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2013

K12Online13 Day 4 Presentations: 24 October, 2013

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Welcome to day four of the 2013 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

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Day 4 presentations include:

OPEN LEARNING

Brendan Murphy: Open Online Experience

Vanessa Gennarelli: Radically Learner-Centered: Badges at P2PU

Harry Brake: Social /Library Media Project Based Learning

OUTSIDE LEARNING

Luis Perez: Photography for All

Janine Campbell: Transforming your Classroom from the Outside In

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2013 Open Learning

Social /Library Media Project Based Learning

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Presenter: Harry Brake, Hay Chhoem, Alexandria Smith, Jack Little, Danielle J., Alexandra Salaman, Natalia Clarke
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
@RepentinoMag

Presentation Title: Social /Library Media Project Based Learning

Presentation Description: With incorporating the skills of a 21st Century Library and the activation of Social Media, armed with a collection of students wanting to make changes, project-based learning can soar above all expectations. By initiating a school-wide project through the magazine Repentino., students begin to use the tools of 21st Century Literacies to communicate with the worlds outside of their own country as well as within.

Through the power of showing that art is not ornamental, but fundamental to project-based learning, providing an arena for learning through the internet as well as in the real world, and implementing 21st Century skills as problem solving, creativity, analytical thinking, collaboration, communication, ethics, action, and accountability, these students show that the sky is the limit with the correct approach to education.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

PAVEing a Blog
Repentino magazine on Tumblr
Repentino on Twitter
Repentino on Facebook

Additional Information:
In publishing the 2012-2013 Repentino, the second year of a renewed literary/art magazine, now reaching the world, students have learned the following: Inventing, creating, designing a Gala to promote this publication, creating organizational documents on Trello, Google Docs, Dropbox, Google Hangouts, and InDesign to move a project-based Initiative forward. In addition, students have created their own Google email attached to the magazine, worked through Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook to promote the magazine and continue to get the word out in promoting their magazine.

In doing so, the platform is being set to be a social and cultural influence on various cultures, to obtaining a better understanding of the needs of other cultures, through the vehicle of a magazine. This has been stage one, establishing a permanent foundation for the magazine, and phase two will be impacting social change with various cultures once a mass population is familiar with Repentino; ultimately using ART as the key component of communication through the above-mentioned tools will change the power of these students in the process.

Contacts for this project can be the below:

See above and also contact us at asflitmag@gmail.com

2013 Open Learning

Radically Learner-Centered: Badges at P2PU

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Presenter: Vanessa Gennarelli
Location: Brooklyn, NY
@mozzadrella

Presentation Title: Radically Learner-Centered: Badges at P2PU

Presentation Description: How can your students use Badges in the classroom? P2PU has built a learner-centered platform for your classroom community to give feedback to each other and recognize skills.

Peer 2 Peer University has a different take on measurement: we see assessment and learning as one loop, with peers constantly giving feedback to each other and learning in that process.

As such, we’ve build a very different kind of assessment platform: our Badges enable feedback and conversations. This presentation will walk through our platform and present a use case in how Youth Voices Summer Program used Badges for learners to assess each other.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.slideshare.net/VanessaGennarelli/radically-learnercentered-p2pu-and-badges#btnPrevious

Additional Information:
Vanessa Gennarelli is a qualitative researcher, learning designer and maker of things. She’s the Learning Lead for Peer 2 Peer University, a grassroots group leading experiments in how we learn online. She’s worked on innovative projects such as the Mechanical MOOC and Badges for Lifelong Learning. She holds a Master’s of Education from Harvard University and is a former Research Intern with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. You can contact her directly at mozzadrella.me, @mozzadrella or vanessa@p2pu.org.

2013 Outside Learning

Transforming your Classroom from the Outside In

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Presenter: Janine Campbell
Location: Dorr, MI
@campbellartsoup

Presentation Description: This presentation explores the following three ways to broaden the horizon of learning outside of the classroom walls: 1. Connecting and Collaborating, 2. Field Trips, 3. Guests. Through examples of each method, teachers will walk away with a variety of steps they can take to look for opportunities to bring outside learning into their classroom using both digital and traditional methods. The use of online tools to engage in outside learning like twitter, Skype, and Artsonia will be explained and specific examples of how those tools were used in the classroom will be shown. Student engagement will also be at the center of this presentation.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.janinecampbell.weebly.com

Additional Information:
www.janinecampbell.weebly.com
www.bcwmsart.weebly.com

2013 Open Learning

Open Online Experience

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Presenter: Brendan Muprhy
Location: McHenry, IL
@dendari

Presentation Title: Open Online Experience

Presentation Description: Using a connectivist Massive Open Online Course (cMOOC) to facilitate a truly differentiated professional development.

What is connectivism?

Why it works so well for teacher professional development.

How to organize your own course.

Getting involved.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Cl2W1N0SE6ckQBUWuxlIKbjY1GnjoRXncq_29cF2UcA/edit?usp=sharing

Additional Information:
The Open Online Experience is continuing until May 2014. anyone with an interest in education is welcome to join the learning. http://www.ooe13.org/

2013 Outside Learning

Photography for All

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Presenter: Luis Perez
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
@luisfperez

Presentation Description: The saying from photographer Chase Jarvis that the “best camera is the one you have with you” captures the power of mobile devices as tools for documenting our lives through photography in ways that were not possible before. Today’s mobile devices, including the iPhone and the iPad, have the ability to capture images that rival the quality of those taken with traditional cameras, but in a package that is portable and easy to use for many students who would not otherwise be able to use a camera. For students with disabilities, these devices support a number of accessibility features that make photography more accessible than ever. For example, students with visual disabilities can use facial recognition along with the VoiceOver screen reader to take an image even if they are not able to see what is shown on the iPad or iPhone’s screen. Similarly, students with cognitive and motor impairments can use adaptive devices along with the new Switch Control feature in iOS 7 to interact with their touchscreen devices.

