Since K12 Online Conference videos are shared both on Blip.tv as well as iTunesU, the statistics provided by Blip alone are not comprehensive for the number of video views per day, week, or month for our conference. They do provide a partial picture, however, of how many people are viewing videos from our conference. Based on a Blip.tv report inclusive of video views from October 1, 2012 through January 14, 2013:

• Our videos (hosted by Blip) were watched 10,143 times in all
• Our videos (hosted by Blip) were watched an average of 100 times per day (98.48 times per day, to be more exact)

These statistics are available as a shared Google Spreadsheet, if you’d like to look at them in more detail.

In addition to these view statistics, it’s interesting to note how video views peaked during the actual weeks of the conference but have remained fairly steady (although lower in quantity) since then.

It’s also interesting to see what the “top referrers” are to our Blip videos. Clearly, some professors at Indiana University are using K-12 Online videos with students! Chris Betcher is also a major referrer!

The number for iTunes does NOT include or refer to video views in our iTunesU channel. We’ll see if we can obtain some statistics for those video downloads, and share those as well.

What do you make of these statistics? Are they lower or higher than you’d expect? It seemed we had far FEWER comments on presentation videos in 2012. These view statistics are actually higher than I’d expected, so I’m pleasantly surprised. What’s your take?

Day 10 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

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

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Robert Appino
Speak up! Transforming Classroom Discussions

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

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

iPod video - mp3 audio

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

Presentation Description: Launch your students into developing space and science vocabulary and concepts as they follow current events of The Curiosity Rover landing on Mars AND design, build, and launch their very own rubber band powered rovers.

Mission: Design and construct a rubber band powered rover with lander that will carry a raw egg as a payload and does not weigh more than 300 grams. It must be launched from 5 meters high, land safely without damage to the payload, and automatically engage rubber band powered wheels to move forward 3 – 5 meters.

Through this project based lesson students engage higher level skills incorporating the scientific method with research, engineering, writing, math, vocabulary, and team work to successfully complete their mission.

iPod video   mp3 audio

Day 9 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Brad Wilson
Student News Teams: Telling the Story

Kyle Dunbar
Authentic Voices

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

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

Susan Oxnevad
Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary Instruction

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

iPod video - mp3 audio

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

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

Presentation Description: Come learn about and listen to student voices highlighted on Authentic Voices (http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/) a wiki co-developed with a Language Arts teacher and a Technology Integration Specialist at an alternative setting. Authentic Voices is a place where students upload original pieces of writing along with an audio file of them reading their piece. Listen to at least three of the pieces students have composed and learn how students begin to authentically revise their work when creating an audio file of their work. Consider how students begin to see themselves differently as a result of publishing their work online. While Authentic Voices has a global audience (over 60 countries), we do not yet have another classroom that regularly comments on our students’ writing or posts their own writing on this site. Ponder efforts and challenges to finding collaborative classrooms.

iPod video     mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/

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

iPod video - mp3 audio

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

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

Presentation Description: How does your school community learn about events, announcements & celebrations of learning? How does the public view your school? The students in this presentation are part of school programs that put them in control of these stories! By using whatever technology tools available, educators from a variety of schools are giving students opportunities to practice 21st Century skills while taking part in meaningful multimedia projects. Listen to them describe their experiences and get inspired to start your own News Team!

iPod video   mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.21innovate.com/student-news.html

Day 8 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Audrey McLaren McGoldrick
Beaucoup de Cool Student Projects

Alexander Fryer
Creating and Playing in Minecraft

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Naomi Harm
Seven Habits of Highly Effective PD Learning Experiences

Glenda Baker
Thinking Big About Learning

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

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

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

iPod video - mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

https://glenbaker.wordpress.com/

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

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

iPod Video  –  mp3 audio

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

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

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

iPod video - mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http;//box.com/naomiharm

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

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

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

Presentation Title: Beaucoup de Cool Student Projects

Presentation Description: This presentation is about the year-long process that my math students undertook to create independent research assignments. Their projects unlocked their creativity, either artistic or mathematical, and the final products were as much about the students as they were about math.

iPod video  mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://audrey-mcsquared.blogspot.ca/2012/06/thank-you-quebec-ministry-of-education.html

Day 7 presentations include:

STUDENT VOICES 

Ben Rimes
Video Story Problems 

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Janine Campbell
Remix Teaching Through Blended Online Learning

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

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Presentation Description: This presentation describes students’ uses of iOS app affordances to foster collaborative reading, writing, and speaking/listening literacy practices in the classroom given the need to determine how apps can be used to foster literacy practices. By app affordances, we mean those literacies fostered through how apps are employed in activities. These affordances are not “in” apps, but rather are fostered through creating engaging activities.

