K12Online07 Audio Podcasts
by Presenters from the 2007 K-12 Online Conference
This podcast channel (web feed) includes audio-only versions of all presentations published during the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Learn more on www.k12onlineconference.org. The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.
Episodes
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Online Professional Development (audio) by Jeff Utecht
In the past year we have seen a number of new free web tools used for online professional development. There are tools that can be used in the traditional sense as well as tools that are redefining how we learn in this connected network. In this presentation, we will take a look at some of the…
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Creating a Paradigm Shift in Technology (audio) by Shawn Nutting
What if you worked for a dream system? With a Superintendent & BOE whose focus is technology and professional development. Would it be a utopian and collaborative environment with teachers and students engaged with Web 2.0 tools? Not necessarily. Having open Internet access and a 1:1 computer...
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Starting From Scratch: Framing Change for All Stakeholders (audio) by Ben Wilkoff
Starting from Scratch tells the story of education transformation. Its point of view is the classroom, with all of its eccentricities and complications. The characters are students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with all of their hopes and fears vying for attention. Its plot shows…
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EdTechTalk: A Network of Homegrown Webcasters (audio) by Alex Ragone and Arvind Grover
We will present the history and development of the EdTechTalk Channel of the Worldbridges Network through screencasts and audio and video interviews of our show hosts. In little over 2 years, the channel has gone from one weekly webcast to eight weekly interactive webcasts using the newest and…
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Changing a System: Network Centric Learning Communities (audio 3 of 3) by James Folkestad
This podcast will describe how students in a teacher preparation course at Colorado State University are learning to use Web2.0 tools to create and maintain distributed learning communities. The presentation describes how students are sharing knowledge and leveraging the power of collective...
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Changing a System: Network Centric Learning Communities (audio 2 of 3) by James Folkestad
This podcast will describe how students in a teacher preparation course at Colorado State University are learning to use Web2.0 tools to create and maintain distributed learning communities. The presentation describes how students are sharing knowledge and leveraging the power of collective...
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Changing a System: Network Centric Learning Communities (audio 1 of 3) by James Folkestad
This podcast will describe how students in a teacher preparation course at Colorado State University are learning to use Web2.0 tools to create and maintain distributed learning communities. The presentation describes how students are sharing knowledge and leveraging the power of collective...
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Web 2.0 Share the Adventure (audio) by Sylvia Martinez
For many teachers, Web 2.0 tools offer exciting opportunities for students to express themselves and take command of technology that stretches the mind and reaches outside school walls. For some teachers, these tools are like trying to take a drink of water from a fire hose – endlessly expanding...
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Acceptable Use and the Web 2.0 (audio) by Joseph Bires
In this presentation, the participants will discuss how the use of Web 2.0 technologies has challenged and changed the concept of acceptable use. The presenter will suggest ways to balance protecting students, teachers, and schools from the dangers of the Internet, while still integrating Web 2.0...
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Expanding Horizons - Engaging the Adult Members of your Community (Teachers, Administrators, and Parents) through the Use of Personal/Professional Learning Networks (audio) by Vinnie Vrotny
This session is going to take participants on a journey consisting of four segments, which are: 1. Creating your own Personal Learning Network (PLN), 2. Motivating Faculty to expand their PLNs; 3. Mentoring Administrators about the value of PLNs and 4. Engaging Parents to construct PLNs. Upon...
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Pushing the Envelope or How to Integrate Web 2.0 Tools on a Shoestring (audio) by Lisa Durff
Practical ideas on how to implement web 2.0 within the price range.
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Building a Yardstick for PD Success: Establishing Key Performance Indicators for Web 2.0 Personal Optimized Learning Environments (audio) by Sharon Peters and Vincent Jansen
With the emergence of Web 2.0 tools, we are seeing a shift in how schools may address teacher growth and development. As well as providing models of practice for measurement for today from self-directed professional growth and learning, we will present the Personal Optimized Learning Environment...
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Me blog? No Way!!! (audio) by John Pearce
Arguably blogging and the whole web 2.0 experience has been one of the most significant growth areas in the use of computers world wide. Indeed the opportunities that this environment offers to education seems endless. Why is it that there are far more teachers who are yet to explore this...
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Webcasting for Educators: Expanding the Conversation (audio) by Jen Wagner, Cheryl Oakes, Vicki Davis, and Sharon Peters
The “women of web 2.0″ have webcasted more than 40 shows covering many topics of relevance to the K-16 educational arena. Using screencasts and video, see how four “ordinary” teachers create a weekly webcast with special guests on topics of relevance to the educational community. We will include...
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Creating PLE’s with TLC (audio) by Brandi Caldwell
All teachers should feel like they can be a part of a professional learning environment (PLE) that involves their colleagues within the school, the district, and the world. Many face obstacles when seeking meaningful professional development. Brandi will provide ten technology-infused steps…
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The Technology Specialist as Teacher Leader: Strategies to Ensure Successful Technology Integration and Student Learning in Schools (audio) by Patrick Ledesma
Successful technology integration in schools requires more than just advocating technology. Technology integration requires instructional understanding, administrative collaboration. and professional development. This knowledge must be combined with an understanding of student needs, school...
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Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age (audio) by Karen Richardson
Copyright used to be only a problem to teachers as they tried to figure out what they could and could not use. Some just gave up and crossed their fingers. Multimedia projects loaded onto websites only made it worse because now it really did matter where you got it. Fortunately, just as the web…
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Building Online Communities for Youth (audio) by Lee Baber and Paul Allison
Our examples for this presentation, Youthvoices and Personal Learning Space, are school-based social networking sites, a place online where our students share personal blogs, do research into topics of their own choosing, work with images, and develop profile pages that connect to other students...
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Challenging Assumptions About Technology Professional Development (audio) by Sylvia Martinez
Forty years after the invention of the personal computer, schools still find themselves begging teachers to introduce technology into classrooms. Conventional wisdom attributes the lack of effective technology use in classrooms to a shortage of, or poorly run professional development. At the same...
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The Collaborative ABC Project: Using Technology To Tell Stories (audio) by Kevin Hodgson and Bonnie Kaplan
Our presentation (which will be a collaborative effort led by at least two presenters) will focus in on a collaborative digital storytelling project that brought together about a dozen teachers from the USA (and one from New Zealand) who used video technology to create a collaborative online ABC...
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The Why’s and Wherefores (audio) by Brian Crosby
Using what is happening in my classroom as a backdrop, we’ll endeavor to provide reasons, methods and rationale during our time here that support integration of 21st century tools in education. We will share a few tools and methods that you may not have access to, but much of what you will see is...
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Holding a Mirror to our Professional Practice (audio) by Derek Wenmoth
Derek will challenge us to hold a mirror to our professional practice and begin reflecting critically on what we are doing with technology in our classrooms, using examples from New Zealand to illustrate the use of reflective practice both at an individual level, and at a whole school and…
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More Than Cool Tools (audio) - Alan Levine, Brian Lamb, D’Arcy Norman
There is no shortage of "Cool New Web Tools" out there and all three of us are guilty as charged for presenting them to teachers via the firehose effect. In our session, we will begin with a nostalgic nod to our presentation past where just 3 years ago we were talking up "Small Pieces Loosely...
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If All My Classes Did This (audio) - Wendy Wolfe
Recognizing that educators want students to engage in and enjoy learning and to have the opportunities for success and that reality often brings hardware and budgetary constraints, this presentation explores free Web 2.0 tools focusing on student learning activities and engagement. For each tool…
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Design Matters (audio) - Dean Shareski
Design is a word and idea that engulfs so much of our lives. How does it impact our classrooms and schools? How can we begin to think of design as something that we intentionally build into every day. We’ll look at very practical examples and ideas to begin the process of making design and...
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Part 3 of 3: Collaborative Concept Mapping - Breaking the Bounds of Location and Time... for $0.00 per Seat (audio cmap server) - Frank Pirrone
This presentation will explore a Concept Mapping solution developed at University under funding by US government agencies. CMapServers are running around the world for accessing, publishing and collaborating in building Concept Maps. CMapTools, use of which can promote the development of…
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Part 2 of 3: Collaborative Concept Mapping - Breaking the Bounds of Location and Time... for $0.00 per Seat (audio rationale) - Frank Pirrone
This presentation will explore a Concept Mapping solution developed at University under funding by US government agencies. CMapServers are running around the world for accessing, publishing and collaborating in building Concept Maps. CMapTools, use of which can promote the development of…
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Part 1 of 3: Collaborative Concept Mapping - Breaking the Bounds of Location and Time... for $0.00 per Seat (audio introduction) - Frank Pirrone
This presentation will explore a Concept Mapping solution developed at University under funding by US government agencies. CMapServers are running around the world for accessing, publishing and collaborating in building Concept Maps. CMapTools, use of which can promote the development of…
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Learn to Blog : Blog to Learn (audio) - Anne Davis
This presentation is for educators new to the world of blogging who wish to learn how to use blogs with students in a safe and teacher-controlled environment. It is also for current bloggers who desire a step-by-step example of how to introduce teachers to blogging. The focus will be on creating...
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LMS 2.0 - Engaging Learners Using More Advanced Techniques and the Odd Mash-up inside Moodle (audio) - Jason Hando
A series of screencasts showing people how to bend and stretch Moodle to allow for authentic, web 2.0 style, participatory engagement and learning for their students. These screencasts will be accompanied by support files where appropriate, such as backed-up Moodle courses that can be restored on...
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The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style (audio part 1) - Kurt Paccio and James Gates
Kurt and Jim will focus on two web 2.0 tools that we feel have the potential for immediate impact in the classroom. Kurt will show sPresent and Jim will show Splashcast. The main part will be to show how the site works, but at the end of the presentation Jim will talk about how they might look in...
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The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style (audio part 2) - Kurt Paccio and James Gates
Kurt and Jim will focus on two web 2.0 tools that we feel have the potential for immediate impact in the classroom. Kurt will show sPresent and Jim will show Splashcast. The main part will be to show how the site works, but at the end of the presentation Jim will talk about how they might look in...
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Sustained Blogging in the Classroom (audio) - Jeff Utecht
Starting to use blogs in your classroom is one thing, actually embedding them into how you teach and sustaining them as a learning tool over time is something completely different. In the past 3 years, Jeff has helped numerous teachers set up blogs with their students. Some have continued to use...
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Step by Step - Building a Web2.0 Classroom (audio part 2) - Drew Murphy
In this workshop, Drew presents the 10 essential skills and concepts needed for playing the Web 2.0 game. He shows you an order of online activity types that flow into each other and builds your online teaching skill set so that you can apply Web 2.0 tools at the appropriate time and in the...
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Step by Step - Building a Web2.0 Classroom (audio part 1) - Drew Murphy
In this workshop, Drew presents the 10 essential skills and concepts needed for playing the Web 2.0 game. He shows you an order of online activity types that flow into each other and builds your online teaching skill set so that you can apply Web 2.0 tools at the appropriate time and in the...
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Trailfire (audio) by April Chamberlain
Have you ever been sent to a list of websites to find information, evaluate a tool, etc. but lose your path once you get there? Trailfire is the tool for you and those you work with. Trailfire is a free tool in which the “guide” leaves “marks” on specific websites that when combined create a…
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Assessment and Evaluation in the Age of Networked Learning (audio) by Konrad Glogowski
This presentation aims to address some of the challenges associated with assessment and evaluation in Web 2.0 classrooms. Specifically, it will address how to develop strategies and tools that engage students in the assessment and evaluation process, and help them stay in control of their…
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Second Life: K-20 Educators Exploring Virtual Worlds - Panel (audio) by Kevin Jarrett and Sylvia Martinez
In a modest two-story home in one corner of the metaverse, a group of K-20 educators, bloggers and futurists has gathered to build a community devoted to exploring the educational implications of the multi-user virtual environment (M.U.V.E.) known as Second Life. This panel presentation will…
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Release the Hounds (audio part 4 of 4 - unprojects) by Chris Harbeck
This presentation takes participants along my journey into integrating 2.0 applications and "21st Century Learning" into my pedagogy. The presentation will show how teacher driven assignments and projects teach students some of the skills they need to use these new technologies to enhance their...
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Release the Hounds (audio part 3 of 4 - scribe posts) by Chris Harbeck
This presentation takes participants along my journey into integrating 2.0 applications and "21st Century Learning" into my pedagogy. The presentation will show how teacher driven assignments and projects teach students some of the skills they need to use these new technologies to enhance their...
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Release the Hounds (audio part 2 of 4 - growing) by Chris Harbeck
This presentation takes participants along my journey into integrating 2.0 applications and "21st Century Learning" into my pedagogy. The presentation will show how teacher driven assignments and projects teach students some of the skills they need to use these new technologies to enhance their...
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Release the Hounds (audio part 1 of 4 - eportfolios) by Chris Harbeck
This presentation takes participants along my journey into integrating 2.0 applications and "21st Century Learning" into my pedagogy. The presentation will show how teacher driven assignments and projects teach students some of the skills they need to use these new technologies to enhance their...
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Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating (audio) by Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Sasa Sirk, Rita Zeinstejer
The presenters play with boundaries through the simple expedient of having student bloggers in different countries tag their blog posts with the unique tag term writingmatrix. Searching on that tag in Technorati, the student bloggers in four locations in three different countries have managed to...
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Putting the Pedagogy into the Tools (audio) by Ann Davis
This presentation includes specific ideas, tips, and mini lessons centered on the pedagogical use of web 2.0 tools. All teachers need ways to easily and effectively weave these tools into the curriculum/instruction. These are quick takes on an activity that could be done with the tools in an...
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Flat Agents of Change (audio) by Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes, Alice Barr
This presentation is for those folks who are starting out. All participants will join our ning, [email protected]. Go to the address for the ning and follow the numbered steps with movies on how to join. The structure for our show will be displayed from the planning to the presentation…
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Oodles of Googles (audio) by Sharon Betts
This presentation is for teachers that wish to move student writing projects from paper to the web. Google applications will be demonstrated as tools for simplifying and collaborating through the four steps of producing a writing project: Investigation - research; Preparation -...
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Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools (audio) - Liz Kolb
This presentation focuses on ways to connect students' favorite digital toy with classroom learning. Cell phones have the capability to become the "Swiss army knife" for student research and organization. First, we explore using cell phones as data collection tools: audio recorders, digital...
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Travel through Space and Time (audio) - Silvia Tolisano
Global awareness is making its way into the educational landscape. We are recognizing that our students are growing up in a "flat world" and cannot afford to live isolated from learning about other languages, cultures, traditions and points of view. The presenter took over 400 students and their...
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Classroom 2.0 or You Live Where? (audio) - Clarence Fisher
Classroom 2.0 is a "slippery concept" that can look different in different commuities and schools. But there are some basic concepts that bring value to these classrooms, a few basic ideas that need to be considered by teachers who are looking to make changes to their classrooms. These classrooms...
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Inventing the New Boundaries - David Warlick (audio)
For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (in…
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This podcast channel (web feed) includes audio-only versions of all presentations published during the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Learn more on www.k12onlineconference.org. The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.
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