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Building Learning Communities 2012

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11:30am

Pre-Conference Check-in BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

12:30pm

Turning Classrooms into Learning Studios: Lights, Camera, Learn! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

1:00pm

iPad Apps for Creativity Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing)

7:00am

Pre-Conference Registration & BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

8:00am

Design Thinking: Genuine Epic-Scale Problem-Based Learning from Whole-School Planning, to Supporting and Measuring Learning White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing)

8:30am

Happily Ever After: Digital Storytelling with Scratch MIT Media Lab

9:00am

Turning Classrooms into Learning Studios: Lights, Camera, Learn! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) EduBloggerCon East A Wing - 4th Floor

1:00pm

Re-designing Assessment White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Student as Contributor: The Digital Learning Farm Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing)

1:30pm

Let's Play! Game Design with Scratch MIT Media Lab

6:00pm

Paint the World in a Different Light: Boston City Night Photo Safari Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

7:00am

Pre-Conference Registration & BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

8:00am

Catalyzing Learning Using Peer Instruction and Learning Catalytics White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Connective Learning: An Introduction to Google Tools in Education Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Designing Powerful Tutorials with Camtasia Studio (for Macintosh) Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Helping Our Students See The Stories Behind The Mountain Of Available Data Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) iPads for learning? It's Elementary! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

1:00pm

Building a Bridge While Walking on It. iPads and Possibilities for Mobile Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor Building Learning Communities: A Hands-on Learning Adventure Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Designing Powerful Tutorials with Camtasia Studio (for Windows) Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Leadership: Managing the Transition Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Think like a Detective, Produce like an Investigative Reporter: Connecting the Common Core with deeper thinking, learning and sharing. Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing)

5:00pm

Opening Reception and Main Conference Registration (sponsored by Pearson Foundation) Plaza Ballroom & Statler - 2nd Floor

7:00am

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor Check-in & BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

7:15am

BLC Orientation Session (sponsored by ePals) Georgian - 2nd Floor

8:30am

BLC Welcome and Keynote with Chris Anderson Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

10:20am

A Practical Map for School Change: Strategies, Considerations, and Applications for Authentic Innovation Arlington - 2nd Floor Assessment 2.0 White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Chris Anderson's Keynote Follow up Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Deploying Effective Collaborative Social Learning Platforms Designed for K12 Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Flat Stanley Goes Digital Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Go Above and Beyond Using the 4 C's ~ Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, & Creativity Statler - 2nd Floor iMovie & Final Cut Pro X Tips Clarendon - 2nd Floor Kids Teaching Kids: Empowering Students through Screencasting Terrace - Lower Lobby Mapping the Road to Innovation: Lessons Learned Visiting Over 20 Schools and Districts Georgian - 2nd Floor Situated Learning - Making the Real-World Clickable with QR Codes Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) TeachUNICEF: Fostering Global Citizenship through Online Resources Berkeley - 2nd Floor

11:45am

Where will you take your reading? Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) BLC in the Classroom: Ideas From Previous Conferences Put Into Action Terrace - Lower Lobby Curation for Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Gaming to Create and Learn Clarendon - 2nd Floor Habitudes for Leading and Learning in the 21st Century Statler - 2nd Floor High School Journalism Can Change the World Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Scaling Up: System Wide Transformation Georgian - 2nd Floor Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor The Values Exchange Community: Enhancing critical thinking, persuasive reasoning and social awareness across the curriculum White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) What Happens When Second Graders Own Their Timetable Berkeley - 2nd Floor

1:10pm

Developing 21st Century Learners with 19th Century Content Clarendon - 2nd Floor Faculty Research Project: A Year Long Study of Best Practices Across the Curriculum Georgian - 2nd Floor Formative assessment rules, OK? - 101 Wrong Metaphors About The Only Assessment that Matters Statler - 2nd Floor High School Journalism Can Change the World Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Learning by Inquiring Terrace - Lower Lobby Reimagining Schools - How to sustain Professional development White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor The State of Play: How Gaming Can Enhance Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Reading and Writing Aware Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

