Check out this past Thursday’s Seedlings webcast (available as an audio podcast) when Maria Knee discussed the upcoming 2009 K-12 Online Conference! They also discussed what Maria’s been doing the past 6 months, H1N1, and Monarchs in Space!
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On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom. The following presenters will be in attendance.
Kevin has been a K-4 Technology Facilitator at Northfield Community School in Northfield, NJ USA since 2003. In this role he is responsible for technology instruction in a lab setting for the entire elementary student body (540+ students). Rather than just “teaching computer class,” Kevin delivers engaging, informative, challenging and enjoyable lessons that integrate with content being taught by his classroom-teacher peers while leveraging state-of-the-art Web 2.0 and social media technologies. Kevin began exploring Second Life in early 2007 thanks to a $10,000 Faculty Excellence grant from Walden University where he teaches online, part-time. He works closely with ISTE via their presence in Second Life and helps to manage the very popular Tuesday night “Speaker Series”.…………………………………
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Sylvia Martinez is president of Generation YES, working to empower students in K-12 schools through digital technology. Sylvia has designed educational games, curriculum, and online experiences for teachers and students. Sylvia speaks and writes on subjects such as the use of technology, simulations and games to enhance educational opportunities and enable youth voice.
Chris Harbeck teaches grade 8 math to approximately 140 students each year. He has been teaching middle school students for over a decade and is in his fifth year of using 2.0 applications and “21st Century Learning” in his classroom. Despite the fact (or more realistically because of the fact) that math is one of those subjects students often reflect back on with distaste, fear or indifference, Chris has moved from teaching both social studies and math to the one subject. He has been involved in development of the middle years math curriculum at the divisional and provincial level. With his strong focus on conceptual understanding, Chris has discovered that using 2.0 tools and applications make math fun and interesting. An encouraging trend has emerged: students do not run away and saying “I hate math”; they love to do assignments and have started to see the beauty in math.
The EdTechTalk community will host this event at http://www.edtechtalk.com/live.
For questions or more information, contact Susan Van Gelder, Live Events Committee, at susanvg@mac.com or on Twitter at @k12online.
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I could not be more honored to be the pre-conference keynote speaker for this year’s K12 Online conference!
I have been participating in this annual conference since its inception in 2006 and every year I am amazed at the quality of presentations shared by educators around the world. The opportunity to learn together over the course of the conference (and beyond) is one of the most inspiring and engaging experiences of the year for me. Of course, this year’s lineup is no different!
When I was asked to keynote this year’s event, I knew right away that I wanted my presentation to have a global focus. Thinking back over the course of my ten years of living overseas, I realized that in many ways my exposure to new ways of thinking about technology has been paralleled by some similar learning experiences in the real world. I wanted to explore those links between virtual and real-world perspective shifts, and in the process try to share what I feel is an interesting and unique perspective in the expat mindset.
I’ve also decided to try to practice what I preach and make this presentation a true global collaboration, and although I will be putting together and presenting the final product, I really wanted to make it based on group input. Thankfully, my personal learning network includes a number of outstanding international school educators who’ve been willing to help me in preparing my presentation (thank you!). Right now I’ve gotten a lot of great input and material from (in no particular order):
While these teachers have already sent me fantastic material, I would love to include other perspectives as well. Knowing that the deadline is just over a month away, I’m beginning to put the final pieces together, and would love to hear your thoughts, include your perspectives, and emphasize the power of global collaboration in the final product.
Here’s the presentation overview:
Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education
Everything I need to know about the future of education I learned, not from kindergarten, but from living overseas. Looking at daily life in foreign lands reveals a colorful spectrum of inspiring metaphors for the shifts we need to make in education. Featuring voices from students and teachers from around the globe, this presentation will start with a look through an expatriate’s eyes at some vibrant details of daily life in many lands. Often what we may find initially chaotic, disorienting and strange in other countries can actually spark new ways of thinking about teaching and learning.
