Announcing the 2014 School Leadership Summit Virtual Conference + Call for Proposals

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the second annual School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March 27th, 2014. This free world-wide conference will be held online and will be a unique chance to participate in a collaborative global conversation on school leadership with presentations by your peers.

To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please join the Admin 2.0 network and conference website at http://www.schoolleadershipsummit.com. Follow summit discussions on Twitter as well at #sls14. Conference strands (aligned to the internationally-recognized ISTE National Education Technology Standards for Administrators) will include the leadership topics:

• Vision in a Changing World
• Teaching and Learning in a Changing World
• Professional Learning in a Changing World
• Data-driven Reform in a Changing World
• Ethical and Responsible Use in a Changing World

Attending:

There is no cost to attend. Instructions and the schedule of sessions will be here.

Presenting:

The conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to leadership in a changing world. Topics are likely to include: expert advice and/or successful practices relating to Common Core; digital textbooks; school reform; tablet devices for teaching, learning, and productivity; social networking; professional development; "flipped" classrooms; digital citizenship and literacies; global collaboration; stakeholder and digital communication; and much more!

The Call for Proposals for the conference is now open HERE. Presenters can submit proposals for general sessions focused on one of the five strands above. While the final deadline for submissions is March 15th, 2014, presenters will be notified of acceptance on a rolling basis starting 
February 1st, 2014. There is a motivation for early submission and acceptance, as presenters schedule their own presentation times as a part of the process and the options become more limited as time goes on.

As a conference that is focused on being participatory, we encourage new presenters as well as more experienced ones to submit to present.

International Advisory Board:

Anyone can apply to be a member of the international advisory board. Advisory board members are recognized on the website and are asked to:

• Promote both participation and attendance at the conference
• Help us find partner organizations in their region(s)
• Help support and potentially train presenters in their geographical region
• If possible, help moderate sessions during the actual conference

To sign up for the advisory board, please make sure you have joined the Admin 2.0 online network, and then join the advisory board group HERE.

Conference Partner Organizations:

Our current list of sponsors and partners is here. Whether you are a small school or a multi-national non-profit organization, we want to encourage you to become a conference partner. You must be non-commercial and primarily or substantively focused on school leadership to be approved. Once approved, your organization will be listed with a link, logo, and a short description; and you will be provided with a "spotlight" speaker session in the conference.

Our goal for the conference is to have it be a milestone event, bringing together organizations and individuals from all over the world. We recognize that much (if not most!) of the outreach for this conference will come from schools and organizations who advertise the conference to their memberships, and we want to recognize and "reward" those who do this!

There are no financial obligations for being a partner organization--all we ask is that you actively promote the conference to your membership and network, and encourage participation as well as presentations and submissions. To apply to be a conference partner organization, please make sure you have joined the Admin 2.0 online network, and then join the partner group HERE.

Conference Sponsors:

There are opportunities for commercial sponsorship of the School Leadership Summit, and both recognition and authentic appreciation for financial support will be given to those who choose to sponsor. Sponsorship levels and benefits can be discussed with Steve Hargadon directly at steve@hargadon.com or 916-283-7901.

More Information:

The School Leadership Summit's founding sponsor is TICAL, a Statewide Educational Technology Services Project funded by the California Department of Education and Arkansas Department of Education under the auspices of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. TICAL's mission is helping K-12 school leaders provide informed and effective leadership in the use of technology to improve education.

We are looking forward to this fun event, and to your participation! For further updates, please join the Admin 2.0 network and follow the conference hashtag #sls14.

Thank you for your interest, and see you online!

Steve Hargadon
Founder and Co-Chair
http://www.SteveHargadon.com
http://www.Web20Labs.com

Jason Borgen
Co-Chair
Program Director
TICAL, Santa Cruz County Office of Education

Rowland Baker
Co-Chair
Executive Director
TICAL, Santa Cruz County Office of Education

The Learning Revolution - Global Ed Declaration - Connected Cafe Videos - ISTE Unplugged News

The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update

December 17th

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
- John Cotton Dana

Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 Labs and its partners. These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education. To receive the weekly Learning Revolution newsletter, please join the Learning Revolution network.

• Updates
• Deadlines
• Calendar
• Highlighted Recordings
• Conversations
• Kudos

Updates

• ISTE Update. The ISTE Unplugged site is updated with information on signing up for the Hack Education unconference and the Global Education Day.
• School Leadership Summit. Pam Moran and Ira Socol have just signed on to give one of the keynote sessions -- woohoo! The School Leadership Summit 2014 (March 27th) call for proposals is now open at admin20.org.
• Global Education Declaration. Don't miss our Global Education Declaration, written at the conclusion of this year's Global Education Conference. "We declare the critical importance of helping our students, teachers, administrators, parents, and all others to connect globally and to learn from each other; we express appreciation for those who provide opportunities for such global learning activities; and we devote ourselves to furthering the cause of global education."
• Connected Café on YouTube. Some of us are still recovering from the fatigue of Connected Educator Month, but what fun we had! We just posted all of the videos from the Connected Café series on our Connected Café YouTube channel.
• Twitter Stream. We've put a live Twitter stream widget on the Learning Revolution homepage. Join the conversation with #learningrevolution.
• Learning Revolution Reminder. The Learning Revolution site has all of these announcements and more!

Deadlines

• School Leadership Summit, March 27th, 2014
  Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals will be accepted between now and March 15th, 2014. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please see the instructions for submitting a proposal HERE.

Calendar

The Classroom 2.0 LIVE series will be taking a Winter Break. Stay tuned, as we will be posting future shows after the first of the year.

Featured Conference Recordings

Eric Sheninger from the 2013 School Leadership Summit - on "Leadership 2.0"

http://youtu.be/kirJZVGWOcE
Dr. Sandra Hirsh from the Library 2.013 Conference - on "The Global Transformation of Libraries, LIS Education, and LIS Professionals"

http://youtu.be/pXPDCv4XkWs
Al Byers from the 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference - on "Developing Large Scale Effective STEM Teacher Learning Communities"

http://youtu.be/0TsmZLf8aPM

Conversations

Classroom 2.0

• Inspiring Critical Conversations in the Classroom. Educator and Classroom 2.0 member, Karen Cameron, talks about taking in-class discussions to the next level in her discussion of essential versus nonessential questions. Check out her classroom strategies here.
• MOOCs for Deeper Learning. Karen Fasimpaur highlighted an upcoming opportunity for educators to participate in a free, nine-week MOOC for deeper level learning. Check out her post for details. Thanks, Karen!

