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2016-17-Creativity

Creativity Panel Discussion

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A truly outstanding discussion of how to place creativity a priority within your classroom using the arts, Teachers were able to create joy and make authentic projects, compositions, and visual art.

Samuel Wright, lead the discussion with all these teachers from around the world. To keep the sharing going he’ll blog our adventure and then share any other materials from presenters

 

Australia

Alison Housley International Grammar School, Sydney, Australia
Andrew Mifsud @AndyMifsud Music Teacher, Barker College, Sydney, Australia
Jane-Marie Talese @MsTalese Music Teacher, Tara Anglican School for Girls, Sydney, Australia

Austria

Lidia Campanale @LidiaMusic3 Amadeus International School, Vienna, Austria
Samuel Wright @Wrightstufmusic Amadeus International School, Vienna, Austria

China

Jenelle Krusak @kresak2j Tech Coach, American International School of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Betty Lin @lietometwo Music Teacher, American International School of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Laos

Alison Armstrong @alisonmusicblog Music Teacher, Vientiane International School, Laos

United States

Tricia Fuglestad @fuglefun Visual Arts Teacher, Dryden Elementary School, Arlington Heights, IL USA

Carol Broos @carolbroos Retired Music Teacher, Sunset Ridge School, Northfield, IL USA

2016-17-Creativity

Creativity

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Presenter: Samuel Wright

Location: Vienna, Austria
@Wrightstufmusic

Description:
Creativity. How do you begin, how do you make is the backbone of your classroom? View teachers from around the world how they use creativity within their classroom. Samuel Wright, a composer and educator has put together a variety of musicians and visual arts that demonstrate how they use creativity through collaboration and the arts. Learn from them and from more examples from Samuel below.

Additional Information:
https://wrightstuffmusic.com/

There are many ways to take part in the discussion:

  • Join us at the conference live page for a live panel discussion with educators who have implemented creativity into the classroom on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 1:00pm Greenwich mean time. (9:00am EST; 8:00 CST; 3:00 Vienna)
  • Join our Voxer channel and chime in.
  • Tweet with the hashtag #k12onlineconf. Your tweets will show up in our slow chat here as well as on Twitter.

Additional resources:

Australia

Alison Housley International Grammar School, Sydney, Australia
Andrew Mifsud @AndyMifsud Music Teacher, Barker College, Sydney, Australia
Jane-Marie Talese @MsTalese Music Teacher, Tara Anglican School for Girls, Sydney, Australia

Austria

Lidia Campanale @LidiaMusic3 Amadeus International School, Vienna, Austria
Samuel Wright @Wrightstufmusic Amadeus International School, Vienna, Austria

China

Jenelle Krusak @kresak2j Tech Coach, American International School of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Betty Lin @lietometwo Music Teacher, American International School of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Laos

Alison Armstrong @alisonmusicblog Music Teacher, Vientiane International School, Laos

Norway

Eldar Skjørten @EldarSkjorten Music Pedagogue, Eiksmarka Elementary School, Norway

United States

Tricia Fuglestad @fuglefun Visual Arts Teacher, Dryden Elementary School, Arlington Heights, IL USA

2016-17 Announcements

K12online Conference Creativity Strand – Join US.

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The K12 Online Conference Creative Strand will have a series of short presentations from some very creative educators. The video will be available Monday, April 24, 2017. These educators come from all over the world: Australia, Austria, China, Laos, Norway, and the USA. Brought together for this conference our videos will cover Music and Minecraft, Visual Arts, Ableton Live with Choral arrangements, Paintings and Sound Installations, Film Trailers or Soundscapes with Korg Little-Bits and much more.

THEN – Come join us on April 29, 2017 (9am EDT New York, 8am CDT Chicago, 3pm Vienna Austria, 2pm London, 11pm AEST Sydney) for a LIVE interaction with all the educators as we travel through our Creative Classrooms. Classrooms that have Arts Pedagogy combined with Math, Coding and Science (STEM), Art, Theatre and Technology. This session is a truly collaborative adventure. Come learn with us and share our passion for teaching.”

