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K12Online12 Day 5 Presentations: 26 October 2012

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

Day 5 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Shelly Sanchez Terrell
The Magic of Mobile Learning

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

Jane Krauss
Make Meaning with Wolfram Alpha

If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.

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K12Online12 Day 4 Presentations: 25 October 2012

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

Day 4 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Valerie Burton
Show off your work online using Weebly.com

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

Bud Hunt
Make/Hack/Play: Lenses for Learning

If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.

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K12Online12 Day 3 Presentations: 24 October 2012

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

Day 3 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Rodd Lucier
7 Degrees of Connectedness

Jeremy Friedberg
Beyond Elearning: Online Teaching Platforms

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

April Chamberlain, Shawn Nutting and Ammie Akin
Creating Learning Experiences without the Textbook

Ian Sands
How Technology Helped Me Paint With Mud

If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.

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K12Online12 Day 2 Presentations: 23 October 2012

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

Day 2 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Paula L. Naugle and Jan Wells
Leveraging Social Media to Flatten Your Classroom Walls

Elaine Plybon
Leveraging the Power of Social Media in the Classroom

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

Jon Bergmann
Implementing the Flipped Classroom

Alan Hudson
Virtual Worlds for Immersive, Media Rich Educational Shared Environments

If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.

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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!

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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

If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.

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Live Event Opportunities for K12 Online 2012

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This year for the 2012 K-12 Online Conference, our organizer and volunteer team is providing FOUR different live event opportunities. Unlike the past, we will not be holding synchronous/live “fireside chat” events in Blackboard Collaborate with specific presenters. When you tweet about the conference this year, please use the hashtag #k12online12 and follow the conversations using that hashtag.

Friday, October 5: Join the  #connectedPD Twitter Chat on Friday, October 5th at 9 am PDT /  10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT. Use your favorite Twitter client to participate, just make sure you include the hashtag #connectedPD so everyone else will see your messages. The free website TweetChat (http://tweetchat.com) is excellent for Twitter chats. Read more information about #connectedPD on http://connectedpd.posterous.com/pages/events.

Saturday, October 13: Join the Classroom 2.0 LIVE Community for a webinar preview of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference.  Organizers will discuss what’s new in this year’s conference, “Learn, Share and Remix.” Get a taste of the presentations coming in our strands this year, Getting Started, Visioning New Curriculum, Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices. Also learn about our dynamic pre-conference keynote presentation, to be shared by Kevin Honeycutt. The homepage of Classroom 2.0 LIVE (http://live.classroom20.com) will have the direct Blackboard Collaborate links the week prior to this show.

Friday, November 2: Join the  #connectedPD Twitter Chat on Friday, November 2nd at 9 am PDT /  10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT to discuss the K-12 Online Conference. This is the last official day of our conference. Read more information about #connectedPD on http://connectedpd.posterous.com/pages/events.

Sunday, November 4: Join the final live event of our conference, in the weekly “Learning2gether” webinar with facilitator Vance Stevens at 7 am PST / 8 am MST / 9 am CST / 10 am EST. Note this will take place the morning of the time change! These times will reflect one hour of “falling back,” so consider this a test of your time zone skills! We hope you’ll join. Learn more on: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded

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Announcing K-12 Online 2012 Presenters

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Please join the organizers of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference in congratulating our selected presenters for this year’s conference! As in past years, our conference is organized into four strands. Each strand has an invited keynote speaker and nine additional selected speakers. Our conference begins October 15th with a pre-conference keynote presentation by Kevin Honeycutt. Strands for 2012 are:

Week of Oct 22 – 25: Getting Started and Visioning New Curriculum
Week of Oct 29 – Nov. 2: Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices

GETTING STARTED:

Gail Desler and Natalie Bernasconi
Placerville, California, USA and Spreckels, California, USA
Keynote

Valerie Burton
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Show Off Your Work Online Using Weebly.Com

Courtney Calfee
Orlando, Florida, USA
Best Practices for Collaborating in Online and Blended Environments

Jeremy Friedberg
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Beyond Elearning: Online Teaching Platforms

Karyn Keenan
Chicago, Illinois, USA
A Digital Journey with Primary Students and No Budget!