2:35pm

An Easy Way to Globalize Classroom Activities: Intercultural Virtual Exchange for 21st Century Global Citizenship Berkeley - 2nd Floor Connected from the Start - Global Learning in the Primary Grades Statler - 2nd Floor Global Virtual STEM Classroom and Global Team-Work as 21st century skills Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Leadership: Managing the Transition Georgian - 2nd Floor Leaving Positive Digital Footprints: What’s Your Legacy? Arlington - 2nd Floor Photo Storytelling: Images Tell Amazing Stories Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Podcasting for Beginners Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Stepping it Up: Learning to Blog FOR your Students White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Students as Tech Support Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) The Future of the Flipped Classroom Terrace - Lower Lobby The Power of Video Clarendon - 2nd Floor

4:00pm

21st Century Learning in Singapore: Lessons Learned from One of the World's Exemplary School Systems Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Becoming a Mobile Learner Clarendon - 2nd Floor Building the ∞:1 Program, or why your 1:1 program is short-sighted Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Creating Student Feedback and Authentic Assessments with Screencasts White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Flipping the Classroom? … Definitions, Resources, and Tools to Keep You on Your Feet Terrace - Lower Lobby Give Your Students a Global VOICE! Arlington - 2nd Floor iPads for Learning? It's Elementary! Statler - 2nd Floor Learning is ... Georgian - 2nd Floor Models and Probes, Oh My! Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Music production for NON Musicians! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Thinking About Flipping? What Does the Research Say? Berkeley - 2nd Floor

6:00pm

Duck Boat (Purchased Tickets Only) Downtown Boston Reception at FableVision FableVision

7:00am

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

8:30am

Announcements w/ Alan November and Keynote with Geetha Narayanan - Innovations for Insights: 5Ws and an H (Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

10:20am

Creating Collaborative Presentations! Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Creating Digital Curriculum Content: ePubs & iPads Terrace - Lower Lobby Creating Your Window to the World: Students Leaving a Legacy Statler - 2nd Floor Filter In, Not Out, Using Google Search Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Geetha Narayana's Keynote Follow up Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Less (Teaching) Is More (Learning) Georgian - 2nd Floor No Future Left Behind: 21 Century Classrooms…Converge… Learn…Create! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Primary Digital Portfolios Arlington - 2nd Floor Storyfinding White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) The Globally Connected Classroom: A Study of ePals in Written Language Development and Learning Berkeley - 2nd Floor WoW in School: The Hero's Journey Continues Clarendon - 2nd Floor

11:45am

Curation for Learning Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Empower Your Students To Connect, Create and Collaborate With Each Other Arlington - 2nd Floor The Values Exchange Community: Enhancing critical thinking, persuasive reasoning and social awareness across the curriculum White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Building Biodiversity Knowledge and Tools for 21st Century Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Building the ∞:1 Program, or why your 1:1 program is short-sighted Statler - 2nd Floor Developing 21st Century Learners with 19th Century Content Clarendon - 2nd Floor Flip School: A Game Changer Georgian - 2nd Floor Gaming to Create and Learn Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Getting to Angry Birds Berkeley - 2nd Floor Introduction to Creating and Publishing with iBooks Author Terrace - Lower Lobby

1:10pm

Building Biodiversity Knowledge and Tools for 21st Century Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Collaborative Learning Using Google Tools Georgian - 2nd Floor Crowdsourcing Edu Content Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Harnessing the power of the teacher and student voice to create a truly collaborative teaching environment. Arlington - 2nd Floor Learning by Inquiring Terrace - Lower Lobby Reimagining Schools - How to sustain Professional development Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Teaching Empathy Through Literature and the Web Clarendon - 2nd Floor The Values Exchange Community: Enhancing critical thinking, persuasive reasoning and social awareness across the curriculum White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) To Flip or Not to Flip Statler - 2nd Floor Reading and Writing Aware Berkeley - 2nd Floor

