As some/most of you may know Red Hand Day, February 12, is a day on which people around the world are encouraged to voice their concerns regarding child soldiering to the UN. I am going to have my students putting together PSA campaigns, after readin
Read more…Experience the leading Virtual Classroom solution in this online demonstration by Mark Cruthers. Mark Cruthers is a high school AP US History and Economics teacher at Rancho Cucamonga, H.S. in southern California. He is also a WiZiQ consulting teach
Read more…Hello. I have been teaching sciences at Solebury School, an independent 7-12 school of 220 students in eastern Pennsylvania, for 20 years. I have also taught AP Human Geography, one of my favorite classes. Recently I have been put in charge of develo
Read more…I’m wondering from my tech and teacher friends out there. What path did you take to become tech coach, staff developer, and/or pd teacher, etc. I’m interested to know what types of coursework, experiences and the like may have been helpful to you.
Read more…The Media Education Centre (MEC) for children and youth is founded 1993 as no-political, no-profit NGO, gathering civilest willing to work for aims of scientific and professional researches about influence and use of media in non-formal education of
Read more…Hello - I am a high school history teacher in a private school in Philadelphia, PA, USA. I am looking to learn anything I can about flat classroom projects. I hope to coordinate with an overseas school on a project related to the cold war and/or dec
Read more…Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales asks us to imagine a world in which every person on the planet has access to the total sum of human knowledge. What a bold statement. What is "the total sum of human knowledge?"
Read more…Hi. My name is Tom McHale and I teach journalism and 10th grade Humanities in a large high school in Flemington, NJ. I'm looking for classes that would like to collaborate with my Journalism 1 class especially. This could involve other journalism or
Read more…Hi folks! Each year, I've run a project inviting students in different parts of the world to introduce their communities using digital video. I've posted the details for this year's project at the following address: http://nextvista.org/projects/Pro
Read more…My goal for this upcoming school year is to have at least one meaningful collaborative project with another school. I teach math, science, religion and heatlh. If there is any interest please contact me. Thank YOU!
Read more…I have developed a tree project and am hoping to find teachers willing to share trees common to your area. We would share trees, bark, leaves at 3 points during the year. My class is from CA and will be sharing the giant sequoia and pacific oak. That
Read more…This is a work project with which I am involved. I hope you all will consider joining! Our web site is http://researcherswithoutborders.org and our online community can be found at http://researcherswithoutborders.ning.com/. I encourage all educato
Read more…Education is the key to participation in the global economy of the 21st century, and it should help to build societies that are fair and just for all their citizens, that respect universal values of democracy and human rights, whose development will
Read more…"The one-time, multibillion-dollar congressional stimulus offers public schools an extraordinary opportunity, not just to plug gaping state and local budget holes, but to improve education in ways that have eluded the USA for decades," Education Secr
Read more…from Peace Corps GlobalEd News Posted by request: Global Education Guidelines: a Handbook for Educators to Understand and Implement Global Education, a project of North-South Centre, is now available on-line. http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GE
Read more…I am brand new to the group and joined because I am working with a school district in south Florida that is interested in connecting with classrooms on a global scale for learning projects. The district is one of the largest in the nation and we are
Read more…In the last decade we have seen the greatest development in technology, especially in the area of Info technology. Nowadays, we can use the internet to do almost anything we want. Education on the other hand, has always been an important part of all
Read more…If you could connect your class to students in any country, which one would you choose? Annotate the map- http://tinyurl.com/c6y2yr
Read more…Thomas Friedman has been confirmed live on ETT 9:15 EST Saturday January 24th speaking to the Flatclassroom Conference. http://snurl.com/aij0k
Read more…I'd like to know if people use synchronous (real-time) web conferencing to collaborate on global education initiatives? What have been the successes and pitfalls of using virtual classroom software? Our schools use Elluminate Live! for instruction a
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