K12Online Echo Webcasts continue, and will be posted on our K12Online Ning Events page. Archived programs are and will be available via the K12OnlineEcho EdTechTalk channel. Our first official “echo webcast” will be Tuesday, January 26th. More details will be forthcoming!

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We hope this message finds you well and looking forward to a great year of learning in 2010!

We will host our “week 2 fireside chat” for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference this coming Saturday, January 9th! The week 2 keynote speakers, Rachel Boyd and Diego Leal, will present and engage in Q&A with participants via EdTechTalk’s Ustream channel and backchannel chat. Time: January 9, 2010 from 6:30 – 8:00 pm GMT. NOTE: This is 1:30pm EST on Saturday, January 9. Please click the following link to see your local time:
http://timeanddate.com/s/1g87

Please RSVP your attendance on our Ning:
http://k12online.ning.com/events/k12online09-week-2-fireside

If you have not already, please view Rachel and Diego’s presentations in advance online:

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM KEYNOTE
A Peek for a Week – Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom
by Rachel Boyd
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=553

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH KEYNOTE
BRINGing it OUT a notch
by Diego Leal
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=488

Remember Diego’s presentation is available with full subtitles in both English and Spanish on DotSub:
http://dotsub.com/view/cea41eed-25e8-4a55-813a-766828bd736d

Also, remember to use our printable flyer to share the 2009 K-12 Online Conference presentations with your colleagues at school! All conference content from our 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 conferences remains archived online and available!
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=461

We look forward to your continued participation in the K-12 Online Conference on our blog, ning, and our twice-monthly “K-12 Online Echo” webcasts! Upcoming K12online webcasts will be listed on our conference Ning upcoming events page:
http://k12online.ning.com/events

This will also be added as a regular show on EdTechTalk:
http://edtechtalk.com

Happy New Year!

Your K-12 Online Conference Organizers

Also remember (if you have not already) to join our K-12 Online Conference Ning, and RSVP to attend our twice-monthly live events (The K12Online “Echo” Webcast) which will start in January via EdTechTalk!

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Today’s presentations include:

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH
Remixing History: The Cigar Box Project
Neil Stephenson

Googlios: When Google Apps Meet ePortfolios & PLNs
G. Alex Ambrose

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM
Steal this Preso:  Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom
Mathew Needleman

Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism (a Flat Classroom Project)
Vicki Davis

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

Presentation Title: Inside the Global Collaborative Debate: Eracism

Presentation Description: This presentation will center around the Eracism Project (the newest Flat Classroom Project), which was proposed by students at the 2009 Conference and will be an international middle school debate project held in September – December 2009, planned and conducted entirely by students. This presentation will have two phases:

1) An enhanced podcast or full video presentation with Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay, Bernajean Porter, and Peggy Sheehy discussing the practical pedagogy and outcomes of connecting students globally in a way that begins with the objective and ends with the selection of appropriate technology tools for the task, centering around this particular project as the example, but also including other projects planned by each presenter. This will be a 20 minute presentation.

2) The culmination of the Eracism project, which will have preliminary debates hosted on voicethread will provide K12 online participants a venue to observe students in their final virtual world debate competition, but with k12 online participants allowed to observe and reflect in real time using a private backchannel. This will be the culmination of the Eracism project.

3) Student voicethreads used as part of the debate will be provided for participant viewing.

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

Additional Information:
Eracism co-founders:
Bernajean Porter AKA writer, speech and debate coach, inventor, auntie, teacher of possibilities, media maker, futurist, master of survival techniques when working with adolescents, professional speaker, technology consultant, teacher of teachers, long-term technology user, promoter of anything that increases outrageous possibilities in all aspects of life for kids and adults and now. . . a digital storytelling guide and Second Life learner. Her work reflects a belief that technology can accelerate all students in rediscovering their joy, spirit and personal success as learners. Bernajean’s philosophy of work uses cutting edge organizational processes for building local capacity to translate the power of technology’s potential into actual classroom practices for ALL students. Her enthusiasm and vivacious presentations create an energetic climate for all learners. When it comes to doing the hard or impossible things now necessary in schools to ensure students having out-of-this-world possibilities, Bernajean’s personal motto of “Da Um Jeitinho”- there is ALWAYS a way – sets the tone for her dedicated long, term work with national and international educators. www.DigiTales.us

