Check out this past Thursday’s Seedlings webcast (available as an audio podcast) when Maria Knee discussed the upcoming 2009 K-12 Online Conference! They also discussed what Maria’s been doing the past 6 months, H1N1, and Monarchs in Space!
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On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom. The following presenters will be in attendance.
Kevin has been a K-4 Technology Facilitator at Northfield Community School in Northfield, NJ USA since 2003. In this role he is responsible for technology instruction in a lab setting for the entire elementary student body (540+ students). Rather than just “teaching computer class,” Kevin delivers engaging, informative, challenging and enjoyable lessons that integrate with content being taught by his classroom-teacher peers while leveraging state-of-the-art Web 2.0 and social media technologies. Kevin began exploring Second Life in early 2007 thanks to a $10,000 Faculty Excellence grant from Walden University where he teaches online, part-time. He works closely with ISTE via their presence in Second Life and helps to manage the very popular Tuesday night “Speaker Series”.…………………………………
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Sylvia Martinez is president of Generation YES, working to empower students in K-12 schools through digital technology. Sylvia has designed educational games, curriculum, and online experiences for teachers and students. Sylvia speaks and writes on subjects such as the use of technology, simulations and games to enhance educational opportunities and enable youth voice.
Chris Harbeck teaches grade 8 math to approximately 140 students each year. He has been teaching middle school students for over a decade and is in his fifth year of using 2.0 applications and “21st Century Learning” in his classroom. Despite the fact (or more realistically because of the fact) that math is one of those subjects students often reflect back on with distaste, fear or indifference, Chris has moved from teaching both social studies and math to the one subject. He has been involved in development of the middle years math curriculum at the divisional and provincial level. With his strong focus on conceptual understanding, Chris has discovered that using 2.0 tools and applications make math fun and interesting. An encouraging trend has emerged: students do not run away and saying “I hate math”; they love to do assignments and have started to see the beauty in math.
The EdTechTalk community will host this event at http://www.edtechtalk.com/live.
For questions or more information, contact Susan Van Gelder, Live Events Committee, at susanvg@mac.com or on Twitter at @k12online.
This is Jen Wagner’s teaser trailer for her K12Online09 presentation, “If You Host It, They Will Come.”
More teasers are coming! These are also available on our K-12 Online Conference Ning, both in the videos section and in the group 2009 Teasers.
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This is a teaser trailer by Kevin Hodgson for his K12Online09 presentation, “The Virtual Heroic Journey.”
More teasers are coming! These are also available on our K-12 Online Conference Ning, both in the videos section and in the group 2009 Teasers.
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From Chris Betcher: Just a short teaser clip for my K12 Online presentation in the “Week in the Classroom” strand, called “Ways of Working”. In a nutshell, using Sculpture by the Sea as the theme – a popular community outdoor art event held each year in Sydney Australia – I will look at a diverse range of way that digital technology could be used to enrich the learning activities that teachers could build around such an event. There are all sort of interesting ways that technology can help us document, research, enhance and create around a theme such as this. I hope you join me to find out more!
More teasers are coming! These are also available on our K-12 Online Conference Ning, both in the videos section and in the group 2009 Teasers.
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Kudos to Maria Knee and our PR Committee for creating this great teaser video with Animoto for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference! Please blog, tweet, and share this by all means possible with others!
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This is the K12Online09 teaser trailer for David Wells‘ presentation, “You Might Be a 21st Century Leader if…”
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More teasers are coming! These are also available on our K-12 Online Conference Ning, both in the videos section and in the group 2009 Teasers.
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These are the video teasers for Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano‘s presentation “Around the World with Skype” (English version) and “Alrededor del Mundo con Skype” (Spanish Version) for K12Online09.
More teasers are coming! These are also available on our K-12 Online Conference Ning, both in the videos section and in the group 2009 Teasers.
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I could not be more honored to be the pre-conference keynote speaker for this year’s K12 Online conference!
I have been participating in this annual conference since its inception in 2006 and every year I am amazed at the quality of presentations shared by educators around the world. The opportunity to learn together over the course of the conference (and beyond) is one of the most inspiring and engaging experiences of the year for me. Of course, this year’s lineup is no different!
When I was asked to keynote this year’s event, I knew right away that I wanted my presentation to have a global focus. Thinking back over the course of my ten years of living overseas, I realized that in many ways my exposure to new ways of thinking about technology has been paralleled by some similar learning experiences in the real world. I wanted to explore those links between virtual and real-world perspective shifts, and in the process try to share what I feel is an interesting and unique perspective in the expat mindset.
I’ve also decided to try to practice what I preach and make this presentation a true global collaboration, and although I will be putting together and presenting the final product, I really wanted to make it based on group input. Thankfully, my personal learning network includes a number of outstanding international school educators who’ve been willing to help me in preparing my presentation (thank you!). Right now I’ve gotten a lot of great input and material from (in no particular order):
While these teachers have already sent me fantastic material, I would love to include other perspectives as well. Knowing that the deadline is just over a month away, I’m beginning to put the final pieces together, and would love to hear your thoughts, include your perspectives, and emphasize the power of global collaboration in the final product.
Here’s the presentation overview:
Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education
Everything I need to know about the future of education I learned, not from kindergarten, but from living overseas. Looking at daily life in foreign lands reveals a colorful spectrum of inspiring metaphors for the shifts we need to make in education. Featuring voices from students and teachers from around the globe, this presentation will start with a look through an expatriate’s eyes at some vibrant details of daily life in many lands. Often what we may find initially chaotic, disorienting and strange in other countries can actually spark new ways of thinking about teaching and learning.
Then, again through the voices and viewpoints of teachers and students from all around the world, we’ll examine the unique aptitudes which allow successful expats to thrive in any environment: adaptability, flexibility, the ability to understand differing viewpoints and constructs, and the communications skills to collaborate across cultural, religious and linguistic barriers. 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.
Final Thoughts
What do you think? Does this sound interesting to you? Are you an expat or Third Culture Kid? Have you or your students participated in a global collaboration? What did you gain from that experience?
