LAN: Learning Is Social

Blogging First Steps

Lesley Edwards — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:23:19 +0000

Interested in becoming a blogger? No idea what blogging is all about? Want to get your students blogging? Join us Monday November 22 in Elluminate for an introduction to blogging. Discover some useful resources, ask questions or find some inspiring blogs by other educators.

Room opens at 8:00 p.m. PST

Session starts at 8:15 p.m. PST

LAN Elluminate: TONIGHT!

Bryan Hughes — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:12:25 +0000

Date: Monday, November 15, 2010

Time: 8:15 pm Pacific (room opens at 8:00pm)

Topic: Introduction to Elluminate

Have you heard about Elluminate, but are not sure what it is or what it can do? Join us tonight online for an introduction to this powerful, yet easy to use virtual classroom/meeting software.

No experience or special equipment is required, just a computer with an Internet connection.

To participate, click here after 8pm tonight.

Or bookmark: http://elluminate.lan44.ca

Global Online Conference

Lesley Edwards — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:01:02 +0000

Steve Hargadon writes:

The free, all-online 2010 Global Education Conference, sponsored by Elluminate, takes place this coming week, November 15 – 19, 2010!

We currently have 397 sessions from 62 countries scheduled, as well as 63 keynote speakers–an amazing lineup. Please take a look at all that is taking place: http://www.GlobalEducationConference.com.

The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities. Our goal is to help you make connections with other educators and students, and for this reason the conference is very inclusive and also provides broad opportunities for participating and presenting. While we have an amazing list of expert presenters and keynote speakers, we will also have some number of presenters who either have not presented before or have not presented in Elluminate–please come to encourage and support them, as they are likely to be a little nervous!

There is no formal registration required for the conference, as all the sessions will be open and public, broadcast live using the Elluminateplatform, and available in recorded formats afterwards. There is a limit of 500 live attendees for any given session. To verify that your computer system is configured correctly to access Elluminate, please run the self-test at http://www.elluminate.com/support.

Please tell your friends and colleagues about this event, and watch for the Twitter hashtag #globaled10. See you online!

Steve

Steve Hargadon
Conference Co-Chair

Elluminate’s Social Learning Consultant

Math Class Needs a Makeover with Dan Meyer

Bryan Hughes — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:17:17 +0000

Here’s a link for those of you who have watched Dean Shareski’s keynote and were intrigued by Dan Meyer’s math projects. This is an archived Elluminate session on the Classroom 2.0 Live site which also includes a number of links to math related resources.

Link: Math Class Needs a Makeover with special guest Dan Meyer

November LAN Party Links

Lesley Edwards — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:20:45 +0000

Dean Shareski’s presentation provided us with much to think about. If you would like to view it go to the K12 Online Conference. Or view our session with Dean in Elluminate here: archived recording

Some excellent links were posted in the chat. These will give you access to hundreds of resources and ideas or let you connect with other teachers online in virtual communities.

Curriki

Classroom2.0 Ning

Future of Education Ning

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

MERLOT The multimedia resource for learning and online teaching

Thinkfinity

Staff Stuff: blogs A list of blogs in a variety of subject areas

We Are Teachers

The Educator’s PLN

LAN Nov. 8: Come one, come all!

Bryan Hughes — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:50:24 +0000

Follow Dean on Twitter: @shareski

Read his blog: Ideas and Thoughts

Online ProD. for free this week

Lesley Edwards — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:43:26 +0000

From Steve Hargadon

http://www.stevehargadon.com

ANVILL: SPEECH-BASED TOOLS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND ESL EDUCATORS (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR SERIES)
Mon 1 Nov 06:00PM New York / Mon 1 Nov 10:00PM GMT / Tue 1 Nov 08:00AM Sydney
Jeff Magoto.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/113553/

EYES TO SEE: USING DIGITAL IMAGES IN THE CLASSROOM (TL CAFE)
Mon 1 Nov 08:00PM New York / Tue 1 Nov 12:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Nov 10:00AM Sydney
Gwyneth Jones.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/102392

PARENTS AS PARTNERS W/GEORGE COUROS PLANNING PARENT ENGAGEMENT (PARENTS AS PARTNERS)
Mon 1 Nov 09:00PM New York / Tue 1 Nov 01:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Nov 11:00AM Sydney
Lorna Costantini.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/114680/

