tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339740112024-03-07T16:39:40.276-08:00Infinite Thinking Machine BlogTons of practical ideas for K-12 teachers to get the most from innovative tools.TomMarchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10154173954527666132noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-68061029445836270292012-04-30T11:57:00.001-07:002012-04-30T12:07:23.321-07:00New ITM Shows Released on New Site<span style="font-size: large;">After a 5 year hiatus, we've relaunched the Infinite Thinking Machine shows! Thx to everyone in the ITM community that stayed faithful all these years, and we hope to make you proud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>Chris Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15466840455139848832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-47463747948650522272011-10-29T22:49:00.000-07:002011-10-29T22:49:55.553-07:00Last Call for 2011 Global Education Conference Proposals!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKmSGTLXSMppdVoSNmeBWKLnYLQxlH9kJq56Cwd9JeNd-IoaIcD24lbFGsi60JH9Dbd5aMDoy7t1LgJonTp2FOxOwE_jVJJxv_SriEMTSZi3cLZhCQz69BysxYWq_MkXqwFBR/s1600/GlobalEdCon_icon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKmSGTLXSMppdVoSNmeBWKLnYLQxlH9kJq56Cwd9JeNd-IoaIcD24lbFGsi60JH9Dbd5aMDoy7t1LgJonTp2FOxOwE_jVJJxv_SriEMTSZi3cLZhCQz69BysxYWq_MkXqwFBR/s1600/GlobalEdCon_icon.jpg" /></a></div>Excitement is really building for the 2011 Global Education Conference (November 14 - 18), and this is a quick reminder that<b> proposals for session presentations are </b><b>due by the end of the day this Monday, October 31st</b>. Submit <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/call-for-proposals">HERE</a>. (To register to attend the conference, which is free, just join the network at <a href="http://www.globaledcon.com/">http://www.globaledcon.com</a>.)<br />
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We started accepting proposals this past week, and they are being approved in the order submitted. If your proposal is accepted, you then <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-global-education-conference-session-acceptance-letter-1">choose a time slot</a> from the available times to present. This is to allow you to choose a day and time to present that are convenient to you. Potential presenters should also join the presenters group on the website to receive email announcements specific to presenters.<br />
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Awesome <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-keynotes">keynote session</a> are starting to be announced, and the conference schedule is filling with a variety of general sessions (you can see them in your own time zone <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-sessions-and-schedule">HERE</a>). And there are badges, a poster, and press releases available on the <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/press-promotional">Press and Promotional page</a> of the network!<br />
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See you online!</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-21650592701576527292011-10-08T09:46:00.001-07:002011-10-08T09:46:47.594-07:00Live Interview Thursday October 13th - Gina Bianchini on Mightybell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Thursday, October 13th, for another live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Gina Bianchini, co-founder and former CEO of <a href="http://www.ning.com/">Ning</a>, and now creator of the new Web-based service <a href="http://www.mightybell.com/">Mightybell</a>. Mightybell is based on the idea that "success comes from thinking big, but acting incrementally," and so the platform allows you to create and share an "experience." An experience is an organized series of step-by-step “actions” users can follow--however, in true Gina B. style, participants in a Mightybell experience are not alone and they become a community, able to comment, communicate, and support each other at every step. Now, if you're beginning to see the connection to education (social learning!), you're going to really enjoy this conversation with Gina as we explore Mightybell, her plans for the service, and its possible uses in the education world. If you want to explore Mightybell in advance, you can join over 650 fellow "travelers" in the experience I created called <a href="https://mightybell.com/experiences/3ff5259e1c4d9948-Teacher-2-0-Using-the-Web-for-Your-Personal-and-Professional-Growth#">"Teacher 2.0: Using the Web for Your Personal and Professional Growth."</a><br />
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<b>Date</b>: Thursday, October 13th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=13&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available the day after the interview.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_1HzBbIo6FuufOBhzNTX08FwXeMK0A_hsfyLVXmVGmXGW76TTt01wdgIeAoaX8jP8mYigoiZljAJ6lnQC7ERjaP9qtCr1pgSt0giVONl_3-UXP7Wf9s47tUGizMBGMmFNgYt-qw/s1600/ginabianchini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_1HzBbIo6FuufOBhzNTX08FwXeMK0A_hsfyLVXmVGmXGW76TTt01wdgIeAoaX8jP8mYigoiZljAJ6lnQC7ERjaP9qtCr1pgSt0giVONl_3-UXP7Wf9s47tUGizMBGMmFNgYt-qw/s200/ginabianchini.jpg" width="140" /></a>From Wikipedia: <b>Gina Bianchini </b>was CEO of Ning, which she co-founded with Marc Andreessen. Since leaving Ning in March 2010, she has been an executive in residence at the Andreesen Horowitz venture firm.<br />
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Bianchini re-emerged in September of 2011 as head of a privately-funded Palo Alto start-up called MightyBell, which is offering a social networking app designed for creators of "experiences" to offer step-by-step directions to those who might want to accomplish goals such as running marathons or going on survival expeditions.<br />
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Prior to Ning, Bianchini was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications which was acquired by Dentsu. She has also held positions at CKS Group and Goldman Sachs & Co.<br />
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Bianchini holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Stanford Business School.<br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6f3a0eae-7428-4d9d-9fa7-234e2030c6db" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-52099389326105395142011-10-08T09:04:00.001-07:002011-10-08T09:28:47.139-07:00Live Interview Tuesday October 11th - Timothy Wilson on Psychological Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Tuesday, October 11th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Timothy D. Wilson on his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316051888/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0316051888"><i>Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change</i></a>. The book is not only a fascinating look at the inner workings of personal change (often with regard to self-perceptions in an academic environment), but it is also a clarion call to actually test and measure the results of social change programs--programs which often receive significant financial and cultural support while not actually producing the results they promise, and sometimes even making things worse. We'll talk with Professor Wilson about his book, his experiences in education, and what the implications of his work might be as we think about the current education reform movements.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday, October 11th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=11&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available the day after the interview.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30rJ2Qwn9qL0AB-si4-dvVE9fyx4ZkCGAp6Vt0CScz76YIohEHRs9MvuzgKjxOmAmoC6QkegrbxCgY9AGsLFYw4IavoCqKy0nhAdGxPdf488AcpsxN_AViCZad3LM0k_1U8LLVQ/s1600/timwilsonsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30rJ2Qwn9qL0AB-si4-dvVE9fyx4ZkCGAp6Vt0CScz76YIohEHRs9MvuzgKjxOmAmoC6QkegrbxCgY9AGsLFYw4IavoCqKy0nhAdGxPdf488AcpsxN_AViCZad3LM0k_1U8LLVQ/s1600/timwilsonsmall.jpg" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wilson">From Wikipedia</a>: "<b>Timothy D. Wilson</b> is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and a researcher of self-knowledge and affective forecasting.<br />
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"Wilson has published a trade book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674013824/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0674013824">Strangers to Ourselves</a></i> and co-authored Social Psychology an introductory textbook on social psychology. The textbook has been translated into Italian, Polish, Chinese, German, Russian, and Serbian, and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674013824/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0674013824">Strangers to Ourselves</a></i> has been translated into Dutch and Japanese, with Chinese and German editions forthcoming.<br />
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"Wilson is best known for his research on self-knowledge, including affective forecasting. Along with Richard Nisbett, Wilson authored one of Psychology's most cited papers 'Telling more than we can know - Verbal reports on mental processes' that demonstrated the difficulty humans have in introspecting on their own mental processes (Psychological Review, 1977, cited 2731 times as of May 22, 2007 according to ISI Web of Knowledge). His longtime collaborator is Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University.<br />
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"His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2001 he received an All-University Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Virginia. In 2009, he was named as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<br />
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"He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, Deirdre Smith. He has two children, Christopher and Leigh."<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316051888/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0316051888" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0316051888&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=technologyr04-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0316051888&camp=217145&creative=399373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><b>Publisher Description</b>: "What if there were a magic pill that could make you happier, turn you into a better parent, solve a number of your teenager's behavior problems, reduce racial prejudice, and close the achievement gap in education? Well, there is no such magic pill-but there is a new scientifically based approach called story editing that can accomplish all of this. It works by redirecting the stories we tell about ourselves and the world around us, with subtle prompts, in ways that lead to lasting change. In Redirect, world-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson shows how story-editing works and how you can use it in your everyday life.<br />
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"The other surprising news is that many existing approaches-from the multi-billion dollar self-help industry to programs that discourage drug use and drinking-don't work at all. In fact, some even have the opposite effect. Most programs are not adequately tested, many do not work, and some even do harm. For example, there are programs that have inadvertently made people unhappy, raised the crime rate, increased teen pregnancy, and even hastened people's deaths-in part by failing to redirect people's stories in healthy ways.<br />
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"In short, Wilson shows us what works, what doesn't, and why. Fascinating, groundbreaking, and practical, Redirect demonstrates the remarkable power small changes can have on the ways we see ourselves and the world around us, and how we can use this in our everyday lives. In the words of David G. Myers, 'With wit and wisdom, Wilson shows us how to spare ourselves worthless (or worse) interventions, think smarter, and live well.'"<br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6f3a0eae-7428-4d9d-9fa7-234e2030c6db" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-47134229179904782522011-10-01T13:43:00.001-07:002011-10-01T13:46:31.358-07:00Live Interview Tuesday October 4th - A Children's Education Bill of Rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Tuesday, October 4th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Peter W. Cookson, Jr., on his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412981166/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1412981166"><i>Sacred Trust: A Children's Education Bill of Rights</i></a>. Peter will discuss his "proposed education bill of rights for American students, including ideas on how to restructure the United States Department of Education for greater equality and improved academic achievement for all learners."<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday, October 4th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=4&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available shortly after the show.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-9Hr-sQ3txNeTq8BXeHf9BBLmThWLxd2NR4cfq9dEeedwZLNkLebR2zp5AHFsypa6d4XdIV6MTkeeA9nVZ2Kq4xjx22h9zTuPXUdeTmCHKBMA1DEMmfoGJMcWc3ZAYW_lBgDFQ/s1600/peter-cookson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-9Hr-sQ3txNeTq8BXeHf9BBLmThWLxd2NR4cfq9dEeedwZLNkLebR2zp5AHFsypa6d4XdIV6MTkeeA9nVZ2Kq4xjx22h9zTuPXUdeTmCHKBMA1DEMmfoGJMcWc3ZAYW_lBgDFQ/s200/peter-cookson.jpg" width="161" /></a><b><a href="http://petercookson.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=54">From Peter's Website</a>: Peter Cookson</b>’s knowledge of schools and children’s learning needs comes from a lifetime of teaching, researching, and working to improve the quality of education for all children. His first job after college was as a case worker for the New York City Department of Social Services. His days were spent visiting the homes of the city’s most disadvantaged citizens. It is to these families, especially the children, that he owes a life’s commitment to the cause of educational justice.<br />
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Peter went on to teach social studies at a large rural public school and history and Latin at a private day school. He returned to NYU to receive a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Education and continued on with a post-graduate certificate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an M.A. from the Yale Divinity School.<br />
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He has taught and held leadership positions at several leading colleges and universities, including Teachers College, Columbia University, where he currently teaches the Sociology of Urban Education. He also currently works with schools around the country as the founder of a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm, Ideas without Borders.<br />
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Throughout his career he has written, lectured, debated, and researched extensively on the democratic importance of equality of educational opportunity, 21st century learning, and educational innovation. Some of his works include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465062695/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0465062695"><i>Preparing for Power: America’s Elite Boarding Schools</i></a>, co-authored with Caroline Hodges Persell (1985); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300064993/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0300064993"><i>School Choice and the Struggle for the Soul of American Education</i></a> (1994); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HWZ236/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B000HWZ236"><i>Expect Miracles: Charter Schools and the Politics of Hope and Despair</i></a>, co-authored with Kristina Berger (2002); and his latest book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412981166/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1412981166"><i>Sacred Trust: A Children’s Education Bill of Rights</i></a> (2011). He is completing another book to be published in 2012, <i>The Great Unequalizer: Class and American Education</i>.<br />
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Peter’s wife, Susan, worked for many years as a family therapist and is now a professional artist. They have two children and four grandchildren.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412981166/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1412981166" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1412981166&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=technologyr04-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1412981166&camp=217145&creative=399373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></a><a href="http://petercookson.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=171"><b>From the Website</b></a>: Education sociologist and policy expert Peter Cookson boldly describes an actual education bill of rights for American students that will ensure greater equity and improved academic achievement for all. He presents a national blueprint of action that has been endorsed by major political, economic, and educational leaders.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cookson explains that “a children’s education bill of rights provides a framework for consensus and constructive action that can build bridges of hope and understanding over the chasms of misunderstanding and mistrust that divide us.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The book asserts that all children have the fundamental right to:</div><ul style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">a neighborhood public school or a public school of choice that is funded for excellence</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">physical and emotional health and safety</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">have his or her heritage, background, and religious differences honored, incorporated in study, and celebrated in the culture of the school</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">develop individual learning styles and strategies to the greatest extent possible</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">an excellent and dedicated teacher</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">a school leader with vision and educational expertise</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">a curriculum based on relevance, depth, and flexibility</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">have access to the most powerful educational technologies</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">fair, relevant, and learner-based evaluations</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">complete high school</li>
