2009 – Page 7 – K12 Online Conference

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century

December 8, 2009 Published by: ehelfant

Presenter: Julie Lindsay
Location: Beijing, China
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century

Presentation Description: Current accepted forms of professional development provide opportunities for small bites and quick-fix solutions but do not encourage immersion, ongoing conversations and collaborative sharing of experiences. Adoption of a learning confluence amongst educators can and will make a difference within a school and extend the learning beyond the immediate environment.

Based on recent practice at an international school, a model of teacher engagement and improved pedagogical approach has been developed that leads the way into transformed learning in the classroom. Using a face-to-face meeting format, including expert advisers and a virtual component, educators extended their learning boundaries and embraced constructivism with the purpose of challenging themselves to ‘lean into the sharp edges’ of 21st century education.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com/K12+Online+09

Additional Information:
Julie blogs at: E-Learning Journey’s

Follow Julie on Twitter
Julie is julielindsay on Skype

2009 2009-Getting Started

Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity

December 8, 2009 Published by: wfryer

Presenter: Janine Lim
Location: Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity

Presentation Description: Videoconferencing can bring the world to your classroom. It allows educators to bridge the divide by bringing experiences to rural students; by engaging conversations and interactions between urban and rural students and by connecting students globally. Whether using desktop videoconferencing or room based videoconferencing, educators can bridge the divide between “dabbling” in videoconferencing to fully integrating with solid classroom instructional strategies.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://vcoutonalim.org/2009/12/08/resources-for-my-k12-online-conference-presentation/

Additional Information:
Please visit my blog post for today’s presentation that has all the links and resources for this presentation. Remember to stop by the K12 Online Conferencing Ning to discuss this presentation with colleagues and with me!

2009 2009-Getting Started

Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

December 8, 2009 Published by: wfryer

Presenter: Colin Hill
Location: Southport, UK
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

Presentation Description: Rather than sending all pupils work home at the end of the school year, E-books allow teachers to compile collections of work to be displayed on the WWW quite soon after it is completed. Colin Hill presents how he creates E-books, proving to eb a motivation for writing, as learners know that their work is going to be on display.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
My First Ever Online Presentation (K12Online Ning Blog Post)

Additional Information:
Blog: colport-teaching.blogspot.com
Twitter: colport

2009 2009-Getting Started

The iPod Touch in the Classroom

December 8, 2009 Published by: wfryer

Presenter: Kern Kelley
Location: Newport, Maine, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: The iPod Touch in the Classroom

Presentation Description: The iPod Touch can function as an important educational tool inside and outside the classroom. With the increased purchases of netbooks this last year, there seems to be a push for schools to put more machines into students hands. At a price point even lower than current netbooks the iPod Touch is a great compliment to any classroom. While many schools still do not allow cell phones, an iPod Touch bridges that gap. Wifi access provides a tremendous opportunity for students and teachers to browse the web, type a response, record audio or calculate a problem. The form factor makes many classroom tasks manageable while the design of the device requires far less technical support than most laptops. The main focus of this presentation is how teachers can accomplish common tasks in the classroom, but also includes how students can use the tool for their own studies. Most of the applications discussed are free or a few dollars. Viewers will learn concrete ways they can use their iPod Touch in the classroom the following day.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.tinyurl.com/itouchineducation

Additional Information:
Email: kernkelley [at] gmail [dot] com
Blog: TheTechCurve.com
Twitter: kernkelley
Skype: kernkelley

Announcements

Ning Problems Today Almost All Resolved

December 8, 2009 Published by: wfryer

As you may have noticed, most of the day on Monday our K-12 Online Conference Ning was offline / not available. According to the official Ning status blog, all features except messaging and RSS feeds are back up and working as of this writing. We have no idea what the problem was with Ning today, but it was not limited to just our K12Online site, and we don’t think we can take the blame for overwhelming the entire domain with traffic! It appears this was just an unlucky coincidence that it happened on the first day of week 1 of our conference! Thankfully at this point, we are using multiple sites and our blog (this site) was up without any problems all day, as were our video hosting sites (DotSub and Blip.tv). We also used both our Twitter account and Facebook page to share status updates throughout the day.

If you have a smartphone or other mobile device capable of accessing the Internet, you can use the web address k12online.ning.com/m to access a mobile-optimized version of our Ning website.

Mobile Version of K12Online Ning

Videos are not viewable/playable from this mobile Ning site, but you can use our podcast RSS feeds to directly view and play presentations on your mobile devices. We did announce today via Twitter and Facebook that our podcast RSS feeds are now included in the iTunes Podcast Directory. Please rate and comment on our iTunes podcast channels so we can hopefully become “featured” in iTunes. The more visibility our conference can have the better!

Thanks to a WordPress plug-in (WordPress Mobile Edition) we are using, hopefully our blog automatically shows up in a mobile-optimized format if you’re using a mobile device to view it.

We will keep our fingers crossed that today’s Ning problems will not recur for the rest of the conference!

2009 Announcements

K12Online LAN Party Dec 7 – Virtually Vancouver!

December 7, 2009 Published by: wfryer

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

December 7, 2009 Published by: wfryer

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

December 7, 2009 Published by: ehelfant

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.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

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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

December 7, 2009 Published by: ehelfant

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

December 7, 2009 Published by: wfryer

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.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

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

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

Twitter: kellyhines