Live Tuesday April 9th - Jenifer Fox on a Strengths-Based School

Join me Tuesday, April 10th, for live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Jenifer Fox, author of Your Child's Strengths, and now Head of School at The Clariden School of Southlake.  We'll be talking about what it's like to start a 21st-Century high school program, blended and project-based learning, and her relentless pursuit of getting people to stop teaching traditional content.

Jenifer Fox is a turnaround and strategic advancement expert. Her work includes expanding enrollments, boosting sustainability through rigorous and successful fund raising and taking independent schools to the next level through coordinated strategic plans focused on the organization's strengths. She is the author of the bestselling education book, Your Child's Strengths (Viking 2008; Penguin, 2009), Stories of Excellence: Case Studies of Exemplary Teaching and Learning with Technology. (NAIS, 2008) and the Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists (Jossey-Bass, 2011). Fox is widely considered the international leader in developing strengths-based curriculum for youth. Fox is also an expert at integrating curriculum and technology and is creating online, project-based platforms for youth.

Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate 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 Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page.
Recordings: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-04-10.1655.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 and a portable .mp3 audio recording is at http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/jeniferfox2012.mp3.

2012 Social Learning Summit - Sessions Posted and Call for Volunteers!

The 2012 Social Learning Summit is coming up fast, and we have some important and fun information!

The 2012 Social Learning Summit is a one-day virtual conference being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 and the Discovery Educator Network, on Saturday, April 21st, 2012, from 9:00am - 3:00pm US Eastern Time. The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 in teaching and learning. This is a free event, with a focus on inclusion and participation. All sessions will be publicly available to attend through the online Blackboard Collaborate platform, and every session will be recorded and made available immediately following the conference. More information is available at http://www.sociallearningsummit.com.

The accepted sessions can be seen here:  http://www.classroom20.com/forum/categories/2012-social-learning-summit-accepted/listForCategory. The actual hour-by-hour conference schedule, as well as instructions for participating, will be posted on the Summit website on April 13th.

In the meantime, we are looking for volunteer moderators to help session presenters who may be using Blackboard Collaborate for the first time! If you are Collaborate-comfortable (or think you could become so quickly!), we would ask that you also sign up to be a volunteer moderator. This is a terrific community event, and a nervous presenter will greatly appreciate your help!

Volunteers should 1) use volunteer sign-up page is at http://www.classroom20.com/page/summittraining to select specific times to volunteer, 2) join the volunteer group at http://www.classroom20.com/group/volunteer-group-2012-social-learning-summit to receive special volunteer notices, and 3) look at the training page and training session calendar at http://www.classroom20.com/page/summittraining.  Please encourage any colleagues to help out as well. :)  Thank you so much!

Finally, please promote the Summit far and wide! The main URL for the conference is http://www.sociallearningsummit.com, the Twitter hashtag is #sociallearningsummit, and a page with logos and artwork is at http://www.classroom20.com/page/2012-social-learning-summit-artwork.

See you online!