Learning 2007

I really wanted to go to Elliot Masie's Learning 2007 Conference, but
here's the next best thing - they are wikifying much of the good
stuff. They have added hours of video and
audio content including keynotes from Dan Pink, Jenny Zhu, Bobby Flay,
Wharton Faculty and Ken Blanchard. Check it out at
http://www.learningwiki.com

:)
~julz

2 Things 2 Know 2day

ONE – National Distance Learning Week http://ndlw.org starts 2day and NMSU College of Extended Learning is working hard to do its part http://nmsu.pbwiki.com TWO – The XO Laptop, Buy 1 Get 1 started 2day http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php I just bought mine; my son, Jon and I, will be having fun with these over Christmas and two children somewhere in the world will have the opportunity to access knowledge and tools in a way they’ve never had before. Here’s a great vodcast featuring the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) team: It’s a FABULOUS day! ;) ~julz

National Distance Learning week Nov. 12-16

The NMSU Office of Distance Education and the RETA Project within the College of Extended Learning (CEL) will host webinars, blogs, chats, an online Moodle open house and other events in honor of the 2007 National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) Nov. 12 -16, http://ndlw.org

The NDLW Webinars http://www.ndlw.org/learners.html will be hosted throughout the week from 9 to 10 a.m. and from noon to 1 p.m. in Milton Hall, Room 185, La Academia.

CEL and RETA offerings are viewable BUT still under construction at:
http://nmsu.pbwiki.com/

Later in the day (today is Friday, November 9, 2007), we will be extending the invitation to our eLearning friends (RETAzens, OTLOzens, eTeachers,
OTLCers, etc.) to join us in a variety of ways. Contributors and attendees will be entered into a drawing at the end of the week.

Online Underwater First! Project SeaCAMEL: Live Broadcasts November 12 - 14

Online Underwater First! Project SeaCAMEL: Live Broadcasts November 12 - 14 Marine Science Classes from the Aquarius Habitat KEY LARGO, Fla., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Distance learning goes to the extreme November 12 - 14, when Project SeaCAMEL aquanauts go live with high tech marine science classes broadcast from Aquarius, the world's only undersea research station. Live action coral reef science will be a click away for students and ocean enthusiasts around the world via satellite and the Internet from Conch Reef, located 4 miles off Key Largo and 60-feet beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The mission is the first in a series of online sea-to-shore educational programs sponsored by the Maryland-based Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (http://www.seacamel.livingoceansfoundation.org organization focusing on ocean research and conservation. Related Links: http://www.vims.edu/events/ http://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/ http://www.uncw.edu/aquarius/ Project SeaCAMEL Goes Live November 12-14! http://www.seacamel.livingoceansfoundation.org

Let's help change the world, here's one way...

You are receiving this update because I requested a reminder from One Laptop
per Child about the limited-time "Give One Get One" program. Starting
Monday, November 12 at 6:00am EST, you will be able to donate one XO laptop
to a child in the developing world and also receive a laptop for the child
in your life, by visiting www.laptopgiving.org or calling toll-free
1-877-70-LAPTOP.

"Give One Get One" is the only time they are making the revolutionary XO
laptop available to the public. For a donation of just $399 ($200 of which
is tax-deductable), you will be giving the gift of education. Additionally,
T-Mobile is offering donors one year of complimentary access to T-Mobile
HotSpot locations throughout the United States, which can be used from any
Wi-Fi-capable device, including the XO laptop.

I will send another update when the program begins on November 12. I hope
you'll join the mission to bring education and connection to children in
even the most remote regions of the globe.

I'm thinking of doing this myself and sharing a laptop with my teen. The
free T-Mobile HotSpot and portable, somewhat indestructible mobile device is
totally worth it.

Let's spread the word!
:)
~julz

SLOAN-C International Symposium

Are you using technology in cool ways for teaching and learning (think
blogs, wikis, moodle, audio/video, etc.) - please submit an abstract to the
SLOAN-C International Symposium. SLOAN has traditionally been focused on
higher education but now they have said they'd love to see what K12 folks
are doing. The upcoming conference is May 7-9, 2008 and is close by in
Carefree, Arizona. I'm sure some fun caravanning could be arranged!

Also, check out the social network that SLOAN is working on.

http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org/

:)
~julz

A Web Event for K12 eTeachers

Thanks to Bethany for this resource. I have attended a Cider event and they
do an excellent job with the research. K12ers, let's attend.
:)
~julz

CIDER has the following eLuminate presentation coming up. It's free
- all you have to do is become a member of CIDER community (also
free). See

http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/

Research Results from BC¹s Connected Learner¹s Technology Projects
Institution: BCEd Online
Date and time: Nov 16, 2007 11:00 AM

What factors help to create effective online learning environments in
K-12? In this session, Dr. Elizabeth Childs and Lara Jongedijk will
report on the final data from nine provincial Connected Learner¹s
Technology Grant Projects that ran across 18 months and involved 14
school districts in British Columbia. The technologies used in the
projects included: webcasting, web-conferencing, synchronous courses
using Elluminate Live, use of Smartboards, online tutoring and data
archiving. Lessons learned will be discussed and recommendations for
making informed decisions when planning and implementing similar
technology projects will be shared.

NACOL VSS Conference

Hi Everyone,
Reporting live from Louisville, Kentucky and the VSS Conference. I
wanted to let you know that you should visit the NACOL site at
http://nacol.org because a lot of cool NEW stuff is being posted, like
the updated Keeping Pace report by John Watson. AND I'm not sure if
you noticed because I didn't until just now, that some of the events
going on are being webcast LIVE using Elluminate! Also, I noticed that
last year's webcasts are all there now too.

And I have tried emailing all my groups but the Internet has been up
and down so I'm not sure they all went out, so here is my information
again. I am blogging to http://juliaparra.blogspot.com and
microblogging at http://twitter.com/desertjul

My friend, Holly is also blogging and she takes better pictures than I
do, http://technologyadventures.blogspot.com

Enjoy and Have a FABULOUS day!
:)
~julz

Cool Volunteer Site

My friend, Bethany, was telling us about a wonderful site that helps
people volunteer at the global level. The site is called Global Vision
International:
http://www.gvi.co.uk/

:)
~julz

Teachers can use Lijit

I'm still trying to figure out the coolness of Lijit. My new friend
Kevin, at Lijit told me the following:

--- a good point to remember about Lijit is that we provide a
controllable search engine that lets teachers uniquely build
sites students can search (as I mentioned before), instead of the entire web.

Here is an example educator site using the Lijit Search: Global Learners
http://principianteglobal.blogspot.com/

On Classroom 2.0: Breaking News: Ning announces ad-free networks for K-12 educators

This is very cool!
:)
~julz

From Steve Hargadon:

“Will post more on this at http://www.classroom20.com and http://education.ning.com later today, but for now details at http://www.stevehargadon.com/2007/11/big-news-from-ning-ad-free-student.html.

Have a great day!  Huge thanks to Ning!

Steve

About Classroom 2.0
The social network for educators using collaborative technologies!

Click here to visit Classroom 2.0!
http://classroom20.ning.com”

Cool Links

My friend, the Lone Eagle shared the following links with me and I thought I'd share them with you: Open Educational Resources - OER Commons And within there: EduForge Happy Day Everyone! :) ~julz