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Elluminate Speaking Stipend Submission Guidelines and Selection Rules

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For the US$500 stipend level

Elluminate Speaking Stipend: Elluminate is Featured and Used

This $500 stipend will be offered to presenters who are accepted to present at an eligible conference and both features Elluminate in the session and use Elluminate as a delivery vehicle within the session.

Details:

Please see the summary flowchart for an overview.
You are accepted to speak at and actually deliver the session at an eligible conference on a subject that involves the use Elluminate in a powerful way to further the needs of K-20 students or professionals anywhere in the world.
You use Elluminate as a vehicle to deliver the session by either (a) Presenting remotely or (b) Bringing in remote guest presenters.
If we accept you for this stipend, you must be accepted to speak by that 3rd party conference, make all your own arrangements (travel and otherwise), and actually speak. We will pay a stipend of $500 to those selected for this Elluminate program upon successful delivery of your talk at the 3rd party conference.
You must use Elluminate during the session to bridge your local audience with remote participants
You must be willing to record the presentation and, at Elluminate's discretion, allow links to it on Elluminate's web pages
You can use your own institutions own Elluminate system or use a session set up by Elluminate
A maximum of 15 stipends at this level will be granted by Elluminate per year

For the US$250 stipend level

Elluminate Speaking Stipend: Elluminate Used

This $250 stipend will be offered to presenters who are accepted to present at an eligible conference and merely use Elluminate in the session as a delivery vehicle within the session.

Details:

Please see the summary flowchart for an overview.
You are accepted to speak at and actually deliver the session at an eligible conference on any K-20 educational subject.
You use Elluminate as a vehicle to deliver the session by either (a) Presenting remotely or (b) Bringing in remote guest presenters.
If we accept you for this stipend, you must be accepted to speak by that 3rd party conference, make all your own arrangements (travel and otherwise), and actually speak. We will pay a stipend of $250 to those selected for this Elluminate program upon successful delivery of your talk at the 3rd party conference.
You must use Elluminate during the session to bridge your local audience with remote participants
You must be willing to record the presentation and, at Elluminate's discretion, allow links to it on Elluminate's web pages
You can use your own institutions own Elluminate system or use a session set up by Elluminate
A maximum of 30 stipends at this level will be granted by Elluminate per year

Other Eligibility Criteria for both levels of stipend

MERE APPLICATION TO THE ELLUMINATE SPEAKING STIPEND PROGRAM DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU WILL GET A STIPEND EVEN IF YOUR TALK IS ELIGIBLE. YOU MUST BE ACCEPTED AND APPROVED BY ELLUMINATE AFTER THE 3rd PARTY CONFERENCE ACCEPTS YOU AS WELL AS SUCCESSFULLY DELIVER THE SESSION IN ORDER TO GET AN ELLUMINATE STIPEND. PLEASE SEE THE FLOWCHART BELOW FOR A SUMMARY AND THE TEXT BELOW FOR DETAILS.
Your application submission implies that your institution allows stipends from a for-profit vendor and you accept all responsibility that, if selected by Elluminate, this stipend falls within your institutions ethical guidelines.
You application submission implies that you assume all responsibility for communicating to the conference you have applied to or may be accepted for a grant from Elluminate to speak at that conference. Elluminate does not and can't guarantee that an application for or delivery of an Elluminate grant stipend for a 3rd party conference session will or won't influence your eligibility for that conference and Elluminate takes no responsibility for making such a communication for you to the 3rd party conference.
For-profit organizations are eligible, but will be less likely to receive grants than non-profits and government funded educational institutions
Elluminate Centers of Excellence institutions are eligible
If there are multiple presenters, only one stipend is issued and will be issued in the name of the main presenter. Splitting the proceeds is completely left up to that presenting team
If multiple teams make proposals from the same or related institution, each proposal is looked at independently. Multiple teams from the same institution are eligible for stipends
Actual issuance of stipend checks will be authorized after the presenters who are accepted to the Elluminate stipend program provides evidence of the successful delivery of the session, including one or more of the following to be requested at Elluminate's discretion:
- Copies of session evaluation forms
- E-mail from the conference coordinator that the session was delivered as described in the conference brochure
- An Elluminate recording of the session as delivered on the day of the conference
- A CD-ROM with an audio or video recording of the session as delivered on the day of the conference
- A few e-mails from conference attendees who attended your presentation

Eligible Conferences

The following list are conferences that, if you are accepted to speak at, are eligible for Elluminate Speaking Stipends. We encourage the inclusion of other conferences in your application. However, they must be related to K-20 topics in education and/or educational technology.