</ul><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Included are examples from a wide range of public and private schools in rural, urban, and suburban areas that illustrate problems and solutions. Through vivid storytelling and relevant research, Cookson provides specific and innovative steps for creating a concrete action plan that will lead to just, equitable, and first-class schools.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The book includes a Foreword by Rudy Crew, Former Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Former Chancellor, New York City Board of Education.</div></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-33399007460811274012011-09-28T14:36:00.000-07:002011-09-28T14:36:05.091-07:00Live Interview Thursday Sept. 29th on "iPads in the Classroom--a Success Story"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Working in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Education and Emmy Award Winning Director, Allyson Rockwell, the Mason-Lake and Oceana ISDs are working on a documentary film chronicling the success in the pilot kindergarten and second grade iPad classrooms in Ludington, Michigan. The classroom pilots, funded by 21st Century Learning Environments, have had "tremendous success" and are gaining much attention at the state and national levels. The documentary project has already received funding, and those involved have submitted a grant application to expand the ipads to all pre-K-2 students in the three counties. We'll talk with members of the team involved in this project, and give time for Q and A.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Thursday, September 29th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=29&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be published here after the show.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKIBM0irfkGxo4zGySCqEpm0ass8M4e9WwLqwbjBdNpCbrsuE97LqZ-RBxmqLByjcR9W5c9POQmMsfj8Fh-L2ZXL1H2YTS8rUVLDa6RY5Kfjoa8vKnymyM4NC1ZZHSoH3xW2MDKw/s1600/Bruce+Umpstead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKIBM0irfkGxo4zGySCqEpm0ass8M4e9WwLqwbjBdNpCbrsuE97LqZ-RBxmqLByjcR9W5c9POQmMsfj8Fh-L2ZXL1H2YTS8rUVLDa6RY5Kfjoa8vKnymyM4NC1ZZHSoH3xW2MDKw/s200/Bruce+Umpstead.jpg" width="175" /></a>As State Director of Educational Technology and Data Coordination at the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), <b>Bruce Umpstead</b> is responsible for implementing Michigan's online learning graduation requirement and the State Educational Technology Plan. His major professional points of emphasis are using technology to support research based school improvement and innovation programs, creating incentives for technology adoption, and taking technology-based innovations to scale in education.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjdl_aYdEgZTOlX6rMXRqQrZ3-U4VonsBj6llHvxDq7eDn664enG5wJiRatBScTgZlfdpTyJGmfkhW8Dfd6aEpln72I-YUbW4ra9pGqLc3QwemzQR2aSZLH6GM5pEkqkmbUgxx-A/s1600/AshleyMcDonaldsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjdl_aYdEgZTOlX6rMXRqQrZ3-U4VonsBj6llHvxDq7eDn664enG5wJiRatBScTgZlfdpTyJGmfkhW8Dfd6aEpln72I-YUbW4ra9pGqLc3QwemzQR2aSZLH6GM5pEkqkmbUgxx-A/s200/AshleyMcDonaldsmall.jpg" width="113" /></a><b>Ashley McDonald</b> has been given an amazing opportunity to implement iPads in her kindergarten classroom for the past two school years. Her students have accomplished far more than she ever imagined, as she feels iPads are a great resource to level instruction so that all students needs are being met. She attended Grand Valley State University from 2002 to 2006 with undergrad in Elementary Education, emphasis in Integrated Science. Her first teaching job was a kindergarten position in Phoenix, Arizona. While in Arizona she obtained my Masters degree in Early Childhood Instruction, specializing in reading. This is her 6th year teaching.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMqMKSy4XniZZfIJNYl2AHp7AHkH2qbm8Kfc805AqlAIl337y92-YMGPOTvyUZU-dOG4ZghDZ-MhgZ37fzFkVNP_h2AnPuYi5rWiDU5wYBf-iRWDWfJHL_IrNz3MCAwJAT4ycGyw/s1600/allysonrockwell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMqMKSy4XniZZfIJNYl2AHp7AHkH2qbm8Kfc805AqlAIl337y92-YMGPOTvyUZU-dOG4ZghDZ-MhgZ37fzFkVNP_h2AnPuYi5rWiDU5wYBf-iRWDWfJHL_IrNz3MCAwJAT4ycGyw/s1600/allysonrockwell.jpg" /></a>Director/Producer <b>Allyson Rockwell</b>, has worked produced/directed numerous corporate, political, industrial and educational videos. She has produced documentary films from the Sub-Arctic of northern Quebec to Leon, Nicaragua on topics ranging from a controversial hydro-power plant and it's effect on the environment to a holocaust survivor who’s inspiration helps to change our world. Recently she won an Emmy award for “Detroit Remember When: The Jewish Community” which documented the history of the Jewish community in the Detroit area and just completed and educational outreach program called “FlipClips” where she worked with teens to create short films about what makes them proud of their community. As a producer for smART TV, Rockwell produced an educational series bringing arts and culture programming to middle school students. She was also a producer for “The Learning Classroom: Theory Into Practice” which is a 13-part video- and Web-based course for teacher education and professional development. It was created through a partnership between the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with the course content and this print guide developed by Stanford University’s School of Education. The project uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYQUPo_K4IiRaojJJd6hJqe12zXepm0Kv3t9dL9OG2HyfhSqdxb6OEHYDwPbnIbPet-Mm4NnVjMHvFIEtMM-vIfqbsN1X8F0OQvIPAg_zvkfYzDnfSdom60M_bZYVRV91gqTXzA/s1600/TomJohnson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYQUPo_K4IiRaojJJd6hJqe12zXepm0Kv3t9dL9OG2HyfhSqdxb6OEHYDwPbnIbPet-Mm4NnVjMHvFIEtMM-vIfqbsN1X8F0OQvIPAg_zvkfYzDnfSdom60M_bZYVRV91gqTXzA/s1600/TomJohnson.jpg" /></a><b>Tom Johnson</b> serves as the Director of Technology for the Mason-Lake and Oceana ISDs, two regional intermediate school districts in Western Michigan. His career in education, both as student and educator, has been non-traditional. Leaving college after three years and entering the private sector, Mr. Johnson was drawn to a 'make a difference' and a career in education. He worked twelve years in K-12 education before completing his bachelors degree in Community Development and Administration. However, this didn't limit his impact as he strove to make education relevant for students and to leverage technology to do so. Earning his Masters in Education, completely online, in under two years his focus narrowed on impacting teaching and learning directly. Having successfully written and managed nearly 100 grants, most in educational technology, over the past eighteen years, his vision for the future of education is one of students engaged and collaborating with learning driven by curiosity and social interaction. As someone who personally longed for relevance and the freedom to learn in his own way and at his own pace, Mr. Johnson is an advocate for and believes in the potential of all students.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOO-V_BtisFiIAKLj_1xifP8p5xbChyI8FjF10w7KtTy4EoTKP3lu9odUZzg0L5m0WKCyqDHoSMtmphb-Q1L5O_r430XngRDfdzceFv2M6jEHAhluhhVR-Esl2_syrqtKZePLlQ/s1600/amberkowatch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOO-V_BtisFiIAKLj_1xifP8p5xbChyI8FjF10w7KtTy4EoTKP3lu9odUZzg0L5m0WKCyqDHoSMtmphb-Q1L5O_r430XngRDfdzceFv2M6jEHAhluhhVR-Esl2_syrqtKZePLlQ/s200/amberkowatch.jpg" width="188" /></a><b>Amber Kowatch</b> is a Second Grade Teacher at Franklin Elementary School in Ludington, MI. She is a graduate of Lake Superior State University where she is currently working to complete her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. Her first teaching job landed her in Sault Ste. Marie, MI at a well funded charter school that used technology to its’ fullest potential. This has led Amber to do everything possible to use technology in her classroom. As most public schools are faced with difficult budgets, Ludington Area School District is as well. Not having the funding to purchase technology, Amber was approached to lead a pilot program using iPads one to one in her second grade classroom. This project has gained national attention and is currently being used as the basis for a documentary. The iPad pilot has been extremely successful in engaging Amber’s students on their own educational journey and has changed the way her students learn and the way she teaches!</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-76617899853043015322011-09-24T13:21:00.001-07:002011-09-24T13:21:58.173-07:00Live Tuesday Sept. 27th with Cecilia d'Oliveira from MIT's OpenCourseWare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Tuesday, September 27th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Cecilia d’Oliveira, Executive Director, <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm">OpenCourseWare</a> (OCW) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cecilia was the technology director for OCW since 2002, and in 2008 was named executive director. She was also a winner of <a href="http://www.wise-qatar.org/node/651">a 2010 WISE Award</a>.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday, September 27th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=27&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording a portable .mp3 audio recording will be published here after the show.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgREivFiIu0ypFeHTViNEU2qku30BcfXBCw25D5qcJtrlB_yjb8qpXAso6LXvjfT5mZ2rYgnYyyg5vwMjK36golj4fwAGPbl_tYMgoZefH2wMdmVesg35J4eAmXoI7sPRnojckPgQ/s1600/ceciliadoliveira.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgREivFiIu0ypFeHTViNEU2qku30BcfXBCw25D5qcJtrlB_yjb8qpXAso6LXvjfT5mZ2rYgnYyyg5vwMjK36golj4fwAGPbl_tYMgoZefH2wMdmVesg35J4eAmXoI7sPRnojckPgQ/s200/ceciliadoliveira.jpg" width="150" /></a><b>Cecilia d’Oliveira </b>is Executive Director of OpenCourseWare at the Massachusetts<br />
Institute of Technology. Ms. d'Oliveira leads the team that works with MIT faculty to publish MIT's course materials openly and with organizations around the world who are implementing their own opencourseware programs as institutional initiatives or national education policy. From 2002 to 2008 she served as MIT OpenCourseWare's Technology Director with responsibility for building the technical infrastructure for the program. Over 25 years she has worked in a variety of information technology positions, focused on technology innovation in support of MIT education, research and business initiatives. Ms. d’Oliveira received a Master's degree from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MIT.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNchw_8AS4eTDMpH_Vz4EKgFh1Qh-A_2VvE0Z7quDIvwLps17qRC7bO-q8e92nakZCWPpeCoRajWXL4uyg8OmkO2pVaL6f_h-DiYgqwL_TPPNocPPYkbgfivh0gLYN6FSJlZIow/s1600/mit-opencourseware.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNchw_8AS4eTDMpH_Vz4EKgFh1Qh-A_2VvE0Z7quDIvwLps17qRC7bO-q8e92nakZCWPpeCoRajWXL4uyg8OmkO2pVaL6f_h-DiYgqwL_TPPNocPPYkbgfivh0gLYN6FSJlZIow/s320/mit-opencourseware.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
From the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/">OpenCourseWare Site</a>: In 1999, MIT Faculty considered how to use the Internet in pursuit of MIT's mission—to advance knowledge and educate students—and in 2000 proposed OCW. MIT published the first proof-of-concept site in 2002, containing 50 courses. By November 2007, MIT completed the initial publication of virtually the entire curriculum, over 1,800 courses in 33 academic disciplines. Going forward, the OCW team is updating existing courses and adding new content and services to the site.</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-35003681202523234312011-09-19T13:28:00.001-07:002011-09-19T13:28:09.292-07:00Live Tuesday Sept. 20th with Filmmaker Bob Gliner on "Lessons from the Real World"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Tuesday, September 20th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with award-winning documentary producer <a href="http://www.docmakeronline.com/bio.html">Bob Gliner</a> about his education movie, <a href="http://www.docmakeronline.com/lessonsfromtherealworld.html" style="font-style: italic;">Lessons from the Real World</a>: "Learning to read, do math and other subjects happens when students care about what they are learning, rather than drilling them with subject matter largely divorced from their real lives. This engaging documentary provides a first hand look at K-12 schools and classes that weave community and societal problem solving through their curriculum as a way of both preparing students for active participation in democratic society, as well as motivating them to learn basic skills as part of a meaningful educational experience."<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday, September 20th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=20&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the interview. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/172591">http://www.learncentral.org/node/172591</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHn8p6dGl9yCrsT9WjXoTcvI3ivNuSMFS_6DRJ4YJnpt42KxiS0gs261dOZmMXwhvXWslABOJ8-S8ZPU9WXGZ2d-HdlNUxDzvG6BWJfWrUZarLZeS_gcf3au4Ogn2kvC-ixza-fw/s1600/bobgliner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHn8p6dGl9yCrsT9WjXoTcvI3ivNuSMFS_6DRJ4YJnpt42KxiS0gs261dOZmMXwhvXWslABOJ8-S8ZPU9WXGZ2d-HdlNUxDzvG6BWJfWrUZarLZeS_gcf3au4Ogn2kvC-ixza-fw/s200/bobgliner.jpg" width="200" /></a><b>Bob Gliner</b> is an award winning documentary producer with more than 30 programs to his credit. His programs have appeared on PBS stations throughout the United States and have also been shown to classes in a wide variety of university and public school settings, as well as by nonprofit organizations. His primary focus is social problems and social change - both inside the United States and throughout the world. He has shot programs in such disparate locales as Russia, Macedonia, Viet Nam, India, Tanzania, Israel, Ecuador, and Cuba. He is competent in all aspects of the production process from initial stages of researching and organizing the production to script writing, interviewing, camera and editing. He is also a professor of sociology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hY3wHm9A0v8AoeGXERT-KqIZanabV6eroDYebDS0Asi3wvtlTuuLLgm9H5t9IBN_yKxNHTZnt0LGcovKwwMGDQY8J7RMaDvwb3hgN9PIiDoD0NUa3UOGivzrdDX5Yiu9jyilFA/s1600/lessonsfromtherealworld.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hY3wHm9A0v8AoeGXERT-KqIZanabV6eroDYebDS0Asi3wvtlTuuLLgm9H5t9IBN_yKxNHTZnt0LGcovKwwMGDQY8J7RMaDvwb3hgN9PIiDoD0NUa3UOGivzrdDX5Yiu9jyilFA/s200/lessonsfromtherealworld.png" width="200" /></a><a href="http://www.docmakeronline.com/lessonsfromtherealworld.html" style="font-style: italic;">Lessons from the Real World</a>: "Many people feel our public schools are failing, or at best, muddling through. What to do about this critical issue has almost exclusively focused on the efforts of No Child Left Behind and now Race to the Top legislation to improve test scores in core subjects like math and reading. <br />
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"The future of our nation and our ability to compete in the economic marketplace with other countries is considered to hinge on these high stakes tests, with teachers, schools and entire school districts held accountable for failure. The results, afforded much media coverage, have been mixed though the process has produced many students turned off to formal education. An equally important consequence is that the increased narrowing of the curriculum to try to achieve these limited objectives, has undermined the ability of students to become active, informed and engaged citizens in a democratic society – capable of doing something about the issues which dramatically impact their lives.<br />
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"Lessons From the Real World, contends, like many educators, that focusing on test scores to improve student achievement is looking in the wrong place.<br />
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"Learning to read, do math and other subjects will come if students care about what they are learning, rather than drilling them with subject matter largely divorced from their real lives, and the community and societal problems which often impact those lives. <br />
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"In Portland, Oregon, teachers at a wide range of schools are putting this idea into practice. While this is their story, it can help point the way to rethinking how schools everywhere can be successfully transformed.<br />
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"Lessons From the Real World, a highly informative and entertaining documentary, filled with engaging teachers, students and lessons will surely bring much needed attention to a long neglected and critical aspect of the debate around public education.<br />
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"Since its release in April 2011, Lesson From The Real World has aired on many PBS stations across the country. It was also screened at the SOS (Save Our Schools) Conference in Washington D.C. in July 2011 and at the AERO Conference in Portland, Oregon in August."</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-25723565843361809182011-09-15T11:36:00.001-07:002011-09-15T11:36:31.435-07:00Teacher 2.0 - Join My Self-Paced, Online, and Free Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_56_3WgOQQJFurtOiA_zkw5rCn-MKBVfJ_gWAg9ud2s5tdK3qNdwG50aFZhsdSowv_63LYhht6U7lgppDL90QCa47FV7OQeIuzE5Kw9p6-x6sNSPQ8Yq0vDh-o4X9ecd48fxhQ/s1600/mightybell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_56_3WgOQQJFurtOiA_zkw5rCn-MKBVfJ_gWAg9ud2s5tdK3qNdwG50aFZhsdSowv_63LYhht6U7lgppDL90QCa47FV7OQeIuzE5Kw9p6-x6sNSPQ8Yq0vDh-o4X9ecd48fxhQ/s1600/mightybell.jpg" /></a>About the same time that we started organizing the super-fun <a href="http://www.stevehargadon.com/2011/08/free-teacher-20-workshop-in-melbourne_17.html">Teacher 2.0 workshop in Melbourne</a>, I got a call from <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/pslutsky">Peter Slutsky</a>. Peter previously worked at <a href="http://www.ning.com/">Ning</a> and is now teamed up again with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Bianchini">Gina Bianchini</a> (one of the co-founders of Ning) on new project she's started called <a href="http://www.mightybell.com/">Mightybell</a>.<br />
