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Please join us on November 18, 2009 at 22:30GMT/3:30pmPST/
4:30pmMST/5:30pmCST/6:30pmEST
for a live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference

On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom. The following presenters will be in attendance.

6:30 – 7:15pm Second Life: K-20 Educators Exploring Virtual Worlds – Panel

Kevin Jarrett and Sylvia Martinez

Kevin has been a K-4 Technology Facilitator at Northfield Community School in Northfield, NJ USA since 2003. In this role he is responsible for technology instruction in a lab setting for the entire elementary student body (540+ students). Rather than just “teaching computer class,” Kevin delivers engaging, informative, challenging and enjoyable lessons that integrate with content being taught by his classroom-teacher peers while  leveraging state-of-the-art Web 2.0 and social media technologies. Kevin began exploring Second Life in early 2007 thanks to a $10,000 Faculty Excellence grant from Walden University where he teaches online, part-time. He works closely with ISTE via their presence in Second Life and helps to manage the very popular Tuesday night “Speaker Series”.…………………………………

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Sylvia Martinez is president of Generation YES, working to empower students in K-12 schools through digital technology. Sylvia has designed educational games, curriculum, and online experiences for teachers and students. Sylvia speaks and writes on subjects such as the use of technology, simulations and games to enhance educational opportunities and enable youth voice.

6:45 – 7:30pm Release the Hounds - Chris Harbeck

Chris Harbeck teaches grade 8 math to approximately 140 students each year. He has been teaching middle school students for over a decade and is in his fifth year of using 2.0 applications and “21st Century Learning” in his classroom. Despite the fact (or more realistically because of the fact) that math is one of those subjects students often reflect back on with distaste, fear or indifference, Chris has moved from teaching both social studies and math to the one subject. He has been involved in development of the middle years math curriculum at the divisional and provincial level. With his strong focus on conceptual understanding, Chris has discovered that using 2.0 tools and applications make math fun and interesting. An encouraging trend has emerged: students do not run away and saying “I hate math”; they love to do assignments and have started to see the beauty in math.

The EdTechTalk community will host this event at http://www.edtechtalk.com/live.
For questions or more information, contact Susan Van Gelder, Live Events Committee, at susanvg@mac.com or on Twitter at @k12online.

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I could not be more honored to be the pre-conference keynote speaker for this year’s K12 Online conference!

I have been participating in this annual conference since its inception in 2006 and every year I am amazed at the quality of presentations shared by educators around the world. The opportunity to learn together over the course of the conference (and beyond) is one of the most inspiring and engaging experiences of the year for me. Of course, this year’s lineup is no different!

When I was asked to keynote this year’s event, I knew right away that I wanted my presentation to have a global focus. Thinking back over the course of my ten years of living overseas, I realized that in many ways my exposure to new ways of thinking about technology has been paralleled by some similar learning experiences in the real world. I wanted to explore those links between virtual and real-world perspective shifts, and in the process try to share what I feel is an interesting and unique perspective in the expat mindset.

I’ve also decided to try to practice what I preach and make this presentation a true global collaboration, and although I will be putting together and presenting the final product, I really wanted to make it based on group input. Thankfully, my personal learning network includes a number of outstanding international school educators who’ve been willing to help me in preparing my presentation (thank you!). Right now I’ve gotten a lot of great input and material from (in no particular order):

• Jabiz Raisdana in Qatar
• Sara Patterson and 3 of her fabulous students in Korea
• Susan Sedro in Singapore
• Julie Lindsay, Jeff Plaman and Tod Baker in China
• Clint Hamada in Vietnam
• Maria Gomez in Saudi Arabia
• Steve Katz in Costa Rica
• Brandon Hoover in the Philipines
• Justin Hardman and Ryan Skardal in Hong Kong
• Brian Lockwood, Genki U. and Christine U. in Japan
• Darby Sinclair in Taiwan
• Dennis Harter in Thailand

While these teachers have already sent me fantastic material, I would love to include other perspectives as well. Knowing that the deadline is just over a month away, I’m beginning to put the final pieces together, and would love to hear your thoughts, include your perspectives, and emphasize the power of global collaboration in the final product.

Here’s the presentation overview:

Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education

Everything I need to know about the future of education I learned, not from kindergarten, but from living overseas. Looking at daily life in foreign lands reveals a colorful spectrum of inspiring metaphors for the shifts we need to make in education. Featuring voices from students and teachers from around the globe, this presentation will start with a look through an expatriate’s eyes at some vibrant details of daily life in many lands. Often what we may find initially chaotic, disorienting and strange in other countries can actually spark new ways of thinking about teaching and learning.

Then, again through the voices and viewpoints of teachers and students from all around the world, we’ll examine the unique aptitudes which allow successful expats to thrive in any environment: adaptability, flexibility, the ability to understand differing viewpoints and constructs, and the communications skills to collaborate across cultural, religious and linguistic barriers. These are exactly the skills that future students and teachers will need to confidently enter the digital, global, converging, collaborative world of tomorrow – wherever they might be physically located.

Final Thoughts

What do you think? Does this sound interesting to you? Are you an expat or Third Culture Kid? Have you or your students participated in a global collaboration? What did you gain from that experience?