Future of Education

• What Do You Know About Flipped Classrooms? New Future of Education member, Swaroop Raju, is interested in learning more about using video resources in a flipped classroom. Any of you have examples you'd like to share? Share them with Swaroop here.
• Valuing Online Education. Phillip Morgan recently posted, "The real value of online education is felt when you realise that education becomes the discovery of one’s own ignorance." What do you all think? Join Phillip's conversation about online learning here.

Global Education Conference

• Your Classroom Featured in a Global iBook. Kristen Paino's second graders are putting together a global iBook, and are looking for entries! Interested in getting your students involved in a creative global project? Find out how in Kristen's post.
• Wanted: Forensic Discovery Classroom Partnership. High school science teacher, Paul Munshower, has a great classroom collaboration opportunity in mind. Using a combination of syncrhonous and asynchronous communication tools, Munshower hopes to lead an inquiry based science project between two classrooms studying infectious diseases, and the impacts of vaccines and antibiotics. Read more about the project and get in touch with Paul here.

Library 2.0

• Lifelong Learning and Libraries. Lifelong learning advocate and Library 2.0 member, Joe Wasylyk, is interested in how your library creates opportunities for lifelong learners in your service communities. If you're a lifelong learner, where do you go for support on your continued interest in learning? Share your thoughts with Joe here.

School Leadership Summit

• Moonshot Thinking. Admin 2.0 member, Jason Borgen, shared this Google X Project video on moonshot thinking. See the video and share what you think about moonshot thinking here.

Kudos

Here is some of the feedback we received from those of you who attended the 2013 School Leadership Summit. We can't wait to see you again in March!

A model of future professional development.
-Rose Kendrick

What a wonderful way to connect the school community around the world around important issues.
-Lesley Farmer

Fabulous learning opportunity for the country! Provides a virt-con experience and nationally known presenters at no cost to the attendee, what a gift! Thank you!
-Carol Scholz

The terrific variety and scope of online conferencing is proof that education is undergoing fundamental shifts...for the better. Kudos to all the presenters, and to Steve Hargadon for blazing trails forward to better, more equitable and exciting education for all.
-Craig Seasholes

Cannot wait until 2014!
-Eric Walters

For a full list of the 2013 School Leadership Summit kudos, click HERE.

Final Notes

We hope you like this new newsletter and format. Because of the holidays, we will not be updating for the next two weeks.

See you online!

Steve
Steve Hargadon
www.stevehargadon.com

The Learning Revolution - 2014 School Leadership Summit - ISTE Unplugged Dates - More!

The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update

December 10th

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 Labs and its partners. These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education. To receive the weekly Learning Revolution newsletter, please join the Learning Revolution network.

• Updates
• Deadlines
• Calendar
• Highlighted Recordings
• Conversations
• Kudos

Updates

• School Leadership Summit 2014. The 2nd annual School Leadership Summit is being announced this week. This free event will be held online on March 27th, 2014, thanks to TICAL, our founding sponsor. Our first keynote speaker has been confirmed: the terrific Scott McLeod! Sign up at admin20.org to make sure you get the announcement and call for proposals this week.
• ISTE Unplugged 2014 is in the works. Astute ISTE observers will note that the conference starts on Saturday this year, so our Hack Education all-day unconference will be on Friday, June 27th in the conference center in Atlanta. This event is always free and, for many, is the event at ISTE. Our Global Education Day event will move to Saturday afternoon.
• Conference Keynotes on YouTube. We are excited to announce that the keynote sessions from the following conferences can now be watched on YouTube: School Leadership Summit 2013, Homeschool Conference 2013, STEMxCon 2013, Library 2.012 and 2.013, and the Global Education Conference 2012 and 2013. Visit each of the conference sites to see all of the session recordings.
• Tentative dates for Library 2.014. We have tentative dates for Library 2.014, Wednesday October 8 and Thursday October 9, 2014. These dates are tentative, but we are committed to holding the conference midweek. If those dates hold, Connected Librarians Day would be Monday, October 6th, 2014.
• Global Education Conference 2014. Our 2014 Global Education Conference also has tentative dates; November 17 - 21, 2014.
• Host Your Own Webinar. For those of you who remember the LearnCentral Host Your Own Webinar program, it's coming back! We'll be providing the ability for you to schedule and host your own non-commercial webinars which we will add to our calendar and help to advertise. Be thinking about some educational ideas and practices that you want to share.

Deadlines

• School Leadership Summit, March 27th, 2014
  Upcoming deadlines:
  The call for proposals will be announced later this week. The deadline for proposals will be mid-March.

Calendar

• Classroom 2.0 LIVE Weekly Show
  Featured Teacher: Wes Fryer. Coding & Games with Kids: Hopscotch, Scratch and Minecraft
  As this week wraps up the "Hour of Code," 4th and 5th grade STEM teacher Wesley Fryer will discuss the use of the Hopscotch app for iPads, Scratch software, and Minecraft to help students learn the basics of coding as well as problem-solving and computational thinking skills. See event details on the Learning Revolution calendar

Featured Conference Recordings

Don Buckley from the 2013 Global Education Conference - on "Design and Maker Thinking: How can they be part of our everyday in education"

Julia Stiglitz from the 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference - on "MOOCs"

Barbara Stripling from Library 2.013 - on "Libraries Change Lives: Declaring Our Right to Libraries"

Conversations

• Join a Group Project. When conference co-chairs Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon kicked off Global Ed Con 2013 conference with the Welcome and Convocation session, participants were asked to share some of their collaborative project ideas related to global education. Based on the feedback of the attendees, the five most popular project ideas have been turned into groups that you can find on the Global Education Conference site. Join the conversation here.
• Bloggers reflect on #globaled13. Hundreds of Global Education Conference presenters and attendees shared their reflections, ideas, and experiences of this year's conference through blogging. Check out what they had to say.

Kudos

Here is some of the feedback we received from those of you who attended the Global Education Conference 2013. Thanks to all of you, the presenters, volunteers, and participants, who have made this event so exciting to be a part of.

