Workshops & PD


My workshops:

The Future of Education online conference
http://umanitoba.ca/learning_technologie
s/conferences/foe/
June 4-8, 2007

The Future of Education is an online conference exploring trends impacting education - K-12, higher education, and corporation training. An international panel of leading thinkers and visionaries will present on topics such as knowledge and authority, technology and art, and complexity science. Daily live discussions (which will be recorded) will be held June 4 - 8. Keynote presenters are listed below. In addition to daily keynote presentations, a series of excellent 20 - 30 minute presentations will address how various experts perceive tomorrow’s education system and processes.View the Schedule of Presentations for correct times.

 WiAOC 2007
May 18-20 2007
 Intel Education: ICT in the Classroom Conference
Grey College Bloemfontein
http://www.school.za/conference/
 4-7 July 2007
SchoolNet SA will be hosting the Intel Education: ICT in the Classroom conference. Five hundred delegates including educators and Provincial Education Department representatives are expected to attend. The conference programme is focussed on how ICT is being used in the classroom and will include the following themes: “Classroom and the Community”, “Inter-Classroom Collaboration”, “Learning with Projects” and “ICT in the Classroom”. Registration is R250 and includes all lunches and one dinner.
 K12online conference (Free)
Schedule of papers
8-26 October 2007
The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.  Two podcast channels are available
eLearning in Developing Countries:
2-22 October , 2007
What are some of the challenges developing countries face in implementing elearning programs? How can we work together to overcome barriers? What are the success stories? Join us for this 3-week seminar to better understand the realities and to propose solutions.
Social Media in Education:
12 - Nov to 2 Dec 2007
What are the implications for educators and learners as they move towards greater use of social media? In this seminar we will seek to define exactly what social media is, its uses in education and the implications for educators, learners and administrators.

Blogging Face2Face workshop
28 Nov 2007
Where: @ Brecia House Bryanston
RSVP& more info: (leave a message here:
http://maggiev.edublogs.org/2007/11/15/blogging-workshop/)