Reminder: CSSE 2012 And K-12 Online Learning

A reminder that the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which includes the annual conference for the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, begins tomorrow. Based on a search of the 01 March 2012 version of the program (using terms such as cyber, distance, Internet, online, virtual, web), I was only able to find a single K-12 online learning presentation.

Sunday, 27 May 2012

3:00pm to 4:15pm

CATE / ACFE (TATE/TEFE) Multi-paper session / Plusieurs communications
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
Michael K. Barbour (Wayne State University, USA)

Monday, 28 May 2012

10:00am to 11:15am

CATE / ACFE (TATE) Roundtables
Getting to the Bottom of K-12 Online Learning: An Examination of the Research
Michael K. Barbour (Wayne State University, USA

1:15pm to 2:45pm

CATE / ACFE (TATE) Poster Session
A Phenomenological Research Study of Educators Who Are Resistant to Online Learning
Chris Cocek (St. Francies Xavier)

CCGSE / CCÉDÉ Poster Session
The Effects of Online eBooks on the Reading Motivation and Comprehension of Grade One Students
Katia Ciampa (Brock University)

CCGSE / CCÉDÉ Roundtables
How Online Learning has Opened up the Potential for Unschooling: A Personal Narrative
Rocco Ricci (Nipissing University)

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

10:00am to 11:15am

CATE / ACFE (TATE/TEFE) Multi-paper session / Plusieurs communications
Rural Schools and Distance Education: Looking Beyond Technology
Barbara G. Barter (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

CSSE 2012 And K-12 Online Learning

The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which includes the annual conference for the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, is coming up.  Based on a search of the 01 March 2012 version of the program (using terms such as cyber, distance, Internet, online, virtual, web), I was only able to find a single K-12 online learning presentation.

Sunday, 27 May 2012

3:00pm to 4:15pm

CATE / ACFE (TATE/TEFE) Multi-paper session / Plusieurs communications
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
Michael K. Barbour (Wayne State University, USA)

Monday, 28 May 2012

10:00am to 11:15am

CATE / ACFE (TATE) Roundtables
Getting to the Bottom of K-12 Online Learning: An Examination of the Research
Michael K. Barbour (Wayne State University, USA

1:15pm to 2:45pm

CATE / ACFE (TATE) Poster Session
A Phenomenological Research Study of Educators Who Are Resistant to Online Learning
Chris Cocek (St. Francies Xavier)

CCGSE / CCÉDÉ Poster Session
The Effects of Online eBooks on the Reading Motivation and Comprehension of Grade One Students
Katia Ciampa (Brock University)

CCGSE / CCÉDÉ Roundtables
How Online Learning has Opened up the Potential for Unschooling: A Personal Narrative
Rocco Ricci (Nipissing University)

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

10:00am to 11:15am

CATE / ACFE (TATE/TEFE) Multi-paper session / Plusieurs communications
Rural Schools and Distance Education: Looking Beyond Technology
Barbara G. Barter (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

As with the others, I’ll try and re-post this as it gets closer to the date.

K-12 Online Learning/Mobile Learning And CSSE 2011

The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which includes the annual conference for the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, is coming up in a few days.  Based on a search of the 17 February 2011 version of the program (using terms such as cyber, distance, Internet, online, virtual, web), I was only able to find a single K-12 online learning presentation.

DAY 2/JOUR 2 – Monday, May 30/ lundi 30 mai
Timeslot 9/ Intervalle de temps 9 – 11:30a.m. – 1:00/ 11h30-13h00

9.10
Room/Salle 331A
CATE/ACFE – Multipaper Session/Plusieurs Communications

Learning Communities I

The Emerging Teacher: Examining the Development of Teacher Identity through the Professional Learning Community Cohort Induction Model
Michelle P. Prytula (Saskatchewan), Kari Weiman (Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School)

Similarly, I also searched the program for sessions related to mobile learning or m-learning and came up with the following.

