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Super Social Safety Digiteens Present the Top Sites for Kids Ages 8-12: Invitation to Join

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As part of the k12 online conference 2009 and as a conclusion to the Digiteen Project #3 of 2009, students from Westwood Schools will be presenting their top socially connected sites for kids aged 8-12 (and some that they DO NOT recommend.)  As part of Digiteen 2009, these students felt that many sites that are marketed to kids aged 8-12 are not appropriate nor safe and set out to review and test the best.  They have been blogging and have a twitter account (@socialsafety) and will be presenting live in Elluminate on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 from 12:15 pm-12:45 pm and answer your questions about their testing experiences.

At the conclusion of the student presentation, from 12:45pm – 1:15 pm leading social internet safety expert, Anne Collier will reflect and talk with students about their findings.  Backchannel questions will be included in the conversation.

This is just one of the many action projects of the Digiteen project: A Flat Classroom project. This project will be moderated by Vicki Davis, and led by student project manager, Erin B from Westwood Schools.

Join our Flat Classroom Projects Group on this Ning: http://k12online.ning.com/group/flatclassroomprojects

Here is the link to our Flat Classroom Public Presentation room:  https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.BBF3F987EB53E7EAB1128C0DA2E961

Come and join us at any or all of the following:

Super Social Safety: Sites for Kids Aged 8-12
Wednesday December 16: Super Social Safety Presentation12:15 pm EST , Time and Date Conversion

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Flat Classroom Project Student Summits: Invitation to Join

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As part of the Flat Classroom™ Project 2009-3 we are holding online Student Summits in our Elluminate virtual classroom and invite participants in the K12 Online Conference to join us. These sessions will be 45-60 minutes long and participants will have the opportunity to interact with individual student presentations as they discuss their involvement and achievements in the recent project. Participants will also be able to see how a virtual meeting that includes students and educators around the world can be successfully run as a synchronous and virtual event.  The focus is on the students, digital citizenship and online learning skills as well as cultural interaction and sharing of knowledge about the topics in the Flat Classroom Project.

Join our Flat Classroom™ Projects Group on this Ning: http://k12online.ning.com/group/flatclassroomprojects

Here is the link to our Flat Classroom™ Public Presentation room: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.BBF3F987EB53E7EAB1128C0DA2E961

Come and join us at any or all of the following Flat Classroom Student Summit times:
Monday December 14: Beijing (BISS) International School Summit #1 11am GMT, 7pm China, Timeanddate conversion
Wednesday December 16: Beijing (BISS) International School Summit #2 12:30pm China, 4:30am GMT Timeanddate conversion
Tuesday December 15: Westwood Schools Summit #1 10:30am EST, 15:30pm GMT Timeanddate conversion
Wednesday December 16: Westwood Schools #2 1:30pm EST, 18:30 GMT Timeanddate conversion

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K12Online09 Day 3 Presentations: 9 December 2009

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Welcome to day three of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

If You Host It They Will Come
Jennifer Wagner

Options for Building Your Teacher Website
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

Orientation into Second Life
Alan Hudson, Deborah Butler, Lawal Mohamed

LEADING THE CHANGE

Digiteens: Digital Citizenship from Digital Teenagers
Vicki Davis

You Might be a 21st Century Leader if”¦
David Wells

Whither Eportfolios
Drew Buddie

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

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K12Online09 Day 2 Presentations: 8 December 2009

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Welcome to day two of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

The iPod Touch in the Classroom
Kern Kelley

Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing
Colin Hill

Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity
Janine Lim

LEADING THE CHANGE

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

LAN: Learning Is Social!
Bryan Hughes

Just a Touch of Leadership – Using the iPod touch & Web 2.0 to Enhance School Leadership
Andy Crozier & Mike Amante

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

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Ning Problems Today Almost All Resolved

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As you may have noticed, most of the day on Monday our K-12 Online Conference Ning was offline / not available. According to the official Ning status blog, all features except messaging and RSS feeds are back up and working as of this writing. We have no idea what the problem was with Ning today, but it was not limited to just our K12Online site, and we don’t think we can take the blame for overwhelming the entire domain with traffic! It appears this was just an unlucky coincidence that it happened on the first day of week 1 of our conference! Thankfully at this point, we are using multiple sites and our blog (this site) was up without any problems all day, as were our video hosting sites (DotSub and Blip.tv). We also used both our Twitter account and Facebook page to share status updates throughout the day.

If you have a smartphone or other mobile device capable of accessing the Internet, you can use the web address k12online.ning.com/m to access a mobile-optimized version of our Ning website.

