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Category Archives: conferences
Tips for student presenters at conferences
It’s educational technology conference time of year! There are so many educational conferences that you could literally attend 24/7. Hopefully some of you are taking students along with you to share their work. There’s nothing more exciting than seeing students … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, empowerment, student, student voice
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Join in – Free online global education conference
Don’t miss The 2012 Global Education Conference – a free, online conference all about global education scheduled to take place entirely online during the week of November 12 -16. This is the third annual event, scheduled to coincide with International Education … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, education, global, project, project-based, project-based learning
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See you in San Diego? ISTE 2012
Generation YES will be at ISTE June 24-27, 2012 in San Diego. If you are there, be sure to come by and say hi! We will have a special version of Angry Birds for you to play and win fun … Continue reading
Free webinar: The voices of girls & women and the future of STEM
Girl Scout Research Institute STEMinar: The voices of girls & women and the future of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math When: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Time: 2PM EDT (time in your time zone) This “STEMinar” will bring together experts from diverse backgrounds … Continue reading
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Free webinar – Social Media and Peer Learning
Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy Discover how giving students more responsibility in shaping their own curriculum can lead to more active participation. I’m going to be on the panel for this webinar from Connected Learning, … Continue reading
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Greg Partch – 20 To Watch
At the COSN conference earlier this month, 20 educators from around the nation were named by The National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) Technology Leadership Network (TLN) as “20 to Watch” Educational Technology Leaders for 2011-2012. These education leaders from across the country were recognized … Continue reading
GenYES Student Volunteers at NCCE 2012
GenYES Student Volunteers at NCCE 2012 Local GenYES students came to NCCE 2012 in Seattle, Washington, and showed attendees how they support teachers at their schools with technology integration projects. Students helped with tech support, took video, did speaker and session support, … Continue reading
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Webinars – Addressing youth risk in a positive and restorative manner
from Nancy Willard of Embracing Digital Youth: Addressing youth risk in a positive and restorative manner Embracing Digital Youth is proud to announce our first two Webinars. Through these Webinars, Embracing Digital Youth will seek to help educators, mental health professionals, law … Continue reading
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Update on the College YES project (i3 Federal grant) at COSN 2012
I’m heading to Washington DC (and actually composing this on a bus hurtling down I-95) to present at the COSN conference starting March 5, 2012. The presentation is about the College YES i3 grant we are involved in with the … Continue reading
BETT 2012
I’m heading to London this week to take part in the BETT 2012 conference in London. This is the largest educational technology conference in the world and I’ve been wanting to check it out for years! I’m presenting a session … Continue reading