2005 AVLN Conference: Call for Participation

2005 Online AVLN Conference: Call for Participation

Questions? Contact Us

Janine Lim, Conference Chair janine@janinelim.com

David Jeffrey, Chat Coordinator
david@focusfactor.org

Marilyn Eggers, Presenter and Strand Coordinator
meggers@lasierra.edu

In the spirit of this year's conference theme, Global Collaboration for Quality Christian Education, we are hoping to have broad participation and involvement from Adventist educators worldwide. Please participate! You can present, facilitate a working group, or help staff the helpdesk or facilitate live chats or assist with other technical needs for the conference.

Fill out the contact information on the form below, and then the part of the form that applies to how you want to participate (presentation, working group, and/or volunteer) by April 15, 2005.

Call for Participation Flyer

List of Conference Strands
Definition: Each strand is in one forum with one or more asynchronous discussion topic spaces with discussion ongoing throughout conference.

• Collaboration 101: A Systems Approach to Adventist Education
• Show ‘n’ Tell: Adventist Distance Education Worldwide
• Research on Online Learning
• Adventist LEAP: College Courses for Advanced High School Students
• Integrating Faith and Learning Online
• Online Course Development
• Desire2Learn Training
• Cross School Collaboration

Contact Information
*Full Name:
*Title/Position:
*Place of Employment / Institution:
*Contact Information:	Home Phone: School Phone:
*Email Address(es) :
Call for Presentations	Presentations will take the form of papers, websites written up as a workshop or presentation, or stand-alone PowerPoints. These presentations will also be discussed asynchronously during the four days of the conference.
Presentation Details:	Presentation Title: Presentation Description: (75 words or less) Strand (Which of the strands listed above best fits your presentation?) Format of Web presentation (Will you present with a stand-alone website, a paper in Word/PDF or a stand-alone PowerPoint or other?) *(or scroll down to participate in other ways)*
Call for Working Groups	The asynchronous discussion strands will each have two facilitators from two different institutions to promote and model collaboration. The facilitators will encourage discussion of big questions for that strand as well as facilitate discuss of the presentations within that strand.
Working Group Details :	Working Group Title: Working Group Description: Leaders from at least two institutions (If you don’t have someone to lead with you, still submit your proposal & we’ll help find a co-leader) *(or scroll down to participate in other ways)*
Call for Volunteers	To make this online conference a success, we need live chat facilitators with chat experience. We also need volunteers to staff a 24/7 help desk for timezones around the world.
Volunteer Details:	Brief description of interest/experience with online learning/communication: Area of exertise: i.e. technical (streaming help etc.); chat facilitation, helpdesk, asynchronous discussion facilitator, etc. *(or scroll down to participate in other ways)*
Additional comments or questions:

Thank you!