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GEC July Update
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Our Membership
2The Conference
2Recent Discussion Forum Posts
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GEC July Update 
Greetings, GEC Members!
 
Here's an update and what's been going on in our community. Please take a moment tovisit items that may be of interest to you. Members are also welcome to post projects orqueries to our discussion forum. US schools will be starting their school year soon, sothis is a good time to enlist people in projects!Also, a huge thanks to ISTE, our GEC Global Education Summit planning committee,and our Ignite presenters for making our first summit happen in June! We're thrilled toreport that our large conference room at the ISTE Conference in San Diego was filledwith interested folks, and we hope that everyone made new connections. Check outour
 
summit wiki page
 
and this
 
news video
 
from ISTE!
 
Steve and I also had the opportunities to several conferences in June and July tospread the word about
 
work in this community. At the Asia Society's
 
Partnership forGlobal Learning Conference, GEC members Julie Lindsey, Anne Mirtschin, and SilviaTolisano participated in a great panel with us. Hopefully, video of this event will beposted at some point. Make sure to take note of this conference as it's a great face-to-face opportunity to gather with other globally minded educators!Finally, it’s not too late to joinour international advisory board. We will be holding ournext set of advisory board meetings in August, so consider participating. We are alsolooking topartner with non-profits (including schools)to help us get the word out about theconference.Our best to you,Lucy Gray & Steve Hargadon, GEC Co-Chairs
 
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Our Membership
Welcome to all of our
 
new members! We are now 11,000 members strong, representingover 140 differentcountries. New members are joining our community at the rate ofabout 100 new people per week, and many seem tobe coming from the Middle Eastand Africa, thanks to
 
iEARN's involvement
 
in this year's conference. We're thrilled byour growth!
The Conference
Our conference is set to take place during
 
International Education Week, November12-17. It is free and takes place entirely online in the easy to use the BlackboardCollaborate platform. We will be providing training opportunities in September andOctober, so stay tuned for announcement for those dates.The
 
call for proposals
 
(iEARN members click
 
here)
 
has been open since May and weare starting to reviewthese. Once a proposal is accepted, a presenter can scheduletheir session for theconference week. If you want to make sure you get a good spot onthe conference calendar, submit soon! To see current accepted sessions for the generalconference, please click
 
here.
 
Here are some important conference tips for GEC members:•There are two separate conferences going on at the same time, so please makesure you submit using the correct set of instructions.•The Global Education Conference •The iEARN Annual Conference and Youth Summit
 
(iEARN memberssubmit
 
here.)•Read all of theinstructions very carefully.Make sure to tag your proposals as indicated. October 15 is the deadline for proposals.
 
•Make sure your proposal ties to the
 
mission of the conference. This is NOT ageneral education or technology conference.
 
•Once your proposal is accepted, make sure you publicize your session and theconference via various social media.•Any for profit groups must be a sponsor of our event in order to host a session.This excludes individual consultants, but includes consulting groups. You may notadvertise a consulting group in a session unless your group is a sponsor.
 
•InternationalAdvisory Board members should attend one of our next set ofmeetings scheduled for August. Please go to
 
our group
 
for more information orconsult our
 
Events
 
listings.
 
•Drop in help sessions are scheduled for August. Join our BlackboardCollaborate room on specific dates for help with your proposal or projects. See
 
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