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K12Online15 Day 2: October 20, 2015

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k12 online badgeWelcome to day two of the 2015 K12Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week One – Today we have five presentations. Take your time to enjoy them. Share what you learn with your colleagues. You can always come back to view sessions you missed or those you want to see again. Everything is archived.

Today’s sessions:

 

MAKER ED

Creator’s Studio
John Umekubo

Game Jams: Students as Designers
Matthew Farber

STORIES OF CONNECTION

The #WalkMyWorld Project: Exploring the use of digital texts and tools as a means to connect, collaborate, and share
William O’Byrne

Building Bridges: Connecting Students and Teachers to the World through Innovative Technologies
Jennifer Williams and Fran Siracusa

The Power of the PLN in Your Own Backyard
Ben Rimes

Here is a sneak peek into an upcoming presentation: Getting All A’s in School by Thomas Ho

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2015 2015-Stories of Connection

The Power of the PLN in Your Own Backyard

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Presenter: Ben Rimes
Location: St. Joseph, MI, United States
@techsavvyed

Presentation Title: The Power of the PLN in Your Own Backyard

Presentation Description: Connected educators have done an amazing job of flattening their learning experiences for students, and bringing the world into their classrooms. But what happens when we leverage social media to bring about real change locally in our own communities? How do we bring our connections back down out of the cloud to create opportunities for members of our communities to grow and learn together? View three different examples of individuals coming together on regional and state levels through social media to bring about real change and create lasting memories.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.miched.net

Additional Information:
Links related to the video:

Write a House Project – http://writeahouse.com

Pure Michigan Sing-a-Long – https://vimeo.com/54867886

Voices of #michED – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGpkibXv9iBjqc3oAhcXdA-lunzYZRpGx

#michED Twitter Chat – http://miched.net

 

2015 2015-Maker Ed

Game Jams: Students as Designers

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Presenter: Matthew Farber
Location: Branchburg, NJ, USA
@MatthewFarber

Presentation Title: Game Jams: Students as Designers

Presentation Description: Game jams have been growing in popularity. In a game jam, teams are challenged to design a game in a short period of time. In essence, game jams are a game about making a game. Students apply systems thinking, user empathy, collaboration, storyboarding, and iterative design, while also learning how to tackle broad, open-ended problems. Matthew Farber, author of Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning, will discuss his use of game jams in his middle school social studies classes, as well as digital game jams in the after school club he advises. He will share resources from the Moveable Game Jams he attended in the New York area this year, including Quest to Learn, in New York City, as well as the A. Harry Moore School Game Jam Day, in Jersey City, NY, which he facilitated.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://gamejam.wikispaces.com/Game+Jam

 

2015 2015-Maker Ed

Creator’s Studio

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Presenter: John Umekubo
Location: Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
@jumekubo

Presentation Title: Creator’s Studio

Presentation Description: Creator’s Studio is a 7th/8th grade elective course taught by John Umekubo, Director of Technology for St. Matthew’s Parish School. This video explores the essential elements of this course, from electronics, to mechanical motion, and robotics. Students work through these three modules before taking on their own personal project. Hear reflections from the instructor and students as you view a number of sample student projects.

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

Additional Information:
Course blog can be found at http://www.creatorsstudio.org/course-blog. For more information on PBL at St. Matthew’s, here are two more project websites: DEEP, Diving Enrichment Education Program and The Lucas Scholars Program.

 

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Building Bridges: Connecting Students and Teachers to the World through Innovative Technologies

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Presenters: Fran Siracusa and Jennifer Williams
Location: Clearwater, FL, USA

@la_Profe_S
@JenniferWilliamsEdu

Presentation Title: Building Bridges: Connecting Students and Teachers to the World through Innovative Technologies

Presentation Description: In this video recorded session, participants will be introduced to ways to connect students to the world through innovative instructional practices and integrated technology. Likened to building a bridge, participants will be guided through the entire process of global collaboration through the Plan, Design, Constructors, Tools, and Connection. Specific examples of global projects and connection to national and international standards of instruction will be examined and tech tools and apps for collaboration will be demonstrated. Participants will be directed to explore and try out all technologies digitally throughout the session. Nearpod will be used in coordination with the videocast to offer an example of innovative teaching practices. Participants will leave with ready-to-use ideas for instruction and with ways to create global projects in their classrooms. Join for a fun and exciting session that will help to build the bridges that will bring innovation, connection, and inspiration for the future!

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://app.nearpod.com/#/?pin=IPGQH

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

The #WalkMyWorld Project: Exploring the use of digital texts and tools as a means to connect, collaborate, & share

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Presenter: W. Ian O’Byrne
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
@wiobyrne

Presentation Title: The #WalkMyWorld Project: Exploring the use of digital texts and tools as a means to connect, collaborate, & share

Presentation Description: The purpose of this session is to bring together multiple perspectives and participants to conceptualize #WalkMyWorld as a space to explore avenues for pre-service teachers, as a tool for focusing on media literacies, and as an exploration of a community of writers. Evolving pedagogical models for new literacies and emerging technologies allow texts to unfold in new reading and writing spaces. These studies explore an evolving “community of inquiry” called #WalkMyWorld. This cross-platform poetry project cut across chronotopes of time and space as participants explored various lifeworlds by responding to and authoring multi-modal poetry.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
The #WalkMyWorld Project

Additional Information:
For more information on the project, learning events, and tutorials shared please visit the following website: https://sites.google.com/site/walkmyworldproject/.

All of my personal posts about the #WalkMyWorld Project can be viewed here: http://wiobyrne.com/tag/walkmyworld/