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2012 Announcements

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

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2012 Visioning New Curriculum

How Technology Helped Me Paint With Mud

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Presenter: Ian Sands
Location: Apex, North Carolina USA
Twitter: @iansands

Presentation Description: In today’s high school art curriculum there is a separation between the visual art class and the technology class. The current high school art curriculum’s focus is on traditional media with very little integrated technology. Technology is separated from traditional visual art classes and given it’s own course titles such as Computer Art. Likewise, there is a separation in the selection of art medium. Though the art world has evolved to using a plethora of new materials, the majority of art class storage rooms are filled with pencils, tempera paint and other traditional media. Our challenge as art educators is twofold. First, merge new technology into our everyday art lessons. Second, share with students concepts and ideas that use both traditional materials as well as branch out to media traditionally not consider art material. In this presentation we will explore ways to incorporate technology into the full range of an art project. We will explore everything from jump starting the ideas, to developing maps and templates, to critiquing online and digital grading. Furthermore, we will accomplish this through the exploration of such nontraditional materials as post-it notes, glow sticks and mud.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com

Additional Information:
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Creating Learning Experiences without the Textbook

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Presenter: April Chamberlain, Shawn Nutting & Ammie Akin
Location: Trussville, Alabama USA
Twitter: @aprilpc

Presentation Description: Learn how teachers in Trussville, Alabama are creating learning experiences without the textbook using Livescribe for secondary math, teacher created elementary math videos, QR codes in books and around the school, virtual field trips, Socrative and educator collaborative space.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

  1. Trussville City Schools
  2. Paine Primary School
  3. Paine Intermediate School
  4. Hewitt-Trussville Middle School
  5. Hewitt-Trussville High School
  6. Livescribe Pens
  7. Smart Airliner
  8. Educreation App
  9. PowerPoint Saves as Video
  10. QR stuff
  11. I-nigma
  12. Charlene Hallman’s Virtual Field Trips
  13. Rachel Brockman’s Research sites
  14. Wix.com
  15. Socrative for teachers
  16. Socrative for students
  17. Edmodo
2012 Getting Started

Beyond eLearning: Online Teaching Platforms

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Presenter: Dr. Jeremy Friedberg
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Twitter: @spongelab

Presentation Description: What can platform technology do for eLearning? Platforms are what multimedia creators use to distribute their content to a user-base. In a learning context, platforms are also used to track and analyse the behaviour of users, in order to understand precisely how content is being consumed. In this talk, Dr. Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab Interactive discusses the concept of an online learning platform – a system that goes beyond eLearning and helps to stitch together the multiple, and often fragmented, parts of the teaching process. Following discussion of how platform technology fits into the classroom of the future, a tour of Spongelab.com offers an example of an online teaching platform built for personalized education.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.spongelab.com/globals/research.cfm

Additional Information:
Visit Spongelab.com for more information about our online teaching platform or follow us on Twitter @spongelab.

2012 Getting Started

7 Degrees of Connectedness

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Presenter: Rodd Lucier
Location: Komoka, Ontario, Canada
Twitter: @thecleversheep

Presentation Description: What is it for you that leads you to pay closer attention to the learners in your network? Do you feel close to those colleagues you interact with, even if you’ve never met? Are you more attuned to those people whose voices are amplified because you met at a conference; exchanged stories; shared a meal?

As our connections grow with online colleagues, we may find ourselves in qualitatively distinct relationships with co-learners. By sharing our ideas alongside details of our personal lives, we have a tendency to become more and more familiar to one another. Augment these connections with voices and imagery, and it can lead to deeper and more fulfilling connections.

In this presentation Rodd Lucier (AKA The Clever Sheep), invites you to walk along with a few of his colleagues who join him in reflecting on how modern tools are impacting our online relationships. The concept of ‘7 Degrees of Connectedness’ is introduced as one way to qualify the relationships we foster with online colleagues.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://moourl.com/7degrees

Additional Information:
http://thecleversheep.com

2012 Announcements

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.

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Virtual Worlds for Immersive, Media Rich Educational Shared Environments

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Presenter: Alan Hudson
Location: Somerset and London, United Kingdom
Twitter: @AlanNHudson

Presentation Description: Online virtual worlds enable the creation of immersive environments not possible in other media or in conventional classrooms. Real life reproductions of environments such as a court room for teaching law students, or burning buildings for training fire fighters are prohibitively expensive, and must consider the student’s health and safety. With videos we can create stimulating action packed images, but these are not interactive. Video creates experiences where the audience are distanced from the action. Virtual worlds create a more immersive and engaging experience for students, allow interaction and can be used by individual students or a whole class at a time. Four keys features we can exploit are:

  1. Little or no need to consider the health and safety of the students so we can expose the students to dangers we wouldn’t be allowed to in real life.
  2. The student can view the environment from many points of view.
  3. Buildings and oceans can move, appear, disappear unrestricted by the laws of physics (and its cheap). We can instantly travel from the 2012 Olympics to ancient Greece.
  4. The students’ avatars can be programmed and animated to be part of the presentation. Thus the student can become the performer with no need for rehearsal.

Many of these features have been exploited in recent Second Life builds. This presentation will use video to show a 3D Warehouse built for Health and Safety training, and New Synthetic Theatre productions “Ninety Nine Percent” and “Jabba Jabba Jabba”.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://mralanhudson.wordpress.com/k12-2012-references/

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

The Flipped Class for Administrators

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Presenter: Jon Bergmann
Location: Lake Forest, Illinois USA
Twitter: @jonbergmann

Presentation Description: Learn from Flipped Class pioneer Jon Bergmann as he explains tips for administrators as they consider implementing flipped learning into their schools.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://flipped-learning.com

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2012 Getting Started

Leveraging the Power of Social Media in the Classroom

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Presenter: Elaine Plybon
Location: Bedford, Texas USA
Twitter: @eplybon

Presentation Description: Teenagers spend 80% of their time on the internet involved in social networking websites. This presentation explores the ways educators can utilize their understanding of these venues to create engaging lessons that will help students gain content knowledge, assist teachers in assessing student progress, and provide opportunities for discussions about the students’ own digital footprints. The presentation is designed with the educator who has to deal with restrictive internet filters and even a total lack of internet availability for students.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

Elaine Plybon’s web site: http://www.elaineplybon.net/

2012 Getting Started

Leveraging Social Media to Flatten Your Classroom Walls

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Presenters: Paula Naugle and Jan Wells
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana USA & Meriden, Kansas USA
Twitter: @plnaugle  & @janwells

Presentation Description: Most teachers would love to communicate and collaborate with other classes but are unsure just how to begin this process. How do you go about finding other classes to connect with? Where do you find projects that can be used for collaboration? How do you cope with time zones? How can social media help you flatten your classroom walls and enable you to incorporate the 4C’s of collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking into your weekly lessons?

Find out how Paula and Jan found each other in 2009 and have had their two classes collaborating ever since. Learn how these two veteran educators have used social media sites such as Ning, Twitter, Facebook, Edmodo, Google and Google HangOut, and Skype to collaborate and communicate with many more classrooms each year.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O3w48UFzkRWiSYAtkAhXnOikIwExMTsKrwly0A-S6qo/edit

Additional Information:
Paula’s Classroom Blog http://pnaugle.blogspot.com
Paula’s Professional Blog http://plnaugle.blogspot.com

Jan’s Class Website/Blog http://mrswells4thgradeclass.weebly.com
Jan’s Professional Blog http://techtrek4integration.blogspot.com

List of websites mentioned:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1csCtOz11gQaeVcvm23apEoWkG2wIY7EeikWY18_jtrk/edit