Events

ISTE has generously given us space and time to hold our first Global Education Summit. This will take place on Sunday, June 24 from 2 - 5 PM PST and will be followed by the ISTE conference opening keynote at 5:45 and the opening reception and global collaborations sessions at 7 PM. The event is open to educators and interested parties at no cost. 

This will be a face to face event. In order to attend in person, you must respond to this invitation. Please RSVP to this event and let us know if you'll be in attendance!

We're looking for passionate educators to share their ideas and dreams through quick Ignite style presentations during the summit. For more information, please visit our wiki:

http://www.globaleducationwiki.com/2012+Global+Education+Summit+at+ISTE

If you'd like to help with the planning of our summit, join this group: http://www.globaleducationconference.com/group/gec-summit-at-iste

Please spread the word about this event via social media. Our  hashtag is #globaled12

NOTE

If you have signed up to serve on the 2012 International Advisory Board, please attend one of three planned meetings, if possible, during the week of June 11.

All meetings will be recorded and will be viewable if you cannot attend. It is not required that you RSVP, but it would be nice to know if you're planning on attending!

Thanks, Lucy Gray

If you have signed up to serve on the 2012 International Advisory Board, please attend one of three planned meetings, if possible, during the week of June 11.

All meetings will be recorded and will be viewable if you cannot attend. It is not required that you RSVP, but it would be nice to know if you're planning on attending!

Thanks, Lucy Gray

Based on responses to the calendar doodle sent out a few weeks ago, people interested in helping with the GEC Summit at the International Society for Technology in Education Conference will meet at 1 PM CT (18:00:00 UTC) on Monday, June 11 in our video conferencing platform, Blackboard Collaborate. The link is below. Please use timeanddate.com if you need to convert the time for other time zones. 

Keep in mind that this summit will be a free event for those in the San Diego area on June 24 to attend in person. At this time, there are no plans for virtual participation (our signature conference in November is completely virtual). 

If you have signed up to serve on the 2012 International Advisory Board, please attend one of three planned meetings, if possible, during the week of June 11. All meetings will be recorded and will be viewable if you cannot attend.

It is not required that you RSVP, but it would be nice to know if you're planning on attending!

Thanks,

Lucy Gray

The Creativity Workshop teaches individuals in all disciplines ways to develop their unique creativity  and use it in their lives and work. The Creativity Workshop achieves this through a specially designed series of techniques  in creative writing, memoir, free-form drawing, collage, and storytelling. The Workshop helps its participants to: tap into their innate creativity,  get over creative blocks,  use memories to spark the imagination, and develop a daily practice to accomplish these goals. 

University credits available.

Hello Global Education Conference Community,

The Peer-to-Peer University School of Education (a free and open education community) is offering another batch of free online PD for teachers and learners starting in June. To see the full list of courses click here.

I am facilitating: Global Dialog: International & Comparative Perspectives on Education (starting June 4, 2012). I welcome you all to join and/or share the course info with others. The course is free and open licensed. Emphasis will be on dialog and sharing between countries. Assignments will be light!

This 1-month virtual seminar (June 2012) is for educators, learners and parents who are keen to discuss and compare education systems from around the world. 

The course is divided into 4 modules each containing 2-3 online short videos (3-20 minutes each), optional reading, asynchronous discussions and an optional synchronous discussion (via Skype) around the following topics:

• Global definitions of learning and education (June 4-10, 20

The purpose of the second National Symposium on Video Interpreting: Video Remote Interpreting is to explore current practice in video remote interpreting (VRI). This symposium will address where VRI is being done, and who's doing it. It will explore current practice, research, and implications for the field of interpreting by looking at applications in both signed language interpreting and spoken language interpreting.  

Format: Pre-recorded presentations, delivered via a NING portal, allowing participants to view the training from their individual computers. The presentations will then be opened for interactive discussion among members and presenters. Presenters will further facilitate the learning Audience: Interpreters (sign language), Deaf and Hearing consumers, interpreter educators, vocational rehabilitation personnel, providers of video interpreting, interpreting researchers, and other interested persons.

For additional information:

Gallaudet University Regional Interpreter Educati

ARG Academy 

Opening Session

6 pm PST - San Francisco Time

First Meetup in Second Life  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Front%20Range/128/127/33/

Got Problem Kids? Here's your Problem Student Problem-Solver Conference. You name the problems and this workshop delivers hundreds of immediate, problem-stopping answers. You will leave with innovative, more effective strategies for bad behavior, poor motivation, work refusal, violence, conflict, bad attitudes,  and more. College credit and clock hours available.

Free sample interventions, and free monthly Problem Student Problem-Solver magazine available at our web site, http://www.youthchg.com, or via email (dwells@youthchg.com), or call toll-free to 1-800-545-5736. Work-study financial aid available for all classes. Call for details.


  Seattle, WA: May 3-4, 2012
  Portland, OR: Oct. 11-12, 2012
  Online, DVD, and on-site presentations available

Flyer Available online at http://www.youthchg.com/flyf06all4pages.pdf
Register online at http://www.youthchg.com/regform.html

The Creativity Workshop teaches individuals in all disciplines ways to develop their unique creativity  and use it in their lives and work. The Creativity Workshop achieves this through a specially designed series of techniques  in creative writing, memoir, free-form drawing, collage, and storytelling. The Workshop helps its participants to: tap into their innate creativity,  get over creative blocks,  use memories to spark the imagination, and develop a daily practice to accomplish these goals. 

