<strong>VOTE NOW</strong> to get Connected Learning featured at SXSWedu 2015!

This post originally appeared at the Connected Learning Alliance.

Voting is easy! Sign up for an account on SXSW’s Panel Picker site — all you need is an email address. The voting is now open, and runs through Friday, September 5.

Community-driven support is vital to earning a place at SXSWedu, so please support the Connected Learning Alliance and Educator Innovator by signing into Panel Picker, clicking the links below, and voting (and/or commenting) for each proposal! Let’s help the world become more familiar with the power and potential of Connected Learning.

Conncted Learning Alliance

• The Best Learning Doesn’t Only Happen in School

Open Badges/Hive Learning Networks

• Badging & the great form versus function debate
• New Open Badges Strategies in Higher Ed + Alt Ed
• Badge The World: Global Lessons in Open Badging
• Creating Citywide Connected Learning Ecosystems
• After the Unbundling, Learner-Driven Pathways Rule
• Releasing Badges in the Wild
• Badges for Digital Literacy: The 4th R
• Hive Network: Edu-Innovation Spread & Scale
• Badge The World: Global Lessons in Open Badging
• New Open Badges Strategies in Higher Ed + Alt Ed
• Badging Across a City: Evidence, Access & Scale

Institute of Play/GlassLab Games

• Exploding the Game for Deeper Learning
• Quest to Learn: 7 Years Later
• Tale of Two Makerspaces: Tinkering in NYC Schools
• From Tools to Transformation: PD for Games and Learning
• DIY Game Design for Teachers
• Teachers only: Some serious gameplay
• Kids Love Games, but Do they Work? 

Friends of Connected Learning Alliance and Educator Innovator

• Whole School Transformation and Connected Learning – Antero Garcia
• STEM and Connected Learning– Melissa Techman
• Making 6 Second Stories to Change the World– KQED
• Beyond “Pink-Washing”: Including Girls in Making– Tara Tiger Brown & Kylie Peppler