As an international educator Julie has led the way in pedagogical change in the classroom and approaches to shifting educator practice for learning. Her previous position at an international school in Qatar afforded the opportunity to implement a new approach to social, community learning as a professional development model. As a Web 2.0 enthusiast, and as a firm believer in the power of ‘flattened’ learning experiences made possible by new tools, she has innovated solutions for students and teachers alike. She is also co-founder o the Flat Classroom set of projects and the Flat Classroom Conference where schools globally are able to meet virtually and/or face-to-face to work on common project goals and to develop enhanced cultural understanding. Her new position this year is at an international school in Beijing, China. She is an Ambassador for ISTE and develops online learning solutions for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. Further bio details are available at http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com

Vicki Davis – co-organizer and planner of the Flat Classroom(tm) projects and classroom teacher of grades 8-12, Vicki has won multiple awards for her blog, the Cool Cat Teacher blog, including the 2008 Edublog Award for best teacher blog, and the Flat Classroom Project(tm) co-planned with Julie Lindsay has won multiple awards including ISTE’s Online Learning Award, and the Taking IT Global Online Collaboration Award, and Edublog Award for best wiki for two years. As co-creator of the Flat Classroom(tm) conference, this Project Based Learning conference in Qatar had students co-create their proposal for a global collaborative project to improve a global social issue, the Eracism project was born out of this conference and is being planned by students along with Julie Lindsay, and Bernajean Porter.
Cool Cat Teacher Blog
Wiki Bio
@coolcatteacher

Presentation Title: Steal This Preso! Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom

Presentation Description: Myths and realities of copyrights as they relate to multimedia projects in the classroom with Mathew Needleman.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Creating Lifelong Learners

Additional Information:
Blog: Creating Lifelong Learners
Web Site: Video in the Classroom
Twitter
Youtube channel

Presentation Title: Googlios: A 21st – Century Approach to Teaching, Learning, & Assessment

Presentation Description: As the first decade of the 21st century comes to end and blogs, wikis, and podcasts have become more mainstream, it is important that educators step back to see how we, as professionals, are best using these tools to serve our students’ learning needs. If these modern technologies are going to be sustained in contemporary pedagogy, it is time that we “kick it up a notch” and tie these tools to both a higher theme and to learning theories. In other words, rather than using technology for technology’s sake, we need to rest on a new 21st-century foundation of teaching, learning, and assessment theory. Through a screencast, webcam, and Power Point video, “Googlios” offers not simply a “how to” but a “why to;” it introduces a model of how one educator has come to understand and organize these tools to support a 21st-century constructivist and connectivist approach to “bridge the divide” in educating our digital natives.

More specifically, this presentation will shed light on a model that demonstrates relationships between emerging tools and learning theories and between Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), and ePortfolios. By using Google Sites as a main dashboard that “mashes up” multiple Google Apps like Blogger, Youtube, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Docs, and iGoogle into an ePortfolio, students can build and organize their own Personal Learning Environment (PLE) simultaneously with “building bridges” through their Personal Learning Network (PLN)–all while supporting e-portfolio authentic assessment. One last word of caution: “Googlios: A 21st-Century Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Assessment” seeks to ignite an educational renaissance.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://tinyurl.com/googlios

Additional Information:
Googlios: A website of related resources
My Googlio (or e-portfolio): gAlexAmbrose.com
My Blog: www.EdVibes.BlogSpot.com

Presentation Title: Remixing History: The Cigar Box Project

Presentation Description: Neil Stephenson believes in the power of technology to bring the past into the future. Empowered with 21st century tools, Stephenson’s Grade 7 students reinterpret events from five periods that have shaped Canada’s current historical landscape. Called the Cigar Box Project, Stephenson’s students collect and analyze historical images and artifacts, and then use graphic design principles to digitally assemble new cigar panels, each one revealing a unique, visual perspective of an historical event or time from Canada’s past. At the end of the year, students physically build their wooden Cigar Boxes, creating their own historical artifact that pulls together the story of our country. Along the way, students encounter a variety of assessment practices, create mini-documentaries about their artifacts and meet a number of experts who support their historical learning.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://thinkinginmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/k-12-presentation-remixing-history.html

Additional Information:
One of the exciting part of my current role is to share some of the projects that are being designed by other teachers at my school, the Calgary Science School. If you are looking for project ideas built on inquiry-based learning, you’ll find many more here, on the Connect Blog: http://calgaryscienceschool.blogspot.com/

Today’s presentations include:

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH
Using VideoAnt Annotations to Provide “Audience-Based” Assessment to Students’ Video Productions
Richard Beach

Using computer games to enhance learning and social interaction
Ollie Bray

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM
Competencias Artisticas En La Plástica
Josu Garro

Skateboard
Keith Kelley

Ways of Working: How students can leverage Web 2.0 tools to their own advantage
Chris Betcher

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

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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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
Ways of Working

