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Lessons Learned from K-12 Online 2006

April Chamberlain, Darren Kuropatwa, Shawn Nutting, Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach,

Wesley Fryer



Traditional Conferences…

• Theme• Keynote speakers• Peer reviewed presentations• Opportunties for networking



Traditional Conferences…

• Travel• Limited timeframe• Limited audience• Expenses



Personal Learning Community

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“Teachers and staff developers have echoed this thought. I have learned more from other teachers workshop leaders and bloggers online during the last few years than I learned in graduate school. This is surely true for me. This network of teachers are incredible generous with their time, energy and ideas. The K12 online conference stands out as a watershed event. It was there then but continues to keep on giving. I use the podcasts and video presentations to demonstrate to my high school students , as well as my graduate students, how to use web 2.0 applications. They can see teachers experimenting with these tools and student work that demonstrate the effective use of technology. It also created a watering hole or if you wish a cafe for kindred spirits to meet and learn from each other. “

Stephen Fink, K-12 Online 2006 Participant



http://incsub.org/awards/2006/



Outline

• Overview: Darren• Implementation: Sheryl• Evaluation: Wesley• District Use: Shaun & April• Q & A



Outline

• Overview: Darren• Implementation: Sheryl• Evaluation: Wesley• District Use: Shawn & April• Q & A



Outline




K-12 Online Conference 2007 Schedule

8-12 October 2007 Pre-Conference 15-19 October 2007 Week 1 (Strands 1 and 2) 22-26 October 2007 Week 2 (Strands 3 and 4) 27 October 2007 When Night Falls

All published times for the conference will be GMT, and links to time converters will be

provided.



Darren Kuropatwa



The “K12 Online Conference” is for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! The conference theme for 2006 was “Unleashing the Potential.”

First - The conference announcement post Second- The Submission guidelines post Followed by- Our growing FAQ page

K12Online Conference Announcement



Conference Components

Four Strands over Two WeeksWeek 1

Strand A: A Week In The ClassroomThese presentations focused on the practical pedagogical uses of online social tools (Web 2.0) giving concrete examples of how teachers are using the tools in their classes.

Strand B: Basic/Advanced Training (one of each per day)Basic/Advanced training focused on “how to” information on tool use in an educational setting.



Conference Components

Week 2

Strand A: Personal Professional DevelopmentTips, ideas and resources on how educators orchestrate their own professional development online around school-based goals.

Strand B: Overcoming ObstaclesTips, ideas and resources on how to deal with issues like: lack of access to tools/computers, filtering, parental/district concerns for online safety, and other IT concerns while trying to focus on best practice in the use of Web 2.0 tools.



Conference ComponentsKEYNOTES PreconferenceKeynote: David WarlickDavid Warlick is a 30 year educator, author, blogger, and Web 2.0 programmer. David blogs at http://2cents.davidwarlick.com and podcasts at http://connectlearning.davidwarlick.com.

A Week In The ClassroomKeynote: Bud HuntBud Hunt teaches high school language arts and journalism at Olde Columbine High School in Longmont, Colorado. Bud blogs and podcasts about his practice and larger educational issues at http://www.budtheteacher.com.

Basic/Advanced Training Keynote: Alan LevineAlan Levine is the Director of Member & Technology Resources for the New Media Consortium (NMC, http://www.nmc.org/ ). Before this, he spent 14 years evangelizing technology for the Maricopa Community Colleges. Alan works from home in Phoenix, Arizona and publishes his work on CogDogBlog (http://cogdogblog.com/).



Conference ComponentsPersonal Professional DevelopmentKeynote: Ewan McIntoshEwan McIntosh is an educational technologist and teacher of French and German. Based in the Edinburgh area of Scotland he frequently works around the UK and Europe, leading student and teacher workshops and conferences. Ewan blogs at http://edu.blogs.com

Overcoming ObstaclesKeynote: Anne DavisAnne currently works at Georgia State University in the Instructional Technology Center in the College of Education as an Information Systems Training Specialist. Her weblog, EduBlog Insights is a co-winner of the Best Teacher Blog in the second international Edublog Awards, a web based event that recognizes the many diverse and imaginative ways in which weblogs are being used within education.



Review Process and Selection

Blind Review Teams

Each strand had nine presentations for a total of 36

Presenters from as far away as Australia, Bangladesh ,Canada, China, Scotland, the United Kingdom, and from coast to coast across the United States were selected to participate in this one of a kind conference.



AgendaTwo presentations with links and bio information went live each day of the conference.

Many had interactive components

Conversations with presenters occurred organically via the blog

As presenters sessions became live on the blog they were linked to the master agenda to make it easier for folks to access.

http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k12online06-agenda.html



Plymouth State University in New Hampshire in partnership with the Shanghai American School offered three graduate credits for K12

Conference Online participants.

The course was hosted in Moodle, Jeff Utech served as instructor of record.

Graduate Credit for Attending K12Online Conference



In addition to the archived conference presentations that could be viewed by participants anytime, anywhere there were several scheduled Fireside chats that enhanced the online collaboration of presenters and participants. http://k12onlineconference.org/?page_id=9

Live Events



When Night Falls

As a culminating activity, conference participants volunteered to moderate and attended a 24 hour Skypecast called “When Night Falls.” This live event spanned through all time zones across the globe.



Vendors and Other Sponsors

Elluminate

The College of William and Mary



A Few Stats• In two weeks we had over 54,000 unique hits to the blog- representing all seven continents with the heaviest traffic from North America.

• At last check, another 20K had visited.

• 24,849 have downloaded content

• Top Referring Sites to the content page include:

• K12conference blog

• Bloglines

• Google and Yahoo

• K12Online wikis

• delicious

• Moodle

• Tapped In

• Trussville City Schools



A Few More Stats

Most Popular Downloaded Presentations

• David Warlick’s preconference keynote (2892) 11.6%

• Mark Wagner’s “Wiki While you Work” (1809) 7.3%

• Chris Lehman’s “School 2.0” (1326) 5.3%

• “It’s Elementary” (1316) 5.3%

• Mark Wagner’s “Blog If you Love Learning” (1193) 4.8%

• Least accessed presentation (104) 0.4%



A Few More Stats

Countries who most often downloaded content

Month by Month



Outline




Strengths

• Global audience and focus• Permanency & accessiblity• Mix of live & asynchronous• Diversity & timeliness of topics• Personal connections / community



Weaknesses

• None!• Challenges following blog comments

• Some technical difficulties• Too much content• Not all iPod / podcast compatible



Local Events

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Suggestions• More marketing!• Shorter abstracts• Separate Thread RSS Feeds• More skype instructions• More live events• Less content, more time• Continuing evaluation



Outline




Q & A

www.k12onlineconference.org



K-12 Online Conference 2007

8-12 October 2007 Pre-Conference

15-19 October 2007 Week 1 (Strands 1 and 2)

22-26 October 2007 Week 2 (Strands 3 and 4)

27 October 2007 When Night Falls

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