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The history is that Gina hired me as a consultant in the early days of <a href="http://www.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0</a> to help evangelize her then-free Ning platform to the education audience. I'd gotten to know Gina by interviewing her for <a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">my education series</a>, and I just called her and told her she <i>needed</i> to hire me. To her great credit (and my continued appreciation), she did hire me. The work I did for Ning for 18 months became a model for me of what I consider to be a privileged role I've had for the last five years: that of trying to authentically make a difference for educators while working for commercial companies that also allowed me to keep shepherding <a href="http://www.web20labs.com/">my free social projects</a>.<br />
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Peter and Gina were now reaching out to see if I'd consider being a launch partner (uncompensated) by creating an educational "experience" at Mightybell. While I wasn't sure I fully understood the concept, it seemed like it might be a good fit with the upcoming workshop and my <a href="http://www.teacher20.com/">Teacher 2.0 network</a>, both of which based on helping educators to use the Web for their own personal and professional development.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii5FEnQeqmjJZVAxuqvnRD9pAS-5wNDGWNI6s-6XoDcEDZDfHaivGG9PguMUGmeeDL8W1QeAFNzWIL1qTsX6kXOIUwtcQcYNnLFCGfYnG6ZorcQVpxgvoLfp-GQj2VpeRDLu-LUA/s1600/melbournet20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii5FEnQeqmjJZVAxuqvnRD9pAS-5wNDGWNI6s-6XoDcEDZDfHaivGG9PguMUGmeeDL8W1QeAFNzWIL1qTsX6kXOIUwtcQcYNnLFCGfYnG6ZorcQVpxgvoLfp-GQj2VpeRDLu-LUA/s200/melbournet20.jpg" width="200" /></a>Basically, Mightybell is a way to create a step-by-step "experience" for others where they share that experience with fellow "travelers" through commenting and dialog. It didn't take me long, once I took the outline from our Melbourne workshop and starting creating the steps for a Teacher 2.0 Mightybell experience, to begin to see the magic of an incremental and socially-based learning experience. While I have lots of suggestions for Mightybell around filtering or organizing that community experience for specific "groups" that might want to go through an experience together (Peter is getting several emails a day from me!), I have to say that <i>I think this is a brilliant concept</i>.<br />
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So I encourage you to come and join me at my "<a href="https://mightybell.com/experiences/3ff5259e1c4d9948-Teacher-2-0">Steve Hargadon's Teacher 2.0: Using the Web for Your Personal and Professional Growth</a>." It's free and hopefully it's both fun and <i>helpful</i>! Please let me know what you think.</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-67467948958000987622011-09-14T14:36:00.000-07:002011-09-14T14:36:38.875-07:00Announcing the 2011 Global Education Conference!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Because I was traveling, my co-chair for the 2011 Global Education Conference, <a href="http://elemenous.typepad.com/">Lucy Gray</a>, took the lead on announcing our new conference website, dates, and call for proposal already. But while I might be a week (or two!) late to the party, I promise I'm just as excited!<br />
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Part of my excitement is that we are organizing the conference in a <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-conference">Ning network</a>. This has some tremendous advantages, including ease of communication, but also a proposal system that allows you to connect with potential presenters in advance on ideas you care about, and to comment on specific proposals. This particular brainstorm came about as part of the <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">Library 2.011 Conference</a> I'm running out of the <a href="http://www.library20.com/">Library 2.0 Ning network</a>, so let me know what you think--I'm kind of stunned by the implications of an open proposal and networking process.<br />
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But on to the actual announcement!<br />
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<b>The second annual Global Education Conference, a week-long event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, will be held Monday, November 14 through Friday, November 18, 2011.</b> The entire conference will be broadcast online for free using the Blackboard Collaborate platform (formerly known as Elluminate/Wimba).<br />
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The Global Education Conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort organized by the <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/">Global Education Collaborative</a>, <a href="http://www.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0</a>, and <a href="http://www.web20labs.com/">Web 2.0 Labs</a>, and is aimed at increasing opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives. Last year’s conference featured 387 sessions and 60 keynote addresses from 62 countries with over 15,000 participant logins. Sessions will be held in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days, and all of last years sessions are currently archived as a standing educational resource at <a href="http://globaledcon.weebly.com/recordings.html">http://globaledcon.weebly.com/recordings.html</a><br />
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The <i>Call for Proposals</i> for the 2011 event is now open at <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/call-for-proposals">http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/call-for-proposals</a>. Presenters can submit proposals for general sessions focused on one of four possible tracks: Teacher Track; Student Track; Curricular Track; and Policy and Leadership Track. <b>Proposals should focus on ideas, projects, and initiatives that promote global understanding and collaboration</b>.<b> The deadline for submissions is October 15</b> and participants will be notified of acceptance by October 30. Keynote presentations are by invitation only.<br />
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Session proposals are to be non-commercial. Interest in commercial sponsorship or presentations should be directed to me at <a href="mailto:steve@hargadon.com">steve@hargadon.com</a>.<br />
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As we did last year, we encourage non-commercial organizations to become conference partners (we had over 90 partner organizations last year!). Conference partners will be given a spotlight session this year. More information at <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/conference-partners">http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/conference-partners</a>. We'll also be hoping for another incredible outpouring of volunteer support like we had last year (those of you who helped were AMAZING!). If you'd like to help promote awareness of the conference by serving on our International Advisory Board go to <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/intl-advisory-board">http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/intl-advisory-board</a>, or if you are willing to volunteer to help moderate sessions (making you an absolute rockstar!) go to <a href="http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/volunteers-1">http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/volunteers-1</a>.<br />
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For further information, please join our network at <a href="http://globaleducationconference.com/">http://globaleducationconference.com</a> and follow conference announcements on Twitter (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/globaledcon">@GlobalEdCon</a>) and the hashtag #GlobalEd11.<br />
</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-29908882327315684932011-09-12T09:40:00.001-07:002011-09-12T09:40:26.876-07:00Week of September 12, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/">LearnCentral.org</a>, the social learning network for education that I work on for <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx">Blackboard Collaborate</a> (formerly Elluminate).<br />
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The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!<br />
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We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars">http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars</a>).<br />
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Thanks for your attention, and see you online!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL</span></b> (<a href="http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/">TL Cafe</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 12 Sep 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=12&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 13 Sep 12:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 13 Sep 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Gwyneth Jones.</span></b> Back to School Special: Best Year Ever!<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169124">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169124</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 12 Sep 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=12&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 13 Sep 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 13 Sep 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Coach Carole.</span></b> <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167794">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167794</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">"MINI-GEEK FEST" MONTHLY ONLINE CONVERSATION SEPTEMBER, 2011</span></b> (AzTEA 2.0 Professional Development)<br />
<b>Mon 12 Sep 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=12&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 13 Sep 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 13 Sep 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Peggy George.</span></b> Fun, open, sharing session of web 2.0 tools and teaching resources. Join us and come prepared to share your favorites. Do you get excited and energized by talking with other educators about technology tools and resources? Do you often feel overwhelmed with all of the new tools and feel you don’t have time to keep up with everything? If you do, then the Mini-Geek Fest is here for you! No homework, no assignments, no cost—just an hour online, once a month to listen, share and discuss technology tools for your classroom, websites and more. Join co-hosts Kim Thomas and Peggy George in AzTEA Elluminate from the comfort of your own home. Professional Development credit (1 hour) will be available. The show will be on the second Monday of each month, 6-7PM (MST-AZ). It's not a presentation or a tutorial, but a conversation--think of it like a "show and tell" where ALL participants can contribute. Shows will be recorded and archived so you can listen to the recordings later if you can't participate in the live sessions. We look forward to an exciting and interesting conversation!<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168992">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168992</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP 2.0?</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 12 Sep 02:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=12&year=2011&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 13 Sep 06:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 13 Sep 04:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Anne Mirtschin.</span></b> This is an unconference Tech Talk Tuesdays session,where participants can share what they have been up to in learning and teaching. Bring your favourite technological tools, newest experiments, ideas, resources, problems, issues and open them up for discussion.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171833">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171833</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TALLER MEMORIAS EN RED - #DDHHYC</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 13 Sep 11:30AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=13&year=2011&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 13 Sep 03:30PM GMT</a> / Wed 14 Sep 01:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Luz Pearson.</span></b> 4to encuentro de la comunidad de aprendizaje del curso Memorias en red<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169727">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169727</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">HOWARD GARDNER ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND SCHOOL REFORM</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 13 Sep 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=13&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 14 Sep 12:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 14 Sep 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Join Steve Hargadon on Tuesday, September 13th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Harvard professor and well-known author Howard Gardner. In particular, we are going to talk about the new edition of his 1991 book, The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, looking at school reform from the perspective of cognitive science.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171686">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171686</a><br />
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<center><b>The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference</b><br />
November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">http://www.Library2011.com</a><br />
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<b>The 2011 Global Education Conference</b><br />
November 14 - 18, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.globaledcon.com/">http://www.GlobalEdCon.com</a></center><br />
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GETTING TEENS & TWEENS TO READ W/ANITA BEAMAN (ISLMA)</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Wed 14 Sep 07:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=14&year=2011&hour=16&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 14 Sep 11:30PM GMT</a> / Thu 15 Sep 09:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa Perez.</span></b> Attend this session with Anita Beaman to learn how to get teens and tweens excited about reading. This event is hosted by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA).<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168240">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168240</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">APRENDIZAJE EN RED CON USO DE TIC (ARTIC) - SESIÓN 5</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 15 Sep 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=15&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 15 Sep 11:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 16 Sep 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Diego Leal.</span></b> Quinta sesión del curso abierto ArTIC (http://artic.pbworks.com)<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170230">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170230</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">SAM CHALTAIN ON "FACES OF LEARNING"</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 15 Sep 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=15&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Fri 16 Sep 12:00AM GMT</a> / Fri 16 Sep 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Join Steve Hargadon on Thursday, September 15th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar Sam Chaltain, DC-based writer and education activist, on his new book Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education. Sam was a guest last year on FutureofEducation.com to talk about his previous book, American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community, and we'll continue our conversation on education using his collection of the personal learning stories of fifty individuals–from well-known public figures to ordinary Americans–who share "inspirational stories about transformational teachers, powerful learning environments, and pivotal moments of self-discovery."<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171713">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171713</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE-LIZZIE CHASE (AU)</span></b> (<a href="http://live.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0 LIVE</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 17 Sep 12:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=17&year=2011&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sat 17 Sep 04:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 18 Sep 02:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Peggy George.</span></b> Lizzie Chase, Australian educator, will share a series of free downloadable English lessons at http://otherworlds.yolasite.com for upper primary and lower secondary students, integrating Web 2.0 tools into student responses to 12 books, so that they can create multimedia texts. There is a focus on research skills, digital storytelling and visual arts tools.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171720">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171720</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">O-MUN DEBATE</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Sun 18 Sep 08:30AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=18&year=2011&hour=5&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Sun 18 Sep 12:30PM GMT</a> / Sun 18 Sep 10:30PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Luc Noordholland de Jong.</span></b> Students will simulate the United Nations and debate the issue of cyber warfare. Please register via http://o-mun.org/register and learn more about our program at http://o-mun.org/about. To learn more about the event please visit http://events.o-mun.org/243896/show. <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171271">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171271</a></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-31932179654717770672011-09-09T18:29:00.001-07:002011-09-09T18:32:12.877-07:00Live Thursday Sept. 15 with Sam Chaltain on "Faces of Learning"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Thursday, September 15th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar Sam Chaltain, DC-based writer and education activist, on his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Faces-Learning-Powerful-Defining-Education/dp/0470910143?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0470910143" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. Sam was<a href="http://www.stevehargadon.com/2010/07/sam-chaltain-on-democratic-learning.html"> a guest last year</a> on FutureofEducation.com to talk about his previous book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Schools-Creating-Democratic-Community/dp/1607092530?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1607092530" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, and we'll continue our conversation on education using his collection of the personal learning stories of fifty individuals–from well-known public figures to ordinary Americans–who share "inspirational stories about transformational teachers, powerful learning environments, and pivotal moments of self-discovery."<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Thursday, September 15th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=15&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the interview. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171713">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171713</a>.<br />
