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Live Event Opportunities for K12 Online 2012

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This year for the 2012 K-12 Online Conference, our organizer and volunteer team is providing FOUR different live event opportunities. Unlike the past, we will not be holding synchronous/live “fireside chat” events in Blackboard Collaborate with specific presenters. When you tweet about the conference this year, please use the hashtag #k12online12 and follow the conversations using that hashtag.

Friday, October 5: Join the  #connectedPD Twitter Chat on Friday, October 5th at 9 am PDT /  10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT. Use your favorite Twitter client to participate, just make sure you include the hashtag #connectedPD so everyone else will see your messages. The free website TweetChat (http://tweetchat.com) is excellent for Twitter chats. Read more information about #connectedPD on http://connectedpd.posterous.com/pages/events.

Saturday, October 13: Join the Classroom 2.0 LIVE Community for a webinar preview of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference.  Organizers will discuss what’s new in this year’s conference, “Learn, Share and Remix.” Get a taste of the presentations coming in our strands this year, Getting Started, Visioning New Curriculum, Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices. Also learn about our dynamic pre-conference keynote presentation, to be shared by Kevin Honeycutt. The homepage of Classroom 2.0 LIVE (http://live.classroom20.com) will have the direct Blackboard Collaborate links the week prior to this show.

Friday, November 2: Join the  #connectedPD Twitter Chat on Friday, November 2nd at 9 am PDT /  10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT to discuss the K-12 Online Conference. This is the last official day of our conference. Read more information about #connectedPD on http://connectedpd.posterous.com/pages/events.

Sunday, November 4: Join the final live event of our conference, in the weekly “Learning2gether” webinar with facilitator Vance Stevens at 7 am PST / 8 am MST / 9 am CST / 10 am EST. Note this will take place the morning of the time change! These times will reflect one hour of “falling back,” so consider this a test of your time zone skills! We hope you’ll join. Learn more on: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded

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K12 Online Conference Live Events Committee

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We are pleased to announce the members of the K12 Online Conference Live Events Committee team for 2010! The live events committee is co-chaired by Kim Caise, an educator from Texas and Susan van Gelder, an educator from Montreal, Canada. Committee members include Drew Buddie, an educator from the U.K.; Peggy George, a retired elementary school principal from Arizona;  Nan Williams, an educator from Arizona; Andrew Ziobro, an educator from New Jersey and Connie Swiderski, a consultant with the Region XI Education Service Center in Texas. Also in a supportive role is Worldbridges webcaster and conference co-convener, Jose Rodriguez from California.

Our committee will be coordinating the live events component of the 2010 K12Online Conference. This will include our Pre-Conference session and Fireside Chats after weeks 1 and 2. Updates will be posted in the next few weeks with confirmed dates and times. Our first event will be a pre-conference session with keynote presenter, Dean Shareski. A post-conference session will be held with David Warlick once the conference concludes. Stay tuned to the K12 Online Conference blog for more details about future live events. We welcome your suggestions and look forward to a great conference.

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K12 Online 2010 Live Events Planning

2010 Live Events (tentative dates/times – subject to change)


Pre con session with Dean Shareski Oct. 14th at 7pm CST/8pm EST confirmed by Dean

Week 1 Fireside chat October 21st, 24th or 25th at 5pm – 7pm CST

Week 2 Fireside chat – October 30th at 1pm CST/2pm EST

Echos will pick up post con session with David Warlick

Announcement for K12 Online Conference blog:

K12OnlineConference 2010 Live Events Committee https://k12onlineconference.org/


We are pleased to announce our live events committee team for 2010! The live events committee is co-chaired by Kim Caise, an educator from Texas and Susan van Gelder, an educator from Montreal, Canada. Committee members include Drew Buddie, an educator from the U.K.; Peggy George, a retired elementary school principal from Arizona; ; Nan Williams, an educator from Arizona; Andrew fan educator from New Jersey and Connie Swiderski, a consultant with the Region XI Education Service Center in Forth Worth, Texas. Also in a supportive role is Worldbridges webcaster and conference co-convener, Jose Rodriguez from California.

Our committee will be coordinating the live events component of the 2010 K12Online Conference. This will include our Pre-Conference session and Fireside Chats after weeks 1 and 2. Updates will be posted in the next few weeks with confirmed dates and times. Our first event will be a pre-conference session with keynote presenter, Dean Shareski. A post-conference session will be held with David Warlick once the conference concludes. Stay tuned to the K12 Online Conference blog for more details about future live events. We welcome your suggestions and look forward to a great conference.

