Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Global Education - Epic Year Ahead Starts with the Global Education Fair + Global Collaboration Day


We’ve got some great events ahead for global educators, students, librarians, administrators, parents, and service providers. And some news! Detailed information is below the highlights.
Events:
  • The (northern hemisphere) school year kicks off with our online Global Collaboration Day and the first-ever (also online) Global Education Fair on September 21st, 2017.
  • Our 8th annual online Global Education Conference is November 13th - 16th, 2017
  • We’re planning a face-to-face Global Education Day at TCEA on Monday, February 5th, 2018!
  • The face-to-face and amazing 2018 Global Leadership Summit will be held in partnership with ASCD on March 23rd, 2018, in Boston.
  • Also in planning stages: our 2018 Global Student Conference, Global Leadership Week, and Global Education Day at ISTE.
  • Want us to bring an event to your conference or event? Contact us here: http://www.globaledevents.com/contact-us.html.
As always, join www.globaleducationconference.com to be kept informed of all we’re doing. And a special HUGE thanks to Participate.com, our top-tier sponsor for most of these events.
News:
  • We are in the process of partnering with TakingITGlobal, TIG will soon serve as our fiscal agent, which means that we will have official non-profit status!
  • We’re testing WizIQ as a new online live platform--watch for notices of a special announcement Webinar in September! We think you’ll LOVE the platform.
  • Our Global Collaborative Conference Network Survey is still running.
  • Sponsorship opportunities for 2017 - 2018 are now open. Contact hargadon@gmail.com for details.


GLOBAL COLLABORATION DAY
September 21st, 2017
Students, teachers, and organizations will join online to celebrate and demonstrate global collaboration on September 21, 2017. On Global Collaboration Day, educators and professionals from around the world will host connective projects and events and invite public participation.
The primary goals of this 24-hour, worldwide event are to:
  • Demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world;
  • Introduce others to the collaborative tools, resources and projects that are available to educators today;
  • Focus attention on the need for developing globally competent students and teachers throughout the world.


THE GLOBAL EDUCATION FAIR
September 21st, 2017
Looking to take your school global? Come find out about tools, services, projects, and programs related to globally connected teaching and learning at our signature Global Collaboration Day event.  Check out the work of leading global educators, companies and nonprofit organizations at the Global Education Fair, a free, virtual meet and greet for teachers and school districts.
The Global Education Fair is modeled after traditional college fairs, but takes place entirely online, allowing participants from all corners of the world to access information about the best global education resources and programs. The purpose of this event is to connect educators to companies and organizations working in the global education space. There is a nominal fee involved for non-profits and companies seeking to present at the Global Education Fair. Educators who want to pitch specific projects can present for free.


THE GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
November 13th - 16th, 2017
The Global Education Conference (GEC) is a collaborative and world-wide community convening designed to increase opportunities for globally-connecting educators and programs significantly. It is free to attend and takes place entirely online.
Our primary event seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards solving real-world problems. Through this conference, attendees will challenge themselves and others to become more active citizens of the world.
This year, we have added new strands for the conference to expand our offerings. The new strands are the UN’s SDGs, Study Abroad and Exchange Programs, and Higher Education. The call for proposals is now open through November 1 and acceptances started rolling out August 1, 2017.
The Global Education Conference welcomes participants from all over the world and encourages submissions in any language. We provide training on the conference platform, Blackboard Collaborate, and advocate for presenters to take ownership of the presentation process when scheduling and promoting their sessions. We seek to elevate and empower presenters to share their knowledge with a global audience.

SPONSORSHIP
We are currently seeking support for our work so that we can keep our events free or low cost.  If you believe in the power of globally connected teaching and learning and would like to connect with our community, please contact Steve Hargadon at hargadon@gmail.com to discuss partnership opportunities.

THE GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE NETWORK SURVEY
Your feedback is important to us. We would like to improve our resources and level of service to the GEC community. Please take this online survey when you have a moment.

Thanks and let us know if you have any questions,

Lucy Gray & Steve Hargadon
Co-Chairs
The Global Education Conference Network
lucy@globaledevents.comhargadon@gmail.com
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Monday, June 19, 2017

Announcing the Library 2.017 "Makerspaces" Mini-Conference and Call for Proposals.

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Makerspaces," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 11th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone).

This event is being organized in partnership with Heather Moorefield-Lang, who will serve as moderator for the opening panel and as the closing keynote speaker.

