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Announcements

K12Online09 Day 2 Presentations: 8 December 2009

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Welcome to day two of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

The iPod Touch in the Classroom
Kern Kelley

Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing
Colin Hill

Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity
Janine Lim

LEADING THE CHANGE

Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century
Julie Lindsay

LAN: Learning Is Social!
Bryan Hughes

Just a Touch of Leadership – Using the iPod touch & Web 2.0 to Enhance School Leadership
Andy Crozier & Mike Amante

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Just a “touch” of leadership – Using the iPod Touch/IPhone in Administration

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Presenter: Andy Crozier & Mike Amante
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA & New Hartford, NY, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Just a “touch” of leadership – Using the iPod Touch/IPhone in Administration

Presentation Description: Are you using your iPod Touch/iPhone to simply check your email or answer your phone? Did you know that there many other uses of the iPod Touch that can help with some of your professional responsibilities?

This presentation will show you apps and success stories from administrators in the field that are using the iPod Touch/iPhone for data collection, organization, creating a mobile office, and personal professional development.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

Blip m4v direct link (video file)
Blip mp3 direct link (audio file)

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=19589

Additional Information:
Twitter – acrozier22 & mamante

2009 2009-Leading the Change

LAN: Learning Is Social

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Presenter: Bryan Hughes
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: LAN: Learning Is Social

Presentation Description: Bored by status quo professional development and stale in service workshops? Why not throw a party! LAN: Learning Is Social is the story of how North Vancouver School District used the presentations of the K12 Online Conference to breathe new life into professional development.

LAN parties can be a powerful vehicle for professional development and change. This presentation defines the concept and shares our experience with the hope that others will be inspired to find creative ways to share the message of the K-12 Online Conference.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

Blip m4v direct link (video file)
Blip mp3 direct link (audio file)

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://nvsd44.wikispaces.com/Host+Your+Own+LAN

Additional Information:
A complete LAN party planning guide is available at http://wiki44.ca

Please join the conversation!

Read our blog at http://literacy44.ca/LAN and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LAN44

We would love to share our LAN experience with you. Don’t hesitate to contact us with questions, comments, or to invite us to appear at your own LAN!

Bryan Hughes
@bryanhughes

Lesley Edwards
@bookminder

Audrey Van Alstyne
@audreyvan

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century

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Presenter: Julie Lindsay
Location: Beijing, China
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century

Presentation Description: Current accepted forms of professional development provide opportunities for small bites and quick-fix solutions but do not encourage immersion, ongoing conversations and collaborative sharing of experiences. Adoption of a learning confluence amongst educators can and will make a difference within a school and extend the learning beyond the immediate environment.

Based on recent practice at an international school, a model of teacher engagement and improved pedagogical approach has been developed that leads the way into transformed learning in the classroom. Using a face-to-face meeting format, including expert advisers and a virtual component, educators extended their learning boundaries and embraced constructivism with the purpose of challenging themselves to ‘lean into the sharp edges’ of 21st century education.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

Blip m4v direct link (video file)
Blip mp3 direct link (audio file)

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com/K12+Online+09

Additional Information:
Julie blogs at: E-Learning Journey’s

Follow Julie on Twitter
Julie is julielindsay on Skype

2009 2009-Getting Started

Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity

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Presenter: Janine Lim
Location: Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity

Presentation Description: Videoconferencing can bring the world to your classroom. It allows educators to bridge the divide by bringing experiences to rural students; by engaging conversations and interactions between urban and rural students and by connecting students globally. Whether using desktop videoconferencing or room based videoconferencing, educators can bridge the divide between “dabbling” in videoconferencing to fully integrating with solid classroom instructional strategies.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

Blip m4v direct link (video file)
Blip mp3 direct link (audio file)

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://vcoutonalim.org/2009/12/08/resources-for-my-k12-online-conference-presentation/

Additional Information:
Please visit my blog post for today’s presentation that has all the links and resources for this presentation. Remember to stop by the K12 Online Conferencing Ning to discuss this presentation with colleagues and with me!

