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Teacher Coaches Wanted for Service Learning-Training Opportunities in Ghana for Summer 2009

We are looking for Educators that may be interested in sharing a skill, conducting a workshop or seminar during the Summer of 2009 in Ghana. Teachers will spend at least two weeks working with Ghanaian Elementary and Middle School Teachers on the fo

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Sony PSP's in Education

Is there anyone using the Sony PSP and its incredible multimedia and online abilities in the classroom? I was recently able to use my Skype account with my PSP and am really excited about the possibilities that exist between two classrooms that are u

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Ideas for additional weekly GEC challenges

Many education bloggers like to post "challenges" for their readers. For example, Steve Dembo recently had readers of his Teach 42 blog participate in activities to improve the quality of their blogging via his 30 Days to being a Better Blogger chall

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Hello from Michigan

My name is Gregg Granger. My wife and I took our three children, two girls and one boy, on a circumnavigation of the world in a sailboat. We returned home after four and a half years abroad last May. We visited 38 countries - our favorites, by the wa

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GEC Weekly Challenge #1

Add yourself to the GEC Map! Visit this link: tinyurl.com/gecmembermap and if you have a Google account ( I think), you can edit this map by adding your own placemark. The directions are posted in the map description. Let me know if you have problems

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Greetings

Greetings to GEC folks. I had stopped by GEC before, but Lucy Gray's invite reminded me to go ahead and join. You can read more about me in my profile, but I just wanted to say hello. One of my favorite parts of my job with TeachersFirst.com is simp

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Hello from Ohio

Hello, my name is Garth Holman. I have been teaching for 14 years all at the middle school level (five year in E.Syr. New York, a few in Newark, Ohio and most currently in Beachwood Ohio). I also have been an adjunct professor at the University of Ak

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call for papers for sietar europe

Hi, this is Maria, I would like to inform you about Sietar, an international organization about intercultural communication. We are now preparing an issue for our magazine regarding globalization in general. Please find attached the call for papers d

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Luis T. Gutierrez

My complete name is Luis Teodoro Gutierrez. I have been married to Lourdes since 1963, and we have two children and four grandchildren. I am a Christian and a Cuban-American (US citizen since 1973), and speak English and Spanish. My Ph.D. from the Ge

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Hodges' model: conceptual integration, personal - group reflective tool

Hi everyone, I live in Lancashire, NW England. I work for the NHS in community mental health as a nurse, but also independent scholar and informatics specialist. I champion Hodges' model a conceptual framework. Although developed in health and social

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American Studies in Kyrgystan

I am returning to Kyrgyzstan in April as a Senior Fulbright Specialist to help rejuvenate an American Studies Symposium in Central Asia I started there five years ago. While there, I will be working with university level instructors with workshops an

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Introducing...

Hello! I am Gail Aadland. A teacher of first graders in Rapid City, SD. My class sponsors a student in the Dominican Republic and that is how we became interested in learning more about Global Education. I am curious in resources, materials that othe

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Connecting classrooms

Hello, My name is Kader Adjout. I am the Head of the History Department at Beaver Country Daay School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Next year, we are planning on connecting our classrooms with other classrooms from all over the wor

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Request for feedback on new SAT prep blog

Hello everyone, Its a pleasure to be here. Some colleagues and I have started a blog on SAT preparation tips and tricks particularly using online tools at: http://www.geniusize.com/gblog/ Please take a look and let us know if we are missing any o

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looking for hvac class's

my name is manny and i am a student who is attending quststar3 hvac program.I am here looking to collaborate with other hvac students. anyone intersted

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Teacher Education Programs

I would like to have feedback on best ways to prepare University students for 21st Century teaching. I would like the discussion to focus on the TEACHING OF READING STRATEGIES to students in grades 1-8. I am a retired classroom teacher who is now an

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What do you think about the world today?

What do you think about the world today?

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Hello, Suffern Middle School seeking videoconferencing partners!

Hi, I'm a library media specialist at Suffern Middle School. Our students and teachers are looking for educational partners.Please contact me if you would like to collaborate in educational projects - limited only by our imaginations! We are having f

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Nuclear Power

My students are learning about the environment and one of the projects we are trying to do is making the community learn more about their environment. We are tryng to recycle. I also want them to be aware of different energies that could be polluting

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Introductions

Hi, My name is Jeff Horwitz, and I teach second grade at MICDS, an independent school in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. My second graders study community all year long. Check out our wiki at http://globetrotters.wikispaces.org.

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