Over this last weekend I have been engaged in the K12Online Conference organised out of America for a global audience.

I had subscribed to the RSS podcast feed and now have an almost full set of videos from the conference to watch, re-watch and share. Look for the podcast channels link above the cluster map.

I feel humbled to personally know couple of the presenters and conveners…

– Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach who along with Darren Kuropatwa, Wes Fryer and Dean Shareski organised the thing. Thanks people- you did a great job.
– Nelson’s own Elaine Newton ECE ICTPD facilitator did a presentation titled Action Research as Catalyst for Change in Teacher Practice and Outcomes for Children.
– Chris Betcher, a fellow Adobe Educational Leader from Aussie did a presentation title “I Like Delicious Things- an introduction to tagging.

I would encourage you to grab the podcast feed and have a listen to whatever takes your fancy. All presentations are limited to 20 minutes so they won’t take too long to download and learn from. The nice thing about this conference is that all of the media is just sitting there waiting for your attention- all year round- waiting for you to have a moment to learn something new and to reflect on the practice of others.

The final event of the conference was an Elluminate session called “When Night Falls’ where educators from round the world can get together and share what they have learnt and generally discuss issues relating to education. I had volunteered to help moderate a session for an hour or so and found it to be a great way to really get to know how to use this collaborative tool. I have been part of numerous Elluminate sessions before but now I feel a lot less nervous when using it. Sometimes just jumping in at the deep end is the best way to learn how to do something. In the first hour there were over thirty people in the virtual room all chatting away and adding their names and locations to the whiteboard.