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2010-Leading the Change

Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know

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Presenter: Rodd Lucier
Location: Komoka, Ontario, Canada
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know

Presentation Description: Creative Commons is the most powerful mechanism for media development you’ve never heard of. In this presentation, you will discover how learners of all ages are gaining access to millions of free images, audio files, video elements, and written materials allowing the creation of unique multimedia products.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://creativecommons.org

Additional Information:
Rodd Lucier
Blog: thecleversheep.com
Twitter: @thecleversheep
Personal iOS Application

Echo Webcasts

K12 Online Echo: Beth Ritter-Guth

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Please join us for our next K-12 Online Echo Webcast on 23/24 March 2010 with  Beth Ritter-Guth! Our Echo Webcasts are FREE, take place approximately twice per month, and offer LIVE opportunities to learn from and interact with K12Online presenters. EdTechTalk provides our virtual meeting space for these events!

In this week’s Echo Webcast, Beth Ritter-Guth will elaborate on her 2009 presentation: Unlikely Coordinates? Geocaching Across the Curriculum. Check the date and time for your location and time zone. It will be Tuesday evening in North America. Do you want to know more about geocaching?

For archives of the LAN parties, Fireside Chats and Echo, go to EdTechTalk.

If you haven’t seen Beth’s 2009 presentation yet, you can view it now or wait to view it during the webcast. During each webcast, we have a live “backchannel” (including the presenter whose video we’re watching) where we can respond to and discuss the ideas raised in the presentation. We also spend time in live Q&A (over skype audio, which is shared via Ustream) discussing the presentation in-depth.

Hope you can join us for this week’s Echo Webcast!

Announcements Echo Webcasts

K12Online Echo Webcast with Jackie Gerstein

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Please join us for our next K-12 Online Echo Webcast on 9/10 March 2010 with  Jackie Gerstein! Our Echo Webcasts are FREE, take place approximately twice per month, and offer LIVE opportunities to learn from and interact with K12Online presenters. EdTechTalk provides our virtual meeting space for these events!

In this week’s Echo Webcast, Jackie will elaborate on her 2009 presentation: Digital Writers’ Workshop. Check the date and time for your location and time zone. It will be Tuesday evening in North America.

For archives of the LAN parties, Fireside Chats and Echo, go to EdTechTalk.

If you haven’t seen Jackie’s 2009 presentation yet, you can view it now or wait to view it during the webcast. During each webcast, we have a live “backchannel” (including the presenter whose video we’re watching) where we can respond to and discuss the ideas raised in the presentation. We also spend time in live Q&A (over skype audio, which is shared via Ustream) discussing the presentation in-depth.

Hope you can join us for this week’s Echo Webcast!

2010 Announcements Echo Webcasts

K12Online Echo Webcast with Kelly Hines

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Please join us for our next K-12 Online Echo Webcast on 23/24 February 2010 with  Kelly Hines! Our Echo Webcasts are FREE, take place approximately twice per month, and offer LIVE opportunities to learn from and interact with K12Online presenters. EdTechTalk provides our virtual meeting space for these events!

In this week’s Echo Webcast, Kelly will elaborate on her 2009 presentation: Little Kids, Big Possibilities. Check the date and time for your location and time zone. It will be Tuesday evening in North America.

For archives of the LAN parties, Fireside Chats and Echo, go to EdTechTalk.

If you haven’t seen Kelly’s 2009 presentation yet, you can view it now or wait to view it during the webcast.  During each webcast, we have a live “backchannel” (including the presenter whose video we’re watching) where we can respond to and discuss the ideas raised in the presentation. We also spend time in live Q&A (over skype audio, which is shared via Ustream) discussing the presentation in-depth.

Hope you can join us for this week’s Echo Webcast!

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

Ways of Working

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Presenter: Chris Betcher
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Ways of Working

Presentation Description: This presentation explores a range of ideas that teachers could use to make a real-world task richer and more meaningful for their students. Using a large public art event as the focus, it looks at a number of ideas for enriching student learning with technology… ideas that could be modified and applied to nearly any learning context.

