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2011 2011-Team Captains

Coaching for ICT Integration

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Presenter: Anne Fox
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
@foxdenuk

Presentation Title: Coaching for ICT Integration

Presentation Description: In this session you will find out why coaching is an effective professional development tool and how the VITAE course could help you become an ICT integration coach. You will do this by using six Web 2.0 tools to access and review the material of this session and decide on your first SMART goal.

You will do this by learning by doing and in order to access the necessary links you should have the following ScoopIt page open at the same time: http://www.scoop.it/t/vitae-course

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.scoop.it/t/vitae-course

Additional Information:
My blog is http://annefox.eu

2011 2011-Team Captains

Lead the World

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Presenters: Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay with Curt Bonk, Anne Mirtschin, Judy O’Connell, Dean Shareski, Don Tapscott, David Warlick, Flat Classroom conference students – Doha Qatar, Suffern Middle School (Peggy Sheehy and Marianne Malmstrom), Mt. Carmel High School (Suzie Nestico), Phoenix School (Betsye Sargent), West Tisbury (Valerie Becker), and Flat Classroom Students
Location: Camilla, GA and worldwide
@coolcatteacher, @julielindsay and @flatclassroom

Presentation Title: Lead the World

Presentation Description: Students are the greatest textbook ever written for each other, yet, many schools close the book on learning outside classroom walls. After five years of global collaborative classroom excellence, this presentation first uses voices from the keynoters, students, and teachers around the world that have been part of the Flat Classroom projects and conferences to share how education has fundamentally changed through a beautiful medley of voices. Then, hear from Vicki Davis, co-founder, about the 7 principles that can take your classroom global and the current challenges and misconceptions surrounding what it means to globalize your classroom. We hope you’ll join this journey of learning and thank all of our keynoters, students, and teachers, for sharing their voice in this move towards excellence in global education.


iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/K12+Online+2011

Additional Information:
Vicki Davis and Julie Linsday co-founded the Flat Classroom Project in November 2006. In the five years since, more than 5,000 students from age 4 and up have joined with other classrooms around the world to collaborate in projects like The Flat Classroom Project, the Digiteen Project, ‘A week in the Life’ Elementary Flat Classroom Project, and the Eracism Project and the founding of a non-profit to run their conference and face to face events.

Their work and public sharing of pedagogy on their blogs has led to their recent book, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds from Pearson Publishing coming in January 2012.

You can follow Vicki at @coolcatteacher and Julie at @julielindsay and the projects at @flatclassroom.

2011 2011-Story Time

What If the Story Changed?

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Presenter: David Jakes
Location: Naperville, Illinois, USA
@djakes

Presentation Title: What If the Story Changed?

Presentation Description: This presentation is about changing the story of what we do, the challenges behind that, and examples of what that change might look like. The presentation is based in a very simple idea I’ve been exploring lately, and one based in rethinking the way in which both individuals and organizations respond to new thinking and new ideas. The presentation will challenge your thinking about traditional perspectives on education, and offer insights on how we might rethink these. I’ll begin with an introduction and then offer a series of vignettes that explore the story of change, all centering on rethinking how we approach the design of new ideas with a very simple approach you can use today. Please join me as I explore changing the story…


iPod video “” mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://jakes.editme.com/changethestory

Additional Information:
Contact me | dsjakes at gmail dot com
Read what I think | strengthofweakties.org
View my presentations | jakes.editme.com
Follow me | twitter.com/djakes
See my photography | flickr.com/jodotorg
Old Skool Web | jakesonline.org
See my Web library | bit.ly/jakesresources
See my experiences | linkd.in/djakes
Skype me | david.jakes

2011 2011-Story Time

Tech Enabled Leadership

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Presenter: Zoe Branigan-Pipe, Dr. Camille Rutherford, Kyle Tuck
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
@zbpipe
@crutherford

Presentation Title: Growing Tech Enabled Leaders

Presentation Description: Our story is about growing leaders in the Ed Tech Cohort at Brock University in Hamilton, Ontario. This story begins with planting the seeds of tech leadership by providing intensive hands-on educational technology training. Their growth was nurtured by helping them develop an online professional network and partnering them with Virtual Associate Teachers. As their technical and tech-social competencies grew, cohort participants also received instruction in pedagogical approaches that use technology to enhance teaching and learning, technical curriculum design and leadership theory. This training and support was essential so that they may become a future educational technology leaders and a ‘Forest of Leaders’ can take root. Throughout the presentation you will hear their voices and stories as they grow into 21st century teachers.


