Promotion

=Leading Questions...=

//Since this is an online and ongoing conference do we promote it well after the conference to continue the learning by participants that might partake after the conference is "over"?//
 * How long should promotion last?**


 * Create video tutorials about use of presentations in PD
 * Promote via Twitter - recent interesting blog posts about K12 Online
 * Target Teacher Centers/Staff Development departments
 * Continued emails to mainstream media outlets

//Perhaps we could ask a few people who attended last year's event to record a short (10-30 second) video testimonial about what they got out of it, send all those clips to a central place to be edited (I'm happy to do that) and we can turn it into a promo video piece to put on YouTube (3-5 minutes). This URL could then be circulated throughout the blogosphere, so it can be embedded it into lots of blogs... Of course, this is just reaching those people who read blogs already.... but we could send a link to the video directly to schools perhaps? I have a database of every school in Australia on my computer.// (CB)
 * How do we convey the concept of an ongoing conference?**


 * That learning takes place even after the actual event?**


 * What are common barriers to teacher professional development?**
 * Time
 * Funding
 * Lack of Interest
 * Lack of Focus
 * Lack of Relevancy
 * Conflicting initiatives


 * How will this learning interaction impact student learning?**


 * How can we engage students in K12 Online itself?**

**Online Promotion**
> >> > >> The Council of International Schools (an off-shoot of ECIS designed to be more global) might also be a good place to check ([| http://cois.org/]). > >> > >> I'm not sure if there is a listserve for EARCOS (East Asia Regional Council of Schools), but that might be a good choice as well ([|http://earcos.org/).] > >> There is also AASSA (Association of American Schools in South American Council: [|http://www.aassa.com/)], > NESA (Near East South Asia Council of Schools: [|http://www.nesacenter.org/)], (posted the dates--Carolyn) > there must be one for Africa too, I just don't know it... > (I also decided to try to seek out connections and links in areas of the world where we typically don't see as much participation and try to send some information out to be shared--CF)
 * 1) Individual blogs, wikis, podcasts
 * Email those with blogs and/or podcasts asking that they promote the conference in upcoming episodes/blog posts
 * Add conference info to wikis where appropriate (Need we say that, spamming would be unacceptable?)
 * Promotion via Edublogs. See transcript of chat with James Farmer
 * 1) District websites
 * e-mail webmasters, technology directors about promotion on their sites
 * 1) Staff Development websites
 * 2) Technology Department websites
 * 3) Video promotion (via, YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube)
 * Create a series of PSA type advertisements
 * These would also make it easier for sharing on websites and blogs as well as announcing at a faculty meeting.
 * 1) E-mail
 * Least invasive way possible
 * Key players in organization/district/school professional development
 * OzTeachers Community (Australia) has been contacted. (copy of email here)
 * 1) Ning Networks
 * 2) TeacherLibrarian --posted first promo--CF
 * 3) Classroom 2.0
 * 4) EduBloggerWorld
 * 5) Ning in Education
 * 6) Globaleducation--posted first promo about it--CF
 * 7) Learning 2.0 --Sheryl
 * 8) College Ning--Sheryl
 * 9) Student involvement/Student blogs
 * 10) Professional websites
 * 11) Education Week/Teacher Magazine--online calendar event form (for their website calendar)--Needs to be submitted
 * 12) http://www.edweek.org/apps/calendar/submit_event.html (done--Carolyn)
 * 13) [|Contact list for international schools from U.S. State Department]
 * 14) (need to email the contacts on the list) (done-emailed all contacts--Carolyn)
 * 15) International sites:(per Kim Cofino):
 * 16) Another good source, might be the ECIS IT listserve. All the schools in Europe are a part of the European Council of International Schools ( [|http://ecis.org/)] (emailed--done--Carolyn)
 * 17) and you can post a message to the IT-related listserve here:--- ICT@listserv.ecis.org


 * 1) [|Independent Schools Association of South Africa] (emailed--Carolyn)
 * 2) [|International School of Kenya] (emailed--Carolyn)
 * 3) [|Mombasa Academy] (emailed--C)
 * 4) [|Nigerian School Library Association] (emailed--C)

**Offline Promotion**

 * 1) Local newspapers and news channels
 * 2) National newspapers
 * 3) WSJ --I have contacted a reporter there who I know. done--Carolyn
 * 4) NYTimes send a news tip [[mailto:news-tips@nytimes.com|news-tips@nytimes.com]] done--Carolyn follow up as well
 * 5) London Times newsdesk contact news@timesonline.co.uk (done--Carolyn)
 * 6) Dallas Morning News (done =Carolyn)
 * 7) School Newsletters
 * 8) Meetings (This will be very difficult given time, and volume of meetings)
 * Faculty, department, grade level, etc.
 * 1) Regional Organization publications (PD pubs)
 * 2) Emailed NCTE affiliates in various states-- http://www.ncte.org/groups/affiliates/lists/107922.htm --CF
 * 3) Fliers fit for printing by anyone.
 * Mention at upcoming conferences/workshops/seminars
 * Literature about conference available at registration tables
 * 1) Professional magazines/journals
 * 2) Technology and Learning (done--Carolyn) (they are already running it)
 * 3) [|International Technology Teacher] email to submit kdelapaz@iteaconnect.org (done--Carolyn)
 * 4) [|eSchool News event calendar] (done--Carolyn)
 * 5) [|Education Week calendar] submit an event for calendar (done)
 * 6) [|ASCD Express] Newsletter email __rallen@ascd.org__
 * 7) State level tech Journals
 * 8) TechEdge from TCEA --already contacted, and is going to include something--done-Carolyn
 * 9) Texas Library Journal's TLACast is going to include it as well- done Carolyn
 * 10) Professional content area journals
 * 11) NSTA (Science) e-newsletter //enewsletterfeedback@nsta.org// done-CFE
 * 12) //NCTE(English)// contact NCTE [|//http://www.ncte.org/forms/contactncte///] (done--CF)
 * 13) //NMTE (Math)// submitting stories for publication email Sandy Berger
 * 14) IRA(International Reading) contact publications@reading.org for publication info Done CF
 * 15) ALA (American Library Association)[|AASL hotlinks] (done--CF)
 * 16) National Association for Social Studies http://www.socialstudies.org/publications/tssp/ (missed deadline-)
 * 17) Radio
 * 18) Npr contact info: http://www.npr.org/about/pitch/story.html (needs to be submitted) (done--Carolyn)
 * 19) BBC Digital Planet program email digital.planet@bbc.co.uk done--CF

Possible Statement for emails:
Sample one: I wanted to see if there was enough time to publish information about the K12 online conference event in "blank" Magazine's upcoming October issue. (Introduce yourself)

I'm including a summary of the conference below. The ³K12 Online Conference² is for teachers, administrators, librarians, and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! The 2007 conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week of October 8. The conference takes place entirely online, and includes Keynote speakers David Warlick and Clarence Fisher, and four learning strands. Even after the conference, all presentations will be available online.

For more information, go to http://k12onlineconference.org/.