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Ways of Working

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Further links and resources to support this presentation can be found at Chris’ wiki – Ways of Working

Subscribe to Chris’s blog at http://www.betchablog.com, or follow via Twitter on http://www.twitter.com/betchaboy

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

Around the World with Skype

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Presenter: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Around the World with Skype

Presentation Description: Are you ready to get started with Skype? In this presentation you will see and hear what kind of hardware and software you will need, get step by step instructions to set up for your first call. Find out strategies and discover projects to join as well as links and resources how to find and contact more partners. You will hear advice from real teachers on how to prepare your class for successful Skype connections, help your students learn, document, reflect, and many more ideas how to open up your classroom to the world.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/16/k12online09/

Additional Information:
Blog
Twitter
Skype: langwitches

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

Alrededor del Mundo con Skype

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Presenter: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Alrededor del Mundo con Skype

Presentation Description: ¿Listos para empezar a usar Skype en las escuelas? – ¿Qué clase de hardware y software van a necesitar? Instrucciones, paso a paso, como preparar su primera llamada. ¿Cómo encontrar proyectos para participar, enlaces y recursos. ¿Cómo encontrar y conectar con más aulas? En esta presentación van a escuchar consejos en cómo preparar a sus estudiantes para una conexión de Skype exitosa, ayudarles a aprender, documentar y a reflexionar…

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/16/k12online09/

Additional Information:
Blog
Twitter
Skype: langwitches

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

Show and Tell: Exhibit, Reflect, Critique with Blogs

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Presenter: Sarah Sutter
Location: Lisbon Falls, Maine, US
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Show and Tell: Exhibit, Reflect, Critique with Blogs

Presentation Description: Explore the evolution of blogs in a high school art program, from a class blog to individual blogs to working in a drupal environment with other students. Students used blogs to exhibit work, reflect on their creative process and engage in meaningful critique with their peers. What were the hurdles? How were they addressed? What worked well? What needed to change?Hear one school’s story and see what might work for you.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://showandtell-k1209.wikispaces.com

Additional Information:
twitter
http://sarahsutter.com
http://edueyeview.wordpress.com
http://mssutter.edublogs.org
sutterview [at] gmail or googlewave

2009 2009-Kicking It Up a Notch

The Heroic Journey Project

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Presenter: Kevin Hodgson
Location: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: The Heroic Journey Project

Presentation Description: This presentation highlights the use of Google Maps and Google Earth (and Picasa photo)to create a fictional “Heroic Journey” story. The unit is tied to literature (The Odyssey, The Lightning Thief), writing (creating an original story with episodes of adventure) and technology (integrating online tools into the classroom). The presentation includes some sample student work from sixth graders but I encourage you to follow the links to the website where the student journeys are posted.


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http://sites.google.com/site/heroicjourneymaps/

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I encourage you to spend a little time on a journey with my students. We have created a Google Sites where all of the student work is located, including the KML Google Earth files.

The Heroic Journey Website

If you need more depth in what was shown students as they moved into Google Maps and Earth, go to this presentation that walks students through the process.

Project Overview

Thanks for being part of the K12 Online Conference. Good luck on your own journeys.

Kevin Hodgson
Twitter: @dogtrax
Blog: Kevin’s Meandering Mind

2009 2009-Week in the Classroom

For Those Who Want to Rock, Don’t Suppose, Compose!

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Presenter: Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny
Location: Northbrook, Illinois
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: For Those Who Want to Rock, Don’t Suppose, Compose!

Presentation Description: Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny, two music teachers discuss the creative process of composing music in the digital age. All links can be found at http://musictechie.pbworks.com


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Additional Information:
Carol Broos  twitter plurk
School website www.carolbroos.com Professional blog www.beatechie.com
Carol Vrotny – twitter School Music Video website