This is the event of the year where educators worldwide can come together to inspire and be inspired.
-Torsten Otto
Hamburg, Germany

The conference allows educators around the world to become part of the story and fabric of who we are as human beings.
-Lori Zataveski
Delran, New Jersey, USA

It's a fascinating learning journey; it enables to connect and share experiences that will inspire educators all over the world!
-Ikram Eseghir
Kenitra, Morocco

The conference is one the best things ever to happen to individuals who want to develop their capacity in research, teaching and learning. It saves one the time, money and other resources that would have been spent to travel abroad for a conference of international status.
-David O.
Nigeria

Great piece of work...if we had more teachers taking up such ideas, the world would be a transformed place to live in full of geniuses. Love it all.
-Ibrahim Bahati
Kampala, Uganda

For a full list of the 2013 Global Education Conference kudos, click HERE.

Done!

Hope you like this new newsletter and format. See you online!

Steve
Steve Hargadon
www.stevehargadon.com

A Global Education Declaration

A Declaration of the Value of Global Education
Presented at the 2013 Global Education Conference
http://www.GlobalEducationDeclaration.com

Because we are citizens of our individual nations and also part of a larger human family;
Because it is important to learn about other cultures and to understand the similarities that unite us and the differences that define us;
Because global understanding, empathy, and compassion depend and are built on communication, shared experiences, and relationships;
Because we increasingly live in a "global village";
Because we increasingly work in geographically and culturally interconnected ways;
Because we are interconnected physically and our ecological and resource-use decisions impact others;
Because we share a world which appears to be increasingly fragile;
Because complex worldwide problems need collaborative, cooperative, and intelligent solutions;
Because wars, conflicts, abuse, slavery, misinformation, and other forms of oppression both exist and also exert powerful influences;
Because we live in a world that is increasingly "flat" and where Internet technologies have dramatically increased the global connectedness of individuals and cultures;
Because creation and sharing technologies of the Internet and the Web dramatically shift personal and community capacity;
Because the world increasingly is our classroom;

Therefore:

We affirm the universal and inherent worth of every child;
We affirm the deep importance of supporting learning opportunities for all people generally;
We affirm especially the importance of providing wholesome and healthy learning opportunities for all children;
We affirm the need to support the variety and uniqueness of learners, teachers, cultures, and circumstances;
We affirm the importance of independent intellectual inquiry and thought;
We affirm the value of connective technologies and their ability to provide broader learning and thinking experiences;

We affirm the individual, cultural, and worldwide benefits of students learning about, from, and with peoples from around the world;

Finally:

We declare the critical importance of helping our students, teachers, administrators, parents, and all others to connect globally and to learn from each other; we express appreciation for those who provide opportunities for such global learning activities; and we devote ourselves to furthering the cause of global education.

GlobalEdCon 13 - Final Day + Global Education Declaration

Today is the final day of our five-day 2013 Global Education Conference.  

Join us today for a great set of final presentations, as well as for our closing celebration: we'll hear a special message from US Congresswoman Nita Lowey, get reports on the five grassroots projects, announce dates for some special 2014 events, and issue the conference-created Global Education Declaration.

A summary of today's sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to http://www.globaleducationconference.com. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. Recordings of all sessions are available here.

Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag #globaled13.

Special Notes:

• HUGE thanks to our amazing volunteers! You have been awesome!
• General conference information is posted here. A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here. If you are looking to extend your conference experience, here are some ideas.
• Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here.

Friday, November 22
(US-Eastern Standard Time)

6:00am

• ED4ALL - Creating Responsible Global Digital Citizens in the Technology Age - Melanie McCreary, Educator
• Historical Role Play in Second Life for promoting Global Competencies - Dr. Chris Deason, Course Director (Associate Professor
• SPOTLIGHT: Global Classroom 2013-14 Stories & Project Launch - Mr Michael Graffin (@mgraffin)

7:00am

• ED4ALL - EU and the Albanian higher education system; What happens when they meet? - Malvina Tema, PhD Candidate
• Global Project Based Learning and 21st Century Skills are dialectically connected - Ms Samah AlJundi
• Global voices: International school students developing verbal fluency with audiobooks. - Sue Toms, Head of Libraries
• Stories from Hello Little World Skypers - Anne Mirtschin

8:00am

• Building a Global Culture of Accessibility with Mobile Devices - Dr. Luis Perez
• ED4ALL - Educate Every Child on the Planet: The World Top 20 Education Poll - Albert N. Mitchell II, CEO/ Executive Director
• The Olympic Games 2012, working collaboratively in a globalize world to develop cultural awareness.Connecting classroom programme. - Balda Marcia, Teacher of English
• “ Window to the World” – a path for the school of the future - Effie Kyrikakis - Global Program Administrator

9:00am

• ED4ALL - Understanding the Middle East through a Simulation: AIC Conflict Simulation - Vicki Davis & 9th Grade Students
• Liderazgo del directivo docente y Docentes en la evaluation curricular de las Instituciones Educativas Oficiales en Colombia - Magister Luis Alberto Dávila Ramírez
• Using Online Resources for Teaching EFL to Students from Under-served Communities - Muhammad Saleem Ibrahim

10:00am

• KEYNOTE: Karen Armstrong - How to Change the World
• ED4ALL - La Red Interamericana de Educación Docente (RIED) y el Colaboratorio Interamericano para la Profesión Docente (Co-PED): Herramientas Prácticas para la Colaboración entre Docentes en las Américas - Nathalia Khayat, Consultora de Educación y James Pa
• ED4ALL - New Education Highway: Using Technology, Community Partnerships, OERs and Targeted Teacher-Training to Provide Access - Even in Areas Without Internet - to Free, Quality Education - Silvia Raithel, NEH Co-Founder and Co-President
• Global Harvest Project: Connecting Community through Co-developing Transdisciplinary Curriculum - Melda N. Yildiz, Teacher Educator
• The Online Model United Nations Movement: The Move Towards Global Community - Omar Eldarawy, Deputy Secretary General of Africa

11:00am

• Attaining the Creative Classroom with practical projects - Joel Josephson
• ED4ALL - The OER movement: Inspiring global Teacher & Student Participation and Creation - Frédéric Kastner, Programme Manager
• Future Friendly Schools: living laboratories for 21st century teaching and learning - Michael Furdyk, Director of Innovation
• RAINFOREST ARTLINK: Connecting with the rainforest 2013 - Miguel Barreto, Program Director

12:00pm

• CONFERENCE CLOSING CELEBRATION AND SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference.  Hard to believe we're almost at the end!

During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. Given that our combined network reach is probably in the millions, the idea is to turn our personal learning networks into a large personal action network to make a difference for students right now. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: "What do you want to do? How will you accomplish this? What help do you need from the community?" 

