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2014 2014-Gamification

#Gamifi_ED Networked Intergenerational Learning

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Presenter: Verena Roberts Location: CALGARY Link to presenter’s Twitter page(s) or other profile page if not using Twitter Presentation Description: It all started with an idea put out on twitter – “It’s Ironic that my tweets about creating hunger games online learning opportunity- is the way I feel about learning.” Lee Graham saw the tweet and started the #Gamifi-ED collaboration. Based on the Educurious “Hunger Games” module, we challenged ourselves to create an opportunity for her graduate students to take a pdf module and turn it into an open online networked experience. To add to the momentum, Vicki Davis, and her grade 9 class and Colin Osterhout joined our team – and #Gamifi-ED was formed. We all became gamemakers and took on different aspects of one giant intergenerational networked online project. Lee and Vicki worked with their students to create a rubric that evaluated serious games and created an creative […]

2011 Announcements

k12Online11 Day 5 Presentations: 2 December 2011

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Welcome to day five of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Day 5 presentations include: Story Time: Growing Tech Enabled Leaders by Zoe Branigan-Pipe, Dr. Camille Rutherford, Kyle Tuck What If the Story Changed? by David Jakes Team Captains: Lead the World by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay Coaching for ICT Integration by Anne Fox Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 2011-Team Captains

Lead the World

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Presenters: Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay with Curt Bonk, Anne Mirtschin, Judy O’Connell, Dean Shareski, Don Tapscott, David Warlick, Flat Classroom conference students – Doha Qatar, Suffern Middle School (Peggy Sheehy and Marianne Malmstrom), Mt. Carmel High School (Suzie Nestico), Phoenix School (Betsye Sargent), West Tisbury (Valerie Becker), and Flat Classroom Students Location: Camilla, GA and worldwide @coolcatteacher, @julielindsay and @flatclassroom Presentation Title: Lead the World Presentation Description: Students are the greatest textbook ever written for each other, yet, many schools close the book on learning outside classroom walls. After five years of global collaborative classroom excellence, this presentation first uses voices from the keynoters, students, and teachers around the world that have been part of the Flat Classroom projects and conferences to share how education has fundamentally changed through a beautiful medley of voices. Then, hear from Vicki Davis, co-founder, about the 7 principles that can take your classroom global and […]

Announcements

Announcing K-12 Online 2011 Presenters

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Please join the organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference in congratulating our selected presenters for this year’s conference! As in past years, our conference is organized into four strands. Each strand has an invited keynote speaker and nine additional selected speakers. Our conference begins November 21st with a pre-conference keynote presentation by Angela Maiers. Strands for 2011 are: Week of Nov 28 – Dec 2:  Story Time and Team Captains Week of Dec 5 – 9: Sandbox Play and Level Up Presenters by strand (alphabetical by first name) in 2011 are: STORY TIME: Jim Groom and Tom Woodward bavatuesdays.com and bionicteaching.com Fredericksburg, Virginia USA and Henrico, Virginia USA Keynote Andy McKiel andymckiel.blogspot.com Winnipeg, Canada When Learning Becomes an Event! Ben Hazzard benhazzard.com Port Lambton, Ontario, Canada David Jakes strengthofweakties.org Naperville, Illinois, USA What if the story changed? David Wees davidwees.com/discuss Vancouver, BC, Canada James Beeghley www.teachthecivilwar.com Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA Tradigital History: […]

2009 Archive

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K12 Online Conference 2009 Schedule All times are GMT. Direct links to presentations will be added as the presentations are published each day at 12:00 pm GMT Presentations links will also be published to Twitter, Facebook and our conference video podcast channel and audio podcast channels.   Date and Time Strand/Event Presenter and Presentation 12:00 PM Monday, November 30 GMT Preconference Keynote Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education Kim Cofino * December 4, 2009 from 1 – 2:30 am GMT (NOTE: This is 8 pm EST on Thursday, December 3rd. Please click the link to see your local time.) Live Event Fireside Chat(Details on our Ning Event) With Kim Cofino http://edtechtalk.com/live 12:00 PM  Monday, December 7 GMT Getting Started Keynote Wizard of Apps or Will they have an app for that or What we are loading (and learning) along the road Joyce Kasman Valenza Getting Started […]

