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eLearning Strategies Symposium Keynotes for the 2nd Annual eLearning Strategies Symposium

Workshops at the 2nd Annual eLearning Strategies Symposium

Governor Bob Wise, Eric Mazur, and Jon Bergmann will provide the Friday and Saturday keynotes for the second annual eLearning Strategies Symposium. Governor Wise will present the opening keynote on Friday morning, December 6th, while Eric Mazur will provide the lunch keynote after the 2013 eLearning awards are announced. Jon Bergmann will close the syposium on Saturday.

Five, three-hour workshops will be offered during this year’s eLearning Strategies Symposium. Thursday workshops include Using iBooks Author to Create Interactive Resources, presented by Burt Lo; and Tables in the Classroom (iPad or Android), presented by Kyle Brumbaugh. Thursday workshops, which run from 1pm to 4pm are just $75.

Governor Bob Wise Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise is president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a nonprofit organization that has become a national leader and a respected advocate for the Common Core State Standards, deeper learning, digital learning, adolescent literacy, and other key education policy issues.

After serving a combined twenty-four years as governor, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and state legislator, Gov. Wise has become a popular speaker and advisor on education issues as well as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, White House, and key policymakers in the U.S. Congress. In 2011, Gov. Wise was named to the NonProfit Times’s “Power & Influence Top 50,” an annual listing of the fifty most influential executives in the nonprofit sector.

Professor Eric Mazur Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and Area Dean of Applied Physics. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard University.

Dr. Mazur is also a renowned educational innovator. He believes that better science education for all -- not just science majors -- is vital for continued scientific progress. An early adopter of educational technology and e-learning, Professor Mazur is a founder of Learning Catalytics, a cloudbased technology that enables instructors to engage students with authentic formative assessments in real time, and rich data analytics to drive student interactions.

In his keynote, Confessions of a Converted Lecturer, Dr. Mazur will share how his teaching approach evolved after he discovered that his students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Jon Bergmann Jon Bergmann is considered one of the pioneers in the Flipped Class Movement. He co-wrote the book, Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Jon believes educators should ask one guiding question: “What is best for my students in my classroom?” To the best of his abilities he has done this in his twenty-four years as a high school science teacher. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching in 2002 and was named Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year in 2010. He is a co-founder of the Flipped Learning Network, a nonprofit organization that provides teachers the resources needed to implement flipped learning (http://flippedlearning.org). He serves on the advisory board of TED Education.

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The three Saturday workshops include Teach the Common Core with Blended Instruction, taught by Catlin Tucker; Flipped Classroom – Hands on Getting Started, presented by Lisa Highfill; and Google Forms: May the Forms be With You, by Will Kimbly. Saturday workshop registration is just $75 and includes Jon Bergmann’s closing keynote at 11:30.

Using iBooks Author to Create Interactive Resources Burt Lo.....................................................................Thursday, 1pm-4pm iBooks author can be used by administrators, teachers and students to create dynamic and interactive resources for school or classroom management and for student learning. Participants must have a Mac device with iBooks author installed.

Tablets in the Classroom (iPad or Android) Kyle Brumbaugh.....................................................Thursday, 1pm-4pm Workshop focuses on strategies for instruction with a tablet. Bring your tablet to look at instructional practices, classroom management, SAMR model, blended learning classroom

Flipped Classroom – Hands on Getting Started Lisa Highfill..................................................Saturday, 8:15am-11:15am There are many myths of what the flipped classroom is and isn’t. Bring your laptop to have a hands on approach to creating elements for designing an instructional environment in the flipped classroom style. This workshop is not compatible with tablets, a Mac or PC is required.

Google Forms: May the Forms be With You Will Kimbly..................................................Saturday, 8:15am-11:15am Learn how to create Google Forms to use for quizzes, surveys, rubrics, and assignment Dropboxes. Create quizzes in Google Forms, and then use Flubaroo to auto-grade and provide student feedback. Take control of student Docs sharing nightmares and tracking assignments. Create selfgrading rubrics and much, much more. Google Forms can now be created with images – come learn how.

Teach the Common Core with Blended Instruction Catlin Tucker................................................Saturday, 8:15am-11:15am Are you overwhelmed by the idea of transitioning to a new set of standards?

Don’t be! Learn how you can use Web 2.0 tools to effectively engage students and teach the Common Core State Standards. Teach technology and media literacy while providing students more opportunities to develop their reading, writing, communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills (and eliminate piles of paperwork!). More effectively prepare your students for life beyond high school!

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eLearning Strategies Symposium Sampling of Sessions at the 2nd Annual eLearning Strategies Symposium The Importance of Community In an Online Environment

MOOCs in the K-12 Environment

While the majority of focus in developing an online class is on the curriculum an equal or greater focus on relationships and community is needed. Explore ideas for how to create community in an online course.

Learn about how TechSETS and the San Diego County Office of Education developed and deployed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) as a free source of professional development for K-12 educators. We will discuss the benefits of and challenges we faced in providing a MOOC, the rise of the MOOC as an instrument for learning, what critics have to say about it, the differences between the more conventional asynchronous curriculum and one developed for massive consumption, and a practical guide for developing your own MOOC experiences for staff or students.