The five projects are listed below, and each links to a project group on the conference site--please join one or more and then let us know how Lucy and I can help turn these into realities!

• PROJECT: Student Visits-Exchanges-Collaborations
• PROJECT: MOOCs
• PROJECT: Google Helpouts
• PROJECT: Uniting Around One Social Cause
• PROJECT: International Co-Teaching

A summary of today's sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to http://www.globaleducationconference.com. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. Recordings of all sessions are available here.

Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag #globaled13.

Special Notes:

• Thanks to our GREAT volunteer group! We're always looking for volunteer session moderators--join us here. Today we again need help particularly with the early morning and then the evening sessions.
• General conference information is posted here. A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here. If you are looking to extend your conference experience, here are some ideas.
• Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here.

Thursday, November 21
(US-Eastern Standard Time)

6:00am

• Towards sustainable development together with ENO - Irina Volynets
• Use of Media Arts and Performing Arts for Cross Cultural Understanding - Alema Nasim

7:00am

• Learning through online educational games - Tania Rashid, Education Support Coordinator
• SPOTLIGHT: Knowledge to Action: From global awareness to global citizenship - Honor Moorman, Implementation Team Leader
• The Connected Educator in Progress, A Beginner´s Journey - Maria Colussa, Teacher
• The Impact of Physical Exchanges on West African Students - Aqeela Jogee Cutter, Program Manager

8:00am

• Connecting Classrooms in the U.S., Middle East and North Africa through Online Projects - Jennifer Russell, Program Coordinator
• Developing and sustaining communities of practice in elementary history education: Doing history in the classroom with limited professional development support - Katherine Ireland, B. Ed. Instructor and Ph. D. student
• ED4ALL - U-Learning: Hacía un nuevo paradigma educativo - Gustavo Beltrami

9:00am

• Designation for the Global Ready Teacher! - Mark Otter, Chief Product Officer
• Earth E/mergent - Global Virtual Sensing Networks for Gaian Educational Emergence - Marna Hauk, Graduate Faculty
• Multicultural Game Design Teams as an Intro to Computer Science - Mark Suter, Teacher

10:00am

• ED4ALL - The Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) and the Inter-American Collaboratory on the Teaching Profession (Co-TEP): Practical Tools for Teacher Collaboration in the Americas - Nathalia Khayat, Education Consultant and James Parr, Education
• ED4ALL - Uniting Youth Through the Power of Music and Technology - Kirsten Bunch, Executive Director
• IEARN Local History project as a tool to develop the 21st century skills and enhance cross cultural dialogue - Rimma Zhukova

11:00am

• Connecting Students & Teachers Online, Across Continents - Dounia Bredes, Youth Outreach Coordinator
• ED4ALL - Every Wall is a Classroom: Using Locally Created Video and Cordless Projectors to Improve Learning Outcomes - Matthew York, Founder & Executive Director
• Rethinking and resetting horizons of education: creating the skills of the road to employment - Dimitrios Salampasis, Doctoral Researcher
• Think Globally, Look Locally - Will Piper, 5th grade world geography teacher

12:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Julene Reed - Polar Bears, Global Connections, and Citizen Science

1:00pm

• In Our Global Village - Barbara Cervone, Ed.D., President
• One Montessori World: Connecting Elementary Students and Teachers from around the Globe - Jennifer Williams, Director of Education
• Teaching with Africa - Emily Karem, Associate Vice President, International

2:00pm

• 21st Century Collaborative Language Learning - Dana Bar-or, Hebrew Department Head
• ED4ALL - Esplori: a platform to teach and learn anything, in any language, on video - Federico Pistono
• Modern Day Slavery - Modern Day Slavery - Halyn Valley
• Student Driven Environmental Projects - Kathy Bosiak Classroom Teacher

3:00pm

• International School Award - Mr. Tariq Refaat Bahi Eldin
• Navigating the Needs of A State Multicultural Education Association - Lorie Cook-Benjamin, KS-NAME President
• Spreading Day of Innovation Globally, Sparking Infinite Possibilities - Clyde Mann, Elementary Science Teacher

4:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Justin Van Fleet - Putting Global Education First: How to Achieve A World at School

5:00pm

• Building Upon Your Physical Exchange Experience - Bethany Kreider, Assistant Grants Administrator
• Daffodils and Tulips project and Talking kites on the footsteps of J. Korczak - Ruty Hotzen
• ED4ALL - Introducing Global Perspectives on Disability in the Classroom - Ashley Holben, Project Coordinator
• International Service Learning Projects - Best Practices - Matthew Rudisi - Faculty

6:00pm

• Creating a Global Project - Brian Kayser, Teacher
• ED4ALL - World Museum Scratch Projects - Prof. José Manuel Sáez López
• Global Celebrations of Learning - Jenny Lussier - Library Media Specialist
• Twitter for Educators: An Introduction to the Global Collaboration Network - Ashley Cross, Educator and Doctoral Student

7:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Antonio Delgado - DRAP: Diseño de Recursos de Aprendizaje Personalizados

8:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Sergio Bosio - Los caminos del conectivismo', De la escuela media hacia la Universidad
• 13 year old Trilingual Pioneer in Global Education - World as Classroom- LITERALLY - Mozart Dee - student, world traveler, linguist, musician, entrepreneur
• EduMachinima Fest: Assessing 21st Century Skills - Kae Novak
• GlobalEdCon Smackdown, A Sharing of Resources and Tools from the Week - Heidi Hutchison, 5th grade teacher

9:00pm

• New Maps in Higher Education: Interdisciplinary Education & Global Competency - Salena Coller, MLS, Academic Librarian
• Research Says...” Best Practices in Global Collaboration - Rita Oates, president
• Travel as an alternative form of Education – Life Learning on the Road - Lainie Liberti

10:00pm

• Bring the World to Your Walls: Engaging Learners with Global GraffitiWalls - Jessica Chung, Training and Outreach Manager
• El Uso De Dispositivos Móviles Para La Creación De Entornos Personalizados De Aprendizaje (PLE) En La República Dominicana - Version en Español - Alfonso Sintjago, IT Fellow, PhD Student
• Prepare, Practice, Produce and Present - Paulino Brener, educator/performer/Social Media Mana

11:00pm

• Hip Hop Educational Pedagogy - a globally growing field - Joshua Sneideman - Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow
• One stop shop: TIGed Thematic Classrooms - Tania Rashid, Education Support Coordinator
• Prepara, Practica, Produce y Presenta - Paulino Brener, educador/actor/Social Media Mana

