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Join Us for a Fireside Chat with David Warlick

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Join David Warlick and the conference organizers this evening at 7pm Eastern (David’s timezone) in a free wheeling open-ended chat in Elluminate. During the chat you can ask David about his presentation, make new friends from around the world, or simply enjoy an engaging conversation. This is an opportunity for all presenters and participants to get together and discuss how we can “play with boundaries” in our classrooms and personal learning experiences.

The chat will take place in Elluminate, an online classroom environment. To join you simply click on the link below and after some software loads you will be dropped into the room with David. As a reminder, you will need a microphone to be able to take part in the conversation. A quick review of the tools will be given before we begin. Drop by up to 30 minutes before starting to practice if you like.

We will have other fireside chats with keynotes and presenters once the conference kicks off next week. Check here for the schedule.

Schedule

11:00 PM Tuesday, October 9 GMT
Fireside Chat With David Warlick
The direct link to the time converter for this event:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2007&mo=10&d=9&h=23&mn=0″³

TO JOIN THE SESSION
https://sas.elluminate.com/m .jnlp?sid=2007095&password=M .E8E484E55C29AE1DE2356659DBF40C


THIS SESSION WAS RECORDED
To view the recording, click the link below:
Video– View the Elluminate Live! recording
Audio- coming later today

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.

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Announcing K12 Online 2007 Conference Schedule

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The conveners are excited to announce the K12 Online 2007 conference schedule! All times on the schedule are GMT with a link provided to a time converter. Both presentations and live events are included on the schedule. As the presentations are published, they will be linked from the conference schedule. You will find the conference schedule HERE. The conference schedule will also be linked in the “Asides” on the front page of the blog.Only eight days until the pre-conference keynote with David Warlick!

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Mark your Calendars! Live Events Schedule

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Plan to join us for the exciting Live Events of K12 Online 2007! Participate with the conference organizers and the keynote speakers in free wheeling open-ended Fireside Chats in Elluminate and in the culminating conference event “When Night Falls”, a chain of several 1 or 2 hour long skypecasts stretching over a 24 hour period; a 24 hour continuous K12 Online coffee break.

Mark your calendars today!

All dates and times are GMT and links to a time converter are provided for your convenience.


Fireside Chats
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11:00 PM Tuesday, October 9 GMT
Fireside Chat With David Warlick
The direct link to the time converter for this event:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2007&mo=10&d=9&h=23&mn=0″
TO JOIN THE SESSION
https://sas.elluminate.com/m .jnlp?sid=2007095&password=M .E8E484E55C29AE1DE2356659DBF40CTHIS SESSION WAS RECORDED
To view the recording, click the link below:
Video– View the Elluminate Live! recording
Audio- coming later today


1:00 PM Saturday, October 20 GMT
Fireside Chat With Week One Keynoter and Presenters
The direct link to the time converter for this event:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2007&mo=10&d=20&h=13&mn=0
TO JOIN THE SESSION

https://sas.elluminate.com/m .jnlp?sid=2007095&password=M .7115FA90A18944DFDE02B70CCAD62A

11:00 PM Tuesday, October 23 GMT
Fireside Chat With Week Two Keynoters and Presenters
The direct link to the time converter for this event:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2007&mo=10&d=23&h=23&mn=0
TO JOIN THE SESSION
https://sas.elluminate.com/m .jnlp?sid=2007095&password=M .214C12CCC5DB9DCB930DCD20BD4050


When Night Falls (image source)
12:00 AM Saturday, October 27 GMT
When Night Falls Begins
The direct link to the time converter for this event:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2007&mo=10&d=27&h=0&mn=0
TO JOIN IN
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007122&password=M.E3B1520A4591DE27042E51A5C3E59C


For more information on the Live Events CLICK HERE!
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Tag You Are It! Help us Spread the Word about K12Online07

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3 Reasons Meme

Time for a new blog meme to help us spread the word about the upcoming K12Online07 conference. Please share either three (3) reasons to participate based on your experience from last year or (if you didn’t attend last year) three (3) things you hope to gain from the experience this year.