Additional Information:
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

Presentation Title: Thinking Outside the Box – Skateboard

Presentation Description: How do you build a hands on program that students like?  I explain the process and steps to my skateboard program. I show actually video and pictures of students using the tools, designing, painting and building their skateboard.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
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Additional Information:
Blog

Presentation Title: Creative competitions In Plastica and Lenguajes visual of 4 ESO ( 16 years )

Presentation Description: Creative competitions In Plastica and Lenguajes visual of 4 ESO ( 16 years ) Competencias creativas de Plastica y Lenguaje visual con alumnos de 16 años, todo un proceso de aprendizaje/enseñanza utilizando una Wiki como esqueleto del curso. Buscar la implicación y creatividad del alumno y alumna de 16 años con problemas de autoestima y trabajo de aula.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.slideshare.net/otxolua/expresin-plstica-y-visua-lchile

Additional Information:
Enlace al blog personal Josu a un click, mi proyecto educativo a2click, el wiki de plástica plt4, mi página de twitter @otxolua y mi enlace skype txolua

Presentation Title: Using computer games as a context for learning and social interaction

Presentation Description: After a brief introduction Ollie Bray describes the use of commercially available computer games in the classroom. In particular he focuses on why the use of games are appropriate for learning and teaching.

He then goes on to describe an innovative project that was piloted in is own schools learning community that uses the game Guitar Hero as a contextual hub for learning and to help children make the transition between primary school to secondary school (elementary school to high school).

The project has now been adopted in various forms in schools all across Scotland and further afield.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2009/12/k12online09.html.html

Additional Information:
Blog: www.olliebray.typepad.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/olliebray

Presentation Title: Using VideoAnt Annotations to Provide “Audience-Based” Assessment to Students’ Video Productions

Presentation Description: This presentation describes the use of a free video annotation tool, VideoAnt, for providing specific, targeted feedback to students’ video productions. It contains a tutorial on using VideoAnt and then illustrates the use of VideoAnt to make comments on some high school students’ video production, followed by a teacher and student discussing the value of receiving this feedback.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://tinyurl.com/yh8fkgf

Additional Information:
Twitter: rbeach
http://teachingliterature.typepad.com

Today’s presentations include:

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Engaging Our Youngest Minds: Integrating the Internet in Primary Classrooms
Angela Maiers

Thriving in a Collaborative Web 2.0 Classroom: The “Great Debate” and “Student News Action Network”
Tom Daccord

Parallel Play or Collaboration–Leveraging the Wiki Platform for High Quality Work
Paula White

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM

Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher: Research and Examples
Tom Daccord

Living History – Authentic Learning Empowered by Technology
Jane Ross

Around the World with Skype (English version) & Alrededor del Mundo con Skype (Spanish version)
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

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

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

Presentation Title: Living History – Authentic Learning Empowered By Digital Technology

Presentation Description: Jane Ross is an Apple Distinguished Educator and has recently graduated from a Masters in Education (Ed Tech) which she did entirely online from Australia. Jane is the Digital Technologies Specialist for Sinarmas World Academy in Indonesia. She is a regular presenter in Indonesia, often presenting in Indonesian which is her second language.

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Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://1to1inpractice.blogspot.com/2009/11/support-documents-for-k12-online.html

Additional Information:
1 to 1 in Practice blog
Twitter

Presentation Title: Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher

Presentation Description: Emerging technologies, a globalized world, and fiscal restraints demand innovative approaches to education. This session explores new research about 21st century teaching strategies and professional development and shares models, resources, and examples to help social studies teachers effectively integrate technology and address needed skills.

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

Additional Information:

Follow me on  Twitter and also here.

NCSS Community Network

Best of History Web Sites

Teaching History with Technology

Tom Daccord blog

Presentation Title: Parallel Play or Collaboration–Leveraging the Wiki Platform for High Quality Work

Presentation Description: This presentation will help participants think about the differences between a project that is a glorified drop box or parallel play and one that truly involves students in authentic work which is purposeful, personally meaningful and engaging and that meets a need in the world today.

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

Additional Information:
Blog
Twitter
Wiki
email: pwhite at k12albemarle dot org

Presentation Title: Thriving in a Collaborative Web 2.0 Classroom: The “Great Debate” and “Student News Action Network”

Presentation Description: This video highlights innovative educational uses of the “Read-Write” Web and shows how humanities teachers use Web 2.0 to empower students and facilitate creative and meaningful learning opportunities. The session includes a conceptual framework for “e-learning 2.0,” and showcases existing classroom projects that incorporate Web 2.0 in learning.