Please join us on October 20, 2009
from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT (10pm GMT)
for a second live event of the
2009 K12Online Conference

On October 20^th, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT (10pm GMT). We invite everyone to gather in the EdTechTalk chatroom with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom at http:www.edtechtalk.com/live. The following presenters will be in attendance:

6:00 – 6:45pm Travel Through Space and Time
Silvia Tolisano
Born in Germany, raised in Argentina and living in the USA, Silvia graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish & International Studies and a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology. Silvia is currently teaching at a private elementary school where she serves as the Instructional Technology Facilitator and Webmaster. Having lived on three continents and traveled extensively, Sylvia is well aware of the importance of instilling global awareness & cultural sensitivities in all her students.

6:45 – 7:30pm How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution?
Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes and Bob Sprankle
Alice Barr has lived, taught and traveled on five continents. She now lives in Maine where she is the high school Instructional Technology Integrator in a 1:1 laptop environment. Alice also teaches in the summer at The University of Southern Maine and provides professional development sessions during the year.

Alice was a Technology Learning Leader with SEED, Spreading Educator to Educator Developments and worked with teachers during the beginnings of MLTI, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. She is now part of the SEEDlings webcast show, along with Bob and Cheryl, which is streamed live three Thursdays a month at EdTechTalk.

Cheryl Oakes lives and works in Maine and around the world virtually! Cheryl works with students and teachers in Wells, Maine and throughout the states of Maine and New Hampshire. “I am also lucky enough to be involved with folks from around the world through my online networks of the Webheads, Worldbridges, EdTechTalk and Seedlings. Join in any of these conversations. You will flatten your classroom.”  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Bob Sprankle comes from Wells, Maine, where he is a Technology Integrator in a K-4 Elementary School. Bob teaches over 500 students technology skills for the 21st Century and has been integrating technology in a 3/4 multi-age class for 10 years prior.

Bob was involved with the SEED group in Maine as a Technology Learning Leader and helped train the first wave of teachers using laptops for the 7th and 8th grader MLTI project. He was awarded Maine’s Technology Teacher of the Year in 2006 from ACTEM. Bob’s students have received world-wide recognition for their “Room 208 Podcast”, and have appeared in numerous articles, including, The New York Times and Apple’s Education Site. Bob’s professional development blog and podcast, “Bit by Bit”, is geared to helping teachers incorporate technology into their classrooms and can be found at www.bobsprankle.com.

The EdTechTalk community will host this event at http://www.edtechtalk.com/live.
For questions or more information, contact Susan Van Gelder, Live Events Committee,
at susanvg@mac.com or on Twitter at @k12online.

This year’s fantastic line up of keynote presenters will create an inviting and welcoming introduction in which the sharing of ideas among diverse learners working in diverse contexts continues. Our distinguished keynote speakers will not only extend the conversations, but also invite each of us to stretch and grow as they share their expertise and wisdom in their respective strands. See our post from June 24th for more information about keynote speakers in each of our 2009 strands.

The presentations accompanying the keynotes for each strand have been selected in 2009 through the collaborative work of a review committee composed of conference conveners and strand keynote speakers. The selection process was challenging as the quality of proposals was again outstanding. We thank everyone who submitted a proposal. Due to some changes in the procedures our presenters  will follow this year in uploading / sharing their video files, we were able to select more presentations in each strand. More details about those procedures will follow soon. We are elated to announce the K12 Online 2009 presenters whose creativity, depth of thought, and innovation promise to make K12 Online 2009 exemplary.

The presenters by strand are:

WEEK 1: December 7-11, 2009

Getting Started (13 presentations)

Keynote
Joyce Kasman Valenza
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch
Erdenheim, PA, USA

Using E-Books to provide a motivation for writing
Colin Hill
colport26.blogspot.com/
Southport, UK

Options for Building Your Teacher Website
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn
www.cyndidannerkuhn.info
Manhattan, KS, USA

Orientation into Second Life: Methods and Processes for Introducing New Users to the Use and Controls in 3D Worlds.
Deborah Butler & Alan Hudson
www.sllondon.com & www.londonmet.ac.uk
London, UK

Using Web 2.0 tools to teach The Outsiders
Drew Buddie
digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk
Rickmansworth, Herts, England

Keeping the Literacy in 21st Century Literacies
Drew Schrader
moodle4pbl.wordpress.com
Bloomington, IN, USA

Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Increasing Interactivity
Janine Lim
vcoutonalim.org
Berrien Springs, MI USA

If You Host It They Will Come
Jennifer Wagner
www.jenuinetech.com/blog
Wildomar, CA, USA

Google SketchUp Unleashed
Joseph J. Bires
www.edtechleadership.com
Trenton, NJ, USA

Building on Analog Success with 2.0 Technology
Kelley Connolly
iteach.ning.com
Chestnut Hill, MA  USA

Little Kids, Big Possiblities
Kelly Hines
keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com
Washington, NC, USA

The iPod Touch in the Classroom
Kern Kelley
thetechcurve.blogspot.com
Newport, ME, USA

Bridging History Using Web 2.0 Tools
Robin Beaver
www.rosemontschool.org
Rosemont, PA, USA

Leading the Change (14 presentations)

Keynote
Konrad Glogowski
www.teachandlearn.ca/blog
Ontario, Canada

Just a Touch of Leadership – Using the iPod touch & Web 2.0 to Enhance School Leadership
Andy Crozier & Mike Amante
www.newhartfordschools.org/amante
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA & New Hartford, NY, USA

Organizational Learning and Technology Collide
Ben Grey
bengrey.com/blog
Elgin, IL, USA

