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2011 2011-Sandbox Play

The Power of Projects

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Presenter: Jennifer Wagner
Location: Murrieta, CA USA

@jenwagner

Presentation Title: The Power of Projects

Presentation Description: There is POWER in online projects.
Come join the conversation as several projects are shared that demonstrate the “POWER” available in online projects.
Plus, the conversation will continue on at the resource page where you can share memories of past projects and share out project ideas!!
This session is geared more towards the elementary/primary classroom but there will be examples of secondary projects as well.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/w/page/48217883/K1OC22011

Additional Information:
http://www.projectsbyjen.com/blog
http://www.projectsbyjen.com/GTW

2011 2011-Level Up

What Can Be Done in Just 60 Seconds?

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Presenter: Julia Osteen
Location: Norcross, GA, USA
Twitter: @josteen

Presentation Title: What Can Be Done in Just 60 Seconds?

Presentation Description:

What can be done in just 60 seconds?

empty a trash can
reply to an email
wipe spots off a mirror
cut a loose string off your clothing
OR – empower a generation!

The 60 second recap video site attempts to do just that. Their mission? To make the great works of literature accessible, relevant and irresistible to today’s teens. But the site does not stop there. It also invites a greater conversation and participation into the realm of global contribution for the purpose of education.

Sure, we want kids to get excited about reading but we also want kids to get other kids excited about reading. Find out how one teacher has used someone else’s great idea to empower her students further as readers, writers, and contributors to the greater conversation.

iPod video      mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Slideshare

Additional Information:
none

2011 2011-Level Up

Get Out of the Classroom with Virtual Field Trips

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Presenter: Jayme Linton
Location: Hickory, North Carolina, USA
@jaymelinton

Presentation Title: Get Out of the Classroom with Virtual Field Trips

Presentation Description: We all know that field trips can be incredible educational experiences for students, particularly students with limited backgrounds. However, with the current budget crunch, field trips aren’t always feasible. In this session, you’ll learn how to create a field trip experience for your students without leaving the classroom. Come explore resources for designing virtual field trips that will engage your students and give them new experiences. No permission forms or bag lunches required.

iPod video         mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Jayme’s Symbaloo

 

2011 2011-Sandbox Play

Old Dogs Must Learn New Tricks

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Presenter: Betsye Sargent & Barbara McFall
Location: Salem, MA USA
@phoenixschool

Presentation Title: Old Dogs Must Learn New Tricks

Presentation Description: Two teachers with 90 years of combined experience share the journey they took with their students, using a simulation in the classroom to answer an authentic question to prepare students to use technology to connect, communicate, and collaborate with students in other parts of the world. Incorporating PLAY helped them and their students learn to use the tools necessary to embed global projects into the curriculum.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.phoenixschool.org

2011 2011-Level Up

Creating ePortfolios with WordPress

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Presenter: Dana Watts
Location: New Delhi, India
Twitter: @teachwatts

Presentation Title: Creating ePortfolios with WordPress

Presentation Description: Imagine a world where students are no longer judged by a lone essay, an individual transcript, or single letter of recommendation. ePortfolios allow students the ability to showcase their life-long learning and potential for growth well beyond the confine of the classroom walls. ePortfolios have the potential to transform the way educators access student readiness for future courses, advancement and college admissions.

Using a blog platform as the launching point for an ePortfolio, provides students the ease of sharing their knowledge with a platform that is easily transportable from one academic year to the next, from one school district to the next, one country to the next. In addition, a blog allows students the freedom of expression and power to control who and what others are reading about them on the web. Teaching students to have a handle and take control of their digital footprint is essential to their digital literacy skills.

An ePortfolio created in WordPress is a simple tool we can provide students to begin to have a place to analyze, create, evaluate and reflect on their learning as they travel on their journey of learning. This presentation illustrates the ease of creating an ePortfolio in 8 simple steps. Come play in the sandbox of blogging, and see how many doors we can open up to help celebrate learning with our students.