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<b>Sam Chaltain</b> is a DC-based writer and education activist. He works with schools, school districts, and public and private sector companies to help them create healthy, high-functioning learning environments.<br />
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Previously, Sam was the National Director of the Forum for <a href="http://forumforeducation.org/">Education & Democracy</a>, an education advocacy organization, and the founding director of the <a href="http://www.fivefreedoms.org/">Five Freedoms Project</a>, a national program that helps K-12 educators create more democratic learning communities.<br />
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Sam spent five years at the <a href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/default.aspx">First Amendment Center</a> as the co-director of the First Amendment Schools program. He came to the Center from the public school system of New York City, where he taught high school English and History. Sam also spent four years teaching the same subjects at a private school in Brooklyn.<br />
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Sam’s first teaching experience was in Beijing, China, where he joined the faculty of the Foreign Languages department at Beijing Normal University as a visiting lecturer. He taught two American History & Literature courses to third-year undergraduates.<br />
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Sam’s writings about his work have appeared in both magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, Education Week and USA Today. A periodic contributor to CNN and MSNBC, Sam is also the author or co-author of five books: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/First-Amendment-Schools-Guide-Center/dp/087120777X?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>The First Amendment in Schools</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=087120777X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (ASCD, 2003); <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/First-Freedoms-Documentary-History-Amendment/dp/0195157508?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0195157508" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i> (Oxford University Press, 2006); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Schools-Creating-Democratic-Community/dp/1607092530?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1607092530" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Must-Not-Afraid-Free-Expression/dp/0195175727?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>We Must Not Be Afraid to be Free: Stories Of Free Expression in America</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0195175727" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (Oxford, 2011); and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Faces-Learning-Powerful-Defining-Education/dp/0470910143?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0470910143" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (Jossey-Bass, 2011).<br />
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Sam has a Master’s degree in American Studies from the College of William & Mary, and an M.B.A. from George Washington University, where he specialized in non-profit management and organizational theory. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he graduated with a double major in Afro-American Studies and History.</div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-31261652037148024442011-09-09T11:39:00.001-07:002011-09-09T11:39:23.301-07:00Live Tuesday Sept. 13 with Howard Gardner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Join me Tuesday, September 13th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Harvard professor and well-known author Howard Gardner. In particular, we are going to talk about the new edition of his 1991 book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unschooled-Mind-Children-Schools-Should/dp/0465024386?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0465024386" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>, looking at school reform from the perspective of cognitive science and his work on multiple intelligences.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday, September 13th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=13&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the interview. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171686">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171686</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI351WHs-Y8S2ydxLtTyltlFngrYyFUrb28wLIri65vmgMUa8hBaP98c2gJUvcYi2A8AJ3gPYxBmUlmwUUV7U2IGxhIRACJNEgk254c0MC6GY4CjTg6jHAAp8z_gdBe2UD0CF51w/s1600/Howard+Gardner+Compressed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI351WHs-Y8S2ydxLtTyltlFngrYyFUrb28wLIri65vmgMUa8hBaP98c2gJUvcYi2A8AJ3gPYxBmUlmwUUV7U2IGxhIRACJNEgk254c0MC6GY4CjTg6jHAAp8z_gdBe2UD0CF51w/s200/Howard+Gardner+Compressed.jpg" width="136" /></a><b>Howard Gardner</b> is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He has received honorary degrees from 26 colleges and universities, including institutions in Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and South Korea. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. The author of 25 books translated into 28 languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be adequately assessed by standard psychometric instruments.<br />
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During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues at Project Zero have been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education. Since the middle 1990s, in collaboration with psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner has directed the GoodWork Project--a study of work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical. More recently, with long time Project Zero colleagues Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman, he has<br />
conducted reflection sessions designed to enhance the understanding and incidence of good work among young people. With Carrie James and other colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the nature of trust in contemporary society and ethical dimensions entailed in the use of the new digital media. Among new research undertakings are a study of effective collaboration among non-profit institutions in education and a study of conceptions of quality, nationally and internationally, in the contemporary era. In 2008 he delivered a set of three lectures at New York's Museum of Modern Art on the topic "The True, The Beautiful, and The Good: Reconsiderations in a post-modern, digital era."<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unschooled-Mind-Children-Schools-Should/dp/0465024386?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0465024386&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0465024386" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Five-Minds-Future-Howard-Gardner/dp/1422145352?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Five Minds for the Future" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1422145352&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1422145352" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Intelligences-Horizons-Theory-Practice/dp/0465047688?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0465047688&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0465047688" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Beauty-Goodness-Reframed-Twenty-First/dp/0465021921?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0465021921&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0465021921" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-37163068140179133372011-09-03T19:24:00.000-07:002011-09-03T19:24:37.222-07:00Week of September 5, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/">LearnCentral.org</a>, the social learning network for education that I work on for <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx">Blackboard Collaborate</a> (formerly Elluminate).<br />
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The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!<br />
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We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars">http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars</a>).<br />
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Thanks for your attention, and see you online!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 5 Sep 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=5&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 6 Sep 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 6 Sep 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Coach Carole.</span></b> A free webinar about the E-portfolio Massive Open Online Course (EpCop MOOC), a free e-portfolio professional development activity.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167793">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167793</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TALLER MEMORIAS EN RED - #DDHHYC</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 6 Sep 11:30AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=6&year=2011&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 6 Sep 03:30PM GMT</a> / Wed 7 Sep 01:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Luz Pearson.</span></b> 3er encuentro de la comunidad de aprendizaje de Memorias en Red<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169726">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169726</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">SABERES 2.0 - REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA EDUCACIÓN ACTUAL: PROPUESTA PARA EL SIGLO XXI</span></b> (<a href="http://www.aula20.com/">Aula 2.0</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 6 Sep 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=6&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 7 Sep 01:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 7 Sep 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Tomas Chaskel.</span></b> La ponencia pretende ofrecer un perfil de la educación actual. Dónde estamos parados, y, hacia dónde de vemos ir. Se analiza el perfil de los educadores y de los estudiantes en la sociedad del conocimiento. La finalidad de la misma es ofrecer una propuesta para hacer educación para el siglo XXI. Nuestros estudiantes nos piden a gritos un cambio de paradigma, ¿Por qué se lo negamos?. Debemos de reflexionar. Bernabé Soto: Profesor de Historia, Diseñador de la Instrucción On-line, Tecnólogo Educativo, Conferenciante y escritor 2.0.Diseñador de la instrucción para National University College.Publicaciones en revistas: EducaPR, El sol, American Learning & Media para Latinoamérica y Tinta Electrónica.Blog: El discurso de un diseñador de la instrucción.Twitter: Bernabe<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170314">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170314</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">APRENDIZAJE EN RED CON USO DE TIC (ARTIC) - SESIÓN 4</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 8 Sep 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=8&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 8 Sep 11:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 9 Sep 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Diego Leal.</span></b> Cuarta sesión del curso abierto ArTIC (http://artic.pbworks.com)<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170228">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170228</a><br />
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<hr /><center><b>The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference</b><br />
November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">http://www.Library2011.com</a></center><br />
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CSOV STUDENT NEWS</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Fri 9 Sep 08:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=9&year=2011&hour=5&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Fri 9 Sep 12:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 9 Sep 10:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Molly Williams.</span></b> <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170354">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170354</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE-AZ TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION MATRIX</span></b> (<a href="http://live.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0 LIVE</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 10 Sep 12:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=10&year=2011&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sat 10 Sep 04:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 11 Sep 02:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Peggy George.</span></b> The topic for Saturday, September 10th will be “AZ Technology Integration Matrix” with special guest Cherie Stafford. Join us as Cherie shares how the Arizona Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) is used to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom. More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you haven't used Blackboard Collaborate before (formerly Elluminate), we encourage you to view the Orientation Tutorial to prepare for the session. Each show begins at 12pm Eastern (GMT-5).<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/171061">http://www.learncentral.org/node/171061</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">WORLD SAVVY AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ORIENTATION</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 10 Sep 03:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=10&year=2011&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sat 10 Sep 07:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 11 Sep 05:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Laura Klivans.</span></b> <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170985">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170985</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">LEARN TO BE FOUNDATION NATIONAL INITIATION</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 10 Sep 09:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=10&year=2011&hour=18&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Sun 11 Sep 01:30AM GMT</a> / Sun 11 Sep 11:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Jingshen Zhao.</span></b> Learn To Be provides free online tutoring in primary and secondary math, science and language arts. We welcome all teachers and parents to learn about how we work and where we are going this year. http://www.learntobe.org<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170932">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170932</a></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-27950704737018710612011-08-27T10:26:00.001-07:002011-08-27T10:26:47.186-07:00Week of August 29, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard CollaborateBelow are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/">LearnCentral.org</a>, the social learning network for education that I work on for <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx">Blackboard Collaborate</a> (formerly Elluminate).<br />
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The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!<br />
<br />
We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars">http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars</a>).<br />