LAN: Learning Is Social!
Bryan Hughes
www.nvsd44.bc.ca/Staff/UZ/VanAlstyneA12161/Blog/LAN%20Buzz.aspx
North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Moogpal in Action
Chris Walsh
www.newtechnetwork.org
Walnut Creek, CA, USA

You Might be a 21st Century Leader if…
David Wells
principalofchange.wordpress.com
Montpelier, Vermont, USA

Slippery Rocks and Hard Places: Twelve Bridges and Learning Matters
Dennis Richards
innovation3.edublogs.org
Andover, MA, USA

Whither Eportfolios
Drew Buddie
digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk
Rickmansworth, Herts, England

21st Century Learning Plato’s way
Gail Dyer
gaildyer.edublogs.org & www.belmoresouthpublicschool.edublogs.org
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Probing the Possibilities of Paperless Pedagogy
Jason Neiffer
www.techsavvyteacher.com/blog
Helena, Montana, USA

Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century
Julie Lindsay
123elearning.blogspot.com
Beijing, China

Digital Empowerment: How Bytes Affect Us
Minhaaj Rehman
www.minhaaj.com
Umea, Sweden

Building a Web 2.0 Culture
Paul Curtis
www.newtechnetwork.org
Napa, California, USA

Digiteens: Digital Citizenship from Digital Teenagers
Vicki Davis
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
Camilla, Georgia, USA

Embracing Web 2.0 as an Administrator
William Carozza
billcarozza.com
Deerfield, NH, USA

WEEK 2: December 14-17, 2009

Week in the Classroom (13)

Keynote
Rachel Boyd
rachelboyd.wikispaces.com
Nelson, New Zealand

To Those Who Want to Rock – Don’t Suppose Compose!
Carol Broos and Carol Vrotny
www.carolbroos.com; www.beatechie.com; musictechie.pbworks.com; grasslakemusicteacher.edublogs.org
Gurnee, IL, USA and Northbrook, IL, USA

Ways of Working: How students can leverage Web 2.0 tools to their own advantage
Chris Betcher
www.betchablog.com
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Blogging and communicative competences in the EFL class
Cristina Arnau Vilà
www.xtec.cat/~carnau22
Barcelona, Spain

The Digital Writers’ Workshop
Jackie Gerstein
www.pageflakes.com/jgerst1111/
Santa Fe, NM, USA

Living History – Authentic Learning Empowered by Digital Technology
Jane Ross
gr5swa.blogspot.com
Indonesia

Competencias Artisticas En La Plástica
Josu Garro
jotaclick.blogspot.com
Bilbao, Bizkaia, España

Skateboard
Keith Kelley
www.itsvms.com
Newport, ME, USA

Steal this Preso:  Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom
Mathew Needleman
www.videointheclassroom.com
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Algunas aplicaciones para trabajar la competencia comunicativa linguistica y audiovisual
Pilar Soro
espaicompartit.blogspot.com
Tarragona, España

Show & Tell : Exhibit, Reflect & Critique with blogs
Sarah Sutter
edueyeview.wordpress.com &  mssutter.edublogs.org
Lisbon Falls, Maine, USA

Around the World with Skype (English version) & Alrededor del Mundo con Skype (Spanish Version)
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
www.langwitches.org/blog
Jacksonville, FL, USA

Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher: Research and Examples
Tom Daccord
edtechteacher.org; besthistorysites.net; thwt.org; tewt.org
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism (a Flat Classroom Project)
Vicki Davis
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
Camilla, Georgia USA

Kicking It Up a Notch (14)

Keynote
Diego Leal
www.diegoleal.org
Columbia

Engaging Our Youngest Minds: Integrating the Internet in Primary Classrooms
Angela Maiers
www.angelamaiers.com
Clive, Iowa, USA

Unlikely Coordinates? Geocaching Across the Curriculum
Beth Ritter-Guth
hotchkissmedia.org
Lakeville, CT, USA

Googlios: When Google Apps Meet ePortfolios & PLNs
G. Alex Ambrose
www.galexambrose.com & www.edvibes.blogspot.com
South Bend, IN, USA

Telling the World: Flat Classroom Student Summit in Practice
Julie Lindsay
123elearning.blogspot.com
Beijing, China

The Virtual Heroic Journey
Kevin Hodgson
dogtrax.edublogs.org
Leeds, Massachusetts, USA

Remixing in the Classroom: Engagement for History Students
Neil Stephenson
thinkinginmind.blogspot.com
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Using computer games to enhance learning and social interaction
Ollie Bray
www.olliebray.typepad.com
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Parallel Play or Collaboration–Leveraging the Wiki Platform for High Quality Work
Paula White
tzstchr.edublogs.org
Greenwood, VA, USA

Media Literacy in the 21st Century School through Online Interactive Integrated Curriculum Maps
Rhys Daunic
themedaispot.org
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Using VideoAnt Annotations to Provide “Audience-Based” Assessment to Students’ Video Productions
Richard Beach
digitalwriting.pbworks.com
Minneapolis, MN, US

Prezi in the classroom
Rob Cheshire
Austin, Texas, USA

OpenSim: Open Learning
Timothy Hart
www.edutim.com
Orono, ME, USA

Thriving in a Collaborative Web 2.0 Classroom: The “Great Debate” and “Student News Action Network”
Tom Daccord
edtechteacher.org; besthistorysites.net; thwt.org; tewt.org
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

The schedule for the first LAN party was as follows:
Matthew Needleman Film School

Alec Couros Open,Social,Connected

Mark Wagner “Wiki While You Work (Basic)”

Kathy Cassidy “We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors” “Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom”

All audio and text chat can be found at Edtechtalk.com/k12online09

Please join us for our next LAN party on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 6pm EDT at the Edtectalk.com Webcasting Studio.

