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2012 Getting Started

Leveraging Social Media to Flatten Your Classroom Walls

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Presenters: Paula Naugle and Jan Wells
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana USA & Meriden, Kansas USA
Twitter: @plnaugle  & @janwells

Presentation Description: Most teachers would love to communicate and collaborate with other classes but are unsure just how to begin this process. How do you go about finding other classes to connect with? Where do you find projects that can be used for collaboration? How do you cope with time zones? How can social media help you flatten your classroom walls and enable you to incorporate the 4C’s of collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking into your weekly lessons?

Find out how Paula and Jan found each other in 2009 and have had their two classes collaborating ever since. Learn how these two veteran educators have used social media sites such as Ning, Twitter, Facebook, Edmodo, Google and Google HangOut, and Skype to collaborate and communicate with many more classrooms each year.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O3w48UFzkRWiSYAtkAhXnOikIwExMTsKrwly0A-S6qo/edit

Additional Information:
Paula’s Classroom Blog http://pnaugle.blogspot.com
Paula’s Professional Blog http://plnaugle.blogspot.com

Jan’s Class Website/Blog http://mrswells4thgradeclass.weebly.com
Jan’s Professional Blog http://techtrek4integration.blogspot.com

List of websites mentioned:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1csCtOz11gQaeVcvm23apEoWkG2wIY7EeikWY18_jtrk/edit

2012 Announcements

K12 Online Live Event – Teachers Teaching Teachers

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This Wed., Oct. 24 at 9:00pm Eastern Time, the Teachers Teaching Teachers (TTT) podcast will feature a live discussion about the K12 Online Conference in general and the Visioning New Curriculum keynote that went live today. We hope you can join us for this event.  In addition, Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) has an asynchronous discussion group to talk about all the K12 Online Conference videos, and we’d love to see you there as well!

2012 Announcements

K12Online12 Day 1 Presentations: 22 October 2012

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Welcome to day one of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 1 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Gail Desler & Natalie Bernasconi
Digital ID Project (Strand Keynote)

Karyn Keenan
A Digital Journey with Primary Students and No Budget!

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

Karen Fasimpaur
Visioning New Curriculum (Strand Keynote)

Patrick Fogarty
Going One-to-One

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2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Going One-to-One

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Presenter: Patrick Fogarty
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Twitter: @fogarty22

Presentation Title: Going One-to-One

Presentation Description: “One-to-one computing” is more than another educational buzzphrase; it’s a movement whose proponents aim to make our classrooms resemble the workplace of today and tomorrow rather than the factories of the 19th century. It’s an idea developed through thirty years of trial and error by some of the most brilliant minds in technology and education, and luminaries ranging from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to Harold Gardner and Salman Khan have contributed ideas small and large to its conceptual framework. It also creates for us the opportunity to engage our students on their level, as digital natives rather than classroom outsiders.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xx3ygwlqweaoy3k/K12%20Online%20Learning%20Conference%20Presentation.ppt

Additional Information:
Please visit me at about.me/pfogarty and my blog at http://fogarty22.wordpress.com.

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Visioning New Curriculum Keynote

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Presenter: Karen Fasimpaur
Location: Portal, Arizona USA
Twitter: @kfasimpaur

Presentation Title: Visioning New Curriculum

Presentation Description: This keynote session by Karen Fasimpaur for the “Visioning New Curriculum” strand talks about the unique opportunities presented by Common Core, digital tools, openness, and innovation. The time for one-size-fits-all, top-down curriculum is over. This session gives examples of curriculum that is personalized, real world, iterative, and collaborative. It is time for a new era in curriculum — one that is digital, open, innovative, and built by and for our community. This video includes reflection questions which can be explored collaboratively at https://p2pu.org/en/groups/k12-online-2012/ The ideas in this video were developed collaboratively with a group of many people much smarter than me. Thanks to everyone who played along. This process was a testament to the power of collaboration and of creation as way to reflect and learn.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://p2pu.org/en/groups/k12-online-2012/content/visioning-new-curriculum-strand/

Additional Information:

  1. P2PU K12 Online group – https://p2pu.org/en/groups/k12-online-2012/
  2. Maker Faire – http://makerfaire.com
  3. Junior FIRST LEGO League – http://www.juniorfirstlegoleague.org
  4. Supercomputing Challenge – http://www.challenge.nm.org
  5. National Writing Project – http://www.nwp.org
  6. Youth Voices – http://youthvoices.net
  7. NanoWrimo – http://www.nanowrimo.org
  8. P2PU – http://www.p2pu.org
  9. Common Core State Standards – http://www.corestandards.org
  10. SETDA “Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age” – http://setda.org/web/guest/outofprint
  11. OER for K-12 – http://content.k12opened.com
  12. PhET Simulations – http://phet.colorado.edu
  13. YouthVoices curriculum challenges and grid – http://youthvoices.net/play

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Karen Fasimpaur can be found at www.k12opened.com/blog.

2012 Getting Started

A Digital Journey with Primary Students and No Budget!

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Presenter: Karyn Keenan
Location: Chicago, Illinois USA
Twitter: @karynteaches

Presentation Description: In this presentation, Karyn shares how she takes her primary students on a digital journey without a budget! First, Karyn will convince you why you should blog with your students. Then you will learn how to set up blogs on Kidblog and get your kids blogging and commenting. Karyn will also share how the use of tools like VoiceThread and AudioBoo can enhance your blogging experience!

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://sites.google.com/site/thetools4school4/k12online12

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2012 Getting Started

Digital ID Project A Platform for Learning, Sharing, Remixing and Teaching Digital Citizenship

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Presenter: Gail Desler & Natalie Bernasconi
Location: Placerville, California USA (Gail) & Salinas, California USA (Natalie)
Twitter: @gaildesler & @nbernasconi

Presentation Description: We’d like to invite you – whether you are a classroom teacher, a parent, an administrator, or a policy maker – into this international conversation on why digital citizenship is an essential part of a 21st century skill set. And if you are a newcomer to digital learning, we’d like to provide a window into how other teachers are integrating digital citizenship issues into lessons they are already teaching. By the end of our session, you will come away with a ready-for-Monday road map to create or ramp up digital citizenship education at your individual sites.

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Referenced Links:
http://digital-id.wikispaces.com

 

2012 2012-Keynote

2012 PRECONFERENCE KEYNOTELaunching Learning

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Presenter: Kevin Honeycutt
Location: Inman, Kansas
Twitter: @kevinhoneycutt

Presentation Description: In this PreConference Keynote for the 2012 K-12 Online Conference, educator Kevin Honeycutt challenges us to “remix learning” by combining our old models for school with today’s possibilities to make learning more interesting and engaging for students. We shouldn’t amputate kids’ digital limbs when they come to school! If Applebee’s can be lit theatrically to make your food more interesting, why can’t this be true in our schools? We need to hear more reasons why we CAN make learning more interesting, and invite the students to help us co-create our learning environments. How do we let students get excited about their learning and become archeologists of their own learning? Rather than focusing on what we CAN’T do, let’s focus on what we CAN do no matter what our budget is. The “killer app” for the 21st century is “to learn to love to learn.” Kevin challenges us to think new ideas, get rid of laminated lesson plans, and be an advocates for students as together we embrace project-based learning.

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Referenced Links:

  1. Kansas Cosmosophere and Space Center (in Hutchinson, Kansas)
  2. Shapeways
  3. Kevin Honeycutt’s website