technology in practice webinar series presents:
Learner 2.0 - The MySpace Generation
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
1 pm Pacific / 2 pm Mountain / 3 pm Central / 4 pm Eastern
Chris O'Neal
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MySpace is a virtual recess, but who's on duty? How do we know what's really going on between the pages of Facebook? What skills are students using while social networking? How do we take advantage of these skills and put an educational spin on them? Is it possible to wrap instructional content around the Learner 2.0 mind, without holding it back? Join us as we take a look at what's at the heart of social networking and discuss some Web 2.0 tools and strategies that tap into the social web of the MySpace Generation.
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About the Presenter
Chris O'Neal is a former elementary and middle school teacher originally teaching in the Calcasieu Parish School System in Louisiana, where he received numerous Teacher of the Year honors and chaired the Mayor’s Committee for Youth Leadership for the City of Lake Charles. After leaving the classroom, Chris went on to work in the Curriculum and Instruction office for the school district. There, he worked with teachers in high-risk schools to enhance classroom practice through the use of new teaching strategies and tools, developed content to support the classroom, and provided professional development to teachers and administrators. In addition, he coordinated several community-school public relations efforts including teaching job-seeking and resume-skills at the Women's Shelter and teaching computer technology and Internet skills to senior citizens at the Council on Aging. He went on to work at the State Department of Education in Louisiana for 5 years, focusing on grant management, policy and planning issues, district support, and eventually becoming the state director of technology. His work with the Governor’s Office and the Louisiana Legislature earned him status as an honorary State Senator. He was named in the “Who’s Who of American Teachers” and featured as a “Shaper of Our Future” in Converge Magazine. In the winter of 2003, he received the "Making it Happen" award for leaders in the field of education. He has also been a featured speaker at NECC.
Chris is now working at the University of Virginia in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Education, providing outreach and professional development to school administrators across the state. In addition, he teaches classes for the University of Virginia in both a traditional and online format, and is pursuing a PhD. in Research and Evaluation. Chris serves as a faculty associate for the George Lucas Educational Foundation; provides leadership professional development, content development, and consulting for ISTE; conducts educational leadership institutes, workshops, and evaluations for several districts around the country, and serves as a leadership facilitator for SETDA (the U.S. State Educational Technology Directors Association.) He has recently completed publication of a resource book to assist middle school teachers in designing real-world, project-based lessons, and is working on a book to assist districts in leading school improvement efforts through effective use of data. |
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