K12online Conference

http://www.k12onlineconference.org

Take some time this week to watch or listen to some of the sessions. Take part in the conference by leaving comments on the conference blog or writing a reflective blog post after watching a session. Make sure you link back to the conference blog and label (tag) your blog post with k12online07 and k12online2007. Those are the two tags for the conference.

The K12online conference is a free conference put on by a couple of educational bloggers that has become highly successfull with some amazing information being shared freely on the Internet. Take this week to scan through over 100 video and audio presentations that you can download and watch or stream live from the web. Even though this conference was 6 months ago now the content is always available to learn from. An amazing conference that you'll want to put on your calendar for next year! Free from the confort of your own home..what a great way to learn.

Start collabertive project
These internet tools are great for creating collabertive projects. And wikis are the perfect tool to learn/practice collaberativing with other teachers. Over the next 3 or 4 weeks I would like the three of you to work together to create a site (or part of a site) that deals with the theories and tools we have been discussiong so far and as we move forward. I'm leaving this VERY open and want the three of you to be creative and create something that you can use in your classes. A coolbertive site that lists tools, that talks about standards for your area, etc. You decide how you want to organize it and how you want to commumicate as a group.

Why are you doing this? As we start using these open coolbertive tools with other classrooms around the world it helps to understand how to work together around and with these tools. I have four projects I'm helping to support right now with teachers from American, Thailand, and Korea and teachers here at my school. Learning how the tools work and the best way to communicate around them are skills I want you to reflect on for this project. Please pass along the link to the site once you have all agreed where to 'build' your project.

Readings and Assignments:

• Siemens: 79-102
• Watch at least two sessions from the k12online Conference
  
• Blog Topics
• Reflect on sessions from k12online
• Reflect on sessions from k12online