Presenter: Jeff Bradbury
Location: New Jersey
@TeacherCast
Presentation Title: Learn how to create a WordPress Website in less than 20 minutes
Presentation Description: Learn how YOU can create a dynamic WordPress website in less than 20 minutes. Jeff (TeacherCast) walks you through the steps and demonstrates how to choose a great theme, add posts, pages, widgets, videos, photos, and menu items.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.TeacherCast.net
Presenter: Janine Campbell
Location: Dorr, MI
@campbellartsoup
Presentation Description: This presentation explores the following three ways to broaden the horizon of learning outside of the classroom walls: 1. Connecting and Collaborating, 2. Field Trips, 3. Guests. Through examples of each method, teachers will walk away with a variety of steps they can take to look for opportunities to bring outside learning into their classroom using both digital and traditional methods. The use of online tools to engage in outside learning like twitter, Skype, and Artsonia will be explained and specific examples of how those tools were used in the classroom will be shown. Student engagement will also be at the center of this presentation.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.janinecampbell.weebly.com
Additional Information:
www.janinecampbell.weebly.com
www.bcwmsart.weebly.com
Presenter: Kathy Cassidy
Location: Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
@kathycassidy
Presentation Description: Connecting your classroom with the world beyond your building is not just an add on. Connecting can teach digital citizenship, engage students, provide an authentic world-wide audience, meet curriculum standards and extend the learning. Kathy Cassidy shares examples from her own and other classrooms of deep, connected learning.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://bit.ly/findingconnections
Additional Information:
Places to Find Kathy Cassidy
Professional Blog: http://kathycassidy.com
Classroom Blog: http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/
Email: kathy[at]kathycassidy[dot]com
Book: Connected From the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades
http://shop.plpnetwork.com/connectedkids/
Presenter: Dolores Gende, Chris P., Cyrus G., Emily H., Eric M. Paxton S., Pippa T., Puja M.
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page
Presentation Title: C^4: Leveraging The Power Of Blogs And Wikis In Student Learning
Presentation Description:
An integral part of my Physics classes is the use of web 2.0 digital tools such as wikis and blogs among others. In this presentation my 9th grade students share their experience in the use of these tools and the positive impact these tools have had on their learning.
The students relate how the class wiki encouraged collaborative learning and information sharing by facilitating communication among the members of the class. One of the major advantages of using the wiki is that the students became engaged in conversations with one another outside of the classroom that enhanced and deepened their understanding of our class topics.
They talk about being empowered as learners in taking the lead in moving us all to the next step in our physics learning experience. And I do mean us. Through the wiki and their blogs I become a co-learner with the students, able to guide where appropriate, but also learning from what they bring to the conversation. It’s a conversation unlike a typical class conversation, because we are all on an equal footing.
The students describe the additional collateral advantages coming from blogging such as improvement in their writing skills and an awareness of the importance of being a reflective learner.
The presentation wiki (http://bit.ly/ac7kcf) includes a transcript of the presentation with relevant links to published demonstration of their immersion in critical thinking, collaboration, effective communication, and creativity.
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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://sites.google.com/a/parishepiscopal.org/c4-presentation/
Additional Information:
Personal Homepage
Blog: Journey in Technology
Twitter: @dgende