Then, again through the voices and viewpoints of teachers and students from all around the world, we’ll examine the unique aptitudes which allow successful expats to thrive in any environment: adaptability, flexibility, the ability to understand differing viewpoints and constructs, and the communications skills to collaborate across cultural, religious and linguistic barriers. These are exactly the skills that future students and teachers will need to confidently enter the digital, global, converging, collaborative world of tomorrow – wherever they might be physically located.
Final Thoughts
What do you think? Does this sound interesting to you? Are you an expat or Third Culture Kid? Have you or your students participated in a global collaboration? What did you gain from that experience?
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On October 20th, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT (10pm GMT). We invite everyone to gather in the EdTechTalk chatroom with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom at http:www.edtechtalk.com/live. The following presenters will be in attendance:
6:00 – 6:45pm Travel Through Space and Time
Silvia Tolisano
Born in Germany, raised in Argentina and living in the USA, Silvia graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish & International Studies and a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology. Silvia is currently teaching at a private elementary school where she serves as the Instructional Technology Facilitator and Webmaster. Having lived on three continents and traveled extensively, Sylvia is well aware of the importance of instilling global awareness & cultural sensitivities in all her students.
6:45 – 7:30pm How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution?
Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes and Bob Sprankle
Alice Barr has lived, taught and traveled on five continents. She now lives in Maine where she is the high school Instructional Technology Integrator in a 1:1 laptop environment. Alice also teaches in the summer at The University of Southern Maine and provides professional development sessions during the year.
Alice was a Technology Learning Leader with SEED, Spreading Educator to Educator Developments and worked with teachers during the beginnings of MLTI, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. She is now part of the SEEDlings webcast show, along with Bob and Cheryl, which is streamed live three Thursdays a month at EdTechTalk.
Cheryl Oakes lives and works in Maine and around the world virtually! Cheryl works with students and teachers in Wells, Maine and throughout the states of Maine and New Hampshire. “I am also lucky enough to be involved with folks from around the world through my online networks of the Webheads, Worldbridges, EdTechTalk and Seedlings. Join in any of these conversations. You will flatten your classroom.” AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Bob Sprankle comes from Wells, Maine, where he is a Technology Integrator in a K-4 Elementary School. Bob teaches over 500 students technology skills for the 21st Century and has been integrating technology in a 3/4 multi-age class for 10 years prior.
Bob was involved with the SEED group in Maine as a Technology Learning Leader and helped train the first wave of teachers using laptops for the 7th and 8th grader MLTI project. He was awarded Maine’s Technology Teacher of the Year in 2006 from ACTEM. Bob’s students have received world-wide recognition for their “Room 208 Podcast”, and have appeared in numerous articles, including, The New York Times and Apple’s Education Site. Bob’s professional development blog and podcast, “Bit by Bit”, is geared to helping teachers incorporate technology into their classrooms and can be found at www.bobsprankle.com.
The EdTechTalk community will host this event at http://www.edtechtalk.com/live.
For questions or more information, contact Susan Van Gelder, Live Events Committee,
at susanvg@mac.com or on Twitter at @k12online.
Since 2006, the K-12 Online Conference has provided outstanding opportunities for free, collaborative, accessible professional learning for educators around the globe. The 2009 conference promises to again provide more exemplary learning opportunities in the same spirit of collaboration and sharing! The learning will begin with a pre-conference keynote during the week of November 30, 2009. We again invite presenters to submit “teaser trailers“ for their presentations in advance of the conference.
This year’s fantastic line up of keynote presenters will create an inviting and welcoming introduction in which the sharing of ideas among diverse learners working in diverse contexts continues. Our distinguished keynote speakers will not only extend the conversations, but also invite each of us to stretch and grow as they share their expertise and wisdom in their respective strands. See our post from June 24th for more information about keynote speakers in each of our 2009 strands.
The presentations accompanying the keynotes for each strand have been selected in 2009 through the collaborative work of a review committee composed of conference conveners and strand keynote speakers. The selection process was challenging as the quality of proposals was again outstanding. We thank everyone who submitted a proposal. Due to some changes in the procedures our presenters will follow this year in uploading / sharing their video files, we were able to select more presentations in each strand. More details about those procedures will follow soon. We are elated to announce the K12 Online 2009 presenters whose creativity, depth of thought, and innovation promise to make K12 Online 2009 exemplary.
