K12 Online Conference 2007

The conference that never ends ...

K12 Online 2007 Conference social networking hub for ongoing conversation, discussion and networking for the K12 Online community. Think of it as the post conference watering hole where everybody knows your name ... and they're always glad you came.

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K12 Online Conference Blog

K12Online08 Call for Proposals: Amplifying Possibilities

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the third annual “K12 Online Conference” for educators around the world interested in the use of web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled for October 20-24 and October 27-31 of 2008, and will include a pre-conference keynote during the [...]

Welcome Dean Shareski, Co-Convener

We are pleased to officially announce the addition of Dean Shareski to our K12Online08 co-convener team! Dean will be working to fill the shoes of Lani Ritter-Hall, who served as a tireless volunteer for K12Online since its inception in 2006. We will dearly miss Lani, who has decided to step down from her leadership role [...]

Thank you PD Committee

K12 Online PD Committee – A note from the Chair Terry Freedman gives us a glimpse behind the scenes… If you’re reading this, then obviously you have heard of the K12 Online Conference. Perhaps you have even “attended” some or all of the sessions. And maybe, just maybe, you took advantage of the self-reflection rubric. You may [...]

Thank You PR Committee

We would like to publicly thank the K12Online Public Relations Committee for your dedication to the betterment of education in our increasingly digital world. Through a myriad of networks you were able to promote one of the most successful conferences education has ever seen. On a GLOBAL scale. This is no small accomplishment. Your expertise [...]

A Special Thanks to the Accessibility Committee

I would like to give a special thanks to the members who served on the Accessibility committee for the 2007 K12 Online Conference, Kaj Rietberg, Karen Janowski and Dr. James Stanger. Kaj spent many hours working on translation tools and taking an active role in editing the final wiki. Karen got things rolling with a collaborative [...]

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K12 Online 2007 Audio

Online Professional Development (audio) by Jeff Utecht

In the past year we have seen a number of new free web tools used for online professional development. There are tools that can be used in the traditional sense as well as tools that are redefining how we learn in this connected network. In this presentation, we will take a look at some of the free tools that are now available to schools and educators to hold online professional development sessions. We will also push beyond Professional Development in the traditional sense and look at how these new network tools are being used by educators for “Just in Time Learning” and redefining how we learn from each other in a global network.

Creating a Paradigm Shift in Technology (audio) by Shawn Nutting

What if you worked for a dream system? With a Superintendent & BOE whose focus is technology and professional development. Would it be a utopian and collaborative environment with teachers and students engaged with Web 2.0 tools? Not necessarily. Having open Internet access and a 1:1 computer initiative is not necessarily the key to engagement. A core cultural change must take place where students, teachers, administration and the community support technology in the curriculum. This presentation will share how we overcame many obstacles, created opportunities, and our current obstacles.

Starting From Scratch: Framing Change for All Stakeholders (audio) by Ben Wilkoff

Starting from Scratch tells the story of education transformation. Its point of view is the classroom, with all of its eccentricities and complications. The characters are students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with all of their hopes and fears vying for attention. Its plot shows measured steps down the path of real change. This presentation chronicles one educator’s experience with crafting a voice at the intersection of research, pedagogy, and technology. It outlines a way forward for teachers who recognize the obstacles to opportunity and still want to press on.

EdTechTalk: A Network of Homegrown Webcasters (audio) by Alex Ragone and Arvind Grover

We will present the history and development of the EdTechTalk Channel of the Worldbridges Network through screencasts and audio and video interviews of our show hosts. In little over 2 years, the channel has gone from one weekly webcast to eight weekly interactive webcasts using the newest and most interactive web based media. EdTechTalk is a professional learning community that is participatory and open. Goal: The goal of this session is to create a documentary view of the development of the EdTechTalk channel of the Worldbridges network. To share the vision of founders Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier and the stories of the webcasters on the network. Through this documentation, we hope to inspire more participation and/or parallel learning community work.

Changing a System: Network Centric Learning Communities (audio 3 of 3) by James Folkestad

This podcast will describe how students in a teacher preparation course at Colorado State University are learning to use Web2.0 tools to create and maintain distributed learning communities. The presentation describes how students are sharing knowledge and leveraging the power of collective decision making.

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K12 Online 2007 Video Feed

Pushing the Envelope or How to Integrate Web 2.0 Tools on a Shoestring (video) by Lisa Durff

Practical ideas on how to implement web 2.0 within the price range.