Please join us on September 26, 2009 for the first live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference On September 26, 2009, the K12Online Conference in partnership with EdTechTalk will host a worldwide, sychronous “LAN party” (free web meet-up) from 2:00PM EDT (6:00PM GMT) to 5:00PM EDT (9:00PM GMT). Organizers encourage educators around the world to get together with colleagues and engage in lively, online discussions during this time using links provided by EdTechTalk. Past presentations will be shown, and participants are invited to engage in live conversations about the presentations with the featured presenters during and following each session. A K12Online Conference overview is scheduled at the EdTechTalk website 30 minutes prior to the LAN party. This event provides an opportunity to try out the synchronous EdTechTalk environment and platform, which we will be using for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference in December. For more background about LAN parties, see Jeff Utech’s post from Sept 2006 and the K12Online08 Shanghai LAN Party wiki. The Shanghai LAN parties are models we hope educators around the world will emulate in 2009. You do NOT have to gather face-to-face with other educators to participate in this Saturday’s live LAN party events, but F2F connections are encouraged! Here’s the schedule. (Times below are EDT. Start time for the first presentation is 6:00PM GMT. Use this WorldTimeServer link to convert this time for your local time zone.)

2:00 – 2:45 Film School Mathew Needleman, Apple Distinguished Educator, has been integrating video in the classroom for seven years as a teacher of kindergarten, first, and second grade. Make better classroom movies with simple tips that will help elevate your vodcast to the next level in terms of artistic and technical merit. Learn how to storyboard like a pro, choose shots that support the telling of your story, and capture better lighting and sound.

2:45 – 3:30 Open, Social, Connected Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This presentation unravels a recent open graduate course offering titled “Open, Connected, Social” that was offered at the University of Regina, Winter 2008. The presentation describes the theories influencing the course, types of open practice, reflections and outcomes, and goes on to describe the emergence of “open teaching”.

3:30 – 4:15 Wiki While You Work (Basic) A former high school English teacher, Mark Wagner has since served as an educational technology coordinator at Estancia High School, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, and the Orange County Department of Education.  His session briefly introduces participants to the Read/Write Web, and to wikis in particular. A live demonstration of wikispaces.org and wikipedia.org will illustrate that…, “If you can use a word processor, you can use a wiki.”

4:15 – 5:00 We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff With Blogging Mentors Kathy Cassidy is a grade one teacher at Westmount School in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada.  In the winter of 2008, Patrick Lewis’s university class of pre-service teachers were blogging mentors for Kathy’s grade one students. This presentation talks about that collaboration and the results of the research that was conducted about the effect this mentorship had on the students’ writing.

Kudos to the K12Online09 Live Events Committee for organizing and hosting this event! Please plan to join us and share this learning opportunity with your colleagues!

Our committee will be coordinating the live events component of k12online conference. This will include our Pre-Conference; Virtual LAN Parties and Fireside chats.  As well as live events during the conference itself at Edtechtalk and new Second Life venue.  We will give you updates in the next several weeks. Our first event will be a LAN party for Saturday September 26th, 2009.  We will feature previous k12onlineconference presentations from 2006-08. Details coming soon.  We welcome your suggestions and look forward to a great conference.

The PR committee hit the ground running with a planning wiki containing some great ideas. Thank you, Patrick for getting this started. In Patrick’s words, “We clearly want to reach as many educators as possible, and ideally that will include the masses who may not be aware of the conference. I’m hoping we expand our collective reach and find ways to inform and engage our colleagues who may not be “plugged in”.

In the coming days and weeks. look for suggestions from the PR committee that will help to spread the message that will prompt educators to learn more and get involved with K12Online 2009. It will be important to get that message disseminated through a variety of channels in order to reach the masses.

The committees are as follows:

Media and Communications (Public Relations)- This committee will be responsible for getting the word out about the conference.        Convener – Maria Knee

Live Events – This committee handles live events as part of the conference, LAN party in September, our webcasts with keynotes and presenters, LAN parties during the conference. We are partnering with http://edtechtalk.com as a venue for these live events.               Convener – Jose Rodriguez

Help Desk – This committee will be the conference technical support team and will work from a proactive role in terms of recommending tools and “how-tos.” Convener – Elizabeth Helfant

Professional Development – This committee will arrange opportunities for graduate credit and Continuing Education points that can be obtained globally. Convener – Wes Fryer

Accessibility Options – This committee will create a resource and be available to answer questions about ensuring that presentations are accessible by all participants, even those with disabilities. Convener- Jose Rodriguez

Roles and Responsibilities – The role of the convener on each committee is to serve as a liason from the committee to the conference as a whole. The role of the chair is to organize meetings as required prior to our conference, and to lead the committee in development of a support plan and related tasks to fulfill your committee’s purpose. The role of members will be to carry out, with the chair, the purpose and plan of the committee.

