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2012 Announcements

Announcing K-12 Online 2012 Presenters

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Please join the organizers of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference in congratulating our selected presenters for this year’s conference! As in past years, our conference is organized into four strands. Each strand has an invited keynote speaker and nine additional selected speakers. Our conference begins October 15th with a pre-conference keynote presentation by Kevin Honeycutt. Strands for 2012 are:

Week of Oct 22 – 25: Getting Started and Visioning New Curriculum
Week of Oct 29 – Nov. 2: Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices

GETTING STARTED:

Gail Desler and Natalie Bernasconi
Placerville, California, USA and Spreckels, California, USA
Keynote

Valerie Burton
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Show Off Your Work Online Using Weebly.Com

Courtney Calfee
Orlando, Florida, USA
Best Practices for Collaborating in Online and Blended Environments

Jeremy Friedberg
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Beyond Elearning: Online Teaching Platforms

Karyn Keenan
Chicago, Illinois, USA
A Digital Journey with Primary Students and No Budget!

Anna Marie Lindemann
Livingston, Texas, USA
Easy To Use Web 2.0 Tools

Rodd Lucier
Komoka, Ontario, Canada
7 Degrees of Connectedness

Paula L. Naugle and Jan Wells
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and Meriden, Kansas, USA
Leveraging Social Media to Flatten Your Classroom Walls

Elaine Plybon
Bedford, Texas, USA
Leveraging the Power of Social Media in the Classroom

Shelly Sanchez Terrell
San Antonio, Texas, USA
The Magic of Mobile Learning

 

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM:

Karen Fasimpaur
Portal, Arizona, USA
Keynote

Jon Bergmann
Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
Implementing the Flipped Classroom

Erika Burton
Glencoe, Illinois, USA
Parent Involvement: How do we provide them with what they need in early literacy?

April Chamberlain, Shawn Nutting and Ammie Akin
Trussville, Alabama, USA
Creating Learning Experiences without the Textbook

Patrick Fogarty
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Going One-to-One

Alan Hudson
Wells, Somerset, United Kingdom
Virtual Worlds for Immersive, media rich educational shared environments.

Bud Hunt
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Make/Hack/Play: Lenses for Learning

Jane Krauss
Eugene, Oregon USA
Make Meaning with Wolfram Alpha

Ian Sands
Apex, North Carolina, USA
How Technology Helped Me Paint With Mud

David Simpson
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Digital Mash-ups: Exercise Books in the 21st Century

 

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH:

Mathew Needleman
Los Angeles, California, USA
Keynote

Robert Appino
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Speak up! Transforming Classroom Discussions

Glenda Baker
Tokyo, Japan
Thinking Big About Learning

Richard Beach and Jill Castek
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and Portland, Oregon USA
Using iOS App Affordances to Foster Literacy Learning in the Classroom

Janine Campbell
Dorr, Michigan, USA
Remixing What Teaching Looks Like Thorugh Blended Learning

Patrick Fogarty
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Creating a Cloud Classroom

Tricia Fuglestad
Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
Teaching Art in a Technology Rich and Connected Classroom

Naomi Harm
Brownville, Minnesota, USA
Seven Habits of Highly Effective PD Learning Experiences

Scott Merrick
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Teach/Learn in Virtual Worlds: World Class Innovations

Susan Oxnevad
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

 

STUDENT VOICES:

Tiana Kadkhoda
Santa Monica, California, USA
Keynote

Kyle Dunbar
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Authentic Voices

Alexander Fryer
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Creating and Playing in Minecraft

Kim Herron
Inman, Kansas, USA

Audrey McGoldrick
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Beaucoup de Cool Student Projects

Ben Rimes
St. Joseph, Michigan, USA
Video Story Problems

Robert Sbaglia
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Using Writing to Empower Students to Participate in A Global Community

