Global Learn Day X

The absolute truth is that we are absolutely in love with the work that Jeff Lebow does at World Bridges and at the Webcast Academy. The bad news is that Jeff may not be with us live in real time during our Closing Ceremonies. The good news is has and will help us a lot, not just “at the close, but with much of our technical requirements and the selection of our content providers. (more…)

We are truly proud that the co-founder and chairman of e-Pals, Tim Discipio will provide our Keynote as we open the North American segment of Global Learn Day, Voyage Number Ten. The Keynote Headline speaks perfectly to the splendid results of his company:  Connecting global classrooms for collaborative project sharing and literacy learning.

We asked Tim to write us and let us know about his work. The balance of this text comes from Tim. But first — thank you, Tim! (more…)

We welcome Peter Galante from Tokyo to GLD. His organization, JapanesePod101, is out “to make learning the Japanese language easy and fun, while also incorporating culture and current issues into our lessons.” (more…)

We have always felt that use of text chat rooms during virtual events to be exceptionally important. The text chat room we will use can be reached from here. For more information, please read on. (more…)

Our North American Keynoter, Tim DiScipio, is founder to e-Pals, which links very nearly seven million highly motivated teachers and students together. One of them is Rozalija Baricevic, who from Croatia, will tell us why so much good comes from this kind of networking and collaboration. (more…)

What is the most important ingredient for success? What is the most important quality good teachers wish to foster? My “answer” to both questions is a single word: Motivation. It’s the key to what our Keynoter, Lynda Dyer (from Sydney) will talk about — and why you should not miss her Keynote. Lynda comes to us highly recommended by Annette Stock, who will do the introductions - and also serve as both “navigator” and “presenter” during our stay in the Southern Pacific (more…)

Juliet Stoltenkamp, from the University of the Western Cape writes: I am a hard working, self-motivated and disciplined person with 13 years experience in the teaching / training environment. My experience includes learners of various ages. I believe in keeping abreast with education and technology.  (more…)

There may be others who have traveled more widely to increase affordable access to education and training than Roger Boston — but I don’t know who. Roger will join us from China; but don’t expect him to be bound by any one particular time or segment. He’s a maverick, of the best sort. (more…)

We’re coming down the home stretch - 12 days and 12 hours to go as I type this - and it’s always like this… sleep comes hard. There is so much to do. (more…)

Bio: John Southworth was Director of Technology for the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Student Ambassador Program (StAmP Net) for 2001-2004. He works with Distance Education at the University of Hawaii Education Laboratory School. (more…)