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2012 Announcements

K12Online12 Day 10 Presentations: 2 November 2012

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Welcome to day ten of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 10 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Kim Herron
Mars Rover, Mars Rover, Send My Own Rover Over

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Robert Appino
Speak up! Transforming Classroom Discussions

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2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Speak Up! Transforming Classroom Discussions

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Presenter: Robert Appino
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Twitter:  @rappin01

Presentation Description: Some students enjoy speaking up in class while others don’t. This is a potential situation in many classrooms. In what ways then, can we promote more students to share their ideas?

This presentation will briefly introduce research undertaken on face-to-face and virtual discussions and discuss some of the literature involved. Based on the findings, I will also highlight some of the benefits of virtual discussions and provide links for experiment in your classrooms.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.rappino.com/2012/10/19/speak

2012 Announcements

K12Online12 Day 9 Presentations: 1 November 2012

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Welcome to day nine of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 9 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Brad Wilson
Student News Teams: Telling the Story

Kyle Dunbar
Authentic Voices

 

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Scott Merrick
Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching: Power Example to Get You Thinking 

Susan Oxnevad
Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

 

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2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

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Presenter: Susan Oxnevad
Location: Oak Park, IL, US
Twitter:  @soxnevad

Presentation Description: Learn to use free and user friendly digital tools to design and implement student driven learning experiences that facilitate the acquisition of deep knowledge about vocabulary. Build a tech toolkit of resources and effective instructional practices to provide students with flexible learning paths to meet a variety of diverse learning needs. Develop innovative ways to use multimedia supported tools for vocabulary instruction. Learn to create interactive graphics, design digital word walls, and explore some 10 minute tech tools for use right away.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/K12OnlineConference

Additional Information:
Find more ideas for efficient and effective tech integration on my blog, Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com

2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching: Power Examples to Get You Thinking

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Presenter: Scott Merrick
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Twitter:  @scottmerrick

Presentation Description: Scott Merrick has been exploring virtual worlds, a.k.a. 3D online environments, for years and has focused for the past half decade on their potentials for extending learning and teaching onto the global stage. He has been known to mashup technologies in order to get a point, or points, across. This session utilizes a live exploration of a custom-built Wallwisher.com webpage with voice narration created in Audacity. Learn a little bit about several more or less randomly selected (from hundreds existing) examples of the power of virtual environments to help establish “sense of place at a distance.” Then visit the wall itself in order to fully explore resources which a 20 minute recorded session can only overview.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://ge.tt/2lpHuTP?c

Additional Information:
My blog is http://scottmerrick.net and I also blog virtual environments at http://scottsecondlife.blogspot.com

2012 Announcements

K12Online12 Day 8 Presentations: 31 October 2012

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Welcome to day eight of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 8 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Audrey McLaren McGoldrick
Beaucoup de Cool Student Projects

Alexander Fryer
Creating and Playing in Minecraft

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Naomi Harm
Seven Habits of Highly Effective PD Learning Experiences

Glenda Baker
Thinking Big About Learning

 

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2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Thinking Big About Learning

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Presenter: Glenda Baker
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Twitter:  @glendab

Presentation Description: What does recent research say about teaching and learning with technology? What are some of the generalizations we can make about the climate and culture in effective technology rich learning environments?

In this presenation I’ll share some generalizations I found in researching this topic and explore some of the factors that support technology integration. Identifying generalizations can affirm the hunches we have and provides evidence to support our initiatives to upgrade and transform teaching and learning.

I have set a Think Big About Learning webpage with some tools for us to interact via during and after the presentation. I hope you’ll join the backchannel conversation, particapte in the polls, and post your own examples. Let’s Learn, Share and Remix ideas together.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

https://glenbaker.wordpress.com/

Additional Information:
I work at the American School in Japan as the HS Instructional Technology Coach. I write about my work on an educator blog called Digitalforay | glendabaker.net

2012 Student Voices

Creating and Playing in Minecraft

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Presenter: Alexander Fryer
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
YouTube:  legoarf

Presentation Description: Minecraft is a game and virtual world you may have heard about but not know a lot about. I created this presentation to show adults what students are doing in Minecraft, some basics of the game, and how people (even adults) are using Minecraft in creative, fun and interactive ways. In this presentation I share some of the worlds I’ve created in Minecraft, describe how I’ve learned about Minecraft primarily using the Minecraft Wiki and YouTube videos created by other users, and show some clips from videos demonstrating some of the possibilities of Minecraft. I hope this presentation inspires you to learn more and ask your students about what they have created in Minecraft.

Link to Presentation’s Supporting Documents:
learningsigns.speedofcreativity.org/minecraft

2012 Kicking It Up a Notch

Creating Seven Habits of Highly Effective Professional Development Learning Experiences

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Presenter: Naomi Harm
Location: Brownville, MN USA
twitter:  @nharm

Presentation Description: Do you sometimes struggle to provide meaningful professional development opportunities to inspire your teachers? The capabilities of educational technology has the potential to radically change instructional strategies to bring about socially meaningful learning. This online webinar will showcase how an organization can move to deeper and more creative staff development practices through a kaleidoscope of blended learning opportunities.

Join Naomi Harm as she explains the potential of seven online highly collaborative tools and how you can model the use of these reflective tools and resources to build and sustain creative and meaningful staff development experiences. She will cover how to develop a vision of Web 2.0 for achieving your district’s technology literacy goals, as well as how to provide support for an online community-based reflection portal for educators to share their collective wisdom and voice, and just in-time learning for educational uses of Web 2.0.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http;//box.com/naomiharm

Additional Information:
Blog: http://blog.innovativeeducator.us

Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/naomilharm

Naomi Harm, Master of Education in Professional Development, ME-PD, best known as an 21st century educational technology literacy specialist, welcomes every opportunity to share her expertise and best practices relating to technology infused teaching and learning environments. Her dynamic career focus includes many exciting and cutting edge jobs which include: an Intel National Senior Trainer, SMART certified trainer, certified online instructor, and manages her own “Innovative Educator” consulting corporation. Naomi provides customized staff development technology workshops, grant writing expertise, and designs and delivers online graduate course work for universities. She also has a well-known specialty and expertise area of delivering motivational international keynote presentations focusing on emerging technologies, 21st century skills and assessments, mobile learning technologies, and inspired and transformative educational technology leadership. Naomi is truly passionate about building global relationships with educational technology leaders, while engaging in meaningful and collaborative conversations to meet the needs of today’s diverse learners.

2012 Announcements

K12Online12 Day 7 Presentations: 30 October 2012

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Welcome to day seven of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Day 7 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Ben Rimes
Video Story Problems 

 

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Janine Campbell
Remix Teaching Through Blended Online Learning

Richard Beach
Using iOS App Affordances to Foster Literacy Learning in the Classroom 

 

If you’re not already, be sure to follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook. Subscribe to our email list if you’re not already receiving email updates from us. Also remember all video and audio presentations are available in iPad / iPhone / iPod touch compatible format in our iTunesU Portal! If you tweet about the conference please use the Twitter hashtag #k12online12.