Bronwyn Stuckey
Sydney, Australia
Quest Atlantis: Student Design and Ownership

Taylor Tracy
Buhler, Kansas, USA
Integrating Technology into Education

Brad Wilson
Redford, Michigan, USA
Student News Teams: Telling the Story

2012 Announcements

K12 Online Conference 2012 Call for Proposals: Learn, Share, Remix

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The 2012 K-12 Online Conference is coming to a computer near you soon! This year’s FREE online conference will take place the weeks of Oct 22 – 25 and Oct 29 – Nov. 2, with a pre-conference keynote on October 15th. The 2012 theme is, “Learn, Share, Remix.” Educators and students worldwide are invited to respond to our 2012 call for proposals. Presenters create twenty minute, engaging video presentations shared during our two week conference. Please check out some of last year’s presentations. The organizer team for this year’s conference selected “Learn, Share, Remix” for our theme because it embodies many of the ACTIONS we can model as 21st century teachers and students. We all want to model lifelong learning. Our digital connections afford us amazing opportunities to SHARE what we are learning along the way. REMIXING is the process taking knowledge and using it in creative and innovative ways. Remixers build on the work of others. REMIXING can also include transforming the ways we teach and learn. In each strand of our conference this year, we hope presenters will explore and model ways we can learn, share and remix our professional development.

'Don't Squeeze the Mixter!!' photo (c) 2008, Robert Nunnally - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Deadline for proposal submissions is June 15th at midnight PDT. Selections will be announced July 15th. Ten presentations will be featured in each of our four strands for 2012, for a total of forty presentations.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A PRESENTATION PROPOSAL.

Getting Started: Do you consider yourself a newcomer to the world of digital learning? This strand is for you. Presenters will focus on “the why and how” of using digital learning tools to connect with other learners, create new and exciting knowledge products, and engage students in an expanded learning process beyond the traditional “boundaries of the bell.” Practical classroom implementation ideas for beginners will be emphasized. Susan van Gelder is the convener.

Kicking it up a Notch: This strand amplifies ways new technologies can be used to transform classroom and personal learning. Rather than merely replicating traditional, analog-based learning tasks, how can digital technologies permit teacher-leaders to add greater interactivity, personal differentiation, and multi-modal exploration of curriculum topics? Presentations will explore innovative ways Web 2.0 tools can be blended together to help students create, collaborate, and share the knowledge safely on the global stage of the Internet. Jose Rodriguez is the convener.

Student Voices: This strand seeks to amplify voices of exemplary student leaders who use digital tools in their school communities as well as the larger world. Students can focus on specific project using technology to learn, outstanding classroom projects which have had a particularly positive impact on their and classmates’ learning, and/or recommendations for educators seeking to effectively use digital tools. A focus on project-based learning and service learning is welcome, but not required. Student presenters must be sponsored by an educator; permission forms will need to be signed by a parent for each presenting student. Ginger Lewman is the convener.

Visioning New Curriculum: As the age of paper-based textbooks adopted on multi-year cycles fades away, a new age beckons with a curriculum filled with multimedia resources and interactive simulations. This strand explores curriculum possibilities for accessing as well as sharing and remixing digital content. This will include OER (open educational resources) as well as commercial curriculum sources. What does the best “digital curriculum” today look like and what should it look like tomorrow? Should curriculum still be folded into “textbooks?” When should and how can teachers “flip” classroom learning? What’s your vision for innovative curriculum? Wesley Fryer is the convener.

We would love presenters to involve students and include student voices when appropriate in presentations. (Student participation is NOT required or expected, but is welcomed.)

The 2012 Conference: What’s the same?

  1. Price: Free!
  2. Basic format: Each weekday of the two weeks of the conference, four presentations (two per strand for that week) will “go live” / be published on our conference blog.
  3. Pre-Conference Keynote: Still the week prior to the “˜regular’ conference. this year it’s on October 15th.
  4. Presenters will share their presentation via a Ge.tt account. Strand conveners will handle the rest.
  5. Presenters are invited to include student voices and perspectives in their presentations in all strands.