University credits available.

After the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, over a billion dollars in aid was promised to the struggling island. The world stepped up, empathized and donated. Yet much of the funds pledged to post-quake relief for has not been received for redevelopment and very little has been done to rebuild.

Haiti is the world's oldest black republic and one of the oldest republics in the Western Hemisphere, a cultural and historical gem. But why did it take over 5 decades for the US government to recognize the free black nation of Haiti? Why has the aid promised to Haiti by international aid agencies, not reached the Haitian public? Why has the US sponsored coup de tats against Haiti's democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide? The world has turned its focus away and promises to the Haitians are unfulfilled.

Explore these issues with us as we learn how the island nation struggles to rebuild. From the health care crises (like cholera and malaria), to the need

The Creativity Workshop teaches individuals in all disciplines ways to develop their unique creativity  and use it in their lives and work. The Creativity Workshop achieves this through a specially designed series of techniques  in creative writing, memoir, free-form drawing, collage, and storytelling. The Workshop helps its participants to: tap into their innate creativity,  get over creative blocks,  use memories to spark the imagination, and develop a daily practice to accomplish these goals. 

University credits available.

GADLA- Digital Dialogs

Save Our Schools is an ongoing philanthropic initiative operated and managed by a local civic organization and a collaboration of community stakeholders for the purpose of providing emergency funds and resources to schools.

The fiscal challenge facing our nation is having a significant impact on North Carolina Schools. The impact we are experiencing in the marketplace has trickled down to a reduction in public services.

Our schools are now being forced to make dramatic changes in their budgets, which will result in deferred maintenance, a deficiency in teaching resources, and the loss of educators. In the end, we are hurting our children. While there are parents, individuals, and organizations who are working hard to support our schools, it is clear that there is a need for more.

Recently, an alliance of community leaders and socially responsible companies committed to launch a unified effort to “Save our Schools”. This effort will utilize entrepreneurial creativity and proven strategies

After the success we have achieved at the International Exhibition and Forum for Public Education (IEFPE 2011) with our sponsors, china Railway 15 Bureau Group Corporation, Education Experts, Tatweer, Kako, HP, Obeikan Education, Saudi Ceramics, and Management Experts Academy, the Saudi Ministry of Education is conducting the international Exhibition and Forum for Education (IEFE 2012) in its second edition at Riyadh International Exhibition and Convention Center on the 13th - 17th of FEB, 2012 , the Forum and expo is planned to be a specialized event gathering Education professionals from all over the world.

IEFE expo is expected to have over 250 exhibitors from the expo 8 sectors which are (Making of curriculum, Educational Equipment, Educational and School Building, Training and leadership development, Overall quality and academic certification, Kindergarten, Talents, and Students with special needs), Over 14.000sqm area and hosting south Korea; one of the best developed countries

Teacher Education for Peace and Harmony

The world has recently seen a nuclear disaster during the Tsunami in Japan, political Tsunamis in Middle East and Africa; and continuing racial & ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, east Asia and middle-east; terrorist and fundamentalist attacks in India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. and closer home the Maoist Violence. All this is largely an expression of intolerance, manifestations of racial and ethnic hatred, the perpetuation of violence for ulterior motives and the discrimination, inequality and growing disparities between the rich and the poor. If civilizations aren't tuned to the reality of human existence, they conserve the worst of human behavior and free themselves from any responsibility of creating a positive, peaceful co-existence amongst the diversity of beings. Eventually, they become corrupt and self-destructing. The events cited as examples above are not wholes unto themselves but comprised of individual units of human beings, the

This four week course will show teachers how to plan and implement an online collaborative project with their students in the upcoming school year. This asynschronous online course begins with an overview of project-based learning, then facilitators will help you select and plan a lesson's for an iEARN project that fits your curriculum needs.

For more information or to register click here 

You are cordially invited to get an update on current affairs in Bahrain from Ambassador (Ms.) Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, and get an overview of the educational system from the Cultural Attache, Ms. Aysha Murad. Learn about resources for recruiting students, educational exchange, and how to do business in the education sector in Bahrain through the Ministry of Education and other agencies. There will also be a brief introduction to the program sponsor, the Global Development Network/iEd, and guest speaker from the U.S. government to explain how they can help facilitate doing business in Bahrain.

Take the Metro to Van Ness and walk to the Embassy, or park in the plaza around International Drive. An RSVP is required for invitation verification. Only the first 85 RSVPs will be accepted. Here are some resources to learn about Bahrain before the meeting:

Embassy of Bahrain
www.bahrainembassy.org

State Department with links to the Library of Congress
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/ba/

Middle E

Cuba is a relatively poor, developing country with 2% of the Latin American population, that somehow manages to produce 11% of its scientists!

In 2005, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released its Education For All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report, that specifically focuses on elevating the quality of education for all children, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, by the year 2015. Cuba, along with the more developed countries of Canada, Finland and Korea, is singled out in the report as a high-performance country and role model to follow in terms of the quality of its educational system. Cuba is the only Latin American country, and the only relatively poor country, to achieve this status.