There has been a lot of talk about makerspaces in libraries over the past four years. If you are unsure what makerspaces are, think of them as creative locations for tinkering, collaborating, problem solving, and creating in a library or educational space. No matter how many maker learning spaces you may visit, you will quickly notice no two are the same. Each librarian and makerspace delivers their own brand of service to their individual community. Attendees will investigate how librarians with makerspaces can create new partnerships and collaborative efforts in and with their communities. Offering further services and methods to meet patron needs.
We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to provide input and participate this event.

This is a free event, being held online.
REGISTER HERE
 to attend live or to receive the recording links afterwards.
Please also join this Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.

MORE INFORMATION:

The School of Information at San José State University is the founding conference sponsor, and additional support has been provided by Follett. Please register as a member of the Library 2.0 network to be kept informed of future events. Recordings from previous years are available under the Archives tab at Library 2.0 and at the Library 2.0 YouTube channel.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

We will have a limited number of slots for presenter sessions. The call for proposals will open in June. We encourage all who are interested in presenting to submit. Details HERE.

WEBINAR PLATFORM:

The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate, and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To see if your system is already configured for Blackboard Collaborate, you can try entering the practice room at http://www.thepracticeroom.me. If you aren't able to enter that room, see Behind the Blackboard Support.)

Registration will give you access to the live event and to the event recordings. An event reminder and additional connecting information will be sent just prior to the event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS



 Heather Moorefield-Lang
Assistant professor, University of South Carolina
@actinginthelib

Heather Moorefield-Lang is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina in the School of Library and Information Science. She received her masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her doctorate in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research is focused in emerging technologies and their use in education and libraries. Her current research focuses on makerspaces and their subsequent technologies in libraries of all types and levels.
http://www.techfifteen.com

Makerspaces in Libraries: Partnerships with Communities


June Abbas, Ph.D.
Professor

Dr. June Abbas, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman campus. She obtained her PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas in 2001 and taught in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 2001-2008 before joining the SLIS in August 2008. She also held professional positions in public and special libraries. Her research focuses on the development of user-centered digital libraries, institutional repositories, and other knowledge organization structures. She conducts research on youth and their use of technology, and the intersection between information behavior, information retrieval, and structures for organizing knowledge. The courses she teaches include those related to the organization of information and knowledge resources, cataloging and classification, indexing and abstracting, digital collections, and digital information retrieval. She has also served as project manager on ten digital libraries projects and on task forces to develop institutional repositories. Her book “Structures for organizing knowledge: Exploring taxonomies, ontologies, and other schema” was nominated for ASIST Book of the Year in 2011. She is currently Co-PI on a Mellon funded grant to develop a digital library for Classics.
http://slis.ou.edu/faculty


Leanne Bowler
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Leanne Bowler is an Associate Professor, Co-Chair of the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship, and Director of the Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology at the School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, where her teaching and research focuses on young people and their experiences interacting with information, data, and technology. Her research explores the intrapersonal competencies and practices of young people as they use, create, learn, and play in socio-technical environments, as well as the role that their families and out-of-school organizations like libraries play in this arena. She has a Master in Education, a Master in Library Science, and a PhD in from McGill University’s iSchool.


Kristin Fontichiaro
University of Michigan School Information
@activelearning

Kristin Fontichiaro is a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School Information, where she studies formal and informal learning in library settings. Principal investigator of the Making in Michigan Libraries project (IMLS RE-05-15-0021-15), she explores the intersection of libraries and informal learning. She is also a contributing author and series editor for Cherry Lake Publishing's Makers as Innovators and Makers as Innovators Junior series, a total of over 40 titles. Additonally, Fontichiaro writes the "Makerspaces" column for Teacher Librarian and studies the role of data literacy in information literacy instruction (IMLS RE-00-15-0113-15). She is also the faculty lead for the University of Michigan's Public Library Management MOOC courses at EdX.org.
http://fontichiaro.com/


Kyungwon Koh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies


Dr. Kyungwon Koh is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies. Her areas of expertise include the Maker movement; youth services in public and school libraries; learning and community engagement through libraries; information needs, seeking, use, and creation; and competencies for information professionals. She earned a PhD and Masters at Florida State University. Currently, she is the principal investigator of two IMLS-funded research projects on youth and Makerspaces.
http://kyungwonkoh.com
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