We illustrate how these affordances are fostered through activities with specific examples of how California 5th and 7th graders students’ to engage in certain literacy practices. Students used the Popplet Lite concept-mapping app to identify and elaborate on relationship between concepts to address the question, what is gold? The used the Diigo and DocAS annotation apps for highlighting sections of essays about the positive and negative aspects of using wind turbines for energy use and then adding annotations posing questions about essays, annotations used for later summary writing. They used the VoiceThread app for creating presentations arguing their case for whether volcanoes, an asteroid, or a supernova led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. And, they used the ShowMe app for creating screencast presentations illustrating Mendel’s genetics theory.
One key affordance in use of these apps is the multimodal integration reading, writing, and speaking/listening. For example, they used the ShowMe app to create doodle drawings serve as visual illustrations of their voice-over talk about genetics, illustrations that, in turn, served to focus and foster elaboration of their talk.
Another key affordance is that the mediate collaborative construction of ideas and presentations. For example, in using the VoiceThread app, pairs of students would take turns in responding to the same images, as well as share their presentations with other students for their comments.
All of this suggests the importance of teachers creating activities that exploit the affordances of iOS apps in the classroom to foster literacy learning.

iPod video - mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://tinyurl.com/bt8s3rk

Additional Information:
Blog: Apps For Learning Literacy
http://www.appsforlearningliteracies.com

Wiki resource site for using apps to foster literacy learning http://usingipads.pbworks.com

Presentation Description: Learn how you can kick it up a notch by adapting a blended online learning system. Through incorporating an online Learning Management System to organize content and engage students in class, see how I have been able to differentiate instruction and meet students’ needs. In this presentation you will see how using a blended method of instruction where traditional and digital tools combine improve productivity and solve issues that have long plagued classrooms.

iPod video - mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.janinecampbell.weebly.com

Additional Information:
You can find more information about this topic on my blog at www.janinecampbell.weebly.com

Presentation Description: Traditional story problems are dull. They’re usually disconnected from real world scenarios and learner’s experiences, and are presented in an artificial manner. Through the use of video, students and teachers can capture genuine moments of curiosity and real world examples for use in the classroom.

Aren’t ready to start filming yourself in the aisles of your local grocery store or park to point out interesting problems? You can easily use video to produce more scripted variations of traditional story problems, provide many open ended questions all tied to a common concept, or start to your flip your classroom with a blending of both teacher and learner voices.

I wanted to provide a mixture of both student examples, teacher examples, and a bit of my thought process for creating this story problems. It’s certainly not limited to Math, as video story problems would work very well for exploring conceptual science problems and reflective language arts of social studies learning. As we all struggle to adopt the Common Core State Standards here in the United States, it’s important to remember that publishing, collaborating, and sharing with other learners online is now a requirement at almost all levels of K-12 education. Giving students a way to share their voice while connecting real world situations to classroom studies is a positive step towards a more student-centered classroom where exploration and curiosity is encouraged!

iPod video    mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/2352

Day 6 presentations include:

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH

Mathew Needleman
Keynote for Kicking It Up A Notch : It’s Not About the Apps

Tricia Fuglestad
Teaching Art in a Technology Rich and Connected Classroom

STUDENT VOICES

Tiana Kadkhoda
Keynote for Student Voices: Kids Teaching Kids

Bronwyn Stuckey
Quest Atlantis: Student Design and Ownership

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Presentation Description: Integrating technology, web 2.0, and interactive tools in the art room gives students the opportunity to enhance their 21st-century learning skills, practice creative problem-solving, and develop higher-level thinking as they create art. Showcasing student work through online venues opens your art room doors to an authentic global audience, connect students with others in collaborations, and enriches learning for all. I will share stories and examples from my technology rich elementary art room and how our online connections have enthralled, enriched and engaged my students.

iPod video - mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://bit.ly/QLJGfs

Additional Information:
Please take a moment to look around my website/blog to see all the exciting ways my K-5 art students use technology for instruction, art production, and connecting with a global audience. We would love to hear from you!
Website/blog: http://drydenart.weebly.com/fugleblog.html
I also share my interactive lessons with tutorials on this wiki: http://artisinteractive.wikispaces.com/Artisinteractive
Watch and use our award-winning Fugleflicks (Student-Created, Art-Related) videos: http://fugleflicks.wikispaces.com/Fugleflick_Index
and Check out my Creating on iPads page full of handouts/tutorials: http://drydenart.weebly.com/creating-on-ipads.html

