We are so excited about Carol Broos’ upcoming K-12 Online session. Carol says, “On a daily basis I get requests for people where to find non-copyright music OR common domain pictures. It is becoming more and more important we empower ourselves to compose music, create our own artwork, and then create our own movies.”
This is some of what she has in store for us!
In just a few weeks, Katie Ann Wilson will be presenting “A Story + A Green Wall = 1 Amazing Transformed Digital Story” as a part of the Building Learning strand of K-12 Online 2013!
Here’s a preview. We can’t wait!
Presenter: Kimberly Herron
Location: Inman, KS, USA
Twitter: @herronfive
Presentation Description: Launch your students into developing space and science vocabulary and concepts as they follow current events of The Curiosity Rover landing on Mars AND design, build, and launch their very own rubber band powered rovers.
Mission: Design and construct a rubber band powered rover with lander that will carry a raw egg as a payload and does not weigh more than 300 grams. It must be launched from 5 meters high, land safely without damage to the payload, and automatically engage rubber band powered wheels to move forward 3 – 5 meters.
Through this project based lesson students engage higher level skills incorporating the scientific method with research, engineering, writing, math, vocabulary, and team work to successfully complete their mission.
Welcome to day nine of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.
Day 9 presentations include:
STUDENT VOICES
Brad Wilson
Student News Teams: Telling the Story
Kyle Dunbar
Authentic Voices
KICKING IT UP A NOTCH
Scott Merrick
Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching: Power Example to Get You Thinking
Susan Oxnevad
Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction
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Presenter: Kyle Dunbar
Location: Alexandria, VA, USA
Twitter: @edtechdunny
Presentation Description: Come learn about and listen to student voices highlighted on Authentic Voices (http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/) a wiki co-developed with a Language Arts teacher and a Technology Integration Specialist at an alternative setting. Authentic Voices is a place where students upload original pieces of writing along with an audio file of them reading their piece. Listen to at least three of the pieces students have composed and learn how students begin to authentically revise their work when creating an audio file of their work. Consider how students begin to see themselves differently as a result of publishing their work online. While Authentic Voices has a global audience (over 60 countries), we do not yet have another classroom that regularly comments on our students’ writing or posts their own writing on this site. Ponder efforts and challenges to finding collaborative classrooms.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/
Presenter: Brad Wilson
Location: Jackson, Michigan, USA
Twitter: @dreambition
Presentation Description: How does your school community learn about events, announcements & celebrations of learning? How does the public view your school? The students in this presentation are part of school programs that put them in control of these stories! By using whatever technology tools available, educators from a variety of schools are giving students opportunities to practice 21st Century skills while taking part in meaningful multimedia projects. Listen to them describe their experiences and get inspired to start your own News Team!
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.21innovate.com/student-news.html
Presenter: Alexander Fryer
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
YouTube: legoarf
Presentation Description: Minecraft is a game and virtual world you may have heard about but not know a lot about. I created this presentation to show adults what students are doing in Minecraft, some basics of the game, and how people (even adults) are using Minecraft in creative, fun and interactive ways. In this presentation I share some of the worlds I’ve created in Minecraft, describe how I’ve learned about Minecraft primarily using the Minecraft Wiki and YouTube videos created by other users, and show some clips from videos demonstrating some of the possibilities of Minecraft. I hope this presentation inspires you to learn more and ask your students about what they have created in Minecraft.
Link to Presentation’s Supporting Documents:
learningsigns.speedofcreativity.org/minecraft
Presenter: Audrey McLaren McGoldrick
Location: Dorval, Quebec, Canada
Twitter: @a_mcsquared
Presentation Title: Beaucoup de Cool Student Projects
Presentation Description: This presentation is about the year-long process that my math students undertook to create independent research assignments. Their projects unlocked their creativity, either artistic or mathematical, and the final products were as much about the students as they were about math.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://audrey-mcsquared.blogspot.ca/2012/06/thank-you-quebec-ministry-of-education.html
Welcome to day seven of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.
Day 7 presentations include:
STUDENT VOICES
Ben Rimes
Video Story Problems
KICKING IT UP A NOTCH
Janine Campbell
Remix Teaching Through Blended Online Learning
Richard Beach
Using iOS App Affordances to Foster Literacy Learning in the Classroom
If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.
Presenter: Ben Rimes
Location: St. Joseph, MI, USA
Twitter: @techsavvyed
Presentation Description: Traditional story problems are dull. They’re usually disconnected from real world scenarios and learner’s experiences, and are presented in an artificial manner. Through the use of video, students and teachers can capture genuine moments of curiosity and real world examples for use in the classroom.
Aren’t ready to start filming yourself in the aisles of your local grocery store or park to point out interesting problems? You can easily use video to produce more scripted variations of traditional story problems, provide many open ended questions all tied to a common concept, or start to your flip your classroom with a blending of both teacher and learner voices.
I wanted to provide a mixture of both student examples, teacher examples, and a bit of my thought process for creating this story problems. It’s certainly not limited to Math, as video story problems would work very well for exploring conceptual science problems and reflective language arts of social studies learning. As we all struggle to adopt the Common Core State Standards here in the United States, it’s important to remember that publishing, collaborating, and sharing with other learners online is now a requirement at almost all levels of K-12 education. Giving students a way to share their voice while connecting real world situations to classroom studies is a positive step towards a more student-centered classroom where exploration and curiosity is encouraged!
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/2352
