Our Collaborative ABC Movie Project gets released to the K12 Online Conference today and Bonnie and I are thrilled, nervous and wondering how our presentations will be received. We mixed up our formats a bit by:

• First, Bonnie created a powerful overview movie of the reasons why we launched our ABC Movie project

• Second, I created a podcast of my own. Take a listen.
• Third, we put together a Webpage presentation that features the various tools that we used in the project, plus some nice podcast reflections by
  • Bud
  • Cynthia
  • Gail
• And finally, in that Webpage, there is a hands-on collaborative story project that uses the letters of the alphabet and VoiceThread (please join in!)

The presentation also marks the true public showing of the various movies that we created in Jumpcut along various themes (thanks to Bonnie) and so here they are for your viewing:

Passions

Family

Place Inspirations

School Days

Oddballs and Ends

Thanks for joining on this journey

Kevin and Bonnie

The 2007 edition of the K12 Online Conference begins today with a keynote podcast by David Warlick on the theme of “Inventing New Boundaries.” Here is a full schedule of events for the virtual conference.

As some readers may know, Bonnie  and I are also presenters later on in the month on the topic of our Collaborative ABC Movie project. It’s been interesting to try to develop a workshop in which people need to download presentations on their own time and where there is very little live interaction. Bonnie and I created a podcast, a movie and then a series of steps that lead to some interactive experimentation by folks. (Our presentation gets released on Monday, October 22).

We also have some nice podcast reflections from Bud, Cynthia and Gail added into our presentation.

Here is the description of the month-long event:

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.

Hope to have you there — there are plenty of great presentations on tap.

Kevin

Bonnie and I are honored to be sharing your stories with the world via the K12 Online Conference and we are collaboratively working on a presentation of the ABC adventure that will show other people who to embark on the the kind of journey that we undertook and then we are going to have folks take part in a smaller scale ABC project using VoiceThread.

I just found out today that our ABC presentation will take place on Monday October 22, so we hope you check it out.

What? You say you need more info about the conference (which is completely online and involves downloading presentations, online chats and self-directed activities)?

Here you go:

• The K12 Online Conference Weblog
• The K12 Online Conference Schedule

More to come in the next few weeks, including my podcast presentation, Bonnie’s new video overview of the project and much more!

Kevin