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2009 Announcements

K12Online LAN Party Dec 7 – Virtually Vancouver!

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From Brian Hughes:

North Vancouver invites you to join us celebrating the opening of the K12 Online Conference with a LAN party!

50 teachers from across our school district will be gathering tonight to watch presentations from the K12 Online Conference, and then get together over dinner to discuss and share ideas.

Unfortunately you won’t be able to join us for dinner, but you can join in the conversation!

Join us in Elluminate as we get a sneak peek of Paul Curtis’ presentation “Building a Web 2.0 Culture.” Watch the presentation with us, and then join North Vancouver teachers as we speak with Paul live.

Monday, December 7, 2009
5:00 pm Pacific (That’s 1 am GMT 8 Dec 2009, 8 pm EST – Use this converter link to view the time in your local time zone!)
Elluminate link: http://bit.ly/LAN44Dec

For more information contact us on Twitter http://twitter.com/lan44 or visit our blog http://literacy44.ca/lan

2009 Announcements

K12Online09 Day 1 Presentations: 7 December 2009

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Welcome to day one of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

KEYNOTE: The Wizard of Apps (or Will they have an app for that or What we are loading (and learning) along the road)
Joyce Kasman Valenza (a post giving the backstory to this presentation is also available.)

Little Kids, Big Possibilities
Kelly Hines

LEADING THE CHANGE

KEYNOTE: Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century
Konrad Glogowski

Organizational Learning and Technology Collide
Ben Grey

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 wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Organizational Learning and Technology Collide

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Presenter: Ben Grey
Location: Barrington, IL, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Organizational Learning and Technology Collide

Presentation Description: Using Chris Argyris’s theories of learning, this presentation describes how we can better understand the way we make decisions when planning student learning experiences and considering the use of technology. Using Argyris’s Theories of Action show us how we can evaluate our instructional decisions, and exploring Argyris’s theory of single and double loop learning establishes a strong framework that can guide our decisions of when and how to utilize technology in learning.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/argyris.htm

Additional Information:
Blog- http://www.bengrey.com/blog

Twitter- bengrey

2009 2009-Leading the Change

LEADING THE CHANGE KEYNOTESelf-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century

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Presenter: Konrad Glogowski
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Twitter: @teachandlearn

Presentation Title: Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century

Presentation Description: Based on Guy Claxton’s statement that “schools should become communities of practice where … the ‘elders’ of the community are themselves exemplary learners” (Claxton, 2002), this presentation explores the importance of Classroom-Based Teacher Development and Reflective Practice as essential professional development practices for the 21st century. It suggests that if students today are to benefit from schools where they can acquire the learning dispositions that will allow them to build and transform future societies and address global challenges, teacher professional development must be reconfigured to allow teachers to focus on examining and learning from their own professional contexts. The 21st century demands that teachers investigate their practices on a regular basis, learn to design new approaches, and quickly and effectively respond to the demands of the ever-changing knowledge society. Classrooms must therefore become sites of inquiry where teachers engage in practice that is perpetually experimental.

Presentation:

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog

Additional Information:
Blog: www.teachandlearn.ca/blog
Twitter: teachandlearn

2009 2009-Getting Started

Little Kids, Big Possibilities

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Presenter: Kelly Hines
Location: Washington, North Carolina, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Little Kids, Big Possibilities

Presentation Description: Learn about the what’s, how’s and why’s of using web 2.0 tools and social networking with elementary age students to enhance learning and student engagement.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://littlekidsbigpossibilities.pbworks.com

Additional Information:
Blog: http://keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com

Twitter: kellyhines