ICE (Indiana Computer Educators) Annual Conference
FETC
EduComm
SALT
Workshop on the Transformation of the College Library sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges
TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association) Annual Convention & Exposition
eTech Ohio
IOC 2007 - Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning
North Texas Regional Community College Technology Forum
Lilly South Conference on College and University Teaching: Blueprints for Student Learning, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro. http://www.uncg.edu/tlc/lillysouth/
eLearning 2007 sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council, Albuquerque, New Mexico. http://www.itcnetwork.org/elearning2007.htm
Synergize and Energize: Exploring the Dynamics of Teaching and Learning, sponsored by McGraw-Hill Ryerson and hosted by Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta. http://wwwacad.mtroyal.ab.ca/adc/mhr/
SCTEA Annual Conference
NASSP (National Association of Secondary School Principals) Convention
AASA (American Association of School Administrators) National Conference on Education
Workshop on the Transformation of the College Library sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Portland, Oregon. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/workshop/library/2007/index.asp
Innovations 2007 sponsored by the League for Innovations at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana. http://www.league.org/i2007/index.htm
Northwest Council for Computer Education Technology in Computer Education: Agents of Change, Spokane, Washington. http://www.ncce.org/ncce2007/index.htm
Kentucky Teaching & Learning Conference
Alliance for Distance Education in California
International Technology Education Association (ITEA) Conference: Technological Literacy - A Global Challenge, 69th annual, San Antonio, Texas. http://www.iteaconnect.org/index.html
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Conference and Exhibit Show: Valuing the Whole Child - Embracing a Global Vision, 62nd annual, Anaheim, California. http://www.ascd.org/
NERCOMP 2007
2007 UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference
TechEd International Conference and Exposition: Inspiring the Vision, 12th annual, sponsored by the Community College Foundation, Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California. http://www.techedevents.org/2007/
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, San Antonio, Texas. http://www.aace.org/conf/
12th Annual Technology in Education International Conference
CATS
Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA)
CITE
CoSN K-12 School Networking
Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference: Teaching Today's Students, Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/
eLearning Guild 2007
Distance Education and Training Council's Conference, 81st annual, Omni Tucson National Golf Resort and Spa, Tucson, Arizona. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html
16th Annual Delaware Instructional Technology Conference
Tennessee Higher Education IT Symposium
MICCA
International Conference on Systems 2nd annual and the Second International Workshop on Mobile Communications and Learning, sponsored by the International Academy, Research, and Industry Association, Martinique, French Caribbean. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICONS07.html
Technology & Learning's Spring TECH FORUM
Learning in the 21st Century
Digital Connections Conference
Leading Learning Conference, 3rd annual, hosted by Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Trillium-Lakelands District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the York Regional School Board, and York University at the Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville, Ontario. www.leadinglearning.org
Leading Learning 2007 - Making Connection
Online Educa Madrid 2007
International World Wide Web Conference, 16th annual, hosted by the University of Calgary at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta. http://www2007.org/
Canadian Association for Distance Education and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada Conference: Connecting in the Global Village, hosted by Red River College and the University of Manitoba at the Delta Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba. http://www.cade-aced.ca/conferences/2007/
COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS SUMMIT "TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE THROUGH IT"
Teaching Professor Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. http://www.teachingprofessor.com/
Distance Learning Alliance Conference
Portals, Collaboration, and Content Management Conference/West Las Vegas
Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) Conference. Montreal, Quebec. http://conference.accc.ca/
Building the Scientific Mind, Second Advanced Colloquium: Learning in the Perspective of Complex and Long-Term Change, organized by the Learning Development Institute in collaboration with the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Vancouver, Canada. http://www.learndev.org/
Wireless Education and Technology Center (WeTEC) Wireless Community and Mobile User Conference
Canadian Association for University Continuing Education Conference hosted by the University of Alberta at the Westin Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta. http://www.cauce2007.ca/
Tech Ed Orlando
ASTD 2007
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development
International Conference on Open and Online Learning (ICOOL2007) hosted by the Universiti Sains Malaysia and the University of Mauritius, Penang, Malaysia. http://icool.uom.ac.mu/2007/user/index.php
CCA Annual Convention & Exposition
STLHE Conference 2007 - Evolving Scholarship
Mass Colleges Online
Collaborative Technologies Conference
EduComm
European Conference on e-Government, 7th annual, The Hague, The Netherlands. http://www.academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2007/eceg07-home.htm
Distance Learning Administration Conference
NECC
AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) ED-MEDIA
Ed-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Vancouver, British Columbia. http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/default.htm
International Conference on Learning, 14th, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://l07.cgpublisher.com/welcome.html
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Sydney, Australia. http://www.issotl.org/conferences.html#2007
BB World'07
AFT (American Federation of Teachers ) QuEST Conference
International Conference on e-Learning, 2nd annual, New York, New York. http://www.academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2007/icel07-home.htm
ACUTA (Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education) Annual Conference
Campus Technology 2007
Distance Learning 2007: 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning: What Do We Know About Using New Technologies for Learning and Teaching? A Ten Year Perspective presented by The International Research Foundation for Open and Distance Learning, The Open University, and The Commonwealth of Learning. The conference will be held a New Hall, Cambridge, UK. http://www2.open.ac.uk/r06/conference/
NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Annual Conference
NSBA (National School Boards Association) T+L2: Leading Learning to a Higher Level
CeLEA - 6TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON E-LEARNING
NSBA T+L
National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Annual Conference
The Consortium of College and University Media Centers at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center. http://www.ccumc.org/conf/conf.html
Educause
Technology & Learning's Fall TECH FORUM
State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) National Leadership Institute
Technology & Learning's Winter TECH FORUM
Georgia Digital Government Summit!
Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Chief Academic Officers (CAO) Institute
National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Annual Meeting
NACOL VSS 2007
NAEYC (National Association for The Education of Young Children) NAEYC's Annual Conference and Expo
Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO): Citizenship in the Digital Age, 27th annual, Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre, Mississauga, Ontario. http://www.ecoo.org/preconference/index.html
PA/DE/NJ Distance Learning Association
League of Innovation - CIT 2007
Canadian Society for Training and Development
DLA 2008
National Science Teachers Association http://www.nsta.org/conferences