Three steps: Visit the conference office, Attend Universidad and then Attend Pedagogia (the next year)

These are notes for anyone who wants to get information to thousands of people in South America.  The simple tip:  Go Retail.  Go face-to-face at a conference.

Select a conference that has "diversity" and "reach."

I wanted to get a book called The Big Picture "out there" in the Spanish-speaking world.  How?  Through a conference that dozens of delegates from dozens of Spanish-speaking countries might want to attend.   Here's the plan that my friend put in place...

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USE POSTERS

I created the posters on BingBanners.com

If your timetable makes it hard to create a flyer/brochure while you are in Havana, at least you have these as an example for what could be handed out.

Flyers could be given to the Exposition's office for distribution either with any mailings or certainly in Feb. when the delegates arrive.   The flyer could be distributed as part of the packet 

UNIVERSIDAD 2016

Feb 2016 to spread the message to University professors (and trainers of teachers, which is your focus) and to invite attendees to take the "ten expectations" questions back to their countries  (and to get email addresses...  and through those contacts, you can reach out to principals and superintendents in high schools in other countries)

PANEL:  Perhaps you can be on an informal panel or arrange for discussion groups outside the conference?   Mario suggests that you will have a rental car (he'll show you how to rent a car in November so you will be independent in Feb 2016).  Perhaps the  PDF of the flyer can be quickly shared among the delegates on the first day because you have collected 200 or more email addresses through the help of the organizers?  The panel can be recorded and posted on Youtube after you return to the USA...  so that anecdotes can be shared and perhaps transcribed for a book of discussions... that book could turn into an ebook that is a companion to the Big Picture and the translated "10 preguntas" (Washor and Mojkowski).   

PREP WORK for 2017:  at a panel during the Feb conference, perhaps you can arrange to give "homework" for people to take back POSTERS ...  then what stories will the 2017 attendees bring to another panel discussion in Pedagogia 2017?

Jan. 2017  Pedagogia ---  to hear back about the testimonials of others...  

Perhaps through the conference organizers you will have addresses of attendees from Pedagogia 2015 and you can send the ebook for BIG PICTURE and the PDF of the 10 Preguntas flyer.   and an invitation to past delegates to distribute the flyer and bring to 2017 conference the anecdotes about how the questions were received at their schools...

Steve McCrea

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