NECC 2009 Call for Participation -- Proposal Synopsis (Proposal ID# 43605147)

Proposal Synopsis (Proposal ID# 43605147)

Speaker

Speaker Scott Merrick
University School of Nashville

NECC Ning Link

Ning URL http://www.necc2008.org/forum/topics/need-to-trick-out-your-second

Final Enrollment Status

Response Accepted

Participation Agreement Form

Honorarium Claim Honorarium & Expenses

Participation Agreement Accept

Recording Preference recordable

Category/Subcategory Selection

Category/Subcategory Workshop -- Hands-on

General Information

Session Title Educators' Toolbox and Skill Set: Instruction and Presentation in Second Life

Session Description Become a skillful user of the most exciting immersive environment available. Acquire skills and tools that will serve you well in any education setting.

Theme and Strand 21st-Century Teaching & Learning:Multimedia/Video/Virtual Reality/Newscasting

Keywords Second Life, presentation, instruction, virtual, environment

Primary URL http://sleducatortoolbox.wikispaces.com

Exhibitor Status

Commercial Content Yes

Audience Type Chief Technology Officers
Curriculum Specialists
Library Media Specialists
Principals
Staff Developers
Superintendents
School Board Members
Teachers
Teacher Educators
Technology Coordinators
Technology Facilitators
Technology Integration Specialists

Audience Level All

Audience Skill Advanced

Prerequisites Intermediate to Advanced skills in Second Life are absolutely required. Ample opportunities for new users should be ample at the conference, but this is not one of them.

NETS•S 1- 6

NETS•T 1- 5

NETS•A I- IV, VI

Workshop Information

Workshop Length Half-day

Workshop Lab Requirements MAC Lab

Workshop Maximum Capacity 30

Multiple Workshop Presentations No

Workshop Scheduling Preferences No evenings not ok

Proposal Summary

Purpose & Objectives Teachers who see the potential of Second Life are sometimes stymied when they may have a vision of what they want to do but no grasp of the tools to do it. Tools such as HUDs (Heads Up Displays), scripted objects like Powerpoint projectors, media display objects, polling booths, graph creators, SLoodle (and certainly other, newly created ones by the time of the conference), require some experience before an educator feels comfortable enough to make best use of them for either classroom instruction or event presentation. This hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize interested educators with as many skills and tools as possible.

Outline Video clips (machinima) of successful presentations will be shared. An inventory of educator tools will have been compiled and will be made available for the participants. Demonstration of the tools will be whole-class, inside Second Life, and each will be followed by hands-on practice by the participants. The Powerpoint tool, for example, will be demonstrated, then participants will be guided to create a brief Powerpoint, with SL image optimization and Ppt best practices in mind, and then will upload the requisite images to Second Life and place them into their presenter. Other tools will be similarly demonstrated and practiced.
At some point in the session, Linden Lab Education Project Manager Claudia L'Amoreaux (SL Claudia Linden) will hold stage in order to share LL's interest in Best Practices for integration of SL across the curriculum, ways people are using SL to teach difficult real life subjects in SL, how SL is changing teachers' roles, and unique approaches to assessment in Virtual Environments. This is a firm commitment from Ms. L'Amoreaux.
One additional focus will be the mashup--innovative ways to incorporate existing online tools into Second Life. Perhaps we'll all leave the workshop discovering something completely unique and never before tried!

Supporting Research See documentation compiled at the SLedupotential wiki created for NECC2008. https://sledupotential.wikispaces.com/Supporting+research+sources
See the Interactive Scripts for Teaching section at SimTeach: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scripts