Presentation Description: Students in the inaugural Quest Atlantis Student Congress worked to design, plan, program and build virtual worlds missions, games and activities to support the learning of peers around the globe. Much of Quest Atlantis is managed content and curriculum but in the Student Congress it is the students who design the curriculum based on their passions and interests. The teachers role is to support, scaffold and most of the time get out of the way and stop drawing boundaries to limit student creativity and learning This video shows how kids built virtual world environments and activities to demonstrate their knowledge and skills and to support the learning of their peers.Your school can readily be part of this exciting program as any student can level up in the game and community to be part of this supportive and creative space. Digital citizenship IS a lived curriculum and activities like these in QA offer opportunities for leadership, mentoring, collaboration and healthy competition.

iPod Video    mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://atlantisremixed.org/site/view/Educators

Additional Information:
Teachers wishing to join Quest Atlantis should apply for an educator account to explore the program.
http://atlantisremixed.org/site/qa_application

Then join an online teacher professional development workshop to become a Quest Atlantis certified teacher.
http://atlantisremixed.org/site/pd_list

There is no $$$ cost to the program but there is a professional commitment to attend training and use the program as part of a rich inquiry classroom pedagogy.

Presentation Description: As mobile devices take over we have to decide between replicating traditional classroom work with digital flashcards or infusing our classrooms with creativity. Mathew Needleman describes how taking pictures with an iPhone sparked a personal creative renaissance and how this might occur in our classrooms.

iPod video - mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?s=k12online

Additional Information:
Follow Mathew Needleman on Instagram @needleworks:
http://statigr.am/needleworks

Presentation Description: 17 year old student from Santa Monica, Tiana Kadkhoda, shares stories and experiences about how student-created videos and media can transform learning and equip students with digital literacy skills alongside traditional curriculum skills. She will also explain why student and teacher collaboration is the foundation to a productive classroom environment.

iPod video    audio mp3

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

http://mathtrain.tv/

Additional Information:
We love questions and participation! Please follow my former math teacher, Eric Marcos (@mathtrain), to find out more about what’s happening with mathtrain.tv and to ask any questions!

A big thank you to all that have made week 1 a success! The buzz around K12online12 continues to grow. Wait, there is still more to come. In week 2 of our conference we present the “Student Voices” strand and the “Kicking Up a Notch Strand”.  Check out the following teasers:

Monday: October 29

Kicking It Up A Notch Keynote: It’s Not About The Apps by Mathew Needleman

Student Voices Keynote: Kids Teaching Kids by Tiana Kadkhoda

Technology Rich and Connected Classroom by Fuglestad

Tuesday October 30

Blended Learning by Janine Campbell

Using iOS App Affordances by Richard Beach and Jill Castek

Wednesday October 31

Thinking Big About Learning by Glenda Baker

Thursday November 1st

Student News Teams – Telling the Story

You can find the complete schedule for all presentations for week 2 October 29 – November 2, 2012.  Remember to use our conference tag #k12online12.  From the Organizer team, thank you for being part of K12 Online 2012.

K12 Online Conference 2012 Student Voices: Kids Teaching Kids Teaser from Tiana Kadkhoda on Vimeo.

Day 5 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Shelly Sanchez Terrell
The Magic of Mobile Learning

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

Jane Krauss
Make Meaning with Wolfram Alpha

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Presentation Description: Project based learning can sometimes be recipe-like, leading to predictable, “cookie-cutter” results. I want to help people reimagine PBL and set up better investigations so students truly construct new meaning. It starts with posing a compelling question and then setting kids loose with tools like Wolfram Alpha, the “Computational Knowledge” engine. In this session we look at the kinds of learning activity that lead to knowledge construction (predicting, comparing, making judgements and more) and take a tour of Wolfram Alpha. To wrap things up we’ll take a quick peek at ManyEyes and Tableau Public, two tools for creating visualizations or info graphics from data derived from Wolfram Alpha and other sources.

iPod video – audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:

1. Wolfram Alpha
2. Many Eyes
3. Tableau Public

Presentation Description: Mobile learning has transformed the way we learn. The features and apps allow learners to move around the classroom, which helps spark creativity and imagination. In this session, we will explore activities that get learners on their feet exploring, analyzing, and engaging with the concepts they are learning. These activities will use various features of mobile devices which include recording video, taking photos, and recording audio. We will also explore fun apps that allow students to be imaginative and creative.

iPod video – mp3 audio

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://teacherrebootcamp.com/free-ebooks/mobile-learning-50-resources-tips/

Day 4 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

Valerie Burton
Show off your work online using Weebly.com

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM

Bud Hunt
Make/Hack/Play: Lenses for Learning

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