Re: Community Meeting in SL for the National Educational Technology Plan (NETP)

[Patricia F Anderson]

Hi, all!

Thanks to Steve for sending this out. I've been working on a message
about this, but was trying to iron out a few details  so that I could
avoid sending lots of messages.

This Public Forum on the US National Educational Technology Plan is
open to all stakeholders and interested parties. We are not requiring
registration, but it would be helpful to us if people would list
themselves as attending on the Facebook Event page. This would help us
get a sense of what crowd to expect and what arrangements are needed
to make it possible to include ALL interested voices. We don't want to
exclude anyone if at all possible.

Updated information about the event will be available at the Facebook
event page and the Simulation & Learning @ University of Michigan
wiki.
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163866392474&ref=nf>
<http://slum.wetpaint.com/>

The focus of the event is on educational technologies throughout all
of education for a diversity of needs, purposes, and audiences (not
just how wonderful SL is, but we know that and I am sure SL will
shine). I don't know yet if it will be possible to stream the event to
the web, to include people who can't get into SL, but if we can figure
out how to work it out, we will.

The basic idea the elevator-pitch idea. ***If you had 5 minutes to
tell Obama what is most important about edtech and why, what would you
say?*** We will have notecard collectors at the event, so folks who
want to prepare their thoughts in advance, please feel free to do so,
but please remember that all content submitted will become part of a
public archive. The chatlog will also be saved and posted online.
Remember, you are also strongly encouraged to join the online
community at the main website and share your ideas there as well. I am
hoping that some of the SL specific outcomes can be preserved at
SIMTeach or a similar home.

For a bit of backstory, this all came up very suddenly last Friday,
late afternoon, so you can guess how I spent my weekend. ;) There are
a number of volunteers and partners who are working to try to make
this come off well, but it is purely a volunteer effort. We are lucky
that one of the members of Obama's team is able and willing to come
into SL and observe this conversation. I am really excited about this
and believe it is a really wonderful opportunity for all the amazing
educators and edtech visionaries who I know are in SL to help shape
future educational and edtech policies in the USA, as well as to
really show what a wonderful place Second Life is for the educational
community.

We hope that this event may attract some new educators to SL, so will
be providing a packet of information and freebies that we hope will be
helpful to them, as well as a notecard with a few examples of
exceptional Second Life educational builds to help them get started.
Feel free to post your suggestions at the Facebook Event page for us
to include (location, topic, what makes it wonderful).

Steve mentioned that this is focused on the USA, but we are certainly
more than willing to listen and learn about what has or has not worked
for other countries. I know in particular that Australia seems to
really have an incredible distance education infrastructure, and the
time is actually not that bad for them. :)

Whether or not you are able to attend, it is important for your voice
to be heard. Spread the word - invite your colleagues, let them know
they can also contribute. Please share your thoughts at:

<https://edtechfuture.org/>

Thank you all very much!

 - Patricia Anderson / Perplexity Peccable


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Steve Mahaley <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi – wanted to make sure the SLED list had this information (aimed at US
> participants, but may be of interest to others) on November 5:
>
>
>
> NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PLAN (NETP)
>
>
>
> Hold this date:
>
>
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> Thursday, November 5, 2009
>
> 6pm SLT
>
> ISTE Island Events
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>
>
> Event support is coming from ISTE, Metanomics and the University of
> Michigan.
>
>
>
> The federal government of the United States of America has assembled an 18
> person team to update and revise the National Education Technology Plan.
> Their report deadline is November 11, 2009. There will be a community
> meeting in Second Life for educational technology stakeholders to provide
> input into the planning process. Currently, we expect that a representative
> of the national team will be present as an observer at the SL event.
>
>
>
> The event coordinator is Perplexity Peccable (RL: Patricia F. Anderson,
> [hidden email]). Perplexity is the University of Michigan
> Emerging Technologies Librarian for the Health Sciences, and the community
> manager for Wolverine Island in SL. Contact Perplexity for more information
> or to volunteer support or services for this event.
>
>
>
> Information on prior versions of the plan is available here.
>
> National Educational Technology Plan:
> <http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/index.html>
>
>
>
> Information on the current planning process is available here,
>
> National Educational Technology Plan: <https://edtechfuture.org/>
>
>
>
> The team is seeking input from the public. You can join the conversation on
> their website here.
>
> Opportunities for Input:  <https://edtechfuture.org/?page_id=888>
>
>
>
> "If you had five minutes to talk with President Obama about educational
> technology, what would you say?"
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>
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> The key topic discussion points are these.
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>
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>  * Learning: Providing unprecedented access to high-quality learning
> experiences.
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>  * Assessment: Measuring what really matters and providing the information
> that enables continuous improvement at all levels of the education system.
>
>  * Teaching: New ways to support those who support learning.
>
>  * Productivity: Redesigning systems and processes to free up education
> system resources to support learning.
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>
>
> 4 Sims allocated for this meeting, all at the ISTE site:
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> 1.       http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/92/83/30
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> 2.       http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%202/128/128/2
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> 3.       http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/2/190/30
>
> 4.       http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%204/208/215/25
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