Library 2.015 Online Conference (Fifth Year!) + Teacher Librarian Day

Library 2.015 is all day on Tuesday, October 20th. Anyone from anywhere in the world can participate for free (as long as they have an Internet connection)! Links for the conference are below. There are 50 sessions and 3 keynotes, and the schedule with connecting information is listed for time zones throughout the world.

We're celebrating the fifth anniversary of our conference! Huge thanks and a shout-out to founding partner The School of Information at San José State University and its director (and conference co-chair), Dr. Sandra Hirsh, for the vision and support that has made this unique event a reality. With their help the conference community has grown to over 21,000 members, and we encourage you to learn more, make connections, and get future announcements by joining Library 2.0.

For our pre-conference event this year, we're excited to announce Teacher Librarian Day on Monday, October 19th, a five-hour special (and also free) series of online sessions around the topic of "Teacher Librarians and School Culture" - organized by Joyce Valenza, with lots of special guests, and supported by CiSSL, the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries at Rutgers. The conference has inherited the Global Teacher Librarian Ning network, with over 7,000 members--learn more and connect with others at http://www.teacherlibrarian.org.

We sincerely hope you will join us. Below are event links, plus some sample posts and tweets you can use if you're able to help us promote either or both of these events. You can also forward this post/email. Please do let your networks know--it's all free!

Links:

• Main Conference Page: http://www.library20.com
• Keynote Speaker Information: http://www.library20.com/page/keynotes2015
• Attending + Schedule Page (in multiple time zones): http://www.library20.com/page/sessions-and-schedule
• Teacher Librarian Day: http://www.teacherlibrarian.org

Sample Posts + Tweets:
The conference hashtag is "#lib2015" | The Teacher Librarian Day hashtag is "#tlday15"

• Sample post (conference): "The fifth annual Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference will be held on October 20th, 2015 from 7am - 8pm US Pacific / 10am - 11pm US Eastern (International Times available on the site). Everyone is invited to participate in the conference, designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. Register for free as a member of the Library 2.0 network to attend and to be kept informed of future events! http://www.library20.com"
• Sample post (pre-conference): "Teacher Librarian Day is Monday, October 19th, five great hours of free online sessions on 'Teacher Librarians and School Culture.' This pre-conference bonus to the annual Library 2.0 conference features Joyce Valenza, Michelle Luhtala, Shannon Miller, Ross Todd, Naomi Bates, Karen Bonano, and Craig Seasholes leading a panel on 'Social Justice @Library.' All welcome, more information at http://www.teacherlibrarian.org."
• Sample tweet (conference): "Join us Oct 20 for the 5th annual Library 2.0 conference 50 presentations + keynotes all free and online #lib2015 http://www.library20.com"
• Sample tweet (pre-conference): "Join us Oct 19 for Teacher Librarian Day all free and online - awesome lineup #tlday15 http://www.teacherlibrarian.org "

See you online,

Steve Hargadon
The Learning Revolution

Monday Webinar - "Marketing Your Teaching Materials" with Richard Byrne

Monday night, September 21st, at 7:30pm EDT Richard Byrne will be presenting a free one-hour Webinar on strategies for using blogs, social media, and email to promote the resources that you can sell through the TES Marketplace.

Register to attend live, or to receive a link to watch the recording, HERE.

The recording is HERE:  https://youtu.be/yuVoYNEMsRk

This event is sponsored by TES. The TES Marketplace is open to any educator who wants to offers free and or premium resources to other educators. Educators who sell their resources through the TES Marketplace receive 100% for resources purchased in the U.S. There’s no limit to how much you can earn.

In the Webinar Richard will share his best strategies for promoting the materials without feeling like you’re turning yourself into a sales person. A TES representative will also be on the webinar show the unique features of the TES Marketplace.

TES is dedicated to supporting the world’s teachers. Our mission is to enable great teaching by helping educators find the tools and technology they need to excel, supporting them throughout their career and professional development. We’re home to the world’s largest online community of teachers with 7.3 million registered users and this network is one of the fastest growing of any profession globally, helping support, guide and inspire educators around the world. We host a dynamic marketplace in which educators can discover, share, and sell original teaching materials; Blendspace, a lesson-building product where those resources can be freely integrated and implemented; and Wikispaces, an open classroom management platform that facilitates student-teacher communication and collaboration.

