Technology integration experience for educators
A year-long K‑16 professional development program focused on educational technology, built on a connectivist model in which knowledge is distributed across a network of connections. OOE13 ran from June 2013 to June 2014 as a community of educators sharing resources, tools, and experiences.
Participants connected with one another through Twitter using the #ooe13 hashtag, Diigo groups, Google+ communities, and their own blogs. Subscribing to the feed keeps a collection of those reflections close at hand.
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What is Open Online Experience 2013 (#OOE13)? In short, it is a year-long K‑16 professional development program focused on educational technology. It is also, and more importantly, a community of educators who are interested in learning together and sharing what they know.
The program was designed on a connectivist model: rather than a fixed curriculum delivered by a single instructor, learning flowed through the connections participants made with one another and with the wider network of educators.
Monthly topics moved from foundational ideas toward applied classroom practice. Below is the archived sequence of the 2013‑2014 cycle.
| Month | Topic |
|---|---|
| October 2013 | Connectivism and being connected |
| November 2013 | Digital Citizenship |
| January 2014 | Digital Literacy |
| February 2014 | Content Curation |
| March 2014 | Student Directed Learning & Digital Storytelling — Multimedia, Remixes & Mashups |
June 2014
The final post of the program year closed out a full cycle of topics, connections, and shared practice. Thank you to everyone who participated this year — it has truly been an amazing journey.
May 2014
Participant blogs carried reflections on digital citizenship, networked leadership, and professional learning gathered near the close of the year.
March 2, 2014
As the program moved from curating content to creating it, participants explored how students can direct their own learning through digital storytelling.
February 2014
Curating became the focus of the February topic: finding, evaluating, and organising resources so that others could use them too. Diigo and Google+ communities served as shared shelves for the group's finds.
November 2013
Digital Citizenship framed the November conversation, asking what responsible participation looks like for teachers and students who spend so much of their learning life online.
October 2013
With sessions under way from September 2013, the second topic set out the connectivist thinking behind the program: knowledge distributed across a network of connections rather than held in one place.
June 2013
The Open Online Experience launched in June 2013 as a shared professional development journey for K‑16 educators, with co-creators, mentors, and a map of participants at its core.