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Bring on the Learning Revolution
by Jeff Utecht - Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 12:18 AM
 
We're just 5 weeks away from the conference. Do you have your Chinese Visa yet? If not you'll want to get on that ASAP!

Over the next couple of weeks we'll be posting some videos to start discussions. Click on Reply below and let us know what you think and start a discussion!

Sir Ken Robinson's new TED Talk released in May will get us kicked off. Titled "Bring On The Learning Revolution" Sir Ken tells us we need to be farmers!


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Hotels and Laptops
by Jeff Utecht - Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 12:18 AM
 
Hotels and Visas
  • We've added a new hotel to the conference hotel list. Click here to see the official conference hotels. and Click here to see a Google Map of the conference area.
  • Please make sure you have a tourist visa to enter China. Nothing like flying all this way to be turned back at the door.
Remember your laptop!
LaptopsThis is a laptop connected conference. In fact we're in the process of creating an iPhone/iPod/iPad app for you so that you can truly be mobile. It will be very important that you are able to connect during the conference. As we create unconference sessions we'll be updating the website with room assignments and locations.

We're sold out!
Sorry to those who waited too long to register. We have capped this conference at 400 participants and we're fully booked. We're excited to have our 3rd sell out conference event and we're looking forward to the learning we know will be happening during and after the conference. Come prepared to work and network...that's what conferences should be about!
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Conference Hotels
by Jeff Utecht - Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 12:16 AM
 
There are three accommodations each within a block of Concordia (bottom three). The most recent additions are a bit further, but short taxi or van ride.

Each Hotel/ Service Apartments is offering a conference price.

If you have any problems with hotel reservations, feel free to contact us: learning2cn@gmail.com

Hotel Info Rates (USD Approximate) Reservation Form

NEW ADDITION
Grand Metro
159 New Golden-Bridge Road
Pudong District
86-21-5190-9000
FAX: 86-21-51909008
email: sales.shgm@metroparkhotels.com


Superior starting at RMB 859 (US$130)

http://www.metroparkhotels.com/hotel/eng/index.php?hotel=jiayou

NEW ADDITION
Respond Apartment and Hotel
176 Jindian Road (7 min. from school)
Email: marygester@gmail.com
Fax +86-21-5132-1608
Tel +86-21-3899-7777

Executive Suite Room
RMB 580 NET ($84)
2 Rooms with Single Bed +1 living Room +BFK

Reservation Form

Citadines Apart'Hotel (FULL)
450 Hongfeng Road
Jinqiao, Shanghai, 201206
86-21 3860-2288
www.citadines.com


Guest Room: 540RMB ($79)
per person per night for a single room breakfast included

Suite Room: 670RMB ($98)
per person per night (one bedroom, one living room, and one breakfast)

Citadines Apart'Hotel Reservation Form

Biyun Diamond Court (FULL)
1168 Biyun Road, Pudong, Shanghai 201206
86-4008106868
www.diamondcourt.com

Deluxe Room: 560RMB ($82)
(one queen size bed)

Twin Room: 560RMB ($82)
(two twin size beds)

Executive Suite: 590RMB ($86)
(one queen size bed)

Three-beds Deluxe: 660RMB ($97)
(two-bedrooms)

Diamon Court Registration Form




View Google Map of Hotels and other related information.

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Conference Info
by Jeff Utecht - Friday, 27 August 2010, 01:59 PM
 
Learning2 In a world where content is continually changing, and you can learn almost anything for free, what's the point of going to a conference?

This is the question we started with in designing your Learning 2.010 Conference experience. The content is free and easy. If you want to learn how to use Facebook in your classroom, a simple search on Google will bring you back many hits on how teachers are finding ways of using it in the classroom.

But what if you wanted to actually talk with those teachers? What if you wanted to pick their brains, sit and have coffee with them and bounce ideas around? That is not so easy.

Sure we have Skype, Remote Desktop Applications, and even iChat, but there is still something about sitting down with a fellow educator and having a conversation around topics that you are both interested in.

That is what we hope Learning 2.010 is for you. A conference not built on content, but on having conversations! Learning 2.010 has two parts to it. Cohorts of learners and Unconference conversations.

Cohorts of Learners:

Download Learning 2.010 BrochureOur idea is this: Let's bring together educators from around the world to have conversations around a given topic. Let's give them time to sit together to brainstorm, hypothesize, and then create some sort of artifact that we can all learn from. Let's help build Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) by having educators spend time together face to face discussing big educational ideas and then go away with new friendships and networks they can continue to grow and use after the conference. Lastly, we leave to many conference with nothing to take with us. We get back on our planes or trains and we walk away with no hard artifacts to remember our thinking, or ideas. What if we challenged each cohort to have conversations and than leave artifacts of those conversations behind for all of us to use?

This is our hope for the cohort sessions. That each participant will be able to find and join a cohort that interests them and have deep meaningful conversations with 19 other educators who feel the same. Will it work? We hope, but your participation will be the ultimate assessment.

Unconference Sessions:

Unconference400 educators from around the world will join us in Shanghai. How do we know what they want to talk about, want to learn about, what to spend time exploring? We can't!

So the second part of our conference allows you the participant to create the topics that you want to learn about. Starting Thursday night, you'll be able to throw ideas and topics out for other participants to vote on, and you vote on theirs. Those ideas, sessions, conversations with the most votes will be assigned a room where the conversations can take place.

This is our third time using the unconference session format at the Learning 2 Conference and each year we receive feedback saying that it's the best part of the conference!

We hope you'll join us this September as we once again bring the Learning 2.010 conference to Shanghai!

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Registration is CLOSED.

We are filled to the brim in all cohorts. We have some requests that are currently being considered. We can accept no more requests. Information to registrants will be sent shortly.

Thank you for your patience during this process and especially to those that responded so quickly to payment reminders. We're looking forward now to your imminent arrival.

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The Registrar (learning2cn@gmail.com)
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