2011 – Page 6 – K12 Online Conference

2011 2011-Team Captains

The World is My Classroom

November 28, 2011 Published by: Susan van Gelder

Presenter: Anne Mirtschin
Location: Hawkesdale, Victoria, Australia
@murcha

Presentation Title: The World is My Classroom

Presentation Description: Learn how a virtual, global, and culturally-blended classroom is not just a dream, it’s a reality. Listen to stories from classrooms in a small rural P12 school that is isolated culturally and geographically where innovative technology is used to engage students allowing them to connect, communicate and collaborate with students/classrooms across the globe. This is a big classroom where:

blended classrooms may be global in nature
learning is 24/7/365
Experts and students of all ages learn together – learning is vertical and horizontal
learning goes beyond physical walls
global projects are encouraged
learning can be “messy’ but the learning outcomes amazing!

Listen to classroom stories, learn of favourite online tools to use and ways to use them. Explore different ways to get connected to others, join projects and how to have your students take initiative.

Presentation:

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://murcha.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/the-world-is-my-classroom-presentation-for-the-k12-online-conference/

Additional Information:
Teacher blog
Class blog

2011 2011-Story Time

When Learning Becomes An Event

November 28, 2011 Published by: dkuropatwa

Presenter: Andy McKiel
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
@amckiel

Presentation Title: When Learning Becomes An Event

Presentation Description: As an educator, how do you make learning sticky for your students? This session will explore the concept of making ordinary lessons and projects extraordinary by celebrating even the little things that occur within our classrooms and schools on a daily basis.

Find out how you can make learning become an event by considering common elements woven through a variety of success stories and reflecting upon your own personal successes as an educator.

iPod video “ mp3 audio

Additional Information:
Find out more about Andy McKiel:
about.me/amckiel

2011 2011-Team Captains

TEAM CAPTAINS KEYNOTEPlaying in Public

November 28, 2011 Published by: wfryer

Presenter: George Couros
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
@gcouros

Presentation Title: Playing in Public

Presentation Description: As social media continues to grow, the opportunity to engage in our own learning publicly and learn from others, grows with it. In this presentation, George Couros shares some examples of people “playing publicly” and learning with no end in sight. To be comfortable in doing this, leaders must show that they are risk-takers and lead by example in this environment. George shows how when leaders are willing to learn in such a public manner, it trickles down to all educators, and most importantly, our kids.

Presentation:

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
bit.ly/playinginpublic

Additional Information:
Feel free to connect with George either on his blog (georgecouros.ca) or Twitter (@gcouros)

2011 2011-Story Time

STORY TIME KEYNOTEThe World’s Craziest Educational Videos Featuring ds106

November 28, 2011 Published by: dkuropatwa

Presenter: Jim Groom and Tom Woodward
Location: Fredericksburg, VA USA
@jimgroom & @twoodwar

Presentation Title: The World’s Craziest Educational Videos Featuring ds106

Presentation Description: In this episode of the World’s Craziest Educational Videos you host detective Kim Droom takes you inside the Massive Open Online Course ds106. An online storytelling community that started as a class but has become much, much more. Some people call it a cult, others the second coming of the creative web. We report … you decide!

Presentation:

iPod video “ mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
bavatuesdays.com/k12-online-conference-disclaimer-credits-resources/

2011 Announcements

Professional Development Credit

November 26, 2011 Published by: Susan van Gelder

Did you know that the K12 Online Conference offers PD certificates for adding to the conversation around K12 Online sessions? To find out all you need to know, you can click on the Professional Development link at the top of this page.

Here are the important facts about how to get a certificate to submit to your work place. It’s up to your work place as to whether they will credit you the hours.

Listen / Watch one of the sessions.
Reflect on it – make a podcast, create a voicethread, make a movie, write a blog post, write a thoughtful comment on the blog post that features the session to let people know what you got out of the session and how you are going to use this in your situation. More detailed guidelines can be found here.
Submit a link to your response via this form.
You will then get a link to where you can find your certificate.

You will have to submit the certificate along with a copy of your reflection or the url which links to it to the appropriate people in your work place. We can issue the certificate. It’s up to them if they will grant the credit hours.

We hope you will add to the conversation. It is through “talking” with others that we all learn and grow. So your response will not only help you, it will help get us all thinking, too!