Monday, October 25, 2010 (2)

Oct 25, 2010
October 9, 2010
Saturday
  • Food and Culture - a Global, Collaborative Classrooms Project

  • Oct 9, 2010 to Dec 31, 2013
  • Location: Online and in your classrooms
  • Description: Let your students learn with the world, not just about the world!The purpose of this project is the development of a global, collaborative classrooms project which will provide a context for students to:* Develop knowledge, skills and habits conducive to excellent health* Practice habits of responsible citizenship - locally to globally* Develop Global Competencies by studying "with" the world instead of "about" the world* Develop critical 21st Century Skills* Become engaged in a rigorous, relevant and real-world project* Engage the knowledge within the disciplines through research, problem solving and application* Learn - as opposed to memorizing then forgetting discrete factsThe initial sources of inspiration for this project were the book, Hungry Planet - What the World Eats, which is both a beautiful and profound essay on the people of our planet and the food they eat; the Edible Schoolyard Project where students grow and cook their own food, as many of the content standards are tau
  • Created by: Anne Shaw
October 25, 2010
Monday
  • Webinar: ePals 101 for Global Collaboration, Communication, and Project-based Learning

  • Oct 25, 2010 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm
  • Location: webinar 8 PM ET (6 PM CT, 4 PM PT)
  • Description: Free webinar gives an overview of how K12 teachers and students can use the free tools of ePals to collaborate with another classroom in a different district, state, or across the globe.* How do you find partner classrooms, using the ePals Global Community of 20+ million users in 200 countries and territories?* Once you have found a match, how can you use the free, safe and secure ePals SchoolMail for communication? This includes language translation into 58 languages and teacher monitoring features not available in gmail or other mass market email systems.* What are the free ePals projects? How can your student work in Digital Storytelling be posted for viewing by a worldwide audience?* How do the Project Forums for teachers and students help enrich the projects? (How can students use them outside of school, safely without teacher supervision?)By the end of this one-hour webinar, you will know how to find a match, how to set up safe email accounts for your K12 students and faculty, an
  • Created by: Dr. Rita Oates