12:00am (Friday)

• TIC para enseñar y aprender - L.I. Alma Delia Chávez Rojas

1:00am

• 15,000 students in Run This Way program for Peace and Nonviolence - Anne Farrell, School Manager Program
• Plus World Technology , Change in Education - Hani Hamed Ezeldin

2:00am

• Global institutional partnership framework for achieving academic excellence: Facilitating the implementation of quality education programs at postgraduate level - Rozina Jumani - Associate Professor

3:00am

• ED4ALL - Opportunities and obstacles of using Quranic schools to achieve EFA goals in Nigeria - Nasir Baba, Lecturer

4:00am

• A Glimpse Into The Life of a Connected EFL Teacher - Tatyana Chernaya, EFL Teacher

5:00am

• A discussion of the impact of energy around the world, focussing on how to use energy in education as an interdisciplinary tool to bring teachers together, with a final discussion of the principles 5,6,7 of the Energy Literacy Framework as an example
• DeforestACTION: Monitoring the Rainforest from your Classrooms - Sara Hassan - Education Program Officer

GlobalEdCon 2013 - Day Three Schedule

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference.  

A summary of today's sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to http://www.globaleducationconference.com. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. Recordings of all sessions are available here.

Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag #globaled13.

Special Notes:

• Thanks to our GREAT volunteer group! We're always looking for volunteer session moderators--join us here. Today we need help particularly with the early morning and then the evening sessions.
• General conference information is posted here. A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here. If you are looking to extend your conference experience, here are some ideas.
• Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here.

Wednesday, November 20
(US-Eastern Standard Time)

7:00am

• Join Radijojo World Children's Media Network: Award-winning global competency empowerment for your students! - Dipl.-Soz. Thomas Röhlinger, MBA Founder & Editor in Chief of Radijojo World Children's Media Network
• Take Your Classroom Global! - Tania Rashid, Education Support Coordinator
• The Art/Science Connection: How to build Successful Collaborations - Mary Jo Allegra, Artist and Lower School Art Teacher

8:00am

• Complex World, Simple Strategies: Towards Deeper Global Understanding in the Classroom - Emily Longenecker, Program Officer
• Disadvantaged English Language Learners Connecting With Their Home Countries - Tony Erben, Ph.d. Associate Professor (Director of ESOL Endorsement)
• ED4ALL - Photojournalism 2.01 & 2.014: Engaging Educators and Youth in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and the United States - Nicole Weitzner, Coordinator of Programs & Digital Content

9:00am

• Connecting Student Dreams Around The World - Jeffrey Harlan, Director and Co-Founder of The Dream Flag Project
• ED4ALL - How to Use Your Personal Story to Advocate for Access to Education" - Carly Pildis Outreach and Advocacy Associate
• Video Blogging as a Resource for Language Learning Enhancement - Curtis Young

10:00am

• A collaborative, cross curricular, skills and habits of mind based language for all - A must in personalized learning - Dr. Nitzan Resnick - Co-Head at KSA
• ED4ALL - A Library in every neighborhood - Rana Dajani Founder and Director
• The Power of Story - Susan Jacques Pierson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Education
• Why my experience as a Cultural Exchange Educator helped bridge the gap between my community and others. - Mrs Fabiana Casella

11:00am

• 10+ Techniques for Empowering Students to Becoming Globally Connected Educators and Content Creators - Noel Feria
• Creativity in Education: Critical, Global, and Engaging - Laura Feeney, Education Advocate
• ED4ALL - Infusing Global and Technology Education into Teacher Education - Eva Brown, Instructor
• Internationalization of learning in experiences of collaborative project 'Our Rivers, Our World' - Rajib Lochan Das, Co-coordinator
• Virtual Study Abroad: Leveraging Technology to Foster Cross-Cultural Competence Among U.S. and Macedonian University Students - Carine Ullom, Director Office of Academic Technology Ottawa University Ottawa, Kansas

12:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Jaime Casap - The Transformation of Education

1:00pm

• A Semester of Service - Shayne A. Swift, International Baccalaureate Coordinator
• ED4ALL - Learning English Grammar by Writing - Mr. Paul Hartman
• From the USA to Africa: A Unique Primary STEM Global Partnership Emerges - Your Name and Title: Maria D. Shaheen: Assistant Professor of Elementary & Early Childhood Education

2:00pm

• Designing for a Global Eye: Helping Commercial Design Students Develop Global Awareness - Christina Inge, Adjunct Instructor
• SPOTLIGHT: Latin American & Latino Literature for K-12 Classrooms - Jennifer Hanson, Librarian
• The Student Experience in a Global, Online Classroom - Jake Clapp, Academic Dean

3:00pm

• "From Theory to Praxis: The Integration of Multicultural Content & Pedagogical Practice" - Dr. O'Shan D. Gadsden, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
• Improve learning and teaching – Finnish it? - Nina Smith
• Walking a Mile in Another's Moccasins: Purposefully Developing Empathy - Doug Johnson, Director of Media and Technology

4:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Karen Blumberg and Rekha Puri - LINEglobal - Gateway to India

5:00pm

• ED4ALL - Educational safaris in rural villages in South Africa on the edge of the Kruger National Park - Peter Evans
• Passport to the World - Susie Oh - Technology Instructor
• Teaching and Learning Across the Globe - Anne Mirtshin, Lorraine Leo

6:00pm

• Global Competencies for 21st Century High School Science Curriculum: Integrated, Student-centered & Content-rich - Catherine Saldutti, President
• Globalizing the High School U.S. History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J. Perrier - High School Specialist, Social Studies; Adjunct Professor
• The Dream Flag Project: Connecting Student Dreams Around the World - Jeffrey Harlan, Director and Co-Founder of The Dream Flag Project

7:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Margaret Riel - Improving your Skills as a Global Educator through Action Research

8:00pm

• ED4ALL - Re-Envisioning the Education System - Global Communication and Collaboration - Maxie Alexandra Gluckman
• ED4ALL - Towards personalising learning in a global world - Dr Gail Casey
• Tools and Strategies for Global Education in your Classroom - Samantha Reynolds - Social Studies Teacher

9:00pm

• Beyond Geography: Team Teaching From Across the Country - Cheryl Morris, English Teacher
• La importancia de las tecnologías libres como herramientas docente en el proceso de enseñanza. - Linda Martinez - Coordinadora de Venezuela
• SPOTLIGHT: How to Foster Student Innovators with “Unreasonable Vision” to Promote Social Change - Sharon Brown-Peters, High School Tech Coordinator

10:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Anne Mirtschin - The World is My Classroom

11:00pm

• Connecting Classrooms through Global Project Based Learning Activities and Resources - Kim Caise, NBCT, M. Ed.
• The Use of Mobile Devices For The Development of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) In The Dominican Republic (Case Study) - English Version - Alfonso Sintjago, IT Fellow, PhD Student

12:00am (Thursday)

• Teaching global challenges with Solution Focus to increase engagement and inspire action - Kristina Stoney, Director

GlobalEdCon - Day 2 Schedule + Toward a Global Education Declaration

Today is day two of the 2013 Global Education Conference.  

