…about online learning, education and libraries
As I shared in an earlier post, students from the Village Academy High School in Pomona, California created a video entitled “Is Anybody Listening?“. President Obama listened and commented about the video by these students in his recent speech. Tonight, ABC News with Charlie Gibson highlighted the student video here.
And, while President Obama was visiting California, he stopped by to visit with these very students! The power of sharing. Congratulations to the students and teachers in Pomona!
I am pleased to announce that student registration for the online charter school of Clovis is now open. This is a public charter school in California and is open for students in Fresno County as well as the counties of Monterey, San Benito, Merced, Madera, Tulare, Kings, Inyo and Mono. We’re looking for 9th and 10th grade students who are good readers, good managers of time and want to learn online. More info here.
In January, I had the good fortune of attending a one day conference here in Fresno entitled, “Exemplary Practices in Education” sponsored by the Central Valley Educational Leadership Institute that is housed at CSU Fresno. At that conference, the luncheon keynote speaker was Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, the superintendent of the Pomona Unified School District. During her talk she share a video that students from the Village Academy High school entitled “Is Anybody Listening?” This was the week before the inauguration in January and she said she was going to take the video with her to the inauguration and hopefully, share it with the president-elect.
Yesterday, in President Obama’s speech about education, he spoke for about 32 minutes. In the last two minutes, he spoke about the students at the Village Academy High School and the video they had put together. Obama said, “I am listening, we are listening, and America is listening.” Hopefully, these students now know that they have made an impact with their video. You can watch it here:
It was a pleasure hearing Vicki Davis talk about Differentiated Instruction and the use of technology. As she so eloquently explained, with technology, differentiation is much easier. Some of the great things she said are on my Twitter, but I’ll list a few here:
- It is important to call “social networking” educational networking.
- She talked about the six frames for education: educational networking, wiki, student personal learning network, audio creation, video creation, and global connections.
- She applied these six frames to Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, naturalist, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal). She has a great graphic illustrating this. See her slideshow on slideshare.
She shared this great video about how kids view education and the future. This is a MUST SEE and MUST SHARE Video!
The CUE Conference in Palm Springs has been filled with lots of great networking opportunities. On Thursday evening, the E-Learning Significant Interest Group or El Sig met. The room was filled with people from schools, districts and company representatives whose common goal is to help others to learn the power of online learning for students in California.
At the conference, CUE became the first affiliate of iNacol – the international K-12 online learning organization. Allison Powell, the VP of iNacol was here to help celebrate.
Allison joined us at the El Sig reception and met Joshua Marks from Curriki. Joshua asked Allison what Curriki had to do to become a partner of iNacol. Allison took out one of her business cards and handed it to Joshua and said, “Now we are partners!“ The picture below records this moment. The important part of this, aside from great organizations networking with one another, is it illustrates the Web 2.0 philosophy of collaboration and sharing. This collaboration and sharing is what will change education – to make it more engaging for all students!
L to R, Jackie Francoeur, Orange USD; Allison Powell, iNacol; Joshua Marks, Curriki.
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