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Event Creator: Steve Hargadon

Event Type: Web Event

Name: Global Awareness Panel

When: Sep 10 2009 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm-Sep 10 2009 , US/Pacific (GMT-08:00)*

Participant URL: http://tinyurl.com/futureofed

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Calendar: Community Calendar

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Detail Description: Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray lead a panel discussion on global awareness with an all-star line up (see below). The primary focus will be to highlight the work of many organizations including iEARN, ePals, and the Asia Society and to discuss the concept of global awareness in relation to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills' frame for 21st century learning. Post your pre-show questions below.
PANELISTS
Shari Albright
Bio: Shari Becker Albright serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network, a national network of small, internationally-themed secondary schools dedicated to preparing college ready, globally competent citizens for the 21st century. Prior to joining the Asia Society, Shari served as the principal of a public, magnet school in the North East Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas – the International School of the Americas which was the recipient of the Goldman Sachs Prize in International Education.
URLs: http://www.asiasociety.org/education
Kim Cofino
Bio: Originally from the US, Kim has spent the last ten years teaching internationally, beginning in Munich, Germany, continuing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and currently in Bangkok, Thailand. An Apple Distinguished Educator, Kim regularly consults with other international schools interested in implementing 21st century learning, has been profiled on a number of educational websites and journals, and has spoken at conferences and professional development sessions throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement.
URLs: http://mscofino.edublogs.org
Westley Field
Bio: Westley is Managing Director of Skoolaborate, a global initiative, involving over 40 schools and community organisations, that uses a blended environment including online units and virtual worlds to produce engaging student learning experiences. In his day job, Westley is the MLC online learning director leading a 1 to 1 program that is recognized by many as one the best examples of blended learning world wide. Westley presents around the world on topics such as Making 1 to 1 work, Heuristics of implementing elearning, Second Life in Education, Educational Technology, Connecting Students in a Web 2.0 world and Leading in a Flat World.
URLs: http://www.skoolaborate.com, http://www.westleyfield.com
Lucy Gray
Bio: Lucy is the founder of the Global Education Collaborative, an online community designed to connect educators and organizations while promoting global awareness. She is currently employed by the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Chicago as an education technology specialist. She is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Teacher.
URLs: http://globaleducation.ning.com, http://lucygray.org
Carol Anne McGuire
Bio: Technology Integration Specialist, Apple Distinguished Educator, Discovery Star Educator, ISTE Teacher of the Year Carol Anne McGuire is an award-winning educator who began her career teaching blind and visually impaired students over 20 years ago. She is the founder and “Lead Rocker” of an international project called “Rock Our World.” ROW connects students on every continent to collaborate in music composition, filmmaking and meeting each other in live video conferences. Carol Anne has worked with companies such as Apple, Discovery, Disney, American Film Institute, Google and Will Smith.
Carol Anne Keynotes all over the world on topics such as Global Collaboration, Accessibility, Digital Storytelling, Podcasting, Technology in the Classroom and Movie Making for the Non-Techy Teacher!
URLs: www.rockourworld.org, http://rockourworld.ning.com, http://discoveryeducatorabroad.com/rockourworld
Diane Midness
Bio: Diane Midness is Director for Professional Development for iEARN USA. She is a former high school Media Specialist and Coordinating Teacher for Technology Integration and program coordinator for The University of North Carolina’s Center for International Understanding’s International School Partnerships through Technology.
URLs: http://us.iearn.org
Rita Oates
Bio: Rita is Vice President of Education Markets for ePals, a global collaborative community with more than 18 million users in 200 countries. Earlier in her career, she was director of ed tech in Miami-Dade Public Schools, the nation's fourth largest, serving students born in more than 120 countries. She won a FIPSE grant for ed tech professional development in the district. She has also been graduate program chair in Computer Education and Technology at Barry University, and earlier taught high school English and journalism in three schools in Kansas -- rural, urban and suburban. She was the Education Editor of the first online service in the U.S. with color and graphics, called VIEWTRON, in the 1980s. She has keynoted and given workshops at major ed tech conferences from coast to coast and has written ten books and more than 100 articles about ed tech and school reform. As a child, she lived in Costa Rica and attended a public girls' school in Spanish. Just before joining ePals, she helped create an ed tech plan for the public schools in the United Arab Emirates.
URLs: www.epals.com
Sharon Peters
Bio: Sharon Peters is the Director of Technology at Hebrew Academy in Montreal, Canada. She recently won ISTE's Online Learning Award for the Darfur Video Project. In 2008 and 2009, she led teams who facilitated ICT workshops with an NGO, Teachers Without Borders Canada, to educators in the townships of South Africa and rural Kenya. She has presented keynotes at conferences and workshops throughout North America about new media literacies and global collaborative projects. Her students have participated in several award-winning international web-based collaborative projects with classes around the world using technology to support the learning goals.
URLs: http://wearejustlearning.ca
http://twbcanada.ning.com/
http://take2videos.ning.com/
Julene Reed
Bio: Julene Reed is the Director of Academic Technology for St. George's Independent School in Memphis, TN. She is on the advisory boards of: Apple Distinguished Educators, Dr. Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, Polar Bears International, and the Tennessee Distance Learning Association.
Julene keynotes and leads workshops on Global Education, "Going Green," Web 2.0 for Education, Podcasting, Technology Integration, Digital Storytelling, Laptop Learning, Videoconferencing, 21st Century Teaching & Learning, and much more.
URLs: http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=16249
Michael Searson
Bio: Michael Searson is executive director of Kean University's School for Global Education & Innovation. He is chairperson of the Xi Hu Conference on 21st Century Learning, to be held in Hangzhou, China in November 2009. His work often connects local school districts with international partners. Searson is a vice president for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education; a member of the Global Learn Asia Pacific Executive Committee; a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator Advisory Board; Curriki Hearst Faculty Fellow. Searson has authored or coauthored a number of grants focusing on the integration of technology into educational settings.

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Lucy Gray

Sep 10 2009 - 3:21am

Also, this panel will be 90 minutes long!!!

Lucy Gray

Sep 9 2009 - 12:28pm

How can I add this to My Events here in Learn Central? How can I add this to a group? And why does it not show up on my main calendar? I'm just full of questions, aren't I? :)

Gailene Nelson

Sep 11 2009 - 1:47pm

Hi Lucy -

Your questions are great - keep them coming! If you look at your Calendar in your Profile, you should see the event on 10 September. It's color coded in red. All users on LC will see all Community Events on their personal calendar - it's automatically added. If you don't see it, please let me know what OS/browser you are using so I can test that config here.

You also asked about adding it to a group. Today, events live in one calendar. You can change the calendar where they reside, but you must be the event creator to do so (in an upcoming release, Community Administrators will be able to edit calendar events).

You asked about My Events - when you click on My Events from the Events Nav bar menu, do you see a grid view of a calendar, and if so, do you see the event listed on 10 Sept? Or, is there another my events view you were referring to?

Let me know so we can figure out if there are any bugs here to be resolved.

Thanks!!

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