DAY 2/JOUR 2 – Monday, May 30/ lundi 30 mai
Timeslot 8/ Intervalle de temps 8 – 10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m./ 10h00-11h15

CACS / ACÉC  (RÉÉFMM) – Multi-paper session / Plusieurs communications

Sciences, mathématiques et TIC en contexte linguistique minoritaire

Grandir en milieu francophone minoritaire à l’ère des technologies ambiantes et de l’apprentissage mobile.
Ann Louise Davidson (Concordia)

DAY 3/JOUR 3 – Tuesday, May 31/ mardi 31 mai
Timeslot 15/ Intervalle de temps 15 – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m./11h30-13h00

15.13 – Room/Salle 210
CATE/ACFE – Multi-paper session/Plusieurs communications

Research and Tools in Mathematics

Mobile Learning and Quick Response Codes as a Tool for Mathematics Homework
Mike John McCabe (Nipissing), Stephen Tedesco (Nipissing)

DAY 3/JOUR 3 – Tuesday, May 31/ mardi 31 mai
Timeslot 18/ Intervalle de temps 18 – 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m./ 16h30-17h45

18.11  – Room/Salle 322
CIESC/SCÉCI – Multi-paper sessions/Plusieurs communications

Tweets, Teachers, and Graduate Degrees: New comers and their Experiences

Supporting New Canadians through Mobile Communication Networks: How Twitter Can Promote Informal Learning and Social Ties
Kazi Arif Anwar (OISE-IÉPO/UT)

I suspect that I am somewhere over the Pacific now, as I am traveling for 30+ hours today, but it is Thursday all day long, so I won’t be in attendance. But if there is anyone going who would like to report in on these sessions, I would be happy to post guest blog entries with your comments or you can always just leave a message below if your comments are briefer in nature.

Blog Carnival: Virtual Schooling – July 15, 2010 (Final Issue)

Only 1 entry submitted this month (and it was not relevant to this Blog Carnival – not even tenuously). As such, I have decided to discontinue the Blog Carnival feature.

As this will be the last time I post the Blog Carnival feature, here are the previous issues:

• June 15, 2010 (1 general item)
• May 17, 2010 (1 general item)
• April 15, 2010 (3 general items)
• March 15, 2010 (4 general items)
• February 15, 2010 (1 general item)
• January 15, 2010 (4 general items)
• December 15, 2009 (1 thematic item & 1 general item)
• November 15, 2009 (2 general items)
• October 15, 2009 (7 general items)
• September 15, 2009 (2 general items)
• August 15, 2009 (1 thematic item & 3 general items)
• July 15, 2009 (1 thematic item & 1 general item)
• June 15, 2009 (2 general items)
• May 15, 2009 (no items)
• April 2009 Edition (1 thematic item)
• March 2009 Edition (4 thematic items & 3 general items)
• 15 February 2009 (3 general items)
• First Blog Carnival (1 general item & 10 irrelevant items)

In looking at the statistics, I see only 8 thematic items and 39 items generally related to online learning OR K-12 education – and the first month when I also posted 10 items that had nothing to do with K-12 or online learning.  This is not to mention that there was generally ten to twenty times the blog entries submitted as the number of general items posted, for example:

• March 15, 2010 had 4 general items posted, but more than 25 entries submitted
• February 15, 2010 had 1 general item posted, but more than 30 entries submitted
• June 15, 2010 had 1 general item posted, but 54 entries submitted

I wish I had actually kept that statistic and posted in the entries (i.e., the number of irrelevant blog entries submitted to each Blog Carnival).

As some of you may recall, I began this feature as a part of the task for Day 18 of the 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger series that Steve Dembo did (see Day Eighteen – Thirty Days To A Better Blog).  I have to be honest and say that minus the March 2009 Edition, the nineteen month journey resulted in 86 entries (counting calls and actual editions) – but it wasn’t that rewarding.  The only really good entries that came out of it were Scott McLeod’s The Iowa series – Wrap-up posted at Dangerously Irrelevant, which I would have known about anyway because I follow his blog. Although that month I was alerted to the Virtual Learning Academy Teachers blog. However, there isn’t a single other entry that I posted that I would have clicked on if I hadn’t been trying to determine if it was relevant for the Blog Carnival or not.

Maybe it is because there are so few people blogging about K-12 online learning.  Granted, if that were true my Blogging About Virtual Schooling entries would be pretty empty too.  However, those entries are always full of entries – and that’s just from the ~300 blogs I follow in my RSS reader.  Anyway, I guess that is it for this feature.

Final Reminder: Virtual Schooling Blog Carnival – Call For Submissions

A final reminder that the call for the July Blog Carnival edition reads:

virtual schooling – http://blogcarnival.com/bc/eprof_26744.html

Description – This is a carnival that is focused upon the use of online learning and distance at the K-12 level. Please submit items that are related to the field of K-12 education – elementary or high school – and online or blended/hybrid learning.
Keywords – K-12 online learning, virtual schooling, cyberschooling, distance education
Filed under – education
Submission deadline – Middle of the month (providing appropriate content)
Maintained by – Michael Barbour
Current status – This carnival is ongoing.

If you have something relevant to this topic, feel free to submit it to this Blog Carnival.