2013 Reform Symposium E-Conference Presentation - By Invitation Only

We think your work is transformative for education and that more educators should see it. Therefore, we would like to invite you to present at the 2013 Reform Symposium E-Conference, RSCON. The conference will be held online, over the course of three days: October 11 - 13, 2013. It will be free for educators worldwide to attend and in the past we had thousands of teachers attend the 3 previous conferences from a 100 different countries.


The Process:

Proposals can be submitted from September 1st to 25th, 2013. We encourage you to submit your proposal as early as possible because as soon as a proposal is accepted, you are given the ability to select from the available presentation times (the time choices become increasingly limited closer to the event).

Your presentation proposal, once submitted, will be listed on the Reform Symposium Conference website (http://www.reformsymposium.com), with the opportunity for members of this network to view, comment on, and/or "like" your presentation proposal. This will give you and the other members of this site the chance to share ideas and to make connections before, during, and after the conference. Additionally, it will allow us to gauge the popularity of your topic or approach.


Presentation Guidelines:

Presentations should be at least 20 minutes in length, and all sessions must be completed (including Q&A) within 45 minutes. We want our audience to have 15 minutes to get to the next session and tell people how much they liked your session.  All sessions will be held in the Blackboard Collaborate online platform (previously Elluminate/Wimba). You will be responsible for familiarizing yourself with the web conferencing platform. We will send you recorded training material, as well as provide live training sessions where you can ask questions. To practice, you can also sign up for the Collaborate trial room at http://www.WeCollaborate.com.

All presentations will be recorded and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. For more information, please visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). By submitting to present, you are agreeing to these terms.

Presentations must be non-commercial. Interest in commercial sponsorship or presentations should be directed to Steve Hargadon at steve@hargadon.com.


Conference Strands:

You can indicate one or more conference strands when you submit your presentation. Your presentation does not have to fit into the conference strands to be considered--the strands exist for the convenience of those interested in finding particular types of sessions. The strand names and tags are given below, and a fuller description of each strand can be found HERE.


How to Submit Your Proposal:

Please follow these instructions carefully. It is your responsibility to make sure your presentation proposal is submitted correctly. You must be signed up on the RSCON Conference network and logged in to submit your proposal.

 

  1. VERY IMPORTANT: Join the conference presenters group here to receive general emails.

  2. Copy the following text (highlight and ctrl-c on your computer):


Session Title:

Your Name:

Work Title:

School or Organization Name:

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

Language in Which You Will Present:

Target Audience(s):

Short Session Description (one line):

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

 

  1. Click here to open a new forum discussion post.

  2. Title your discussion post with the title of your proposed session.

  3. Paste the template text (ctrl-v) into the body of the forum discussion post.

  4. Fill in the session information according to the template. If you separate your answers with a blank line and make the questions text bold, it will make your proposal easier to read.

  5. In the "Category" drop-down field, check to make sure the category is "2013 Reform Symposium Submitted Proposals."

  6. In the tags field, use the strand tag code for the strand to which you are submitting your proposal.


Inquiry driven learning- strand tag "Inquiry"

Individualizing learning- strand tag "Individualized"

Experiential learning- strand tag "Experiential"

Using classroom space in a transformative way- strand tag "classroomdesign"

Transformative teaching with children- strand tag "younglearners"

Transformative teaching with adolescents- strand tag "adolescents"

Transformative teaching with teens- strand tag "teens"

Transformative teaching in higher education- strand tag "highered"

Transformative teaching with adults- strand tag "adulteducation"

Transformative teaching with language learners- strand tag "languagelearners"

Transformative teaching in special education- strand tag "sped"

Transformative teaching in mobile learning- strand tag "mlearning"

Transformative teaching methods for BYOT- strand tag "byot"

History Educaiton Re-Imagined - strand tag "history"

Science Education Re-Imagined - strand tag "science"

Math Education Re-Imagined - strand tag "math"

Using Technology in Transformative Ways- strand tag "transtech"

Online Learning- strand tag "online"

Expanding Global Competency for Students - strand tag "global"

Professional Learning for Teachers - strand tag "proflearning"

Research on Teaching and Learning - strand tag "research"

Innovations in Assessment - strand tag "assessment"

Leadership in Education- strand tag "Leadership"


  1. Click the "Add Discussion" button to save your proposal.


You are able to modify your proposal after it has been saved and up until it has been accepted. If you need to change your proposal after that time, please email shellyterrell@gmail.com.