2009 2009-Getting Started

Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

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Presenter: Colin Hill
Location: Southport, UK
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

Presentation Description: Rather than sending all pupils work home at the end of the school year, E-books allow teachers to compile collections of work to be displayed on the WWW quite soon after it is completed. Colin Hill presents how he creates E-books, proving to eb a motivation for writing, as learners know that their work is going to be on display.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

Blip m4v direct link (video file)
Blip mp3 direct link (audio file)

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
My First Ever Online Presentation (K12Online Ning Blog Post)

Additional Information:
Blog: colport-teaching.blogspot.com
Twitter: colport

2009 2009-Getting Started

The iPod Touch in the Classroom

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Presenter: Kern Kelley
Location: Newport, Maine, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: The iPod Touch in the Classroom

Presentation Description: The iPod Touch can function as an important educational tool inside and outside the classroom. With the increased purchases of netbooks this last year, there seems to be a push for schools to put more machines into students hands. At a price point even lower than current netbooks the iPod Touch is a great compliment to any classroom. While many schools still do not allow cell phones, an iPod Touch bridges that gap. Wifi access provides a tremendous opportunity for students and teachers to browse the web, type a response, record audio or calculate a problem. The form factor makes many classroom tasks manageable while the design of the device requires far less technical support than most laptops. The main focus of this presentation is how teachers can accomplish common tasks in the classroom, but also includes how students can use the tool for their own studies. Most of the applications discussed are free or a few dollars. Viewers will learn concrete ways they can use their iPod Touch in the classroom the following day.

DotSub Video Presentation Link

Blip m4v direct link (video file)
Blip mp3 direct link (audio file)

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.tinyurl.com/itouchineducation

Additional Information:
Email: kernkelley [at] gmail [dot] com
Blog: TheTechCurve.com
Twitter: kernkelley
Skype: kernkelley

Announcements

Ning Problems Today Almost All Resolved

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As you may have noticed, most of the day on Monday our K-12 Online Conference Ning was offline / not available. According to the official Ning status blog, all features except messaging and RSS feeds are back up and working as of this writing. We have no idea what the problem was with Ning today, but it was not limited to just our K12Online site, and we don’t think we can take the blame for overwhelming the entire domain with traffic! It appears this was just an unlucky coincidence that it happened on the first day of week 1 of our conference! Thankfully at this point, we are using multiple sites and our blog (this site) was up without any problems all day, as were our video hosting sites (DotSub and Blip.tv). We also used both our Twitter account and Facebook page to share status updates throughout the day.

If you have a smartphone or other mobile device capable of accessing the Internet, you can use the web address k12online.ning.com/m to access a mobile-optimized version of our Ning website.

Mobile Version of K12Online Ning

Mobile Version of K12Online Ning

Videos are not viewable/playable from this mobile Ning site, but you can use our podcast RSS feeds to directly view and play presentations on your mobile devices. We did announce today via Twitter and Facebook that our podcast RSS feeds are now included in the iTunes Podcast Directory. Please rate and comment on our iTunes podcast channels so we can hopefully become “featured” in iTunes. The more visibility our conference can have the better!

Thanks to a WordPress plug-in (WordPress Mobile Edition) we are using, hopefully our blog automatically shows up in a mobile-optimized format if you’re using a mobile device to view it.

We will keep our fingers crossed that today’s Ning problems will not recur for the rest of the conference!

2009 Announcements

K12Online LAN Party Dec 7 – Virtually Vancouver!

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From Brian Hughes:

North Vancouver invites you to join us celebrating the opening of the K12 Online Conference with a LAN party!

50 teachers from across our school district will be gathering tonight to watch presentations from the K12 Online Conference, and then get together over dinner to discuss and share ideas.

Unfortunately you won’t be able to join us for dinner, but you can join in the conversation!

Join us in Elluminate as we get a sneak peek of Paul Curtis’ presentation “Building a Web 2.0 Culture.” Watch the presentation with us, and then join North Vancouver teachers as we speak with Paul live.

Monday, December 7, 2009
5:00 pm Pacific (That’s 1 am GMT 8 Dec 2009, 8 pm EST – Use this converter link to view the time in your local time zone!)
Elluminate link: http://bit.ly/LAN44Dec

For more information contact us on Twitter http://twitter.com/lan44 or visit our blog http://literacy44.ca/lan

2009 Announcements

K12Online09 Day 1 Presentations: 7 December 2009

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Welcome to day one of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Today’s presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

KEYNOTE: The Wizard of Apps (or Will they have an app for that or What we are loading (and learning) along the road)
Joyce Kasman Valenza (a post giving the backstory to this presentation is also available.)

Little Kids, Big Possibilities
Kelly Hines

LEADING THE CHANGE

KEYNOTE: Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century
Konrad Glogowski

Organizational Learning and Technology Collide
Ben Grey

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.