Interested? If you are interested in chairing or serving on one of the above committees, please complete this form. Someone will get back to you. We would like to have committees formed and functioning by the middle of September. If you have a question, please post it as a comment here. If you have trouble posting a comment, you can contact the K-12 Online Help Desk at k12onlinehelpdesk [at] gmail [dot] com.

Specifically, we will discuss the possibility of offering a “September Lee Baber Jamboree” webcast with EdTechTalk, which would feature some of the best presentations from past K-12 Online Conference years. Dave Cormier wrote the post, “The First Annual Lee Baber Jamboree – Win a community” back in March, and those thoughts along with our K-12 Online Conference Convener discussions about having live events this year which involve EdTechTalk, Ustream, and synchronous backchannel discussions as we watch and listen to conference presentations together are the background for this online meetup on July 30th. As conveners we’ve discussed these possibilities, but we think it would be great to share these ideas with others to get feedback and suggestions. If we have a K-12 Online Jamboree (possibly on Saturday, September 26th) it would provide us a chance to try out the Ustream and EdTechTalk configurations we’re considering using in December during the weeks of the actual K12Online09 conference.

Please join us on EdTechTalk this coming Thursday if you can, and also feel free to share comments, thoughts, and ideas here as comments on the blog.

The deadline for proposal submission is August 16, 2009. Selected presentations will be announced in early September. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL via Google Forms.

OVERVIEW: K12 Online 2009 will feature four “conference strands,” two each week, and add new “LAN Party” live events on the Saturday following each week of the regular conference in partnership with EdTechTalk. Two presentations will be published in each strand each day, Monday through Friday, so four new presentations will be available each day over the course of the two weeks. Including the pre-conference keynote, a total of 41 presentations will be published. Each twenty minute (or less) presentation will be shared online in a downloadable format and released simultaneously via the conference blog (www.k12onlineconference.org,) the conference Twitter account, and the conference audio and video podcast channels. All presentations will be archived online for posterity. A total of 123 past presentations are currently available from K12 Online 2006. 2007, and 2008. We have applied for an iTunes University “Beyond Campus” portal, and anticipate our content will be available for the 2009 conference both online via our website and via our own free iTunesU Portal. If you are planning to submit a proposal, please review archived presentations from past years to determine what you might offer that is new and builds on previous work. As in the past, K12Online will host a variety of live events during the conference to complement and extend the asynchronous presentations and interaction opportunities on our conference blog.

The Saturday following the pre-conference keynote (December 5th) K12Online will host a live, “fireside chat” webinar with our 2009 pre-conference keynote speaker, Kim Cofino. Kim is an international educator currently teaching in Thailand. Kim’s keynote will be published on Monday, November 30th, and the fireside chat will provide an opportunity for participants to further discuss the ideas, technologies, and suggestions Kim mentions in her keynote. Saturday following each week of the regular conference (December 12 and 18) K12Online will feature 10 hour synchronous “live events” in partnership with the EdTechTalk webcasting network. All twenty-one presentations for the week will be played “live” over UStream.tv and EdTechTalk, and EdTechTalk will provide a backchannel chat / discussion forum for participants to synchronously listen and respond to each presentation. When possible, presenter(s) for each session will also attend their virtual online “playback” of their presentation and respond/interact with conference participants about the ideas of their session LIVE. Educators around the world are encouraged to host local “LAN Parties” in their communities, schools, and homes with other educators to participate in these live events. We are calling these “Building Bridge Meetups.” Our live events committee will develop and share more support information in the months ahead.

FOUR STRANDS:

Week 1

Strand A: Getting Started
Everything you wanted to know about getting started with web 2.0 technologies for learning but were afraid to ask. The presentations in this strand will focus on specific, free tools for newcomers. Whether you have one classroom computer or a laptop for every student, digital technologies can provide new opportunities to connect with other learners, create new and exciting knowledge products, and engage students in an expanded learning process beyond the traditional “boundaries of the bell.” Teachers first introduced to Web 2.0 tools are often unaware of the new possibilities for teaching and learning afforded by the Read/Write Web. Presentations in this strand will amplify and model what is possible in terms of pedagogy, student creation of content, and collaboration. Practical classroom implementation ideas will be emphasized. Presentations will focus more on the ways new tools can be used to engage students in learning, rather than focusing exclusively on how specific tools are used. If you’ve ever felt like everyone else knows more than you about teaching with technology and you need help getting started, this is the strand for you. Joyce Kasman Valenza (United States) will keynote the “Getting Started” strand. Wesley Fryer is the strand convener.

Strand B: Leading the Change
Innovative approaches to teaching and learning using web 2.0 tools are often utilized by a limited number of “early adopter” teachers in our schools. This strand seeks to amplify ways educators in a variety of contexts are serving as constructive catalysts for broad-based pedagogic change using Web 2.0 technologies as well as student-centered, project-based approaches to learning. Presentations in this strand will both showcase successful strategies as well as amplify critical issues which must be addressed for innovative learning methods to be adopted by teachers, librarians, and administrators on a more widespread basis. These issues may include (but are not limited to) issues of copyright, fair use and intellectual property, Internet content filtering, student privacy and safety issues, administrator expectations for teacher utilization of Web 2.0 tools, pilot initiatives utilizing key Web 2.0 technologies in different content areas, and innovative ways students and teachers are providing just-in-time support as well as formal learning opportunities for each other focusing on Web 2.0 tools. Successful approaches for both large and small schools, in rural as well as urban settings, will be included. This strand will explore and amplify a menu of practical ideas for educators in diverse contexts who want to continue amplifying possibilities in our schools. Konrad Glogowski (Canada) will keynote the “Leading the Change” strand. Elizabeth Helfant is the strand convener.

