Meetups: Honolulu and Palm Springs Coming Up

Could you ask for two nicer places to have "meetups" than Honolulu and Palm Springs? 

Friday and Saturday, February 20 and 21, is our Classroom 2.0 Live Workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the St Louis/Chaminade campus.  Our free and fun two-day workshops are an opportunity to gather with other educators and learn about Web 2.0 and classroom practices.  In particular, we hold them to help educators just learning about the "participative" Web to do so in a friendly and hands-on environment.  They are also a great gathering place for the community of educators looking at Web 2.0.  More information on this event at http://www.classroom20.com/events/cr-20-live-workshop-oahu.

Wednesday, March 4th, is our second annual EduBloggerCon West (and Classroom 2.0 meetup), held in conjuntion with and the day before the CUE show in the Palm Springs Convention Center in beautiful Palm Springs (which usually still has snow on the mountain peaks at this time of year!).  This year we're going from 12 noon - 6pm, but we reserve the right to linger into the evening hours!  If you haven't attended an EduBloggerCon, get ready for some fun.  Part social, part drill-down, and all engaging, it's also a great way to spend time with like-minded educators and learn and trade best practices around education and the Web.  Best of all--it's free.  More information on EduBloggerCon West at http://www.classroom20.com/events/edubloggercon-west-classroom and on the event wiki at http://www.edubloggercon.com/cue2009.

For those interested in the organizational side of EduBloggerCon, we're going to have a working brainstorm for planning the event (and the 2009 EduBloggerCon in Washington DC before NECC) on Tuesday evening, February 17th, at 5pm in the Classroom 2.0 Elluminate room:  https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.38CBD920D8D069348A9F0FE7044686

Future of Education Interview Series in Full Swing

My "Future of Education" interview series is moving forward in full swing now, and you can see the details at FutureofEducation.com.  Tomorrow (Wednesday, February 11, 2009) I interview Julie Evans, the CEO of Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit organization (formerly known as NetDay), about what has been learned from Speak Up, the annual national research project facilitated by Project Tomorrow. The Speak Up data represents the largest collection of authentic, unfiltered stakeholder input on education, technology, 21st century skills, schools of the future and science instruction. Education, business, and policy leaders report using the data regularly to inform federal, state, and local education programs. A copy of the "top ten" report is attached to the discussion page at the discussion page at Future of Education. Join me for the interview and a Q & A session--details at the bottom of this post.

On the docket for upcoming interviews are:

• Erin Reilly, the Research Director for Project New Media Literacies (NML) (more information)
• Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
• John Palfrey, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, on his book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. (In conjunction with the PBS - Classroom 2.0 Webinar Series.)
• Gary Stager, progressive educator and all-around gadfly
• Bud Hunt, Ben Wilkoff, and Karl Fisch on "Learning 2.0" and their annual conference on the topic
• Mike Huffman and Laura Taylor on the bold experiment in Indiana with Open Source Software

And we're just getting started... :)  Recordings of previous events with Tom Friedman, Don Tapscott, and Carol Broos are also available on the Future of Education site.  Hope you'll consider joining our conversations!

Julie Evans Interview Information:

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day) (international times here)

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.05AE98D09503B33735A7E36EC6A874 The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support.  The interview will be recorded and the recordings placed in the discussion page at Future of Education linked above.