{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":7,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1315400789,"CreatorID":12,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Developing Portfolios as Artifacts of Understanding","Handle":"Developing_Portfolios_as_Artifacts_of_Understanding","ShortDescription":"Assessment seems to be the word of the day, but how do you assess understanding? We know how to test for knowledge, but how do you capture proficiency? This session explores three general forms of digital portfolios with an emphasis on capturing and archiving artifacts of understanding.","Description":"SESSION RESOURCES\r\nResources for this session can be found at: http:\/\/educon24-portfolios.wikispaces.com\/\r\n\r\nThis site will provide links to a page of collaborative notes and resources related to this session.\r\n\r\nThis session will open with a brief presentation where we share our journey, both the challenges and successes, on how to document levels of fluency and literacy in our modern and classical language program. Relying merely on traditional tests can be problematic as they are flat, one-dimensional tools and do not create transferable records that clearly articulate a students level of fluency. Enter the Digital Portfolio. We have worked as a team to create a working prototype of a portfolio process using a multi-media format. After our brief presentation, we will then engage participants in working through a portfolio development case study designed to help participants discover more about portfolios and artifacts of understanding and to assist in framing the remainder of our time together. Taking what we learned as a group through these first two activities, we will continue to work in groups to develop standards by which we can effectively evaluate three types of portfolios: Growth portfolio, Evaluation Portfolio, and Showcase Portfolio. Throughout the entire session, collaborative tools will be made available specifically for the session where participants can share resources, document session discussions and share their own experiences. These tools will include a session wiki, Diigo Group linked to wiki, Twitter Feed etc. The wiki will serve as a living artifact that can be accessed and further developed beyond our time together.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"1.\tShort presentation (20 minutes or less) to frame the discussion around portfolios by sharing what we started at Greenhill through the Language Department\r\n2.\tBreakout: Portfolio Case Study- This will be worked in groups and provide a focal point for conversations around uses and evaluations of portfolios.\r\n3.\tGroup project to develop rubric for assessment portfolio, growth portfolio, showcase portfolio\r\n4.\tOpen Wiki- Participants will be encouraged to contribute content to the wiki both during and after the session. This wiki should become a living artifact of the common experience had during the session. The wiki will contain places for resources, stories of success and failure, links to working documents for session collaboration (Shared-Public-Open Google Doc), Place to share Diigo\/Delicious Accounts, Twitter Feed.","Presenter":["Claudia Loewenstein","Trevor Worcester","Chris Bigenho"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Greenhill School"],"PresenterEmail":["loewensteinc@greenhill.org","worcestert@greenhill.org","bigenhoc@greenhill.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":12,"AdditionalComments":"Resources for this session can be found at: http:\/\/educon24-portfolios.wikispaces.com\/\r\n\r\nThis site will provide links to a page of collaborative notes and resources related to this session.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":57,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1320020802,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reinvent Your School Library and Computer Lab into a Learning Commons","Handle":"Reinvent_Your_School_Library_and_Computer_Lab_into_a_Learning_Commons","ShortDescription":"Participate with us in the dynamic transformation, both physical and virtual, of school libraries and computer labs from storage, stuff, and technology training into the center of teaching and learning in your school.","Description":"Obsolete? Outmoded? Unaffordable? These are just a few of the questions we hear about libraries and computer labs in the age of the ubiquitous Internet. We invite you to do some 180 degree thinking, planning, idea sharing, and leadership to move traditional ideas into exciting physical and virtual foundational elements of knowledge building.   \r\n\r\nWhat is the central role of information and technology in a world of digital natives? Are teachers and students so sophisticated in their tech and info use that they require little to no partnerships with teacher librarians and teacher technologists? If inquiry is so central to learning, do kids and teens automatically excel the moment we flip on the Internet switch? Is the library and computer lab just an organizational solution for teacher planning periods?\r\n\r\nDuring our time together, we will confront major reasons and possibilities and tours of what really happens when a Learning Commons rises like a Phoenix as a new physical and virtual world.\r\n\r\nAsking every participant to brainstorm, we will, together probe ideas, examine actual school transformations, and lay down together major principles that will propel schools of inquiry toward excellence.\r\n\r\nMeeting in an actual library, we will redesign an actual space and a companion virtual space for almost no money, for some money, and for a complete architectural redesign (architects and administrators needed)\r\n\r\nEach participant will go home with the collaborative intelligence we build together plus a plethora of information sources, and actual transformations of schools around North America who have created Leaning Commons.","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/educon24learningcommons\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will create our own web site known as a Knowledge Building Center where everyone in the audience will participate using Web 2.0 tools to brainstorm, analyze, synthesize, see examples, share resources and develop collaborative intelligence in a virtual space that we would expect teacher librarians and teacher technologists to be co-teaching alongside classroom teachers.","Presenter":["David Loertscher","Joyce Valenza"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Joyce Valenza","Teacher Librarian","Springfield Township High School","Philadelphia PA and David Loertscher","Professor of Library and Information Science","San Jose State University"],"PresenterEmail":["joycevalenza@gmail.com","reader.david@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"We hope to use images of the library of the Science Leadership Academy as a starting point for discussion around realistic reinvention of physical and virtual space.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46705,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":126,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1322798079,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How do we ask the right questions?","Handle":"How_do_we_ask_the_right_questions","ShortDescription":"This session will look at inquiry as a tool for professional development as well as classroom instruction. Participants will participate in group discussions, share resources and have the option of enrolling in a collaborative study group that continues the conversation after EduCon.","Description":"The idea of an inquiry-driven education model is older than Dewey. Still, few schools, classrooms or faculties work to give the time and space necessary to engage in true cycles of inquiry. Using leading journal articles, practice experience and the fund of knowledge provided by participants, this conversation will work to begin or refine participants' inquiry-based practices. Additionally, participants will have the option of continuing their study and learning through an online study group in the weeks following EduCon.","Link":["https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1urnlc-m-yDlcqnQfq1nMC1956TIP26JcdCEERVDudog\/edit","https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/chaseeducon24\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation","Presenter":["Zac Chase"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Harvard Graduate School of Education Master's Candidate"],"PresenterEmail":["zac.chase@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46706,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":134,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1326931047,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Storytelling with Google","Handle":"Storytelling_with_Google","ShortDescription":"Join Google Lead Software Engineer Daniel Barcay for a discussion of how we can use Google Earth and other Google Tools as powerful storytelling devices. The session will include examples to start the conversation with participants brainstorming ways to leverage the tools in unconventional ways to allow students to unlock their stories.","Description":"Join Google Lead Software Engineer Daniel Barcay for a discussion of how we can use Google Earth and other Google Tools as powerful storytelling devices. The session will include examples to start the conversation with participants brainstorming ways to leverage the tools in unconventional ways to allow students to unlock their stories.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Discussion","Presenter":["Dan Barcay"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Lead Software Engineer - Google Earth"],"PresenterEmail":["dlaufenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46707,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":1,"ScheduleLocationID":6},"total":4,"limit":false,"offset":false}