Week 2

Strand A: Week in the Classroom
Leveraging the power of free online tools in an open, collaborative and transparent atmosphere characterises teaching and learning in the 21st century. Teachers and students are contributing to the growing global knowledge commons by publishing their work online. By sharing all stages of their learning students are beginning to appreciate the value of life long learning that inheres in work that is in “perpetual beta.” This strand will explore how teachers and students are tangibly bridging divides between instructors, learners, classrooms, content, and experts outside the traditional classroom. Presentations will also explore the practical pedagogical uses of online social tools (Web 2.0) giving concrete examples of how teachers are using the tools in their classes. Rachel Boyd (New Zealand) will keynote the “Week in the Classroom” stand. Maria Knee is the strand convener.

Strand B: Kicking It Up a Notch
You’ve been using blogs, wikis and other technologies for awhile but perhaps haven’t seen them transform your classroom and the learning environment for your students in the ways you think they can. This strand amplifies ways new technologies can be used to transform classroom and personal learning. Rather than merely replicating traditional, analog-based learning tasks, how can digital technologies permit teacher-leaders to “infomate” learning to add greater interactivity, personal differentiation, and multi-modal exploration of curriculum topics? Fresh new approaches to using Web 2.0 tools for learning and authentic assessment will be highlighted. Presentations will explore innovative ways Web 2.0 tools can be blended together to help students create, collaborate, and share the knowledge safely on the global stage of the Internet. Maybe it’s time to share your insights and experiences with your teaching community. Join these sessions to gain insights on “bridging the divide” for learners in your classroom and/or your professional practice. Diego Leal (Columbia) will keynote the “Kicking it Up a Notch” strand. Jose Rodriguez is the strand convener.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Presentations must be a single media file of twenty minutes or less in length. (Only keynote sessions can exceed 20 minutes.)
2. Presentations must be submitted in a downloadable and convertable file format (mp3, mov, WMV, FLV, m4a, or m4v.) Presenters wanting to use an alternative format should contact their respective strand convener in advance.
3. Presentations are due no later than (NLT) two weeks prior to the week the relevant strand begins. (Week 1 presentations are due Monday, November 23, Week 2 presentations are due Monday, November 30.)
4. Presentations must be submitted only one time and on time. Early submissions are welcomed! Repeat submissions (with changes and additional edits) will not be accepted. Presenters should proof carefully before submitting!
5. All presentations will be shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

Optional presentation elements:

1. Prior to October 31st, presenters are invited to submit a “teaser” (maximum video or audio file length: 3 minutes) about their presentation. This can be any type of online artifact and does not have to be downloadable. Examples may include videos, animations, posters, audio interviews, etc.
2. In addition to marketing the presentation, teasers can be designed to encourage and solicit community input related to the presentation topic in advance of the presentation submission deadline.
3. View teaser examples from 2007 at http://k12online07.wikispaces.com/Teasers
4. Supplementary materials supporting presentations are welcomed. These can be wikis with supporting material links, linked examples of student projects, school district exemplary initiatives, social bookmarking collections, and/or other related content.
5. Follow-up projects and/or live interaction opportunities for conference presentations which further amplify the possiblities of the presentation topic may be included. (This can include sharing and building of content prior to, during and after the conference.)

EVALUATION AND SELECTION

As you draft your proposal, you may wish to consider the presentation topics listed below which were suggested in the comments on the K-12 Online Conference Blog:
- Special needs education
- Creative Commons, Intellectual Property, Copyright and Fair Use
- Student voices
- Community involvement
- Games in education
- Specific ideas, tips, mini lessons centered on pedagogical use of web 2.0 tools
- Overcoming institutional inertia and resistance
- Aligning Web 2.0 and other projects to national standards
- Getting your message across
- How web 2.0 can assist those with disabilities
- ePortfolios
- Classroom 2.0 activities at the elementary level
- Teacher/peer collaboration
- Authentic assessment
- Overcoming content filtering issues
- Navigating “open web” versus “closed web” publishing of student work

Prospective presenters are reminded that the audience of the K12 Online Conference is global in nature and diverse in their educational context. For this reason presentations and presentation materials which address issues from a variety of perspectives are welcomed.

EVALUATION

As in the past, co-conveners will lead a blind review committee to select presentations. Acceptance decisions will be made based on RELEVANCE, SIGNIFICANCE, ORIGINALITY, QUALITY, and CLARITY. Borrowing from the COSL 2008 call for proposals:

A submission is RELEVANT when
it directly addresses the conference and strand themes

A submission is SIGNIFICANT when
it raises and discusses issues important to improving the effectiveness and/or sustainability of 21st Century teaching and learning efforts, and
its contents can be broadly (globally) disseminated and understood

A submission is ORIGINAL when
it addresses a new problem or one that hasn’t been studied in depth,
it has a novel combination of existing research results which promise new insights, and / or
it provides a perspective on problems different from those explored before

A submission is of HIGH QUALITY when
existing literature is drawn upon, and / or
claims are supported by sufficient data, and / or
an appropriate methodology is selected and properly implemented, and / or
limitations are described honestly

A submission is CLEARLY WRITTEN when
it is organized effectively, and / or
the English is clear and unambiguous, and / or
it follows standard conventions of punctuation, mechanics, and citation, and / or
the readability is good

Please follow K12Online on Twitter and feel free to submit questions about this call for proposal via Twitter or here as comments on the conference blog.

