Category Archives: Announcements

Welcome to day five of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 5 presentations include:

Story Time:

Growing Tech Enabled Leaders by Zoe Branigan-Pipe, Dr. Camille Rutherford, Kyle Tuck

What If the Story Changed? by David Jakes

Team Captains:

Lead the World by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay

Coaching for ICT Integration by Anne Fox

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

Welcome to day three of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 3 presentations include:

Story Time:

Computer Based Math by David Wees

Tradigital History: Bringing the Past Alive by Dr. James Beeghley

Team Captains:

Hardware is not Enough – The Teacher/Facilitator Partnership by Kim Cofino & Chrissy Hellyer

When Leadership and Learning Collide by Dave Edwards

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

Welcome to day two of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 2 presentations include:

Team Captains:

Building a Uniquely Montana Program: The Montana Digital Academy by Jason Neiffer

Get in the Game – Learning, Leading and Play by Shannon Smith

Story Time:

How Do I Know I Made A Difference? (an audio story) by Ben Hazzard

The Black Line Mystery – a story about the most complicated chinese character known to mankind and its community by Jess McCulloch

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

Welcome to day one of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 1 presentations include:

Story Time Keynote:
The World’s Craziest Educational Videos Featuring ds106 by Jim Groom and Tom Woodward

Team Captains Keynote:
Playing in Public by George Couros

Story Time:
When Learning Becomes an Event! by Andy McKiel

Team Captains:
The World is My Classroom by Anne Mirtschin

Remember certificates for professional development credit are available this year! If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal!

Have a question you’d like our presenters to answer during our closing “Afterglow” live event? Please submit/share it and vote on questions submitted by others in our K12Online11 Google Moderator Poll.

Did you know that the K12 Online Conference offers PD certificates for adding to the conversation around K12 Online sessions? To find out all you need to know, you can click on the Professional Development link at the top of this page.

Here are the important facts about how to get a certificate to submit to your work place. It’s up to your work place as to whether they will credit you the hours.

• Listen / Watch one of the sessions.
• Reflect on it – make a podcast, create a voicethread, make a movie, write a blog post, write a thoughtful comment on the blog post that features the session to let people know what you got out of the session and how you are going to use this in your situation. More detailed guidelines can be found here.
• Submit a link to your response via this form.
• You will then get a link to where you can find your certificate.

You will have to submit the certificate along with a copy of your reflection or the url which links to it to the appropriate people in your work place. We can issue the certificate. It’s up to them if they will grant the credit hours.

We hope you will add to the conversation. It is through “talking” with others that we all learn and grow. So your response will not only help you, it will help get us all thinking, too!

Please join organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference on Classroom 2.0 Live this Saturday, November 12, 2011 for an invigorating conversation about this year’s conference! Local times in North America for this live webinar will be:

• 9:00am Pacific
• 10:00am Mountain
• 11:00am Central
• 12:00pm Eastern

Use this time converter link to determine the time in your local area if you live outside these time zones. We’ll meet in Elluminate Live/Blackboard Collaborate. Use this link (or this longer one) to connect “live” to the webinar. Complete details are on live.classroom20.com. Hope you can join us to learn about this year’s “Afterglow Live Event” and more elements which will make this year’s conference on “Purposeful Play” in the classroom an outstanding professional development opportunity!

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The organizer team of the 2011 K-12 Online conference is pleased to announce our outstanding lineup of keynote speakers for this year! We are also happy to share our 2011 marketing flyer (available in PDF) which provides information about the dates of this year’s conference, our theme, and our keynoters. Selected presenters will be announced next week. Please share this marketing flyer with other educators you know!

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The 2011 K-12 Online Conference theme is “Purposeful Play,” and this year our conference will be entirely asynchronous. This means we will not have any “live events,” but all presentations will be posted online for participants to view and comment on days and at times of their choosing. As in the past, all conference presentations will be available for online viewing as well as offline/mobile viewing via our iTunesU channel.

Our 2011 conference will start on Monday, November 21, 2011 with an inspiring pre-conference keynote by Angela Maiers. Angela blogs at www.angelamaiers.com.

Following Angela’s pre-conference keynote the week of November 21st, four different educators will share keynotes in the strands of our conference. Our 2011 keynote speakers are:

• Chris Craft, in Sandbox Play. Chris blogs on “Crucial Thought.”
• George Couros, in Team Captains. George blogs on “The Principal of Change.”
• Carol Broos, in Level Up. Carol blogs on “Be a Techie.”
• Jim Groom and Tom Woodward, in Story Time. Jim blogs on “bavatuesdays.” Tom blogs on “Bionic Teaching.”

Next week we’ll be announcing our 36 selected presenters of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference, who will round out our strands with 9 more presentations per strand, for a total of ten presentations each. Overall this year we’ll have 41 presentations including the pre-conference keynote.

Our first “regular” conference week will be November 29 – December 2, and week 2 of the conference will be December 5 – 9.

In addition to sharing this announcement about our exciting lineup of keynote speakers, I also want to give a word of thanks for our WONDERFUL organizer team this year for K-12 Online. Our organizers in 2011 include:

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

This year I’m convening “Team Captains.” This group of organizers is a super bunch to work with, and their hard work is appreciated.

Look for some upcoming changes to our websites and conference procedures this year as well. We’re working on simplifying things. It’s going to be a GREAT K-12 Online Conference in 2011.

Many thanks to Naomi Harm for designing and creating our conference marketing flyer this year.