The presenters by strand are:
WEEK 1: December 7-11, 2009
Getting Started (13 presentations)
Keynote
Joyce Kasman Valenza
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch
Erdenheim, PA, USA
Using E-Books to provide a motivation for writing
Colin Hill
colport26.blogspot.com/
Southport, UK
Options for Building Your Teacher Website
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn
www.cyndidannerkuhn.info
Manhattan, KS, USA
Orientation into Second Life: Methods and Processes for Introducing New Users to the Use and Controls in 3D Worlds.
Deborah Butler & Alan Hudson
www.sllondon.com & www.londonmet.ac.uk
London, UK
Using Web 2.0 tools to teach The Outsiders
Drew Buddie
digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk
Rickmansworth, Herts, England
Keeping the Literacy in 21st Century Literacies
Drew Schrader
moodle4pbl.wordpress.com
Bloomington, IN, USA
Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity
Janine Lim
vcoutonalim.org
Berrien Springs, MI USA
If You Host It They Will Come
Jennifer Wagner
www.jenuinetech.com/blog
Wildomar, CA, USA
Google SketchUp Unleashed
Joseph J. Bires
www.edtechleadership.com
Trenton, NJ, USA
Building on Analog Success with 2.0 Technology
Kelley Connolly
iteach.ning.com
Chestnut Hill, MA USA
Little Kids, Big Possiblities
Kelly Hines
keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com
Washington, NC, USA
The iPod Touch in the Classroom
Kern Kelley
thetechcurve.blogspot.com
Newport, ME, USA
Bridging History Using Web 2.0 Tools
Robin Beaver
www.rosemontschool.org
Rosemont, PA, USA
Leading the Change (13 presentations – 14 originally, but 1 cancelled)
Keynote
Konrad Glogowski
www.teachandlearn.ca/blog
Ontario, Canada
Just a Touch of Leadership – Using the iPod touch & Web 2.0 to Enhance School Leadership
Andy Crozier & Mike Amante
www.newhartfordschools.org/amante
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA & New Hartford, NY, USA
Organizational Learning and Technology Collide
Ben Grey
bengrey.com/blog
Elgin, IL, USA
LAN: Learning Is Social!
Bryan Hughes
www.nvsd44.bc.ca/Staff/UZ/VanAlstyneA12161/Blog/LAN%20Buzz.aspx
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Moogpal in Action
Chris Walsh
www.newtechnetwork.org
Walnut Creek, CA, USA
You Might be a 21st Century Leader if…
David Wells
principalofchange.wordpress.com
Montpelier, Vermont, USA
Slippery Rocks and Hard Places: Twelve Bridges and Learning Matters
Dennis Richards
innovation3.edublogs.org
Andover, MA, USA
Whither Eportfolios
Drew Buddie
digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk
Rickmansworth, Herts, England
21st Century Learning Plato’s way
Gail Dyer
gaildyer.edublogs.org & www.belmoresouthpublicschool.edublogs.org
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Probing the Possibilities of Paperless Pedagogy
Jason Neiffer
www.techsavvyteacher.com/blog
Helena, Montana, USA
Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century
Julie Lindsay
123elearning.blogspot.com
Beijing, China
Digital Empowerment: How Bytes Affect Us (CANCELLED)
Minhaaj Rehman
www.minhaaj.com
Umea, Sweden
Building a Web 2.0 Culture
Paul Curtis
www.newtechnetwork.org
Napa, California, USA
Digiteens: Digital Citizenship from Digital Teenagers
Vicki Davis
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
Camilla, Georgia, USA
Embracing Web 2.0 as an Administrator
William Carozza
billcarozza.com
Deerfield, NH, USA
WEEK 2: December 14-17, 2009
Week in the Classroom (13 presentations)
Keynote
Rachel Boyd
rachelboyd.wikispaces.com
Nelson, New Zealand
To Those Who Want to Rock – Don’t Suppose Compose!
Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny
www.carolbroos.com; www.beatechie.com; musictechie.pbworks.com; grasslakemusicteacher.edublogs.org
Gurnee, IL, USA and Northbrook, IL, USA
Ways of Working: How students can leverage Web 2.0 tools to their own advantage
Chris Betcher
www.betchablog.com
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Blogging and communicative competences in the EFL class
Cristina Arnau VilÃ
www.xtec.cat/~carnau22
Barcelona, Spain
The Digital Writers’ Workshop
Jackie Gerstein
www.pageflakes.com/jgerst1111/
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Living History – Authentic Learning Empowered by Digital Technology
Jane Ross
gr5swa.blogspot.com
Indonesia
Competencias Artisticas En La Plástica
Josu Garro
jotaclick.blogspot.com
Bilbao, Bizkaia, España
Skateboard
Keith Kelley
www.itsvms.com
Newport, ME, USA
Steal this Preso: Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom
Mathew Needleman
www.videointheclassroom.com
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Algunas aplicaciones para trabajar la competencia comunicativa linguistica y audiovisual
Pilar Soro
espaicompartit.blogspot.com
Tarragona, España
Show & Tell : Exhibit, Reflect & Critique with blogs
Sarah Sutter
edueyeview.wordpress.com & mssutter.edublogs.org
Lisbon Falls, Maine, USA
Around the World with Skype (English version) & Alrededor del Mundo con Skype (Spanish Version)
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
www.langwitches.org/blog
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher: Research and Examples
Tom Daccord
edtechteacher.org; besthistorysites.net; thwt.org; tewt.org
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism (a Flat Classroom Project)
Vicki Davis
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
Camilla, Georgia USA
Kicking It Up a Notch (12 presentations – 14 originally, 2 cancelled)
Keynote
Diego Leal
www.diegoleal.org
Columbia
Engaging Our Youngest Minds: Integrating the Internet in Primary Classrooms
Angela Maiers
www.angelamaiers.com
Clive, Iowa, USA
Unlikely Coordinates? Geocaching Across the Curriculum
Beth Ritter-Guth
hotchkissmedia.org
Lakeville, CT, USA
Googlios: When Google Apps Meet ePortfolios & PLNs
G. Alex Ambrose
www.galexambrose.com & www.edvibes.blogspot.com
South Bend, IN, USA
Telling the World: Flat Classroom Student Summit in Practice
Julie Lindsay
123elearning.blogspot.com
Beijing, China
The Virtual Heroic Journey
Kevin Hodgson
dogtrax.edublogs.org
Leeds, Massachusetts, USA
Remixing in the Classroom: Engagement for History Students
Neil Stephenson
thinkinginmind.blogspot.com
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Using computer games to enhance learning and social interaction
Ollie Bray
www.olliebray.typepad.com
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Parallel Play or Collaboration–Leveraging the Wiki Platform for High Quality Work
Paula White
tzstchr.edublogs.org
Greenwood, VA, USA
Media Literacy in the 21st Century School through Online Interactive Integrated Curriculum Maps (CANCELLED)
Rhys Daunic
themedaispot.org
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Using VideoAnt Annotations to Provide “Audience-Based” Assessment to Students’ Video Productions
Richard Beach
digitalwriting.pbworks.com
Minneapolis, MN, US
Prezi in the classroom (cancelled)
Rob Cheshire
Austin, Texas, USA
OpenSim: Open Learning
Timothy Hart
www.edutim.com
Orono, ME, USA
Thriving in a Collaborative Web 2.0 Classroom: The “Great Debate” and “Student News Action Network”
Tom Daccord
edtechteacher.org; besthistorysites.net; thwt.org; tewt.org
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
We hosted our first in a series of virtual LAN parties this past Saturday at Edtechtalk.