Saturday LIVE! Show - Corrected - K12 Online Conference Preview with the Conference Organizers

The topic for Saturday, September 19th will be a K12 Online Conference preview with the Conference Organizers. Since 2006, K-12 Online has hosted a free, all-volunteer online conference with 40+ free videos each year featuring some of the most creative and innovative educators sharing their best ideas for engaging students with digital tools and effective learning strategies. Don Wettrick and his #Innovation students will kick off our 2015 conference with a pre-conference keynote on Monday, October 12th. For two weeks, starting on October 19th, 40 presentations will be published in four different strands, with four presentations posted per day. All K-12 Online presentations are published as pre-recorded videos, generally no longer than 20 minutes in length. You can view the recordings any time/any place once they are published and can also subscribe to them on your mobile device in iTunesU.

During this webinar an overview of the conference presenters, features and ways to participate will be shared.

During week 1 of the conference which starts October 19th, Stephanie Chang will keynote the “Maker Ed” strand, while Alan Levine will keynote “Stories of Connection.” During week 2, starting October 26th, Scott McLeod will keynote “Overcoming Obstacles” while Karen Bosch will keynote “Beyond the Core: Art and More.”

2015 Conference Theme: “Virtually Unstoppable"
Strands for 2015 are:
Week of Oct 19 – 23: Maker Ed and Stories of Connection
Week of Oct 26 – 30: Overcoming Obstacles and Beyond the Core: Art and More
Schedule: http://k12onlineconference.org/2015-schedule/

More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you're new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Blackboard Collaborate, and navigate the site. Each show begins at 12pm Eastern (GMT-5) and may be accessed in Blackboard Collaborate directly using the following Classroom 2.0 LIVE! link at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live. All webinars are closed captioned.

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you'll find the recordings and Livebinder from our recent “Matt Miller-Featured Teacher” session with our special guest Matt Miller. Click on the Archives and Resources tab.

ABC Splash (Australia) Audio Interview with Me on Learning

A thoughtful conversation with Annabel Astbury, Head of ABC Digital Education, split into four audio segments:

• Historical ideas about schooling
• The role of institutions and parents in education
• Enhancing learning with technology
• Considering the conditions around good learning

9/2018 Addendum: the sound files are missing from that site now, but can be found here.

Global Collaboration Day Has Arrived (It's Thursday in New Zealand!)

It’s now Thursday, September 17th, in the South Pacific--and that means Global Collaboration Day has arrived!

Over the next couple of days, students, classrooms, teachers, administrators, parents and organizations will be either attending and/or hosting events online that are designed to showcase and promote global collaboration. We (Lucy Gray + Steve Hargadon, co-chairs of the Global Education Conference) are the calendar coordinators but not the direct conveners: that is, over 100 groups have designed and planned their own events which we have then organized into a directory and in special calendars to allow these events to be seen in any time zone in the world.

This is a huge worldwide experiment to demonstrate the power of globally-connected learning.

Examples of projects and events include: a teacher in Australia who will lead others in learning to dance Greek-style via Skype and Edmodo; African students and teachers answering questions through Whatsapp; and classrooms participating in a global virtual amazing race. There are professional development sessions for individual pre-service teachers, in-service educators, and other adults; as well as projects for entire classrooms to join in. We encourage you to browse the event directory or the calendar and choose a compelling event to attend!

Here are some tips to keep in mind as the next couple of days unfold:

• Read directions and our website carefully to prepare.
• If you have a question about a particular event or project, contact the host of that event directly. Their contact information is posted in each event listing.
• Join our Remind texting and email group for event reminders.
• If you need live help, we’ll do our best to be available. We will be in and out of this Blackboard Collaborate room as our own schedules allow.
• Be patient! Things may not always go as well as intended! Learning to be flexible and adapting to situations online is a big part of becoming a global collaborator.

Here are some important links for you to keep handy:

• How to Join an Event
• How to Host an Event
• FAQ
• Event Calendars
• Event Directory
• List of Participating Schools and Organizations
• Forum
• Social Media
• Video Tutorials

We appreciate the time and energy that our hosts have invested in this special day, and hope that our participants learn something new and become more confident with digital tools that allow for global connections. We also hope that you’ll meet new professionals to add to your professional learning network!

And we'd especially like to thank our partners and sponsors, listed below. Kudos to them!

See you online,

Lucy and Steve

All Invited to Global Collaboration Day - September 17th!

We would like invite you to join Global Collaboration Day, our first annual demonstration of global collaboration for educators. We are encouraging students, teachers, organizations and companies to host virtual events involving technology on September 17, 2015. (And since September 17 takes nearly 48 hours to start and finish across the globe, check out the calendar in your own time zone for all the activities!)

