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About Peggy George

About Peggy George

Peggy is a retired educator who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and has been a professional educator for over 50 years with many roles including principal, teacher, special education director and university pre-service teacher education instructor. She hosts the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars, is a STAR Discovery Educator and member of the K12 Online Conference Organizer Team. She is an Organizer for EdCampPhoenix and a regular volunteer moderator in all of the virtual conferences hosted by Steve Hargadon via the Learning Revolution.

Announcements

WE WANT YOU! BECOME A FAN AND SPREAD THE WORD

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Did you know? We have a FAN badge! You can post it on your web site, Facebook page, or other online site to show your enthusiastic support and participation for the K12 Online Conference. We invite you to download the badge directly from this post by right-clicking, selecting “Save Image As”. Feel free to share it anywhere and everywhere.

K12 Online Conference Fan Badge

K12 Online Conference Fan Badge

Another option for saving and downloading the Fan badge is to sign up for Credly. This is a badge that you can embed on your web site, Facebook page, or other online site to show your support for and participation in the K12 Online Conference. You will need to sign up for Credly (free) to save your badge in your account. Use this Claim Code to accept your badge. B75-90A8-3B7

You can also save and download your badge from Credly. If you want to download your badge you can do so from the sharing feature on Credly. When you mouse over a badge you’ve earned, click on the share icon. If you want only the image, simply click the button to download the badge image in “PNG” format.

Please help spread the word about this year’s event.

Thanks to Harrison McCoy (@DrHarrisonMcCoy) for his on-going support in creating our badges.

2013 Announcements

Announcing K12Online 2013 Keynoters

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The organizing team for the 2013 K-12 Online Conference is pleased to announce our fantastic lineup of keynote speakers for this year’s conference! Please download, print and share the marketing flyer PDF which has all the details. If you’re attending ISTE 2013 in San Antonio, stop by the blogger’s lounge and pick up several printed copies of the flyer so you can share the conference with others!

If you’re new to the K-12 Online Conference, please read our About page as well as as our Goals and Core Values. Since 2006, K-12 Online has hosted a free, all-volunteer online conference with 40+ free videos each year featuring some of the most creative and innovative teachers sharing their best ideas for engaging students with digital tools and effective learning strategies. All past keynote addresses are now available on our YouTube channel, and we’re in the process of migrating all past presentations there too.

Shannon Miller will kick off our 2013 conference with a pre-conference keynote on Monday, October 14th. During week 1 of the conference which starts October 21st, Steve Hargadon & Audrey Watters will keynote the “Open Learning” strand, while Kathy Cassidy will keynote “Outside Learning.” During week 2, starting October 28th, Larry Ferlazzo will keynote “Leading Learning” while Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager will keynote “Building Learning.” Please forward and share this post on social media to get the word out about our fantastic keynoters for this year’s conference!

Also remember our call for proposals for the 2013 conference remains open through August 16. Please consider submitting a proposal and inviting other educators you know to submit!

2013 K-12 Online Conference Flyer

 

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 6 Presentations: 5 December 2011

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Welcome to day six of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 2 Presentation Strands: Sandbox Play and Level Up

Day 6 presentations include:

Sandbox Play Keynote:
A Teacher’s Journey by Dr. Christopher Craft

Level Up Keynote:
Get RIPped: Rigor, Innovation, and Passion by Carol Broos

Sandbox Play:
Scratching Kids Brains by Geoffrey Derry

Level Up:
Technology as an Ally in the IB Science Class by Antonio Amaral Cunha & Silvana Meneghini

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 Announcements

k12Online11 Day 5 Presentations: 2 December 2011

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Welcome to day five of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 1 Presentation Strands: Storytime and Team Captains

Day 5 presentations include:

Story Time:

Growing Tech Enabled Leaders by Zoe Branigan-Pipe, Dr. Camille Rutherford, Kyle Tuck

What If the Story Changed? by David Jakes

Team Captains:

Lead the World by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay

Coaching for ICT Integration by Anne Fox

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 4 Presentations: 1 December 2011

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Welcome to day four of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 1 Presentation Strands: Storytime and Team Captains

Day 4 presentations include:

Story Time:

Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers by Sean McGaughey

Are You For Real? by Rodd Lucier

Team Captains:

Transforming Education by David Truss

School Leaders Set the Tone by Playing, Experimenting and Taking Risks by Blair Peterson

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 3 Presentations: 30 November 2011

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Welcome to day three of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 1 Presentation Strands: Storytime and Team Captains

Day 3 presentations include:

Story Time:

Computer Based Math by David Wees

Tradigital History: Bringing the Past Alive by Dr. James Beeghley

Team Captains:

Hardware is not Enough – The Teacher/Facilitator Partnership by Kim Cofino & Chrissy Hellyer

When Leadership and Learning Collide by Dave Edwards

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 2 Presentations: 29 November 2011

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Welcome to day two of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 1 Presentation Strands: Storytime and Team Captains

Day 2 presentations include:

Team Captains:

Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy by Jason Neiffer

Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play by Shannon Smith

Story Time:

How Do I Know I Made A Difference? (an audio story) by Ben Hazzard

The Black Line Mystery – a story about the most complicated chinese character known to mankind and its community by Jess McCulloch

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 Announcements

#k12Online11 Day 1 Presentations: 28 November 2011

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Welcome to day one of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week 1 Presentation Strands: Storytime and Team Captains

Day 1 presentations include:

Story Time Keynote:
The World’s Craziest Educational Videos Featuring ds106 by Jim Groom and Tom Woodward

Team Captains Keynote:
Playing in Public by George Couros

Story Time:
When Learning Becomes an Event! by Andy McKiel

Team Captains:
The World is My Classroom by Anne Mirtschin

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

2011 2011-Teasers

Teaser Pre-Conference Keynote – The Sandbox Manifesto

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Teaser Pre-Conference Keynote – The Sandbox Manifesto
The 2011 K12 Online Conference is about to kick off with the Pre-Conference Keynote by our fabulous, inspirational presenter, Angela Maiers. Take a look at this special teaser she has prepared for us, and then watch for her presentation when it is posted on Monday, November 21 at 8:00am EST. All of the conference recordings are available any time/any place once they are posted during the conference. We invite you to read and comment on Angela’s blog posts as we begin to explore together the theme of this year’s conference: “Purposeful Play.” Check out The Sandbox Manifesto: Life, Learning and Success on the Social Web and Lessons from the Sandbox, and join us daily as new presentations are shared from Nov. 28-Dec. 9. You can also subscribe to all of the presentations as video or audio from our iTunesU Channel (see details on our blog). We are so excited that the conference is finally here. Follow the latest updates on Twitter: #k12online11 or @k12online

2011-Teasers

Teaser Sandbox Play – Screencasting 101

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The 2011 K-12 Online Conference is just around the corner, and you know it’s coming soon because some of our presenters have started submitting “teaser videos.” These short videos are like a “movie trailer” for an upcoming presentation. The following 68 second video, from Lorna Costantini, is a teaser for her presentation in the “Sandbox Play” strand:  “Screencasting 101: First Steps to creating “On Demand” tutorials and presentations.”

In the days ahead, conference organizers will be adding details for presentations on our 2011 conference schedule. Thanks to Lorna for sharing this teaser video for her upcoming presentation!