The schedule for the first LAN party was as follows:
Matthew Needleman Film School
Alec Couros Open,Social,Connected
Mark Wagner “Wiki While You Work (Basic)”
Kathy Cassidy “We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors” “Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom”
All audio and text chat can be found at Edtechtalk.com/k12online09
Please join us for our next LAN party on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 6pm EDT at the Edtectalk.com Webcasting Studio.
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Please join us on September 26, 2009 On September 26, 2009, the K12Online Conference in partnership with EdTechTalk will host a worldwide, sychronous “LAN party” (free web meet-up) from 2:00PM EDT (6:00PM GMT) to 5:00PM EDT (9:00PM GMT). Organizers encourage educators around the world to get together with colleagues and engage in lively, online discussions during this time using links provided by EdTechTalk. Past presentations will be shown, and participants are invited to engage in live conversations about the presentations with the featured presenters during and following each session. A K12Online Conference overview is scheduled at the EdTechTalk website 30 minutes prior to the LAN party. This event provides an opportunity to try out the synchronous EdTechTalk environment and platform, which we will be using for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference in December. For more background about LAN parties, see Jeff Utech’s post from Sept 2006 and the K12Online08 Shanghai LAN Party wiki. The Shanghai LAN parties are models we hope educators around the world will emulate in 2009. You do NOT have to gather face-to-face with other educators to participate in this Saturday’s live LAN party events, but F2F connections are encouraged! Here’s the schedule. (Times below are EDT. Start time for the first presentation is 6:00PM GMT. Use this WorldTimeServer link to convert this time for your local time zone.) |
 2:00 – 2:45 Film School Mathew Needleman, Apple Distinguished Educator, has been integrating video in the classroom for seven years as a teacher of kindergarten, first, and second grade. Make better classroom movies with simple tips that will help elevate your vodcast to the next level in terms of artistic and technical merit. Learn how to storyboard like a pro, choose shots that support the telling of your story, and capture better lighting and sound. |
 2:45 – 3:30 Open, Social, Connected Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This presentation unravels a recent open graduate course offering titled “Open, Connected, Social” that was offered at the University of Regina, Winter 2008. The presentation describes the theories influencing the course, types of open practice, reflections and outcomes, and goes on to describe the emergence of “open teaching”. |
3:30 – 4:15 Wiki While You Work (Basic) |
4:15 – 5:00 We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff With Blogging Mentors |
Kudos to the K12Online09 Live Events Committee for organizing and hosting this event! Please plan to join us and share this learning opportunity with your colleagues!
We are pleased to announce our live events committee team for 2009!!! Our chair is Drew Buddie an educator from the U.K. Members inlude Peggy George a retired elementary school principal from Arizona, Susan Van Gelder an educator from Montreal Canada, Kim Caise educator from Texas, and Lisa Durff a k12 teacher from Maryland. Also in a supportive role are worldbridges webcasters Jose Rodriguez, Jeff Lebow and Doug Symington.
Our committee will be coordinating the live events component of k12online conference. This will include our Pre-Conference; Virtual LAN Parties and Fireside chats. As well as live events during the conference itself at Edtechtalk and new Second Life venue. We will give you updates in the next several weeks. Our first event will be a LAN party for Saturday September 26th, 2009. We will feature previous k12onlineconference presentations from 2006-08. Details coming soon. We welcome your suggestions and look forward to a great conference.
Thank you to all who responded to the call to join the K12 Online Conference 2009 Team. There is much work ahead for all. Committee chairs and members will be contacted soon. The first priority was to get the PR committee formed so they could get right to work. Patrick Woessner is the PR committee chair with Lisa Parisi, Theresa White, Paula Naugle, and Paula White as members.
The PR committee hit the ground running with a planning wiki containing some great ideas. Thank you, Patrick for getting this started. In Patrick’s words, “We clearly want to reach as many educators as possible, and ideally that will include the masses who may not be aware of the conference. I’m hoping we expand our collective reach and find ways to inform and engage our colleagues who may not be “plugged in”.
In the coming days and weeks. look for suggestions from the PR committee that will help to spread the message that will prompt educators to learn more and get involved with K12Online 2009. It will be important to get that message disseminated through a variety of channels in order to reach the masses.
