 |
| ClustrMap image taken from Wesley Fryer’s Flickr account. The map marks the locations of educators from around the world who participated in some way with the K12Online Conference. |
For those of you who missed last year’s K12online Conference, this is a truly unique event that combines the benefits of face to face conference events with the digital, networked, and sometimes overwhelming learning experiences of Web 2.0. For two weeks in 2006, educators who are practicing the arts of the participatory web shared their knowledge and experiences with educators from around the world, using blogs, wikis, podcasts, YouTube, flickr, and many other online collaborative tools.
Yesterday, Wesley Fryer (Moving at the Speed of creativity) announced the 2007 conference (October 15 – 26) with a Call for Proposals. In the words of that post:
Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » K-12 Online 2007: Call for Proposals!:
There will be four “conference strandsâ€â€“ two each week. Two presentations will be published in each strand each day, Monday – Friday, so four new presentations will be available each day over the course of the two-weeks. Each presentation will be given in any of a variety of downloadable, web based formats and released via the conference blog (www.k12onlineconference.org) and archived for posterity.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Playing with Boundaries.” I think that it would be interesting to play that theme across a common phrase (753 hits on that phrase in Google) that immediately popped into my head — “Learning without Boundaries” I wonder what intersections might be found there. I wonder if there’s a presentation in it.
I wonder if I’m just up too early in the morning again!
The URL for the Conference (still with 2006 info): http://www.k12onlineconference.org/
The URL for the 2007 Conference Hitchhikr page: http://hitchhikr.com/?id=204
Image Citation:
Fryer, Wesley. “Final ClustrMap for K12Online06.” Wesley Fryer’s Photostream. 4 Nov 2006. 22 May 2007 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/31442459@N00/289037532/>.
Really loved what you did at the conference last year. Your keynote is still the first thing I point newcomers to when I share about the conference with anyone I meet. And I love the way you’ve already started playing with and remixing the conference theme. Playing is a great way to learn. I often find the more I can get my students to play with ideas, numbers and relationships in my math classes the more they learn. 😉
Cheers!
David – thanks for highlighting this. I helped Terry Freedman with his stint in the ‘When Night Falls’ chat and hope to submit some proposals for some sessions in the coming week.
Dave:
The IL-TCE 2008 conference theme in Illinois is “Learning Without Boundaries” – we came up with that theme several months ago!!