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2008 2008-notK12 Online Announcements

Announcing notK12 Online

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K12 Online depends on the collaboration of many people to make this unique conference a success. This year, as we discussed what an online “unconference” might look like, we struck a committee to do some of the heavy lifting and thinking about our online unconference venue, notK12 Online. We asked Bud Hunt to chair the notK12 Online committee and he’s assembled an excellent team of educators to help us figure this out: Jackie Ballarini, Bill Bass, and Marcie T. Hull with substantial technical assistance from Andy Schmitz.

Our thanks to all of them; they’ve done some great work and will be continuing to volunteer their time and energy to help make this extension of K12 Online a blow out success. Here’s what they’ve come up with:

Not K12Online exists as one way to expand, and amplify, the possibilities of the K12Online Conference, to ensure that everyone has a way to add to the conversation(s) started by, inspired by, or missed by, the formal conference. Think of NotK12Online as one aggregator for content related to the possibilities generated by K12Online. To be honest, we hope you don’t need us, and we recognize that you really don’t. But we’re here anyway, a reminder of how you might use the power of digital tools to promote learning wherever, and whenever, you are.

NotK12Online, at this point, consists of two distinct channels of content that we hope you’ll consider submitting to.

Have a presentation you’d like to share relating to one of the four themes of this year’s conference? Check out the details of the “Presentation Channel” below and consider creating a presentation to share. Or not.

The other piece of NotK12Online is the “Critique Channel”. Critically examining our practices is important – as are divergent opinions. We are seeking to foster constructive dialogue about teaching and learning, as well as meta-talk about events like K12Online, in this channel. Submissions to this channel will offer constructive criticism and/or feedback on the K12Online sessions.

In the case of both channels, we’re seeking not to own the conversation, but to provide a venue for folks who would like to connect the work they’re already doing to the conference in an informal way. We’re also interested in your thoughts on what other channels we might’ve missed.

NotK12Online will “run,” meaning we’ll be open for submissions, from October 13th, 2008 until November 16th, 2008. After that, submissions will close, but the links will be around. The idea behind the extended time frame is to provide time for people to reflect upon and continue the conversations that ensue from their K12Online experiences. This also allows people time to create a presentation or critique that may have been inspired by the conference content. Of course, after November 16th, we encourage everyone to continue sharing presentations, discussing and networking, and reflecting on the work of others, but we won’t be the venue for that – we’ll count on you to use the tools of the open Web, as well as the K12Online website, to do so. (We really, really don’t think you need us at all – and yet plenty of good work isn’t ever shared. We hope to be the push that some might need to help them to publish.) We’re still working on our web presence where we’ll be taking submissions and aggregating them, but we wanted you to have a glimpse into what we’re seeking at the moment, both as a chance to get some feedback but also to take the opportuniy to give you a heads up – we hope you’ll consider putting something together. Below are our submission guidelines.

Presentation Channel: Presentations can be submitted under any of the four themes for K12Online – 2008. The four themes are “Getting Started”, “Kicking It Up a Notch”, “Prove It”, and “Leading the Change” (Read the original strand descriptions here.). Presentations that, in some way, fit the strands of this year’s K12Online conference are welcome.

Guidelines:
1. Presentations may be submitted from October 13th, 2008 until November 16th, 2008.
2. Presentation content must be hosted offsite. We will not host content other than text and links, thus you must provide links to your presentation, published elsewhere. If you have a blog, publish there and submit your information to us. if you don’t perhaps it’s time to create one.
3. Presentations must have original education-related content related in some way to the strands of the formal conference. Any presentations of a strictly sales/merchandise flavor are certainly welcome on the open Web, but won’t be re-broadcast via NotK12Online.
4. Presentations that have been published at K12Online will not be re-broadcast here.
5. All presentations will be shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

Critique Channel:

Guidelines:
1. Critiques may be submitted from October 13th, 2008 until November 16th, 2008.
2. Content must be hosted offsite. We will not host content other than text and links, thus you must provide links to your critique.
3. Submissions must be produced and delivered in the spirit of critical reflection which allows for improvement in practice. The goal of this channel is to provide constructive critical response to the ideas, topics and presentations of the K12Online conference, in the spirit of furthering conversations past the commenting stage.

We welcome your feedback about these guidelines and ideas, as well as NotK12Online itself. Ideally, a conference about self-directed learning should be, in part, about making itself obsolete. We hope NotK12Online will allow for some playing with, and stretching of, the boundaries of an online conference. And we hope you’ll be willing to submit the work that you’re doing to one of our channels. NotK12Online should serve as an amplifier of sorts. That’s all. Perhaps it’ll be the little bit of a push that you need to get moving on sharing some of the work that you’ve been up to. Or, ahem, not.

It’s certainly worth it to try.

As always we’re interested in your thoughts, suggestions and ideas; feel free to comment here and share them.

