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2012 2012-Teasers

Preview: Week 2 of the K12Online Conference

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A big thank you to all that have made week 1 a success! The buzz around K12online12 continues to grow. Wait, there is still more to come. In week 2 of our conference we present the “Student Voices” strand and the “Kicking Up a Notch Strand”.  Check out the following teasers:

Monday: October 29

Kicking It Up A Notch Keynote: It’s Not About The Apps by Mathew Needleman

Student Voices Keynote: Kids Teaching Kids by Tiana Kadkhoda

Technology Rich and Connected Classroom by Fuglestad

Tuesday October 30

Blended Learning by Janine Campbell

Using iOS App Affordances by Richard Beach and Jill Castek

Wednesday October 31

Thinking Big About Learning by Glenda Baker

Thursday November 1st

Student News Teams – Telling the Story

You can find the complete schedule for all presentations for week 2 October 29 – November 2, 2012.  Remember to use our conference tag #k12online12.  From the Organizer team, thank you for being part of K12 Online 2012.

 

 

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Make Meaning with Wolfram Alpha

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Presenter: Jane Krauss
Location: Eugene, Oregon USA
Twitter: @jkrauss

Presentation Description: Project based learning can sometimes be recipe-like, leading to predictable, “cookie-cutter” results. I want to help people reimagine PBL and set up better investigations so students truly construct new meaning. It starts with posing a compelling question and then setting kids loose with tools like Wolfram Alpha, the “Computational Knowledge” engine. In this session we look at the kinds of learning activity that lead to knowledge construction (predicting, comparing, making judgements and more) and take a tour of Wolfram Alpha. To wrap things up we’ll take a quick peek at ManyEyes and Tableau Public, two tools for creating visualizations or info graphics from data derived from Wolfram Alpha and other sources.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

  1. Wolfram Alpha
  2. Many Eyes
  3. Tableau Public

 

2012 Getting Started

The Magic of Mobile Learning

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Presenter: Shelly Sanchez Terrell
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
Twitter: @ShellTerrell

Presentation Description: Mobile learning has transformed the way we learn. The features and apps allow learners to move around the classroom, which helps spark creativity and imagination. In this session, we will explore activities that get learners on their feet exploring, analyzing, and engaging with the concepts they are learning. These activities will use various features of mobile devices which include recording video, taking photos, and recording audio. We will also explore fun apps that allow students to be imaginative and creative.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://teacherrebootcamp.com/free-ebooks/mobile-learning-50-resources-tips/

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Make/Hack/Play – Lenses for Learning

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Presenter: Bud Hunt
Location: Longmont, Colorado USA
Twitter: @budtheteacher

Presentation Description: The Center for Make/Hack/Play grew out of a system asking itself questions about the purpose and role of schools as institutions of learning. In this presentation, Bud Hunt unpacks the terms that guide his inquiry about and work within schools.

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2012 Getting Started

Show off your work online using Weebly.com

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Presenter: Valerie R. Burton
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Twitter: @MsBisOnline

Presentation Description: Let me show you how to use Weebly.com to publish your work. Looking for a way to create ePortfolios for you and your students? Need a website for class? Join me in this session and I will show you how to create ePortfolios for your students and for yourself. Weebly.com can be used to publish work, share videos, create a blog and connect with others.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://msbisonline.weebly.com/2/post/2012/10/show-off-your-work-online-using-weeblycom.html

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2012 Visioning New Curriculum

How Technology Helped Me Paint With Mud

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Presenter: Ian Sands
Location: Apex, North Carolina USA
Twitter: @iansands

Presentation Description: In today’s high school art curriculum there is a separation between the visual art class and the technology class. The current high school art curriculum’s focus is on traditional media with very little integrated technology. Technology is separated from traditional visual art classes and given it’s own course titles such as Computer Art. Likewise, there is a separation in the selection of art medium. Though the art world has evolved to using a plethora of new materials, the majority of art class storage rooms are filled with pencils, tempera paint and other traditional media. Our challenge as art educators is twofold. First, merge new technology into our everyday art lessons. Second, share with students concepts and ideas that use both traditional materials as well as branch out to media traditionally not consider art material. In this presentation we will explore ways to incorporate technology into the full range of an art project. We will explore everything from jump starting the ideas, to developing maps and templates, to critiquing online and digital grading. Furthermore, we will accomplish this through the exploration of such nontraditional materials as post-it notes, glow sticks and mud.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com

Additional Information:
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com

2012 Visioning New Curriculum

Creating Learning Experiences without the Textbook

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Presenter: April Chamberlain, Shawn Nutting & Ammie Akin
Location: Trussville, Alabama USA
Twitter: @aprilpc

Presentation Description: Learn how teachers in Trussville, Alabama are creating learning experiences without the textbook using Livescribe for secondary math, teacher created elementary math videos, QR codes in books and around the school, virtual field trips, Socrative and educator collaborative space.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

  1. Trussville City Schools
  2. Paine Primary School
  3. Paine Intermediate School
  4. Hewitt-Trussville Middle School
  5. Hewitt-Trussville High School
  6. Livescribe Pens
  7. Smart Airliner
  8. Educreation App
  9. PowerPoint Saves as Video
  10. QR stuff
  11. I-nigma
  12. Charlene Hallman’s Virtual Field Trips
  13. Rachel Brockman’s Research sites
  14. Wix.com
  15. Socrative for teachers
  16. Socrative for students
  17. Edmodo
2012 Getting Started

Beyond eLearning: Online Teaching Platforms

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Presenter: Dr. Jeremy Friedberg
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Twitter: @spongelab

Presentation Description: What can platform technology do for eLearning? Platforms are what multimedia creators use to distribute their content to a user-base. In a learning context, platforms are also used to track and analyse the behaviour of users, in order to understand precisely how content is being consumed. In this talk, Dr. Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab Interactive discusses the concept of an online learning platform – a system that goes beyond eLearning and helps to stitch together the multiple, and often fragmented, parts of the teaching process. Following discussion of how platform technology fits into the classroom of the future, a tour of Spongelab.com offers an example of an online teaching platform built for personalized education.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.spongelab.com/globals/research.cfm

Additional Information:
Visit Spongelab.com for more information about our online teaching platform or follow us on Twitter @spongelab.

2012 Getting Started

7 Degrees of Connectedness

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Presenter: Rodd Lucier
Location: Komoka, Ontario, Canada
Twitter: @thecleversheep

Presentation Description: What is it for you that leads you to pay closer attention to the learners in your network? Do you feel close to those colleagues you interact with, even if you’ve never met? Are you more attuned to those people whose voices are amplified because you met at a conference; exchanged stories; shared a meal?

As our connections grow with online colleagues, we may find ourselves in qualitatively distinct relationships with co-learners. By sharing our ideas alongside details of our personal lives, we have a tendency to become more and more familiar to one another. Augment these connections with voices and imagery, and it can lead to deeper and more fulfilling connections.

In this presentation Rodd Lucier (AKA The Clever Sheep), invites you to walk along with a few of his colleagues who join him in reflecting on how modern tools are impacting our online relationships. The concept of ‘7 Degrees of Connectedness’ is introduced as one way to qualify the relationships we foster with online colleagues.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://moourl.com/7degrees

Additional Information:
http://thecleversheep.com