NSTA ‘08: Celebrating Science Education
This week the Yahoo! For Teachers Team will join science teachers from around the country at the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) Annual Conference in Boston to learn what’s new and exciting in the world of science education.
We’re looking forward to reconnecting with teachers we met last year at the 2007 NSTA Annual Conference in St. Louis and can’t wait to meet up with more amazing educators this year.
We’ve set up a special NSTA 2008 Group on Flickr and invite all educators attending NSTA 2008 to share their pictures and conference memories with their colleagues.
Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers Team
Call For Presentations: Innovative Learning Conference
The Innovative Learning Conference (ILC) 2008 is a new event produced in partnership by CUE and FETC for the K-12 education community. ILC is devoted to advancing student achievement through an interactive event that will include hands-on workshops, concurrent sessions, meetings and exhibitions.
ILC is designed for teachers, principals, district administrators, curriculum designers, media specialists, technology directors and other educators.
Applications to Present at Breakout Sessions are being accepted through April 1, 2008. You can learn more and complete your online application by clicking here.
Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers Team
Yahoo! For Teachers @ Classroom 2.0 Live SF
On February 1, the Yahoo! For Teachers team will be joining our colleagues from the del.icio.us team at the Classroom 2.0 Live meet up in San Francisco. For those of you who are unable to attend, here’s a copy of the del.icio.us 101 handout.
Classroom 2.0 Live SF is being organized by Steve Hargadon and will feature workshop sessions on using Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom.
We’ll also have some spiffy Yahoo! For Teachers schwag too, so be sure to step up and introduce yourself! We’re really looking forward to attending this event and meeting all of you.
Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers Team
K12 Online Conference 2007
Announcing the 2nd Annual K12 Online 2007 convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice.
The 2007 conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a pre-conference keynote during the week of October 8. The conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries.”
Additional Resources
Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers
Road Report: Yahoo! For Teachers Workshops
I just thought I’d give you an update on what the Yahoo! Teachers team has been up to the last few hectic weeks!
June 17: We held a Yahoo! Teachers workshop for teachers in the San Jose/Evergreen School District. This was a great event and they were really impressed with Yahoo! Teachers and the Gobbler.
June 22: The entire Yahoo! Teachers team headed to Atlanta to attend NECC 2007! This is the largest educational computing conference in the country and we met teachers from all over the country.
Our booth was jammed packed with teachers wanting to see the Gobbler in action! This was a great week and our first big showing of Yahoo! For Teachers!
We had a great time in Atlanta. Bill’s edict is that we “eat local” when we travel. One of the highlights of the trip was our team dinner at Gladys Knight Chicken and Waffles. We were a little tired and slap happy, so this made it even more fun.
We had a great bounty of Southern goodness on our table: fried chicken, waffles, collard greens, mac and cheese, fried corn, oh fresh lima beans and of course sweet tea! Being Yahoos, the moment our food arrived we whipped out our cameras so we could Flickr our food before we ate it!
July 2: Off to the windy city! Our Yahoo! Teachers Chicago workshop was held at the University of Chicago. We had a wonderful group of teachers from around Illinois attend the workshop. We also had several teachers from NECC come to the workshop.
One of the most amazing new Yahoo! Teachers drove all the way from Alabama to attend the workshop. Karon and I were floored and honored that she would make that long drive to learn more about Yahoo! for Teachers. Again, we had some terrific projects come out of this workshop.
July 11: The Big Apple welcomed Yahoo! Teachers and we held two workshops at the NYC Yahoo! HQ. This was an amazing cadre of educators from all over the region. Teachers came from Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
We met several educators who are blogging about technology in the classroom and using social media in interesting and innovative ways to support learning in the classroom.
We were also thrilled to have Sue Wright and Greg Crum join us at our NYC workshops. They were great advocates for Yahoo! Teachers and they had a great time meeting colleagues from the other side of the country! Thanks Greg and Sue!
July 13: After a whirlwind couple of days in NYC, Karon and I headed off to Washington D.C. to present Yahoo! for Teachers to the American Federation of Teachers. Our group of teachers hailed from Minnesota, Montana, DC, Virginia and New York.
In fact, we had standing room only and left with a long list of teachers who want to sign up as alpha teachers. We were thrilled to have such a positive reception from the AFT community.
