More photos from our ‘Sharing the Story’ NECC presentation
03 Jul 2008 @ 08:18 am · No Comments ·
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Sharing the Story: Ramapo kids shine at NECC, get well-deserved applause, applause
02 Jul 2008 @ 06:56 pm · 2 Comments ·
It was the last session on the last day of NECC, but you wouldn’t have known it. The room was PACKED, standing room only, approximately 120-130 people. Peggy, Bernajean and Marianne were fantastic, the kids were too, their work spoke for itself. We managed to UStream it wirelessly, I’m not sure about the quality, I’ve not checked it (I’m still on this pokey NECC convention center wifi). Nonetheless, it was a great honor to share the dias with these folks, and to hear the applause that was FOR THE KIDS. Bravo, folks! Enjoy the show!
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NECC Closing Keynote to be Streamed into SL, 12:45pm SLT/PDT
02 Jul 2008 @ 12:23 pm · No Comments ·
Check it out folks! See you there!
-kj-
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Please join us today at 12:45 SLT for NECC’s closing keynote featuring Idit Caperton. It will be live video streamed at the ISTE Island Auditorium. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/206/56/23
Please note that this will not be a voice presentation, but rather you will need to enable your media streaming (under preferences) and press play on your media tool bar.
Hope to see you there!
Jennifer/Kitty
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The Transformational Power of Social Media Technology in Learning: Inspiring Stories from the Classroom and Beyond!
Idit Harel Caperton, PhDClosing Keynote: Wednesday, July 2, 2:45–4:00 pm central time
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/206/56/23
Social Networks, Wikis and Blogs are changing the informational, social, political, and educational landscapes. Wikipedia has become the information resource of choice. There are more than 160 million users on MySpace. YouTube is hosting 80 million videos and managing 3 million user accounts. Hundreds of millions of people are gathering daily on the Web to explore, express and exchange media projects and ideas through online social networks. A large portion of them are children and youth.
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton predicted these phenomena after a decade at the MIT Media Lab, and left to start MaMaMedia.com in 1995. As the originator of the term “Clickerati” (the generation born after the mid-90s who cannot imagine life without the Internet), she invented the first Internet media company with special services for Clickerati kids, envisioning their near-addiction to digital learning through creation of rather than consumption of media. To this end, she gave them hundreds of dynamic activities for creating, collaborating, and socializing online. She taught many online networks (AOL-KidsOnly, ATT-WorldNet, Earthlink, Disney-Go, WebTV) and advertisers (General Mills, Nintendo, Disney) how to engage the young and harness business potential within digitally-connected communities of kids.
One of the first graduates of the MIT Media Lab and a student and colleague of learning-technology guru, Professor Seymour Papert, Harel-Caperton has been studying the ways in which learners are empowered with programmable technology since the early 80s.
To close NECC 2008, she will present her recent invention in 1:1 computing—the Globaloria Networks (www.globaloria.org)—complete with cases of how today’s social media technology is creating opportunities for student collaboration and global exchange never before possible. Included will be a synthesis of specific examples hand-picked from content presented at NECC 2008.
Her fast-paced, multi-dimensional tapestry of stories is sure to stimulate and inspire your thinking about contemporary learning ideas in education, and where we are heading. See how the work you and your peers are doing is transforming education!
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Off to NECC (…almost!)
27 Jun 2008 @ 11:02 am · No Comments ·
I’m basically packed and will be heading out soon, wishing I’d scheduled an earlier flight. :/ I’ll be uploading cell phone and other snapshots throughout my journey (and while at the conference). If you want, you can follow the action via my Flickr stream here. My NECC 2008 photoset, once fully populated, will be here.
I’ll be on the road for about five hours or so and I’ve brought along enough digital and analog brain food to last the whole trip. Hoping to catch up on some books I’ve started and start reading others that I’ve put off for too long. Coming with me on this trip (listed in no particular order):
- Growing Minds by Herbert Kohl. I started reading this gift from Sylvia Martinez as soon as she handed it to me at EduCon.
- Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, the Future Search folks.
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky. Marianne Gill, our Library/Media Specialist, devoured this one and handed it to me the last week of school.
- What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee. Have had this on my nightstand since last summer. Tsk, tsk, tsk!
So it’s off to Detroit, then San Antonio, and finally the Wyndham Riverside Suites. Saturday starts with breakfast with Craig Nansen and Chris Webb from Minot Public Schools. Then it’s off to EdubloggerCon, NECC Unplugged, and somewhere along the way, oh right, NECC itself. :-)
Looking forward to seeing old friends, making new ones, and meeting lots of people I’ve gotten to know virtually, via Second Life, Twitter, or any of the other online social networks I’m in. :-)
Safe travels, everyone! See you in San Antonio!
-kj-
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Second Life events at NECC
27 Jun 2008 @ 05:35 am · 2 Comments ·
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Digital Storytelling and Second Life (this is gonna be BIG)
26 Jun 2008 @ 10:05 pm · 4 Comments ·
Hi everyone,
Heading to NECC tomorrow … looking forward to seeing friends old and new … and spending five days with like-minded educators from all over the world with a shared passion: improving professional practice through the authentic use and creative application of educational technology.
