This week, I talk about the K12 Online Conference, primarily giving some of my thoughts on the pre-conference keynote. Keynote speaker David Warlick talks about how Web 2.0-type technology is changing how we should approach our students, and I reflect on how this applies to language teaching. I also make some comments about the state of education in China in light of the points mentioned in the keynote speech.

Over the following two weeks (October 15-26) forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog for participants to download and view. There will also be some live events, beginning with a “Fireside Chat” in 14 hours. The full schedule is available here.

You can also subscribe to video podcasts and audio podcasts. That is, unless you’re living in China (like me) where FeedBurner is blocked.

Personally, classroom technology isn’t my main interest, but I love the idea of a free online conference, and there are a couple of sessions that I plan to check out. Here’s hoping that more professional organizations take advantage of new technology to make their conference materials available to those of us who can’t make it to the conference in person.

via EFL Classroom 2.0