Mark your calendars for this amazing journey.

Here is the line-up:

Australia

Alison Housley International Grammar School, Sydney, Australia

Andrew Mifsud @AndyMifsud Music Teacher, Barker College, Sydney, Australia

Jane-Marie Talese @MsTalese Music Teacher, Tara Anglican School for Girls, Sydney, Australia

Austria

Lidia Campanale @LidiaMusic3 Amadeus International School, Vienna, Austria

Samuel Wright @Wrightstufmusic Amadeus International School, Vienna, Austria

China

Jenelle Krusak @kresak2j Tech Coach, American International School of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Betty Lin @lietometwo Music Teacher, American International School of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

 Laos

Alison Armstrong @alisonmusicblog Music Teacher, Vientiane International School, Laos

Norway

Eldar Skjørten @EldarSkjorten Music Pedagogue, Eiksmarka Elementary School, Norway

United States

Tricia Fuglestad @fuglefun Visual Arts Teacher, Dryden Elementary School, Arlington Heights, IL USA

2016-17 Announcements Uncategorized

Creativity Strand Keynote April 24, 2017

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Samuel Wright is a cutting edge music educator that embodies creativity. He taught last year in Korea and then this past summer, moved, with his young family, to Austria. He defines risk-taking in his professional and musical life. He integrates technology into music lessons that seamlessly pushes his students to create and compose using a variety of applications and programs.

On Monday, April 24, 2017, you will see how he has developed his curriculum and collaborated over many continents with other like-minded educators.

He has published iBooks which are found on iTunes U. He delights in creating opportunities for his students and is always looking to creating innovation projects. He has years of experience in Music Education, Composition, Ensembles, Orff & Curriculum Development, PYP (Primary Years Program – International Baccalaureate Primary)  to MYP (MIddle Years Program –  International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme)  and Diploma Music.

He is an Apple Distinguished Educator (2015). His website offers a wonderful insight to his creative process with his students, https://wrightstuffmusic.com/

2015-Beyond the Core

Connecting Creativity

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Presenter: Erin Olson & Leslie Pralle Keehn
Location: Pocahontas, IA

@eolsonteacher
@LPralleKeehn

Presentation Description: The Connecting Creativity series is a learning quest designed with concept and content convergence in mind, supported by meaningful technology integration. Each Connecting Creativity concept is designed so teachers can repurpose the idea to meet the needs of their students and the needs of their curriculum goals. The four monthly quests we will feature include opportunities for students to combine poetry, photography, design, video, and, of course, creativity. The numerous facets of visual arts and literacy converge in the highlighted quests. Additionally, Connecting Creativity is not only about meeting learning goals, it is about helping students see their world and share with their world.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://rethinkredesign.org/connecting-creativity

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2015-Beyond the Core

Web Literacy Map Version 1.5: Read, Write, and Participate for a Better Web

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Presenter: W. Ian O’Byrne, J. Greg McVerry
Location: Charleston, SC
@wiobyrne

@jgmac1106

Presentation Description: The World Wide Web has become this generation’s defining technology for literacy. This technology facilitates access to an unlimited amount of online information in a participatory learning space. Multiple theories and years of research have investigated the literacy practices in these online and hybrid spaces. Yet, as early adopters, history’s first generation of “always connected” individuals do not have the knowledge and skills to critically explore, build, and connect online. Simply stated, students are often not provided with opportunities in school to practice the web literacies necessary to read, write, and participate on the web. The Mozilla Foundation and community of volunteers have worked to address this paradox by creating a Web Literacy Map. These efforts seek not to simply understand the web but to empower adolescents to help build a better open web.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://wiobyrne.com/webliteracy/

