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2015 2015-Stories of Connection

The Global Educator

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Presenter: Julie Lindsay
Location: Ocean Shores, New South Wales, Australia
@julielindsay

Presentation Description: Do you know how to take your learning global? Embedding global understandings, connected learning and global collaborative activities across the curriculum within a digital learning environment is an imperative objective for all educators today. It must become ‘virtually unstoppable. But how?

The Global Educator shares what attributes, skills and mindset need to be adopted by educators in order to embrace connected and collaborative learning that is global in concept and practice. This presentation is a journey we will take together as we create our own stories of global connectedness. The attributes of a global educator are shared as are essential objectives to do with online global collaboration. Become a virtually unstoppable global educator by learning new strategies and approaches to global learning.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YQ3ATnPOtn55_8dsVBJFM7D2NGHvHkCBHtApuOmFNZE/edit?usp=sharing

Additional Information:
Connect with Julie……
Email: lindsay.julie@gmail.com
Blog: E-Learning Journeys – http://www.julielindsay.net
Portfolio: http://about.me/julielindsay
More information: http://flatconnections.com

See also, The Global Educator website http://theglobaleducator.net

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Ordinary/Amazing Stories of Connection

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Presenter: Alan Levine
Location: Strawberry, AZ, USA
@cogdog

Presentation Title: Ordinary/Amazing Stories of Connection

Presentation Description: We all start out our educational careers (meaning when we were in kindergarten) intrinsically knowing the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about intellectual property rights, fearing theft, or just questioning the value of what we do.

The open ecology of the internet can undermine what I think is learned and limiting stinginess. In this presentation I want to celebrate the True Stories of what happens to people when they share something openly on the web whether they think it ordinary or amazing. I asked colleagues to share their own stories of something unexpected, valuable, powerful, or just plain inspiring as a result of sharing that piece of media, document, video, blog post, even a single tweet that became valuable to someone they did not know before.

The power, the strength, the future of the internet as we know it now, depends on this two-way flow. Share openly, appreciate what others have done, and then share your story. I cannot guarantee amazing results or free trips to exotic countries.

But I can guarantee, if you never share anything openly, you will never having an amazing story happen to you.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://stories.cogdogblog.com/

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Related videos

Unstoppable Stories of Connection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wuGneg8vY

It Takes a Stuffed Animal to Explain Alan’s Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh7YcR_U-2Y

Obvious to you. Amazing to others by Derek Sivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmI5SSQLmE

2015 2015-Beyond the Core 2015-Maker Ed 2015-Overcoming Obstacles 2015-Stories of Connection Announcements

Announcing K12 Online 2015 Presenters

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Contents
  1. Pre-Conf Keynote
  2. Maker Ed
  3. Stories of Connection
  4. Overcoming Obstacles
  5. Beyond the Core: Art and More

Please join the organizers of the 2015 K12 Online Conference in congratulating our selected presenters for this year’s conference! We are still waiting for a few confirmations, so there may be a few more additions. As in past years, our conference is organized into four strands. Each strand has an invited keynote speaker and additional selected speakers. Our conference begins October 12 with a pre-conference keynote presentation. Strands for 2015 are:

Week of Oct. 19-23 – Maker Ed and Stories of Connection

Week  of Oct. 26-30 – Overcoming Obstacles and Beyond the Core: Art and More

Pre-Conf Keynote

Don Wettrick and #Innovation class students
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Maker Ed

Keynote:
Stephanie Chang, Maker Ed
Oakland, CA, USA

Lucie deLaBruere
Colchester, VT, USA

Matt Kukoda
Brielle, New Jersey, USA

Jenny Lussier
Durham, CT, USA

Stephen O’Connor
Wells, NY, USA

Harrison McCoy
Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Steve Sherman
Cape Town, South Africa

Liza Stark
New York, NY, USA

John Umekubo
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Gabriel Yanagihara
Honolulu, HI, USA

Stories of Connection

Keynote:
Alan Levine
Strawberry, Arizona, USA

Paul Allison
New York, NY, USA

Pat Goodwin
Bonham, TX, USA

Maha Hassan
Cairo, Egypt

Thomas Ho
Whitestown, Indiana USA

Adam Jones
Andover, NH, USA

Julie Lindsay
Ocean Shores, Australia

William O’Byrne
Charleston, SC, USA

Lisa Parisi
Long Island, NY, USA

Ben Rimes
St. Joseph, MI, USA

Steve Sherman
Cape Town, South Africa

Chris Turnbull
Saint Paul, MN, USA

Jennifer Williams and Fran Siracusa
Clearwater, FL, USA

Overcoming Obstacles

Keynote:
Scott McLeod
Pocahontas, Iowa, USA

Josh Allen
Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Courtney Kofeldt
West Chester, PA, USA

Pat La Morte
Orlando, FL, USA

Angela McDurmon
Atlanta, GA, USA

Clif Mims
Memphis, TN, USA

Michael Predko
Toronto, ON, Canada

Devery Rodgers
Long Beach, CA, USA

Monte Tatom
Henderson, TN, USA

Chris Turnbull
Saint Paul, MN, USA

Panel:

Curby Alexander
Denton, TX, USA
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn
Manhattan, KS, USA
Wesley Fryer
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Dean Mantz
Sterling, KS, USA
Clif Mims
Memphis, TN, USA

Beyond the Core: Art and More

Keynote:
Karen Bosch
Southfield, MI, USA

Doug Belshaw, Greg McVerry, Ian O’Byrne,
Springfield, MA

William Berry
Henrico County, VA, USA

Janine Campbell
Dorr, MI, USA

Jon Corippo
Coarsegold, CA, USA

Erin Olson, Leslie Pralle Keehn
Pocahontas, IA, USA

Thomas West
Downingtown, PA, USA

Samuel Wright
Daejeon South Korea

2015 2015-Beyond the Core 2015-Maker Ed 2015-Overcoming Obstacles 2015-Stories of Connection Announcements

2015 Keynotes and Marketing Flyer

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Organizers of the 2015 K12 Online Conference are pleased to announce our lineup of keynote speakers as well as the availability of our 2015 conference marketing flyer. (PDF)

K12Online 2015 flyer

Please share this post, information and flyer with other educators you know! We’re looking forward to our TENTH year of fantastic and free learning in the K12 Online Conference! We hope you’ll not only plan to join us for the conference, but also invite other educators you know to join as well.

This year’s conference will begin the week of October 12, 2015, with a keynote by Don Wettrick and #Innovation class students. During week 1 of the conference, Stephanie Chang will present a keynote in the “Maker Ed” strand, and Alan Levine will keynote the “Stories of Connection” strand. During week 2, Scott McLeod will share a keynote in the “Overcoming Obstacles” strand. Karen Bosch will keynote our “Beyond the Core: Arts and More” strand. Descriptions for each of these strands are available here.

Please spread the word about the K12 Online Conference!

Download our conference marketing flyer in PDF format. Forward this flyer and print it for display at your school in the teachers’ lounge, beside teacher mailboxes, outside your classroom, or anywhere else it can catch the attention of other educators!

Many thanks to Naomi Harm (@nharm) for creating our flyer and logos for the conference AGAIN this year!

Please tweet about the 2015 K12 Online Conference using the hashtag #k12online15 and share information about this conference on Facebook or other networks you are a part of.

We appreciate the contributions of our many presenters, volunteers, and fans in making this another great year for the K12 Online Conference!