Please join the organizers of the 2014 K12 Online Conference in congratulating our selected presenters for this year’s conference! As in past years, our conference is organized into four strands. Each strand has an invited keynote speaker and additional selected speakers. Our conference begins October 13th with a pre-conference keynote presentation. Strands for 2014 are:
Week of Oct 20 – 24: Stories for Learning and Games and Gamification
Week of Oct 27 – 31: Passion Driven Learning and STEAM
OPENING KEYNOTE
Wesley Fryer
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
STORIES for LEARNING
Keynote
Ben Wilkoff
Littleton, Colorado, USA
The Power of Creating in the Classroom
Jeffrey Bradbury
North Brunswick, NJ, USA
Publishing eBooks to Meet Student Interests and Curriculum Needs
April Chamberlain
Trussville, Alabama, USA
A Tale of Three Classrooms: How and Why We Read, Write, and Think for Each Other
Jared Colley and Joel Garza
Fort Worth, TX USA and Addison, TX, USA
Digital Storytelling through App Smashing
Caroline Doughty
Arlington, VA, USA
Augmenting Interest in Reading with Augmented Reality
Kyle Dunbar
Alexandria, VA USA
My Journey With Technology
Cassidy Hall
Moscow, ID, USA
We Are All Connected
Tim Holt
Canutillo, Texas, USA
Digital Tools for Challenged Learners~Leveling the playing field!
Cheryl Oakes
Wells, Maine, USA
Out My Window
Erin Olson, Leslie Pralle Keehn
Pocahontas, Iowa, USA
Collaboration with TwitCast
Monte Tatom
Henderson, TN, USA
How Schools Are Preparing Students To Be Real World Ready
Chris Turnbull
Saint Paul, MN, USA
GAMING AND GAMIFICATION
Keynote
Kevin Hodgson
Northampton, MA, USA
Educational Games Now – Not later…
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen
Denmark
“Creating A Classroom EDventure”
Harrison McCoy
Arlington, Texas, USA
The iPad’s Killer App
Ben Rimes
Michigan, USA
#Gamifi-ED Networked Learning about Serious Games
Verena Roberts
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
All for One and One for All
Jose Rodriguez
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gamification: It’s not all fun and games!
Avi Spector
Montreal, QC, Canada
Five Steps to Level Up Your Teaching
Sarah Thomas
Woodbridge, VA, USA
PASSION-DRIVEN LEARNING
Keynote
Joy Kirr
Elk Grove, IL, USA
At the Intersection of Interest-Based and Disciplinary Learning
Paul Allison
New York City, NY, USA
Connected Learning Through Google Apps
Jennifer Bloomingdale
Schuylerville, NY, USA
Mister C’s on MIC (Musical Integration Concept)
Kevin Cornell
Beavercreek, OH, USA
Genius Hour Passion Projects
JoAnn Delaney
Hershey, PA, USA
Growing Through Connecting
Donna Fry and Mark Carbone
Ontario, Canada
Moving From “Some Study I Used to Know” to Inquisitive Learning with Genius Hour & Passion Projects
Michele Haiken
Stamford, CT, USA
Web 2.0 Tools that will increase Creativity and Passion in Your Online Courses
Courtney Kofeldt
West Chester, PA, USA
Trust and Transparency
Bart Miller
Tokyo, Japan
Passion-Driven Learning in #clmooc–Supporting Teacher Agency in Making and Learning
Mallory McNeal and Anna Smith
Denver, CO and Urbana, IL, USA
Digital Citizens Make the Web
Brendan Murphy
Lindenhurst, IL, USA
Finding Your People
Cheryl Steighner
Tacoma, WA, USA
STEAM
Keynote
Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich
San Diego, California, USA
Minerals Education Coalition: FREE Educational Resources 2014 updates
Rachel Grimes
Englewood, CO USA
STEAMmaker Camp: Merging Classroom STEAM and Afterschool MakerEducation
Ginger Lewman
Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
Programming in Elementary Grades
Sam Patterson
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Coding/Making/Writing with Connected Learners
Melissa Techman
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Full STEAM Ahead!
Melanie Thompson
Jefferson City, MO, USA
What Makes a Quality STEM Activity?
Mike Anderson and ScottMcLeod
Pocahontas, Iowa, USA
The Mindset of the Maker Educator
Jackie Gerstein
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
How Rube Goldberg Lead Our 6th Graders to Pursue Their Passions in STEM
Leigh Zeitz
Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA
Remember to download and share our 2014 conference flyer with other educators you know, and mark your calendar for the start of the K12 Online Conference October 14th!