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Educators Making an Impact at the #140Conf in Detroit

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Educators everywhere should thank Jeff Pulver (@Jeffpulver), organizer of the 140 Conferences for his commitment to seeing education have a strong voice at these conferences. Jeff Pulver demonstrated his enthusiasm for educators by accepting Parentella’s education panel for the Detroit 140 Conference, which took place yesterday, October 20th.

Real-Time Communication and Education Reform Panel

These were the amazing educators who spoke passionately about Real-Time Communication and Education Transformation.

Linda Clinton (@Linda704) – Literacy Coach for East Detroit Public Schools and doctoral candidate at Oakland University, Michigan
David Britten (@colonelb) – K-12 Superintendent in Grand Rapids, Michigan, retired Army officer
Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) – High School English teacher and education blogger

Watch the video

Here’s the video of the panel discussion in case you missed it. The panel starts with introductions then the panelists answer questions.

140 Conference Detroit Education Panel from Shelly Terrell on Vimeo.

Here were some of the highlights:

  • Loved when Nick tweeted his student in the middle of the presentation and shared the student’s tweets with the audience!
  • David mentions how his email accidentally was shared with the 6th graders resulting in over 100 emails!
  • Linda mentions how as a doctoral candidate she uses Twitter for instant research so that she doesn’t have to email her professor at 12am.
  • One conference participant commented on Twitter that she wished her son had a teacher like Nick!

Some of the points made:

“Twitter allows us to hear speakers in real time we never had an opportunity to” ~ Linda
“The teacher down the hall is now teachers all across the world with Twitter”~ Nick
“Twitter has brought our district staff into the conversation”~ David
“I tweet the homework to students” ~ Nick
“I use Twitter to reach out to other Superintendents across the country” ~ David
“With Twitter I’ve been able to share resources with teachers” ~ Linda

Stay tuned for more updates from the education panels organized by Parentella.

Our mission at Parentella is to continue to give educators and parents a venue to communicate and collaborate with each other in order to improve learning for all students. As part of this mission, we are happy to continue organizing education panels for several conferences throughout the year and thank all participants. If you have a conference in your city that accepts education and parent panels, please let us know and we’ll try to organize a panel!

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Education and Real Time Communication: The 140 Conference in DC Recap

Monday, June 21st, 2010

This past Thursday, Parentella organized a panel of active members of our educator community to represent us at the 140 Conference in Washington, DC. They did an incredible job of explaining how educators collaborate with each other through real time communication to improve education. We are very thankful to Jeff Pulver for continuing to involve educators at his 140 Conferences. Parentella has helped coordinate educator panels at various 140 Conferences in LA, NYC, DC, and Barcelona. We are passionate about spreading the word how real time communication enables educators and parents to collaborate to improve learning for our children.

These were our incredible speakers:

Melissa C. Tran, (@thenewtag) – Education and Leadership consultant, moderator
Jeff Goldstein, (@doctorjeff) – Astrophysicist & Center Director for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, panelist
Deena Marshall, (@la_pRHOfesora) – DC charter school teacher, panelist

These were the questions Melissa asked Jeff and Deena:

  • What is the most significant impact that real time communication has had in your professional life/school/organization?
  • How can we harness these tools and technologies to engage young learners as opposed to alienating them through our response to their use of tech?
  • How are you using these tools?
  • Describe your interactions and engagement with your PLN, and the role real time media plays in your own professional development?
  • What unique contribution can real time communication make in terms of education, for teachers in the classroom, students, national dialogue, and reform?
  • What 21st century issues and challenges is real time communication uniquely suited to address?
  • What is the typical user perception of real time communication in terms of what it can be used for, versus potential visionary uses for this new ‘canvas’?

These were some quotes tweeted from people who were watching the panel at the 140 Conference:

ShannonRenee: educators have to realize we’re in the 21st century and need to utilize the new tools
mikles: @doctorjeff- “NASA tried tweeting from mission control for education but schools blocked Twitter”
la_pRHOfesora describes how she connects with educators around the world through Twitter
Doctorjeff- “#Edchat inspired me to think about education reform”
8of12: Love to see teachers that are clearly enthused about their job and eager to innovate.
8of12: Educational institutions that block social media participation force students to hide their activity, miss chances to teach.
Dyhatchett: educators should connect with students where they are, observe how they are using it, and prevent them from making bad decisions.

Great stuff on twitter and education from @doctorjeff @thenewtag @la_pRHOfesora at #140conf #dcweek – Jeff’s Huffington

Post article at http://huff.to/dgPwa2

We will keep you posted when the video of the panel is online!

by Shelly Terrell

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The NOW Award

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

What it is:

“The NOW Award arose as an experiment in tracking Twittersphere merit and to supplement follower count as the measure of merit status quo. The relatively mild endorsement reflected in following someone leads to the quality versus quantity dispute. The NOW Award nomination process offers a mechanism for strong endorsement, because the nomination happens after the fact of following and requires the proactive nomination step (#140Conf vote @ )” – Jeff Pulver

We are seeking support for @web20classroom.