 


iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents

 

 

 

 

Additional Information:

www.ePortfolios4schools.com

www.teachwatts.com

2011 2011-Sandbox Play

Sandpit QR Code Presentation

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Presenter: Allanah King
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
@Allanahk

Presentation Title: Sandpit QR Code Presentation

Presentation Description: In this presentation Allanah King describes how she has used QR codes with her class of Year Four children. She also shares a number of other uses of QR Codes that may be useful in teaching and communicating with the wider community. The ideas in the presentation came from a series of blog posts that Allanah wrote over a series of months in the middle of 2011. All of the links she mentions in the presentation are hyperlinked on those blog posts. Please visit Allanah’s blog and suggest other ways you have used QR codes in your classroom.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://allanahk.edublogs.org/category/qr-codes/

 

2011 2011-Level Up

Welcome to the World: Advancing the Digital and Physical Landscape

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Presenter: Connor Janzen and Benjamin Honeycutt
Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Twitter: @OWProject
Facebook page: Open World Cause

Presentation Description: Our presentation is in an audience/keynote format to engage viewers with documentary footage of the Open World cause, project history and information and a resource medium for starting a similar fundraiser or initiative-based project with online tools such as social media networks. Additionally, we cover areas of special interest in terms of organizational management and focus.

iPod video –  mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://k12online.ning.com/profile/OpenWorld

Additional Information:
None

2011 2011-Sandbox Play

Scratching Kids Brains

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Presenter: Geoffrey Derry
Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
@gderry

Presentation Title: Scratching Kids Brains

Presentation Description: Scratch is a Programming language designed to be very powerful yet easy to use. It is the perfect way to introduce programming and programming concepts to school students of any age. It is easy to get started with but powerful enough to create games, interactive presentations, music, stories and solve problems. It is a great way to get kids playing and sandboxing with computers making them think in deep ways. For me Scratch is a constructivist’s dream come true, allowing students to understand their own problems, make mistakes and try new things. This presentation will give you a brief introduction to scratch, provide you with resources to explore it further and show ways I have used scratch to get students creating, playing and learning. It is suitable for any teacher in any subject area who is interested in providing students with a powerful tool to create and learn on their own.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://ge.tt/8kSo7FA?c

Additional Information:
Link to my blog
http://wiki.ssis-suzhou.net/users/geoffreyderry/

2011 2011-Level Up

Technology as an Ally in the IB Science class

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Presenter: Antonio Amaral Cunha & Silvana Meneghini
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
@smenegh

Presentation Title: Technology as an Ally in the IB Science class

Presentation Description: The “Flipped Classroom” strategy involves using some type of technology to provide instruction to students before coming to class and using class time for more higher level thinking and interaction. This strategy is being used by one of ur IB Science teachers through a collaborative Google Doc. Such an approach has been beneficial to students as we look at the IB learner profile and it has also been beneficial to the teacher in terms of covering IB requirements.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/a/graded.br/document/d/1FWQIC9Gmt-M2xvRPgTpWM78oKF9EBBhruCsOhIfzlcU/edit?hl=en_US

Additional Information:
None

2011 2011-Sandbox Play

SANDBOX PLAY KEYNOTEA Teacher’s Journey

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Presenter: Dr. Christopher Craft
Location: Columbia, SC, USA
@crafty184

Presentation Title: Sandbox Play Keynote: A Teacher’s Journey

Presentation Description: Take a look inside the classroom of Dr. Christopher Craft and explore what sandbox play practically looks like. Chris teaches kids in a variety of courses such as World Languages, Media Technologies, and Broadcast Journalism.

Presentation:

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.crucialthought.com

Additional Information:
Dr. Christopher Craft is an award-winning classroom educator at CrossRoads Middle School in Columbia, SC. Dr. Craft has a B.A. in Spanish, an M.Ed in Educational Technology, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Research. He has been teaching for seven years. He is most proud of his two daughters; the princess and the diva.

Find out more about Chris at www.christophercraft.com or read his (infrequently updated) blog at www.crucialthought.com. Find him on Twitter at @crafty184.