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Icon Keynote: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

Introduction by Jill Hammonds
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Jill Hammonds
(ICT PD national facilitator)
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

Keeping Up with the Net Generation

Welcome to the first keynote for the Time4 Online Conference.
I first met Sheryl following her keynote address at this year's TUANZ Conference. Her keynote struck a chord with me, not only for its love and utilisation of the Web 2.0 environment, but for the passion for kids and learning so evident in her delivery. With our own online conference planning still at the immersion stage, I was keen to talk with Sheryl and gain from her experience in planning the K-12 Online Conference.
The discussion that followed, while covering recommendations and tips, ranged far wider into sharing ideas on education generally, and what set each of us alight in working with students and teachers to motivate their learning. It was really exciting to meet someone with so much passion and energy for the important work of transforming the education environment for the 21st century.
Sheryl asked lots of questions about New Zealand's ICT PD Cluster programme, and grew excited about what we were achieving. Asking her to keynote at our online conference was the obvious next step, and it was delightful to have her enthusiastic response - something she would so love to do, and that would be such fun.
Interactions with Sheryl have been very positive, inclusive and inspiring, and it is with great pleasure that I introduce Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to you as our inaugural Time4 Online Conference keynote speaker. Sheryl has compiled her keynote address in three parts:
  1. Time is running out: Keeping up with the Net Generation
  2. Making time: A quick look at some tools
  3. Time to learn: What it looks like in the classroom
Please contribute your thoughts to the Time4 Online Keynote Forum to extend the conversation.
Welcome Sheryl, to your next virtual visit to New Zealand.
Keynote: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach | Bio | Keynote address - Part one, two, three | Participation | Support material
Bio
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, a 23-year educator, has been a classroom teacher, school principal, district administrator, and digital learning consultant. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at The College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA), where she is also completing her doctorate in educational planning, policy and leadership.

Sheryl has published journal articles, book chapters and magazine pieces and is currently under contract to write a book about 21st Century teaching for United States publisher, Eye on Education. Sheryl has spoken to audiences throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America on topics of teacher leadership, virtual community building, 21st Century learning, and homelessness.
Currently, Sheryl is co-leading a statewide 21st Century Skills initiative in the state of Alabama, funded by a major grant from the Microsoft Partners in Learning program. She recently served as an organiser and convener of the inaugural 2006 K-12 Online Conference, "Unleashing the Potential", which sought to help educators around the world contextualise and integrate emerging technologies into their schools and classrooms and currently is hard at work planning for this year's K-12 Online 2007: Playing with Boundaries.

Sheryl lives near the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach with her four children, all of whom are avid bloggers.
Introduction | Keynote address - Part one, two, three | Participation | Support material
Keynote Address - Part one

Time is running out: Keeping up with the Net Generation

Description
As the people of the world are becoming increasingly connected, the nature, use, ownership, and purpose of knowledge are changing in profound ways. Our goal as educators is to leverage these connections and changes as powerful means to improve teaching and learning in our schools.

Using digital media and web-based tools, students are:
  • building their own learning experiences,
  • constructing meaning, and
  • collaborating in teams to solve authentic content-based problems.
Many teachers who use these empowering technologies are now discovering we can have rigor without sacrificing excitement.

Come listen as Sheryl stirs a sense of urgency for shifting classroom practice toward more engaging approaches that reach all students in this digital age. Sheryl invites you to discuss this and (other 21st Century teaching and learning topics) on her blog: http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog

Presentation
This keynote address can be viewed either using Elluminate (audio and slideshow) or slideshow only (with index notes). Note: Elluminate is web-conferencing software that downloads from the Internet onto your computer. When you click on the link below, allow some time for the presentation to download. The opening Part one keynote address is about 50 minutes long.