K12 Online 2009 Live Events Planning

  1. LAN Party Saturday September 26th, 2009 11:00amPDT/2:00pmEDT
  2. December 5th live, “fireside chat” webinar with 2009 pre-conference keynote speaker, Kim Cofino
  3. December 12 10 hour synchronous in partnership with the EdTechTalk webcasting network.
  4. December 19 10 hour synchronous in partnership with the EdTechTalk webcasting network.

Announcement posted on K12 Online Conference site https://k12onlineconference.org/
K12OnlineConference 2009 Live Events Committee
By Jose Rodriguez ⋅ September 4, 2009
https://k12onlineconference.org/?p=386

We are pleased to announce our live events committee team for 2009!!! Our chair is Drew Buddie an educator from the U.K. Members inlude Peggy George a retired elementary school principal from Arizona, Susan Van Gelder an educator from Montreal Canada, Kim Caise educator from Texas, and Lisa Durff a k12 teacher from Maryland. Also in a supportive role are worldbridges webcasters Jose Rodriguez, Jeff Lebow and Doug Symington.

Our committee will be coordinating the live events component of k12online conference. This will include our Pre-Conference; Virtual LAN Parties and Fireside chats. As well as live events during the conference itself at Edtechtalk and new Second Life venue. We will give you updates in the next several weeks. Our first event will be a LAN party for Saturday September 26th, 2009. We will feature previous k12onlineconference presentations from 2006-08. Details coming soon. We welcome your suggestions and look forward to a great conference.

https://k12onlineconference.org/?p=375
OVERVIEW: K12 Online 2009 will feature four “conference strands,” two each week, and add new “LAN Party” live events on the Saturday following each week of the regular conference in partnership with EdTechTalk. Two presentations will be published in each strand each day, Monday through Friday, so four new presentations will be available each day over the course of the two weeks. Including the pre-conference keynote, a total of 41 presentations will be published. Each twenty minute (or less) presentation will be shared online in a downloadable format and released simultaneously via the conference blog (www.k12onlineconference.org,) the conference Twitter account, and the conference audio and video podcast channels. All presentations will be archived online for posterity. A total of 123 past presentations are currently available from K12 Online 2006. 2007, and 2008. We have applied for an iTunes University “Beyond Campus” portal, and anticipate our content will be available for the 2009 conference both online via our website and via our own free iTunesU Portal. If you are planning to submit a proposal, please review archived presentations from past years to determine what you might offer that is new and builds on previous work. As in the past, K12Online will host a variety of live events during the conference to complement and extend the asynchronous presentations and interaction opportunities on our conference blog.

The Saturday following the pre-conference keynote (December 5th) K12Online will host a live, “fireside chat” webinar with our 2009 pre-conference keynote speaker, Kim Cofino. Kim is an international educator currently teaching in Thailand. Kim’s keynote will be published on Monday, November 30th, and the fireside chat will provide an opportunity for participants to further discuss the ideas, technologies, and suggestions Kim mentions in her keynote. Saturday following each week of the regular conference (December 12 and 18) K12Online will feature 10 hour synchronous “live events” in partnership with the EdTechTalk webcasting network. All twenty-one presentations for the week will be played “live” over UStream.tv and EdTechTalk, and EdTechTalk will provide a backchannel chat / discussion forum for participants to synchronously listen and respond to each presentation. When possible, presenter(s) for each session will also attend their virtual online “playback” of their presentation and respond/interact with conference participants about the ideas of their session LIVE. Educators around the world are encouraged to host local “LAN Parties” in their communities, schools, and homes with other educators to participate in these live events. We are calling these “Building Bridge Meetups.” Our live events committee will develop and share more support information in the months ahead.

Publicity and promotion of K12 LIVE Events will be coordinated with the Publicity Committee:

Public Relations Committee

By MariaK ⋅ August 16, 2009
https://k12onlineconference.org/?p=383

Thank you to all who responded to the call to join the K12 Online Conference 2009 Team. There is much work ahead for all. Committee chairs and members will be contacted soon. The first priority was to get the PR committee formed so they could get right to work. Patrick Woessner is the PR committee chair with Lisa Parisi, Theresa White, Paula Naugle, and Paula White as members.
The PR committee hit the ground running with a planning wiki containing some great ideas. Thank you, Patrick for getting this started. In Patrick’s words, “We clearly want to reach as many educators as possible, and ideally that will include the masses who may not be aware of the conference. I’m hoping we expand our collective reach and find ways to inform and engage our colleagues who may not be “plugged in”.
In the coming days and weeks. look for suggestions from the PR committee that will help to spread the message that will prompt educators to learn more and get involved with K12Online 2009. It will be important to get that message disseminated through a variety of channels in order to reach the masses.
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Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism Debate Finals