Speaking of the AFT, they have a lot of great resources on their site, including resources to help educators teach about the crisis in Darfur.
July 16: Karon and I headed to San Francisco to attend the YPulse Mashup. This is a conference that focuses around how tweens and teens use technology.
We were thrilled to share Yahoo! Teachers with the Mashup crowd and show how educators can use Yahoo! Teachers to connect with other teachers and gain the skills and confidence they need to use 21st century tools in their classrooms.
We had the honor to meet with Lisa and Pearl from the Schwab Learning Foundation. This is a wonderful organization that provides information and resources to teachers/kids/parents on learning difficulties (LD).
They have a wonderful site, including an online library, full of articles, research and other information to help students with learning difficulties. They have a special site for kids called, SparkTop , where kids with LD can come and connect with other kids
We also presented Ben Wilkoff, a teacher from Denver, Colorado, with the first Yahoo! Teachers/Edutopia Totally Wired Teacher Award. Congrats to Ben!
July 17: Hey Austin! Here we come…….Wendy Heller, Karon and I headed off to Austin to hold a workshop at the University of Texas @ Austin. Wow. Talk about totally wired! The teachers at the Austin workshop were very tech savvy and caught the vision of Yahoo! Teachers in a big, big way.
Then again, everything–including vision–is big in Texas!
All work and no play? No way. While in Austin we checked out the Story of Texas state history museum and tracked down the best BBQ join in Austin. Where? That would be Iron Works. Yum. Yum. Yum.
Where next? That would be San Diego! On Saturday we will be holding our final summer workshop at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego.
We come off this workshop and conference tour with a newfound appreciation for all the wonderful educators out there who are striving every day in the classroom to help their students acquire the knowledge and skills they will need to be contributing members of society.
Stay tuned, we are just getting started…….
Cheers!
Derek, Karon and the entire Yahoo! Teachers team
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Yahoo! Teachers Workshops: Scenes from the Road
Karon and I are having a great time meeting teachers from all over the country at our Yahoo! For Teachers workshops.We have met a lot of really fantastic, inspiring teachers.
They have given us a lot of great feedback on Yahoo! For Teachers and are rapidly learning how to bring 21st Century skills into their classrooms.
NECC 2006: Hello Atlanta!
Yahoo! Teachers will be attending the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
So if you’re planning on attending NECC, please stop by our booth (#358), say hello, and pick up some fantastic Yahoo! Teachers swag! See you there!
Related Events
Are You a Totally Wired Teacher?
This July at the 2007 Y Pulse Mash-up in San Francisco, Yahoo! Teachers and the George Lucas Educational Foundation / Edutopia will honor a teacher who has successfully used social media (blogs, wikis, social networking, photo/video sharing or audio groups) in the classroom.
The winner of the Totally Wired Teacher Award will have successfully navigated their school ecosystem and overcome challenges from parents and/or administrators in order to use technology in the classroom.
The Totally Wired Teacher also understands how Gen Y students use social media outside of school, and have worked collaboratively with students, sharing their insight and knowledge with their colleagues.
If you, or a teacher you know is Totally Wired, you can nominate them by sending and email along with why you feel they are deserving to : jdaly@edutopia.org.
Yahoo! Teachers will be at YPulse Mash-Up, so be sure to come by and say hello!
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Open House @ Tapped In
On Wednesday May 16th there will be a 1 hour Yahoo! For Teachers open house in our Tapped In Group Office (Yahoo!Teachers_Grp) at 4pm & 6:30pm Pacific Time.
Tapped In (TI) is free, but if you don’t have a TI login and password you’ll need to get registered in order to attend the Yahoo! Teachers open house. My TI handle is DerekB, so look for me!
I’ll be answering questions about Yahoo! For Teachers and other Yahoo! tools you can use in your classroom. It’s also a great opportunity for you to get ideas, support and connect with other teachers. It’s going to be pretty casual, so drop by and say hello!
If you haven’t already, check out Yahoo! For Teachers, an exciting new community built by teachers, for teachers. You can watch a video and see how Sue Wright, one of the teachers we’ve been working with to help develop this new service, has been using Yahoo! For Teachers and the Gobbler in her classroom.
I’ll see you there!
