Category: workshops
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When Night Falls 2007: Plan to Participate!
Today is the final day of new presentations in the 2007 K-12 Online Conference, but the learning opportunities and connections are really just beginning. All 41 presentations from the 2007 conference will remain available online indefinitely, hosted by the College of William and Mary, joining the 41 presentations from the 2006 conference which also remain…
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Good K12Online07 PD Reflection example
Janetta Garton has posted a thoughtful reflection about Brian Lamb, Alan Levine, and D’Arcy Norman’s “New Tools” strand keynote address for the 2007 K-12 Online Conference titled, “More Than Cool Tools.” Janetta is modeling “best practices” for her reflection, since she: Posted her reflection to her own blog Followed the suggested reflection rubric developed by…
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When Night Falls Moderators Needed!
Last year during the first K-12 Online Conference, the culminating “When Night Falls” event was one of the highlights for many participants. Unlike other live events for the conference which last just an hour, “When Night Falls” is a 24 hour event that literally spans the globe and celebrates as the sun sets around our…
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Behold the power of iSquint!
I am SO impressed with the compression ratio and high quality achieved by iSquint, which is free software for Macs that compresses and converts QuickTime files into iPod compatible mp4 files. One of our presentations for K12Online07 today was 339.6 MB in size when it was given to conveners. After running the file through iSquint…
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2 More K12Online07 PD Reflections
I’ve posted two more reflections for professional development credit to the “open web” (to use a new term I learned from D’Arcy Norman) on my personal professional development reflections blog, using Gabcast. These reflections are on the presentations “More Than Cool Tools” and “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating.” Both were/are…
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PD Reflection and Reflection on Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools
Following the guidelines of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference professional development committee’s posted rubric, I’ve used Gabcast this afternoon/evening to reflect on Liz Kolb’s wonderful presentation yesterday “Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools.” I have created a new blog on Blogger (for free of course) for my professional development reflections, for the K12Online07 conference as…
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Come and get them: 18 new k12online07 enclosures
Day 2 of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference is underway, including updated podcast channels for both audio and video. Hopefully we’ve got the MIME type issues resolved in the feeds, I did have to resync the audio feed this morning because there was an error in the feedburner version. Hopefully if you’re using iTunes and…
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Balancing freedom for creativity and a need for reasonable uniformity
Tomorrow we are publishing 18 different audio and video files for day 2 of the K-12 Online Conference! Be sure to subscribe to both the audio and video podcast channels! As in the 2006 conference, we have wonderful presentations using so many different web 2.0 tools! Hopefully we’ve struck a good balance between encouraging creativity…
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K-12 Online video podcast channel fixed
Thanks for the input / assistance – I was able to modify the K-12 Online Conference video podcast feed (using FeedForAll software) so that m4v presentations now show up as they should in the channel and in iTunes. This required checking the iTunes box under “extensions” for the video feed: Once that was selected, I…