Presenter Background Scott Merrick's teaching portfolio is available online at http://members.home.net/~scottmerrick. He teaches K-4 technology at University School of Nashville (TN) and is Teacher-in-residence at the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach, and he hosts a popular blog about teaching and learning at http://scottmerrick.net. He volunteer docents for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) at its ISTE Island headquarters in Second Life and manages resources for ISTE at the Island''s Blogger''s Hut and Podcasters'' Place, two popular destinations for educators visiting the regular events held in that virtual space. He frequently presents workshops for teachers in Web 2.0 applications (http://scottweb20.wikispaces.com) and in Second Life for teaching and learning (http://sledupotential.wikispaces.com), and he is the host/producer of Snacks4theBrain! (http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/s4theb/), a regular podcast about science, math, and education.
Cathy Walker is Technology Coordinator at St. Vincent de Paul School in Rogers, Arkansas. She is a well-known facilitator in Second Life and co-founder, with Miller and Merrick, of MUVErs LLC, an entity dedicated to helping students and educators utilize virtual environments with optimal safety, fairness, effectiveness, and productivity.
John Miller is RN Faculty at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Washington. He is a recognized expert in using virtual environments to teach, and a leader in the field of medical simulations for educations.
Marianne Malmstrom has been an educator for over 25 years. Her fascination with using emerging technologies in the classroom led to her current position as a middle school technology teacher at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ. With her colleague, Sarah Rolle, she has developed a program rich in the use of multimedia. Her school has received two JPMorgan Chase awards for “Excellence in the Use of Multimedia” as part of WLIW’s Teaching & Learning Celebration. In Second Life, Marianne is known as Knowclue Kidd. She has volunteered as an ISTE docent since May 2007 and has been responsible for organizing several collaborative projects with colleagues from around the world. As an early adopter of machinima (video created using 3D virtual worlds), Marianne has been keenly interested in how this new medium can be used for education. She has created several short machinimas including “ISTE in Second Life”. Working with her 8th grade tech club, she is currently exploring the use of machinima in the classroom. http://www.knowclue.com

Equipment Information

Whiteboard Requests

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing Description

Additional Presenters

Co-Presenter #1 Marianne Malmstrom
411 Shannon Court
Englewood NJ
US
Knowclue@knowclue.com

Co-Presenter #2 John Miller
12416 103 St Ct KPN
Gig Harbor WA
USA
jsvavoom@gmail.com

Co-Presenter #3 Peggy (Norton) Sheehy
80 Hemion Road
Suffern NY
USA
psheehy@ramapocentral.org

Co-Presenter #4 Bronwyn Stuckey
PO Box 2180 Taren Point
Sydney NSW
Australia
bestucke@indiana.edu

Co-Presenter #5 Cathy Walker
903 NW A Street
Bentonville AR
USA
padln@hotmail.com


Speaker
	Speaker	Scott Merrick University School of Nashville

NECC Ning Link
	Ning URL	http://www.necc2008.org/forum/topics/need-to-trick-out-your-second

Final Enrollment Status
	Response	Accepted

Participation Agreement Form
	Honorarium	Claim Honorarium & Expenses
	Participation Agreement	Accept
	Recording Preference	recordable

Category/Subcategory Selection
	Category/Subcategory	Workshop -- Hands-on

General Information
	Session Title	Educators' Toolbox and Skill Set: Instruction and Presentation in Second Life
	Session Description	Become a skillful user of the most exciting immersive environment available. Acquire skills and tools that will serve you well in any education setting.
	Theme and Strand	21st-Century Teaching & Learning:Multimedia/Video/Virtual Reality/Newscasting
	Keywords	Second Life, presentation, instruction, virtual, environment
	Primary URL	http://sleducatortoolbox.wikispaces.com
	Exhibitor Status
	Commercial Content	Yes
	Audience Type	Chief Technology Officers Curriculum Specialists Library Media Specialists Principals Staff Developers Superintendents School Board Members Teachers Teacher Educators Technology Coordinators Technology Facilitators Technology Integration Specialists
	Audience Level	All
	Audience Skill	Advanced
	Prerequisites	Intermediate to Advanced skills in Second Life are absolutely required. Ample opportunities for new users should be ample at the conference, but this is not one of them.
	NETS•S	1- 6
	NETS•T	1- 5
	NETS•A	I- IV, VI

Workshop Information
	Workshop Length	Half-day
	Workshop Lab Requirements	MAC Lab
	Workshop Maximum Capacity	30
	Multiple Workshop Presentations	No
	Workshop Scheduling Preferences	No evenings not ok