The 2012 Conference: What’s different?

  1. We are re-igniting a separate “student voices” strand this year.
  2. Each year we try a different or experimental strand. This year it is “Visioning New Curriculum.”
  3. We are calling on our community to get more involved as volunteers in this year’s conference.

How Can You Help?

  1. Spread the word! Share #K12Online12 via your social networking connections, blogs, email, and face-to-face with colleagues!
  2. Submit a proposal to present! We love first-time presenters. It’s a 20 minute recorded presentation. Screencasting tools are better than ever today. You can do this. Hundreds of educators worldwide want to hear your ideas and your voice!
  3. Encourage others to present! Each year many of our submitted proposals come after someone sends a personal invitation. If you know a teacher who should present, ask them to submit a proposal!
  4. Volunteer! Our 2012 Call for Volunteers form is also available.

Volunteers are needed for the following committees:

  1. Public Relations Committee
  2. Professional Development Committee
  3. Conference Preservation Committee
  4. Live Events Committee

Your participation and voice is essential for the continued success of the K-12 Online Conference! Please get involved and spread the word about this year’s conference. We’re looking forward to YOUR participation as we learn, share and remix together!

2012 Announcements

Announcing 2012 Conference Theme & Strands

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The organizer team of the 2012 K-12 Online conference is pleased to announce our conference theme and strands for this year! Our 2012 theme is “Learn, Share, Remix.”

If you’re new to K12Online, please read our About page, Goals and Core Values, and FAQ page for more information. We are a grassroots, volunteer, online conference for educators worldwide and started in 2006. Over 250 video presentations from past years are archived online and shared under a Creative Commons license. We invite you to not only make plans to present and participate in our upcoming 2012 conference, but also continue to learn and share conference presentations from past years. These links are available in the navigational menu at the top of our website.

Learn, Share, Remix

Our conference this year will again feature forty presentations in the following four strands, as well as a pre-conference keynote.

Getting Started: Everything you wanted to know about getting started with web 2.0 technologies for learning but were afraid to ask. The presentations in this strand will focus on specific, free tools for newcomers. Whether you have one classroom computer or a wireless device for every student, digital technologies can provide new opportunities to connect with other learners, create new and exciting knowledge products, and engage students in an expanded learning process beyond the traditional “boundaries of the bell.” Presentations in this strand will amplify and model what is possible in terms of pedagogy, student creation of content, and collaboration. Practical classroom implementation ideas will be emphasized. Presentations will focus more on the ways new tools can be used to engage students in learning, rather than focusing exclusively on how specific tools are used.

Kicking it up a Notch: This strand amplifies ways new technologies can be used to transform classroom and personal learning. Rather than merely replicating traditional, analog-based learning tasks, how can digital technologies permit teacher-leaders to add greater interactivity, personal differentiation, and multi-modal exploration of curriculum topics? Presentations will explore innovative ways Web 2.0 tools can be blended together to help students create, collaborate, and share the knowledge safely on the global stage of the Internet.

Student Voices: Our student voices strand seeks to amplify the voices of exemplary students who are using digital tools as leaders in their school communities as well as the larger world. As educators and leaders, we need to listen to student voices and perspectives more as we make decisions about our schools and classrooms which affect students. Student presenters in our student voices strand must be sponsored by an educator, and presentation permission forms will need to be signed by a parent for each participating student. Students can focus on specific projects in which they have been involved using technology as a tool, outstanding classroom lessons which have had a particularly positive impact on their learning as well as their classmates, and/or recommendations for educators seeking to use digital tools effectively in the classroom. A focus on project-based learning and service learning is welcome, but not required.

