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2007-Classroom2-0

Classroom 2.0 “Travel through Space and Time”

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Silvia Tolisano
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Blog: http://www.langwitches.org/blog

Bio
Born in Germany, raised in Argentina and living in the USA, Silvia graduated with a Degree in Spanish & International Studies and a Master’s in Instructional Technology. She serves as the Instructional Technology Facilitator at a private elementary school. She was instrumental in establishing and is supporting an integrated global awareness curriculum for all grade levels.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Silvia Tolisano

Presentation Title
“Travel through Space and Time”

Description
Global awareness is making its way into the educational landscape. We are recognizing that our students are growing up in a “flat world” and cannot afford to live isolated from learning about other languages, cultures, traditions and points of view. The presenter took over 400 students and their teachers along…virtually…as she traveled physically half way around the world to China. Learn how, through the power of web 2.0 tools, she seamlessly combined a blog, podcasts, photos and videos to educate students about cultural universals, while addressing curriculum standards.

Presentation
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/Time_Space.mp4 (27:09 Run Time; mpeg4; 88.6 MB)
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/Time_Space.mp3 (26:10 Run Time; mp3; 12 MB)

Supporting Links
San Jose Episcopal Day School
http://www.sjeds.com/

China Blog
http://www.sjeds.com/blog/china/

Global Studies
http://www.sjeds.com/blog/global_studies/

Egypt Blog
http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/

Spresent.com
http://www.spresent.com/

Splashr
http://www.splashr.com/

Skitch
http://www.skitch.com/

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/

SnapZPro
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

Quicktime
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Google Earth
http://www.googleearth.com/

What is “Take My Hand”?
“Take My Hand”

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2007 Announcements

Take My Hand

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Take My HandK12 Online is about teaching and learning on the bleeding edge. But more than that, it’s about making personal connections with like minded educators from across the globe. Past participants have remarked that the best part of K12 Online is the people they meet and, in many cases, end up collaborating with. As a result of the personal connections you make with others while participating in K12 Online you can form your own intimate personal learning network. Teachers need teachers too. Take My Hand is one way you can find the teacher you need to learn what you’re interested in, in your own time, in your own way, on your own terms. Here’s how it works:

As you take in each presentation you will find a link at the bottom of the presentation post on the conference blog with the words Take My Hand. Click it and you will end up on a wiki page devoted to connecting knowledgeable educators with those that want to learn more about the content in the presentation you just took in. If you’re already familiar with the pedagogy, tools or issues raised in the presentation volunteer and ask those that are new to all this to take your hand (powerful learning follows when you teach what you know). If you’re being exposed to these tools, techniques and thoughts for the first time ask someone to take your hand and show you more about it.

You are encouraged to share email addresses, skype names, twitter accounts etc. so you can mentor and be mentored about the things you are most interested in learning and teaching. Take My Hand is the place to connect mentors and mentees. Please, volunteer, and get connected.

Photo source: flickr user bliss_trevise, CC (By-No$)

2007 - Keynote

PRE CONFERENCE KEYNOTE “Inventing the New Boundaries”

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David Warlick Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Blog 2¢ Worth — http://davidwarlick.com/2cents
Bio David Warlick, a 30 year educator, has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting, and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His web site, Landmarks for Schools, serves more than a half-million visits a day with some of the most popular teacher tools available on the Net. David is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, and has spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America.
Twitter: @dwarlick

Presentation Title “Inventing the New Boundaries”

Special Instructions:

  • As you watch the video, during the first 24 to 48 hours, go to the session chat, register, and post questions, comments, and additions, as they occur to you.
  • If you use Twitter, then post comments, while watching, that would be of value to your followers.
  • If you blog or podcast about the session, tag your posts with k12online07 and k12online07pc.
  • I am writing an article about the three converging conditions. The outline is currently on a wiki page. It would be useful to me if you could go and insert any elements of the address or concept that resonated especially well with you.

Description: For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (in generations of teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom, and redefine what it is to be a teacher and a student. There is much that has changed, and for much of it, we have responded to by attempting to ignore, filter, or to block it out.This presentation, by 30+ year educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick, will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might just help us to redefine and retool the 21st century classroom.

Presentation:

Video http://k12online.wm.edu/davidw.mp4 (44:26 Run Time; mpeg4; 10.2 MB)
Audio http://k12online.wm.edu/davidw.mp3 (44:25 Run Time; mp3; 10.2 MB)

Supporting Links
2¢ Worth Blog Post: “Extending K12 Online Conference” http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/10/06/extending-k12-online-conference/
K12 Online Conference Wiki Aggregator http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.K12online07pc
Wiki Handouts for Our Students “¢ Our Schools http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.OurStudentsOurWorlds
Temporary (24hr) Chat Page & Chat Transcript WikiChat Page: http://davidwarlick.com/k12onlinekeynote_chat/
Chat Transcript: http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.K12OnlineConferenceKeynoteChatTranscript

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2007 Announcements

K12Online Conference HELPDESK Launches

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Looking for Quick Answers about anything K12Online? Visit http://k12onlinehelpdesk.pbwiki.com The site contains FAQ’s, Links to Tutorials and How-to’s, as well as options for live help (both text and audio). In an effort to aid newcomers to the K12Online experience there are Guides available providing such things as proxy servers to aid in accessibility as well as suggestions for making the most of this year’s conference offerings. Not to be missed is the “Keep Connected” section that identifies tags being used, important websites, email addresses and web 2.0 link-ups. Feel free to also email the HelpDesk gang at k12onlinehelpdesk [at] gmail [dot] com.

You will be able to access the K12Online Help Desk from every presentation posted to the conference blog. Look for the link Access Help Desk at the bottom of every presentation post.