K-12 Online Conference 2007

If you are new to memes–when you are tagged– simply create a blog post where you link to this flickr photo. Then write your 3 reasons and then tag several others who will do the same thing. After you tag someone in your post, please email them to let them know so they can help spread the word.

My Three Reasons

  1. Wonderful opportunities to meet new educational Yodas.
  2. Learn at your own pace, in your own space.
  3. Your school district isn’t offering professional development opportunities nearly this good.

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2007-Teasers Announcements

Starting today: Presentation TEASERS!

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As in 2006, each week twenty different presentations will be posted here once the conference begins in mid-October. With so many choices, it may be helpful to get a better idea of the issues, tools, and concepts presenters plan to address in their sessions. Our presenters this year have been invited to create short, online videos (published to a website like YouTube or TeacherTube) which will give attendees a better idea of what their presentation will address. These “teaser” videos will hopefully generate and pique interest in presentations prior to the actual start of the conference.

Not all actual conference presentations will be shared as online videos. Presenters have freedom to choose their asynchronous publishing format. Conference presentations will be hosted (as in 2006) by the College of William and Mary.

Please take a few moments to let these presenters know how much you appreciate their creativity and are looking forward to their presentations!

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Blog Software Updated

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We’ve updated our software and in the process it is possible that links to individual pages, posts or presentations may have broken. Please let us know if you come across any of these by leaving a comment or dropping one of us an email. Also, if you know of anyone who has linked to content from K12 Online 2006 please let them know they may need to update their links.

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Need Volunteers to Help with K12Online Committees

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A wise man once said, “None of us are as good as all of us,” and in that light the conveners of K12 Online 2007 are requesting volunteers to chair and serve on committees that will support the upcoming K12Online conference.

Each committee will have a convener, a chair, and three committee members, to make up a five member team.

The committees are as follows:

Media and Communications (Public Relations)- This committee will be responsible for getting the word out about the conference.

Convener
– Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach (snbeach at cox dot net)
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Live Events – This committee handles live events during the conference, our culminating event “When Night Falls” and fireside chats.

Convener
– Lani Ritter-Hall (lanihall at alltel dot net)
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Help Desk– This committee will be the conference technical support team and will work from a proactive role in terms of recommending tools and “how-tos.”

Convener
– Darren Kuropatwa (dkuropatwa at gmail dot com)
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Professional Development– This committee will arrange opportunities for graduate credit and Continuing Education points that can be obtained globally.

Convener
– Wes Fryer (wesfryer at yahoo dot com)
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Accessibility Options– This committee will create a resource and be available to answer questions about ensuring that presentations are accessible by all participants, even those with disabilities.

Convener– Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach (snbeach at cox dot com)

Chair: Lee Baber
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Roles and Responsibilities

  • The role of the convener on each committee is to serve as a liason from the committee to the conference as a whole.
  • The role of the chair is to organize and facilitate 2-3 meetings (Elluminate is available for your meetings) prior to our conference and to lead the committee in development of a support plan and related tasks to fulfill your committee’s purpose.
  • The role of members will be to carry out, with the chair, the purpose and plan of the committee.

Interested?

If you are interested in chairing or serving on one of the above committees please contact the appropriate convener or leave a comment below with your contact information and someone will get back with you right away. We would like to have committees formed and functioning by the end of August.

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Announcing K12 Online 2007 Presenters

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The 2006 K-12 Online Conference provided outstanding opportunities for free, collaborative, accessible professional learning for educators around the globe. The 2007 conference is shaping up to provide more exceptional learning opportunities in the same spirit of collaboration and sharing!

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. These distinguished folks 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. We are delighted they have each agreed to accept their roles as keynote presenters.

The presentations accompanying the keynotes for each strand have been selected by “blind” peer review committees coordinated by each strand convener. The committees’ tasks were extremely difficult as the quality of proposals was again outstanding. We thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We are elated to announce the K12 Online 2007 presenters whose creativity, depth of thought and innovation promise to make K12 Online 2007 exemplary.