Visioning New Curriculum: As the age of paper-based textbooks adopted on multi-year cycles fades away, a new age beckons with a curriculum filled with multimedia resources and interactive simulations. This strand explores curriculum possibilities for accessing as well as sharing and remixing digital content. This will include OER (open educational resources) as well as commercial curriculum sources. What does the best “digital curriculum” today look like and what should it look like tomorrow? Should curriculum still be folded into “textbooks?” When should and how can teachers “flip” classroom learning? What’s your vision for innovative curriculum?

If you haven’t volunteered yet for a K12Online12 committee, please read our “Call for Volunteers” post and submit your information on the provided Google Form. Refer to our 2012 Conference Schedule for more information about conference dates and deadlines. We will post our 2012 call for proposals on May 15th! We’re looking forward to another great year of FREE professional development and collaborative learning with the K12 Online Conference as together we LEARN, SHARE and REMIX!

image credit: New Mooon [sic]

2011 2011-Team Captains

Coaching for ICT Integration

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Presenter: Anne Fox
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
@foxdenuk

Presentation Title: Coaching for ICT Integration

Presentation Description: In this session you will find out why coaching is an effective professional development tool and how the VITAE course could help you become an ICT integration coach. You will do this by using six Web 2.0 tools to access and review the material of this session and decide on your first SMART goal.

You will do this by learning by doing and in order to access the necessary links you should have the following ScoopIt page open at the same time: http://www.scoop.it/t/vitae-course

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.scoop.it/t/vitae-course

Additional Information:
My blog is http://annefox.eu

2011 2011-Team Captains

Lead the World

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Presenters: Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay with Curt Bonk, Anne Mirtschin, Judy O’Connell, Dean Shareski, Don Tapscott, David Warlick, Flat Classroom conference students – Doha Qatar, Suffern Middle School (Peggy Sheehy and Marianne Malmstrom), Mt. Carmel High School (Suzie Nestico), Phoenix School (Betsye Sargent), West Tisbury (Valerie Becker), and Flat Classroom Students
Location: Camilla, GA and worldwide
@coolcatteacher, @julielindsay and @flatclassroom

Presentation Title: Lead the World

Presentation Description: Students are the greatest textbook ever written for each other, yet, many schools close the book on learning outside classroom walls. After five years of global collaborative classroom excellence, this presentation first uses voices from the keynoters, students, and teachers around the world that have been part of the Flat Classroom projects and conferences to share how education has fundamentally changed through a beautiful medley of voices. Then, hear from Vicki Davis, co-founder, about the 7 principles that can take your classroom global and the current challenges and misconceptions surrounding what it means to globalize your classroom. We hope you’ll join this journey of learning and thank all of our keynoters, students, and teachers, for sharing their voice in this move towards excellence in global education.


iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/K12+Online+2011

Additional Information:
Vicki Davis and Julie Linsday co-founded the Flat Classroom Project in November 2006. In the five years since, more than 5,000 students from age 4 and up have joined with other classrooms around the world to collaborate in projects like The Flat Classroom Project, the Digiteen Project, ‘A week in the Life’ Elementary Flat Classroom Project, and the Eracism Project and the founding of a non-profit to run their conference and face to face events.

Their work and public sharing of pedagogy on their blogs has led to their recent book, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds from Pearson Publishing coming in January 2012.

You can follow Vicki at @coolcatteacher and Julie at @julielindsay and the projects at @flatclassroom.

2011 2011-Team Captains

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

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Presenter: Blair Peterson
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
@eijunkie

Presentation Title: School Leaders Set the Tone by Playing, Experimenting and Taking Risks

Presentation Description: Leaders play a major role in setting the tone for the school community. In today’s schools it’s essential that members of the community take risks and step outside of their comfort zone occasionally. At Graded, we learned that it is common for educators to be hesitant to try new things for fear of looking silly. This fear can inhibit learning and professional growth in today’s learning environment. This presentation will explore examples of how leaders at Graded model, support and encourage risky behavior and experimentation. School leaders play a major role in setting the tone and it’s imperative that he/she publicly experiment and take an occasional risk while they also encourage others to do the same. The presentation will feature stories from teachers and administrators.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
None


