My thesis research project is in full swing and my students have been working hard. They are connecting/collaborating with a class in Bucaramanga, Colombia;South America. We have been podcasting, using wiki's, and just started a blog (at the suggesti
Read more…We are looking for other 5th grades that want to participate "virtually" in our school's 2nd Annual Cyber Fair, scheduled for 5/28/2008, 8:00-10:30 PST. We are especially interested in schools that can video conference using iChat and that are locat
Read more…Hi All I've been writing an 3 monthly enewsletter called Global Messenger for the past year. It includes links to lots of free resources on a wide variety of websites on global issues and etwinning. I've put a copy of the latest edition on My Page. Y
Read more…Lucy may have already posted about this, but just in case she hasn't...teachers can get a free upgrade to "PLUS" (which means advertisement-free) if they use the following link to create their wikispace: http://www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teachers100K The
Read more…I may have mentioned this resource before. I was recently reminded of it and the new resources they have by the following announcement. They have added many new activities including some for whiteboards. Enjoy! I spent a good part of a day going thro
Read more…I'm meeting with a group of middle school world language teachers on Monday to discuss technology integration ideas. Languages taught in this school district include: Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, German, Italian, French and Spanish. This school dis
Read more…Excuse the multiple crossposting, but I thought U.S teachers might be interested in the Doodle for Google contest, geared for students in grades K - 12. Students are invited to draw their own embellished Google logo, aka a Google doodle, using the th
Read more…Hi All - I lifted another idea from Classroom 2.0 ning... a Meebo chat widget ! I installed it in the bottom of the main page. Meebo is very interesting... you can make chat rooms and show of videos in them as well as aggregate a number of chat acco
Read more…http://www.globallives.org/ I found this via the feed of anything tagged global education in del.icio.us. This project sounds intriguing, and I love the design of the web site.
Read more…The widget below has hundreds of free tools and resources for educators and students. You have to check back each week as the widget is updated over the weekends. Please let me know if you have something to share on the list and I will add it. Yes, y
Read more…My Wonderful World, a National Geographic campaign to improving geography education, is sponsoring an initiative along with Donors Choose called .e If you are looking for funding for a particular project, Donors Choose may be able to match a donor to
Read more…Hi All, I am coordinator of Open Weekends at Knowplace (http://knowplace.ca). This weekend, awesome Canadian teacher Quentin D'Souza will host a weekend of learning how to use Google Earth in the classroom. Quentin has presented several times, and al
Read more…I am writing to see if anyone out there has experience with open educational resources (open source or copyleft licensed content, open source textbooks, etc.) There seems to be a lot going on in this area in higher ed, but not much in K-12. Some of
Read more…I have started a Ning and also published an exhibit on the Apple Learning Interchange that focuses on global collaboration and the interdisciplinary study of water (rivers, ponds, streams, lakes, oceans, etc.). I hope you will be able to use the idea
Read more…The National Association of Independent Schools is sponsoring a project called the Challenge 20/20 project. Check it out here: http://www.nais.org/resources/index.cfm?ItemNumber=147262 In a nutshell, they use Jean Francois Rischard's book High Noon:
Read more…I've been exploring Google's customized search tool called Google Coop. I recently posted about it in the ITM blog. I even made one for Global Education resources. Anyone can join this search engine and contribute sites... you should see a link on th
Read more…The Global Challenge web site has over 400 linked resources on the science, technology, engineering and mathematical sciences (STEM content) of climate change, the future of energy, the world "flatteners," and international business formation by high
Read more…Kristin Hokanson invited me to a chat in Flashmeeting tonight. It is one WAY cool application. You all must check it out. I'd love to do a Global Education Collaborative flashmeeting sometime.
Read more…I’m interested to learn more about Evolutionary Psychology study which represents modern scientific research delivering a solid conclusion regarding human behavior, explaining how a specific behavior is genetically determined, and what that mutation
Read more…I'm not sure if Vanity Fair is readily available outside the U.S, but check out some this month's offerings on Africa http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/africa">here. There's a helpful interactive map of Africa, and a smattering of articles are avail
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