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#k12Online11 Day 2 Presentations: 29 November 2011

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Welcome to day two of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 1 Presentation Strands: Storytime and Team Captains

Day 2 presentations include:

Team Captains:

Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy by Jason Neiffer

Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play by Shannon Smith

Story Time:

How Do I Know I Made A Difference? (an audio story) by Ben Hazzard

The Black Line Mystery – a story about the most complicated chinese character known to mankind and its community by Jess McCulloch

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

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2011 2011-Story Time

The Black Line Mystery – a story about the most complicated chinese character known to mankind and its community

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Presenter: Jess McCulloch
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
@jessmcculloch

 

Presentation Title: The Black Line Mystery “” a story about the most complicated Chinese character known to mankind and its community.

Presentation Description: Agent 42, Charles the Basset Hound and The Council of Chiefs have recruited many secret agents to help them save the community from The Doom Of Not Knowing how to read Chinese characters, to save them from seeing just random black lines! But they aren’t without enemies. Agent X tries to stop them, saying that Chinese characters are too confusing for the community – why would anyone need to know about them?! Come along to be swept up in the Black Line Mystery, find out what the most complicated Chinese character of all time looks like, what it means and how it is being used to unlock the mystery of all Chinese characters.

Also hear the story of the agents, both virtual and face to face, and how they have started to build a community of their own around this character – a community for the power of good, for the power of knowledge, all with the power of a story.

Presentation
Just imagine you received a real paper letter in the mail. There was no return address, just a red chop mark on the back. You carefully open the envelope and take out a single white page. On the page you see this:

the character

You’ve got no idea what it is let alone what it might mean or why it has been sent to you. On closer inspection you notice that at the bottom of the page is this:

https://sites.google.com/site/blmk12/home
Password: hanzi

What would you do?

Go on then, do it.

Additional Information:
Blog: www.technolote.com
The Black Line Mystery: sites.google.com/site/blacklinemystery

2011 2011-Story Time

How Do I Know I Made A Difference? (an audio story)

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Presenter: Ben Hazzard
Location: Port Lambton, Ontario, Canada
@benhazzard

 

Presentation Title: How Do I Know I Made A Difference? (an audio story)

Presentation Description: From the teacher’s perspective change can be scary, exciting, and full of learning. What does trying something new look like from a student’s perspective? Take a moment to consider a student as a teacher begins to explore one new learning opportunity with a class. Open your ears and visualize a whole a different perspective.


iPod video “” mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
devine.lkdsb.net/new/video/tribes/listening.mpg

2011 2011-Team Captains

Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play

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Presenter: Shannon Smith
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
@shannoninottawa

Presentation Title: Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play

Presentation Description: This presentation explores the role school leaders assume in promoting play within learning environments. Play is intimately linked to creativity, the development of cognitive flexibility and a sense of belonging — all things critical for responsive and engaging places of learning. Through modelling a playful approach, school leaders create the conditions under which creativity, innovation, risk-taking and flexible thinking flourish.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k63G8Grh2xR7TIArOelpxXEvl4LwwaXM_JBPXplvhMs/edit

2011 2011-Team Captains

Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy

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Presenter: Jason Neiffer
Location: Missoula, MT, USA
@techsavvyteach

Presentation Title: Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy

Presentation Description: The Montana Digital Academy is Montana’s statewide virtual school built on a foundation of partnerships and working together to provide digital online learning to students in Big Sky Country. Learn about the formulation of our program and steps we are taking to work together to innovate in online learning for our students.


iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
None

Additional Information:
Jason Neiffer
Curriculum Director, Montana Digital Academy
Information at www.neiffer.com
Blogging at www.techsavvyteacher.com
Program at www.montanadigitalacademy.org