Please share this call for proposals far and wide!

Because of other time commitments, several of the conveners of K12Online are stepping down this year. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Darren Kuropatwa, and Dean Shareski each worked tirelessly to help co-convene the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. Sheryl and Darren have served as conveners of the conference since it began in 2006. Sheryl, Darren and Dean are stepping down from their leadership roles as conveners for K12Online09, but we look forward to their continued participation in and advocacy for K12Online in their professional endeavors.

Jose Rodriguez, Maria Knee, and Elizabeth Helfant are joining Wesley Fryer as co-conveners for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference. Jose, Maria, Elizabeth, and Wesley bring a diverse array of experiences and skills in using web 2.0 tools to support learning at a variety of levels and in different educational contexts. Jose is a 3rd grade and adult ESL teacher in Los Angeles, California. Maria is a kindergarten teacher in Deerfield, New Hampshire. Elizabeth is an instructional technology director for a K-12 school in Saint Louis, Missouri. Wesley serves as the director of the nonprofit “Storychasers” in Edmond, Oklahoma. Respectively, the 2009 K-12 Online Conference conveners are coordinatortwo, MariaK, ehelfant, and wfryer on Twitter.

In addition to announcing these changes in our co-convener team, we are also pleased to announce THE DATES of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference. For the past three years, K12Online has taken place in late October. This year, the conference will be held the second and third weeks of December, just prior to the holidays. Week one will be December 7 – 11, 2009, and week two will be December 14 – 18, 2009.

We will be releasing a call for proposals for K12Online09 soon, in advance of the NECC conference in Washington, D.C.

Please join us in saying a BIG THANK YOU to Sheryl, Darren, and Dean for their many hours of hard work and dedication in serving as past conveners for the K-12 Online Conference! Please also join us in welcoming Jose, Maria, and Elizabeth as new co-conveners for K12Online09!

Mark your calendars: K12Online09 is coming! As we have in the past, we’ll count on your participation to make the conference another wonderful opportunity for distributed, collaborative, and ongoing professional development throughout the year to come!

Remember that all content from K12Online06, K12Online07, and K12Online08 remains online and accessible.

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However, one of the other things that make the K12 online conference unique is the desire people to get together synchronously. To make this happen in any situation is challenging, to make it happen world wide is amazing. This is what the Live Events Committee pulled off.

Laura Deisley led the committee of Chris Betcher, Robin Ellis, Christine Voigt and Naomi Williams. Laura demonstrated outstanding leadership and made things look so easy. She and her committee not only responded quickly to any issue but also developed the Cuppa Joe concept which will be really helpful for those wanting to re-purpose presentations at a local level. The essential questions can be a great way to start a discussion.

The work of these people and other volunteers make this conference what it is. Thank you Laura, Chris, Robin, Christine and Naomi.  Your work and efforts did not go unnoticed and added immensely to the quality of the conference.

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Nightfall by flickr user James Jordan

We gathered in Elluminate and the conversation was moderated by volunteers. The full details are on our When Night Falls wiki. A special Thank You goes out to all our volunteer moderators! Officially, there may have been a few “holes” in the schedule but when the time came someone always stepped up to keep things going.

We captured the whiteboards where people were sharing all sorts of things during the 24 hours. They are embeded below. Please add to the comments on each slide over on SlideShare and help those who were or weren’t in your hour of When Night Falls by adding some colour commentary to what is displayed on each whiteboard. (There were a few brilliant uses of Wordle made during When Night Falls!) Some of the feedback we’ve received can be found here, feel free to add to it: Bouquets, Brickbats, and Suggestions for next year.

And one more thing … remember notK12 Online 2008 is still accepting submissions through 16 November 2008.

Here are the whiteboards …

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Parental Engagement in the 21st Century – Leveraging web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non-traditional ways
Lorna Costantini and Matt Montagne

Film School for Video Podcasters
Mathew Needleman

LEADING THE CHANGE

The Lie of Community: The True Nature of the Network
Bud Hunt

There’s Something Going on Here You Need to Know About…
Dennis Richards and Charlene Chausis

Presentation links on our 2008 schedule page have been updated.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please contact the K12Online08 Help Desk. A navigational link to the helpdesk is available in the upper right corner of the conference blog, along with a link to our first timer’s wiki page.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2008 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Note all presentations are not available as videos, some are audio-only. Our video and audio podcast channels are now available in the iTunes directory. Search the iTunes Store for “k12online08″ to subscribe directly in iTunes to both of these channels of outstanding FREE content!

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available via the post “Receive professional development credits” and our PD wiki: k12onlinecredit.wikispaces.com.

UPDATES:
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Video and audio podcast links for today have been been updated today. All links to files in both podcast channels originate from the William and Mary server, so there should not be any content filtering problems if you are in a school district blocking content from blip.tv or dotsub.

