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K12Online12 Day 9 Presentations: 1 November 2012

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Welcome to day nine of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 9 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Brad Wilson
Student News Teams: Telling the Story

Kyle Dunbar
Authentic Voices

 

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Scott Merrick
Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching: Power Example to Get You Thinking 

Susan Oxnevad
Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

 

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2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

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Presenter: Susan Oxnevad
Location: Oak Park, IL, US
Twitter:  @soxnevad

Presentation Description: Learn to use free and user friendly digital tools to design and implement student driven learning experiences that facilitate the acquisition of deep knowledge about vocabulary. Build a tech toolkit of resources and effective instructional practices to provide students with flexible learning paths to meet a variety of diverse learning needs. Develop innovative ways to use multimedia supported tools for vocabulary instruction. Learn to create interactive graphics, design digital word walls, and explore some 10 minute tech tools for use right away.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/K12OnlineConference

Additional Information:
Find more ideas for efficient and effective tech integration on my blog, Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com

2012 Student Voices

Authentic Voices

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Presenter: Kyle Dunbar
Location: Alexandria, VA, USA
Twitter: @edtechdunny

Presentation Description: Come learn about and listen to student voices highlighted on Authentic Voices (http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/) a wiki co-developed with a Language Arts teacher and a Technology Integration Specialist at an alternative setting. Authentic Voices is a place where students upload original pieces of writing along with an audio file of them reading their piece. Listen to at least three of the pieces students have composed and learn how students begin to authentically revise their work when creating an audio file of their work. Consider how students begin to see themselves differently as a result of publishing their work online. While Authentic Voices has a global audience (over 60 countries), we do not yet have another classroom that regularly comments on our students’ writing or posts their own writing on this site. Ponder efforts and challenges to finding collaborative classrooms.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/

 

2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching: Power Examples to Get You Thinking

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Presenter: Scott Merrick
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Twitter:  @scottmerrick

Presentation Description: Scott Merrick has been exploring virtual worlds, a.k.a. 3D online environments, for years and has focused for the past half decade on their potentials for extending learning and teaching onto the global stage. He has been known to mashup technologies in order to get a point, or points, across. This session utilizes a live exploration of a custom-built Wallwisher.com webpage with voice narration created in Audacity. Learn a little bit about several more or less randomly selected (from hundreds existing) examples of the power of virtual environments to help establish “sense of place at a distance.” Then visit the wall itself in order to fully explore resources which a 20 minute recorded session can only overview.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://ge.tt/2lpHuTP?c

Additional Information:
My blog is http://scottmerrick.net and I also blog virtual environments at http://scottsecondlife.blogspot.com

2012 Student Voices

Student News Teams: Telling the Story

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Presenter: Brad Wilson
Location: Jackson, Michigan, USA
Twitter: @dreambition

Presentation Description: How does your school community learn about events, announcements & celebrations of learning? How does the public view your school? The students in this presentation are part of school programs that put them in control of these stories! By using whatever technology tools available, educators from a variety of schools are giving students opportunities to practice 21st Century skills while taking part in meaningful multimedia projects. Listen to them describe their experiences and get inspired to start your own News Team!

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.21innovate.com/student-news.html