ACTEM Geek of the Day Lunch Session

Thanks to Bob Sprankle for posting the Session and the photos.

Presenting today

Central Maine Library District; Fall Council Meeting

Staying Connected in a Library 2.0 World

K-12 Presentation is up!

Flat Agents of Change is now available. Please come join the conversation!

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Podcasts in Education

LillyoftheSea is presenting at the EduIsland II Education Fair today The fair starts at 1:00 SL time.

Unfortunately, I lost the chat with the great questions people asked. Thanks to CoolBeans for his help today!

ACTEM Geek of the Week

Here’s my screen while live streaming Geek of the Week session at ACTEM. I have Nicecast, Skype, and Twitter running as well as the chatroom at Edtech Talk open! Links from the session

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ACTEM Conference Phew!

Wow! Another great conference put on by ACTEM. They are one of the most organized groups around. The keynote by given by Will Richardson. I had never seen him present before and I was not disappointed. I appreciate the succinct way in which he brought us to the changes which must be made in educational practice in order to help student learners compete in the 21st century. Now to digest it all…. coming soon

Professional Development on steroids!

I am not sure if this is a good thing or not, but I just loved this evening. I attended three professional development opportunities almost at the same time. It was wild and woolly, educational and stimulating!

The first was with David Warlick in a fireside chat on Elluminate. There were over 100 people in the chat room which was hard to follow but the chat can be downloaded for later. Before David came on we were broken down in to small groups in the caht room. That was pretty interesting. I thought David did an excellent job considering he had a million questions thrown at him… He spoke about “reinventing boundaries”. Here’s a link to the chat.

Next came Will Richardson on UStream TV. He gave a demo of what UStream and the chat room can do. This is a very cool new tool that was just released about 2 weeks ago. Be looking for some cool stuff to come .,

And finally Women of the Web 2.0 with David Jakes and Ewan McIntosh. Here’s the chat log and video of the session.

Professional Development:

• change teacher behavior (change in practice)
• Increase student learning
• model professional learning
• teachers model being learners
• Make comparison to what teachers know
• make a personal learning network

Idea from Marie: Power Hour for 1 hour with teachers bi-weekly
Idea from Kern: “Tech Sherpas” Students adopt a classroom

The power of these sessions was the network of people collaborating online. It was wonderful to log in a folks saying hi (many of these folks I have not met face to face). Then while listening, people are talking about all kind of things related to the speakers topic. One of the great questions is “Why aren’t we doing this in the classroom?” This was an amazing hour. I need to read the chat transcript again because so much was going on.

I can’t wait for what comes next!

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K12 Online Conference Keynote

David Warlick gave the keynote for the K-12 Online Conference this morning. It was great to have chat, Twitter and David speaking. People were commenting and giving help while the presentation was giving.

What I liked best about this keynote is that it speaks specifically to changing the education model. Students are learning as a community. The current model of school does not expect group learning. “The future depends on solving this problem.” I plan to use this video with staff.

Other points I plan to work on with teachers:

• Changes in the kinds of job we prepare students for
• Free agents: what a concept!
• Community of people learning together
• How we use information has changed and what we can do with it
• Can our students produce a product that can compete with other products
• Students remixing content
• Change is within the grasp of those of us paying attention

Flat Classrooms

• Info-savy students (need teachers to work info)
• New Information landscape
• Unpredictable future

I will be watching and listening to this many more times. Thanks David!

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Flat Agents of Change Teaser

“Flat Agents of Change”

Cheryl Oakes, Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr

Strand: Personal Learning Networks

Seedlings Podcast@BitbyBit Show #24 Webcast #3

We interview Darren Kuropatwa and Wes Fryer on the upcoming K – 12 Online Conference

Here’s what Wes had to say.