Keynote address - Part one (Option 1: Audio and slideshow)

Note: On Slide 18, there is a movie to view. If you are unable to view it through Elluminate or the slideshow below,
you can watch it at: http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/NAEHCY


Keynote address - Part one (Option 2: Slideshow only)




Slideshow index (Support Notes)
  1. Today's kids have immediate access to information everywhere they turn. They are truly mobile with their technology.
  2. A little about Sheryl.
  3. You are Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
  4. You as in YouTube, MySpace, and WWW.
  5. 21st Century skills have entered main stream society.
  6. Technology doesn't change some things, it changes everything.
  7. Future of education is going to depend on being able to lead and adapt as we prepare students for the future.
  8. Web 3.0 is here. Avatars will do our bidding.
  9. New learning will involve our software agents sharing, finding, and locating information and rearranging in new mash-ups.
  10. Changing world
  11. Cell phones- technology your students bring to class.Use them!
  12. Schools haven't changed in the last 100 years. Will we remain relevant?
  13. Rethinking teaching and learning in four areas: multiliterate, changing demographic, active content creators, collaboration and communication.
  14. The multiliterate teacher- what does it mean?
  15. Mark Treadwell and Andrew Churches
  16. Digital Divide- parents who have access and parents who do not.
  17. Who is mentoring your students? What experts do they have access to?
  18. Fast forward the linux clip- as sound didn't come through. Watch the video here: http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/NAEHCY
  19. Model connectivism with your students
  20. New digital divide is between those who know how to band together online and those who do not.
  21. Are we willing to risk change in order to develop voice and give all students a place at the table?
Introduction | Bio | Keynote address - Part two, three | Participation | Support material

Keynote Address - Part two

Making time: A quick look at some tools

Description
Join Sheryl as she highlights some of the Web 2.0 tools she uses in her teaching and her own professional development and growth. Click the Elluminate link below for part two of Sheryl's keynote address.

Presentation
This keynote address can be viewed either using Elluminate (audio and slideshow) or slideshow only (with index notes). (Note: Elluminate is web-conferencing software that downloads from the Internet onto your computer.) When you click on the link below, allow some time for the presentation to download. The keynote address part two is about 30 minutes long.

Keynote Address - Part two (Option 1: Audio and slideshow)


Keynote address - Part two (Option 2: Slideshow only)

Slideshow index (support notes)

1. Blogging is a scholarly process. Build on the ideas of others.
2. The mentors who shape my thinking have grown to a global audience through conversation on my blog.
3. ClustrMaps are a great way to help students see in a tangible way who is reading their writing.
4. Google has a blog search engine.
5. Once you find blogs you can add them to RSS feeds to save time in accessing them.
6. Set up a feed and add the blogs you want to read.
7. Flock is a Web browser that meshes with various popular social networking tools such as Flickr and Del.icio.us.
8. Collaborative blog on educational policy.
9. Skype - free conference calling, video conferences, bring experts into the classroom.
10. Tech Enhanced Learning wiki and how to use wikis.
11. Be sure and watch the featured speakers on the Tech Enhanced wiki on how they use Web 2.0.
12. Wiki as a solution manual created by students
13. K-12 Online 07- http://k12onlineconference.org
Be sure and attend or submit a proposal. Access all the content from last year through the agenda tab.
Introduction | Bio | Keynote address - Part one, three | Participation | Support material

Keynote Address - Part three

Time to Learn: What it looks like in the classroom

Description
A passionate student is a learning student
When collaborating with my friend, Darren Kuropatwa, I often ask him how he makes time for using Web 2.0 tools with his AP mathematics students. I mean- with so much content to cover, shouldn't he be teaching math? I love his passionate response, " I don't have time NOT to be using it!" You will find out why by watching the clips below.

To close my keynote, I interviewed three teachers: elementary, middle, and secondary, that are all using Web 2.0 tools with their students. Lisa Durff, a middle school teacher in the US and Allanah King, a primary teacher in New Zealand with year four and five students, and Darren Kuropatwa, a secondary advanced mathematics teacher in Canada.

