Extend the Conversation [Aug. 22, 2012, 1:37 a.m.]
On August 18, there was a great webinar with Sheri Edwards and Denise Krebs.
Extend the Conversation -- Jump In! Add your own bytes!
Denise and Sheri, middle school teachers (in Iowa and Washington State, respectively) invite you to dip your toes into the digital media flow. Each explains her struggle to join in the influx of information flooding the web, beginning with the risk to jump in and participate in various online platforms. By joining the conversation, Sheri and Denise have developed amazing friendships personally and collaborative projects professionally. Both teachers and students benefitted. Step by step, their paths met, their journey continued, and this webinar resulted. How did they start and why? Watch the archived webinar or peruse the information here. But do join the conversation -- by either contacting Denise Krebs or Sheri Edwards, or respond to the prompt below. Welcome to your journey!
View the slides, video trailers, and a weatth of resources on their Extend the Conversation Website. The slides include live links to many of the resources mentioned in the webinar. The resources include many how-tos.
Would you like to follow the accompanying chat: Click the links: Here is the chat log and the chat log in a PDF. Many of the links and twitter handles entered in the chat are listed below.
There is also a list of most the links mentioned and the Twitter handles of participants below.
And, for those who missed the webinar, here is the archive:
Links Mentioned
Communities to Join
- P2PU School of Ed
- NaNoWriMo
- National Writing Project's Digital Is
- Connected Educator Book Club
- Classroom 2.0 Classroom20 Live
- Connected Educators
- EduPLN
- Teacher 2.0
- Diigo - a community and social bookmarking tool
- Teachers Teaching Teachers
- Google Plus
- Denise: Children's Literature Blog
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Sheri: Wordsmith Agora Blog
Twitter Helps
Blogs to Read
- Peggy Matthews' iPad blog
- Joy Kirr's "Learning Across States" post
- Leslie Billings's blog
- Genius hour
Blogging How Tos
Tools
Participant Twitter handles
- Sheri Edwards
- Denise Krebs
- Karen Fasimpaur
- Peggy Matthews
- Leslie Billings
- Joy Kirr
- Celine Feazel
- Tracy Watanabe
- javi
- Paula Naugle
Twitter Suggestions
- @coolcatteacher
- @poh
- @connecteded
- @davidwarlick
- @kathleen_morris
- @lindayollis
- @KleinErin
- @kevinhoneycutt
Hashtag list
Twitter Chats: What are they?
Enter these as search terms to see what these topics have generated as tweets:
- #geniushour
- #edchat for general education-related topics
- #edtech
- #ce12 is the connected educator month tag
- #oer for open educational resources
- #engchat for english
- #sschat for social studies
- #satchat for admins
- #YALit