2011 2011-Team Captains

When Leadership and Learning Collide

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Presenter: Dave Edwards
Location: Wilmington, NC USA
Twitter: @eduk8andlead

Presentation Title: When Leadership and Learning Collide

Presentation Description: Today’s educational leader has to understand the 21st century learning process and map it to today’s workforce needs. Gaining an understanding of what it takes to foster innovation/creativity/change in schools and classrooms is imperative for leaders at all levels. This thought-provoking presentation explores how leadership at all levels can make the difference between effective learning environments and poor learning environments. When there is good leadership (at all levels), learning can occur and innovation is spawned. Dave takes a look at how educational leaders can foster this culture and allow learning and leadership to collide through effective best practices and new strategies tailored to your needs.

iPod Video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.slideshare.net/edwardsdave1967/leadership-and-learning-collide

Additional Information:
http://educateandlead.wordpress.com

Dave is the Chief Communications and Professional Learning Officer for the NC Virtual Public School, the 2nd largest state virtual school in the nation. He is also the President and CEO of Ignite Learning Partners, LLC, a new education and training solutions provider. He is an innovative leader whose passion to see education transformed drives everything he does. He works to see innovative learning become the constant, and leadership become the catalyst to foster a 21st century learning ecosystem. He is an avid tweeter, strong family man, youth leadership advocate, and when not working spends time writing and playing music for charitable causes.

2011 2011-Team Captains

Hardware is not Enough – The Teacher/Facilitator Partnership

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Presenters: Kim Cofino & Chrissy Hellyer
Locations: Yokohama, Japan; Bangkok, Thailand
@mscofino 
@nzchrissy

Presentation Title: Hardware is not Enough – The Teacher/Facilitator Partnership

Presentation Description: Building and sustaining 21st century teaching and learning practices to develop purposeful play requires a new kind of support structure, focusing on human relationships and pedagogy. Many schools label this position as a Technology Facilitator, but there are a surprising number that don’t yet see the need for this role. It is the partnership between the teacher and facilitator that brings out the full potential of any technology-rich classroom, particularly a 1:1 learning environment.

Chrissy Hellyer (Grade 5 classroom teacher) and Kim Cofino (Technology and Learning Coordinator) will describe and share examples of their successful Facilitator-Teacher partnership at (and beyond) the International School Bangkok in this video presentation. Chrissy will offer insights, examples and resources from the perspective of the practicing classroom teacher. Kim will offer strategies, processes and resources from the perspective of the technology facilitator.


iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://hardwareisnotenough.wikispaces.com/

Additional Information:

Kim Cofino blogs at kimcofino.com & Chrissy Hellyer blogs at teachingsagittarian.com.

2011 2011-Team Captains

Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play

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Presenter: Shannon Smith
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
@shannoninottawa

Presentation Title: Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play

Presentation Description: This presentation explores the role school leaders assume in promoting play within learning environments. Play is intimately linked to creativity, the development of cognitive flexibility and a sense of belonging — all things critical for responsive and engaging places of learning. Through modelling a playful approach, school leaders create the conditions under which creativity, innovation, risk-taking and flexible thinking flourish.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k63G8Grh2xR7TIArOelpxXEvl4LwwaXM_JBPXplvhMs/edit

2011 2011-Team Captains

Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy

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Presenter: Jason Neiffer
Location: Missoula, MT, USA
@techsavvyteach

Presentation Title: Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy

Presentation Description: The Montana Digital Academy is Montana’s statewide virtual school built on a foundation of partnerships and working together to provide digital online learning to students in Big Sky Country. Learn about the formulation of our program and steps we are taking to work together to innovate in online learning for our students.


iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
None

Additional Information:
Jason Neiffer
Curriculum Director, Montana Digital Academy
Information at www.neiffer.com
Blogging at www.techsavvyteacher.com
Program at www.montanadigitalacademy.org