Proposal Summary
	Purpose & Objectives	Teachers who see the potential of Second Life are sometimes stymied when they may have a vision of what they want to do but no grasp of the tools to do it. Tools such as HUDs (Heads Up Displays), scripted objects like Powerpoint projectors, media display objects, polling booths, graph creators, SLoodle (and certainly other, newly created ones by the time of the conference), require some experience before an educator feels comfortable enough to make best use of them for either classroom instruction or event presentation. This hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize interested educators with as many skills and tools as possible.
	Outline	Video clips (machinima) of successful presentations will be shared. An inventory of educator tools will have been compiled and will be made available for the participants. Demonstration of the tools will be whole-class, inside Second Life, and each will be followed by hands-on practice by the participants. The Powerpoint tool, for example, will be demonstrated, then participants will be guided to create a brief Powerpoint, with SL image optimization and Ppt best practices in mind, and then will upload the requisite images to Second Life and place them into their presenter. Other tools will be similarly demonstrated and practiced. At some point in the session, Linden Lab Education Project Manager Claudia L'Amoreaux (SL Claudia Linden) will hold stage in order to share LL's interest in Best Practices for integration of SL across the curriculum, ways people are using SL to teach difficult real life subjects in SL, how SL is changing teachers' roles, and unique approaches to assessment in Virtual Environments. This is a firm commitment from Ms. L'Amoreaux. One additional focus will be the mashup--innovative ways to incorporate existing online tools into Second Life. Perhaps we'll all leave the workshop discovering something completely unique and never before tried!
	Supporting Research	See documentation compiled at the SLedupotential wiki created for NECC2008. https://sledupotential.wikispaces.com/Supporting+research+sources See the Interactive Scripts for Teaching section at SimTeach: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scripts
	Presenter Background	Scott Merrick's teaching portfolio is available online at http://members.home.net/~scottmerrick. He teaches K-4 technology at University School of Nashville (TN) and is Teacher-in-residence at the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach, and he hosts a popular blog about teaching and learning at http://scottmerrick.net. He volunteer docents for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) at its ISTE Island headquarters in Second Life and manages resources for ISTE at the Island''s Blogger''s Hut and Podcasters'' Place, two popular destinations for educators visiting the regular events held in that virtual space. He frequently presents workshops for teachers in Web 2.0 applications (http://scottweb20.wikispaces.com) and in Second Life for teaching and learning (http://sledupotential.wikispaces.com), and he is the host/producer of Snacks4theBrain! (http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/s4theb/), a regular podcast about science, math, and education. Cathy Walker is Technology Coordinator at St. Vincent de Paul School in Rogers, Arkansas. She is a well-known facilitator in Second Life and co-founder, with Miller and Merrick, of MUVErs LLC, an entity dedicated to helping students and educators utilize virtual environments with optimal safety, fairness, effectiveness, and productivity. John Miller is RN Faculty at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Washington. He is a recognized expert in using virtual environments to teach, and a leader in the field of medical simulations for educations. Marianne Malmstrom has been an educator for over 25 years. Her fascination with using emerging technologies in the classroom led to her current position as a middle school technology teacher at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ. With her colleague, Sarah Rolle, she has developed a program rich in the use of multimedia. Her school has received two JPMorgan Chase awards for “Excellence in the Use of Multimedia” as part of WLIW’s Teaching & Learning Celebration. In Second Life, Marianne is known as Knowclue Kidd. She has volunteered as an ISTE docent since May 2007 and has been responsible for organizing several collaborative projects with colleagues from around the world. As an early adopter of machinima (video created using 3D virtual worlds), Marianne has been keenly interested in how this new medium can be used for education. She has created several short machinimas including “ISTE in Second Life”. Working with her 8th grade tech club, she is currently exploring the use of machinima in the classroom. http://www.knowclue.com

Equipment Information
	Whiteboard Requests
	Videoconferencing
	Videoconferencing Description

Additional Presenters
	Co-Presenter #1	Marianne Malmstrom 411 Shannon Court Englewood NJ US Knowclue@knowclue.com
	Co-Presenter #2	John Miller 12416 103 St Ct KPN Gig Harbor WA USA jsvavoom@gmail.com
	Co-Presenter #3	Peggy (Norton) Sheehy 80 Hemion Road Suffern NY USA psheehy@ramapocentral.org
	Co-Presenter #4	Bronwyn Stuckey PO Box 2180 Taren Point Sydney NSW Australia bestucke@indiana.edu
	Co-Presenter #5	Cathy Walker 903 NW A Street Bentonville AR USA padln@hotmail.com