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Scoop.it. Art Education. Physical Education. Professional Development and Teaching Ideas for English Language Teachers. 21st Century Tools for Junior High. Inquiry & Problem Solving in the Classroom. 21st Century Teaching & Learning. Pinterest.

Science. Education. PBL Presentation. Twitterfall. Poll Everywhere - Audience Participation Site. Poll Everywhere Log In. Ning. Making Curriculum Pop. Curriculum21. The Freshman Transition Network - Working together to transition freshmen & transform schools from the bottom up! English Companion Ning - Where English teachers go to help each other. The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators. Virtual Education Conferences. We all know about conferences, don’t we? You fly or drive out of town and stay in a large hotel for a couple of days, eating complimentary continental breakfasts and ambling from room to identical room in search of a few fresh angles on your profession and its challenges.

Conferences can be a standard part of the job for a fair percentage of educators and administrators, but some people tend to find themselves in the unfortunate position of missing a conference, workshop or other sort of professional development event for lack of available funding or enough time away from work to allow for travel. Those days, though, may be over. The same kinds of educational technologies that contribute to enhanced learning in virtual classrooms all over the world are being used to make educational conferences more accessible to the educators and administrators that they benefit the most. How virtual conferences work Advantages of the virtual conference But are they right for you ? Print This Post. EdWeb: A professional online community for educators. Margaret Riel: Improving your Skills as a Global Educator through Action Research. #Edchat.

2013 STEMx Conference Welcome! Welcome to the Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference, the world’s first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. The conference will be held over the course of three days, September 19 - 21, 2013, and will be free to attend! STEMxCon will be a highly inclusive and engaging event that will encourage primary, secondary, and tertiary (K-16) students and educators around the world to share and learn about innovative approaches to STEMx learning and teaching. A call for presentations will be issued the week of May 20, 2013. Register as a member of this conference network to be kept informed!

See the conference information and menu links to the left and at the top of each page. Presenting : The conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to STEM in a changing world. The Call for Proposals for the conference opens the week of May 20th. International Advisory Board : Conference Partner Organizations : K12 Online Conference. The Global Education Conference Network - GlobalEdCon: Connecting Educators and Organizations Worldwide. Technology for STEM Education: Virtual Conference for Education 2013. Twitter. Writing Project. We Are Teachers.

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