Their 30-minute Elluminate presentations are each chalked full of examples on how they are using these tools with their students. View the interviews by clicking on the following Elluminate links. (Note: Elluminate is web-conferencing software that downloads from the Internet onto your computer.)

Presentation

Interview 1: Lisa Durff and Allanah King (Audio and slideshow)

Interview 2: Darren Kuropatwa (Audio and slideshow)

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About Lisa Durff

Lisa Durff, middle and secondary teacher (students aged 12-18 years), Maryland, VA, USA

Description
I chose to interview Lisa Durff because of how impressed I am with the creative ways she uses Web 2.0 tools across the curriculum with such a wide range of students. In addition to being an articulate, accomplished educator, Lisa is an overcomer! She teaches effectively everyday while working through a debilitating illness.

Lisa's supporting links
Lisas_blog
Durff's blog Study Skills blog
Secondary English blog Webpage

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About Allanah King

Allanah King, teaches year four and five, Nelson, New Zealand

Description
I chose to interview Allanah because she is the teacher I wish I had and the teacher I wish all children could have. She is as strong in technical skills as she is pedogogy. She understands the power of Web 2.0 in making connections. Allanah is the perfect 21st Century educator and quite the role model.
Supporting Links
Allanah's blog		Allanah_Sheryl
Class blog - a public showcase blog that she and students author
Class Podcasts
Class Blogmeister blog - expressive blog (where students blog)
Class Waterways wiki
How-to Podcast wiki
Class Del.icio.us site - online bookmarks
Class Flickr - for Tiny Ted photos

Allanah had a significant birthday recently! I surprised her with a collaborative birthday greeting online - tied to a Flickr picture from her childhood with HM Queen Elizabeth II. Check it out here

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About Daren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa, AP Secondary Math teacher (Ages 14-18), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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 Description
Darren Kuropatwa and I have been working together for over two years now and have yet to meet face-to-face. He lives in Canada and I live in Virginia. He Skypes (Voice over protocol tool) into my inservices and classroom and I Skype into his inservices and classroom. Together we were the original braintrust behind K-12 Online06 and regularly plan together online using Web 2.0 tools.
Darren has been blogging with his students for three years now. He encourages his students to make use of a full range of collaborative tools in their learning of higher mathematics.
In this interview, he will walk you through how he uses a blogging model he has termed "the Scribe Post" to help deepen the retention of math concepts with his students. As he talks about his blog, please scroll with him in the Elluminate environment. You may also click on the forward and backward tabs on the embedded slides from his Smartboard notes about his classroom discussion.
Supporting Links
Darren's Professional Blog (links to all his other resources)

Introduction | Bio | Keynote address - Part one, two | Participation | Support material
Participation

Participation can be an effective way of consolidating and clarifying what you have learnt. Many opportunities are given in this online conference for you to network and share your ideas, readings, and links with others. (Check the 'Participation' section in the left-hand menu bar.) Here are activities for this keynote:

Converse with Sheryl and others - ask questions and share your ideas
Time4 Online Keynote Forum

Visit Sheryl's blog and comment
http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com

Share your favourites or bookmarks
Use the social bookmarking tool, Del.icio.us, to share with others
http://del.icio.us/time4
Username: time4; Password: ictpd07
Add tags (key words) time4online time4online07 ictpd_onlineconference

Add to our 'ICT PD Online' Resources area
Readings, Links, and Resources

Blog about our conference
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Introduction | Bio | Keynote address - Part one, two, three | Support material
Support material

Extra web links and support material are provided in the following areas, using a social book-marking tool in Del.icio.us and our Interact's ICT PD Online knowledgebase tool. Use the tags and categories to explore and find more resources on topics of interest.

More Web Links in our Conference Bookmarking Area
Use the social bookmarking tool, Del.icio.us, to locate readings, links and resources on conference themes
http://del.icio.us/time4
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More Files and web links in our 'ICT PD Online' Resources area
Readings, Links, and Resources

Introduction | Bio | Keynote address - Part one, two, three | Participation