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Thanks for your attention, and see you online!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TECH TALK TUESDAYS: LEARNING TO SCRATCH</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 29 Aug 02:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=29&year=2011&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 30 Aug 06:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 30 Aug 04:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Anne Mirtschin.</span></b> Marc Grossman, all the way from the UK will be our global presenter for this session. Learn how to use Scratch for effective learning and programming in your classroom. Scratch is a popular, free programming language for everyone.It has been developed by MIT and allows users to develop programming skills in a user friendly environmnet and to create interactive stories, games, music and art. Outcomes can be shared online. In this session, Marc will cover the following:- Learning to Scratch -What can Scratch be used for -Where to download Scratch from! -How to move and draw with Scratch -The different types of Scratch blocks -How to find resources for Scratch.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170274">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170274</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">DISEÑO DE PRESENTACIONES DIGITALES CON PREZI</span></b> (<a href="http://www.aula20.com/">Aula 2.0</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 30 Aug 11:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=30&year=2011&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 30 Aug 03:00PM GMT</a> / Wed 31 Aug 01:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Tomas Chaskel.</span></b> Taller práctico básico sobre el uso de la herramienta gratuita Prezi para el diseño de presentaciones digitales interactivas: Creación de cuenta, configuración de una presentación, botones de herramientas (Zebra), creación de bloques de texto, agregar imágenes y vídeos, conectar nodos de conocimiento, vizualizar presentaciones, compartir enlaces y diseñar presentaciones colaborativas. EXPOSITOR: Prof. Antonio Delgado- Labora como Diseñador Instruccional en la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo. Administrador de plaraformas de eLearning: MOODLE, Blackboard y Edu 2.0, Bloguero Educativo (Edumorfosis), TuiterEducador (@edumorfosis), Educador Conectivista, Colaborador en las redes educativas: Aula 2.0, EducaPR, CLED y expositor en diferentes eventos educativos nacionales e internacionales.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170313">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170313</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TALLER MEMORIAS EN RED - #DDHHYC</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 30 Aug 11:30AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=30&year=2011&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 30 Aug 03:30PM GMT</a> / Wed 31 Aug 01:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Luz Pearson.</span></b> 2do encuentro de la comunidad de aprendizaje del curso Memorias en Red<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169725">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169725</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">RICHARD AND REBECCA DUFOUR ON PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 30 Aug 05:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=30&year=2011&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 30 Aug 09:00PM GMT</a> / Wed 31 Aug 07:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Join me Tuesday, August 30th, at an earlier-than-normal time for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Richard and Rebecca DuFour on using Professional Learning Communities to improve schools. <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170480">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170480</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ADVOCACY IN YOUR LIBRARY PROGRAM</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 30 Aug 07:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=30&year=2011&hour=16&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 30 Aug 11:30PM GMT</a> / Wed 31 Aug 09:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa Perez.</span></b> Attend this session to learn about advocacy tips for school librarians.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169832">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169832</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">SABERES 2.0 - DISEÑO DE PRESENTACIONES DIGITALES CON PREZI</span></b> (<a href="http://www.aula20.com/">Aula 2.0</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 30 Aug 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=30&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 31 Aug 01:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 31 Aug 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Tomas Chaskel.</span></b> Taller práctico básico sobre el uso de la herramienta gratuita Prezi para el diseño de presentaciones digitales interactivas: Creación de cuenta, configuración de una presentación, botones de herramientas (Zebra), creación de bloques de texto, agregar imágenes y vídeos, conectar nodos de conocimiento, vizualizar presentaciones, compartir enlaces y diseñar presentaciones colaborativas. EXPOSITOR: Prof. Antonio Delgado-Labora como Diseñador Instruccional en la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo. Administrador de plaraformas de eLearning: MOODLE, Blackboard y Edu 2.0, Bloguero Educativo (Edumorfosis), TuiterEducador (@edumorfosis), Educador Conectivista, Colaborador en las redes educativas: Aula 2.0, EducaPR, CLED y expositor en diferentes eventos educativos nacionales e internacionales.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170311">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170311</a><br />
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<center><b>The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference</b><br />
November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">http://www.Library2011.com</a></center><br />
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EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Wed 31 Aug 06:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=31&year=2011&hour=3&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 31 Aug 10:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 31 Aug 08:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Coach Carole.</span></b> Webinar at 8 pm (Sydney time) Wednesday August 31st (note this event replaces the usual Tuesday session for the EpCoP MOOCers and is open to all.) My Showcase is an e-portfolio system with a difference! Dave Waller and David Sowden from My Showcase have stepped in to deliver an exciting look into their system that provides a neat segue between a personal learning space and an eportfolio. MyShowcase™ is an open source web application which offers personalised evidence gathering for e-portfolios. In our Bb C room at 8 pm (Sydney time) Join us in our Blackboard Collaborate room here: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz See our googlesite for recording.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167792">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167792</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TAKE YOUR CLASSROOM GLOBAL!</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Wed 31 Aug 11:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=31&year=2011&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 1 Sep 03:00AM GMT</a> / Thu 1 Sep 01:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Kate Lang.</span></b> Today’s world is changing fast, and students need to be prepared to both compete and collaborate in an increasingly digitized and interconnected global society. Join Jennifer D. Klein of TakingITGlobal in this webinar to explore how to harness online tools to build transformative global learning experiences that build students’ technology skills while empowering them to be active global citizens. Sharing experiences garnered through 19 years teaching in a variety of settings, Jennifer will discuss the importance of global education and the potential of technology to connect students with global peers, humanizing global challenges and inspiring youth to work together for positive change. <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169138">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169138</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">APRENDIZAJE EN RED CON USO DE TIC (ARTIC) - SESIÓN 3</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 1 Sep 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=1&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 1 Sep 11:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 2 Sep 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Diego Leal.</span></b> Tercera sesión del curso abierto ArTIC (http://artic.pbworks.com<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170227">http://www.learncentral.org/node/170227</a>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-39220695187768925882011-08-26T20:10:00.000-07:002011-08-26T20:10:19.161-07:00Live Tuesday August 30th (Early Time) with Richard and Rebecca DuFour on Professional Learning Communities to Improve SchoolsJoin me Tuesday, August 30th, at an earlier-than-normal time for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Richard and Rebecca DuFour on using Professional Learning Communities to improve schools. The DuFours have made two papers available for those who would like to read up before the interview:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.allthingsplc.info/pdf/articles/DuFourWhatIsAProfessionalLearningCommunity.pdf">What Is a Professional Learning Community?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://audio.edtechlive.com/RickDuFourWorkTogether.pdf">Work Together</a></li>
</ul><b>Date</b>: Tuesday, August 30th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 9pm GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=30&year=2011&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be posted here after the show. The LearnCentral event page is<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/170480"> http://www.learncentral.org/node/170480</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21bL7aD4LH_ykvxyxXU8WqqwqyWO_TKqQKazzw6hr2YnTsFGdmPaXzJDVVjuMPqlHLEtm44p4RLDCQFYahuU3aFjJWkWs6ZgwOsp0xAfadpkEM_nYQQSLfb4HZy8R4LtYYSPQDw/s1600/RebeccaDuFour..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21bL7aD4LH_ykvxyxXU8WqqwqyWO_TKqQKazzw6hr2YnTsFGdmPaXzJDVVjuMPqlHLEtm44p4RLDCQFYahuU3aFjJWkWs6ZgwOsp0xAfadpkEM_nYQQSLfb4HZy8R4LtYYSPQDw/s200/RebeccaDuFour..jpg" width="168" /></a><b>Rebecca B. DuFour</b>, M.Ed., served as a teacher, school administrator and central office coordinator. As a former elementary principal, she helped her school earn state and national recognition as a model professional learning community and a Blue Ribbon School. She has co-authored nine books, was one of the featured principals in the 2001 <i>Video Journal of Education</i> production, “Leadership in an Age of Standards and High Stakes” and was the lead consultant and featured principal in their 2003 program, “Elementary Principals as Leaders of Learning.” She has written for numerous professional journals, reviewed books for the <i>Journal of Staff Development</i> and authored a quarterly column for<i> Leadership Compass</i>, published by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOv80kzwg0LW20bAIL4SODAPS8biTFypCttV534oEHqUcIE2hf62X054SbzOoQSpUgZi47Gu8vcNPHetIyBz4r9qjDb5gYive93z93S2RTDDII2Eg00H3f1Dx36Q-coknx5jAoIA/s1600/Rick+DuFour+2007+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOv80kzwg0LW20bAIL4SODAPS8biTFypCttV534oEHqUcIE2hf62X054SbzOoQSpUgZi47Gu8vcNPHetIyBz4r9qjDb5gYive93z93S2RTDDII2Eg00H3f1Dx36Q-coknx5jAoIA/s200/Rick+DuFour+2007+copy.jpg" width="178" /></a><b>Richard DuFour</b>, Ed.D, is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on applying the principles of professional learning communities in the real world of schools. He draws upon 34 years of experience as a public school educator – teacher, principal, and superintendent – and his two decades as a leader of one of the most recognized and celebrated schools in America, Adlai Stevenson High School District 125 in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Dr. DuFour has authored fourteen books, has published more than eighty articles on the Professional Learning Community concept, and served as a columnist for the<i> Journal of Staff Development</i> for nearly a decade. He has received numerous state and national awards for distinguished educational service and scholarship.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revisiting-Professional-Learning-Communities-Work/dp/1934009385?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New Insights for Improving Schools" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1934009385&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1934009385" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Doing-Handbook-Professional-Communities/dp/1935542095?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Communities at Work" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1935542095&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1935542095" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Bar-Closing-Gap-Whatever/dp/1935249843?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1935249843&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1935249843" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Develop-Professional-Learning-Community/dp/B0018Q80RK?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="How to Develop a Professional Learning Community: Passion and Persistence" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0018Q80RK&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0018Q80RK" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-62801204090297272942011-08-20T20:38:00.001-07:002011-08-20T20:38:33.029-07:00Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard CollaborateBelow are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/">LearnCentral.org</a>, the social learning network for education that I work on for <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx">Blackboard Collaborate</a> (formerly Elluminate).<br />
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The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!<br />
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We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars">http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars</a>).<br />
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Thanks for your attention, and see you online!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ATLAST EXPLORE WEBINAR #1</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 22 Aug 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=22&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Mon 22 Aug 11:00PM GMT</a> / Tue 23 Aug 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Rochelle Rodrigo.</span></b> Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169644">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169644</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 22 Aug 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=22&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 23 Aug 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 23 Aug 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Coach Carole.</span></b> EpCoP MOOC webinar<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167791">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167791</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TECH TALK TUESDAYS: DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP/SOCIAL NETWORKING WITH STUDENTS</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 22 Aug 02:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=22&year=2011&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 23 Aug 06:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 23 Aug 04:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Anne Mirtschin.</span></b> David Simpson (http://www.learningteaching.net.au) will discuss the use of facebook and other social networking sites in education and the need for/issues around digital citizenship education in Secondary schools.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169213">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169213</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TALLER MEMORIAS EN RED - #DDHHYC</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 23 Aug 11:30AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=23&year=2011&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 23 Aug 03:30PM GMT</a> / Wed 24 Aug 01:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Luz Pearson.</span></b> 1er encuentro - Derechos humanos y Comunicación - comunidad de aprendizaje Memorias en Red, región América Latina<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169627">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169627</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">PD STANDARDS AND LF WA NEXT STEPS</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 23 Aug 05:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=23&year=2011&hour=14&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 23 Aug 09:30PM GMT</a> / Wed 24 Aug 07:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Shelee King George.</span></b> Join us as we review the Professional Learning Standards newly released by Learning Forward and an opportunity to connect with other members across Washington state. View the new Learning Forward Washington Web site and plans for professional learning opportunities during the year. We will be increasing our online collaboration opportunities this year and our first meeting will be a small taste of how this can work.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168441">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168441</a><br />
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<center><b>The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference</b><br />
November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">http://www.Library2011.com</a></center><br />
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THE KNOWLEDGE SHARING PLACE</span></b> (The Knowledge Sharing Place)<br />