Anna Marie Lindemann
Livingston, Texas, USA
Easy To Use Web 2.0 Tools

Rodd Lucier
Komoka, Ontario, Canada
7 Degrees of Connectedness

Paula L. Naugle and Jan Wells
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and Meriden, Kansas, USA
Leveraging Social Media to Flatten Your Classroom Walls

Elaine Plybon
Bedford, Texas, USA
Leveraging the Power of Social Media in the Classroom

Shelly Sanchez Terrell
San Antonio, Texas, USA
The Magic of Mobile Learning

 

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM:

Karen Fasimpaur
Portal, Arizona, USA
Keynote

Jon Bergmann
Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
Implementing the Flipped Classroom

Erika Burton
Glencoe, Illinois, USA
Parent Involvement: How do we provide them with what they need in early literacy?

April Chamberlain, Shawn Nutting and Ammie Akin
Trussville, Alabama, USA
Creating Learning Experiences without the Textbook

Patrick Fogarty
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Going One-to-One

Alan Hudson
Wells, Somerset, United Kingdom
Virtual Worlds for Immersive, media rich educational shared environments.

Bud Hunt
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Make/Hack/Play: Lenses for Learning

Jane Krauss
Eugene, Oregon USA
Make Meaning with Wolfram Alpha

Ian Sands
Apex, North Carolina, USA
How Technology Helped Me Paint With Mud

David Simpson
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Digital Mash-ups: Exercise Books in the 21st Century

 

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH:

Mathew Needleman
Los Angeles, California, USA
Keynote

Robert Appino
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Speak up! Transforming Classroom Discussions

Glenda Baker
Tokyo, Japan
Thinking Big About Learning

Richard Beach and Jill Castek
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and Portland, Oregon USA
Using iOS App Affordances to Foster Literacy Learning in the Classroom

Janine Campbell
Dorr, Michigan, USA
Remixing What Teaching Looks Like Thorugh Blended Learning

Patrick Fogarty
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Creating a Cloud Classroom

Tricia Fuglestad
Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
Teaching Art in a Technology Rich and Connected Classroom

Naomi Harm
Brownville, Minnesota, USA
Seven Habits of Highly Effective PD Learning Experiences

Scott Merrick
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Teach/Learn in Virtual Worlds: World Class Innovations

Susan Oxnevad
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

 

STUDENT VOICES:

Tiana Kadkhoda
Santa Monica, California, USA
Keynote

Kyle Dunbar
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Authentic Voices

Alexander Fryer
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Creating and Playing in Minecraft

Kim Herron
Inman, Kansas, USA

Audrey McGoldrick
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Beaucoup de Cool Student Projects

Ben Rimes
St. Joseph, Michigan, USA
Video Story Problems

Robert Sbaglia
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Using Writing to Empower Students to Participate in A Global Community

Bronwyn Stuckey
Sydney, Australia
Quest Atlantis: Student Design and Ownership

Taylor Tracy
Buhler, Kansas, USA
Integrating Technology into Education

Brad Wilson
Redford, Michigan, USA
Student News Teams: Telling the Story

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Announcing K12Online12 Keynoters, Conference Flyer & HashTag #k12online12

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The organizer team for the 2012 K-12 Online Conference is pleased to announce our lineup of keynote speakers for this year, as well as a downloadable/printable conference flyer we invite you to share with other educators you know. In addition, we invite the K-12 Online Conference community to tweet about this year’s conference using the hashtag #k12online12. As we have in the past six years since K12Online started in 2006, our conference will continue to be primarily asynchronous, offering downloadable videos for participants to view at any time. We will also host several live events during this year’s conference weeks at the end of October. All conference dates are listed on our 2012 Schedule.

This year’s conference will kick off on October 15th with a keynote from Kevin Honeycutt. Kevin is currently serving his ninth year as a Technology Integration Specialist at Education Services & Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK). Kevin spent 13 years teaching art K-12 in public school and for 17 years spent summers leading creative adventure camps for kids of all ages. He is currently serving his second term for his local school board in Inman, Kansas. For the past four years he has hosted a creative learning site called ArtSnacks where he shares 150+ ten minute drawing videos that support standards curriculum. Kevin is an extremely creative, dynamic, and passionate educator and will inspire us with his pre-conference keynote as we explore new ways to learn, share, and remix in this year’s conference. Follow him on Twitter @kevinhoneycutt.