TECH TALK TUESDAYS: DIGITAL CHATTING: FAVOURITE WEBSITES, ONLINE TOOLS, ISSUES, CHALLENGES. (THE AUSTRALIA SERIES)
Tue 1 Nov 12:45AM New York / Tue 1 Nov 04:45AM GMT / Tue 1 Nov 02:45PM Sydney
Anne Mirtschin.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/115097

VICKI ABELES ON “RACE TO NOWHERE” (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Tue 2 Nov 08:00PM New York / Wed 2 Nov 12:00AM GMT / Wed 2 Nov 10:00AM Sydney
Steve Hargadon.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/90720

ET@LKING: EMPOWERING LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY (THE AUSTRALIA SERIES)
Wed 3 Nov 05:00AM New York / Wed 3 Nov 09:00AM GMT / Wed 3 Nov 07:00PM Sydney
Anne Mirtschin.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/113291

FINNODE SOCIAL ELEARNING WEBINAR (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Wed 3 Nov 11:00AM New York / Wed 3 Nov 03:00PM GMT / Thu 3 Nov 01:00AM Sydney
Maria Pineaar.

http://www.learncentral.org/node/115993

MORE EVIDENCED-BASED ACTIVITIES TO BOOST YOUR HAPPINESS (ELLUMINATE LIVE EVENTS)
Wed 3 Nov 01:00PM New York / Wed 3 Nov 05:00PM GMT / Thu 3 Nov 03:00AM Sydney
Tracy Tagliati and Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/115995/

GAGA FOR GOOGLE DOCS PART 3: FORMS (THE AUSTRALIA SERIES)
Wed 3 Nov 06:00PM New York / Wed 3 Nov 10:00PM GMT / Thu 3 Nov 08:00AM Sydney
Rochelle Rodrigo.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/92764

IMAGINE EDUCATION: TEACHING MATH THROUGH STORIES AND GAMES (MATH 2.0)
Wed 3 Nov 09:30PM New York / Thu 3 Nov 01:30AM GMT / Thu 3 Nov 11:30AM Sydney
Maria Droujkova.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/115780

EDUBLOGS FINE FOCUS – FACE TO FACEBOOK (THE AUSTRALIA SERIES)
Thu 4 Nov 07:00PM New York / Thu 4 Nov 11:00PM GMT / Fri 4 Nov 09:00AM Sydney
Jo Hart.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/115937/

INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN FARR ON TEACH FOR AMERICA (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Thu 4 Nov 08:00PM New York / Fri 4 Nov 12:00AM GMT / Fri 4 Nov 10:00AM Sydney
Steve Hargadon.

http://www.learncentral.org/node/115992

A WOMAN’S WALK IN GRACE – CHAPTER 3 (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR SERIES)
Thu 4 Nov 08:30PM New York / Fri 4 Nov 12:30AM GMT / Fri 4 Nov 10:30AM Sydney
Catherine Martin.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/100259

MATH AND TECHNOLOGY (CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE)
Sat 6 Nov 12:00PM New York / Sat 6 Nov 04:00PM GMT / Sun 6 Nov 02:00AM Sydney
Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George.

http://www.learncentral.org/event/115849

Skype in the Classroom

Lesley Edwards — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:39:05 +0000

This list of resources for using Skype in the classroom will help you to connect with other classes around the world and provides links to some blog posts and resources for using Skype.

Seeds to Success with Skype

Google Guide

Lesley Edwards — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:16:16 +0000

Richard Byrne has created a Google for Teachers Guide and it’s available as a free download. It’s full of practical ideas for searching, using Google Books, widgets, using Google Docs and Maps and creating quizzes. Great stuff!

You may be surprised to see how many books are available online, free these days.

Global Connections

Lesley Edwards — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:47:26 +0000

For those of you who have watched Silvia Tolisano’s k12 Online presentation “Around the World with Skype“, she has just launched the Around the World in 80 Schools Ning. For anyone wanting to connect globally, to engage students outside the walls of their classroom this is a wonderful introduction.

A ning is an online community where people can share information and media, form spontaneous discussion groups and ask questions of those with similar interests. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner you’ll find value in a ning community.

Two other nings of interest to educators are:

The Future of Education

Classroom 2.0

Cross-posted on The WebFooted Booklady.