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2015 Announcements

K12ONLINE CONFERENCE DAY 8: OCTOBER 28, 2015

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

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

Fairytale Compositions
Samuel Wright

 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

Robots in Class: Mimetics’s Experience
Michael Predko

Meeting Parents and Students Where They Are
Josh Allen

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2015 Announcements

K12ONLINE CONFERENCE Day 7: October 27, 2015

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

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

Web Literacy Map V 1.5: Read, Write, and Participate for a Better Web
Ian O’Byrne, Greg McVerry

Beyond Teaching and Learning: Leaving a Legacy
Janine Campbell

 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

Tackkling SAMR: Appsmashing Apptivities
Courtney Kofeldt

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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.

2015 Announcements

K12ONLINE15 DAY 6: OCTOBER 26, 2015

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

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

Strand Keynote: Let’s Draw Some Attention: Digital Sketchnotes for Learning
Karen Bosch

 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

Strand Keynote: Overcoming Obstacles: From ‘Yes, But’ to ‘Why Not?’ and ‘How Can We?’
Scott McLeod

Reinventing Pre-Service Teacher Technology Courses
Panel with: Curby Alexander, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, Dean Mantz, Wesley Fryer

 

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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.

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

A Little Help From Teachers Near and Far: Creating A Global PLN

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Presenter:  Chris Turnbull

Location:  Saint Paul, Minnesota

@TurnbullChris

Presentation Title:  A Little Help From Teachers Near and Far: Creating A Global PLN

Presentation Description:

In the past teachers were limited to seeking out advice from their colleague across the hall or a department chair during lunch or after school. Now teachers can use a variety of social media tools and apps to find and tap into the collective knowledge of educators near and far for new ideas, resources, and ways to hook and engage students in academic learning. Learn about a variety of ways to expand your professional learning network and revitalize your teaching with a little help from a global line-up of educators.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http://playlearnteach.blogspot.com/2015/10/k12-online-conference-stories-of.html

Additional Information:

http://playlearnteach.blogspot.com

https://plus.google.com/u/0/108932936792756823959/posts

https://plus.google.com/110101574091912281095/posts

2015 Announcements

K12ONLINE15 DAY 5: OCTOBER 23, 2015

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k12 online badgeWelcome to day five of the 2015 K12Online Conference, the last day of week one. All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week One – Today we have four 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:

MAKER ED

Getting Started with Maker Ed!
Jenny Lussier and Barbara Johnson

STORIES OF CONNECTION

What can social media aggregation contribute to advocating for education? Getting All A’s in School
Thomas Ho

Adam Jones’ Education Podcast Creation Story
Adam Jones

A Little Help From Teachers Near and Far: Creating a Global PLN
Chris Turnbull

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

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Adam Jones Education Podcast Creation Story

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Presenter: Adam Jones
Location: Andover, NH, USA
@adamjonesed

Presentation Title: Adam Jones Education Podcast Creation Story

Presentation Description: In this 17 minute video, I tell the story behind the creation of the Adam Jones Education Podcast. This presentation falls under the “Stories of Connection” theme because I am eager to share how the Podcast has catalyzed my own learning and encouraged others in my PLN to share their stories. At the heart of the story are the three critical ingredients for learning: time for obsession, connection with experts and time to build a prototype to learn from failure. Additionally, producing a regularly occurring Podcast raises questions about how to best promote it with an audience because it really is all about sharing other people’s work beyond our PLN. I continue to learn a ton about leveraging social media for sharing.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.adamjonesed.com

Additional Information:
Adam Jones Education Podcast on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adam-jones-education-podcast/id955037998?mt=2

Adam Jones Daily Vlog:
www.storie.com/adamjonesed

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

What Can Social Media Aggregation Contribute to Advocating for Education? Getting all A’s in School

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Presenter: Thomas Ho
Location: Whitestown, Indiana USA
@DrThomasHo

Presentation Title: What Can Social Media Aggregation Contribute to Advocating for Education?

Presentation Description: We in education just don’t often do a very good job of telling others what a great job we’re doing, do we? We can harness social media to get that job done so learn WHY we should do it and HOW we can do it!

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.slideshare.net/drthomasho/what-can-social-media-aggregation-contribute-to-advocating-for-education-54322156

Additional Information:
https://twitter.com/DrThomasHo

http://blog.LearnStreams.com

 

2015 Announcements

K12ONLINE15 DAY 4: OCTOBER 22, 2015

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

Week One – 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:

MAKER ED

Merry Makers
Steve Sherman

STORIES OF CONNECTION

Social Annotations: Collaborative Online Reading
Paul Allison

Hot Teaching Spots
Maha Hassan

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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.

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Hot Teaching Spots

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Presenter:   Maha Hassan

Location:   Cairo, Egypt

@Maha_ESL

Presentation Title:   Hot Teaching Spots

Presentation Description:

For a long time we have been calling for learner autonomy. We have been asking teachers to help their learners take responsibility of their learning and enjoy doing that. From my point of view, we shouldn’t be asking teachers to do that, we should be helping them and guiding them how to do it. Helping them in such a way would urge them to seek Professional Development which means developing their teaching skills and updating their teaching knowledge lifelong. Not only that, but we should cooperate with them to help them apply what they study successfully.

Such a cause has become a community cause not a personal one. Enhancing education can change generations, not to mention the community. It’s a great call that requires cooperation from all sides involved. From here came our idea of gathering scholars, teachers and specialists to help change the mindset of teachers to accept PD. We also aim at exchanging experiences and helping each other with teaching difficulties on/off site.

Through my presentation, I would like to speak about how we started, how we used Discussions among teachers to help exchange ideas and open more doors for teachers to seek PD and how we were also happy to provide back advice for teachers who faced difficulties in class. I’d like also to give an idea about the different free activities that we hold online and on site to spread the idea and our efforts to communicate and cooperate with different organizations and NGOs to get to as many teachers as possible in our community and help raise the educational stake in our country.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwa77HCDHmuCN2xNakhRcmxVc28

Additional Information:

BLOG:  teachingenglishcafe.blogspot.com/

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Social Annotations: Collaborative Online Reading

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Presenter: Paul Allison
Location: New York City
@paulallison
@youthvoices

 

Presentation Description: For a few years, teachers in the New York City Writing Project and teachers whose students post and comment on Youth Voices have been using online annotation to move students toward critical careful reading, and we have learned how public, online annotation can add collaborative reading to the mix. Recently, we’ve been taking a a closer look at three text-commenting tools: 1) Hypothes.is https://hypothes.is, 2) NowComment https://nowcomment.com, and 3) Lit Genius http://lit.genius.com and beta.genius. We invite you to join us in this inquiry. We are proposing that we ask about the affordances of each of these tools and work them with other teachers, with our students, and with different types of texts.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://teachersteachingteachers.titanpad.com/178

Additional Information:
Youth Voices – http://youthvoices.net
Teachers Teaching Teachers – http://edtechtalk.com/ttt