FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach:

Date: 10/15/06 Phone: 757.450-3784

News Release No. 001 Fax: 757.301-7436
E-mail: snbeach@cox.net

K12 Online 2008- Amplifying Possibilities

Worldwide Online Conference for K-12 Educators

Announcing the launch of the third annual “K12 Online 2008″

convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the
world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies
can be used to improve learning. This year’s conference begins with a
pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following
two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will
be posted online to the conference blog,
http://www.k12onlineconference.org, for participants to download
and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a
culminating “When Night Falls” event will be held.. The theme of
this year’s conference is “Amlifying Possibilites.”

There will be four “conference strands”– two each week. Two

presentations will be published in each strand each day. Four new
presentations will be available each day over the course of the two-
weeks. Each presentation will be given in podcast or screencast
format and released via the conference blog.

THE FOUR STRANDS ARE:

Week 1
Strand A: Getting Started
The presentations in this strand will focus on specific, free tools for
newcomers. Whether you have one classroom computer or a laptop
for every student, digital technologies can provide new opportunities
to connect with other learners, create new and exciting knowledge
products, and engage students in an expanded learning process
beyond the traditional “boundaries of the bell.”

Strand B: Kicking It Up a Notch You’ve

been using blogs, wikis and other technologies for awhile but perhaps
haven’t seen them transform your classroom and the learning
environment for your students in the ways you think they can. This
strand amplifies ways new technologies can be used to transform
classroom and personal learning. Rather than merely replicating
traditional, analog-based learning tasks, how can digital technologies
permit teacher-leaders to “infomate” learning to add greater
interactivity, personal differentiation, and multi-modal exploration of
curriculum topics?

Week 2
Strand A: Prove It
Although some teachers are excited to “amplify possibilities” using
computer technologies, Web 2.0 tools, and 21st Century learning
strategies in their classrooms, how do we know if these innovative
instructional strategies are really working?

Strand B: Leading the Charge

This strand seeks to amplify ways educators in a variety of contexts
are serving as constructive catalysts for broad-based pedagogic
change using Web 2.0 technologies as well as student-centered,
project-based approaches to learning. Presentations in this strand will
both showcase successful strategies as well as amplify critical issues
which must be addressed for innovative learning methods to be
adopted by teachers, librarians, and administrators on a more
widespread basis.

KEYNOTES
This year’s keynote presenters are:

Preconference
Keynote: Stephen Heppell

Getting Started
Keynote: Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes, Bob Sprankle

Kicking It Up A Notch
Keynote: Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay

Prove It
Keynote: Gardner Campbell

Leading the Change

Keynote: Chris Lehmann

Presenter Bios can be viewed at:

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=222

Conference Presenters
Presenters from as far away as Australia, Bangladesh ,Canada, China,
Scotland, the United Kingdom, and from coast to coast across the
United States were selected to participate in this one of a kind
conference.

Each strand will have nine presentations for a total of 36 creative

online presentations. To see a listing of the various presenters and
their topics please view:
(http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=227)

Live Events
In addition to the archived conference presentations that can be
viewed by participants anytime, anywhere there are several scheduled
Fireside chats that will enhance the online collaboration of presenters
and participants. More information about attending one of the fireside
chats can be found at the conference blog at
http://k12onlineconference.org/

When Night Falls

As a culminating activity, conference participants will attend a 24
hour Skypecast called “When Night Falls.” This live event will take
span through all time zones across the globe. For more information on
how you can participate please see the conference blog at
http://k12onlineconference.org/

Conference Tags: k12online, K12online08