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K-12 Educational Technology: Web 2.0, Free and Open Source Software, and the Future of Education.

Monday, January 05, 2009

Classroom 2.0 New Weekly LIVE "Web Meeting" and 2008 Wrap-up Links

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE site (http://live.classroom20.com) I've put the show archives for our recent "What We Learned in 2008" year-end wrap-up. Find them at http://live.classroom20.com/show-archive.html. We had over 160 people attend from all over the world!
This coming Saturday, January 10th, Peggy George and Kim Caise will be hosting our first 2009 Classroom 2.0 LIVE web meeting. Classroom 2.0 "LIVE" meetings are an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. A Google Calendar of shows (along with other popular ones you might like) is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html.
The topic this Saturday is: "Tips/Tools for Using and Managing Social Networks." The Newbie Question of the Week will be: "What is a PLN and why do I need one?" (Hint: PLN stands for Personal Learning Network!) The show lasts an hour, and links for more information and logging on are below. The shows are especially beginner-friendly, and if you've never participated in a live web meeting, don't be afraid to come and "lurk." See the website if you want to suggest future show topics!
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009 Time: 9:00am PST/10:00am MST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST Other time zones link, the link to the actual meeting room, and the resource article are at http://live.classroom20.com.
Happy New Year!
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Top Posts of 2008

Thanks to Sylvia Martinez for the link to this widget!
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Classroom 2.0's 2008 Wrap-up Show!

Friday, January 2nd, at 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern (link to other time zones).
Peggy George, Kim Caise, and I host the live Classroom 2.0 year-end webcast meeting and show: "What We Learned in 2008."
We hope you will come and tell us all about the new ideas, techniques, tools, books, and conversations around educational technology that made 2008 special for you. (Send your 2008 top-ten lists to live@classroom20.com--we'll post all of them, and even ask some of you to present them on air!) We'll virtually celebrate the growth of Classroom 2.0 this past year, our great hosts, the winning of the 2008 Edublog Award for "best use of a social networking service in education," and more. We'll also get your ideas for what 2009 should bring!
More information and a link to the live show.
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2008 Edublog Award for Best Educational Use of a Social Network

[image: socialnetworking08.png]Classroom 2.0 has won the 2008 Edublog Award for "best educational use of a social network." I love the honor and feel it speaks highly for the great community that has gathered around Classroom 2.0.
And I want to point out that there are a great number of educational social networks, both for classroom and professional development, that are doing really good work. Check out the other nominees for the award here.  
If you're not a member of Classroom 2.0, I encourage you to join.  
More good links:
•To learn more about usingNing for social networking in education, go to http://education.ning.com.  
•Check out (or add yourself) to the list of social networks in education at http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com.
•Margit Barreras is hosting a new network for homeschoolers using Web 2.0 at www.homeschool20.net.  
•The new K12OpenSource.com community is for educators using or wanting to use Open Source Software.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Stressed Over NECC Rejections? Don't Be.

[image: neccupsmall.png]I'm watching the tweets today that are expressing regret over proposals not accepted by ISTE for the NECC 2009 Conference in Washington, DC.  To all who wanted to speak on a topic and didn't get accepted:  don't despair!
Last year we held the second formal EduBloggerCon the Saturday before NECC, with the full support of ISTE.  While there are other gatherings of educational bloggers and participative-Web enthusiasts, this is the biggest.  EduBloggerCon 2009 awaits you on Saturday, June 27th.  This is a free event, and is run in "unconference" style to give you the most opportunity to find conversations with others that you care about.
And NECC Unplugged returns!  I believe this event, to ISTE's great credit, is really unprecedented in the ed tech conference world.  This is a wiki-organized event, where anyone who wants to can present on any topic they want to--and the audience determines what they will attend.  The physical space will be in the conference center, and this year should not interfere with the Bloggers Cafe area (smile!).  There will be a plasma display and seating, and we'll be allowing speakers to schedule themselves in during all time slots of the conference.   The website for NECC Unplugged isn't up yet, but I'll post here when you're able to start signing yourself up for sessions.
So even if your proposals didn't get accepted for NECC, I hope you'll still consider attending!  Our goal here is participation, and to explore the topics that weren't recognized by the committees, but which can still be super-valuable.   And let's face it--by the time NECC rolls around in late June, there will be several new ideas and technologies we'll all want to hear about!
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Educators + Web 2.0 = Classroom 2.0

This is the letter I just sent to all of my Web 2.0 company contacts.  Feel free to pass it along to anyone you think might be interested in sponsoring the Classroom 2.0 free workshops.
Classroom 2.0 (http://www.classroom20.com) is a social network I started for educators who are using--or are interested in using--Web 2.0 in education.  This past weekend our membership reached 15,000.  It's an amazing network.
As part of the Classroom 2.0 project I hold a series of free two-day workshops for teachers about the use of Web 2.0 (http://workshops.classroom20.com).  I am hoping you will consider being a sponsor.  Sponsorship is not expensive, and the goal is to strengthen our current team of sponsors with additional organizations that have a passion and interest around the historic changes taking place in education because of the read/write Web.  I recently blogged for a Britannica forum on this topic, and links to that blog post and other pertinent ones are at the end of this note.  Web 2.0, I argue, is the future of education. 
This past year we held free workshops in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, Palm Springs, and Phoenix.  They have been super-well received, and are unique, dynamic, and fun events.  Each workshop is planned by local participants, using a wiki, and drawing on the expertise of teachers in their area.  This coming year we have plans for workshops in Hawaii, Sacramento, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Vermont, and San Diego.  
The cost of regular sponsorship is $250 per workshop.  You can sponsor just one workshop, or the whole series.  Sponsors are listed on the sponsor page of the workshop website and are given both recognition and thanks at the workshops, but there is no booth or commercial presence like you might find at a traditional conference.  That having been said, sponsors are encouraged to attend and participate in any of the workshops.  The cost is low because the workshop venues are provided by the local organizers, and there are no paid speakers.  Sponsor money is used to pay for my travel expenses and time.  A larger sponsorship offer might allow for an even broader expansion of this program, as we have requests for workshops at many more cities than is possible currently (you can see that list at the website).
I hope you'll consider being a part of this great endeavor.  If it's not your cup of tea, please consider passing this note along to someone you think might be more interested.  In either case, I hope you will join the Classroom 2.0 network.  You can learn more about me at my blog link below.
Steve
Steve Hargadon Founder, Classroom 2.0 www.stevehargadon.com steve@hargadon.com 916-899-1400 
Links: www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/moving-toward-web-20-in-k-12-education/ www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html/ www.slideshare.net/SteveHargadon/web-20-is-the-future-of-education/
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Finding Conversations on the Web

I've become intrigued by the notion that the Web has become an incredible set of "conversations" by virtue of its highly participative nature now with Web 2.0.  
Allison Weiss last week in a phone call said that she wished there was somewhere to go to find out, at any given time, where the conversations that she cares about were taking place on the Web.  This echoed my own wish for a way to search all of the great Ning networks that have been created (see, for example, the list at Social Networks in Education) to find ones that I might be interested in.  Well, once the wheels start spinning in my mind, it's a scary thing!
Below is the widget for searching all Ning networks through Google.  To use others for Blogger, Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, and more (and one that searches all of them), please jump over to Conversations.net and then give me some feedback.
SEARCH ALL NING NETWORKS:
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