any plans are underway for the 2009 conference? It’s late Spring. :-) Definitely want to be involved!!

    Posted by Peggy George | May 22, 2009, 8:10 pm

  8. News about K12Online09 should be coming this week Peggy! :-)

    Posted by Wesley Fryer | May 25, 2009, 11:16 pm

  9. Hi gang,
    Just wondering if the podcast feeds are setup for the 09 Conf? I want to make sure I don’t miss a thing if I can’t attend in real-time. Now that I’m back in K-12, I’m really looking forward to re-engaging with this community.

    Best,
    John

    Posted by John Martin | November 5, 2009, 9:14 am

  10. We don’t have podcast feeds setup yet but will, John. We’ll link these off the main blog page link for feeds when they are available.

    Posted by Wesley Fryer | November 6, 2009, 9:37 am

  11. Thanks Wes!

    Posted by John Martin | November 12, 2009, 9:12 am

  12. Hello from Montreal. A retired teacher colleague told me about your site.

    I wrote the blog “Jive Chalkin” in my last two years of teaching high school in Montreal.

    It’s about the daily life of an English teacher.

    I also presented educational seminars across Canada, to teachers, parents, and administrators.

    Posted by brenda | November 28, 2009, 6:51 am

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