2011 Schedule

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All times are GMT. Direct links to presentations will be added as the presentations are published each day at 1:00 pm GMT. Presentations links will also be published to Twitter, Facebook and our conference video podcast channel and audio podcast channels in iTunesU. Date and Time Strand/Event Presenter and Presentation 1:00 PM Monday, November 21 GMT Preconference Keynote Angela Maiers The Sandbox Manifesto 1:00 PM Monday, November 28 GMT Team Captains Keynote George Couros Playing in Public Team Captains Anne Mirtschin The World is My Classroom Story Time Keynote Jim Groom and Tom Woodward The World’s Craziest Educational Videos Featuring ds106 Story Time Andy McKiel When Learning Becomes an Event! 1:00 PM Tuesday, November 29 GMT Team Captains Jason Neiffer Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy Team Captains Shannon Smith Get in the Game–Learning, Leading and Play Story Time Ben Hazzard How Do I Know I Made A Difference? […]

2009 Announcements

K12Online09 Day 10 Presentations: 18 December 2009

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Welcome to day ten of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com Today’s presentations include: KICKING IT UP A NOTCH Remixing History: The Cigar Box Project Neil Stephenson Googlios: When Google Apps Meet ePortfolios & PLNs G. Alex Ambrose WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM Steal this Preso:  Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom Mathew Needleman Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism (a Flat Classroom Project) Vicki Davis Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today. HELP DESK If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page […]

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism

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Presenter: Vicki Davis, Bernajean Porter, Julie Lindsay, Kim Caise Location: Various USA Locations and Beijing, China Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page Presentation Title: Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism Presentation Description: This presentation will center around the Eracism Project (the newest Flat Classroom Project), which was proposed by students at the 2009 Conference and will be an international middle school debate project held in September – December 2009, planned and conducted entirely by students. This presentation will have two phases: 1) An enhanced podcast or full video presentation with Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay, Bernajean Porter, and Peggy Sheehy discussing the practical pedagogy and outcomes of connecting students globally in a way that begins with the objective and ends with the selection of appropriate technology tools for the task, centering around this particular project as the example, but also including other projects planned by each presenter. This will be […]

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Super Social Safety Digiteens Present the Top Sites for Kids Ages 8-12: Invitation to Join

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As part of the k12 online conference 2009 and as a conclusion to the Digiteen Project #3 of 2009, students from Westwood Schools will be presenting their top socially connected sites for kids aged 8-12 (and some that they DO NOT recommend.)  As part of Digiteen 2009, these students felt that many sites that are marketed to kids aged 8-12 are not appropriate nor safe and set out to review and test the best.  They have been blogging and have a twitter account (@socialsafety) and will be presenting live in Elluminate on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 from 12:15 pm-12:45 pm and answer your questions about their testing experiences. At the conclusion of the student presentation, from 12:45pm – 1:15 pm leading social internet safety expert, Anne Collier will reflect and talk with students about their findings.  Backchannel questions will be included in the conversation. This is just one of the […]

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K12Online09 Day 3 Presentations: 9 December 2009

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Welcome to day three of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com Today’s presentations include: GETTING STARTED If You Host It They Will Come Jennifer Wagner Options for Building Your Teacher Website Cyndi Danner-Kuhn Orientation into Second Life Alan Hudson, Deborah Butler, Lawal Mohamed LEADING THE CHANGE Digiteens: Digital Citizenship from Digital Teenagers Vicki Davis You Might be a 21st Century Leader if”¦ David Wells Whither Eportfolios Drew Buddie Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today. HELP DESK If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference […]