K12Online Conference

I know I keep reminding you about this event, but it is even more relevant to our recent conversations on this board. The opening keynote is Monday evening at 5:00 our time. This entire conference is free and requires no registration (outside of maybe signing in to a live Skype/Elluminate call).

Consider these session titles and then check out the agenda with times here:

Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning
Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum
I Did Not Know You Could do THAT with Free Web Tools
Blog if You Love Learning: An Introduction to Weblogs in Education (Basic)
Who's Teaching Who? Are We Ready
Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom
All About Internet Audio (Advanced)
TIGed Basics: A Beginners Guide to Social Networking in the Classroom (Basic)
Second Nature-Extending dialogue in the blogosphere
Two-Way Teaching: An Overview of the Read/Write Web in Education
RSS- A Four Part Series (Basic/Advanced)
Free One Click Podcast Publishing
Listening to the voices: student empowerment through collaborative learning projects beyond the school walls
iPods- iSpeak- iSing- iListen- iLearn
Getting to Know Flickr (Basic)
RSS for Educators (Advanced)
Globally Literate
Hardy's Wessex: video editing and learning online
Moodling Around: A Virtual Tour (Basic)
Wiki While You Work (Basic)
What is RSS and How do I Start Using It?
Unleash the Potential: Remix Obstacles into Opportunities!
At-Risk' Students in Our Virtual High School
Not Just for Kids: Using Social Software to Create Community among Teachers and Provide Sustained Professional Development
It's a Small World After All!
No Teacher Left Behind - The Urgency Of Web 2.0
Glow: Lighting Up Learning in Scotland
Social Bookmarking, Using Del.icio.us
Around the World in 80 minutes
Cultivating Digital Educators
Internet Access with Minimal Filtering
The 21st Century Educator's toolbox: Developing a Professional Learning Environment
Home Grown: Within/Without the district
Mobile Learning Redefined
Trash to Treasures: Creating Your Own Computer Lab
Planning the 21st Century School
Toward a System for Online Curriculum-Sharing
Selling Web 2.0 to Senior Management
It's Elementary Kids, Working Web 2.0 With Grade 3-4

Jeff Utecht, Vicki Davis, Anne Davis, David Warlick, Ewan McIntosh, Bud Hunt, Alan Levine, and Terry Freedman are just a few of the great presenters on hand.

Please consider taking part in this event and even blogging your thoughts here on this blog so we can all benefit from it. This is a great starting point to give our program even more direction in this area of our professional development (not to mention some great skills to pick up for our classroom teaching). I hope to see some of you logging in to the live events, but remember, much of it will be accessible at your leisure. If you find something you like, link to it for the rest of us to find easily. Have a great week!

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