Gail Desler and Natalie Bernasconi will keynote our “Getting Started” strand, one of two strands to be shared the first full week of our conference October 22 – 25. For the past year, Gail and Natalie have been collaborating on and curating the Digital ID project, a wiki that provides students, teachers, and administrators with a toolkit of reliable information, resources, and guidelines to help us all learn how to be upstanding 21st century (digital) citizens – with students stepping up to “be the change.”  Gail is a technology integration specialist in the Elk Grove District in Elk Grove, California. Natalie is a middle school ELA/ELL teacher for the Salinas Union High School District and a UC Santa Cruz professor. Both are Teacher Consultants for the National Writing Project [Area 3 Writing Project (Gail); Central CA Writing Project (Natalie)]. They also participated in the 2011 MERIT program, where the seed for the Digital ID project was planted. Follow Gail and on Twitter @GailDesler and Natalie on Google + 

Karen Fasimpaur will keynote our second strand for week one of our 2012 conference, “Visioning New Curriculum.” This is a new and exciting strand for K-12 Online this year.  Karen has worked in education, including software and textbook publishing, for over 15 years, and also taught overseas in Africa. She is the creator of the Kids Open Dictionary Builder. The confluence of her experiences in educational  publishing and software development with the current state of technology, with massive collaboration and with circumstances in her own life have led Karen to become an outspoken advocate for open educational resources (OER) as the founder of K12OpenEd and the P2PU School of Ed. Read more about Karen’s ideas on her blog on K12OpenEd. Follow Karen on Twitter @kfasimpaur.

Mathew Needleman will keynote the “Kicking It Up a Notch” strand of our 2012 conference in week two, which will run Oct 29 – Nov 2.  Mathew has been integrating video production in the classroom for over a decade, focusing his work on low-income students and English Learners in the elementary grades.  He has been a teacher, literacy coach, reading intervention coordinator, and currently serves as an Instructional Technology Specialist for LAUSD.  He has presented for K12online twice in the past, sharing “Film School For Video Podcasters” in 2008 and “Steal This Preso! Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom” in 2009. Learn more about Mathew’s ideas on his blog, Creating Lifelong Learners. Follow Mathew on Twitter @mrneedleman.

Tiana Kadkhoda, aka “Paul,” will keynote our “Student Voices” strand during week 2 of our 2012 conference. Tiana had Eric Marcos as her middle school math teacher in Santa Monica, California, and developed skills in screencasting and publishing web videos alongside math skills as “Paul” on MathTrain.tv. Tiana and Eric have shared keynote addresses recently for educators at the Mobile Learning Experience 2012 Conference in Phoenix as well as the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston. If you think Sal Khan of Khan Academy is the primary model for digital learning in K12 schools, you’re in for a surprise. Tiana will share stories and experiences about how student-created videos and media can transform learning and equip students with digital literacy skills alongside traditional curriculum skills. Follow Tiana’s former middle school math teacher, Eric Marcos, on Twf

Please download and share our 2012 K-12 Online Conference Flyer via Scribd!

Also, please consider presenting for K-12 Online this year. We still need several more presenters in some of our strands, so we are keeping the proposal application form open through August 31st. We’ll announce presenters in our strands on September 15th.

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K12 Online Conference 2012 Call for Proposals: Learn, Share, Remix

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The 2012 K-12 Online Conference is coming to a computer near you soon! This year’s FREE online conference will take place the weeks of Oct 22 – 25 and Oct 29 – Nov. 2, with a pre-conference keynote on October 15th. The 2012 theme is, “Learn, Share, Remix.” Educators and students worldwide are invited to respond to our 2012 call for proposals. Presenters create twenty minute, engaging video presentations shared during our two week conference. Please check out some of last year’s presentations. The organizer team for this year’s conference selected “Learn, Share, Remix” for our theme because it embodies many of the ACTIONS we can model as 21st century teachers and students. We all want to model lifelong learning. Our digital connections afford us amazing opportunities to SHARE what we are learning along the way. REMIXING is the process taking knowledge and using it in creative and innovative ways. Remixers build on the work of others. REMIXING can also include transforming the ways we teach and learn. In each strand of our conference this year, we hope presenters will explore and model ways we can learn, share and remix our professional development.

