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The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free.  Sessions will be held in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. 

The 2010 Global Education Conference is a collaborative effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives.  The conference will be held online November 15 - 19, 2010 in the Elluminate (now Blackboard Collaborate) platform.  Sessions will be free, broadcast live in multiple time zones and multiple languages, and available in recorded formats afterwards.  The dates of the conference coincide with International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of State.

The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives. 

There is no formal registration required for the conference, as all the sessions will be open and public, broadcast live using the Elluminate platform, and available in recorded formats afterwards.  Links to watch the sessions will be posted a few days before the conference begins, in the "Sessions" and "Schedule" pages, and recording links will be listed soon thereafter.  T

The conference has an International Educator Advisory Board of over 90 educators worldwide, chaired by Julie Lindsay of the Flat Classroom ProjectTM.  Thirty leading global organizations serve as Conference Partners, including:  the Asia Society, the Centre for Global Education, East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (EARCOS), ePals, iEARN, and TakingITGlobal.  Full lists of the advisory board and the partners can be found at the website, and interested individuals and organizations are encouraged to contact the conference chairs.

Conference presentations will be categorized in five tracks:  Teacher, Student, Curricular, Policy and Leadership, and Global Issues.

The conference co-chairs are Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon.  Lucy Gray is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Teacher, and founder of the Global Education Collaborative network (http://globaleducation.ning.com).  Steve Hargadon is Elluminate's Social Learning Consultant, founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network (http://www.classroom20.com), and host of the Future of Education interview series (http://www.futureofeducation.com).  

•    The Twitter/Social Media hashtag for the conference is "#GlobalEd10".  

For more information, please see:
http://www.globaleducationconference.com/