Online Professional Development (video) by Jeff Utecht

Creating a Paradigm Shift in Technology (video) by Shawn Nutting

Starting From Scratch: Framing Change for All Stakeholders (video) by Ben Wilkoff

Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age (video) by Karen Richardson

Copyright used to be only a problem to teachers as they tried to figure out what they could and could not use. Some just gave up and crossed their fingers. Multimedia projects loaded onto websites only made it worse because now it really did matter where you got it. Fortunately, just as the web has facilitated file sharing, it has also given birth to new ideas about copyright and how we can make the rules more user-friendly. This presentation will briefly review current copyright law, but it will focus primarily on a new trend called Creative Commons that puts power in the hands of both the creator and the consumer, who is, by the way, probably also a creator. The copyright boundary has been breached and teachers and students should be stepping through!

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Please take the Evaluation Survey

Please take our K12Online evaluation survey! Your input matters a great deal to us and influences how we shape next year's conference.
Survey link:
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Welcome to the K12Online Community!

My Profile
Once you have taken a look around we encourage you to click on My Profile (above) and get your community presence developed. WE would love for you to write a blog post or two about your conference experience or anything else you would like to share. We want this community to reflect the diversity of ideas and individuals for which K12Online is famous.

Collaboration Tools
There are several tools we are using in relation to this community and the K12Online conference. We encourage you to visit or subscribe to all of them.

* K12Online Conference Blog
* K12Online Conference Schedule
* K12Online Conference Wiki (which will take you to many other wikis related to the conference)
* K12Online Accessibility Options
* Follow K12Online on Twitter
* Tag cool tools you find k12onlinetools and they will populate to this page.

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Reflection is more than what I did yesterday...
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I enjoyed this presentation on the importance of reflection as teachers. My initial thoughts were that I want to do what I already do except with more technology. As I went through the presentation... Continue

Started by Amy Pennock. Last reply by Holly Apr 24.

Getting to Know You
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K12Online07 brought educators from every country together in one place around the common goal of 'playing with the boundaries' of our practice and our craft. We would like to get to know each othe... Continue

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Started by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. Last reply by Jo Schiffbauer Nov. 18, 2007.

Network Feeds
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I tried to subscribe to the network feeds, and couldn't get any of them to work. I *think* it may be an issue/feature Ning has with feeds and private networks. I wouldn't have said that K12Online w... Continue

Started by Steve Hargadon. Last reply by Wesley Fryer Oct. 29, 2007.

When Night Falls Photos

Griffith Observatory

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I finally decided to go out and take some night shots and try my hand at long exposure; so, I headed to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. I should have checked the weather forecast first because when I got up there it was cloudy and cold. I wasn’t prepared but I didn’t want to go home empty handed so I just snapped some shots until about 8:30pm. I wanted to stay longer to get longer (1 to 5 min) exposures but I just decided to do that some other time and I headed home to “defrost”.

* No post processing here... I just converted the file from RAW to JPEG.

Griffith Observatory

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Los Angeles (13 sec exposure)

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january full moon

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the only adjustments I made were slight sharpening, and cropping. it was shot through a UV filter attached to the lens, and a hand-held circular polarizing filter.

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"Why Students Use Technology"

The main question is “Why Students Use Technology”. Students like me use technology on a everyday basis either in School (“SLA”) or outside of school .Most schools now are using Technology to take “State Test “such as “PSSA”, SAT. So back to the Question” Why Students Use Technology” so as we utilize Technology in educational and personal ways. We should be grateful that we have the Techno…

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Posted by Tyrone Kidd on December 16th, 2007 at 5:56pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Steps for teaching Research Skills to Grade 4/Year 5

Hi, there.

I am sure that this is discussed somewhere on the web but I am having trouble finding anything that focuses on this issue.

I have one period a week in the IT lab that is available for me to use for any reason. This is seperate from the classes regular IT time. I want to use it to guide the children into the proper way to research etc. to move them beyond the cut and paste idea.

I teach at an international school and while all my kids speak English only a han… Continue

Posted by Heather Davis on November 12th, 2007 at 8:46pm — No Comments (Add)

Total Amazed and Overwhelmed

The title says it all. My mind is swirling with all of the terrific information I have received over the past two weeks. Actually it is more like four weeks as I viewed many of the 2006 presentation before this conference began. Now I have to begin to find some sort of sequence or at least develop a thought process that will help me find a focus.

All of these ideas etc. were brand new to me 5 weeks ago. Several of our teachers went to Learning 2.0 in Shanghai and their presentations aft… Continue

Posted by Heather Davis on October 29th, 2007 at 7:30am — No Comments (Add)

Amazed by the ideas and the participation

In addition to being amazed by the levels of participation from educators around the globe in this year's conference, I am so enthused by the ideas which were shared by presenters in the conference! I am presenting at a face to face conference tomorrow, and while I'm looking forward to that, I really wish I was going to have more time to hear even more presentations from K12Online07! I was going through some links… Continue

Posted by Wesley Fryer on October 28th, 2007 at 11:48pm — No Comments (Add)