Bud the Teacher

The Podcast: Conversation Stream

   

This podcast, recorded on my way home from Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation, is just a stream of consciousness reflection on the day.  I am humbled to be in community with so many wonderful , talented and devoted educators, both here in Colorado as well as around the world. 

Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation - Live

I can't promise that I'll be here blogging all day - but I hope to be.  Today's a big deal for me.  I hope it's useful to you.  I'll live blog as much as I can, but you might want to head to the wiki to learn more or to join in the conversations via Ustream.  Ben's liveblogging, too. (Scroll to the bottom.)
 

The Podcast: Learning from each other

      

Today's podcast, recorded yesterday, is a short recording about Myra and her work with our district library clerks as they learn more about he read/write web.  Enjoy.

Links
Myra's course
The "23 Things "  project - which is formally called Learning 2.0
An article about our school district's Tech Fair (which I don't mention in the podcast, really, but I'm pretty excited about)

The Podcast: Collaboration Station

   

Today's podcast is a reflection on some experimentation I did today with Brian C. Smith as we're both learning how to collaborate via the XO.  In short, we were impressed.  Enjoy.

Links
Chris Craft's post
Xochat.org
Tom Hoffman's hardware/software post

The Podcast: I XOXO my XO

    Today's podcast is a semi-rambling review of the XO.  I also manage to mention Learning 2.0 (have you registered yet? We'd love to have you.) and a couple other little things.  Enjoy and let me know - what are you doing with your XO?

Links I mentioned

The OLPC Wiki
XoChat.org
Educon
Learning 2.0

I didn't mention this really useful walkthrough of the XO user interface.  But I should have.

Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation

You are invited to attend the Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation Conference.

What is Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation?
Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation is a one day conference/meetup for teachers, administrators, students, school board members, parents and anyone who is interested in education. It will be held on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008, from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, USA. We assume most folks will be from Colorado, but everyone is welcome to attend, and we are working on some ideas for virtual participation.

Education is conversation.

Conversation creates change.

The future of education does not exist in the isolated world of theory and abstract conference sessions. Instead, it exists in conversations. It exists in creating a robust learning network that is ever-expanding and just-in-time. Learning 2.0 is not the beginning of this conversation. It is merely a stopping point, a time to talk about the visible difference that we all seek.

We read. We reflect. We write. We share. We learn. Come join us for a day of conversation about learning and technology.

You can learn much more about the conference on the wiki, including information about registering. Here are some highlights:

Tentative Schedule
We're still working on the details so this will be updated before the conference. Also, this may expand if we have more folks register than we are anticipating. (To quote Bud Hunt, "This conference stuff is hard!")

Registration
You must register so that we know how many folks to expect and so that we can have enough lunches available. (Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?)

Cost
Free, baby. And lunch is included, thanks to the generous support of Littleton Public Schools, St. Vrain Valley Public Schools, and Arapahoe High School.

Wireless
BYOL (that would be Bring Your Own Laptop) - we'll have wireless access to the Internet (filtered) - we may test our capacity to handle density of machines, but hopefully things will go swimmingly. If not, we have wired machines in various places you can access.

Questions for Students
We're having a student panel discussion during lunch. Here's your chance to submit some questions for them to consider.

Invite Others
We strongly encourage you to invite other folks from your school, district, neighborhood, or learning network to attend as well. It would be great if everyone could bring at least one person with them that is perhaps new to this conversation.

Questions?
Feel free to leave a comment on this post or on the FAQ page on the wiki.

 

Oh, also feel free to add this image to your blog, or download and print the flyer.

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