<b>Thu 25 Aug 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=25&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 25 Aug 11:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 26 Aug 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Dean Mantz.</span></b> Come join Tina and Barbara, of LiveBinders, and Dean Mantz as we talk learning in the 21st Century classroom. Join the conversation as Tina and Barbara explain new enhancements in LiveBinders that aid in the ability for resources to be shared along with opportunity to create collaboratively. We will also be crowd sourcing a monthly webinar schedule to offer PD based sessions using Common Core Standards and STEM resources. <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169159">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169159</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">BOB COMPTON ON THE FINLAND PHENOMENON</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 25 Aug 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=25&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Fri 26 Aug 12:00AM GMT</a> / Fri 26 Aug 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Join Steve Hargadon on Thursday, August 25th, for a live and interactiveFutureofEducation.com webinar with Bob Compton, producer of the new documentary film The Finland Phenomenon, an "inside look at the world's finest secondary education system." Narrated by Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard (a previous guest on our show), the film does a very good job of showing the surprising factors that educators and policy-makers in Finland believe accounts for their consistently being ranked as one of the best (if not the best) education system in the world--including students starting school at age 7, limited homework and testing, highly-esteemed and compensated teachers, and "trust" at all levels. We'll talk about these and other fascinating aspects of education in Finland for an hour with Bob.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169777">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169777</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">THE "MENDELEY": A FREE REFERENCES MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 25 Aug 04:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=25&year=2011&hour=13&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 25 Aug 08:30PM GMT</a> / Fri 26 Aug 06:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Hery The.</span></b> In general, references management software is expensive. On the other hand, in the digital era, with the increasing in demand of school works, students couldn't afford to use it. The "Mendeley" provides free services online and offline for free. In this presentation, I will guide participants step by step on sign up and download Mendeley to their computer/mobile devices. In addition, I will do a demo on how to "cite while you write", and "manage library/references".<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168875">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168875</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE-FEATURED TEACHER CAROLYN STANLEY</span></b> (<a href="http://live.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0 LIVE</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 27 Aug 12:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=27&year=2011&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sat 27 Aug 04:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 28 Aug 02:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Peggy George.</span></b> Saturday, August 27th will be another session of our “Featured Teacher” series featuring Carolyn Stanley. Join us as Carolyn shares ways she uses technology to motivate and engage her Middle School students. She will be sharing her experiences as an evolving teacher- from the traditional to one who is always learning about how technology can enhance our classrooms and make them vibrant student-centered learning stations Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Thanks so much for being a part of this community!<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/169409">http://www.learncentral.org/node/169409</a>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-21073999731447065352011-08-20T19:37:00.000-07:002011-08-20T19:37:01.941-07:00Live Thursday August 25th with Bob Compton on The Finland PhenomenonJoin me Thursday, August 25th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Bob Compton, producer of the new documentary film <i><a href="http://www.2mminutes.com/films/finland-phenomenon.asp">The Finland Phenomenon</a></i>, an "inside look at the world's finest secondary education system." Narrated by Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard (<a href="http://www.stevehargadon.com/2010/03/tony-wagner-live-interview-on-global.html">a previous guest on our show</a>), the film does a very good job of showing the surprising factors that educators and policy-makers in Finland believe accounts for their consistently being ranked as one of the best (if not the best) education system in the world--including students starting school at age 7, limited homework and testing, highly-esteemed and compensated teachers, and "trust" at all levels. We'll talk about these and other fascinating aspects of education in Finland for an hour with Bob.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Thursday, August 25th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=25&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the show. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/169777">http://www.learncentral.org/event/169777</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWJSVcxVzgEsX_FSe23XnZCteDJNjWrPhUidP1EXkzquLc3X3NtCM_XYFJlUbiCzCir-K-AoERyS69uEmI6iAG9xuDa-ZIlmplAiTmlfcenPTwi-cbAWctt4wwmrWysnxcnBLAA/s1600/Finland-Phenomenon-G.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWJSVcxVzgEsX_FSe23XnZCteDJNjWrPhUidP1EXkzquLc3X3NtCM_XYFJlUbiCzCir-K-AoERyS69uEmI6iAG9xuDa-ZIlmplAiTmlfcenPTwi-cbAWctt4wwmrWysnxcnBLAA/s200/Finland-Phenomenon-G.png" width="142" /></a><b>The Finland Phenomenon</b>. <i>Finland's education system has consistently ranked among the best in the world for more than a decade. The puzzle is, why Finland? Documentary filmmaker, Bob Compton, along with Harvard researcher, Dr. Tony Wagner, decided to find out. The result of their research is captured in a new film, "The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System. In the 60-minute film, Dr. Wagner guides the viewer through an inside look at the world’s finest secondary education system. A life-long educator and author of the best-selling book "The Global Achievement Gap, Dr. Wagner is uniquely qualified to explore and explain Finland’s success. From within classrooms and through interviews with students, teachers, parents, administrators and government officials, Dr. Wagner reveals the surprising factors accounting for Finland's rank as the #1 education system in the world. </i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbZKokND9sJe1pyiD0gbagarnHZqcgWS1aSXSJEOfTr5GL9KYjv258QSJEKUakN-7zBcpl5SVzAfPbBip8JgoEi1ptK2_B5A2E7CrlGZfdXg5X8O-1iR8rOztkceELvMHsTeVwOg/s1600/bobcompton.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbZKokND9sJe1pyiD0gbagarnHZqcgWS1aSXSJEOfTr5GL9KYjv258QSJEKUakN-7zBcpl5SVzAfPbBip8JgoEi1ptK2_B5A2E7CrlGZfdXg5X8O-1iR8rOztkceELvMHsTeVwOg/s200/bobcompton.jpeg" width="133" /></a><a href="http://www.2mminutes.com/call-me-bob/">From Bob's website</a>: "My name is Robert Compton but my friends call me Bob. I have been around since the fifties and am glad to have lived during such interesting times. I have a wide range of interests and I hope that you and I can learn something from each other.<br />
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"I graduated from Principia College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduation I began my career in systems operations with Telenet Communications, the first X.25 communications network. I joined IBM Corporation initially as a systems engineer, and later became a sales representative selling mainframe computer systems. I left IBM to continue my education at Harvard University Graduate School of Business where I received my Masters in Business Administration.<br />
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"A year after Harvard, I landed a position at First Chicago Venture Capital. From there, I moved to Indiana where I served as a general partner at CID Equity Partners from 1987 to 1997. My signature deal was help-desk software developer Software Artistry, which went public in 1995 and was acquired two years later by IBM for about $200 Million. I was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sofamor Danek Group, Inc., which at the time was the world’s largest supplier of implants, computer-assisted surgery products, and biologics for spinal surgery. Medtronic acquired Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. in January 1999 for $3.7 billion. I have served on numerous corporate Boards of Directors in an array of industries and have been the lead investor in over 20 businesses, five of which have had successful public offerings. I am currently the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vontoo Corporation, the Founder and CEO of True South Studios, as well as the Founder and Chairman of Indian Math Online.<br />
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"I am an active philanthropist, who has endowed scholarships at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, given a grant to support Teach for America and the University of Memphis School of Business. I have given research grants to InMotion Musculoskeletal Research Institute, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. I have also given money to support St. George’s High School, Exchange City, Memphis, and the Indie Memphis Film Festival.<br />
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"After traveling to India in 2005, I was inspired to create the documentary Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination to take a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century-China, India and the United States are preparing their students for the future. As the American public school system fails to adapt to this century, schools in China and India produce four times the number of high school graduates as the U.S. and educate these students to a much higher level. After revealing the decline of American Education in Two Million Minutes, I searched the world for a solution to the education crisis. Two Million Minutes: The 21st Century Solution demonstrates that American students are capable of competing globally given the right curriculum, the right teachers, and expectation for success. Despite the decline of public education, the decades ahead can be ones of prosperity and economic growth, provided the American people have the gumption to embrace the 21st Century Solution. In 2009, I released a documentary, which opens a window into Chinese capitalism. Win In China is the world’s largest and most lucrative business-plan competition, and beneath the game show’s surface lies a subtle view of Chinese business practices, ambitions, ethical norms and competitive behaviors."Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-67019793546512833802011-08-17T13:32:00.001-07:002011-08-17T13:32:35.735-07:00Free Teacher 2.0 Workshop in Melbourne August 30th<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXH2ms_d5nPFcrPYJVL0d0bXAEXTNRAiZ3dEjRBb0BoHmJS3h9Z1vQVzen3ZnPpnm94ShGmqsWDl4aVszEZlSBrY6LdZICptShSKAHGWh0w2VRP-qqcRO9GGfhTDnjxCQWU_Y3yA/s1600/experimedia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXH2ms_d5nPFcrPYJVL0d0bXAEXTNRAiZ3dEjRBb0BoHmJS3h9Z1vQVzen3ZnPpnm94ShGmqsWDl4aVszEZlSBrY6LdZICptShSKAHGWh0w2VRP-qqcRO9GGfhTDnjxCQWU_Y3yA/s200/experimedia.jpg" width="200" /></a>I'm going to be in Melbourne, Australia, in a couple of weeks and thanks to some great networking by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-hiskens/8/201/28b">Andrew Hiskens</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/hamishcurry">Hamish Curry</a> (with thanks also to <a href="http://murcha.wordpress.com/">Anne Mirtschin</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jennyluca">Jenny Luca</a>) I'm going to be leading a free, all-day workshop at the amazing Experimedia in the State Library of Victoria. The title of the workshop is: <b>Teacher 2.0: Your Personal and Professional Growth.</b><br />
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This is <a href="http://www.teacher20.com/">a project I've been working on</a> for the last few months, with the goal of helping educators learn to use the Web for their own learning--in part to help them understand where these tools will have pedagogical value for them in the classroom, but also to help them rejuvenate their own learning and careers. I continue to believe that we cannot expect educators to teach "21st Century Skills" if they aren't experiencing the benefits of these technologies personally, and that the surest way to improving education is to help educators become "lead learners" and in a position to influence their students and public policy.<br />
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If you're in the Melbourne area, I hope you'll join us!<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday 30 August, 8:30am – 4pm<br />
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<b>Venue</b>: State Library of Victoria, Experimedia. Main Entry, Swanston Street<br />
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<b>Cost</b>: FREE<br />
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<b>Bookings</b>: <a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/teacher-20-your-personal-and-professional-growth">http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/teacher-20-your-personal-and-professional-growth</a><br />
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<b>Description</b>: Dramatic changes are going to continue to take place in education because of the Web. While change is never easy, but always constant, the Web is providing amazing new opportunities for educators to explore their own interests and passions, build personal learning networks, and have a significant impact on their students, their schools, and their own careers. This exclusive hands-on, FREE workshop will explore these trends and help you, as the "lead learner", build educational resources for you and your students. A personal laptop or mobile device is highly recommended. Places are strictly limited; catering included. Registration is from 8:30am for a prompt start at 9am.<br />
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<b>Schedule</b>:<br />
8:30 am – Participant arrival and registration. Tea and coffee will be served<br />
9:00 am – Welcome and overview of the day's sessions (this will start promptly at 9.00 am so please be on time)<br />
9:15 am – Introductory session 'Starting with Yourself: Interests and Passions'<br />
9:30 am – School 2.0: The Teacher as Lead Learner<br />
10:15 am – Morning Tea<br />
10:30 am – Building Your "Personal Web Presence" (PWP)<br />
12:00 pm – Lunch (please advise of dietary requirements upon booking)<br />
1:00 pm – Building Your "Personal Learning Network" (PLN)<br />
2:30 pm – Afternoon Tea<br />
2:45 pm – Project Building<br />
3:45 pm – Concluding session: wrap-up and Sharing<br />
4:00 pm – End<br />
<div></div>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-67982158759405597902011-08-15T00:05:00.000-07:002011-08-15T00:05:00.781-07:00Week of August 14, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard CollaborateBelow are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/">LearnCentral.org</a>, the social learning network for education that I work on for <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx">Blackboard Collaborate</a> (formerly Elluminate).<br />
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The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!<br />
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We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars">http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars</a>).<br />
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Thanks for your attention, and see you online!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">COLLABORATE INTERACTIVE SLIDE DESIGN</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 15 Aug 01:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=15&year=2011&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Mon 15 Aug 05:00PM GMT</a> / Tue 16 Aug 03:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Tammy Moore.</span></b> This webinar will be a sharing of best practices for interactive design of activities for the Collaborate version 11 platform. We will look at how to use the new features and the old favorites to design slides to make the whiteboard an interactive experience for the moderator and participants. Come and share your favorite tips and tricks as well as wbds. No need to RSVP. Just drop on in.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168496">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168496</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 15 Aug 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=15&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 16 Aug 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 16 Aug 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Coach Carole.</span></b> EpCoP MOOC webinar<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167790">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167790</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TECH TALK TUESDAYS: THE STUDENT VOICE</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 15 Aug 02:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=15&year=2011&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 16 Aug 06:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 16 Aug 04:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Anne Mirtschin.</span></b> Scott Duncan (@sduncan0101) will discuss the necessity of listening to students, valuing their opinions and including them in the school decision making processes. Scott recently presented a similar session at the Innovations Showcase for the Department of Education in Victoria, Australia. If time permits, he will share innovative uses of technology in his classroom and school.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168917">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168917</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">THE VALUE OF PEER COACHING</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 16 Aug 01:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=16&year=2011&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 16 Aug 05:00PM GMT</a> / Wed 17 Aug 03:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Matt Huston.</span></b> Teachers and schools face enormous challenges, from new technologies that shape how students learn, to declining budgets for professional development, to rising expectations for student achievement. Learn how Peer Coaching can help align professional development with 21st Century teaching and learning practices. Peer Coaching was recently recognized by ISTE as providing "highly effective professional development" for teachers. (http://www.iste.org/learn/coaching-white-paper.aspx) Understand why Peer Coaching works, what coaches and the teachers they work with gain from Peer Coaching, and how to get started with Peer Coaching.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168451">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168451</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">INTERVIEW WITH DR. GARY LOPEZ ON HIPPOCAMPUS.ORG</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 16 Aug 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=16&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 17 Aug 12:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 17 Aug 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Join Steve Hargadon for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dr. Gary Lopez to discuss HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168964">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168964</a><br />