A summary of today's sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to http://www.globaleducationconference.com. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. Recordings of all sessions are available here.

Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag #globaled13.

Yesterday in our opening session we started to build the language for a "global education declaration," which we hope to release at the end of the conference and which we also hope will reflect the critical need for global education in our world today. In the session we asked the question, "Why is global education so important?" Amy Brinkley has transcribed the answers and posted them as the start of a discussion forum--please keep that conversation going here. The text of the initial responses is also shown below the schedule.

Special Notes:

• We're always looking for volunteer session moderators--join us here. We could really use some help today at 9am and 6pm US-Eastern Time.
• General conference information is posted here. A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here. If you are looking to extend your conference experience, here are some ideas.
• Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here.

Tuesday, November 19
(US-Eastern Standard Time)

12:00am

• How to get started with Global Projects - Anne Mirtschin

6:00am

• Harry Potter Book Project in Edmodo: A Collaborative Initiative Between Students from Egypt and Canada - Ayat Tawel, EFL senior teacher
• My Identity, Your Identity Culture Project: Global Online Collaboration in Action - Nicolle Boujaber-Diederichs, iEARN USA Master Trainer and Project Facilitator; Instructional Coach

7:00am

• Modern Language Students Learn About Other Cultures Through Their Mobile Device - Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed.D.

8:00am

• Our school, a planet! - Chryssanthe Sotiriou , High School EFL Coordinator
• Playful Learning: Connecting Educators through Games - Peter Stidwill, Executive Producer
• Using Immersive Environments to Connect Global Language Learners. - J.M. Grenier, Instructional Designer, Title III

9:00am

• SPOTLIGHT: Tecnologías Aplicadas al Conocimiento TACs - Jorge Alberto Becerra Ramírez
• Strategies for Infusing Global Concepts and Content into the K-5 classroom - Michelle Macumber, Learning Center Community Leader
• Summer Abroad: Opening Youth up to a world of possibilities - Aileen Daly

10:00am

• "Diversity, Learning Styles and Project Based Learning" Upgrading classroom methods for a global Personal Learning Framework - Richard C. Close CEO
• Able-bodied People’s Perceptions of and Communication with Persons with Disabilities. - Dr. Jamal Din Slimani
• ED4ALL - How a community of educators meets online using Google Hangout with unlimited participants - Vance Stevens, EFL teacher and coordinator of Webheads in Action
• One Gesture At A Time: Knowledge and Action Hand in Hand - Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

11:00am

• ED4ALL - Partnerships in Education: How Labor-Management Collaboration Is Transforming Public Schools - : Larry Specht, Senior Associate, International Affairs Department
• ED4ALL - The Importance of Global Competence Education for Adults. - Shawn Mahoney, Board President
• QUANDARY: Building creativity, empathy and ethical decision-making through play - Peter Stidwill, Executive Producer
• Strategies for creating culturally inclusive online programs - Anita Samuel

12:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Dan Zanes - Communal Music-Making: What I've Learned So Far

1:00pm

• ED4ALL - E-learning Challenges in a Multilingual and Rural Environment: the Case of Southwest Morocco - Jamila Bargach, Director
• ED4ALL - Guarantee the right of high quality education to all American children - : Larry Specht, Senior Associate, International Affairs Department
• Global Teacher Education: A Resource for Internationalizing Teacher Education in the United States - Caitlin Haugen, Executive Director
• IFAW's Animal Action Education Program - Imogen Scott, Communications Consultant for IFAW

2:00pm

• Learn how GNG's virtual exchange programs promote cross-cultural collaborations in your classroom - Rachel Kornhauser
• Out My Window - Leslie Pralle Keehn, Instructional Technology Consultant
• Using Instructional Technology to Accelerate Students into STEM Careers - Perri Robinson, Sales and Marketing

3:00pm

• ED4ALL - Education in Action: Internship and Educational Programs at SeaTrust Institute as Global Capacity Building - Dr. Carolyn Stevenson, Director of Education and Special Project Lead, AWARE (Action Within a Resilient Environment)
• Globalization of credentials by adopting skill driven badges instead of grades or degrees. - Szymon Machajewski, Affiliate Professor
• How to Design and Implement a Global Citizenship Certificate Program - Kara Roth, Global Citizenship Program Coorindator
• Inquiry Approaches to Integrating Environmental Literacy and 21st Century Skills - Miguel Fuentes, Curriculum and Evaluation Director

4:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Don Buckley - Design and Maker Thinking - how can they be part of our Everyday in Education

5:00pm

• ED4ALL - Inspiring Life Long Stakeholders for International Education: From High School and College Students, to Corporate Executives, to Rural Villagers - Skyler Badenoch, Development Director
• Helping Learners Develop Personal Learning Networks - Dr. Bernard Bull, Assistant Vice President of Academics & Associate Professor of Educational Design & Technology
• Making a Better World Online for Children: Teaching Digital Literacy and Citizenship - Louisa Sullivan, Regional Program Manager
• Proyecto "Celebraciones en la Red" - Prof. Cristina Velazquez
• Sharing International Films - Susannah Wheelwright

6:00pm

• Bringing The World to Your Classroom - Genevieve Murphy Global Development Director of Know My World
• ED4ALL - Lessons from PISA for the United States - Larry Specht, Senior Associate, International Affairs Department
• D4ALL - Using Advocacy to Empower Students - Lisa Glenn, Director of Programs
• Intercultural Personhood Theory as a Framework for Global Competence - Stacy Shipman

7:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Brandon Wiley - Six School-Wide Strategies to Globalize Your School

8:00pm

• 21st Century Pedagogies and Envisioning the Global Schoolhouse - Jennifer D. Klein, Global Educator
• Natural Disasters and Us - Lisa Parisi 5th grade Teacher
• Professional Development for a Global Audience - Amy Hollinger Director of Professional Development

9:00pm

• Connect to the Global Family through Sister Cities - Gregory Adler Education Consultant
• Las Mejores Prácticas en la Educación Global Basada en Proyectos - Jennifer D. Klein, Educadora Global
• Work With What You Have - Louise Morgan

10:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Julie Lindsay - How to go Global - Lead, Learn, League

11:00pm

• Integrating technology in primary classrooms: from the learning theories - Taru Malhotra, Masters in Education student

3:00am (Wednesday)

• ED4ALL - Navigating the Cultural Side-effects of Global Education and the Compression of Change - Vera Saar, STEM Consultant/Facilitator

Why is global education so important?

