LEA Convocation

[bdean]

Who is planning to attend the LEA Convocation this year? The MTM Project is hosting two events. One is the evening before the regular conference. It will be a forum discussion about the state of ed tech in Lutheran schools as well as the future of Lutheran schools in a digital world. The next morning there is going to be an event about which I am excited, a sort of show-and-tell where classroom teachers will have the chance to demonstrate great lessons and uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning. If any of you have a great lesson and might be interested in presenting/sharing at this, I would love to chat with you about the possibility. Or if you know of others who would be good candidates, that would be good to know also.

[Rob Jacklin]

Paul,
I'm looking into doing a webcast. Would you be interested in putting that together with me??
Kind of like something from Ed Tech Talk from Worldbridges.

Until then, count me in for a teacher to teacher.

[Paul Schwan]

Let's get together and talk about this. When is a good day/time?

[Durff]

you could do a first rate webcast! what can i do to get you started? (Our next show is Dec10 at 23:00GMT on edtechtalk-about tagging-I usually twitter it with the URL too)

[bdean]

Paul - That sounds like a neat idea, but leads to another possibility also. I've been thinking about trying to put together and host an online conference: Technology in Lutheran Education. I've pondered a few venues. One option is Second Life. I've attended some great conferences there, like the New Media Consortium Online conference, but Second Life has a learning curve and many don’t have experience with it. Another option is an entirely live/synchronous option like DimDim, Connect, or Elluminate. Still another option is to go with one of he online conference all in one hosting solutions. For a modest fee, they deal with all of the registration; provide live conferencing rooms, built-in pre- and post- conference message boards, etc. A better option might be to use a live room (ask Perry B. if we can use the Lutheran School Portal Breeze/Connect, and then use lutheraneducation.net for all of the asynchronous stuff. Lutheraneducation.net also has LeTube (Lutheran Education Tube, just like youtube but for Lutheran teachers). We could use that for a variety of pre-recorded presentations and others can include text and video replies. By the way, Lutheraneducation.net was partially set up for LEA pre and post-conference activities.

[Paul Schwan]

I'm one of those with little or no experience with many of the forums you've mentioned, so I'm in the crawl before you walk before you run stage. My read/write web experiences so far have focused on podcasting and a few video podcasts (asynchronous), but I'd like to get my feet wet with some synchronous stuff. I was thinking Skype because it's simple. So, the offer stands. If you'd like to meet sometime on Skype, share back and forth, even a one-time thing, let me know. It's been a while since I've had a good chat with a Concordia prof!

There's so much up-and-coming stuff out there, it boggles the imagination!

Thanks for the reply,
Paul

[Durff]

Always interested! I teach many classes-our 5th grade is already collaborating via Skypevideocalls-so...6th grade? Let me know - mrsdurff on Skype. We're not a Lutheran school, if that makes a difference..Broadfording Christian Academy is a Brethren School but we take 'em all. Last year Rob Jacklin and I did a video conference with our 7th graders.