The primary goal of this whole day event is to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, universities, and institutions of informal learning and around the world. Global Collaboration Day will introduce others to the tools, resources, projects and programs that are available to educators today. We currently have over 130 schools and organizations representing about 29 different countries; 25 outreach partners have also committed to joining this worldwide event. Approximately 52 events are listed on our site and this list is growing by the day. There is no cost to participate at any level.

Here is how people and organizations can participate: 

• individuals or classes can attend events hosted by others by browsing our calendar and directory in their own time zone
• classes, organizations and companies can host a simple, interactive event online on September 17th in their own time zone or crosspost another event from an another initiative
• companies and organizations with large reach can serve as outreach partners and in return, we will post their link and logo on our website

Examples of events that are currently scheduled include a Twitter chat on global learning, an asynchronous Twitter poll on chocolate, a survey on sunlight around the world, and a class live streaming using Periscope. Many organizations are hosting webinars and other activities to introduce educators to tools, resources and programs that will help them connect their classroom to the world. We recommend that activities be simple in scope and have low barriers to entry in order to attract participants. Ideas are listed on our host page. Events can be geared towards any audience including students, teachers, parents, and organization leaders. 

Our current partner list includes TES, Edmodo, Remind, AFS-USA, iEARN-USA, the Global Campaign for Education - US Chapter, SMART, VIF International Education, and Edutopia. (We would love to add your organization to this list as well.)

For further information, please take a look at our website and press release. Also, check out this recent article on us from eSchool News and Lucy's Edutopia blog post.

Thanks and we hope to hear from you regarding this special day!

Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon

Global Education Conference Co-Chairs

Global Collaboration Day Organizers 

The Ultimate Goal of Education - Self-direction or Compliance?

The interview below was for Marie Bjerede and the interesting Student Outcomes project she is working on.

As the short interview progresses, you'll notice I become increasingly clear about the core question that lies at the heart of our beliefs about education, but which is often unspoken or even unrecognized:

Is our ultimate goal for our students to build the capacity for intellectual self-direction, or is it for them to be good at complying with external expectations? 

The answer to that question, I believe, largely determines the health of our culture.

Current Sponsorship Opportunities: Library 2.015 & the Global Education Conference

Two events (actually, in both cases, sets of events) are coming up which are available for sponsorship.

1.  Library 2.015 (http://www.library20.com)

This is the fifth year of the Library 2.0 virtual conference, being held this year on October 20th. We've now split this conference, which had been held once a year in October, into two events--a "spring summit" and the main "fall conference." The conference keynote and distinguished speakers have been announced (see the site), we're close to having all the session slots filled, and we're anticipating another great event. The conference network has over 20,000 members.

In addition, for the third year, we are holding a half-day pre-conference event (also online and also free for participants) geared toward the K12 audience, on October 19th, and this year called "Teacher Librarian Day." As part of planning for this event, I've taken over the teacher librarian Ning community (7,000+ members, http://www.teacherlibrarian.org), and Joyce Valenza and a great team are creating another exciting set of sessions.

Sponsors can elect to sponsor either or both events, and sponsorships start at $500 and go up depending on benefits.

2.  The 2015 Global Education Conference (http://www.globaleducationconference.com)

The Global Education Conference is in it's 6th year, and has also split into spring and fall events. Previously run for five days (and nights) in the fall, we're now running it for three and a half days this November 16 - 19. This groundbreaking event has increasingly become the main attraction for those interested in globally-connected education. The conference network for this event also has over 20,000 members.

As well, we're running a pre-conference event for GlobaEdCon, called "Global Collaboration Day" (http://www.globalcollaborationday.org) on September 17th. This first-time event is allowing dozens of organizations to post special collaborative events in a public (and time-zone friendly) calendar, and has garnered article coverage from eSchool News as well as has had Edutopia signing on the official media outreach partner for the day.  There won't be any independent financial sponsorship for Global Collaboration Day, as we're going to extend sponsorship benefits from the GlobalEdCon sponsors to this event.

Sponsorships for the Global Education Conference start at $750 and go up depending on benefits.

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Please let me know if you'd be interested in sponsoring either or both of these projects, and I'm glad to get on the phone or send more information. If you missed my Teacher Entrepreneurship Week interview series (37 amazing interviews over 4 nights - http://learningrevolution.com/teacherentrepreneurship) it's worth checking out. TES.com sponsored the series to promote their new teacher marketplace, but the concept could be used for any number of specific topic ideas. Let me know if that triggers any ideas for you!

Cheers,

Steve
steve@hargadon.com