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Discovery Education’s Hall Davidson will be joining us at the eLearning Strategies Symposium to provide a Thursday workshop, two symposium sessions, and a session 8 Plenary prior to Susan Patrick’s closing Keynote on Saturday. Thursday’s workshop, which runs from 1:30pm to 4:30pm costs just $150.

 Thursday Workshop

 Making Mobile Media Meaningful

Tablets, mobile phones, and iPads can create and share media (video and audio) in the extended learning anywhere/anytime world. Learn how to send images/videos/audio to common, free “channels” to support classrooms, projects, or entire schools. Use QR codes in surprising ways.  Learn about video applications and audio for “dead” phones.  Teachers can receive videos, edit and comment, and send them back—all via mobile.  Finally, explore apps that do chromakey (“green screen”) editing, sharing, stop-motion, effects, build previews, and much, much more.  Turn them into video microscopes for less than $5.  Mobiles are digital project kit bags with and media making inside! An iPad will be used, but applications to Android and Windows platforms also apply.  Bring your device and explore.

Saturday Plenary Session

When the Inside Becomes the Outside: The Old Book as the New Backpack

For generations, students lived with textbooks with “print DNA”: linear, undifferentiated, and non-dynamic. Now new ‘techbooks’ arrive with cloud-based media DNA: fluid, differentiated, embedded and rich as the web. Moving classroom practice more deeply into digital resources provides benefits for differentiation, extended learning, remediation, and accountability.  The digital “book” moves far beyond text—it reads to students, shows them animations to augment print definitions, changes languages, font size, grade level, and more. But going digital not only taps the cloud, it changes the whole game. The book becomes its own backpack with encyclopedias, microscopes, cameras, and more. Watch how the magic of tablets (like the iPad and others) brings a deep and immediate connection to learning.

Early-bird registration, just $159, closes November 1^st.

While the eLearning Strategies Symposium program will be ready in a few weeks, here are a few more sessions gleaned from our “Just-in-time” submissions. Early-bird registration, just $159, ends October 25th. Join us at the Hilton Costa Mesa on December 7th and 8th.

• The Ten Mistakes Online Learning Programs Can Make ~ Thomas Nixon
• Don’t Create a Lousy Online or Blended Course ~ Brian Bridges
• What does it look like to be a blended learning teacher? ~ Rob Darrow
•  iTunes University:  Blending for the Common Core ~ Matt Gehrett
• Screen-Capture Instructional Technology: A Cognitive Tool for Teacher-Based Blended Learning ~ Jeffrey Smith
• Designing an Online Discussion ~ Building Community in the Online or Blended Learning Classroom ~ Danielle Forst
• Teachers Transforming CTE through the use of Blended and Online Learning ~ Andrea Vizenor
•  What Works in Online Instruction ~ Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, Ed D
• iHigh Virtual Academy: How San Diego Unified Launched a Virtual High School ~ Patricia MacIntyre

While the eLearning Strategies Symposium debuts in just seven months, we’re pleased to share the great diversity of engaging sessions you can expect at eSS. The presentations below will be supplemented by sessions selected from our “Just-in-Time” proposal window that begins in mid-August and closes mid-September. Early-bird registration, just $159, ends June 30th.

Big Picture Sessions

• NCAA Eligibility Center 101 ~ Nick Sproull
• Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: National and California ~ John Watson
• English Learners and Online Learning ~ Ymasumac Maranon-Davis
• High-Quality Approaches for Supporting School Districts with Blended and Online Learning ~ Greg Ottinger
• Using Moodle to Support RtI ~ Adam Paskowitz
• Disrupting ourselves: Lessons from the trenches in Riverside ~ David Haglund

Capacity Building Sessions

• Leading Edge Certification for Online & Blended Teaching ~ Dennis Large
• Leading Effective Online Meetings ~ Elizabeth Hessom

Content Sessions

• Dynamic Discussions ~ Danan Myers
• Great eLearning vs. Online Road Kill: How Can You Tell the Difference? ~ Brian Bridges
• Teach the Common Core with Blended Instruction ~ Catlin Tucker
• Coordinating Assessment Strategies for Online Instruction:  Models for Effectiveness ~ Doug Feldmann
• Creating a Community in the Online Classroom ~ Jenny Thomas
• Engaging Gifted Students Online ~ Cindy Carbajal
• Open Learning for Local Contexts: Effective Teaching in New Ecologies ~ Letha Goger
• The Plagiarism Struggle ~ Christy Hartman
• Visual Design Basics for Quality eLearning ~ Chris Bell

 Gear Sessions

• Screencasting to Support Online Learning ~ Timothy Downey

Pedagogy Sessions

• Importance of Creating Culture in an Online Environment ~ Alice Keeler
• Project Based Learning Online – The Essential Elements ~ Andrew Miller
• Don’t Just flip Your Classroom, Transform It! ~ Catlin Tucker
• eLearning Cafes:  Bringing Blended Learning to Small Communities and Neighborhoods ~ Kathryn Kelly
• Web 2.0 tools to support language development in the online and blended environment ~ Molly Large
• Real World Experience, Virtually ~ Keenan Kibrick
• Shift for Global Readiness: Blended Learning Model for the New Economy ~ Mariane Doyle
• Using Google Apps and the Khan Academy for Math Instruction ~ Joe Donahue
• Explore-Flip-Apply: Using Instructional Video to Empower the Learning Cycle ~ Ramsey Musallam
• The Real Deal: Data-Driven Continuous Improvement in K-12 Virtual Schools ~ Bill Crockett

Computer-Using Educators (CUE) and the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) are pleased to announce our call for speakers for the inaugural, 2012 eLearning Strategies Symposium (eSS).  The symposium will be held at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa on December 7th and 8th, 2012. Three-hour workshops will be offered on Thursday, December 6th. We invite you to share your eLearning expertise with K12 educators, administrators, policy makers, and industry representatives.

 Two session proposal windows are offered. During this Early Bird window, which closes April 27th, we’ll be filling two-thirds of the concurrent sessions. A shorter, Just in Time, proposal window opens mid-August and closes in mid-September for the final third. Speaker acceptances for the first round will be emailed May 9-11, 2012. All speakers will receive a complementary registration to the symposium. Industry-sponsored sessions must include a Corporate Partnership Application.

Symposium presentations should focus on one of eSS’ five strands:

• Big Picture, which includes administration, management, evaluation, research, policy or advocacy;
• Content (curriculum and online course development, best practices, accessibility, or instructional design);
• Capacity Building (professional development);
• Gear (tools, technologies, learning management systems, or application development); or
• Pedagogy (engaging students, teaching and learning pedagogies, blended learning models, learning communities, or assessment).

Symposium presentations are one-hour in duration with one session each hour being live-streamed and recorded for future distribution. Speakers may opt-out of live-streaming.

With online and blended learning growing 20-25% each year and with more than 20,000 California students participating in virtual or blended learning, now is the time for a California conference focused on teaching and learning online. Please join us in Costa Mesa next December.

eLearning Strategies Symposium Call for Speakers

www.cue.tc/elearns

eSS Web Site

http://elearns.org

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