The conference is up and running around the clock through Friday AM in most US time zones. We hope you'll have time to drop by to catch a live online presentation or view a recording of sessions that have already taken place. Steve an
I work for a French Foundation (Maud Fontenoy Foundation). Her founder is very famous in France because she crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans rowing, without any assistance. She also completed a circumnavigation alone against wind
As an educator, I am wondering what tools/artifacts you have found useful to capture the diversity of cultures from around the world. I am thinking that it would be great if we could share photos, videos, and other rich cultural artifacts in an open
With the technology advancing and students becoming adept at such a fast pace how do you as administrators help staff who are moving with the students, stay supported when policy and procedure mechanisms aren't made for moving learning tools forward
Another exciting addition to the Global Education Conference!!!
Keynote speaker and documentarian Carol Black is also making her film entitled Schooling the World available to conference attendees during the week of November 14 - 18. Carol will be di
Let's share ideas for making the most of next week's conference in this discussion! For those of you who attended last year, what are some strategies you used when participating in the conference? Are there any tools that helped you manage your confe
Surrealistic Me is a collaborative project from the Student Creative for students from around the world. It is deliberately open to interpretation and variation to accommodate various curricula. Lessons, links, and inspiration are available on the we
I'm just curious if there are any of my colleagues in northern Canada who will be attending this conference. This is my first ever online conference and I'm not entirely sure we have the internet connection to support my participation but I'll give i
Our art teacher would like to set up with a teacher in another country a digital project where students would create handmade journals. In these journals they would create a page about themselves (a self portrait) and other following pages could be
Visit Second Life (http://secondlife.com). Register. Log in. Teleport to anywhere in Second Life. Take a picture of you with someone from a different country and I will personally send you 100 Linden dollars. Here is a video to help you learn how to
The2011 Global Education Conference is pleased to announce a very special virtual opportunity for conference attendees. During the conference (November 14-18) Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel of Siskel/Jacobs Productions have generously allowed us to view
Hello fellow educators! I teach first and second grade at an international school in Taiwan and I am looking for a classroom to do a digital story exchange with. My students have worked with the H.S. 10th grade students over the past several weeks
Nice to meet you! I received an email about this conference, on the last day of the deadline, and thought, "jeez, where have I been?" I am definitely interested in global education. I help English learners practice speaking English in the virtual wor
Proposals are no longer being accepted! Please consider submitting a proposal next year. We will be working through submissions this week, and revisions to proposals that require further development will be accepted through November 5th.
I am writing to invite your Grade 5, 6 or year 7 students to an online discussion of an issue covered recently in Behind the News. The discussion will be around the question “Should people be banned from keeping dangerous dogs?”. The story on B
Hey Global Education Collaborative Members - Just a final reminder that you have about 7 hours left to submit proposals for the 2011 Global Education Conference. Global collaboration and connections are key to successful proposals.