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2015 Announcements

K12Online15 Day 3: October 21, 2015

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k12 online badgeWelcome to day three 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.

Today’s sessions:

MAKER ED

There Is Now a 5th Law of Robotics
Harrison McCoy

STORIES OF CONNECTION

The Global Collaborators
Steve Sherman

WOW! Wednesday (Without Worksheets! Wednesday)
Pat Goodwin and Susan Baker

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2015 2015-Stories of Connection

The Global Collaborators

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Presenter: Steve Sherman

Location : Cape Town, South Africa

@LivingMaths

Presentation Title :  Global Collaboration

Presentation Description: As an educator, I have been running an NGO for 20 Years. In the past few years I began collaborating with teacher colleagues around the world. Teaching in their classes, have them teach in mine. I will share many of my experiences and encourage YOU to join us on our journey of making the world a smaller place. This is what REAL education is about.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http://www.livingmaths.com/global-collaboration/

Additional Information:

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Living-Maths-191424357561419/timeline/

2015-Stories of Connection

WOW Wednesday

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Presenter: Pat Goodwin and Susan Baker
Location: Bonham Texas
Pat Goodwin
Susan Baker

Presentation Description: This presentation provides information on how I W Evans Intermediate school implemented Without Worksheets Wednesday as a way to increase the rigor. The principal Susan Baker, developed WOW tag to help teachers understand different techniques to teach without worksheets. While some stuggles at first students and teachers alike can see improvements in the depth and complexity of lessons. Students learn without even knowing they are doing work. They are no longer bored from endless worksheets. Come along as we take you on our journey. The link at the end will provide several resources to allow you to start your own WOW Wednesday.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.bonhamisd.org/Page/3589

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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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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

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

 

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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

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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/

2015 Announcements

K12Online15 Day One: October 19, 2015

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k12 online badgeWelcome to day one of the 2015 K12Online Conference! 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.

Today’s sessions:

MAKER ED

Strand Keynote: Maker Ed: The Work and the Impact
Stephanie Chang, Maker Ed

Girls Make IT – Circuits Coding and eTextiles
Lucie deLaBruere

STORIES OF CONNECTION

Strand Keynote: Ordinary/Amazing Stories of Connection
Alan Levine

The Global Educator
Julie Lindsay

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.

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The Global Educator

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Presenter: Julie Lindsay
Location: Ocean Shores, New South Wales, Australia
@julielindsay

Presentation Description: Do you know how to take your learning global? Embedding global understandings, connected learning and global collaborative activities across the curriculum within a digital learning environment is an imperative objective for all educators today. It must become ‘virtually unstoppable. But how?

The Global Educator shares what attributes, skills and mindset need to be adopted by educators in order to embrace connected and collaborative learning that is global in concept and practice. This presentation is a journey we will take together as we create our own stories of global connectedness. The attributes of a global educator are shared as are essential objectives to do with online global collaboration. Become a virtually unstoppable global educator by learning new strategies and approaches to global learning.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YQ3ATnPOtn55_8dsVBJFM7D2NGHvHkCBHtApuOmFNZE/edit?usp=sharing

Additional Information:
Connect with Julie……
Email: lindsay.julie@gmail.com
Blog: E-Learning Journeys – http://www.julielindsay.net
Portfolio: http://about.me/julielindsay
More information: http://flatconnections.com

See also, The Global Educator website http://theglobaleducator.net

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Ordinary/Amazing Stories of Connection

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Presenter: Alan Levine
Location: Strawberry, AZ, USA
@cogdog

Presentation Title: Ordinary/Amazing Stories of Connection

Presentation Description: We all start out our educational careers (meaning when we were in kindergarten) intrinsically knowing the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about intellectual property rights, fearing theft, or just questioning the value of what we do.

The open ecology of the internet can undermine what I think is learned and limiting stinginess. In this presentation I want to celebrate the True Stories of what happens to people when they share something openly on the web whether they think it ordinary or amazing. I asked colleagues to share their own stories of something unexpected, valuable, powerful, or just plain inspiring as a result of sharing that piece of media, document, video, blog post, even a single tweet that became valuable to someone they did not know before.

The power, the strength, the future of the internet as we know it now, depends on this two-way flow. Share openly, appreciate what others have done, and then share your story. I cannot guarantee amazing results or free trips to exotic countries.

But I can guarantee, if you never share anything openly, you will never having an amazing story happen to you.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://stories.cogdogblog.com/

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Related videos

Unstoppable Stories of Connection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wuGneg8vY

It Takes a Stuffed Animal to Explain Alan’s Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh7YcR_U-2Y

Obvious to you. Amazing to others by Derek Sivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmI5SSQLmE