Elluminate Session(s) for President Obama Student Address

President Obama is planning to speak to schoolchildren on 9/8/09 at 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (see http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html).  I've set up an Elluminate session to run concurrently for those who want to share through the chat feature during his address, and then use the fuller Elluminate functionality for a post-address discussion.  Register at http://www.learncentral.org to see the event in the calendar there or access the Elluminate session directly at https//sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.438D554F4A450D77B901E14104C303.

If you'd like to connect with other classrooms and have students responding to each other--which I think might be a fun experience--feel free to leave a comment here and once you have found a "partner" classroom or classrooms I can set you up with a similar Elluminate room. To do this you'll want to have some familiarity with Elluminate or be working with someone who does. You're also able, through the vRoom capability you automatically get at LearnCentral, to do this entirely on your own.

Might also be an interesting exercise to follow the hashtag for this event (when someone invents one) but I'm not sure I'd consider that a student-safe activity.

PBS & Classroom 2.0: P.O.V.'s The Principal Story

A Classroom 2.0 and PBS Teachers interactive event.

Event Link: http://www.classroom20.com/events/pbs-cr20-povs-the-principal
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Location: In Elluminate. http://tinyurl.com/pbscr20 If you haven't used Elluminate before, you can make sure your computer is configured correctly to enter the room by going to http://www.elluminate.com/support.

PBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0 are delighted to have PBS producers and educators join us to share P.O.V.'s The Principal Story. This film paints two dramatic portraits of the challenges facing America's public schools – and the great difference a dedicated principal can make. The film takes the viewer along for an emotional ride and examines what effective educational leadership looks like in the 21st century. Our special guests during the webinar will include: Kerry Purcell, one of the principals featured in the film; David Mrazek, one of the filmmakers; and Eliza Licht, Director of Community Engagement and Education, P.O.V./American Documentary. Speakers will discuss the making of the film, the critical work involved in transforming schools, and the wide array of high-quality educational resources available from P.O.V.

About Our Guest Speakers

David Mrazek
Producer, Director, Sound Recordist
David Mrazek is an award-winning producer/director/writer of numerous prime-time PBS history and science documentary series, as well as documentaries for The History Channel and Travel Channel. Mrazek's work includes The Great War series, The Kingdom of David, The Duel and Woodrow Wilson, among many other films.

Kerry Purcell
Principal, Harvard Park Elementary School, Springfield, IL
During her six years as principal of Harvard Park Elementary School (PreK-5), Kerry Purcell was instrumental in supporting the school's successful move off the state watch list. The school made approximately a 45% gain in reading and a 50% gain in math scores. Most notable is Kerry's work around data interpretation and analysis, building and sustaining professional learning communities, and creative use of fiscal, human and time resources to support school improvement.

Eliza Licht
Director, Community Engagement and Education, P.O.V.
Eliza oversees the development and implementation of P.O.V.'s national community engagement and education campaigns. She works with public television stations, educators and community-based organizations to present community screenings of P.O.V. films and to develop and distribute accompanying educational resources to teachers nationwide. Over the years, she has expanded P.O.V.'s community engagement activities by nearly 400% and increased P.O.V.'s educational efforts by over 80%. To further develop these areas, Eliza established a Library Board and a Teachers' Advisory Board, which provide feedback on activities and help produce P.O.V.'s companion resource materials.

Interview with Manny Hernandez (Author of Ning for Dummies) on Ning and Niche Social Networking

A Conversations.net interview on the impact of the Internet on culture and society.

Date: Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, and the author of Ning for Dummies.

Manny is also the founder of two Ning networks: TuDiabetes.com in English and EsTuDiabetes.com in Spanish. In April 2008 he helped start the Diabetes Hands Foundation, a nonprofit with the goal of having no people with diabetes feel alone and people without diabetes learning more about what it's like to live with diabetes. Since September 2007, he started writing a monthly column called "Hola Diabetes" for dLife in English and Spanish, aimed at the Latino community. Between May 2008 and March 2009, he wrote the column "Diabetes Hacker" in MyDiabetesCentral.com.

Manny comes from Venezuela. He first went to school there and then went to Cornell University (in New York state), where he obtained my M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering. Still he has found his true professional love to lie in the web space, so he eventually became a Web Product Manager. Since January 2008, he has lived with my family in the Bay Area, California.

He Tweets at askmanny.

Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora, the Online Music Service

(Part of the Conversations.net interview series.)

Date: Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)

Duration: 1 hour

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Tim Westergren founded Pandora in January 2000 and now serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. A jazz trained pianist and lifelong musician, Tim has worn many hats as a feature film composer, record producer, audio engineer, and live performer.

Tim received his B.A. from Stanford University, where he studied music theory, computer acoustics and recording technology. His years as a working musician have imbued him with a great passion for helping talented emerging artists connect with new fans. In addition to guiding Pandora's overall strategy and vision, Tim now spends most of his time as Pandora's chief evangelist - traveling the country to meet with listeners to collect feedback, research local music, and spread the word of the Music Genome Project.

Link: http://www.pandora.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/timwestergren

Gary Small Discusses His Book: iBrain

This interview is part of the Conversations.net and FutureofEducation.com interview series.

Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.


Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging. He is one of the world's leading experts on brain science and has published numerous books and articles. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world's top innovators in science and technology, and he frequently appears on The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20 and CNN. Dr. Small has invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease in living people. Among his numerous breakthrough research studies, he now leads a team of neuroscientists who are demonstrating that exposure to computer technology causes rapid and profound changes in brain neural circuitry.

iBrain:
Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

One of America’s leading neuroscientists reveals the remarkable brain evolution caused by the constant presence of technology today, separating the digital natives – those born in the computer age – from the digital immigrants, who discovered computer technology as adults.

Today’s frenetic progress in technology, communications, and lifestyles is evolving the way young brains develop, function, and process information – creating new neural pathways and altering brain activity at a biochemical level.

To compete and excel in this age of brain evolution, all of us must adapt, and Dr. Gary Small elucidates the strategies and tools that we need to enhance our technological, social, and empathic abilities, including:

• Key strategies for bridging the brain gap
• Empathy upgrades for digital natives
• A technology toolkit for digital immigrants
• Tips for managing techno-brain burnout
• Ways to avoid video game-brain
• Strategies for beating high-tech addiction
• Social skills for re-connecting face-to-face

Howard Rheingold

A Conversations.net/FutureofEducation.com Interview
http://www.conversations.net
http://www.futureofeducation.com

Date: Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Time: 4:30pm Pacific / 7:30pm Eastern / 11:30pm GMT (international times here)
Duration: 30 minutes
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Howard Rheingold is the author of:

Tools for Thought http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/

The Virtual Community http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

Smart Mobs http://www.smartmobs.com

Was:

editor of Whole Earth Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Review

editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog http://www.well.com/user/hlr/mwecintro.html

founding executive editor of Hotwired http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired

founder of Electric Minds http://www.rheingold.com/electricminds/html/

Non-resident Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, 2007 http://www.annenberg.edu/info/rheingold.php

Visiting Professor, De Montfort University, UK

Has taught:

Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall
2005, 2006, 2007 ) http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/participatory_media_and_collective_action/participatory_media_and_collective_action.cfm
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/296a-pmca

Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008; UC Berkeley,
Spring 2008, 2009) http://socialmediaclassroom.com/vircom09

Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005)

Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/digitaljournalism09

Current projects:

Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com

The Cooperation Project http://www.cooperationcommons.org

Participatory Media Literacy https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/

HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee http://tinyurl.com/yqjsmr

photographer credit: Robin Good

Many thanks to Elluminate for their support for the Future of Education interview series.

Dan Schawbel on Personal Branding in the Age of the Internet

Conversations.net Interview Series
http://www.conversations.net

Date: Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Dan Schawbel is the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. He is the author of the bestselling career book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 2009). Me 2.0 made the Amazon top 100 business book bestsellers list when it came out and was the #1 job hunting book. With over 750,000 results for his name in Google, Fast Company calls Dan a “personal branding force of nature.” He is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog®, which was the #1 job blog by Careerbuilder in 2008, is an AdAge top 50 marketing blog and is syndicated by Reuters, Forbes, Fox Business and other major networks. Dan is also the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine®, head judge for the Personal Brand Awards® and director of Personal Branding TV®.

Presently, Dan is a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation, which is one of the leading technology companies in the world. Steve Rubel, SVP at Edelman, considers Dan to be a “corporate rockstar.” He is a syndicated columnist for Metro US (New York, Boston & Philadelphia), reaching over 1.2 readers bi-weekly. At 25 years old, Dan is BusinessWeek’s youngest columnist. He is also a featured contributor to Mashable, LifeHack, and MediaPost and he has written articles for BrandWeek Magazine and Advertising Age.

