This document provides information about the Global Education Conference, including its mission to increase global education opportunities and foster global competency. It discusses iEARN's involvement in hosting related events. Guidelines are presented for submitting high-quality proposals, as well as ways to support and get involved in the conference through disseminating information, translating materials, moderating sessions, and addressing current volunteer needs such as content curation and keynote suggestions. The document concludes with an open question and answer period.

1. • Welcome and Introductions
• The Role of Advisory Board Members
• iEARN's Involvement ThisYear
• What Makes a Good Proposal
• Ways to Support the GEC
• CurrentVolunteer Needs
• Open Conversation/Questions and Answers
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2. The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, world-wide
community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all
levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building
education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural
awareness and recognition of diversity.
The conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to
connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting
global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards
solving real–world problems.Through this event, it is our hope that
attendees will challenge themselves and others to become more active
citizens of the world. Let us learn, question, create, and engage in
meaningful, authentic opportunities within a global context!
Our Mission
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3. We are not...
•a technology conference
•a general education
conference
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4. • Publicize the conference within your home country or
region. Use prepared press materials.
• Encourage colleagues and help them to complete
proposals.
• Suggest keynote speakers using the appropriate form.
(See KEYNOTES in the conference menu)
• Volunteer to moderate sessions during the
conference. Join this group: http://
www.globaleducationconference.com/group/2012-
global-education-conference-volunteers
International Advisory
Board
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5. iEARN’s Involvement
• The “regular” Global Education Conference
• iEARN Conference
• iEARNYouth Summit
• Two different places to submit proposals; one is for
iEARN members only
• Most sessions will be open to everyone, but iEARN has
some sessions planned that pertain just to their members
• iEARN is launching a new online community on August
15th
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6. Good Proposals...
• are mindful of the conference mission.
• relate to global collaboration.
• are detailed with a specific outline.
• include relevant links.
• are enticing to potential attendees.
• have proper spelling and formatting.
• are in the proper category with the proper tags as
per the instructions in the call for proposals.
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7. Support the
Conference
• Send out press materials to schools, non-profits and
governmental agencies to encourage their
participation.
• Use social media to regularly spread the word. Our
hashtag is #globaled12.
• Help colleagues submit proposals.
• Engage GEC community members on our web site.
Serve as a role model for other potential global
collaborators by being an active participant in our
community.
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8. Current Needs
• Dissemination of press materials to
interested parties
• Translation of press materials. Send copies
to Lucy and she will post them.
• Join our volunteer group to help moderate
the conference (see GROUPS in the
network.)
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9. Current Needs
• A team to continue to curate content and
work on our global education wiki (http://
www.globaleducationwiki.com/)
• Keynote suggestions from beyond North
America (use the form under Keynotes in
the 2012 Conference menu).
• Attend scheduled drop in sessions in
August to help newbies
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10. Current Needs
• Sponsors (have them email Steve at
hargadon@gmail.com)
• High quality overview movie about the
conference
• Screencasts
• proposal process
• overview of our community
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11. Questions & Answers
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