2008 - Getting Started 2008-Teasers

“Free Tools for Universal Design for Learning in Literacy” Teaser

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As in 2007, each week twenty different presentations will be posted here once the conference begins in mid-October. With so many choices, it may be helpful to get a better idea of the issues, tools, and concepts presenters plan to address in their sessions. Our presenters have been invited to create short, online videos (published to a website like YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.) which will give attendees a better idea of what their presentation will address. These “teaser” videos will hopefully generate and pique interest in presentations prior to the actual start of the conference.

Not all actual conference presentations will be shared as online videos. Presenters have freedom to choose their asynchronous publishing format. Conference presentations will be hosted (as in 2007) by the College of William and Mary.

Please take a few moments to let these presenters know how much you appreciate their creativity and are looking forward to their presentations!

Jennifer Kraft
Strand: Getting Started
Free Tools for Universal Design for Learning in Literacy

2008 Announcements

Announcing K12 Online 2008 Presenters

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The 2006 and 2007 K-12 Online Conferences provided outstanding opportunities for free, collaborative, accessible professional learning for educators around the globe. The 2008 conference is shaping up to again provide more exemplary learning opportunities in the same spirit of collaboration and sharing! The learning will begin with a pre-conference keynote during the week of October 13, 2008. We will again invite presenters to submit “teaser trailers” for their presentations in advance of the conference.

This year’s fantastic line up of keynote presenters will create an inviting and welcoming introduction in which the sharing of ideas among diverse learners working in diverse contexts continues. These distinguished folks will not only extend the conversations, but also invite each of us to stretch and grow as they share their expertise and wisdom in their respective strands. We are delighted they have each agreed to accept their roles as keynote presenters. See our post from June 25th for more information about keynote speakers in each of our 2008 strands.

The presentations accompanying the keynotes for each strand have been selected by “blind” peer review committees coordinated by each strand convener. The committees’ tasks were extremely difficult as the quality of proposals was again outstanding. We thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We are elated to announce the K12 Online 2008 presenters whose creativity, depth of thought and innovation promise to make K12 Online 2008 exemplary.

The presenters by strand are:

Getting Started

Free Tools for Universal Design for Learning in Literacy
Jennifer Kraft

The Google Gamut: Everything you need to get started.
Kern Kelley

I Like Delicious Things
Chris Betcher

Never Too Young
Sharon Betts

Reading Revolution: New Texts and New Technologies (Suggestions for revised focus)
Laurie Fowler

Travelling Through the Dark
Steven Kimmi

Video Conferencing
Brian Crosby

Web 2.0 Tools to Amplify Elementary Students’ Creativity and Initiative
Jackie Gerstein

What Did You Do In School…?
H. Songhai

Prove It!

Best Practices with Primary Access: An Overview of Research on Student Creation of Highly Scaffolded Digital Documentaries in a History Classrooms
Glen Bull, Thomas Hammond, Curby Alexander

Facilitating Tech Integration: A Synthesis of the Research
Jon Becker

Open, Social, Connected: Reflections of an Open Graduate Course Experience
Alec Couros

CANCELLED: Professional Development without Borders: A Research and Support Model for Global Education
Konrad Glogowski and Sharon Peters

Promise into Practice: What It Now Means to Teach Adolescent Readers and the Impact of the Results
Sara Kajder

Throwing the Box Away
Barbara Bray

We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors
Kathy Cassidy and Patrick Lewis

“You know, I can download those pictures myself and show you how to make a Photostory”
Elaine Newton

Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class
Richard Beach

Kicking It Up A Notch

Games in Education
Sylvia Martinez

Oh the Possibilities
Lisa Parisi

Changing Disabilities
Elizabeth Lloyd

Back-channels in the Classroom
Scott Snyder

Connecting Classrooms Across Continents: Planning and Implementing Globally Collaborative Projects
Kim Cofino and Jen Wagner

Interactive tools for remote and synchronous mentoring
Michele Wong Kung Fong

Monsters Bloom in Our Wiki
Ann Oro and Anna Baralt

Parental Engagement in the 21st Century – Leveraging web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non-traditional ways
Lorna Costantini and Matt Montagn

Film School for Video Podcasters
Mathew Needleman

Leading The Change

Beyond the Stacks: Using Emerging Technologies to Strengthen Teacher-librarian Leadership
Carlene Walter and Donna DesRoches

Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
Scott McLeod

Overcoming Entropy
Louise Maine

Pushing the Limits: Web 2.0 and 21st Century Learning
Aimee Stoffel

Ramapo Islands
Peggy Sheehy

Teaching Web 2.0 – Everything you need in one place
Wendy Drexler

Telling the New Story: Leverage Points for Inspiring Change Orientation
David Warlick

The Lie of Community: The True Nature of the Network
Bud Hunt

There’s Something Going on Here You Need to Know About”¦
Dennis Richards and Charlene Chausis