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<center><b>The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference</b><br />
November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">http://www.Library2011.com</a></center><br />
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SERVICE-LEARNING</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Wed 17 Aug 05:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=17&year=2011&hour=2&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 17 Aug 09:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 17 Aug 07:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Keith Wilson.</span></b> Service-learning is an instructional approach that engages students while increasing academic achievement by providing rigour and relevance in the curriculum. It promotes cognitive, social-emotional, and experiential engagement in meaningful learning. In quality service-learning experiences, teachers guide students through a learning process that facilitates high academic performance and empowers them to enact genuine social change in their communities. In these regular sessions participants will be shown ways that service-learning can be introduced into schools without disrupting established norms until it’s seen as the right thing to do. Opportunities for sharing your own best practice are actively sought and encouraged.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168577">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168577</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">GAME BASED LEARNING - AN INTRODUCTION</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 18 Aug 02:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=18&year=2011&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 18 Aug 06:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 19 Aug 04:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Margaret Keane.</span></b> During this webinar, Patrick will be introducing the concept of Game-based Learning, explain how it can be employed in instructional settings, and provide practical information on how to harness this engaging medium.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167251">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167251</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">INTERVIEW WITH JEFF PIONTEK</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 18 Aug 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=18&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Fri 19 Aug 12:00AM GMT</a> / Fri 19 Aug 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Join Steve Hargadon for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Jeff Piontek, Head of School at Hawaii Technology Academy, on on education change and reform.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168966">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168966</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">LEARNING FORWARD WA EXEC BD WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 18 Aug 09:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=18&year=2011&hour=18&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Fri 19 Aug 01:30AM GMT</a> / Fri 19 Aug 11:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Shelee King George.</span></b> LFWA Exec Board prepares to lead a webinar on the national professional learning standards. Although a planning meeting in the Blackboard Interface, feel free to stop in and help us plan. You may want to do something similar with local schools in your area as well.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168811">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168811</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ADOBE YOUTH VOICES AND POV</span></b> (<a href="http://live.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0 LIVE</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 20 Aug 12:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=20&year=2011&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sat 20 Aug 04:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 21 Aug 02:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Peggy George, Kim Caise, & Lorna Costantini.</span></b> The topic for Saturday, August 20th will be “Adobe Youth Voices POV” with special guests Kim Flack and Leslie Rule. Kim and Leslie will share about “Project VoiceScape”, a collaboration between the Adobe Youth Foundation and PBS’ POV which hosted a contest for middle and high school students through documentary videos, photography, print media, radio diaries, animation, Web communications and other media. Students that participated in this project will share their videos and experiences throughout the competition.<br />
<a href="http://live.classroom20.com/">http://live.classroom20.com/</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">"LEARN TO BE" NATIONAL LEADERSHIP EXCHANGE</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 20 Aug 09:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=20&year=2011&hour=18&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Sun 21 Aug 01:30AM GMT</a> / Sun 21 Aug 11:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Jingshen Zhao.</span></b> Learn To Be provides free online tutoring in primary and secondary math, science and language arts. Please join us if you are interested to meet with student leaders from our various university chapters (http://learntobe.org/university-chapters) as we exchange best practices discuss updates in our national network.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/167551">http://www.learncentral.org/node/167551</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ONLINE MODEL UNITED NATIONS DEBATES - FALL 2011 KICK-OFF</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Sun 21 Aug 09:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=21&year=2011&hour=6&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sun 21 Aug 01:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 21 Aug 11:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Jingshen Zhao.</span></b> More information can be found on http://o-mun.org. We are going to introduce how a Blackboard Collaborate room can be used to host debates between youth delegates. We will also be introducing Twitter and iEtherpad as tools for research and paper writing.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/node/168839">http://www.learncentral.org/node/168839</a>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-75466716015556376522011-08-13T18:58:00.001-07:002011-08-13T18:58:39.582-07:00Live Thursday August 18th with Jeff Piontek on Education Change and ReformJoin me Thursday, August 18th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Jeff Piontek, Head of School at Hawaii Technology Academy, on on education change and reform.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Thursday, August 18th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=18&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the show. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168966">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168966</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBMyl5dskLl5cn7Tyu1C8F_Q1d32trKW7kaKFS7o8H7q_os5NZhjMQ-qNi1rCA0MpY1zK2slMIIz4Dr9G5rAAmBI-77BXk6Vle4zxJUHeVnI11WZKi_-JViL4fwIV13gViwDlJHw/s1600/jeffpiontek.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBMyl5dskLl5cn7Tyu1C8F_Q1d32trKW7kaKFS7o8H7q_os5NZhjMQ-qNi1rCA0MpY1zK2slMIIz4Dr9G5rAAmBI-77BXk6Vle4zxJUHeVnI11WZKi_-JViL4fwIV13gViwDlJHw/s200/jeffpiontek.png" width="200" /></a><b>Jeff Piontek</b> is an author, keynote speaker and teacher (most importantly). He has worked with many at-risk school districts nationally as a consultant on affecting educational change and reform. Jeff started out as a Science teacher in the South Bronx, NYC and worked his way up to the Director of Instructional and Informational Technology in NYC.<br />
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Jeff's latest book; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blogs-Wikis-Podcasts-Electronic-Classroom/dp/1425801129?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Blog's Wiki's and Podcast's, Oh My! Electronic Media in the Classroom</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1425801129" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> has been well received by the education community and is in its second printing. His newest book will be released in March and continues his work on STEM education and 21st Century Skills.<br />
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He has received many accolades including the latest from Governor Linda Lingle for Innovation in the economy for his STEM education work nationally. Jeff sits on the National Governor's Association STEM committee as well as the State of Hawaii Economic Development Workforce Committee, which he was appointed to by the Governor.<br />
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Jeff has embarked recently on a new venture at Hawaii Technology Academy and the school has performed at the top of the public schools in Hawaii its first year and doubled to 500 students in its second year.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blogs-Wikis-Podcasts-Electronic-Classroom/dp/1425801129?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts, Oh, My!: Electronic Media in the Classroom" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1425801129&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1425801129" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-51606869482903798302011-08-13T18:38:00.001-07:002011-08-13T18:38:12.702-07:00Live Tuesday August 16th with Gary Lopez on HippoCampus.org and Teaching with the Power of Open, Digital ResourcesJoin me Tuesday, August 16th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Dr. Gary Lopez to discuss HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Tuesday, August 16th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=16&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the show. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168964">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168964</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sPb2tHKZXXaJygvADPf8Pv1qISh1kaqrO1huRqH41y1jnL86QySiwxro1ZHnMgshMJsPflzOURKh_2Qkhlfz4JHM99gbFjEDoIi9lY6OWYwNVxbgFLY_5kqJ3ntEWPB3S1QI7Q/s1600/garylopez..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sPb2tHKZXXaJygvADPf8Pv1qISh1kaqrO1huRqH41y1jnL86QySiwxro1ZHnMgshMJsPflzOURKh_2Qkhlfz4JHM99gbFjEDoIi9lY6OWYwNVxbgFLY_5kqJ3ntEWPB3S1QI7Q/s200/garylopez..jpg" width="190" /></a><b>Gary Lopez</b> is the Founder and Executive Director of Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE, <a href="http://www.montereyinstitute.org/">http://www.montereyinstitute.org</a>), a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping meet society’s need for access to quality education, and the manager of the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) and HippoCampus (<a href="http://www.hippocampus.org/">http://www.hippocampus.org</a>). MITE receives it major funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.<br />
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Lopez was the founder and president of Archipelago (1983-1997), a developer of award-winning analog and digital products for the education market. Archipelago created hundreds of films, videodiscs, software programs, book series for many of the largest educational publishers in the United States, including Harper Collins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saunders, and Prentice Hall. Archipelago also produced nationally-broadcast television programming for PBS and The Cousteau Society. Archipelago was acquired by Harcourt Brace in 1993.<br />
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Lopez is also the former President and CEO of NETg (1997-2002), a pioneer in providing e-Learning solutions to many of the largest corporations in the world, including Shell, IBM, AT&T, Honeywell and Motorola. Under his leadership, NETg developed a library of more than 1,200 multimedia-based courses, grew to more than 800 employees, and had offices in 30 countries. NETg was acquired by Thomson Corporation in 2001.<br />
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In 2006 Lopez created and produced the television special, <i>Voyage to Kure</i>, the inaugural episode of the PBS series, <i>Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures</i>. The documentary film was cited by President George W. Bush as his inspiration for the establishment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument (Los Angeles Time, June 15, 2006).<br />
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Dr. Lopez received a BS in Zoology from University of California, Davis in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1982. He served as a lecturer in both the Biology and Earth Sciences departments of University of California, San Diego, and was a visiting professor at CISESE, Ensenada, Mexico.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjqwtQ14BuSWmmakeEnILKIBkCBqPBhiaFH02khe0-vGtfe07Muv0s5KTPirihHrbAA70FB9c3zip5Yz6DzqYtzE8aWDjny_HscT913CjDxMuuQ7BoZU0NZUdu_wOLZ8U-hFEaw/s1600/hippocampus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjqwtQ14BuSWmmakeEnILKIBkCBqPBhiaFH02khe0-vGtfe07Muv0s5KTPirihHrbAA70FB9c3zip5Yz6DzqYtzE8aWDjny_HscT913CjDxMuuQ7BoZU0NZUdu_wOLZ8U-hFEaw/s200/hippocampus.jpg" width="200" /></a><b>HippoCampus</b> is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.<br />
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HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project. NROC makes editorial and engineering investment in the content to prepare it for distribution by HippoCampus. Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundatio<br />
Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-91716255982603176862011-08-06T14:48:00.000-07:002011-08-06T14:48:20.606-07:00Week of July 25, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard CollaborateBelow are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/">LearnCentral.org</a>, the social learning network for education that I work on for <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx">Blackboard Collaborate</a> (formerly Elluminate).<br />
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The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!<br />
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We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars">http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars</a>).<br />
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Thanks for your attention, and see you online!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">COOL-ABORATE CONVERSATIONS: BLACKBOARD COLLABORATE</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 8 Aug 01:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=8&year=2011&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Mon 8 Aug 05:00PM GMT</a> / Tue 9 Aug 03:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Lorrie Moffat.</span></b> Are you a veteran Elluminate user and are curious about v11? Join us as we talk about features in the Blackboard Collaborate online classroom. The first hour of the session will be about the features most moderators use while the second hour will be about advanced whiteboard features.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168077">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168077</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">CARIBBEAN ONLINE EDUCATORS CONFERENCE 2011</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 8 Aug 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=8&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Mon 8 Aug 11:00PM GMT</a> / Tue 9 Aug 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">LeRoy Hill.</span></b> The Caribbean Educators Network (CEN) will be hosting a FREE Online Educators Conference (e-conference) from August 8-13th under the theme 'Open For Learning: Using Technology To Move Forward'. The theme captures the notion of openness through the use of technology as a way of advancing learning and professional development. Openness in education addresses the broad themes of access to education, the development of open educational resources and the use of technology promote open educational resources.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/154292">http://www.learncentral.org/event/154292</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">"MINI-GEEK FEST" MONTHLY ONLINE CONVERSATION AUGUST, 2011</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 8 Aug 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=8&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 9 Aug 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 9 Aug 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Peggy George.</span></b> Do you get excited and energized by talking with other educators about technology tools and resources? Do you often feel overwhelmed with all of the new tools and feel you don’t have time to keep up with everything? If you do, then the Mini-Geek Fest is here for you! No homework, no assignments, no cost—just an hour online, once a month to listen, share and discuss technology tools for your classroom, websites and more. . It's not a presentation or a tutorial, but a conversation--think of it like a "show and tell" where ALL participants can contribute. Join co-hosts Kim Thomas and Peggy George in AzTEA Elluminate from the comfort of your own home.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168122">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168122</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Mon 8 Aug 09:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=8&year=2011&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 9 Aug 01:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 9 Aug 11:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Coach Carole.</span></b> In this webinar we will unpack and discuss some of the many ways in which practitioners think about e-portfolios! Are they for lifelong learning? Do I need one for my current courses? Could I use one for Recognition of Prior Learning? We will hear from the MOOCers about their discoveries, their plans for participating in the MOOC and we will find out just what impact e-portfolio learning is having on them so far. Come along and join the MOOCers and listen to what they have to say.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/167789">http://www.learncentral.org/event/167789</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">TECH TALK TUESDAYS: USING TECHNOLOGY TO ENGAGE IN NUMERACY</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 8 Aug 02:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=8&year=2011&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 9 Aug 06:00AM GMT</a> / Tue 9 Aug 04:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Anne Mirstchin.</span></b> Learn how edmodo, wikis and web tools are used to engage students from years 5 to 9. Meet Penny Bentley, our presenter, who has been experimenting with the use of web 2.0 tools to engage students in maths and numeracy to improve their learning outcomes. Penny will explain how she uses games for skills practice, audioboo and an ipad app ShowMe for kids to talk about/reflect on what they are doing. Penny has created a wiki for each of her private tutorial students where they embed their work. Her use of Edmodo will also be shared. Please join us and share in the conversations.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168168">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168168</a><br />