One of those friends is Bernajean Porter, whom I had the pleasure of working with during a week-long Digital Storytelling Camp at Peggy Sheehy’s Suffern Middle School this past April. Thanks to the efforts of many individuals - amazing students, dedicated teachers, talented volunteers like Marianne Malmstrom - and a very special pair of “virtual” team members whose names I can’t mention yet - a powerful vision of digital storytelling in the classroom is about to be unveiled. Problem is, you’re going to have to wait until 1:30 pm on Wednesday, July 2nd to hear about it! The session is called “Machinimas and 3D StoryWorlds: Creating Digital Storytelling in Second Life“. Mark your planners! See you there!
In addition to the presentation on Wednesday, another very exciting outcome of the Suffern Middle School Digital Storytelling Camp is also being unveiled. It’s going to be all the buzz at NECC! Bernajean is announcing ISTE’s 2009 Storytelling Corps and the launch of a new ISTE special interest group (SIG) for Digital Storytelling.
I’ve got to be honest here, folks. I knew essentially nothing about digital storytelling before working with Bernajean. Since our weeklong experience, I’ve seen what process, preparation and a perspective mean to the telling of a digital story, and that is … EVERYTHING. I strongly encourage you to check out this SIG, read this press release, and prepare to consider Second Life’s implications as a digital storytelling medium. Like the title says, this is gonna be BIG, and Bernajean is just the person to light the way!
See you in San Antonio!
-kj-
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This just in … “Making the MUVE to Virtual Education” published just in time for NECC!
25 Jun 2008 @ 09:57 am · 2 Comments ·
How cool is this … and perfect timing, too!
Back in September 2007 I noticed an article about Second Life in the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology’s online journal. It was a stock piece from ISTE, and it was good, but I figured the talented crew of New Jersey-based ISTE Docents here could put together an awesome article about SL … a flurry of emails later, we had a green light from NJAET and we were off and running!
Caren Levine (SL: Claird Loon), Susan Toth-Cohen (SL: Zsusa Thomsen), Marianne Malmstrom (SL: Knowclue Kidd), Fil Santiago (SL: Sabian Hawks) and I (KJ Hax) quickly started brainstroming via Google Docs … it was a LOT of work, more than we expected! Weeks went by, schedules became crazed by the holidays, and the article languished. It looked as though it might not get written, but thanks to Caren’s outstanding leadership and editing skills (BTW she is ISTE’s Lead Docent in SL, responsible for the crew of volunteers you might have met at HQ), this piece got done, and done well! You can read our article here, (PDF) and the review the full issue here (PDF).
I’d like to acknowledge Caren, Marianne, Susan (great work on the images BTW, thanks for making me look thinner, lol) and Fil for being a part of this effort, which is perfectly timed! NECC starts this weekend; Second Life will be well represented, with the “Second Life Playground” run by my friend Lisa Linn (SL: Clare Lane), as well as these sessions:
- You Only Live Thrice: Book Clubs in Second Life
- Using Second Life with Distant Learners: Virtual Office Hours
- Creating a Personal Learning Network in Second Life
- From Good Intentions to Best Practices: Teaching in Second Life
- Machinimas and 3D StoryWorlds: Creating Digital Storytelling in Second Life*
- Second Life as Professional Learning Network!
- Skoolaborate: Teens and Teachers Collaborating in a Virtual World
- SLedupotential: Educational Potential of Second Life and Virtual Environments*
- You Can Be a MUVE Star! An Introduction to Second Life
* - I’m presenting (hope to attend many of the others as well)
Thanks, everyone! See you in San Antonio!
-kj-
P.S. New Jersey educators - please consider joining NJAET - membership is FREE and the organization is TERRIFIC. Their annual conference is awesome as well!
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Sun’s Wonderland & Education Grid Demo
20 Jun 2008 @ 06:38 pm · No Comments ·
I missed the event today but fortunately Fleep was there and has this report - check it out! Thanks Fleep!
by Fleep Tuque
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Education Grid Launches with Project Wonderland Friday 6/20!
19 Jun 2008 @ 06:01 am · No Comments ·
Those of us following the good folks over at Immersive Education should be sure not to miss Friday’s launch of Project Wonderland, Friday June 20th, 2008 at 4pm EST at Sun island in Second Life. Click here for the SLURL. School will be out and I’m planning to attend - see you there! -kj-
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Tour ISTE’s Virtual Alamo, tonight, 6/12, 6pm SLT!
12 Jun 2008 @ 06:52 am · No Comments ·
Forwarded from the ISTE Listserv…
Please join us this Thursday, June 12, at 6 PM SLT for our Alamo sneak preview! In world historical re-enactors will guide you through ISTE’s Alamo campus, and will share the story of this fascinating national landmark.
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%204/235/177/30
See you there!
-kj-