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The 2009 global debate project for middle schoolers, the Eracism Project (a Flat ClassroomTM Project www.eracismproject.org) will hold the finals of Eracism on the private Eracism grid on ReactionGrid on Thursday, December 17 at 9:15 am EST – 10:15 EST.  Although the students and judges for this project will be in-world, the presentation will be streamed live with a backchannel as part of the K12 Online Conference 2009 to CCiTV Live at http://ccitv.cciu.org/.

Student finalists will be debating “Differences Make us Stronger” in the impromptu style debate moderated by Bernajean Porter (http://www.digitales.us) with the final vote on the winner taken from the judges and student participants in the project who will be in the virtual world.  This final debate is the culmination of an 8 week debate project that began with sixteen teams from 12 classrooms in 7 countries and is now down to two debate teams from Shorecrest Preparatory School in Florida and Westwood Schools in Georgia.

The organizers of the project recently shared a presentation as part of the K12Online Conference about how the project was founded, the methodologies and tools used to make the debates “feel” as synchronous as possible, even when in the asynchronous environment of VoiceThread.

Sponsors of this project include: Elluminate, VoiceThread, ReactionGrid, and Wikispaces.

Date: Thursday December 17, 9:15 am EST – 10:15 EST.

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Super Social Safety Digiteens Present the Top Sites for Kids Ages 8-12: Invitation to Join

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As part of the k12 online conference 2009 and as a conclusion to the Digiteen Project #3 of 2009, students from Westwood Schools will be presenting their top socially connected sites for kids aged 8-12 (and some that they DO NOT recommend.)  As part of Digiteen 2009, these students felt that many sites that are marketed to kids aged 8-12 are not appropriate nor safe and set out to review and test the best.  They have been blogging and have a twitter account (@socialsafety) and will be presenting live in Elluminate on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 from 12:15 pm-12:45 pm and answer your questions about their testing experiences.

At the conclusion of the student presentation, from 12:45pm – 1:15 pm leading social internet safety expert, Anne Collier will reflect and talk with students about their findings.  Backchannel questions will be included in the conversation.

This is just one of the many action projects of the Digiteen project: A Flat Classroom project. This project will be moderated by Vicki Davis, and led by student project manager, Erin B from Westwood Schools.

Join our Flat Classroom Projects Group on this Ning: http://k12online.ning.com/group/flatclassroomprojects

Here is the link to our Flat Classroom Public Presentation room:  https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.BBF3F987EB53E7EAB1128C0DA2E961

Come and join us at any or all of the following:

Super Social Safety: Sites for Kids Aged 8-12
Wednesday December 16: Super Social Safety Presentation12:15 pm EST , Time and Date Conversion

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Flat Classroom Project Student Summits: Invitation to Join

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As part of the Flat Classroom™ Project 2009-3 we are holding online Student Summits in our Elluminate virtual classroom and invite participants in the K12 Online Conference to join us. These sessions will be 45-60 minutes long and participants will have the opportunity to interact with individual student presentations as they discuss their involvement and achievements in the recent project. Participants will also be able to see how a virtual meeting that includes students and educators around the world can be successfully run as a synchronous and virtual event.  The focus is on the students, digital citizenship and online learning skills as well as cultural interaction and sharing of knowledge about the topics in the Flat Classroom Project.

Join our Flat Classroom™ Projects Group on this Ning: http://k12online.ning.com/group/flatclassroomprojects

Here is the link to our Flat Classroom™ Public Presentation room: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.BBF3F987EB53E7EAB1128C0DA2E961

Come and join us at any or all of the following Flat Classroom Student Summit times:
Monday December 14: Beijing (BISS) International School Summit #1 11am GMT, 7pm China, Timeanddate conversion
Wednesday December 16: Beijing (BISS) International School Summit #2 12:30pm China, 4:30am GMT Timeanddate conversion
Tuesday December 15: Westwood Schools Summit #1 10:30am EST, 15:30pm GMT Timeanddate conversion
Wednesday December 16: Westwood Schools #2 1:30pm EST, 18:30 GMT Timeanddate conversion