'Don't Squeeze the Mixter!!' photo (c) 2008, Robert Nunnally - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Deadline for proposal submissions is June 15th at midnight PDT. Selections will be announced July 15th. Ten presentations will be featured in each of our four strands for 2012, for a total of forty presentations.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A PRESENTATION PROPOSAL.

Getting Started: Do you consider yourself a newcomer to the world of digital learning? This strand is for you. Presenters will focus on “the why and how” of using digital learning tools to connect with other learners, create new and exciting knowledge products, and engage students in an expanded learning process beyond the traditional “boundaries of the bell.” Practical classroom implementation ideas for beginners will be emphasized. Susan van Gelder is the convener.

Kicking it up a Notch: This strand amplifies ways new technologies can be used to transform classroom and personal learning. Rather than merely replicating traditional, analog-based learning tasks, how can digital technologies permit teacher-leaders to add greater interactivity, personal differentiation, and multi-modal exploration of curriculum topics? Presentations will explore innovative ways Web 2.0 tools can be blended together to help students create, collaborate, and share the knowledge safely on the global stage of the Internet. Jose Rodriguez is the convener.

Student Voices: This strand seeks to amplify voices of exemplary student leaders who use digital tools in their school communities as well as the larger world. Students can focus on specific project using technology to learn, outstanding classroom projects which have had a particularly positive impact on their and classmates’ learning, and/or recommendations for educators seeking to effectively use digital tools. A focus on project-based learning and service learning is welcome, but not required. Student presenters must be sponsored by an educator; permission forms will need to be signed by a parent for each presenting student. Ginger Lewman is the convener.

Visioning New Curriculum: As the age of paper-based textbooks adopted on multi-year cycles fades away, a new age beckons with a curriculum filled with multimedia resources and interactive simulations. This strand explores curriculum possibilities for accessing as well as sharing and remixing digital content. This will include OER (open educational resources) as well as commercial curriculum sources. What does the best “digital curriculum” today look like and what should it look like tomorrow? Should curriculum still be folded into “textbooks?” When should and how can teachers “flip” classroom learning? What’s your vision for innovative curriculum? Wesley Fryer is the convener.

We would love presenters to involve students and include student voices when appropriate in presentations. (Student participation is NOT required or expected, but is welcomed.)

The 2012 Conference: What’s the same?

  1. Price: Free!
  2. Basic format: Each weekday of the two weeks of the conference, four presentations (two per strand for that week) will “go live” / be published on our conference blog.
  3. Pre-Conference Keynote: Still the week prior to the “˜regular’ conference. this year it’s on October 15th.
  4. Presenters will share their presentation via a Ge.tt account. Strand conveners will handle the rest.
  5. Presenters are invited to include student voices and perspectives in their presentations in all strands.

The 2012 Conference: What’s different?

  1. We are re-igniting a separate “student voices” strand this year.
  2. Each year we try a different or experimental strand. This year it is “Visioning New Curriculum.”
  3. We are calling on our community to get more involved as volunteers in this year’s conference.

How Can You Help?

  1. Spread the word! Share #K12Online12 via your social networking connections, blogs, email, and face-to-face with colleagues!
  2. Submit a proposal to present! We love first-time presenters. It’s a 20 minute recorded presentation. Screencasting tools are better than ever today. You can do this. Hundreds of educators worldwide want to hear your ideas and your voice!
  3. Encourage others to present! Each year many of our submitted proposals come after someone sends a personal invitation. If you know a teacher who should present, ask them to submit a proposal!
  4. Volunteer! Our 2012 Call for Volunteers form is also available.

Volunteers are needed for the following committees:

  1. Public Relations Committee
  2. Professional Development Committee
  3. Conference Preservation Committee
  4. Live Events Committee

Your participation and voice is essential for the continued success of the K-12 Online Conference! Please get involved and spread the word about this year’s conference. We’re looking forward to YOUR participation as we learn, share and remix together!