Because we live in a global village

Create a flat world!

Technology connects us all

To make light from a spark!

Learn about other cultures-also students see how similar they are in many ways

Global education is so important because global mass extinctions and life-support services are seriously stressed.  To solve these “wickedly” complex problems we need to work collaboratively to solve them.  Understanding and connection with others promotes peace.

To give students the chance to learn from people around the world.

Relationships and cultural understanding are critical in today’s world.

I think global education is really important because it helps us to connect our students with people all over the world.  We can have collaborative activities with people from other countries and give meaningful experience to our kids.

There are no boundaries.

We are all one great family, each one depending on the other.

We are part of a globalized world.

Global world.

We need to understand each other.

The next generation needs to be prepared to work with basically everyone else in the world.

Because the world today is so interconnected and interdependent.

Because the world is so vast with so many different kinds of people.  It is important that we learn from each other.  This allows us to work collaboratively, understand and learn as much as we can, and together we can help the world become a better place for all.

Essential because we need to work across borders to solve global problems.  It’s not about competition, it’s about collaboration.

Because WE CAN!

The world is our classroom

It helps to promote the idea of us all being a part of the human family

Students will need to be able to live with all people across the world.

Because our children need to be successful global citizens--need to interact with varied cultures, communities

Our entire world is interconnected and dependent on collaboration and cooperation.

So we can prepare our students for the global workforce.

It is important to be on the same page with the rest of the world.

It may help preserve our identity

Because we are interconnected and all have to be able to work together with synergy and great collaboration skills.

To prepare students for global workforce and to prepare teachers to integrate global activities into classroom instruction.

To be global citizens

Creating understanding and empathy.

SHARING EXPERIENCE

We want to live in peace

Global collaboration unites children from different countries, bringing cultures closer together.

Because we are not alone in our learning

Because the broader your connections, the broader your thinking

We are part of a global community

To understand how our world works! And to understand other cultures!

Growing empathy and compassion, seeking social justice and empowering students and educators through technology creation

We need to understand other cultures

Grow as a society!

Global education is imperative because we are living in a global society.  No longer does distance separate students in Joplin, MO from student in China, Chile, South Africa, anywhere!  It’s important that students know how to communicate and understand on a global level.

2013 Global Education Conference Kicks Off Today - List of Sessions

From the 2012 GlobalEdCon attendees:  

"This conference is a great example on what global means. Speakers, presenters and public from all over the world talking, showing and listening about education. The world is indeed flat." -Catalina Valenzuela

"Loved the chance to learn, share and grow both as an educator and as a person who wants to stay abreast of changes and innovation." -Effie Kyrikakis

"An awesome gathering of educators from all over the world with valuable contributions to improve education as a whole. A fantastic demonstration of a global learning event." -Almerinda Girabaldi

"Never before have I seen such an incredible array of resources - and inspiration. I only wish I didn't need to sleep, so I could attend them all live!" -Dr. Jessie Voigts

"Thanks for providing this global forum that truly flattens the world of learning." -Jerry Blumengarten

The 2013 Global Education Conference starts today! If you haven't attended our annual Global Education Conference, you are in for a treat! (More quotes from last year's event are at the bottom of this message.) We start today with a opening convocation on global education--come help us build a worldwide call to action around the critical importance of global education--after which we have a full day of great sessions, all of which are listed below. This free event runs all week and is open to anyone to attend: spread the word with Twitter hashtag #globaled13. 

Quick Notes:

• We're also always looking for volunteer session moderators--join us here.
• General information is posted here.
• A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here.
• If you are looking to extend your conference experience, here are some ideas.
• Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here.

Times for today's sessions that are show below are US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to http://www.globaleducationconference.com.To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network.

Monday, November 18

12:00pm 

• OPENING SESSION - Global Education Welcome and Opening Convocation

1:00pm

• Are you ready for Conflict Analysis and Management Practice? Assessing Quality, Academic Rigor, and Innovation. - Amanda Coolidge instructional designer
• Students as Creators or Makers: Tools to foster Higher-order Thinking Skills - Jeff Hoffart (@JeffHoffart) - TEDxYouth@BIS Team
• Teaching in a school which sometimes becomes a hostile environment for a teacher or how to teach in an ex-conflict area - Attila Nagy, LLM International Business Law

2:00pm

• Can MOOCs Really Make an Impact in the Developing World? - Ioana Literat
• Making International Education for Everyone - David Potter, Chief Development Officer
• TIC para enseñar y aprender - L.I. Alma Delia Chávez Rojas

3:00pm

• From static to dynamic: engaging students with technology to teach global issues - Katharine Robinson
• MY HERO Learning Circles & CALL TO ACTION - Wendy Milette, Director of Media Arts Education
• The 9x9x25 Challenge: A Reflective and Open Model of Professional Development - Todd Conaway, instructional designer

4:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Michael Furdyk - Imagining Future Friendly Schools: Global Citizenship, Environmental Stewardship, and Student Voice

5:00pm

• Global Perspectives on Grading and Assessment - Dr. Bernard Bull, Assistant VP of Academics & Associate Professor of Educational Design and Technology
• Irish-American Project - Donna Román
• Transforming professional learning through global collaboration - Kate Sutton Jones

6:00pm

• Plataforma E-learning Chamilo como herramienta dinamizadora en procesos educativos a distancia - Linda L. Martinez H. - Fundadora Comunidad Chamilo Venezuela
• The use of social media in teaching information literacy and global collaboration - Laura Loveday, Librarian

7:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Pam Allyn and Jennifer Estrada - Transformational Literacy for the 21st Century: Four Lessons from the LitWorld Model

8:00pm

• ED4ALL - Lesson For All: the right of education and the barriers worldwide - Donna Adams Román
• Fostering Global Citizenship in the English Classroom - Jennifer D. Klein, Global Educator
• IIME develops 21st century skills through international collaborative learning - Atsuko Shiwaku
• The #Malala Project, An attempt at a Global PBL - Heidi Hutchison, 5th grade teacher

9:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Natalia Gil de Fainschtein - La educación necesita más Realidad Aumentada, con o sin computadoras
• Anime as a Catalyst for Global Collaboration: Media Literacy Projects for the Flat Classroom - Dr. Michele L. Haiken
• Fostering Global Citizenship in Our Schoolhouses - Jennifer D. Klein, Global Educator
• Key Issues in International Clinical Placements - Ann Gaudino, Ed.D.

