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= **MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009** =

=**1. OPENING: from Susan Patrick, iNACOL President**=

**2. KEYNOTE: Tom VanderArk**

 * We're headed for a "blended world", Online traction, shifting delivery from traditional to blended: more online offerings, more 1:1 schools, more use of onlinje content.

=**3. ADVOCATING ALTERNATIVES: Choice and Change through technology,Tim King**= http://www.bakerwebacademy.com/ http://www.odysseyware.com/ http://www.allprep.us/


 * ALL TEACHERS GIVEN BLACKBERRIES AND LAPTOPS: Initial Investment is significant, long term benefit is worth it!

=**4.IMMERSIVE LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS, Jeff Piontek**= http://jeff.piontek.googlepages.com/ http://secondlife.com/ http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/~dqu2556/Multimedia/applets/group_project/index.html https://www.bluemarsonline.com/


 * "KIDS DON'T NEED TEXTBOOKS TODAY"
 * Hawaii is looking to embed online learning for the entire state...to meet student needs.

**5. WHAT DOES EXEMPLARY TEACHING ONLINE LOOK LIKE?**
http://vss2009.wikispaces.com/marsh


 * Need to have teachers interact or manipulate curriculum to "personalize" the process

http://www.21stcenturycyber.org/

=**6.ONLINE AND BLENDED LEARNING, Stephen Harris, Sydney Australia**= http://www.scil.nsw.edu.au/
 * Observations from Canada, UK, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greece
 * technology perceived as helping all other sectors, yet in education there is a "push back" not willing to move forward
 * to integrate schools into blended learning need to transform the room as well
 * Open classes with 2-3 adults in each class
 * need to "rethink" the concept of "space" and how we set up our buildings.
 * "95% of library books have not been touched for ten years"

= **TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009** = =**1. KEYNOTE: Terry Moe, Stanford University**= http://vss2009.wikispaces.com/liberating
 * Teacher unions blocking progress
 * liberation of learning - not talking about more high tech schools, but talking about range of influence of technology to ensure that all students will learn

=**2. TALES OF DISRUPTION IN EDUCATION**= http://www.innosight.com/our_approach/innosight_institute.html

**Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (Hardcover)**
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Look to Florida Virtual School as a successful model.

=**3. ONLINE TOOLS FOR THE 21st CENTURY**= http://vss2009.wikispaces.com/bennett-piontek-barbour

http://delicious.com/bennettjay

=**4. CONSPIRACY CODE**= http://www.flvs.net/areas/flvscourses/conspiracycode/pages/default.aspx

A complete American History course based on a game simulation. Florida Virtual School

=**5.Design an Effective Moodle Site using Camtasia, Elluminate, and Respondus, Michelle Frankish**=

http://frankichm.eduspoke.com/