We're about 10 days away from our completely free online global education conference! Here's an update on where things stand.
Global Ed Con Guide
We have over 300 general sessions scheduled (now searchable, thanks to yolink technology), including 30+ keynotes featuring educators and policy makers who are on the leading edge of global collaborative education. Please join my conference co-chair, Steve Hargadon, and myself during the week of November 15-19 to participate. This also coincides with International Education Week and Geography Awareness Week, so it's a great time to go global!
The conference will take place in a video conferencing tool called Elluminate. Presenters share web links and slides while participants listen to an audio feed and chat in the accompanying chatroom. All sessions will be recorded and archived, so if you miss a session you'll be able to view it at your leisure. We'll also have an open Global Education Lounge in which participants can drop by to network with others or to receive help.
Here are a couple of things you can do in preparation for this event:
- Review the conference schedule according to your time zone and add your selections to your Google Calendar. (No need to register for any sessions, by the way... just show up online. URLS will be provided as we get closer to the start date.)
- Download our conference guide with basic links to Elluminate Support, time zone converters, and other useful web sites.
- Join our Flickr group and upload a picture of yourself as an introduction to other conference attendees.
- Join the conference group here in the Global Education Collaborative to discuss the conference with others.
- Run the self-test for Elluminate and familiarize yourself a bit with the platform.
We are also in need of volunteers to moderate sessions. If you are comfortable using Elluminate, please sign up here to sit in on as many sessions as you can handle. This is an all hands on deck moment for us and we need your help! Read more about this in Steve's recent blog post.
Finally, we need you to spread the word about this event as far and as wide as possible. Please forward this information on to colleagues, and post to Twitter and Facebook. You can also follow the conference proceedings in Twitter using the hashtag #globaled10. We're on Twitter and Facebook, too.
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the conference planning! Many presenters and volunteers are members of this online community and this event would not happen without you!
See you online,
Lucy Gray
Global Education Collaborative Founder
Global Education Conference Co-Chair
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