Sharing: An Obligation...

Opening the K12 Online Conference for 2010, Dean Shareski argues that sharing within education, in the 21st century, is a "moral imperative".

It is hard not to agree, as you listen to Dean drawing on examples from his own experience. As he says "we are now in the very early stages of a sharing revolution" facilitated not least by the explosion of Web2.0 technology. Great keynote Dean!



Teachers and students from around the world are becoming empowered to share their learning experiences and best work practices. What a wonderful scenario.

Educators such as Mohamed Salah Abidi and Tarak Brahmi, who produce the Tunisian English Teaching Forum Magazine, are sharing freely and willingly with a global audience. You only need to take a look at their publication to see what is possible. Indeed, I was honoured to be given the opportunity to contribute to the latest issue. Many thanks Tarak. I am already looking forward to the next one!

This is just one of the many examples of what is already happening.

Vive la révolution!!!

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K12 Online Conference Teasers...

The K12 Online Conference is just around the corner and the teasers are coming in thick and fast. Watch out for the pre-conference keynote, by Dean Shareski, due out today.

Promises to be another excellent conference if these are anything to go by!!!

Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

K12 Online 10 Flyer

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Embedding YouTube Playlists

A YouTube playlist is a great way to embed a selection of videos neatly all in one place.

Came across this thanks to Amit's post, where you can find out exactly how to embed your playlists. Hope you enjoy these short little comedy sketches!

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Google Docs Viewer Rocks!

Google Docs Viewer is very useful for displaying any doc, pdf, tiff or presentation files that are saved online.

You don't have to worry about loading your files onto any third party server and although it is a basic version, no bells and whistles, it does the job that it is meant to do very well.

You can move forwards and backwards through the document, zoom in and out and show one page or four pages at a time. You can also choose a full screen mode where you can then select to download the file.

And, of course, you can also embed the viewer. Here is a little introduction to Google Docs in the classroom!

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Free Online CPD Coming Soon!!

K12 Online Conference 2010 - 11th October Spread the word (replace the " with angle brackets): "embed align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" height="110" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.inchicorecollege.ie/images/countd-k12.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="120">"/embed"

The K-12 Online Conference 2010, now in its 5th year, is an online, annual professional development conference offering "opportunities for educators around the globe to share innovative ways web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning".

The theme this year is "Cultivate the Future!" and the learning will begin with the pre-conference keynote, by Dean Shareski, during the week of October 11, 2010.

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The 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium - 16th October Spread the word (replace the " with angle brackets): "embed align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" height="185" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.inchicorecollege.ie/images/countd-crste.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="150">>"/embed"

The 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium is a completely free, completely online high-quality professional development event for all educators, around the world, from preschool through higher education.

CRSTE is offering an alternative to the traditional model of professional development believing that "the concept of professional development offerings as formal, face-to-face, one-size-fits-all events is an industrial-aged notion that does not match the realities of the twenty-first century".

Indeed, the 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium follows on from the successful 2-week online CyberConference held in February this year, which attracted "2,372 attendees from forty states and six continents".

You can start preparing for the Symposium by checking out the four asynchronous sessions, which will be available throughout the conference:

• CRSTE Teacher Tools Wiki with Allison Kipta
• Twenty-first Century: A New Dawn with Harry Tetteh
• How to Lead as an Agent of Change: 21st Century Skills in Motion with Christina Parsons Bentheim
• iPod Project Lessons Learned with Chris O’Neal

You can also check out the full catalogue right here:

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iApps for Education

I came across this useful list of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Apps for Education from Jim Farmer's blog.

The list is created and published by Eric Sailers and is broken down into useful categories including Communication, Organization, Reading , Writing, Math, Music, Song, Art, Game and Accessibility.

Very useful list if you are lucky enough to be using this technology in your classroom and a great incentive to start using it if you are not!

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Free Online Training for Language Teachers

Jürgen Wagner, from the E-Learning department of the Landesinstitut für Pädagogik und Medien [LPM] in Saarbrücken, Germany is hosting a series of free webinars for language teachers during September.

To participate simply send an email to Jurgen, in advance of the webinar, using the following address: JWagner*AT*lpm.uni-sb.de

Webinar 1: How to use Spotlight Magazine in the EFL classroom
by Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief of Spotlight-magazine, München

• Date: Thursday 9th September 2010
• Time: 5pm - 6.30pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/spotlight.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/inezsharp

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar postponed. To be rescheduled

Webinar 2: Google Docs in the Foreign Language Classroom
by Patricia Donaghy, Inchicore College of Further Education in Dublin, Ireland

• Date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
• Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/googledocs.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/googledocs

This is my webinar and it is aimed at teachers who have not used google docs before. During the webinar participants will have an opportunity to experience working on shared documents.

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar recording.





Webinar 3: A first hand guided tour of the BBC's and British Council's joint website http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
by Rob Lewis, TeachingEnglish website manager, Warszaw

• Date: Thursday 30th September 2010
• Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/bbcbritishcouncil.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/teachingenglish

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar recording.

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