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2009 2009-Getting Started

Orientation in Second Life

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Presenter: Alan Hudson, Deborah Butler, Lawal Mohamed
Location: London, United Kingdom
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Orientation in Second Life

Presentation Description: New users of virtual worlds can find the interfaces and controls of 3D platforms difficult and confusing. Currently in Second life new users initially find their avatars in a space for orientation with other new users and possibly with helpers and guides to assist them. This video looks at different approaches to the design of these areas.

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http://www.londonmet.ac.uk

2009 2009-Getting Started

Options for Building Your Teacher Website and Why YOU Should

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Presenter: Cyndi Danner-Kuhn
Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Options for Building Your Teacher Website and Why YOU Should

Presentation Description: Every educator needs to build and maintain his or her own teacher Website. Technology provides teachers with more effective ways to communicate with students, their families, and the community than ever before. This session will help you learn how to use technology to communicate with different audiences through your classroom website. There are endless benefits of a maintaining a classroom Website. A classroom website gives students Resources, Relevance, Connections, Access and Experience. This session will provide links and resources to simple tools that allow any teacher, regardless of technical know-how, to create a live Website for free. The best way is for schools to install and support a tool that allows teachers to create Websites easily, but since many schools are not at that point yet, teachers should given both the encouragement and the freedom to build their own sites. You can make use of some very good tools for building free, live classroom Websites. I may leave out your favorite, so please add yours to the list, or tell us know what tool your school is using and what you like and dislike about it!

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Additional Information:
www.cyndidannerkuhn.info
iChat (AIM) cyndidannerkuhn
Twitter/Plurk: cyndidannerkuhn
Skype: cyndidannerkuhn
Delicious/Diigo: cyndidannerkuhn

2009 2009-Getting Started

If You Host It, They Will Come

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Presenter: Jennifer Wagner
Location: Murrieta, California, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: If You Host It, They Will Come

Presentation Description: A chat with Jen Wagner about Online Projects. Ideas of how to start planning your own project. Several projects will be highlighted as “examples” and “possibilities”.

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http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/k1209

Additional Information:
Jen’s Blog: www.jenuinetech.com/blog
Jen’s Resource Page: jlwagner.pbworks.com
Jen’s Projects: www.jenuinetech.com
Jen On Twitter: jlwagner

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Just a “touch” of leadership – Using the iPod Touch/IPhone in Administration

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Presenter: Andy Crozier & Mike Amante
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA & New Hartford, NY, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Just a “touch” of leadership – Using the iPod Touch/IPhone in Administration

Presentation Description: Are you using your iPod Touch/iPhone to simply check your email or answer your phone? Did you know that there many other uses of the iPod Touch that can help with some of your professional responsibilities?

This presentation will show you apps and success stories from administrators in the field that are using the iPod Touch/iPhone for data collection, organization, creating a mobile office, and personal professional development.

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http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=19589

Additional Information:
Twitter – acrozier22 & mamante

2009 2009-Leading the Change

LAN: Learning Is Social

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Presenter: Bryan Hughes
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: LAN: Learning Is Social

Presentation Description: Bored by status quo professional development and stale in service workshops? Why not throw a party! LAN: Learning Is Social is the story of how North Vancouver School District used the presentations of the K12 Online Conference to breathe new life into professional development.

LAN parties can be a powerful vehicle for professional development and change. This presentation defines the concept and shares our experience with the hope that others will be inspired to find creative ways to share the message of the K-12 Online Conference.

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http://nvsd44.wikispaces.com/Host+Your+Own+LAN

Additional Information:
A complete LAN party planning guide is available at http://wiki44.ca

Please join the conversation!

Read our blog at http://literacy44.ca/LAN and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LAN44

We would love to share our LAN experience with you. Don’t hesitate to contact us with questions, comments, or to invite us to appear at your own LAN!

Bryan Hughes
@bryanhughes

Lesley Edwards
@bookminder

Audrey Van Alstyne
@audreyvan

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century

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Presenter: Julie Lindsay
Location: Beijing, China
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century

Presentation Description: Current accepted forms of professional development provide opportunities for small bites and quick-fix solutions but do not encourage immersion, ongoing conversations and collaborative sharing of experiences. Adoption of a learning confluence amongst educators can and will make a difference within a school and extend the learning beyond the immediate environment.

