You can make great savings if you book before 30 June. Super Early Bird is just $595. This includes all conference sessions and activities, welcome reception and conference dinner.

You know we’ll have: 

• great speakers
• lots of practical ideas
• networking opportunities galore
• the latest technologies being exhibited

If you haven’t been before, get a feel for this conference by checking out some of the great activities from TLV11.

Register now to save $200.

If you’re teaching with vision or are a visionary teacher, here’s a chance for you to share your great teaching and learning activities and inspire other educators. Submit your proposal by 30 June 2012 by using the online form on the Call for Presentations page.

The theme for 2012 is Link and Learn. We have a number of interesting streams this year:

• Mix it up: Tell us how you’re mixing and matching various technologies and learning activities.
• Learning spaces: If you’ve thrown out the desks, let us know what your learning spaces look like and how students use them.
• Edgy escapades: For those who are really on the cutting edge – excite and inspire us!
• Virtual excursions: If you’re a museum, art gallery or any type of organisation providing education programs via video conference, share your experiences with others who are both new and experienced.
• Let’s get technical: For technicians and any interested educators to share how they manage what makes it all work.

For more information on times, discount presenter registration and to submit a proposal, go to the Call for Presentations page.

The committee is meeting today to plan another fabulous conference. We’ll update the website in the coming weeks. As always we’ll have Super Early Bird (saving of $200) and Early Bird (saving of $100) – so stay tuned…..

If you have any speaker or activity suggestions that you didn’t give us in the survey then please add them to the comments section here.

See you in November.

You can watch the slideshow and control the speed, watch the video if you want music, or just read the quotes which are listed at the end of this post.

Slideshow:

List of quotes:

Education is the slowest learner in the world.

Technology works that draws us together.

Twitter is not a new behaviour it is like a postcard, technology just extends its reach.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

Learning is knowing something differently.

Don’t you think that 11 yrs in we should know how to do 21st century learning? Or at least been brave enough to embark on it!

If you cant make real buildings, make virtual. Even better, let kids make them.

Do it first, make trouble, inspire change!

Kids won’t stop learning, they will just go somewhere else…let’s let kids learn!

Kids in UK schools carry “sacrificial phones” = old ones from their parents – when they get caught they hand in that! Brilliant!!

Life doesn’t start after school….it happens in school too!

Sounds like we should focus on developing learning environments instead of developing content.

If we’re preparing students for life, they should be practising life.

Why do we think students are at University to become academics?

Instead of banning our students from using wikipedia as a research source could we set them an assignment to create and edit articles?

We learn best when it matters to us.

Standardized tests are immoral.

Give them the skills, expect them to do it, and they will.

These are links that people following the backchannel have shared either as mentioned by presenters or from their own resources that relate to the topic. You can see the archive of tweets at the conference twub.

Thanks to Darren Howell for kindly sharing his archived list of #tlv11 tweets.

• Wednesday 2 November – set up & Welcome Reception
• Thursday 3 November
• Friday 4 November
• All photos tagged tlv11

A few of my personal favourites….

Getting reception required some tricky solutions:

Did everyone collect on that QR Code offer?:

A typical Couros brother photo:

Thanks to everyone who helped to organise, the speakers, the sponsors & exhibitors, the delegates and all of the tweeps who joined us from around the world. The presentations, twitter archive and other resources will appear on this website during the week – so pop back regularly.

If you’d like to be updated on TLV12, please sign up via the ‘Get Updates‘ button.

Alec and George will be discussing social networking services and the fact that they often get the bad rap of ‘time-wasters’ or tools that kids use inappropriately. Yet in reality, there are many social networks built upon passion, kindness, transparency, sharing, and collaboration.

This thoughtful and personal keynote presentation will lead participants through an exploration of these powerful human networks; the implications for practice, information & media literacy, and the shifting role of our schools.

Picture (CC) Gavin Llewellyn. www.onetoomanymornings.co.uk

So, what will we be getting up to? Here are a few things:

• QR Code Challenge. QR Codes are going to be BIG at TLV11. To give you a fun experience and some ideas about how QR Codes could be used for teaching and learning, we’ve put together a QR Challenge. Read more.
• Workshops. There are three workshops on Thursday afternoon:
• Location Based Mobile Adventure – In this very interactive workshop you will learn how to direct and deliver a contemporary and innovative learning experience using a web-based mobile storytelling platform and a mobile app for 3G-enabled mobile devices. Read more.
• TeachMeet Professional Learning – Come and join a TeachMeet and learn how to organise your own TeachMeet. Read more.
• Web Tools and App Swap – There are thousands of Web tools and apps for mobile devices that can be used for teaching and learning. This workshop will be a show and tell. Come along and share your favourite tools and explain how you use them. Read more.
• Program. The final program is now available – we’ve had a couple of speaker changes due to personal reasons. You’ll hear four fabulous Keynote Speakers and a range of Featured and Case Study speakers.

We look forward to sharing ideas with you and having a great conference.