On Globally Connected Learning

It takes a very good reason to make one get up at 4:30 am on a Tuesday during Summer holidays.  A couple of times I did it because I had to go on a trip.  This morning I did it because a friend from Germany had asked me and six other friends from Hello Little World to co-present on our experience working globally with our students.  The presentation was via Google Hangout and the 5 continents were present from the following countries: Russia, Australia, Germany, South Africa and Argentina.
After the initial rush of adrenalin when all of us had tested our technical equipment with the aid of the amazing Steve Sherman, once everything was ready and we started everything seemed to flow and I can assure you I experienced what Sir Ken Robinson calls being in the zone.  A group of educators sharing their global experiences with no other purpose than that.  Only people who have put their feet in the waters of global collaboration understand each other.  The look in our students´faces of amazement and enthusiasm is the fuel that keeps us going.  Thank you Reinhard for taking the time to put all this together.  It was a pleasure to be part of this crowd of educators who went out of their comfort zones to reach out to the world and hopefully enthuse others to follow.

Here´s the link to the recorded presentation session.

Global Ed Conf, Day 2.

Jorge Alberto Becerra

Academia de Tecnologías Libres y Social Media
Agenda de Conferencia Global en Español
http://twitdoc.com/view.asp?id=115417&sid=2H21&ext=PDF&lcl=AgendaEspa-olGEC2013.pdf&usr=ATELIS_&doc=185342622&key=key-2l2sam6v98bsglzh6xj0

Vance Steven´s Session
As usual my friend Vance amazed us by showing LIVE how to set up and run Google Hangout on Air, with all the possibilities of adding collaborative note taking and live broadcasting.  A daring enterprise which he successfully accomplished.

Recording of Vance´s Session, good to have as a tutorial reference.

Global Ed Conference, Day 1

Useful links to the conference day 1, Monday November 18th, 2013.

These are the links and brief notes I took while listening tot he sessions that I was able to attend, I couldn´t attend ALL of them but I will catch up with recording later on.

Todd Conaway

I arrived late to this session
 http://www.globaleducationconference.com/forum/topics/the-9x9x25-challenge" target=

http://www.telswebletter.com/2013/09/01/we-triple-dog-dare-you/

http://teaching.nmc.edu/

Mike Furdyk´s Session

Social network for social good.  Collaborative projects in over 13 languages created by educators and students.

Mike is someone who had to cope with something that was not taught at school.  Went to the web for help.

Highlight: "Speak up." Support for student´s ideas.  Grants for students´generated ideas to improve their schools.

http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/our-friends/contributors/michael-furdyk

http://www.tigweb.org/youth-media/gg/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9QzsbteNM

Kate Sutton Jones´Session
Tips for community learning.
Choose learning goals.
Build a network.
Importance of safe environment!
Adult learners´characteristics, ie learning styles, preferences, etc.
Provide multiple varieties of participation, experiences, not only one way to do things.
ENJOY! That´s precisely what I do when I attend these kind of PD!
Where to start networking and learning
http://www.educationbeyondborders.org/

Twitter, Google+Communities, Online courses

Students without borders academy : Dave Fehr, from BC, Canada, offered to help teachers who want to collaborate on Global Education.