Location: Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.
@spencerideas

Description:
How can we get students engaged as critical thinkers, creators and makers? Learn about design thinking and how the LAUNCH cycle can be a framework to focus students through the process. 1) Look, listen, learn; 2) Ask tons of questions; 3) Understand the process/problem; 4) Navigate ideas; 5) Create; 6) Highlight and fix and then finally LAUNCH!

Additional Information:
http://www.spencerauthor.com

There are many ways to take part in the discussion:

• Join us at the conference live page for a live panel discussion with educators who have implemented design thinking (Date to be announced)
• Join our Voxer channel and chime in.
• Tweet with the hashtag #k12onlineconf. Your tweets will show up in our slow chat here as well as on Twitter.

Location:  Naperville, IL
@djakes

This keynote comes in four parts. You can watch it one piece after the other or one at a time and take time to reflect.

Part One: Mindset

Part Two:  Landscape

Part Three: Process

Part Four: Impact

Description: It’s not hard to recognize the typical “classroom.”  They haven’t changed much.  And while we can and should honor all the learning that has taken place in that space, students today have an opportunity to learn within an ever-expanding learning space that supports entirely new connections and possibilities for their learning.  Join David Jakes as we explore the critical issues surrounding the relationship of space to learning, and how you can begin to take the steps that are necessary to create inspiring and transformative physical and virtual spaces that afford students choice and ownership of their learning.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:  davidjakesdesigns.com/collections

Additional Information:  davidjakesdesigns.com/ideas

There are many ways to take part in the discussion:

• Join us at the conference live page for a live panel discussion with David and other educators  on November 17 at 8:00 pm EDT. (Click here for check the time where you are.)
• Join our Voxer channel and chime in.
• Tweet with the hashtag #k12onlineconf. Your tweets will show up in our slow chat here as well as on Twitter.

Description:

It’s not hard to recognize the typical “classroom.”  They haven’t changed much.  And while we can and should honor all the learning that has taken place in that space, students today have an opportunity to learn within an ever-expanding learning space that supports entirely new connections and possibilities for their learning.  Join David Jakes as we explore the critical issues surrounding the relationship of space to learning, and how you can begin to take the steps that are necessary to create inspiring and transformative physical and virtual spaces that afford students choice and ownership of their learning.

Save the Date for the post keynote Panel Discussion

With

Brian Hamm @HAMM_ED http://www.hammed.org/

Kevin Jarrett @kjarrett

Michael Morrison @mytakeontech

Carolyn Foote @technolibrary

November 17 at 8:00 pm EST. For the time where you are click here.

Location: Ocean Shores, New South Wales, Australia

@julielindsay

This keynote is a trilogy. You can watch it one piece after the other or one at a time and take time to reflect.

Part One: Spotlight on Collaborative Learning

Part Two: Making Online Global Collaboration Work

Part Three: What if We Collaborated Globally?

Presentation Description: What is online global collaboration? Is it a pedagogy? A curriculum? Who is doing it and how? Explore collaboration ‘on the edge’ and learn from many online global educators and students across the world as they build collaborative learning communities and co-created outcomes. The narrative of educators working on the edge of collaborative learning is as revealing as it is entertaining – and this trilogy will inform, inspire and provide resources for all learners.

Additional Information:

http://www.julielindsay.net

http://flatconnections.com

There are many ways to take part in the discussion:

• Join us at the conference live page for a live panel discussion with Julie and some of the global educators seen in her presentation on November 3 at 8:00 pm EDT. (Click here for check the time where you are.)
• Join our Voxer channel and chime in.
• Tweet with the hashtag #k12onlineconf. Your tweets will show up in our slow chat here as well as on Twitter.

Photo by Guilhem Velut shared under a CC license https://www.flickr.com/photos/o_0/9878673/

Dr. Leigh Zeitz: ISTE Global Collaboration PLN President

Lucy Gray: Global Education Conference

Anne Mirtschin: global educator from Australia

Sonya Van Schaijik: Chinese language teacher from New Zealand

The panel discussion will be broadcast from YouTube Live. Audience participation (questions, comments) will be most welcome.

Photo by Justin Holt

Global Narratives – Collaboration on the Edge

Description:

Is online global collaboration a curriculum? A pedagogy? What can we learn from other global educators as they join students across the world to share, discuss and build empathetic solutions for global challenges. The narrative of educators working on the edge of collaborative learning is as revealing as it is entertaining.

Join Julie Lindsay as she explores collaboration ‘on the edge’ and tells the stories that will inspire and sustain future global curriculum and make a compelling case for the change we need to see in K-12 education.

On October 31, we’ll have the pre-conference keynote address from Julie Lindsay. Later that week, we’ll have a live interactive panel discussion, Voxer channel discussions, and a Twitter slow chat to delve deeper into the subjects presented by Julie.

Then from November 14-18, we’ll launch into our first strand “Learning Spaces.” This will begin with a keynote from David Jakes. Then we’ll expand on this with a live interactive panel discussion, Voxer channel discussions, and a Twitter slow chat.

We hope that this new format will provide many opportunities for you, our audience, to explore these topics in a more interactive and engaging way.

Dates for our subsequent strand mini-conferences will be forthcoming and will be in 2017.

Please share this post with others in your networks (new hashtag #k12onlineconf)!

Image credit: Alan Levine, CC BY

The K12 Online Conference is remaking itself. 

Rather than publish approximately 40 video presentations within a three week window in October, this year the K12 Online Conference will:

1. Include several different mini-conferences spread out throughout the year. 
2. Feature (as in the past) 20 minute keynote video presentations in different strands.
3. Include live interactive panel discussions focusing on the theme of each keynote.
4. Offer asynchronous interaction options for participants using Voxer and Twitter chats.

These changes recognize both the growing number of interactive presentation and online conference options for educators, as well as the value of the mostly asynchronous, video-based format of our conference since 2006. 

Watch this space for more details coming very soon.

Watch for announcements of upcoming live events!

Week Two – Today we have three 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. Why not add a comment after watching the session!

Today’s sessions:

BEYOND THE CORE: ART AND MORE

Teaching the 21st Century Musician
Thomas West

 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

High-Quality, Free, Online Professional Development
Devery Rodgers

What IS Your Next, Ontario?
Donna Fry and Mark Carbone

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook.  Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us.

Also remember all video presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online15.

Week Two – Today we have three 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. Why not add a comment after watching the session!

Today’s sessions:

BEYOND THE CORE: ART AND MORE

Connecting Creativity
Erin Olson and Leslie Pralle Keehn

Lesson Plan: The Worst Preso EVER!
Jon Corippo

 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

Social Media for Continuous Professional Learning
Angela McDurmon

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook.  Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us.

Also remember all video presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online15.