Kudos All Around
Sunday, November 4, 2007There are a lot of great things going on out there. Here are my kudos, as of late. If you’ve made the list, you've not only convinced me that you're paying attention, you’ve also earned the right to display (if desired) the coveted “Kudos from Drape” badge on your site. The "Kudos from Drape" badges are available in large, medium, small, and too small to see. Furthermore, they are non-transferable, non-refundable, and have no added MSG.
The following award recipients are listed in no particular order:
- Kudos to Darren Kuropatwa, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Wesley Fryer, Lani Ritter Hall, and the rest of the people that have made the K12 Online Conference what it is today. While my name is on the list of those that have contributed, let me go on record apologizing for my lack of participation. Yes, I know, I did a few things for the Live Events committee, but honestly most of the credit for the successful live events belongs to Vinnie Vrotny and Mark Ahlness.
Challenge: How will you make next year's conference even better?
Remember: Sometimes less is more. - Kudos to Dean Shareski and Liz Kolb for their excellent K12 Online presentations (Design Matters and Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools, respectively). I’m positive there are others to award here, but I haven’t had time to see very many of the presentations yet. Nevertheless, therein lies the beauty and genius of the K12 Online Conference: Professional Development at your convenience.
Challenge: Follow up with some of the people to whom you have presented.
Remember: Training without follow-up is usually no training at all. - Kudos to Steve Dembo for creating the EdTV wiki, and to those educators that are open enough to share what they are doing through video stream.
Challenge: Help ISTE to understand how important it will be for us to have serious access to some huge pipes for the streams that will take place at NECC 2008.
Remember: Streams do no good if nobody's watching. - Kudos once again to Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay for setting the standard with their Flat Classroom Project.
Challenge: Get other teachers to replicate your efforts.
Remember: Duplication is the ultimate form of flattery. - Kudos to Karl Fisch for nailing the purpose of allowing students wireless access in schools. Says Karl: "Why wireless? Because their century demands it."
Challenge: Now Karl, let them speak.
Remember: Access to tools without an avenue for using them is futile. I'm ready when you are. - Kudos to Michael Wesch for telling the story the way it should be told. Your message is timely, poignant, and your methods were perfect.
Challenge: I think it's time for you to address how tomorrow's teacher would best reach today's student.
Remember: As teachers, we need to look into the future because our students are already there. - Kudos to Carolyn Foote for helping others to pay attention. Her work with Bob Witowski has made my month. Kudos to Bob as well for stepping up to the task.
Challenge (to Carolyn): Find your next victim.
Remember: We change the world best one person at a time. - Kudos to Bonnie Muir for her efforts to join in on the scary ride of online collaboration. Blogging, Twitter, and Ning can be a lot to swallow - certainly not for that faint of heart.
Challenge: Maintain.
Remember: Your blog is not your life. - Kudos also go to Kelly Dumont for opening up the JSD Elementary Film Festival to participants outside of the Jordan School District. Translation: lots more work for Kelly, lots more work from kids.
Challenge: Sustain the attitude that quality counts throughout the festival.
Remember: These are only kids. - Kudos to Miguel Guhlin for cranking out so much quality content.
Challenge: Don't let your readers dictate what you write about.
Remember: Blogging is like teaching. Only fools do it for the money. - Kudos to iJohnPederson for making me laugh with the funniest blog post I've ever read. For that matter, he's really been on a roll lately.
Challenge: It's time for you to really think outside the box.
Remember: You define the box. - Finally, additional Kudos go to Ryan Bretag for writing one of the best posts I've ever read detailing the transformative process we call blogging. If my brain were as large as Ryan's I would have written this post myself and called it my 9th reason why every teacher should blog.
Challenge: Find your next niche.
Remember: If anybody can do it, Ryan, you can.
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Darren--
Thanks for the recognitions, but really, all the credit goes to Bob. I just arranged for our faculty to see the video in a workshop--he came up with the initiative to do the project and how it would work!
I've let him know about your award!
Thanks again--! We're honored to be on your list!
Carolyn
I'd first like to thank... j/k!
Seriously though, thanks Darren! I appreciate your kind words and wonderful badge of honor -- I took the "too small to see" though the large would look nice on the site :-)
I'm back in the saddle again so I'm sure we have some exciting times ahead of us and hopefully some collaborative efforts! This time, no one is keeping me from these amazing ideas from such amazing people like yourself.
Keep up the great, inspiring work!
Thanks, Darren for the mention. And yes, we need more duplication and truly it is happening. The Flat Planet project and some other work that last year's sounding board's went on to do. Our goal now is to determine how classes and kids can participate who don't have access, i.e. how can we link with kids who have cell phones say in Africa, for example. I'm experimenting a lot with cell phone technology (can you tell?) to see what can be done. We need more to come onto this.
Also, I encourage those interested in being a judge or sounding board to join in our current flat classroom project.
Thanks for this great list!
Darren, thanks so much for the mention (it's "Guhlin" not Ghulin which reminds of Ghoulin so....).
You're the one that gets the credit for such an astounding list. I have 4-5 tabs open on stuff you caught that I missed, so thank you!
With appreciation,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net
Hi Darren
Thanks for your post. You know you just brightened my day! I spent the afternoon presenting 2 back-to-back sessions at the American School of Doha on Wikis that Work, as part of the mini-NESA conference here where theachers from both schools present to each other etc and the best ones are chosen to present in Bangkok next April. As usual these presentations always take a long time to think through and create etc and then when you come to do them there is sometimes a let down at the end. Well, the second session had 7 people, 4 of whom fell asleep...including my head of secondary..how deflating!
So, thanks for cheering me up and recognising the Flat Classroom project! and for pointing me in the direction of other 'doers' out there.
Well executed my friend.
Now I have to add "ijohnpederson" to the obligatory ego search RSS feed.
You're all great and I appreciate your willingness to teach me - perhaps unintentionally and even unknowingly.
I cherish the relationships that I've developed through the blogosphere.
Sorry for the sap.
DD
Darren
Thanks for the Kudos (a little late on my part---I'm just catching up with some of the other K12 presentations---I love the "learn at your own pace" format!). I can't wait for next year's conference. Thanks again
Liz
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