Additional Information:
My blog is available at wiobyrne.com

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

Building Bridges: Connecting Students and Teachers to the World through Innovative Technologies

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Presenters: Fran Siracusa and Jennifer Williams
Location: Clearwater, FL, USA

@la_Profe_S
@JenniferWilliamsEdu

Presentation Title: Building Bridges: Connecting Students and Teachers to the World through Innovative Technologies

Presentation Description: In this video recorded session, participants will be introduced to ways to connect students to the world through innovative instructional practices and integrated technology. Likened to building a bridge, participants will be guided through the entire process of global collaboration through the Plan, Design, Constructors, Tools, and Connection. Specific examples of global projects and connection to national and international standards of instruction will be examined and tech tools and apps for collaboration will be demonstrated. Participants will be directed to explore and try out all technologies digitally throughout the session. Nearpod will be used in coordination with the videocast to offer an example of innovative teaching practices. Participants will leave with ready-to-use ideas for instruction and with ways to create global projects in their classrooms. Join for a fun and exciting session that will help to build the bridges that will bring innovation, connection, and inspiration for the future!

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://app.nearpod.com/#/?pin=IPGQH

2015 2015-Stories of Connection

The #WalkMyWorld Project: Exploring the use of digital texts and tools as a means to connect, collaborate, & share

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Presenter: W. Ian O’Byrne
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
@wiobyrne

Presentation Title: The #WalkMyWorld Project: Exploring the use of digital texts and tools as a means to connect, collaborate, & share

Presentation Description: The purpose of this session is to bring together multiple perspectives and participants to conceptualize #WalkMyWorld as a space to explore avenues for pre-service teachers, as a tool for focusing on media literacies, and as an exploration of a community of writers. Evolving pedagogical models for new literacies and emerging technologies allow texts to unfold in new reading and writing spaces. These studies explore an evolving “community of inquiry” called #WalkMyWorld. This cross-platform poetry project cut across chronotopes of time and space as participants explored various lifeworlds by responding to and authoring multi-modal poetry.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
The #WalkMyWorld Project

Additional Information:
For more information on the project, learning events, and tutorials shared please visit the following website: https://sites.google.com/site/walkmyworldproject/.

All of my personal posts about the #WalkMyWorld Project can be viewed here: http://wiobyrne.com/tag/walkmyworld/

2014 2014-STEAM

Coding/Making/Writing with Connected Learners

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Presenter: Melissa Techman
Location: Charlottesville, VA, USA
@mtechman

Presentation Title: Coding/Making/Writing with Connected Learners

Presentation Description: An overview of how to use Mozilla’s Thimble with students for creative approaches to writing. Thimble allows for easy website building and fun remixing of existing website templates. Following the success of Webmaker events with teens at the public library, Melissa Techman shares her forms, templates and methods so you can experiment with Thimble in the classroom. This creative approach to writing builds interest in coding and allows students of all abilities to have fun and experience collaborative and connected learning. While intended for grades 6 and up, the approach and the templates can be simplified for younger students.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://mtk12online.weebly.com/

2014 2014-Stories for Learning

My Journey With Technology

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Presenter: Cassidy Hall
Location: Moscow, ID
Cassidy Hall on LinkedIn

 

Presentation Description: In my presentation, I share my perspective on technology integration in the k-12 environment through lessons learned throughout my sixteen-year transformation from tech savvy classroom teacher to technology integration specialist. My roles as English teacher, library media specialist, technology coach, and instructional coach and the many professional development programs I’ve experienced have all been pivotal in developing the philosophy I have today concerning technology integration. Every successful step I’ve taken along the way has been dependent on building relationships, and those that were unsuccessful lacked the vital support from teachers, students, parents, administrators, and staff to make technology integration successful. I’ll transform the lessons I’ve learned into easy guidelines to follow as you take on the challenge of embracing technology in k-12 classrooms.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http://padlet.com/cassidyh/k12online

Additional Information:
cassidyh@uidaho.edu