This presentation will include a number of ideas for incorporating photography into the curriculum to engage all learners, tips and tricks for how to get the most out of the camera on your mobile devices, and demonstrations of how to use the camera with the built-in accessibility features of the iPad and other iOS devices. The presenter will share his workflow for mobile photography as well as photos from his own collection that show how someone with a significant visual impairment can be a photographer with the right tools and supports.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr32/1/fr320106.htm

Additional Information:
New York Times article featuring presenter and his work as a photographer and advocate for people with disabilities:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/disruptions-guided-by-touch-screens-blind-turn-to-smartphones-for-sight/

2013

K12Online13 Day 3 Presentations: 23 October, 2013

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Welcome to day three of the 2013 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

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Day 3 presentations include:

OPEN LEARNING

Alan Hudson: The planning and development of a free online resource – “˜A Trifling History of the Moving Image’

Bill Fitzgerald: Bread and Butter: Civilization, Toast, and Open Content

OUTSIDE LEARNING

Tricia Fulgelstad: Making and Sharing Fugleflicks (student-created, art-related movies)

Leslie Pralle Keehn: 5 Themes of Geography: Local to Global

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 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 #k12online13.

2013 Open Learning

The planning and development of a free online resource – ‘A Trifling History of the Moving Image’.

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Presenter: Alan Hudson
Location: Wells, Somerset, UK
alanhudson.org

Presentation Title: The planning and development of a free online resource – “˜A Trifling History of the Moving Image’

Presentation Description: Virtual worlds can be used as exciting environments for learning and can be automated to enable students to learn when they want, alone or with their classmates. Virtual world environments can give students a more immersive and engaging experience than other online resources. New Synthetic Theatre has been running for over a year with its first two shows, “˜Ninety Nine Percent’ and “˜Jabba Jabba Jabba’, and the third show “˜The Flood’ the story of the deluge in Gilgamesh, is currently being developed.

The next show to be created “˜A Trifling History of the Moving Image’, a free show funded by Kick-starter, will be a 3D animated lecture in which the students’ avatars help tell the history of story telling and how changing technologies have changed the way we tell stories. Beginning with bards around the campfire and ending in 3D movies and New Synthetic Theatre. The sound track will be made collaboratively using voices of contributors from around the world, emailed and then edited together.

The K12 video will explain the techniques and principles behind New Synthetic Theatre and how these will be applied in “˜A Trifling History of the Moving Image’. Kickstarter funding will eliminate the need for paid tickets, making the system more inclusive and allow teachers and students from anywhere in the world to learn together and use the resource anytime they like needing only a computer and an internet connection.

This could be the first of many open-licensed, shareable online resources within New Synthetic Theatre.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://mralanhudson.wordpress.com/k12-2013-supporting-docs/

Additional Information:
Alan Hudson began in IT as a programmer and then later worked as a lecturer at various UK Universities, mostly at London Metropolitan University teaching IT multimedia and E-Learning, He also makes stained glass windows and lamps and is a freelance developer working mostly in Second Life. He has worked on a number of large Second Life projects including “˜The 3D Warehouse’ and New Synthetic Theatre.

See alanhudson.org

2013 Open Learning

Bread and Butter: Civilization, Toast, and Open Content

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Presenter: Bill Fitzgerald
Location: Portland, OR, US
@funnymonkey

Presentation Title: Bread and Butter: Civilization, Toast, and Open Content

Presentation Description: This presentation takes an initial idea – how to make butter in 15 minutes – and traces how to bring this initial concept into a set of openly licensed resources that can be used in a World Cultures class. The session is focused on process, so the techniques described can be used across grade levels.

The session covers planning, with an introduction to licensing and publishing.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http://funnymonkey.com/blog/bread-and-butter-civilization-toast-and-open-content-notes-k12opened

Additional Information:
We have covered the process of authoring open content and licensing works in additional detail in these blog posts.

2013 Outside Learning

5 Themes of Geography: Local to Global

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Presenter: Leslie Pralle Keehn
Location: Blairsburg, Iowa, USA
@lprallekeehn

 

Presentation Description: In a year-long focus on the 5 themes, students first developed local, personal videos that put them out in the community. We shared this project with other districts, publishing their videos and viewing videos of other classrooms as well. Later, they Skyped with a gentleman from India, living in South Africa, who traveled around the poorest regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. With him, they learned about and discussed the 5 themes along with the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, taking their learning global. Finally the year-long study culminated in the students producing projects based on personal interest in other countries around the world, using the 5 themes video format from the beginning of the year.

Follow the journey of 7th grade students in rural Iowa who took the 5 themes of geography from local to global as they learned about and connected with cultures around the globe, incorporating creation, connection, collaboration, and change along the way.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1YDToeFsneoy8LyBJZiBvSfoSWDSs-iIc-GT1HqKXc/edit

Additional Information:
http://keehnedtech.blogspot.com
http://www.rethinkredesign.org