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Many thanks to those who joined in our 2nd annual Global Collaboration Day celebration on September 15th! It wonderful to witness the incredible creativity and sharing that occurred over the course of hosted events;  we are grateful to the many students, teachers, organizations, and companies that participated.  A special shoutout goes to our sponsors, VIF International Education, Google for Education, iEARN-USA, and Edmodo. Tools and resources from these fabulous organizations provide foundations for globally connected teaching and learning. To those who missed Global Collaboration Day, we hope you’ll consider participating next year and there are still ways of getting involved in ongoing global projects. Read on!

Here are our final stats:

• 65 events

• 195 individual schools and organizations

• 37 partner organizations

• 31 states within the US and its territories

• 25 projects in the Great Global Project Challenge (and growing)

Here are links to resources you may find helpful:

• Participation certificates are now available here: https://app.box.com/v/2016GCDcertificates

• Make sure to join our main online community (if you haven’t done so already) if you want to receive news and updates from us: http://globaleducationconference.com. Our next event is our annual online conference which will take place November 13-16. The Call for Proposals is open through November 1.

• Visit this Participate Learning collection of resources mentioned on Twitter using our hashtag #globaled16: https://www.participate.com/collections/globaled16-curated-collection/c7412309-ea13-402e-b708-80be907b04e5

• All of the Global Collaboration Day social media posts are aggregated on this Tagboard: https://tagboard.com/globaled16/308797

• Additional global education resources are available in this Google spreadsheet created by Lucy. Make sure to check out all the tabs at the bottom: http://bit.ly/gecglobalresources

• If you are looking to make global connections, consider joining these Edmodo topics where you can post resources and connection requests:

  • Global Collaboration Day on Edmodo

  • Go Global in Edmodo

  • Foreign Language on Edmodo

  • Project-Based Learning on Edmodo

• If you are interested in joining global projects, we have about 25 listed for the Great Global Project Challenge. These projects will take place at some point between now and April 2017. If you want to design a project and submit it to be listed, please make sure to fill out the form on this page http://bit.ly/GGPC2016 by October 1, 2016.

Finally, we would appreciate any constructive feedback from event participants and hosts. If you can fill out this form at your convenience, we would deeply appreciate it: http://bit.ly/GCDfeedback.

Thanks again for a glorious day of global collaboration. We look forward to do this again next September!

Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon

Co-Chairs

The Global Education Conference