GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE & NETWORK NEWS JULY 2012

GEC July Update

Our Membership
The Conference
Recent 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 to visit items that may be of interest to you. Members are also welcome to post projects or queries to our discussion forum. US schools will be starting their school year soon, so this 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 rst summit happen in June! We're thrilled to report that our large conference room at the ISTE Conference in San Diego was lled with interested folks, and we hope that everyone made new connections. Check out oursummit wiki pageand thisnews videofrom ISTE! Steve and I also had the opportunities to several conferences in June and July to spread the word aboutwork in this community. At the Asia Society'sPartnership for Global Learning Conference, GEC members Julie Lindsey, Anne Mirtschin, and Silvia Tolisano participated in a great panel with us. Hopefully, video of this event will be posted at some point. Make sure to take note of this conference as it's a great face-toface opportunity to gather with other globally minded educators! Finally, its not too late to join our international advisory board. We will be holding our next set of advisory board meetings in August, so consider participating. We are also looking to partner with non-prots (including schools) to help us get the word out about the conference. Our best to you, Lucy Gray & Steve Hargadon, GEC Co-Chairs

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Our Membership
Welcome to all of ournew members! We are now 11,000 members strong, representing over 140 different countries. New members are joining our community at the rate of about 100 new people per week, and many seem to be coming from the Middle East and Africa, thanks toiEARN's involvementin this year's conference. We're thrilled by our growth!

The Conference
Our conference is set to take place duringInternational Education Week, November 12-17. It is free and takes place entirely online in the easy to use the Blackboard Collaborate platform. We will be providing training opportunities in September and October, so stay tuned for announcement for those dates. Thecall for proposals(iEARN members clickhere)has been open since May and we are starting to review these. Once a proposal is accepted, a presenter can schedule their session for the conference week. If you want to make sure you get a good spot on the conference calendar, submit soon! To see current accepted sessions for the general conference, please clickhere. Here are some important conference tips for GEC members: There are two separate conferences going on at the same time, so please make sure you submit using the correct set of instructions. The Global Education Conference The iEARN Annual Conference and Youth Summit(iEARN members submithere.) Read all of the instructions very carefully. Make sure to tag your proposals as indicated. October 15 is the deadline for proposals. Make sure your proposal ties to themission of the conference. This is NOT a general education or technology conference. Once your proposal is accepted, make sure you publicize your session and the conference via various social media. Any for prot groups must be a sponsor of our event in order to host a session. This excludes individual consultants, but includes consulting groups. You may not advertise a consulting group in a session unless your group is a sponsor. International Advisory Board members should attend one of our next set of meetings scheduled for August. Please go toour groupfor more information or consult ourEventslistings. Drop in help sessions are scheduled for August. Join our Blackboard Collaborate room on specic dates for help with your proposal or projects. See

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ourEventsfor dates and times. This is not training time for Blackboard Collaborate. Those sessions will come in September and October. Our sponsors and partners are listedhere;our international advisory board is listedhere. Steve updates these pages periodically. Please pass on our press releaseto any interested parties. Additionally, we arecurrently announcing keynote speakerson a rolling basis. You are welcome to contribute to our suggested list of keynoteshere. We will keep suggestions in mind and some may be invited to participate in future conferences; keynotes are invited at the sole discretion of conference leadership. At this time, we are particularly interested in hearing about high-level female thought leaders, particularly from outside the United States.

Recent Discussion Forum Posts

Items that may be of interest to our membership: Seeall discussion forum postshere. There's some great stuff buried within our busy community! Homely Planet Radio Virtual Play! What is World Class Schools? Opportunity to Skype with a Classroom Schools - Past, Present and Future Skype on Global Issues How We Shine! London 2012 Olympics Cultural Songs Environmental Issues Skype About Presidential Elections That's all the news that's t to pass on to you in July! Look forward to meeting many of you at our various meetings scheduled in August!Stay cool or warm, depending on your hemisphere!

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