How to Vote:

Tweet this: #140conf Vote @web20classroom

Why should you vote for @web20classroom

  • He is a hardworking, helpful, and extraordinary Educator.
  • He is helping so many teachers worldwide understand and adopt technology.
  • He started #Edchat to engage administrators, teachers, principals, pre-service teachers, parents, and more participants.
  • He is changing the world as we know it and making it better for teachers who shape the future.
  • Let’s help him win this award, he truly is the definition of the person who deserves it.

See rules below. They are from the site here.

Rules and Regulations:

  • -To be valid, a vote must include in its entirety the following: #140Conf vote @ <nominee>
  • -@ <nominee> replies are NOT counted as votes
  • -Re-tweets for the same nominee are NOT counted as votes
  • -Only the first valid vote per Twitter account per nominee will be counted
  • -Users may vote for an unlimited number of nominees
  • -Votes will not be withdrawn, so please vote with care
  • -Votes that do not comply with the Tinker Terms of Use or that utilize spamming or other auto-generated methods will be removed
  • -Voting begins at 10:00 am (EST) on September 29, 2009 and ends at 11:59 pm (EST) on October 24, 2009
  • -Winners will be announced October 27th @ the #140Conf Networking Reception
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Twitter and Education

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Our panel, Twitter and Education for the 140conf has been accepted. The video is here.

The characters for the panel are Aparna Vashisht, Tom Whitby, Steve Anderson, Shelly Terrell, and Eric Sheninger

We plan to discuss the following:

• How Twitter is changing the face of Education.

• What it means to tweet about Education.

• How Twitter is enabling global discussions on Education.

• How Twitter is highlighting the good part of Education and what is working now.

• How Twitter will bring together educators, parents, administrators, board members, etc. and help change what is not working.

• The origin of #Edchat and topics discussed. Last, but not least

• Can 140 characters change Education? Education is so important for the future of any nation.

Help us energize discussions around Education and make this panel yours.

What would you like to answered? Leave a comment with your question.

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Twitter and Education: Support us!

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Parentella proposed a panel called Twitter and Education for the 140conf in Los Angeles.

The characters for the panel are Aparna Vashisht, Tom Whitby, Steve Anderson, and Shelly Terrell.

Tom, Steve, and Shelly are the originators of the #Edchat conversation every Tuesday 4 p.m. EST. #Edchat brings together a wide range of participants globally. Teachers, School Administrators, School Leaders, College Professors, Superintendents, Members of School Boards of Education, Parents, politicians and others have all joined the conversation. The previous #Edchat topics have ranged from the role of Standardized Testing in Education, internet filtering in schools to what Schools of Education need to do to better prepare Pre-Service teachers. The most popular #Edchat to date was on the role of Homework in Education with special guest, Alfie Kohn, an outspoken advocate of less homework in schools. (Read more about what #Edchat is here and here)

Aparna Vashisht from Parentella will moderate the panel and discuss Twitter and its role in bringing together educators worldwide to influence policy, changes, and broadening horizons. Parentella is focused on connecting parents and educators to increase involvement in schools.

Some of the topics we will cover are:

• How Twitter is changing the face of Education.
• What it means to tweet about Education.
• How Twitter is enabling global discussions on Education.
• How Twitter is highlighting the good part of Education and what is working now.
• How Twitter will bring together educators and help change what is not working.
• The origin of #Edchat and topics discussed. Last, but not least
• Can 140 characters change Education?

While we await confirmation, we thought that it would be useful to show the organizers that all people interested in Education worldwide will tune into #140conf if this panel were allowed. Secondly, Education is critical issue. A lot of changes will occur and bringing people together to start conversations and raising awareness is key.

We are asking for your support and it is simple. Do one of or all of the following:

Comment on this blog post.

Tweet this (copy and paste)
Twitter and Education: A proposed panel. Please support us! http://bit.ly/SZjZz #140conf (Please RT!)

Copy and paste this post on your blog.
Comment on our Facebook page: http://bit.ly/6zGoa

We want to show the organizers that people want to hear about this issue and will tune in to #140conf when this panel is accepted.

So leave a comment!

More about the 140 conference:

In the spirit of the emerging platform of Twitter, Jeff Pulver (jeffpluver) created the #140 Conference.

“At the #140conf events, we look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language. #140conf is not an event about microblogging or the place where people share twitter “tips and techniques” but rather where we explore the effects of the real-time Internet. The original scope of #140conf was to explore “the effects of twitter on: Celebrity, “The Media”, Advertising and (maybe) Politics.” Over time the scope expanded to look at the effects of twitter on topics ranging from public safety to public diplomacy.” At the conference the audience is treated to over 20 panels and guest per-day, rapid fire style, meaning each presentation only lasts 15-25 minutes. But they are powerful. In the past topics have included the effects of Twitter on Newspapers, Twitters ability to influence music and sports, using Twitter to support the Social Good, and the effects of Twitter on brands.” From the #140Conf Website

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