10:00pm

• KEYNOTE: Kim Cofino - Adventures in International Education

11:00pm

• ePortfolios as Environments for Global Engagement, Deep Learning and Authentic Assessment - Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, Professor and HP Fellow

“In today's society, we no longer have to hold meetings in the confines of four walls, stay in expensive hotels, and nibble on gourmet food we can't pronounce. Advances in technology have fueled the growth of meeting virtually, giving people the ability to actively participate in team meetings no matter where they are in the world. We can voice our experiences and views to a much greater audience. Indeed, this is a great idea to to have virtual conferences to increase awareness and spread information." -Huma Shoukat

“This is one of the greatest professional development opportunities on global ed for teachers and education professionals I have come to know so far. Sadly, our Ministry of Education has completely cut off any financially supported opportunities for in -service teachers in our country or any leave of absence for them to pursue further education/professional development since two years ago. Technology works miracles, borders and other restrictions tend to vanish, and what a great networking and resources this conference offers! I'm definitely sharing this with my colleagues and networks on this side of the planet. Thank you, Steve, other partners in this project, speakers and volunteers for your time and efforts, big time congrats to all!" -Sofia from Greece

“I love digital media and the idea that we are all where we are actively engaging in the educational enterprise and charting new ways to develop education globally." -Dierdre Huger

“Wow -everything went so smoothly with so many presenters, webcams, locations, and people contributing and drawing -on the screen, in the chat screen, etc. Most impressive demonstration of the possibilities of the software and of engaging ways to interpret the conference theme! " -Anonymous

“This is a fantastic conference and I plan on using the recordings for my graduate student -professional teachers. Thank you for allowing educators to collaborate!" -Mary Liz Jones

“Excelente, gracias por hacer este tipo de eventos que fortifican el quehacer educativo.

"Excellent, thanks for doing this type of event that supports educational work." -Dayhana Sanchez Cuevas

“This is a very interesting way for people all around the world to participate in real time to develop ideas, strategies, perspectives, methods and direction in any aspect of education. It takes educational practices global. I think it is a way for teachers and all who are directly involved in education as well as others who are interested to collaborate and share. It could bring the level of discussion and collaboration to a whole new level throughout the world. " -Joseph Murphy

“Excelente, permite entender como impactar al estudiante con imágenes y tomando en consideración sus expectativas personales." -Jinmy

“I spent the day working as a librarian/media specialist in a middle school in Virginia, USA and spent the evening at an international conference sharing ideas with people all over the world. Absolutely amazing! Tomorrow I teach research skills to 7th graders -I will tell them the importance of 'information literacy' as these types of global connections will become part of their everyday lives " -Anonymous

“Great that I can pick and choose the learning that works best for me." -Kelli Holden

"Great experience. Exciting to have an opportunity to share and learn with the entire world right at the same time." -Allan Kakinda

“The Global Education conference is an opportunity to become educated on what is going on Globally. Consider participating in the future from wherever you are." -Anonymous

“A fantastic way for teachers from around the world to share ideas and to learn from teachers from other subject areas." -Fiona Luna

“I wish I could take the whole week off and just attend the workshops. I am so grateful for all of you who have organized this great opportunity for us teachers who often hunger for new ideas and techniques to do that which we love to do. Thank you!" -Mona Abinader

“It is a very rich resource of materials for teachers (like me) who is trying to navigate the digital world and use it for the benefit of her students." -Elma

“Great presentations so far. The conference has awesome information, new knowledge,and idea" -sharing is great. Motivating to hear from colleagues from all over the world." -Anonymous

“Glad to be able to participate from my little corner of the world... Opportunities I would never have had without this conference. " -Sherrilyn

“The conference did an excellent job of reaching out to everyone by going online. " -Melba Angni

“I'm so thankful that you have made this opportunity for learning available to everyone. " -Anonymous

"Excelente. Muy completa. Con ejemplos reales y aplicables del curriculum escolar. Actual y con un sinnúmero de posibilidades para trabajar." -Olga Schabb

“I love the format of this conference. I am at home convalescing from a broken shoulder and yet I was able to attend a session in Argentina this morning! Amazing!" -Lorissa Boxer

“Great opportunity to interact with quality presenters around the world. I couldn't take full days away to attend a face-to-face conference (not to mention the financial limitations there), but I can grab an hour or two a day to be part of this. Thank you." -Anonymous

“Globetrotting from home: Uganda, United States, Indonesia, Spain, Mexico, Brazil...It's been a wild, inspirational ride!" -Anonymous

“First online conference I attended, wonderful. " -Daniel Dillon

“I have loved every day of the conference, I have gained so many resources, contacts and an amazing amount of inspiration! Sheer brilliance!" -Denise Boyd

“Totally jazzed about GEC!" -Anonymous

“I liked reading other peoples’ comments and knowing that we are not alone in our struggles, but also knowing that others have found a way to make the changes that we wish to see." -Anonymous

“What a great opportunity to connect from home on our Vet's Day holiday!" -Anonymous

“Thank you for organizing this meaningful conference!" -Sharon Pei

“Seizing the opportunity presented by this Veteran's Day holiday, today is a great day for online conference...." -Craig Seasholes

“This is my first time doing an online conference! I am impressed with what is available and excited to check in daily and absorb new information!" -Cynthia

“Such a gift to learning and sharing!" -Anonymous

“Fantastic way to conference without leaving the classroom." -R. Carter

“Amid Dark Times, a brighter side of U.S Pakistan ties. Indeed a great platform to connect globally. Conference was great. We should do this very often." -Anonymous

“Love this concept....always watched webinars online never attended a conference.....boy look at what I've been missing." -Debbie Gaskins

“This is an inspiring conference and school districts should be telling their teachers about it and offering professional development for attending online and presenting in groups at school. Even 4min. for each teacher would be great and then the link for the archived recording could be shared." -Anonymous