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

Additional Information:
Twitter: @thomasdaccord

NCSS Community Network: http://ncssnetwork.ning.com/

Best of History Web Sites: http://besthistorysites.net

Teaching History with Technology: http://thwt.org/

Tom Daccord blog: http://blog.edtechteacher.org/

Presentation Title: Engaging Our Youngest Minds

Presentation Description: Do you recognize the “wow” of your students? Are we cultivating such passion? Angela shares a story of a young learner and the habits necessary to ignite such a wow in students

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Additional Information:
Visit Angela Maiers’ Blog

Today’s presentations include:

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

The Virtual Heroic Journey
Kevin Hodgson

Unlikely Coordinates? Geocaching Across the Curriculum
Beth Ritter-Guth

OpenSim: Open Learning
Timothy Hart

WEEK IN THE CLASSROOM

Blogging and Communicative Competences in the EFL Class
Cristina Arnau Vilà

Show & Tell: Exhibit, Reflect & Critique with Blogs
Sarah Sutter

The Digital Writer’s Workshop
Jackie Gerstein

Presentation links on our 2009 schedule page should be updated by 12:15 GMT today.

HELP DESK
If you need assistance during the conference, please post your question in our conference Ning help desk forum category. If you can answer or offer suggestions to any of the questions posted there, please do! If you are a first-timer to our conference, please read the “Getting Started” page on our conference wiki.

PODCAST CHANNELS
A page containing web feeds from the conference is available, including updated links for our 2009 audio podcast and video podcast channels. Podcast channel links should be updated by 12:30 pm GMT each day of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Information about opportunities and procedures for receiving professional development are available on the PD page of our conference wiki as well as in our Professional Developing conference Ning group.

UPDATES:
Subscribe to our Twitter Channel, Facebook page, as well as conference blog post and comments in your feed reader.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility has been and remains extremely important to organizers and presenters in the K-12 Online Conference. At some point during or after the conference, please complete our accessibility survey. We value your input and encourage you to participate fully in the conference as well as share it with others in your school and community.

Presentation Title: Digital Writers’ Workshop

Presentation Description: This K12 Online Conference presentation describes the writers’ workshop conducted with a group of upper elementary students. The focus was on the process of writing combining hands-on and technology activities with a special focus on the engagement of multiple intelligences.

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Discovery Change  Wiki Writer’s Workshop

Additional Information:
Jackie’s PageFlakes Site
On Twitter

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

Presentation Title: Blogging and Communicative competences in the EFL

Presentation Description: I am a foreign language teacher in a high school in Berga (Spain). We are using blogs as a tool to learn a foreign language. Here you will find three experiences I have used. I hope you enjoy it.

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http://swedenexchange2009.blogspot.com

http:/iesguillembergueda.xtec.es/comenius/students.htm

Additional Information:
Blogs:
English time – 3ESO

English time – 4ESO

Sweden Exchange 2009

IED Guillem de Bergueda
Teaching Foreign Languages
Boundless Communication

Twitter

Presentation Title: OpenSim-OpenLearning

Presentation Description: Opensimulator is open source software for creating 3D virtual worlds. OpenLearning is learning without artificial restrictions. This presentation is about jumping on the open virtual worlds for learning bandwagon and about giving you a start on using them in your classroom. For more information, resources, classroom examples and links, check out my accompanying blog post at edutim.com.

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Blog: http://www.edutim.com
Twitter: hartastic

Presentation Title: Unlikely Coordinates? Geocaching Across the Curriculum

Presentation Description: Can a worldwide scavenger hunt and a GPSr change the way we teach? ABSOLUTELY! This presentation will introduce geocaching and educaching and provide examples and resources to those interested in getting students out of the classroom!

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Additional Information:
Twitter ID: BethRitterGuth
Facebook: BethRitterGuth
Skype/iChat/GChat: BethRitterGuth

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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Additional Information:
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

Student finalists will be debating “Differences Make us Stronger” in the impromptu style debate moderated by Bernajean Porter (http://www.digitales.us) with the final vote on the winner taken from the judges and student participants in the project who will be in the virtual world.  This final debate is the culmination of an 8 week debate project that began with sixteen teams from 12 classrooms in 7 countries and is now down to two debate teams from Shorecrest Preparatory School in Florida and Westwood Schools in Georgia.

The organizers of the project recently shared a presentation as part of the K12Online Conference about how the project was founded, the methodologies and tools used to make the debates “feel” as synchronous as possible, even when in the asynchronous environment of VoiceThread.

Sponsors of this project include: Elluminate, VoiceThread, ReactionGrid, and Wikispaces.

Date: Thursday December 17, 9:15 am EST – 10:15 EST.