The presenters by strand are:

Classroom 2.0:

Silvia Tolisano
“Travel Through Space and Time”

Drew Murphy
“Step by Step- Building a Web2.0 Classroom”

Chris Harbeck
“Release the Hounds”

Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Sasa Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer
“Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating”

Wendy Wolfe
“If All My Classes Did This”

Konrad Glogowski
“Assessment and Evaluation”

Anne Davis
“Putting the Pedagogy into the Tools”

Dean Shareski
“Design matters”

Jeff Utecht
“Sustained Blogging in the Classroom”

New Tools:

Liz Kolb
“Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools”

Frank Pirrone
“Collaborative Concept Mapping – Breaking the Bounds of Location and Time… for $0.00 per Seat”

Cheryl Oakes, Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr
“Flat Agents of Change”

Anne Davis
“Learn to Blog : Blog to Learn”

Jason Hando
“LMS 2.0 – Engaging Learners Using More Advanced Techniques and the Odd Mash-up inside Moodle”

Sharon Betts
“Oodles of Googles”

Kevin Jarrett and Sylvia Martinez
“Second Life: K-20 Educators Exploring Virtual Worlds – Panel”

Kurt Paccio and James Gates
“The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style”

April Chamberlain
“Trailfire”

Professional Learning Networks:

Jen Wagner, Cheryl Oakes, Vicki Davis, Sharon Peters
“Webcasting for Educators: Expanding the Conversation”

Brandi Caldwell
“Creating PLE’s with TLC”

Kevin Hodgson and Bonnie Kaplan.
“The Collaborative ABC Project: Using Technology to Tell Stories”

Lee Baber, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim and Thomas Locke
“Building Online Communities for Youth”

Jeff Utecht
“Online Professional Development”

James Folkestad
“Changing a System: Network Centric Learning Communities”

Sharon Peters, Vincent Jansen
“Building a Yardstick for PD Success: Establishing Key Performance Indicators for Web 2.0 Personal Optimized Learning Environments”

Vinnie Vrotny
“Expanding Horizons – Engaging the Adult Members of your Community (Teachers, Administrators, and Parents) through the Use of Personal/Professional Learning Networks”

Alex Ragone and Arvind Grover
“EdTechTalk: A Network of Homegrown Webcasters”

Obstacles to Opportunities:

Patrick Ledesma
“The Technology Specialist as Teacher Leader: Strategies to Ensure Successful Technology Integration and Student Learning in Schools”

Ben Wilkoff
“Starting From Scratch: Framing Change for All Stakeholders”

Karen Richardson
“Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age”

Shawn Nutting
“Creating a Paradigm Shift in Technology”

Lisa Durff
“Pushing the Envelope or How to Integrate Web 2.0 Tools on a Shoestring”

John Pearce
“Me blog? No way!!!”

Sylvia Martinez
“Web 2.0 Share the Adventure”

Joseph Bires
“Acceptable Use and the Web 2.0″

Sylvia Martinez
“Challenging Assumptions about Technology Professional Development”

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A Warm Thank You to our “Blind” Peer Reviewers

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We had almost 90 different proposals submitted for K12 Online 2007; 36 were selected for the conference. We wanted to ensure that every proposal had a fair chance of being selected for the conference. This is how we did it “¦

Each convener found 3 or 4 volunteers who were educators to act as peer reviewers in their strand. With the close date for submissions, each convener sent the peer review committee members a summary of the proposals that had been submitted for that strand. Each convener organized this a little differently. In some cases the committees knew the other reviewers for their strand, in other cases they didn’t. The peer reviewers, based on the titles and abstracts submitted, chose the best 9 proposals in their strand. In most cases this was a very difficult task.

We structured the process this way in order to avoid both the appearance and possibility of bias by making the selections ourselves. We chose educators who were diverse in terms of their teaching subjects, levels and geography.

How do you properly thank people who agreed to be blind reviewers for K12 Online 2007 whose identities for obvious reasons are not published? We wanted to publicly thank you. You know who you are”¦ thank you; without you this conference would never happen. Your role is an integral part of K12 Online and we are most grateful.