Category Archives: Announcements

image source

Fireside Chats- Virtual Style Join the conference organizers and the keynote speakers in free wheeling open-ended chats in Elluminate. One chat will follow the pre-conference keynote. Two others will be scheduled during the two weeks of the conference presentations. This is open to anyone interested in participating. A link to the chat will be published on the blog well before the time we’ll get together. Ask the keynotes about their presentation and share your thoughts and ideas about the other presentations seen that week. This is an opportunity for all presenters and participants to get together and discuss anything on your mind.

image source

When Night Falls Our culminating event, When Night Falls, is a chain of several 1 or 2 hour long Elluminate sessions stretching over a 24 hour period; a 24 hour continuous K12 Online coffee break! The purpose of When Night Falls is twofold: To give participants an opportunity to share reflections, to build networks and relationships and to make connections with each other. Hopefully, some of the connections people make at K12 Online will grow into global collaborations for students and support networks for all of us as we continue to push the envelope of teaching and learning in the 21st century. To get feedback on this year’s conference as we begin to plan for next year. Volunteer moderators plan and implement the sessions which are loosely structured to encourage open ended conversations.

This is a FREE conference open to ANYONE organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape. Please see the “For Participants: Getting Started” page on our conference wiki to get started with the K-12 Online Conference. If you are a vendor or affiliated with a vendor, please see our Goals and Values page for clarification about vendor participation.

In past years we have use three primary websites for our conference. This year (2011) we’ll be using primarily our blog, which is this website.

1. Our conference Ning is our conversation hub.
2. Our conference blog (this site) is used to share announcements and news.
3. Our conference wiki provides information to help participants and presenters get the most out of our conference.

During the conference each year, presentations are cross-posted to both our conference blog and conference Ning. Archived conference presentations and live events are also available. In addition to scheduled live events, asynchronous discussions surrounding conference presentations and activities can be posted on individual conference presentation blog posts and in the Ning discussion forum. In addition, participants are encouraged to post about, cross-link to, and embed conference presentations and content. The official 2010 “tag” for blog posts, Flickr images is k12online10. The official twitter hash tag for this year’s conference is #k12online10.

Our WONDERFUL keynote speakers and strand presenters make our conference an outstanding and ongoing learning experience for educators worldwide. More information is available about our 2010 keynote speakers and 2010 strand presenters.

The K-12 Online Conference is a total volunteer effort and is envisioned, planned and implemented by 4 co-conveners, several volunteers who also serve as organizers, and a small group of subcommittees.

2011 Conference Organizers

• Peggy George
• Susan van Gelder
• Kim Caise
• Jose Rodriguez (convening “Sandbox Play”)
• Ginger Lumen (convening “Level Up”)
• Darren Kuropatwa (convening “Story Time”)
• Wesley Fryer (convening “Team Captains”)

2010 Co-Conveners

• Amanda Marrinan is a primary years teacher in Brisbane, Australia. She tweets as @marragem and blogs with her students at 2mgems.blogspot.com. Amanda convenes our 2010 “Week in the Classroom” strand.
• Jose Rodriguez: is a third grade teacher in Los Angeles, California, actively promoting tech use in the elementary classroom, webcasting on the worldbridges network, exploring language learning on the web, and reaching out to educators in the Spanish speaking community. He tweets as @coordinatortwo. Jose convenes the 2010 “Leading the Change” strand.
• Maria Knee is an experienced educator and sees herself as both a teacher and a learner. She teaches kindergarten in Deerfield, New Hampshire. She connects her students to the world through a classroom blog and skype chats, and she webcasts on the worldbridges network. Maria is @mariak on Twitter. She is the recipient of the 2008 Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-based PK-2 Education sponsored by ISTE. Maria convenes the 2010 “Kicking It Up a Notch” strand.
• Wesley Fryer is an educator, author, digital storyteller and educational change agent. He is a university instructor and the director of the non-profit “Story Chasers Inc.” Wes blogs at www.speedofcreativity.org and tweets as @wfryer. Wesley convenes the 2010 “Student Voices” strand.