Mobile Version of K12Online Ning

Mobile Version of K12Online Ning

Videos are not viewable/playable from this mobile Ning site, but you can use our podcast RSS feeds to directly view and play presentations on your mobile devices. We did announce today via Twitter and Facebook that our podcast RSS feeds are now included in the iTunes Podcast Directory. Please rate and comment on our iTunes podcast channels so we can hopefully become “featured” in iTunes. The more visibility our conference can have the better!

Thanks to a WordPress plug-in (WordPress Mobile Edition) we are using, hopefully our blog automatically shows up in a mobile-optimized format if you’re using a mobile device to view it.

We will keep our fingers crossed that today’s Ning problems will not recur for the rest of the conference!

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

2009 Announcements

K12Online09 Day 1 Presentations: 7 December 2009

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Welcome to day one of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

KEYNOTE: The Wizard of Apps (or Will they have an app for that or What we are loading (and learning) along the road)
Joyce Kasman Valenza (a post giving the backstory to this presentation is also available.)

Little Kids, Big Possibilities
Kelly Hines

LEADING THE CHANGE

KEYNOTE: Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century
Konrad Glogowski

Organizational Learning and Technology Collide
Ben Grey

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

2009 Announcements

Spread the Word! K12Online09 Printable Flyer Available

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Please help us spread the word about the 2009 K-12 Online Conference by forwarding one of the two-page PDF flyers below to other educators with whom you work and know. While we encourage forwarding via email attachment to save paper/trees, this PDF flyer is also appropriate to print (as a double sided / duplex page) and place in teacher mailboxes at school! Feel free to use this however you can to spread the word about the K-12 Online Conference!

Because we are an international conference, we are continuing to use GMT times for all our events both on our 2009 schedule as well as on our Ning Events page. Converting GMT times can be confusing, however, so we are providing editable MS-Word (.doc) format versions of these documents so you can customize these times for your local time zone. Note on both our main conference schedule page as well as our conference Ning site Events page, hyperlinks are provided to “fixed date and time pages” on timeanddate.com. Click these provided links to view event start dates/times for your local time zone. Then edit one of the MS-Word formatted flyers for your local time zone, and circulate that to educators you know.

Note the time for our first fireside chat is 1 am GMT on Friday, December 4th, which is 8 pm EST on Thursday, December 3rd. These differences in dates and times due to time zones make it essential we provide educators with localized dates/times on printed flyers when possible.

GMT flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

EST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

CST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

MST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

PST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

The GMT version of this flyer is also available via Scribd for download and to share as an embedded document. Thanks for helping us spread the word about K12Online09!

k12online09flyer-GMT

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K12Online09 Presentation Schedule Available

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Our schedule of presentations for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference is now online and available! This schedule is linked from the following locations:

  1. At the top of our conference blog, in the header as the SCHEDULE link.
  2. In the right sidebar of our conference blog, as the “2009 Schedule” link above our archive links.
  3. On our conference Ning, as the main “Events” tab link at the top of each page.
  4. On our conference wiki, on the main homepage, on the “For Participants” page, and in the left sidebar as “2009 Schedule.”

Per the posted schedule, our 2009 K-12 Online Conference begins tomorrow at 12 pm GMT, which is 7 am EST, with Kim Cofino’s pre-conference keynote, “Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education.” Use this link to view the exact time when the keynote will “go live” in your local time zone.

If you have not already, read Kim’s post from October 11th giving more background about what’s coming in her keynote.

Bookmark / favorite our 2009 Conference Schedule page! As presentations are published each day of our main conference weeks, links to those videos will be added to the conference schedule as well as posted here on our conference blog. (They’ll “go live” here on the blog first.) Presenters will also be adding embedded links to their videos on our conference Ning, and adding discussion posts for their presentations in our Ning forum.

If you have not already, please join our conference Ning to participate in discussions there throughout and following our 2009 conference.

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Join us on Classroom 2.0 Live Talking K12Online09 Saturday

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Tomorrow on Classroom 2.0 Live, organizers of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference will discuss this year’s conference which begins on Monday, November 30th with a pre-conference keynote by Kim Cofino. Here are the details of this FREE online meetup!

Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009
Time: Saturday, November 28, 2009 (9:00am Pacific/ 10:00am Mountain/ 11:00am Central/ 12:00pm Eastern)
Location: Elluminate – http://tinyurl.com/cr20live

Tips for first-time users in Elluminate are available.

The official description of the session (according to the Classroom 2.0 Live calendar entry) is:

The topic this Sat. will be “2009 K12Online Conference Update” with the K12Online Conference Co-conveners. Please join us as we are updated by the conference co-conveners about the latest news of the K12Online Conference live events, keynote speakers and conference presenters. More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular “live” web meetings. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Elluminate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Thanks so much for being a part of this community!

Hope you can join us for this discussion online, as well as for the K-12 Online Conference! Please remember (if you have not already) to join the K-12 Online Conference Ning, follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook, and subscribe to our blog!