In this newsletter..... 

• Conference Deadline Extended
• Film Exhibition Deadline Extended
• New Videos About Our Community and Conference
• New Partnership for Startups with EdSurge and Cisco's GETideas
• New Opportunities in Our Community

Dear GEC Members: 

Greetings from Beijing, China, where I'm attending the Learning 2.012 conference which kicks off October 11 ( Beijing time; some sessions will be streaming). I've had an amazing week so far, visiting the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and interacting with some amazing international school educators. China is an extraordinary place, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to visit. My experiences this week have reinforced my belief that we must connect our classrooms and teach our children to understand and learn from each other if we are to address the challenges facing our planet. 

That said, I'm pleased to announce several new items pertaining to our community and conference. First,  the deadlines for proposals for both the standard Global Education Conference and the iEARN Annual Conference and Youth Summit have been extended from October 15 to October 29, 2012. You have nearly a two week extension to get your proposals in! 

This also means that we have extended the deadline for film exhibition submissions. If you've got a  digital film to share on a global topic, check out this post for more details. 

Courtesy of Christopher Tully and his students at the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology in Pennsylvania, USA, we have two new videos on our web site, one of which explains the conference proposal process and the other gives a brief overview of our online community. Please check them out and leave a message of thanks in the comments! Stay tuned for more fabulous videos from Tully and his talented students.

In the last couple of weeks, we announced a new strand of the conference sponsored by BrainPOP on gaming. We're also pleased to announce today another new strand and partnership with EdSurge and Cisco's education leadership site, GETideas.org, focused on global technology-driven innovation. Here's the lowdown from EdSurge's newsletter:

Finally, here are a few more opportunities posted in our online community that may be of interest. Please respond directly to the posters.

• Skype with a School in Sydney, Australia
• GEC Proposal Development 101
• Game ON with BrainPOP!
• Knitting the World Together A Million Relationships at a Time
• iSpy in the Community Project
• Summer 2013 Travel Exchange to Peru
• Looking for K-8 Schools to Join Our Community Project

Thanks again for your support Help us get the word out about the conference by spreading the word with our press materials!

Regards,

Lucy Gray

Conference Co-Chair

Many thanks to our current partners and sponsors including:

iEARN

Cisco's GETideas

EdSurge

BrainPOP

Intel