Events

Designing & Running Participatory Photography 3 Day Training Workshops

25-27 May 2011 & 20-22 July 2011

The 3-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to understanding, designing, managing and facilitating a participatory photography project.

The course covers key aspects of participatory photography including practicalities, methodologies, ethics, participatory tools, facilitation and participatory frameworks.

Please follow the link to our website, for more information and to book!

http://www.photovoice.org/whatwedo/training/training-workshop

As a dedicated global citizen, you are invited to register below and  share your ideas face-to-face during the conference. This will help create true awareness about Africa,

Storyboard: Culture, Health, Politics, Education, Food, Music, Environmental issues, Development, etc

It will be a new venture, with lots of interaction and a number of interesting K-12 educators participating, as well as a few people from the teacher education field.

The conference will offer opportunities for expert / peer consultations on school practice; case studies on a couple of Boston-area schools implementing programs with global dimensions; use of technology to develop global interactions; school partnerships/ travel; curriculum; and teacher professional development.

Fernando Reimers, who is responsible for the event, has been a strong advocate for global education. I find his ideas about global competencies to be clear and compelling.

US-Latin American Relations in the Obama Era
Philip Williams
University of Florida

Session Description: This presentation provides an brief historical overview of US-Latin American relations, regional and international trends affecting US policy, and the Obama administration’s performance. 

Cost: Free 

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More information:

http://introlatinamerica.wikispaces.com/

The American Turkish Society and Turkish Women’s League of America are pleased to invite elementary and secondary school U.S. teachers to “Turkey 101: An Introduction for Teachers”. The session aims to give American educators, teaching in all subject areas and grade levels, an understanding about Turkey and provide an opportunity to explore topics and materials to include in their classes.

The evening will also include Turkish food and a chance to win a trip to Turkey. The event is free, but RSVP by Friday, 04/29 is required.  You may see the details here:  http://www.americanturkishsociety.org/eventdetails.aspx?eventid=230

The presentation will be a particularly timely introduction for teachers who are considering applying for The American Turkish Society's Fall 2011 Curriculum Development Grants (deadline: May 20), a program that supports innovative curricula and other classroom projects related to Turkey.   http://www.americanturkishsociety.org/announcements.aspx?#announcement228

Vodou, Santería, and Candomblé: Afro-European Religous Encounters in the Caribbean and Latin America 
Gerald Murray, PhD
University of Florida

Session Description: This presentation discusses the beliefs and rituals of several Caribbean and Latin American Religions that have combined African and Christian elements, and discusses how they are feared, scorned, and/or dismissed as devil worship by mainstream Christian religions.

Cost: Free
 

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More information:

http://introlatinamerica.wikispaces.com/

How can teachers safely integrate Web 2.0 tools and social networking features into student learning? Explore powerful tools designed for student use from ePals, engaging students in authentic communication and turbocharging student learning, with safety, security, and teacher control. This hands-on session highlights how different schools, districts, and groups used both free and paid tools from ePals for global collaboration, communication, and a safe virtual workspace.

If you cannot attend the NETA conference to hear me, let me know and I'll invite you to a webinar. http://epals.101.sgizmo.com 

More Than "One Drop": Race in Latin America
Rosana Resende, PhD
University of Florida

Session Description: This presentation gives an overview of how the concept of race and race relations have developed in Latin American countries, contrasting these to the American experience. 

Cost: Free

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Conference Goals:

Join us in Elluminate!

• Bring together like-minded individuals from local and international schools, NGO’s and socially responsible corporations for the purpose of affecting positive change in their communities, both local and global.
• Empower today’s students - tomorrow leaders - to take on the challenges of our future world.
• Encourage networking between individuals and organizations working in similar areas in order to enhance opportunities for partnership.
• Focus on global issues that most directly impact the African continent.
• Build lasting relationships and networks between students and faculty as they work together toward sustainable solutions for solving global issues.
• Celebrate the accomplishments of local youth in addressing local or global issues

We hope you'll join us for an intriguing discussion about the environmental policies of various industrial and developing nations, and their cultural values.

This month, we'll look at legislation, air pollution, the changing weather patterns and more to investigate how they affect our global society. At the end of the seminar, you'll receive a GYC lesson plan on how to teach the concepts of environmental awareness and culture to your students.

We hope you can join us!

Discussion about ideas on how to use iPads in the languages classroom - and whether or not this is a tool that we want to use. Also, a critical discussion about apps for language learning.

All times in Autralian Eastern Standard Time: GMT +11

Dream Realizations is presenting at the Virtual World Best Practices in Education http://vwbpe11.vwbpe.org/ in SL on Friday, March 18th at 9pm EST/6pm PST. It's free - register at http://vwbpe11.eventbrite.com/

 

Abstract

Dream Realizations (DR) develops 3-D objects that enable the rapid recognition of subQuans and metapatterns that directly lead to polynomial expressions.

Rebecca Reiniger, Daniel Cooper Patterson, Anna-Marie Robertson
Building: NORTH 2

Andrew has been using technology in his classroom for the last few years and has had some great success. Andrew will share what he is currently doing with technology in his Japanese classroom.

Session time is Australian Eastern Standard Time.

TEDxNYED, an all-day conference focusing on empowering innovation in education, is being held in New York City on Saturday, March 5, 2011.

The first four talks at this event will focus on global education. Alan November, Homa Tavangar, Lucy Gray, and John Ellrodt and Maria Fico are featured during this particular section of the event. 

The event is sold out, but it will be streaming online starting at 10 AM ET (GMT-5) until 5 PM ET. Check the TEDxNYED web site for information on the live video stream: http://tedxnyed.com/2011/.  

TEDxNYED, an all-day conference focusing on empowering innovation in education, is being held in New York City on Saturday, March 5, 2011.

The first four talks at this event will focus on global education. Alan November, Homa Tavangar, Lucy Gray, and John Ellrodt and Maria Fico are featured during this particular section of the event. 

It will be streaming online starting at 10 AM ET (GMT-5) until 5 PM ET.