This document summarizes a presentation about the Global Education Conference. It provides an overview of the conference, including its mission to connect educators globally and promote global competency. It describes the conference's history and growth since 2005, as well as features like free attendance, self-scheduling, and making all recordings publicly available. Contact information is given for the conference organizers, Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray.

1. GLOBALLY CONNECTING
HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN DRIVE AUTHENTIC LEARNING

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4. Make It Count - Casey Neistat

5. TODAY’S AGENDA
• Overview of the Global Education Conference
• Our Background
• Projects - basic, next steps, deep dives
• Your Toolkit
• More Starting Points and Advice

6. “…the Global Education Conference community is organized around
people rather than tech or content. Although happiness is definitely part
of the community, the better description might be that the community is
focused on ‘optimizing for professional generosity’.
Professional generosity drives Twitter chats, from #edchat to #kinderchat,
as well as community like Steve’s Classroom 2.0, Edmodo, and most
online educator communities. It acts as the antithesis of the outcompete-the-
world, zero-sum message US educational system promotes at all
levels. Steve and Lucy have a bootstrapped community built for an
‘infinite runway’ for teaching and learning, rather than quick success or
quick failure. Although it may not seem like a community that will garner
much attention from super angels, Lucy and Steve’s 365/24/7 “anytime,
anywhere” global teaching and learning community is the right model—
scalable, sustainable, impactful, and with a killer ROI, if you want to wait a
generation to measure it.”
–David Potter (iEARN)

7. Photo via the Clinton Global Initiatve

8. OUR MISSION
The Global Education Conference is a
collaborative, world-wide community initiative
involving students, educators, and organizations at
all levels.

9. OUR MISSION
It is designed to significantly increase
opportunities for building education-related
connections around the globe while supporting
cultural awareness, recognition of diversity, and
educational access for all.

10. OUR MISSION
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.

13. 2005

15. 2006

16. LUCY’S DEFINITION
Professional generosity is the act of freely
sharing information and supporting colleagues
in the interest of the common good. It is fueled
by serendipity, and results in multiple
opportunities to exponentially learn from and
collaborate with each other.

18. 2007

20. 2010

22. “Like feeding 5,000 people a day. You just don't
want to see the kitchen afterward!”
–Steve Hargadon

23. TODAY

24. 19,000 MEMBERS
167 COUNTRIES
3220 DISCUSSIONS
1198 BLOG POSTS
439 EVENTS
156 GROUPS

25. FREE
ONLINE
INT’L EDU WEEK
AROUND THE CLOCK
ALL SESSIONS RECORDED

26. WE ARE CHANGING THE MODEL
• Changing the Model:
• Free to attend
• No registration
• All recordings publicly available
• Core commitment: inclusion
• Core commitment: simplicity
• Unbound by time and space
• Self-scheduling (youcanbook.me)

27. WHAT ARE THE STEPS FOR PRESENTERS?
• Call for proposals opens in June.
• Presenters submit proposals. Most are approved.
• Presenters self-schedule their presentations.
• Presenters attend training sessions or watch a
tutorial video.
• Presenters prepare and promote their talks.

28. WHAT ARE THE STEPS FOR ATTENDEES?
• People join our community for updates and
networking.
• Members browse accepted proposals.
• Participants access a schedule in their own time
zone.
• A direct link is provided in the Google Calendar
schedule to the Blackboard Collaborate vroom.

29. WHAT ROLE DO VOLUNTEERS PLAY?
• Many volunteers are members of our advisory
board.
• Join our volunteer group to receive instructions.
• Hang out in our virtual lounge and wait for
moderation assignments.
• Support presenters by moderating sessions.

40. POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL
STEVEN AMSTRUP AND LANCE ROUGEAUX

41. POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL
JULENE REED

42. BRANDON WILEY • ASIA SOCIETY
SIX SCHOOL-WIDE STRATEGIES TO
GLOBALIZE YOUR SCHOOL

43. RANA DAJANI
A LIBRARY IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD

44. SERGIO BOSIO
LOS CAMINOS DEL CONECTIVISMO', DE LA
ESCUELA MEDIA HACIA LA UNIVERSIDAD

45. ANNE MIRTSCHIN
HOW TO GET STARTED WITH GLOBAL
PROJECTS

46. KIM COFINO
ADVENTURES IN INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATION

47. ARAB ISRAEL CONFLICT RESOLUTION
VICKI DAVIS, JEFF STANZLER, & STUDENTS

48. ARAB ISRAEL CONFLICT RESOLUTION
WESTWOOD SCHOOL STUDENTS

49. APPLE DISTINGUISHED EDUCATORS
GREG ALCHIN, DANIELA RUBIO, AND LUIS
PEREZ

50. JENNIFER HANSON • PRIMARY SOURCE
LATIN AMERICAN & LATINO LITERATURE FOR
K-12 CLASSROOMS

51. “Every single moment for me has been magical.
It is almost impossible to pick one. The
presenters have all been wonderful, but it is the
discussions from the participants that make each
session exciting as people bring their different
view points to the presentation, offer additional
insights and information to the discussion and
arrange to meet up (online) and collaborate
together. It is the personal global interaction and
connections that make me stay awake all night
(sometimes) or has me wake up at a crazy hour
in the morning to connect with an educator from
the other side of the world. “
–Anne Aherne-Daly (USA)

52. EVERYDAY ACTS OF
PROFESSIONAL GENEROSITY

53. “What would happen if all teachers and
educational leaders demonstrated Professional
Generosity? What if all school districts did? What
if all organizations and industries did? I wonder
where the tipping point would be…in my own
school, in my district, in my state, in my
profession, in my country…in our world. We have
the technology. We have the trailblazers. We
have living, breathing examples out there doing
it. I can easily do my part. All it takes is a little
Professional Generosity intention on the out-breath.”
–Donna Adams Román

54. BUCK INSTITUTE
Buck Institute for Education

55. CHALLENGE BASED LEARNING
Challenge Based Learning

56. Jen Wagner Projects By Jen

57. Mark Ahlness Earth Day Groceries Project

58. Global Cardboard Challenge

59. Skype in the Classroom

60. Mystery Location Calls

61. Google Hangouts in Education
G+EduHangout

62. Cybrary Man’s Mystery Location Page

63. LISA PARISI & DONNA ROMAN
Lisa’s Blog

64. Deb Frazier The Global Classroom Project
Michael Graffin

65. Jerome Burg Google Lit Trips

68. Valerie Becker Sample Video
68

69. Karl Fisch A Whole New Mind
69

70. Out of Eden

71. Syria Dear World
Dear World Main Site

72. The iEARN Project Book

73. THE GLOBALLY CONNECTED TEACHER
WHAT’S IN YOUR TOOLKIT?

74. Global Collaboration, Exploration &
Innovation on iTunes U
74

75. Innovation on Earth: Technology Toolkit

76. APPLE INC.
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
• Photobooth (photos, video, greenscreening)
• FaceTime (videoconferencing, desktop sharing
recording)
• Garageband (recording, podcasting)
• iPod Touch, iPad - apps

77. GENERIC TOOLKIT
• Still or video camera
• Web cam
• Chat client - Skype (free), Google Hangouts
• Digital recording device or web site that allows recording
• Collaborative workspace - Edmodo, Google Sites, Wikispaces
• Networks - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, TakingITGlobal, Global Ed ning
• Web 2.0 Tools - VoiceThread, Voki, Google Docs (Forms), Google
Maps & Earth etc.

79. 79
Connected Educators Month

80. Build professional relationships.
Join existing projects.
Keep it simple.
Evolve.

81. MANY THANKS
• World View
• iEARN USA
• Global Campaign for Education - US Chapter
• The GEC Leadership Team
• Countless volunteers including moderators and
presenters

82. STEVE HARGADON
• steve@hargadon.com
• stevehargadon.com
• @stevehargadon on Twitter

83. LUCY GRAY
• elemenous@gmail.com
• http://lucygrayconsulting.com
• @elemenous on Twitter

84. GLOBAL EDUCATION
CONFERENCE
• http://globaleducationconference.com
• @GlobalEdCon Twitter
• 10 Ways to Connect Globally
• http://goo.gl/QCx7Y6