(Almost) all our content from 2006 to 2017 is archived and available online under a Creative Commons license. Please read this post from June 2018 for more background and updates about our conference and current status.

2009 2009-Leading the Change

Organizational Learning and Technology Collide

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Presenter: Ben Grey
Location: Barrington, IL, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Organizational Learning and Technology Collide

Presentation Description: Using Chris Argyris’s theories of learning, this presentation describes how we can better understand the way we make decisions when planning student learning experiences and considering the use of technology. Using Argyris’s Theories of Action show us how we can evaluate our instructional decisions, and exploring Argyris’s theory of single and double loop learning establishes a strong framework that can guide our decisions of when and how to utilize technology in learning.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/argyris.htm

Additional Information:
Blog- http://www.bengrey.com/blog

Twitter- bengrey

2009 2009-Leading the Change

LEADING THE CHANGE KEYNOTESelf-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century

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Presenter: Konrad Glogowski
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Twitter: @teachandlearn

Presentation Title: Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century

Presentation Description: Based on Guy Claxton’s statement that “schools should become communities of practice where … the ‘elders’ of the community are themselves exemplary learners” (Claxton, 2002), this presentation explores the importance of Classroom-Based Teacher Development and Reflective Practice as essential professional development practices for the 21st century. It suggests that if students today are to benefit from schools where they can acquire the learning dispositions that will allow them to build and transform future societies and address global challenges, teacher professional development must be reconfigured to allow teachers to focus on examining and learning from their own professional contexts. The 21st century demands that teachers investigate their practices on a regular basis, learn to design new approaches, and quickly and effectively respond to the demands of the ever-changing knowledge society. Classrooms must therefore become sites of inquiry where teachers engage in practice that is perpetually experimental.

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http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog

Additional Information:
Blog: www.teachandlearn.ca/blog
Twitter: teachandlearn

2009 2009-Getting Started

Little Kids, Big Possibilities

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Presenter: Kelly Hines
Location: Washington, North Carolina, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Little Kids, Big Possibilities

Presentation Description: Learn about the what’s, how’s and why’s of using web 2.0 tools and social networking with elementary age students to enhance learning and student engagement.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://littlekidsbigpossibilities.pbworks.com

Additional Information:
Blog: http://keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com

Twitter: kellyhines

2009 2009-Keynote

2009 PRECONFERENCE KEYNOTE:Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education

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Presenter: Kim Cofino
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Twitter: @mscofino

Presentation Title: Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education

Presentation Description: Looking at daily life in foreign lands reveals a colorful spectrum of inspiring metaphors for the shifts we need to make in education. Often what we may find initially chaotic, disorienting and strange in other countries can actually spark new ways of thinking about teaching and learning. Through the voices of teachers and students from around the world, we’ll examine the unique aptitudes which allow successful expats to thrive in any environment. These are exactly the skills that future students and teachers will need to confidently enter the digital, global, converging, collaborative world of tomorrow – wherever they might be physically located.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://going-global.wikispaces.com/

Additional Information:
Twitter: mscofino
Blog: http://mscofino.edublogs.org

Questions for discussion:

What global experiences have you had in real life or online that influenced your thinking about education?

Are you, or do you know any, Third Culture Kids? Do you think they share any common characteristics that make them different from people who grew up in a single culture?

How are you connecting yourself, and your students, globally? What changes have occurred (for example: in mindset, attitude or outlook) as a result of those connections?

Also join the discussion about this presentation on our conference Ning!

2009 Announcements

Spread the Word! K12Online09 Printable Flyer Available

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Please help us spread the word about the 2009 K-12 Online Conference by forwarding one of the two-page PDF flyers below to other educators with whom you work and know. While we encourage forwarding via email attachment to save paper/trees, this PDF flyer is also appropriate to print (as a double sided / duplex page) and place in teacher mailboxes at school! Feel free to use this however you can to spread the word about the K-12 Online Conference!

Because we are an international conference, we are continuing to use GMT times for all our events both on our 2009 schedule as well as on our Ning Events page. Converting GMT times can be confusing, however, so we are providing editable MS-Word (.doc) format versions of these documents so you can customize these times for your local time zone. Note on both our main conference schedule page as well as our conference Ning site Events page, hyperlinks are provided to “fixed date and time pages” on timeanddate.com. Click these provided links to view event start dates/times for your local time zone. Then edit one of the MS-Word formatted flyers for your local time zone, and circulate that to educators you know.

Note the time for our first fireside chat is 1 am GMT on Friday, December 4th, which is 8 pm EST on Thursday, December 3rd. These differences in dates and times due to time zones make it essential we provide educators with localized dates/times on printed flyers when possible.

GMT flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

EST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

CST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

MST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

PST flyer
– PDF version
– MS-Word version

The GMT version of this flyer is also available via Scribd for download and to share as an embedded document. Thanks for helping us spread the word about K12Online09!

k12online09flyer-GMT

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2009 Announcements

K12Online09 Presentation Schedule Available

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Our schedule of presentations for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference is now online and available! This schedule is linked from the following locations:

  1. At the top of our conference blog, in the header as the SCHEDULE link.
  2. In the right sidebar of our conference blog, as the “2009 Schedule” link above our archive links.
  3. On our conference Ning, as the main “Events” tab link at the top of each page.
  4. On our conference wiki, on the main homepage, on the “For Participants” page, and in the left sidebar as “2009 Schedule.”

Per the posted schedule, our 2009 K-12 Online Conference begins tomorrow at 12 pm GMT, which is 7 am EST, with Kim Cofino’s pre-conference keynote, “Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education.” Use this link to view the exact time when the keynote will “go live” in your local time zone.

If you have not already, read Kim’s post from October 11th giving more background about what’s coming in her keynote.

Bookmark / favorite our 2009 Conference Schedule page! As presentations are published each day of our main conference weeks, links to those videos will be added to the conference schedule as well as posted here on our conference blog. (They’ll “go live” here on the blog first.) Presenters will also be adding embedded links to their videos on our conference Ning, and adding discussion posts for their presentations in our Ning forum.

If you have not already, please join our conference Ning to participate in discussions there throughout and following our 2009 conference.

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