In addition to our co-conveners, our 2010 conference is led by three organizers who also put MANY hours into the planning and coordination of our conference. Our 2010 organizer team includes our four conference conveners and:

• Kim Caise has been in education for over twenty years as a teacher and technology specialist. She is a national board certified teacher in the area of technology education and recently received a Master of Education in Technology and Learning. She is a co-host for the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars, and a co-editor for the EdTechTalk newsletters. Kim blogs at http://kcaise.wordpress.com and serves as a Fable Vision Ambassador, on the Texas DEN Leadership Council and Community Facilitator for LearnCentral. Kim is currently the Flat Classroom™ Project Administrator, tweets (and Plurks) as @kcaise and is co-chairing the 2010 Conference Live Events Committee.
• Peggy George is a retired elementary school principal and university pre-service instructor in Phoenix, AZ. Her passion is to explore technology innovations and social networking opportunities for engaging students/teachers in powerful interactive learning experiences, and to share these resources with other educators. She is a co-host for the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars, the monthly AzTEA Mini-Geekfests, and a co-editor for the EdTechTalk newsletters. She tweets as @pgeorge and is co-chairing the 2010 Conference Archivist Committee.
• Susan van Gelder worked for many years as a technology teacher in an elementary school. Now she gives workshops for teachers and supports educational projects across Quebec through face to face and online mentoring. She has been interested in online collaboration and has involved students in projects starting in the late 1980s. She has a photo blog and tweets as @susanvg. Susan is the host of the K12 Online Echo at EdTechTalk.

The live events for the 2010 Conference have been organized by the following Live Events Committee members:

• Kim Caise
• Susan van Gelder
• Peggy George
• Connie Swiderski
• Andrew Ziobro
• Drew Buddie
• Nan Williams

Archived versions of our conference “about” page from 2009 and 2008 are available. All our conference organizers, past and present, wish to express appreciation and thanks to the MANY people who have  contributed and continue to contribute to make our conference a successful learning experience for everyone!

UPDATE:
We believe the glitch in the proposal form is corrected.

If you did not receive a confirmation email from Lani on June 19, please resubmit your proposal. Then contact Lani by email (lanihall {at} alltel {dot} net) to verify it’s been received. The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, June 22.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

There has been a bit of a glitch with the proposal submission form. It seems it is only accepting one submission from each IP address. The last submission overwrites the earlier written material.

The deadline for submissions is extended until Friday, June 22.

For all who made or would like to make multiple proposal submissions:
1. Your final submission has been received.
2. Please email any other submissions to the convener of the strand for which the proposal is submitted.

To all who have not yet submitted a proposal:
1. The deadline is extended until Friday, June 22.
2. You’re encouraged to submit a proposal to present. Personal Learning Networks, in particular, could benefit from your expertise.

With only 7 days left to submit proposals, Darren, Sheryl, Wes and I are honored to announce the keynotes for K12 Online 2007. We eagerly anticipate the kick off of the conference and each strand by the following distinguished and accomplished educators. “New Tools” features 3 co-keynoters.

