Lessons Learned from K12 Online 2006

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Lessons Learned from K-12 Online 2006

• April Chamberlain, Darren Kuropatwa, Shawn
  Nutting, Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach, Wesley Fryer

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Traditional Conferences

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

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Traditional Conferences

• Travel
• Limited timeframe
• Limited audience
• Expenses

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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
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Outline

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

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Outline

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

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Outline

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

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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.
Mark your calendars
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Darren Kuropatwa
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K12Online Conference Announcement
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
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Conference Components
Four Strands over Two Weeks Week 1Strand 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.
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Conference Components
Week 2Strand A Personal Professional
Development Tips, 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.
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Conference Components
KEYNOTES  PreconferenceKeynote David
Warlick David 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.co
m. A Week In The ClassroomKeynote Bud Hunt Bud
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 Levine Alan 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/).
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Conference Components
Personal Professional DevelopmentKeynote Ewan
McIntosh Ewan 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 O
vercoming ObstaclesKeynote Anne Davis Anne
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.
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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.
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Agenda
Two 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-ag
enda.html
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Graduate Credit for Attending K12Online
Conference
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.
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Live Events
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_id9
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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.
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Vendors and Other Sponsors
Elluminate The College of William and Mary
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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

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A Few More Stats

• Most Popular Downloaded Presentations
• David Warlicks preconference keynote (2892)
  11.6
• Mark Wagners Wiki While you Work (1809) 7.3
• Chris Lehmans School 2.0 (1326) 5.3
• Its Elementary (1316) 5.3
• Mark Wagners Blog If you Love Learning
  (1193) 4.8
• Least accessed presentation (104) 0.4

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A Few More Stats
Countries who most often downloaded content
Month by Month
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Outline

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

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Strengths

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

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Weaknesses

• None!
• Challenges following blog comments
• Some technical difficulties
• Too much content
• Not all iPod / podcast compatible

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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

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

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• www.k12onlineconference.org

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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