iPod video “” mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
edtechteachers.ca

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 4 Presentations: 1 December 2011

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Welcome to day four 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 4 presentations include:

Story Time:

Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers by Sean McGaughey

Are You For Real? by Rodd Lucier

Team Captains:

Transforming Education by David Truss

School Leaders Set the Tone by Playing, Experimenting and Taking Risks by Blair Peterson

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!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 2011-Team Captains

School Leaders Set the Tone by Playing, Experimenting and Taking Risks

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Presenter: Blair Peterson
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
@eijunkie

Presentation Title: School Leaders Set the Tone by Playing, Experimenting and Taking Risks

Presentation Description: Leaders play a major role in setting the tone for the school community. In today’s schools it’s essential that members of the community take risks and step outside of their comfort zone occasionally. At Graded, we learned that it is common for educators to be hesitant to try new things for fear of looking silly. This fear can inhibit learning and professional growth in today’s learning environment. This presentation will explore examples of how leaders at Graded model, support and encourage risky behavior and experimentation. School leaders play a major role in setting the tone and it’s imperative that he/she publicly experiment and take an occasional risk while they also encourage others to do the same. The presentation will feature stories from teachers and administrators.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
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2011 2011-Story Time

Are You For Real?

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Presenter: Rodd Lucier
Location: Komoka, Ontario, Canada
@thecleversheep

Presentation Title: Are You For Real?

Presentation Description:
Rodd LucierAre you in search of opportunities to make authentic connections with students and teachers? Why not surround yourself with prompts to remind you of compelling stories? Learn how aptly chosen artifacts, deliberately placed, can promote story-telling and relationship-building. Play along and consider how you willing you are to be ‘real’ with your fellow learners.



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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Blog: The Clever Sheep
Unplug’d: unplugd.ca

2011 2011-Team Captains

Transforming Education

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Presenter: David Truss
Location: Coquitlam, BC, Canada
@datruss

Presentation Title: Transforming Education

Presentation Description: There are really only two messages in this presentation. First, Education is NOT broken! So let’s start using language that is constructive rather than counterproductive. And secondly, as educators we are inherently leaders, no matter what our role is, and so we need to model what it means to be a connected, life-long learner.

 

iTunes video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://trans4med.org

Additional Information:
Resources and opportunities to continue learning and engaging on these topics can be found at: http://trans4med.org
Also, if people would like to share their thoughts on Transforming Education, I thought we could play with the twitter hashtag #Trans4mEd for a while… a way to get connected around a common theme.

2011 2011-Story Time

Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers

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Presenter: Sean McGaughey
Location: Midland, Ontario, Canada
@Sean_McGaughey

Presentation Title: Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers

Presentation Description: Each year, Bayview Public School (bay.scdsb.on.ca) participates in Canada’s National Family Literacy Day, which is held annually on January 27. Two years ago, the parent council president asked me if we could set up a computer at the school to have families record reviews of their favorite books. Using free services, I was able to have them record these reviews via telephone from home. We got a free local voicemail phone number through freephoneline.ca which forwards messages to my email. We posted these audio reviews, of families and children sharing the books they love to the Bayview Family Literacy Day website.

Several classes and many families have contributed audio reviews and we have even had an author respond to one of the reviews. In the process, we have built up a resource of books that families in our community are passionate about.

I hope this presentation can inspire others to creatively use free tools to energize their own school communities.


iPod video “” mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
View as a Google Presentation

Additional Information:
Bayview School Family Literacy Day Project: familyliteracy.edublogs.org

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 3 Presentations: 30 November 2011

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Welcome to day three 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 3 presentations include:

Story Time:

Computer Based Math by David Wees

Tradigital History: Bringing the Past Alive by Dr. James Beeghley

Team Captains:

Hardware is not Enough – The Teacher/Facilitator Partnership by Kim Cofino & Chrissy Hellyer

When Leadership and Learning Collide by Dave Edwards

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!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.