Joe Shosh is co-chair with Lonnie Rowell of the inaugural conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA). Joe has sent round the note below asking for 30-45 second video greetings from around the world. This is a great opportunity to connect and for us to see each other on video - I do hope that you will accept Joe's invitation. The url for ARNA is:
https://sites.google.com/site/arnaconnect/
On 2 Apr 2013, at 23:40, Shosh, Joseph M wrote:
Subject: FW: ARNA CONFERENCE: May 1-2 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco
Hi Jack,
I hope this email finds you well. I look forward to seeing you in San Francisco at both AERA and ARNA next month and eagerly anticipate the workshop you'll be leading at ARNA. In advance of ARNA's conference, I would like to invite you and any of our colleagues on Action Research.net to share a 30 - 45 second video greeting offering well wishes from around the world. While ARNA may be geographically based in the Americas, it is indeed global in its embrace, and I hope we'll hear from colleagues around the world.
Bud Hall from the University of Victoria in British Columbia shares his support for the 2013 inaugural conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas on behalf of Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Chair in CBR and SR in Higher Education and the members of the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER). Bud's well wishes are available at http://youtu.be/Bb5OPfhXmJ0.
Yesterday afternoon, students in my "Teacher as Researcher" class at Moravian College in Pennsylvania offered our best wishes to the inaugural ARNA Conference by quoting from John Amos Comenius, father of Modern Education, in front of a statue of Comenius on campus that was a gift of Charles University in Prague. Czech President Vaclav Havel rededicated the statue on his visit to Bethlehem in 1991 and it serves as an important reminder of our College's commitment to universal education. Our clip may be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbqCr1-z028.
Clips created by our colleagues around the world may be placed directly on Youtube or submitted to ARNA's drop box at https://www.dropbox.com/home/ARNA%20Greetings%20Videos until April 12.
We look forward to sharing clips throughout the ARNA conference, and thanks to the efforts of ARNA Coordinating Group member Cathy Bruce of Trent University, we'll have a videographer on site throughout the conference to interview interested participants about their action research efforts and their aspirations for ARNA's future.
I eagerly await your video message and those of our friends and colleagues in the Americas and around the world. See you soon in sunny California!
Joe
Joseph M. Shosh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education
Chair, Department of Education
Director, Master of Education Program
Treasurer, Organizing Committee,
Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA)
Moravian College
1200 Main Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018
Ph.: 610-861-1482
Fax: 610-861-1696
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Web site: www.moravian.edu
Love Jack.
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