Lead the development and organization of an educational summit that brought leading educational policy-makers, researchers, and practitioners from across the country to Virginia Commonwealth University to discuss the future of technology integration in the field of Adult Basic Education. Offered a parallel virtual summit using video streaming, Twitter, and an online discussion forum. Archives of the discussions and information about the summit can be found at http://newdigitalworld.ning.com.

• identified and contacted most of the summit participants
• assisted with establishing agenda and summit questions
• coordinated the video streaming, recording, and other campus technology services
• created and customized the summit Ning site
• participated in all summit activites
• lead consensus afterwork

This is the white paper I summited addressing the overarching summit question How might technological innovations change adult literacy education by the year 2020?

• Sebastian, Richard (2009). The Mass Amateurization of Adult Literacy Instruction:
  Exploring Crowdsourcing in Adult Basic Education. (pdf)

The summit keynotes and plenary sessions were streamed from the summit site allowing a great deal of virtual participation. The speeches were digitized and made available on the home page of the summit site.