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Are You Attending The K12 Online Conference?

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Image of k12 online logoAre you interested in integrating emerging technologies into your classroom practice? Or want to learn how other educators are using technologies in their classrooms?

Why not participate in the K12 online conference! It’s free and fully online.

About K12 Online Conference

The K12 Online conference is coordinated by a group of volunteer educators to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape. Focus of the conference is integration of emerging technologies into classroom practice.

The conference includes:

  1. Pre-recorded presentations (20 minutes) that you can download and watch at your convenience — All presentations (including keynotes) are pre-recorded
  2. Live Events (using Elluminate) where you can interact with the presenters and other educators using talk and chat facilities

All of the presentations remain online for anyone to access in the future. Here are the K12 Online 2006 Archives and K12 Online 2007 Archives.

The Program

Each day of the conference four (4) presentations will be available for viewing from 12 pm GMT. Key dates on the conference program are:

  1. October 13th – Preconference Keynote
  2. TBA – Live Event
  3. October 20th – Keynote presentations
  4. October 20-24th
    • Presentations based on the themes of Getting Started and Prove it
  5. October 25th 3:00 PM Saturday GMT (time zone converter) – Live Event
    • Fireside Chat With Week One Keynoters and Presenters – click on this link to join
  6. October 27th - Keynote presentations
  7. October 27-31st
    • Presentations based on the themes of Kicking It Up A Notch and Leading the Change
  8. October 31st 1:00 AM Friday GMT (time zone converter) – Live Event
    • Fireside Chat With Week Two Keynoters and Presenters – click on this link to join
  9. November 1st 12:00 AM Friday GMT (time zone converter) – Live 24 hour event

Participating In The Conference

The presentations will be posted on the K12 Online conference blog each day during the conference. However the easiest way to access the presentations and keep up with the latest news from the conference is to subscribe to the different web RSS feeds using a feed reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines) and/or a podcast receiver (e.g. iTunes).

Here are the different web feeds for the conference:

  1. Conference blog posts
  2. Conference blog post comments
  3. Audio only podcasts channel (all presentations)
  4. Video only podcasts channel (all presentations

UPDATE: The links to the Audio and Video podcast channels have been amended for 2008 podcasts

You can also follow K12 online on Twitter for the latest news and gossip from the conference or join their Ning community.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Look forward to seeing you at the conference — any dress code is acceptable so I may be wearing my PJs.

Please take the time to share your experience with previous K12 Online Conferences for people new to this conference:

  1. What have you gained from attending the K12 Online?
  2. What are your tips for getting the most out of K12 Online Conference?

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Join With Us in Supporting Blog Action Day!

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One of the most powerful aspects of blogging is anyone, anywhere can have a voice to express opinions and make a difference.

Blog Action Day is an excellent way of demonstrating the power of this voice; so I’m hoping you will join with us for Blog Action Day by writing a post about poverty on October 15th and encouraging others to join us!

Background

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day.

It began in 2007 when a few bloggers started asking how they could use their medium to do something socially conscious. It started with a little “What if …” question about getting lots of bloggers to post on the same day about the same issue. This resulted in 20,000 bloggers with a combined audience in the millions posting about the Environment.

This year the theme is Poverty. By working together on one issue on the same day– October 15th — the blogging and podcasting community can change the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on the issue of World poverty. The hope is by starting a global discussion we can all help bring about both personal actions and a raised awareness for global poverty action going on.


Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Ways To Get Involved

Blog Action Day works best if bloggers keep writing about the topic they regularly write about. For example you could write about:

  • How education helps lift people out of poverty
  • What schools and student life is like in poorer countries
  • What schools and students can do to participate in social action against poverty

Check out Miss Wyatt’s post on Blog Action Day from the Student Blogging Competition for ideas!

You could also get involved with:

  1. Raising funds to fight poverty
  2. Stand Up Against Poverty – October 17-19th
  3. Learn About Poverty – World Vision Australia has organized prizes for Australian’s who write the best three blog posts about poverty on Blog Action Day

Besides writing a post about poverty on October 15th you can also:

  1. Add a badge to your sidebar or post to promote the event – Use the code under the desired badge
  2. Register your blog – You don’t have to register to participate however the link they provide when you register will help them track all the posts.

Image of adding badge for Blog Action Day

FINAL THOUGHTS

You will find my post for Blog Action Day here on my personal blog!

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