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Bio: Dennis is a former English teacher and administrator in urban and suburban schools for many years. Dennis has always gravitated toward K12 leadership, learning and technology topics. He has graduate degrees from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and Harvard University’s School of Education. In addition to blogging about K12 learning, leading and web 2.0 tools/pedagogies at innovation3.edublogs.org, he is president of the Massachusetts affiliate of ASCD, a member of the Leadership Council for ASCD; a member of the Massachusetts Working Group for Educator Quality; Co-Facilitator of the Massachusetts High School Redesign Task Force; and a member of Massachusetts STEM Summit V Planning Committee.
Bio Page: http://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Dennis+Richards

Charlene Chausis Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA
Blog: http://educatingeducators.blogspot.com

Bio: Charlene is the Technology Training and Integration Manager at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, in Lincolnshire, IL. She is an Apple Distinguished Educator (class of 2003), an ISTE Outstanding Leader (2007), a STAR Discovery Educator and a Google Certified Teacher. She thinks of herself as a “connector” — always working to connect people with ideas and tools in support of education. Charlene believes in promoting ubiquitous technology in education — “it’s not about the technology,” it’s about finding ways to harness the power of technology to help students learn, and be productive citizens in an ever-changing global society.”
Bio Page: http://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Charlene+Chausis

Presentation Title: There’s Something Going on Here You Need to Know About…
Description: In July 2007 a superintendent had his first introduction to the Internet world where collaborating, contributing and creating are the norm. Later that year, in SecondLife, the superintendent met the International Society for Technology in Education’s 2007 Technology Leader of the Year, who has mentored him, as the need arose, during a year and a half of his self-directed learning.
The superintendent has learned much about the people, platforms, and the pedagogy of this online world with help from people like the mentor who live all over the world and who accepted his invitation to become part of the online network of educators he has developed and nurtured since 2007. What are Ustream, Twitter, YouTube, Elluminate, Diigo, Mind42, Jing, SecondLife, Google Docs, and TED? What do they have to with learning? Our capacity to learn? to share? to invent? Come join the conversation as the superintendent, Dennis Richards, and the mentor, Charlene Chausis, “tell you three stories on the way to one argument.”

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For Presentation Links go here:
http://claimingwhatweimagine.wikispaces.com/K12+Online+2008
For Claiming What We Imagine Wiki go here:
http://claimingwhatweimagine.wikispaces.com/Claiming+What+We+Imagine
For Learning Beyond Boundaries go here:
http://learningbeyondboundaries.wikispaces.com/
For Kids Global Climate Change Wiki go her:
http://kidsgcci.pbwiki.com
For Kids Global Climate Change Community of Learners go here:
http://kidsgcci.ning.com
For more on 21st Century Literacies go here:
http://innovation3.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Internet+Literacies

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Bio: Bud Hunt is an instructional technologist for the St. Vrain Valley School District in northern Colorado. Formerly, he taught high school language arts and journalism at Olde Columbine High School in Longmont, Colorado. He is a teacher-consultant with the Colorado State University Writing Project, and has written on educational issues for a variety of publications. A consumer of copious amounts of new media, Bud blogs and podcasts at www.budtheteacher.com.
Bio Page: http://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Bud+Hunt

Presentation Title: The Lie of Community: The True Nature of the Network
Description: The emergence of online, networked communities of practice is valuable and precious – but it is easy to be misled about what these actually are. They are not communities, in the traditional sense. There is no set membership. Norms and values grow and change in response to our changing understandings and participatory acts. We all see different things and exist in different conversations. Texts are repurposed. We choose whom we read and follow and respond to. In this edited collection of multiple conversations about these issues, the presenter and his guests will share some theory, stories, and ideas about what it means to exist, teach, create and learn in a community of communities, a true personal learning network.

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Blog: http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog

Bio: https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Mathew+Needleman

Bio: Mathew Needleman, Apple Distinguished Educator, has been integrating video in the classroom for seven years as a teacher of kindergarten, first, and second grade. He has specialized in working with English Language Learners and mainstreamed special education students in low-income schools. Mathew’s classroom movies have won numerous awards and he maintains an independent film career. Mathew has provided professional development for Los Angeles Unified School District, the Los Angeles County Office of Education, Antioch University and at national and local educational conferences.

Presentation Description: Make better classroom movies with simple tips that will help elevate your vodcast to the next level in terms of artistic and technical merit. Learn how to storyboard like a pro, choose shots that support the telling of your story, and capture better lighting and sound. Regain lost opportunities to teach media literacy and higher level thinking via video production by empowering yourself to empower your students. Tap into over one hundred years of movie history with this engaging presentation that instructs as it entertains.

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• http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?s=k12online

• http://www.videointheclassroom.com/

3 Essential Questions:

http://voicethread.com/share/225415/

Blog: http://www.ourschool.ca & http://middleschoolblog.blogspot.com/

Bio: https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Lorna+Costantini & https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Matt+Montagne

Bio:Matt and Lorna met each other ‘virtually’ through their mutual interests in new ways to consider parental involvement and through their participation in the Webcast Academy’s class of 2.4. Lorna and Matt are members of the Parents as Partners bi-monthly webcast over at Edtechtalk.com.

Presentation Description: New ways of looking at relationships with parents will help parents support their children, their child’s teacher and their child’s school. The next generation of parents are and will continue to be computer literate. Electronic communications will be one of the ways that schools and teachers effectively communicate with families in the 21st century. By engaging parents using new mediums, schools can help develop a broad base of parental knowledge regarding social media tools. parents that are more informated and have a better understanding of social media technologoes will be better prepared to help their children successed and excel in the information age.

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• Parents as Partners Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php?src=fftb#/group.php?gid=13136746541&ref=ts

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http://voicethread.com/share/225414/