Based on recent practice at an international school, a model of teacher engagement and improved pedagogical approach has been developed that leads the way into transformed learning in the classroom. Using a face-to-face meeting format, including expert advisers and a virtual component, educators extended their learning boundaries and embraced constructivism with the purpose of challenging themselves to ‘lean into the sharp edges’ of 21st century education.

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http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com/K12+Online+09

Additional Information:
Julie blogs at: E-Learning Journey’s

Follow Julie on Twitter
Julie is julielindsay on Skype

2009 2009-Getting Started

Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity

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Presenter: Janine Lim
Location: Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity

Presentation Description: Videoconferencing can bring the world to your classroom. It allows educators to bridge the divide by bringing experiences to rural students; by engaging conversations and interactions between urban and rural students and by connecting students globally. Whether using desktop videoconferencing or room based videoconferencing, educators can bridge the divide between “dabbling” in videoconferencing to fully integrating with solid classroom instructional strategies.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://vcoutonalim.org/2009/12/08/resources-for-my-k12-online-conference-presentation/

Additional Information:
Please visit my blog post for today’s presentation that has all the links and resources for this presentation. Remember to stop by the K12 Online Conferencing Ning to discuss this presentation with colleagues and with me!

2009 2009-Getting Started

Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

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Presenter: Colin Hill
Location: Southport, UK
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

Presentation Description: Rather than sending all pupils work home at the end of the school year, E-books allow teachers to compile collections of work to be displayed on the WWW quite soon after it is completed. Colin Hill presents how he creates E-books, proving to eb a motivation for writing, as learners know that their work is going to be on display.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
My First Ever Online Presentation (K12Online Ning Blog Post)

Additional Information:
Blog: colport-teaching.blogspot.com
Twitter: colport

2009 2009-Getting Started

The iPod Touch in the Classroom

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Presenter: Kern Kelley
Location: Newport, Maine, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: The iPod Touch in the Classroom

Presentation Description: The iPod Touch can function as an important educational tool inside and outside the classroom. With the increased purchases of netbooks this last year, there seems to be a push for schools to put more machines into students hands. At a price point even lower than current netbooks the iPod Touch is a great compliment to any classroom. While many schools still do not allow cell phones, an iPod Touch bridges that gap. Wifi access provides a tremendous opportunity for students and teachers to browse the web, type a response, record audio or calculate a problem. The form factor makes many classroom tasks manageable while the design of the device requires far less technical support than most laptops. The main focus of this presentation is how teachers can accomplish common tasks in the classroom, but also includes how students can use the tool for their own studies. Most of the applications discussed are free or a few dollars. Viewers will learn concrete ways they can use their iPod Touch in the classroom the following day.

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http://www.tinyurl.com/itouchineducation

Additional Information:
Email: kernkelley [at] gmail [dot] com
Blog: TheTechCurve.com
Twitter: kernkelley
Skype: kernkelley

2009 Announcements

K12Online LAN Party Dec 7 – Virtually Vancouver!

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From Brian Hughes:

North Vancouver invites you to join us celebrating the opening of the K12 Online Conference with a LAN party!

50 teachers from across our school district will be gathering tonight to watch presentations from the K12 Online Conference, and then get together over dinner to discuss and share ideas.

Unfortunately you won’t be able to join us for dinner, but you can join in the conversation!

Join us in Elluminate as we get a sneak peek of Paul Curtis’ presentation “Building a Web 2.0 Culture.” Watch the presentation with us, and then join North Vancouver teachers as we speak with Paul live.

Monday, December 7, 2009
5:00 pm Pacific (That’s 1 am GMT 8 Dec 2009, 8 pm EST – Use this converter link to view the time in your local time zone!)
Elluminate link: http://bit.ly/LAN44Dec

For more information contact us on Twitter http://twitter.com/lan44 or visit our blog http://literacy44.ca/lan