GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE: SESSION WORKSHOP

How Could War Look Different?

When: Tuesday, November 16, 10pm – 11pm Eastern

PRESENTER: Brian Mannix, Great Neck South Middle School (United States)

ELLUMINATE SESSION ROOM: (open one hour before session): 
https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=gec2010&password=D.F5AEE5438808D6BC3844B4105EFF77

SHORT DESCRIPTION: How Could War Look Different? An Immersive Online Re-enactment and Re-Creation of Warfare. In How Could War Look Different? students come together both within and across national borders to re-live conflicts that have taken place in the past and to re-enact them online with historical accuracy. They utilize multiple mediums of technology including Video Conferencing, Wikis, Blogs, Online Podcast Interviews, Digital Photography, Digital Video, Google Maps, Google Earth and more in order to communicate all that objective history and subjective bias offers with regard to the greatest of conflicts: warfare. After re-creating the past according to the historical record, students will re-write those conflicts with an eye toward how the war could have been fought differently. Students will look at what pre-war cultural, political, economic and social factors would need to have been created in order to prevent the destruction from starting in the first place. The greatest challenge of all awaits them. Could war have been turned to peace and if so, how? How Could War Look Different? can be adopted to any war and utilized by any nation at any grade level. Please join us for a discussion of how best to implement this collaborative project.

WEBSITE: http://www.onlinewarfare.ning.com


GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Time: November 15, 2010 to November 19, 2010
Location: In Elluminate - see website for room details for each session

Event Description:
The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free.  Details about the conference are available at http://www.globaleducationconference.com.  The conference currently has scheduled 50 keynote addresses and over 300 general sessions  from 62 countries.  Sessions will be held in multiple time zones focusing on teachers, students, curriculum, policy and leadership and global issues. 

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 afterward.  Actual session links will be posted the week of the conference.  See the full hour-by-hour schedule in your time zone at http://www.globaleducationconference.com/schedule.html, and read more details about the sessions at http://www.globaleducationconference.com/all-sessions.html.