Vicki and Julie are co-founders of three international projects, the Flat Classroom project (winner of ISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award 2007, and Taking IT Global Best ONline Learning Project 2007, and featured in The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman), the Horizon project, and Digiteen. These projects have linked more than 500 students from over 10 countries in collaborative projects harnessing the most powerful Web 2.0 tools available.
Dean Shareski creates an informed post about this particular keynote presentation.
Vicki Davis has been one of my favorite bloggers to read and learn from so when I found this keynote that she is involved in for the conference I had to watch it. I was not disappointed. Now, Julie Lindsay can be added to my growing list.
For those of us just beginning this new journey it is a great introduction into what we could/should be doing to become more connected with the new teaching tools available to us through Web 2.0. In fact it really makes me ashamed that I am so far behind. It puts into perspective the challenges you can give yourself to continue classroom growth – what they call IR&D (Initiate, Research & Development).
Banning was one of the hot topics that I had not initially even considered. Unfortunately or rather fortunately from my stand point, our school is not to the point of even asking itself whether this type of teaching is inappropriate. I hope it never does because this is an incredible tool that can only improve our students and teachers quality of learning when done with monitoring and social guidelines. The walled garden was something I had not come across yet. This is definitely an important tool for students to have a safe space in which to learn. In all honesty, I have been hesitant on having students create their own blogs or wikis due to the fear factor, but this session has encouraged me to “grow” with my classroom and incorporate a wiki project for my students when I complete this class.
By the way, I added my “Kick it up a Knotch” goal to the google map provided as one of the links. I suggest you do the same!
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Your blog is so professional. The bamboo, the text boxes, the different colors in the text..I’ll bet that means something, maybe like a hyperlink? I am about to attend a conference, and this one sounds awesome. I’ve never heard of banning either, or a walled garden. Your work is high quality and extremely enlightened.