Category: workshops
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Looking for a professional development speaker on January 19th?
In less than two weeks, we’ll celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in all 49 states of the United States, except Arizona. This tends to be a very common professional development day for U.S. teachers, I’ve found, and one for which I generally receive multiple presentation requests. Due to a last minute schedule…
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Resurrecting old conference notes before the days of blogging
This past holiday I’ve undertaken the formidable but necessary tasks of backing up all my laptop hard drive documents, archiving old computer files I’ve continued to keep on my laptop (even though there is a 0.00001% chance I’ll ever actually need those files) as well as cleaning up closets and storage cabinets around our house…
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Podcast290: The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development
This podcast is a recording of the NECC 2008 presentation “The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development,” shared on July 2, 2008. The offical description of this session in the NECC program was: There is a tangible electricity present when teachers connect with each other, and connect their students to others in…
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Professional development submission requests integrated in K12Online08 blog
I am SO, SO pleased to announce at long last that participants in the K12Online08 conference can now submit reflections for professional development credit on the conference blog as comments and receive an email PD certificate. Please read the post “Receive professional development credits” on the K-12 Online Conference blog for more details. Note that…
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TechCon 2008 GabCast Channel and Chatzy Room
If you’re attending the TechCon 2008 conference today in Naperville, Illinois, here is the Gabcast channel information we are using to share takeaways and learning points from the conference: You can access the conference Chatzy room for backchannel discussions by using the shortened web address tinyurl.com/techcon08 The password to both our Gabcast channel and Chatzy…
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Reconsidering boundaries on K12Online Presentation Mirroring
On behalf of our convener team for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference I’ve shared a new post to our blog titled, “Let the content be free! (following CC terms)” Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online08, copyright, intellectualproperty, web2, education, school, learning
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K-12 Online Conference 2008 starts tomorrow!
Tomorrow morning, October 13, 2008, at 12 pm GMT (that’s 7 am for me here in Oklahoma, USA) Dr. Stephen Heppell’s pre-conference keynote will be published “live” on the K-12 Online Conference website. As a co-convener as well as participant in the K-12 Online conference, I am VERY excited we’re about to kick things off!…
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UStream recording of tonight’s K12Online08 conversation on EdTechTalk
Dean Shareski and I joined the hosts of “It’s Elementary” this evening on EdTechTalk to discuss the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. An audio-only recording of our discussion is available now via the EdTechTalk Ustream channel. Many thanks to our hosts Lisa Durff, Maria Knee, Jose Rodriguez, and Alice Mercer for giving us this opportunity to…
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K-12 Online Conference Teasers: Here Comes Digital Learning!
It is not an exaggeration to say I remain enthused about the no-cost K-12 Online Conference year round. This time of year, however, just a month away from the start of the actual conference it’s easy to be even MORE excited, particularly with the release of so many TEASER TRAILERS in the past week. Here…