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<hr /><center><b>The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference</b><br />
November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate<br />
Submit to present or to be kept informed at <a href="http://www.library2011.com/">http://www.Library2011.com</a></center><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">BYOL: A GAME CHANGER</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 9 Aug 07:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=9&year=2011&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Tue 9 Aug 11:00PM GMT</a> / Wed 10 Aug 09:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Cary Harrod.</span></b> What happens to learning when 353 seventh graders walk into class with their own laptop, netbook or tablet? After five months of intensive planning, we launched our BYOL in January 2011, forever changing the story of what it means to teach and learn in our district. Join us for this informative session where administrators, teachers and students from our district will share their personal journey through a BYOL. We'll save some time to hear the stories of other districts who have taken or are thinking of taking the BYOL path and of course we'll leave time for questions from the community. Together, we can re-imagine learning.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/165930">http://www.learncentral.org/event/165930</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF ON PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Tue 9 Aug 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=9&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 10 Aug 12:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 10 Aug 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Steve interviews Douglas Rushkoff returning to talk to us about his new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. We'll talk about the difference between directing technology and being directed by it, and the implications of this in education.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168281">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168281</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ET@LKING: SCOOP.IT</span></b> (<a href="http://www.australiaseries.com/">Australia Series</a>)<br />
<b>Wed 10 Aug 06:00AM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=10&year=2011&hour=3&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Wed 10 Aug 10:00AM GMT</a> / Wed 10 Aug 08:00PM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Anne Mirstchin.</span></b> Scoop.it allows users to create attractively laid out online magazines. In this session, Nellie Deutsch will discuss the use and potential of Scoop.it in education. Learn how to create a scoopit and why it is an increasingly popular topic centred media. <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168252">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168252</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ACTION RESEARCH IN EDUCATION</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Wed 10 Aug 09:30PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=10&year=2011&hour=18&min=30&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 11 Aug 01:30AM GMT</a> / Thu 11 Aug 11:30AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Hery The.</span></b> Topics covered in this presentation are: 1) What is action research? 2) How do teachers implement the action research? 3) What are the benefit of doing an action research? <br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/167412">http://www.learncentral.org/event/167412</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">RESPONDING TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ON YOUR CAMPUS: LEGAL ISSUES AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS</span></b> (<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/lcpublic">Host Your Own Webinar Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 11 Aug 01:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=11&year=2011&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Thu 11 Aug 05:00PM GMT</a> / Fri 12 Aug 03:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Jana Colter.</span></b> This webinar will provide an overview of the ADA and Section 504 and the still uncertain impact of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Everyone knows the law, but the devil is in the details regarding institutional obligations to meet the needs of student with physical and/or psychological disabilities on your campus.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/167392">http://www.learncentral.org/event/167392</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ALAN BLANKSTEIN ON IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS</span></b> (<a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/">Future of Education Series</a>)<br />
<b>Thu 11 Aug 08:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=11&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Fri 12 Aug 12:00AM GMT</a> / Fri 12 Aug 10:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Steve Hargadon.</span></b> Steve interviews Alan Blankstein on his latest book, The Answer Is in the Room: How Effective Schools Scale Up Student Success. Citing wisdom from top educational experts and building on what is already working, Blankstein offers tools for finding excellence in schools, scaling these practices across learning communities, and transforming low-performing schools into high-performing schools.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168282">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168282</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE</span></b> (<a href="http://live.classroom20.com/">Classroom 2.0 LIVE</a>)<br />
<b>Sat 13 Aug 12:00PM New York</b> / <a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=13&year=2011&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=137">Sat 13 Aug 04:00PM GMT</a> / Sun 14 Aug 02:00AM Sydney<br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George.</span></b> Join this webinar to talk about technology tools and resources used in the classroom.<br />
<a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168280">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168280</a>Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-61120783955274112002011-08-06T13:50:00.001-07:002011-08-06T13:50:38.217-07:00Live Thursday August 11th with Alan Blankstein on Improving Individual SchoolsJoin me Thursday, August 11th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Alan Blankstein on his latest book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Room-Effective-Schools-Student/dp/141299876X?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Answer Is in the Room: How Effective Schools Scale Up Student Success</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=141299876X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>. Citing wisdom from top educational experts and building on what is already working, Blankstein offers tools for finding excellence in schools, scaling these practices across learning communities, and transforming low-performing schools into high-performing schools.<br />
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<b>Date</b>: Thursday, August 13th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=13&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the show. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168282">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168282</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVitrGfVNndQhLNR65kd5l9jNCAbLXQHn-sOootfRd_hSKPxFHqsC5YrrytFeIyUFY4bCsSXulsN7DtG2_TZ4V19ddaxOF8TPrFkDACctRrXI52PP4H5c7uPhXD7I24F8-KIgNw/s1600/ALan+Blankstein+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVitrGfVNndQhLNR65kd5l9jNCAbLXQHn-sOootfRd_hSKPxFHqsC5YrrytFeIyUFY4bCsSXulsN7DtG2_TZ4V19ddaxOF8TPrFkDACctRrXI52PP4H5c7uPhXD7I24F8-KIgNw/s200/ALan+Blankstein+photo.jpg" width="160" /></a>Award-winning author and visionary educational leader Alan M. Blankstein is founder and president of the <a href="http://www.hopefoundation.org/">HOPE Foundation</a>, a not-for-profit organization whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former “high-risk” youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He has worked in youth-serving organizations since 1983, including the March of Dimes, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National Educational Service (now Solution Tree), which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years. He has created award-winning publications and video staff development programs. He is the author of the best-selling book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Achievement-High-Performing/dp/1412909341?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1412909341" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></em>, which received the 2005 Book of the Year award from Learning Forward (formerly NSDC), and has been nominated for three other national and international awards.<br />
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In addition to authorship of this award-winning book, Blankstein is Publisher of three <i>Failure Is Not an Option®</i> video series and Senior Editor along with Paul Houston of the thirteen-volume <i>The Soul of Educational Leadership</i> series. Blankstein also co-authored the <i>Reaching Today’s Youth</i> curriculum and has published articles in <i>Educational Leadership, The School Administrator, Executive Educator, High School Magazine, Reaching Today’s Youth</i>, and <i>Inside the Workshop</i>. He has also provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major educational organization.<br />
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Blankstein is on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, served as Board member for Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, is former Co-Chair of Indiana University’s Neal Marshall Black Culture Center’s Community Network and advisor to the Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence (FASE) mentoring program. He also served as advisory board member for the Forum on Race, Equity, and Human Understanding with the Monroe County Schools in Indiana, and on the Board of Trustees for the Jewish Child Care Agency (JCCA), in which he was once a youth in residence.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Room-Effective-Schools-Student/dp/141299876X?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Answer Is in the Room: How Effective Schools Scale Up Student Success" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=141299876X&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=141299876X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33974011.post-31295812256237008252011-08-06T13:23:00.000-07:002011-08-06T13:23:15.335-07:00Live Tuesday August 9th with Douglas Rushkoff on "Program or Be Programmed"Join me Tuesday, August 9th, for a live and interactive <a href="http://futureofeducation.com/">FutureofEducation.com</a> webinar with Douglas Rushkoff returning to talk to us about his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Program-Be-Programmed-Commands-Digital/dp/1935928155?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1935928155" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. We'll talk about the difference between directing technology and being directed by it, and the implications of this in education.<br />
<blockquote><i>Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today—and Douglas Rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking. Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube.</i> —Howard Rheingold</blockquote><b>Date</b>: Tuesday, August 11th, 2011<br />
<b>Time</b>: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=11&year=2011&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=217">interna<span id="goog_1222255015"></span><span id="goog_1222255016"></span>tional times here</a>)<br />
<b>Duration</b>: 1 hour<br />
<b>Location</b>: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at <a href="http://futureofed.info/" rel="http://bit.ly/plugins/iframe?otherUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftr.im%2Ffutureofed" style="line-height: 1em;">http://futureofed.info</a>. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit <a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473">the support and configuration page</a>. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.<br />
<b>Recordings</b>: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 audio recording will be available soon after the show. The LearnCentral event page is <a href="http://www.learncentral.org/event/168281">http://www.learncentral.org/event/168281</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbjIj4rwK69HxpjrF-ZTgP7zx__1dKTXI2gjJzRw9wYhHYbIWokmITKlfe9pdAl6KnyEmdWT23Ze_dnQAUIUsqjh5p5WgkwJuZRtTGlc8KaTYMqqYX5gtoikd5zCBZb0XeOUjcw/s1600/douglasrushkoffnew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbjIj4rwK69HxpjrF-ZTgP7zx__1dKTXI2gjJzRw9wYhHYbIWokmITKlfe9pdAl6KnyEmdWT23Ze_dnQAUIUsqjh5p5WgkwJuZRtTGlc8KaTYMqqYX5gtoikd5zCBZb0XeOUjcw/s1600/douglasrushkoffnew.jpg" /></a>Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, <b>Douglas Rushkoff</b> has written a dozen best-selling books on media and society, including <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cyberia-Trenches-Cyberspace-Douglas-Rushkoff/dp/1903083249?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Cyberia</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1903083249" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Media-Virus-Douglas-Rushkoff/dp/0345397746?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Media Virus</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0345397746" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Coercion-Why-Listen-What-They/dp/B000GG4K68?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Coercion</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000GG4K68" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i> (winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award), <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Get-Back-Box-Innovation-Inside/dp/B000IU3E50?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Get Back in the Box</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000IU3E50" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Inc-Corporatism-Conquered-World/dp/0812978501?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Life Inc</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0812978501" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>. He has made the PBS “Frontline” documentaries <i>Digital Nation</i>, <i>The Persuaders</i>, and <i>Merchants of Cool</i>. His most recent book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Program-Be-Programmed-Commands-Digital/dp/1935928155?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Program or Be Programmed</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1935928155" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>, explores the biases of digital media and our reluctance to seize the opportunity before us.<br />
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A columnist for <i>The Daily Beast</i> and <i>Arthur Magazine</i>, his articles have been regularly published in <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>Discover</i>, among many other publications. His radio commentaries air on NPR and WFMU, his opeds appear in the New York <i>Times</i>, and he is a familiar face on television, from ABC News to The Colbert Report.<br />
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Rushkoff has taught at New York University and the New School, played keyboards for the industrial band PsychicTV, directed for theater and film, and worked as a stage fight choreographer. He blogs at <a href="http://www.rushkoff.com/wordpress">http://www.rushkoff.com/wordpress</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Program-Be-Programmed-Commands-Digital/dp/1935928155?ie=UTF8&tag=technologyr04-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1935928155&tag=technologyr04-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=technologyr04-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1935928155" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Steve Hargadonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776685502090744803noreply@blogger.com