2:35pm

Apps for the Classroom Terrace - Lower Lobby Combining Traditional Skills with 21st Century Tools to Improve Student Writing and Vocabulary Development in Class and At Home Clarendon - 2nd Floor Empowering Students to Manage Their Own Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor Finding Meaning in the Masses: Maximizing Your Professional Learning Community Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) iPads in Education- Examples from the Classroom Statler - 2nd Floor Learning Design & New Media Berkeley - 2nd Floor The Common Core and Lifelong Learning: Are We Pouring Concrete or Building Capacity? White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Who Owns the Learning Georgian - 2nd Floor YOU MATTER: 2 Words Changing Learning and Lives Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

4:00pm

10 Important Things Librarians Should Teach This Year Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Be a Photography Artist/Genius in Under an Hour Terrace - Lower Lobby Digital Literacy: Show Me Don't Tell me Statler - 2nd Floor District-wide implementation of Google Apps for Education-Beginners/Intermediate White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) My Big Campus and Safe Web 2.0 in Education: Blogging, Messaging, Sharing and Collaborating Clarendon - 2nd Floor Reboot, Read, Write Arlington - 2nd Floor Rebuilding a school from the first building brick - and the first pedagogical brick Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) The Flipped Social Studies Classroom Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Transforming That Past Lesson For The 21st century classroom... A Ten Step Approach Georgian - 2nd Floor Twitter Tips and Tricks Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Modern Abolitionists: Developing Empathy Through Technology Berkeley - 2nd Floor

5:30pm

Topic/Question & Tool Hands-on Gatherings (BYOD) Boston Park Plaza

9:00pm

Annual BLC Bash (sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

7:00am

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor

7:30am

BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

8:30am

Announcements and Keynote with Eli Pariser (Sponsored by ePals) Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

10:20am

Eli Pariser's Keynote Follow up Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Appetizers - an Un-session sharing Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Being Smart with Graphs Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) District-wide implementation of Google Apps for Education-Intermediate/Advanced Statler - 2nd Floor Habitudes for Leading and Learning in the 21st Century Georgian - 2nd Floor Kids Teaching Kids: Empowering Students through Screencasting Arlington - 2nd Floor Scaling Up: System Wide Transformation Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) To Flip or Not to Flip White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Twitter Tips and Tricks Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) NuVu Studio: Developing Designer Minds Berkeley - 2nd Floor Creating the 21st Century Assignments: Self-paced mastery learning in a flipped digital environment Terrace - Lower Lobby

11:45am

An entire PROFESSIONAL production studio in your pocket! REALLY! Terrace - Lower Lobby Crowdsourcing Edu Content White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Cultivating Empathy or "Why is she smiling?" Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Empower Your Students To Connect, Create and Collaborate With Each Other Statler - 2nd Floor Flip School: A Game Changer Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) PBL Meets STEM... An Incredible Appetizer.... Resources, Ideas, and a Partnership that will Provide the Right Main Course! Arlington - 2nd Floor PMI-PSI: Highly Effective K-12 Mathematics and HS Science Courses Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Presentation 21 Make-Over Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Teaching Empathy Through Literature and the Web Berkeley - 2nd Floor The Grass Roots of Cultivating and Managing Change Georgian - 2nd Floor

1:10pm

Bling v Bang! - Where’s the Learning? How Can You Tell? Terrace - Lower Lobby Build a Robust Learning Library with Diigo Arlington - 2nd Floor Empathy: The 21st Century Skill Georgian - 2nd Floor Formative assessment rules, OK? - 101 Wrong Metaphors About The Only Assessment that Matters Statler - 2nd Floor Getting to Angry Birds Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) PMI-PSI: Highly Effective K-12 Mathematics and HS Science Courses Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) The State of Play: How Gaming Can Enhance Learning Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) United Classrooms: The Australian Connection White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing)

2:30pm

Closing Keynote w/ Alan November & Special Guest, Greg Whitby (sponsored by ePals) Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

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