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=SITE 2007 Presentation: 30 March 2007=

[| Presentation Slides] (3.3 MB PPT) [|Podcast of this presentation]

Participants on March 30th:
 * 1) April Chamberlain - District Technology Integration Specialist, Trussville City Schools, Trussville, Alabama
 * 2) Darren Kuropatwa - Department Head Mathematics, Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 * 3) Karen Richardson - adjunct instructor in the School of Education at the College of William and Mary; doctoral student in WM's Curriculum and Ed Tech Program
 * 4) Lee Baber - Educator in Computer Technology, Rockingham County Public Schools, Broadway, Virginia
 * 5) Shawn Nutting - Director of Technology, Trussville City Schools, Trussville, Alabama
 * 6) Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach- adjunct faculty in the School of Education at the College of William and Mary where she is also completing her doctoral degree in Educational Planning, Policy, and Leadership
 * 7) Wesley Fryer - Doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University, Director of Education Advocacy for AT&T in Oklahoma

The purpose of the panel discussion is to share the K-12 Online Conference story with others and provide a forum for reflection and suggestions to make the 2007 conference even better. For more background, you can [|listen to this 40 minute discussion from March 13th with Lee Baber and Wesley Fryer.]

Outline for the panel discussion on March 30th:
Introductions: 5 minutes
 * 1) Panelists and participants in attendance, brief framing about the conference

Next we'll have a 30 min overview of K-12 online:
 * 1) **Darren**: 10 min or so of an overview: how the idea came about, how the conference was planned and setup.
 * 2) **Sheryl**: 10 min or so on how the conference itself worked, Elluminate /live elements, discussion/conversation opportunities, and a little on stats we have about access to content and participant numbers, broken down however is appropriate
 * 3) **Wesley**: 10 min on results of the K-12 Online 2006 conference evaluation, suggestions for next year and lessons learned

Next we'll focus for about 15 minutes on a school district's use of K12Online06 for professional development:
 * 1) **Shawn Nutting / April Chamberlain**: Story of a district professional development project focused on K-12 Online.

Then we will open it up for several types of comments (10 min):
 * 1) Feedback in general from conveners and participants (how was the learning, experiences, esp how was this DIFFERENT from traditional prof development)
 * 2) Suggestions for next year / lessons learned
 * 3) How can our experiences in K-12 online inform teacher education, both from pre-service and in-service contexts?