Alice Keeler

Fast Forward: University of California’s A-G Online Course Policy & the Growth of Online Learning Monica Lin

The University of California recognizes that new technologies and approaches to learning are growing rapidly and have the potential to revolutionize the way students gain knowledge and fulfill the requirements for access into postsecondary education. This session focuses on the University’s new policy for the review and approval of online courses fulfilling the “a-g” subject area requirements. Updates, challenges, and successes will be presented to inform the development of a statewide vision of how to implement effective online learning opportunities for California’s students.

College and Career Readiness in the 21st Century Renee Citlau (National Online Teacher of the Year)

With the focus on college and career readiness and the large number of students that are English learners, online courses must develop literacy skills. In this session, participants will learn and discuss strategies and tools to increase student literacy, 21st Century Skills, and Habits of Mind such as perseverance, time management, and metacognition.

Teacher Voices after a Decade of Online Learning Laura Soule

Listen in as a panel of teachers in both virtual and blended settings discusses what they have learned about teaching online. Hear from teachers in their own voices about the biggest challenges and most surprising rewards of teaching online. Teachers from Connections Learning, Capistrano Connections Academy, K-12, and Insight schools will share.

Measuring the Impact of Online and Blended Professional Development Mary Kraus

This session will report on the efforts and initial results of the San Diego County of Education’s (SDCOE) Online and Blended Learning Team’s efforts to systematically measure, respond and follow up on the impact of their professional development courses offered in online and blended learning formats. During this session members of the Online and Blended Learning Team will share their implementation plan, procedures, measuring tools and initial data for reporting on SDCOE course impact.

Using Google Forms to Make Teaching and Administrating Easier Steve Miller

Participants will learn how to utilize Google Forms both in and out of the classroom to assist in teaching and administration. This workshop will teach you the basics of creating and sharing a Google Form. Google Forms can be used as a teaching aid, as classroom management tool, and as an administrator’s best friend.

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Emil Ahangarzadeh

Screencasting For Administrators (and Teachers, Too!) Mathew Barnett

When you have a limited amount of time, it’s important to have the maximimum effect with your staff. Get imporant information out and do impactful trainings via screencasting! Over the years I have wanted to be able to dispense with staff meetings for announcements and do mor professional development and have more PLC time. Screencasting allows you to announce and teach concrete subjects online at the learners’ own rate while allowing you to schedule other important trainings during collaboration time.

Blended Learning Beyond the Technology Kami Thordarson

Blended Learning is a common buzzword but what should it really look like in the classroom? In Los Altos, we are working to define and expand the definition of blended learning. We have piloted Khan Academy in our math classrooms as well as their robotics projects with great success. We are now starting to further define what a good blended learning model looks like beyond just integrating technology. Developing our concept of good online content that includes project based learning and design thinking strategies are a part of our model as we enable our teachers to become designers of curriculum.

Transferring Effective Classroom Teacher Relationships into Learning Management Systems Jeffrey Smith

Effective classroom teaching strategies can foster meaningful relationships with classroom students that lead to increased levels of academic achievement, but how does a K-12 teacher effectively transfer these relationships into the online/blended environment? This session will analyze the courseware development and instructional strategies deployed by classroom teachers during controlled research experiments. Participants will review psychometric student engagement instrument (SEI) findings that measure student responses and activities from the online/blended classroom.

Powerful, Flexible, and Free! Rethinking 1:1 with Ubermix Jim Klein

Looking for a 1:1 solution that’s as easy to use as iPads, as simple to manage as Chromebooks, but has all the power of a real laptop and won’t blow the budget? Low-cost laptops and the open-source Ubermix operating system combine to bring you a 1:1 program that’s practical, flexible, scalable, and most of all, powerful! Learn how this always ready, easy to use technology is bringing real 21st Century Learning to schools all over the world with dozens of free education focused apps and the unlimited potential of the web. Easy to use and maintain for even the most technology challenged teacher,

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Hotel Information The Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa, a short, free shuttle ride from John Wayne Airport, is centrally located by I-405 and the South Coast Plaza. Single and double rooms, which are $129 per night, include free wi-fi and discounted self-parking is available for $10 per day. Room reservations must be made by November 10, 2013. Secure your room through the eSS hotel reservation page, or call the Hilton directly and use the group code, ELEARN.

Cancellation Policy CUE and CLRN are not responsible for travel expenses incurred due to cancelled programs. Cancellations must be in writing and postmarded a minimum of 15 days prior to the program date to be eligible for a refund. A service fee is charged for all cancellations. The following scale will be used for all cancellation requests. Note: Each cancellation notice received is reviewed on an individual basis to determine if a refund is warranted.

60 days prior................................................................. Full refund less $40 service fee 30 days prior................................................................. Full refund less $50 service fee 15 days prior................................................................................................50% refund 14 days or less................................................................................................ No refund

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