	Preconference Keynote: David Warlick David Warlick, a 30 year educator,has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting, and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His web site, Landmarks for Schools, serves more than ten-million visits a month with some of the most popular teacher tools available on the Net. David is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, and has spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. David blogs at http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/.
	Classroom 2.0: Clarence Fisher Clarence has been a classroom teacher for the past 13 years. He blogs professionally at remoteaccess.typepad.com, with his class at mr-fisher.edublogs.org and has spoken at conferences across North America. Clarence has won several awards, including one of Canada’s highest teaching awards, the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching for his integration of technology into daily classroom life. Clarence’s innovative classroom practices have been featured online, in books, magazines, and newspaper articles. He is an advocate of classroom 2.0, learning spaces that take complete advantage of the tools that are available to learners in their quest to learn rather than having school be something that is done to them.
	New Tools: The Three Amigos: Alan Levine Alan Levine Vice President, NMC Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 250 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression. He is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web going back to 1993. Alan blogs at http://cogdogblog.com.
	New Tools: The Three Amigos: Brian Lamb Brian Lamb is Manager, Emerging Technologies and Digital Content with the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia. He teaches a course on “Text Technologies” for UBC’s Master of Educational Technology Program. He is also a Research Fellow with Utah State University’s Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. Brian maintains his weblog Abject Learning http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/, where he mutters ll-tempered observations on social learning, open education, disruptive technologies and other such things.
	New Tools: The Three Amigos: D’Arcy Norman D’arcy Norman is a software developer at the Teaching & Learning Centre, a service department at The University of Calgary. In his current primary role, as an educational technology developer, he explores new technologies and works with faculty to implement tools for blended learning. He has also been involved in the open source development of the Pachyderm project, an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. D’Arcy spends a fair amount of time thinking (and rethinking) about the concept of control and copyright, and how they might affect academia. D’Arcy blogs at http://www.darcynorman.net.
	Personal Learning Networks: Derek Wenmoth Derek is currently the Director of eLearning at CORE Education Ltd based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has a broad background in education, with experience at the primary and secondary school level, and as a teacher educator. He was manager of the eSection at The Correspondence School in Wellington and is currently an adviser to the Ministry of Education. Derek is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, and maintains a regular blog where he shares his ideas and thinking across a range of areas relating to the use of ICT in teaching and learning. Derek blogs at http://blog.core-ed.net/derek.
	Obstacles to Opportunities: Brian Cosby Brian Crosby, an elementary teacher for 26 years, teaches fifth grade in Sparks, Nevada, and has infused technology into teaching since the 1980’s. While piloting a 1:1 laptop program, students in his class utilize many Web 2.0 tools including Skype, Fiickr, blogs and wikis. His award winning student produced video about including a classmate that couldn’t attend school using video-conferencing software has been downloaded by thousands. Brian teaches several popular tech classes for teachers in his role as a Nevada Writing Project Consultant. You can try keeping up with him on his blog “Learning Is Messy” at http://www.learningismessy.com/blog/.

We strongly encourage you to join these educators at the conference by sharing your take on “playing with boundaries” in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! It’s time to submit your proposal. The deadline is June 18, only 7 days away!

For your convenience, you can find the initial call for proposals here and the link to the proposals submission form is here.

Please share the K12 Online Conference with others by adding the following HTML code to your blog, wiki, or other webpage:

This code should display the following badge with a link to our main conference blog:

Your Turn at Adding to the Conversation

We have created a 2007 conference wiki! The intent is to make this collaborative space the place where we all enter the conversation.

This is YOUR wiki.

Please feel free to add pages and resources that relate to the four strands of the conference. If you have a presentation or resource that would be of interest around these topics then …PLEASE share. If you wanted to submit an abstract or if you submitted one that wasn’t chosen by our blind review committees- then share it here! Let’s all build together and see what an incredible time we can have.

Tools for Participants (viewing presentations)

Here is a list of plug-ins you might need to download to listen/watch the presentations:

Program	PC	Mac
Flash Player (.swf)	Download	Download
QuickTime (.mov)	Download	Download
Windows Media Video (.wmv)	Download	Download
MP4 Files	Use Quicktime	Use Quicktime

Tools for presenters are included on the main presenter’s page.

Please sign our guestbook by adding a comment and include:

• Your name
• Your location
• Your educational role
• Any comments you have about the conference!

Also remember to add your name and location to our 2008 Google Map.

Thanks!

One primary goal of the K12 Online Conference is to foster professional connections among educators around the globe. Toward that end, the following tools and resources are provided for use by 2007 conference participants:

1. A conference guestbook
2. A conference Geo map
3. A conference wiki