“The champion of personal branding” – Alan Webber, co-founder, Fast Company Magazine

Dan has interviewed over 150 successful business people and celebrities, such as Marcus Buckingham, Tony Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gina Bianchini, John C. Maxwell, Guy Kawasaki, Ken Blanchard and Tucker Max. He’s been featured in over 100 media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, ABC News TV, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, and The Boston Globe. Dan has 8 years of marketing experience, employed at companies such as EMC, Reebok, Lycos, LoJack, and TechTarget.

“Dan is the man when it comes to personal branding” – USA Today

Dan is a keynote speaker at colleges and universities, such as Harvard and MIT and he helps both individuals and companies with branding. He’s on the board of advisers for SocialTrak.com, is on the community advisory committee for BusinessCard2.com and was previous on the board of ((echo)) MyPlace. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bentley University in 2006.

Many thanks to Elluminate for their support for the Future of Education interview series.

Andrew Hargadon on Innovation and Networking

Conversations.net Interview Series
http://www.conversations.net

Date: Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Time: 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern / 11pm GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Andrew Hargadon is a Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis and author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate (Harvard Business School Press 2003). Professor Hargadon's research focuses on the effective management of innovation and the strategic role of design in managing technology transitions, particularly in the development and commercialization of sustainable technologies. He has written extensively on knowledge and technology brokering and the role of learning and knowledge management in innovation and has published numerous articles and chapters in leading scholarly and applied publications. His research has been used to develop or guide new innovation programs in organizations as diverse as Hewlett-Packard, Avery Dennison, Clorox, Edmunds.com, Mars, Canadian Health Services, and Silicon Valley start-ups. He teaches corporate executive programs and serves on the advisory boards for Physic Ventures and American River Ventures.

As the founding director of two key centers at the University of California, Davis—the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Energy Efficiency Center—Professor Hargadon is at the forefront of teaching, research, and practice in cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship. The centers are dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and innovation through educational programs bridging science, engineering, and business and they provide a successful framework for university scientists and engineers to move their ideas out of the lab and into the world. He received the 2009 Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award in recognition for his strong entrepreneurship curriculum and success with the two centers.

Professor Hargadon launched the Center for Entrepreneurship at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in 2006. The center’s programs are designed for science and engineering graduate researchers and faculty and include four one-week entrepreneurship academies as well as a year-long fellows program. The academies provide a framework for universities to build a network between their research and the investment community and combine a comprehensive and pioneering curriculum developed by Professor Hargadon with hands-on exercises that participants use to develop business opportunities and investigate the potential opportunities for commercialization around their research. The curriculum is taught by university faculty and practicing professionals: venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, intellectual property lawyers, and others.

Professor Hargadon also launched the nation's first university-based Energy Efficiency Center at UC Davis in 2006 and served as the founding director. As Director, he built relationships with the three largest independently-owned utility companies (PG&E, Sempra, and Edison International), the California Public Utility Commission and the California Energy Commission, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the market, and major customers like WalMart and Chevron Energy Solutions. The EEC works with faculty researchers to identify and develop the commercial potential of their research as well as prepares graduates students in engineering, science, and business to build successful businesses advancing technologies in energy efficiency, including buildings, transportation, and agriculture and food processing.

Professor Hargadon received his Ph.D. from the Management Science and Engineering Department in Stanford University's School of Engineering, where he was named Boeing Fellow and Sloan Foundation Future Professor of Manufacturing. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Stanford University's Product Design Program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Prior to his academic appointment, he worked as a product designer at Apple Computer and taught in the Product Design program at Stanford University. Additional information and articles by Professor Hargadon can be found at www.gsm.ucdavis.edu.

And yes, he is my brother. :)

Many thanks to Elluminate for their support for the Conversations.net interview series.

Dave Tosh on Social Networking in Education

Future of Education Interview Series
http://www.futureofeducation.com

Date: Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Time: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/futureofed.

Dave Tosh is the co-founder and CEO of Elgg, a leading open source social networking engine.

Links:
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/davetosh
Elgg - http://elgg.org/

Event Details:
The Elluminate room (http://tinyurl.com/futureofed) will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Many thanks to Elluminate for their support for the Future of Education interview series.