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2013

K12Online13 Day 7 Presentations 29 October 2013

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Welcome to day seven of the 2013 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

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Day 7 presentations include:

LEADING LEARNING

Jeffrey Bradbury: Learn how to create a WordPress Website in less than 20 minutes

Betsy Hanger: Mindfulness and Neuroscience: How a Contemplative Curriculum Improves Focus, Connectedness, and Self-Regulation

BUILDING LEARNING

Katie Ann Wilson: A Story + A Green Wall = 1 Amazing Transformed Digital Story

 Carol Broos: T3: Triple Threat in Tech Using Transliteracy

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2013 Building Learning

T3:Triple Threat in Tech: Art, Music, and Media

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Presenter: Carol Broos
Location: Gurnee, IL USA
@musictechie

Presentation Title: T3:Triple Threat in Tech: Art, Music, and Media

Presentation Description: Triple threat gridiron football is referring to a player who excels at all three of the skills of running, passing, and kicking. In theater, it is someone who can sing, dance, and act equally the same. In technology is it the ability to excel in creating your own artwork, composing your own music, then producing your own movies.

There are two interviews with educators that are triple threats, Tricia Fuglestad, a K-5 Art Teacher and Linda Keene, an architect and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Once you take the plunge to be a triple threat, by creating your own art, composing your own music and producing your own movies, it will change in the way you interact with all the arts. You will begin to create more, learn more, and share more.

Carol Broos describes her process of creating art, composing music, and putting the icing on the cake, producing movies.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.carolbroos.com/k12online-conference-2013.html

Additional Information:
www.beatechie.com is a blog concerning current music and technology subjects.

2013 Leading Learning

Mindfulness and Neuroscience: How a Contemplative Curriculum for K-12 Students can Improve Focus, Connectedness, and Self-Regulation

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Presenter: Betsy Hanger
Location: Los Angeles
@BHmindful

Presentation Title: Mindfulness and Neuroscience: How a Contemplative Curriculum for K-12 Students can Improve Focus, Connectedness, and Self-Regulation

Presentation Description: After Reading, Writing, and “˜Rithmetic, is Reflection the New “Fourth R”?
In this video presentation, veteran teacher Betsy Hanger will explore the uses of mindfulness training in elementary classrooms. She will describe the curriculum of Mindful Schools (www.mindfulschools.org), connecting the skills developed to the students’ experiences. Examples of students’ journals and mindfulness activities in the classroom will give teachers a realistic idea of this important new movement in urban education. Betsy will answer these questions: 1) What is mindfulness? (definition, origins in medicine, psychology) 2) Who does mindfulness help? (Challenges that mindfulness training addresses: brain slides) 3) What is the curriculum? (three sets of skills, with three examples for each drawn from student work) 4) What improvements can I expect if I do mindfulness training in my classroom? (research, anecdotal experiences: video testimony) Resources for learning more about mindfulness training in classrooms are appended.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.mindfulschools.org

http://www.roomtobreathefilm.com

2013 Building Learning

A Story + A Green Wall = 1 Amazing Transformed Digital Story….

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Presenter: Katie Ann Wilson
Location: Pratt, KS
@katiann_76

 

Presentation Title: A Story + A Green Wall = 1 Amazing Transformed Digital Story….

Presentation Description: You will be learning how to transform a story into 1 amazing digital story through the effects of Green-Screen. I will walk you through how to create a Green-Screen effect story via iMovie. You will need to have a story, digital illustrations, iMovie, and a video recording device. For your digital illustrations you can use drawings and make them digital, create them on the computer, use photographs, or even a video clip. When you are all done you will have 1 AMAZING Digital story to share.


Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://techtrainingwithkatieann.weebly.com/k-12-online-conference.html

Additional Information:
I’m a life long learner!! I teach students & staff tech skills! I am the founder of the blog Diary of a Techie Chick & the Global Digital Scrapbook.

diaryofatechiechick.blogspot.com

2013 Leading Learning

Learn how to create a WordPress Website in less than 20 minutes

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Presenter: Jeff Bradbury
Location: New Jersey
@TeacherCast

Presentation Title: Learn how to create a WordPress Website in less than 20 minutes

Presentation Description: Learn how YOU can create a dynamic WordPress website in less than 20 minutes. Jeff (TeacherCast) walks you through the steps and demonstrates how to choose a great theme, add posts, pages, widgets, videos, photos, and menu items.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.TeacherCast.net