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Day 5 Presentations: 24 October 2008

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Welcome to day five of the 2008 K-12 Conference! Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Web 2.0 Tools to Amplify Elementary Students’ Creativity and Initiative
Jackie Gerstein

What Did You Do In School”¦?
H. Songhai

PROVE IT

Action Research as Catalyst for Change in Teacher Practice and Outcomes for Children
Elaine Newton

Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class
Richard Beach

Presentation links on our 2008 schedule page have been updated.

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PODCAST CHANNELS
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Prove It “Action Research as Catalyst for Change in Teacher Practice and Outcomes for Children”

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Elaine Newton, Nelson, New Zealand
Blog :http://elaineece.blogspot.com

Bio: Elaine Newton is a facilitator on the New Zealand Ministry of Education funded Early Childhood Education I.C.T. Professional Learning (ECE ICT PL) Programme. She works with teachers at ten early childhood services in the upper south island of New Zealand.
Bio link:https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Elaine+Newton

Presentation Title: “Action Research as Catalyst for Change in Teacher Practice and Outcomes for Children”
Description: Discussion of outcomes for children, teachers and families at two early childhood centres that are engaged in action research focused on introducing I.C.T. (Information and Communication Technologies) into teaching and learning programmes (and a brief description of the ECE ICT PL programme, and some features of early childhood education in New Zealand).

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Supporting Links: References and links are on bio page and Elaine’s blog http://elaineece.blogspot.com/

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Getting Started “Web 2.0 Tools to Amplify Elementary Students’ Creativity and Initiative”

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Jackie Gerstein Tucson, Arizona, USA
Website: http://jackiegerstein.wikispaces.com/

Bio: Jackie is a lifelong learner with a passion for all aspects of authentic education. She has an Ed.D., a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction, a graduate certificate in Gifted Education, and is working on another Masters degree – this one in Technology in Education. She teaches gifted elementary students (or they teach her) and online Masters in Education courses. Visit Jackie’ Gerstein’s Professional Online Portfolio; to learn more about her also visit her Philosophical Views on Education in the 21st Century.
Bio Page: https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Jackie+Gerstein

Presentation Title: “Web 2.0 Tools to Amplify Elementary Students’ Creativity and Initiative”
Description: This presentation describes projects designed for students, ages 8 to 12, to use emerging technologies for engaging, thinking, learning, collaborating, creating, and innovating. It has its foundations in social constructivism whereby students drive their own learning experiences through educational networking using emerging technologies. An additional goal is using free, open-source, or minimal cost tools, so the project can be replicated.

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http://weewebwonders.pbwiki.com/About+This+Project:+For+Teachers
http://weewebwonders.synthasite.com/

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Prove It “Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class”

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Richard Beach, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Blog: http://teachingliterature.typepad.com/

Bio: Professor of English Education at the University of Minnesota. He is author or co-author of Teaching Writing through Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools(Christopher Gordon, November, 2008), Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Resource Guide to Links and Activities, and Teaching Literature to Adolescents.
Bio Link:https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Richard+Beach

Presentation Title: “Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class”
Description: I describe the use of online role-play in a 12th grade high school composition class using a class blog and a Ning forum. In a role-play, students adopt fictional roles associated with competing positions associated with influencing a final decision on an issue. Students were highly engaged in a Ning role-play on the issue of student Internet access in their school because they were assuming different voices, writing to multiple audiences versus just the teacher, and developing arguments to make proposals for actual changes in the school’s Internet policies.

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Richard has developed the following resource sites for teachers interested in teaching media and digital writing:
– media literacy
– media literacy wiki
– teaching digital writing

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Getting Started “What Did You Do in School Yesterday, Today, and Three Years Ago?”

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H Songhai Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Blog: http://songhaiconcepts.blogspot.com/

Bio: H Songhai teaches Media Literacy and Digital Archiving at Hope Charter School in Philadelphia and at the Delaware Futures college preparatory program in Wilmington, Delaware. He is a graduate of Philadelphia’s Central High School and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Over the last 30 years, he has worked, studied and collaborated with many of the nation’s leading artists, writers and musicians including: Amiri Baraka, Askia Muhammad Toure, Etheridge Knight, Odean Pope, Byard Lancaster, Aschak, Richard Watson, Lamont B. Steptoe, Theodore Harris, Mbali Umoja, Elliott Levin and jazz bag pipe player, Rufus Harley.
Bio Page: https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/H+Songhai

Presentation Title: “What Did You Do in School Yesterday, Today, and Three Years Ago?”
Description: This presentation will look at some very practical ways that students can use cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and a number of free Web based tools to document, organize and archive just about every important aspect of their high school career.

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