K-12 Online Conference

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October 15, 2007 by Kitty Forbus

I’m a little late in promoting the K-12 Online Conference here on my blog. Fortunately, I printed flyers and sent them out to my teachers ahead of time.

According to the official site:

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.

This year’s conference is the second K-12 Conference. I stumbled across last year’s conference toward the end. I was unable to participate in any of the live events, but viewed many of the presentations. My impression…WOW! The conference was so relevant to the many questions I had about new technologies, it was convenient since I could view it from my own computer on my own time, and it was FREE! So many of the “big names” from my RSS feeds were then and are now a part of the conference.

Forty presentations will be given over the next two weeks. How often do you find yourself in a position to be a part of that much professional development? Quality professional development at that! I still consider myself a newbie at this so I’ll be referring to the First Timers page a lot! Won’t you join me? Let’s stir up the dust and the cobwebs from our thinking and ways of doing things! Let’s “play with the boundaries” of our teaching and learning!