I'll be facilitating a workshop at the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference in Portland, Oregon on February 21 from 8 AM - 11:30 AM PST. During this session, participants will be exploring a variety of tools as they think about co
I'm watching the news tonight, trying to understand what's going on in Egypt. I thought of our community here, and wondered if and how you are approaching current events there with your students. I did a search of our membership, and shockingly enoug
We are a group of eleven 6th and 7th grade students who are reading Three Cups of Tea (young reader's edition). We are currently reading chapters 6-9 and wondered if anyone classes out there were also reading this book.
I am a Reading Specialist looking for another middle school classrooms to collaborate with. My thought is that my classes could read online articles and then discuss them with students from another school. I haven't worked out all the details of how
Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Online course 25 scholarship opportunities available. The United States Embassy in Ankara, Turkey and iEARN-USA, have partnered to offer this unique online course experience. Our eight-week course is designed to b
eb 3 is Chinese New Year and we will welcome the Year of the Rabbit. I’ve come up with a really simple picture project that will, if successful, create a resource of current images of Chinese New Year from around the world.
I am looking for stories of others who have created listening libraries for their students or for a language learning community. I have created The Turkish Listening Library for the Turkish listening community and want to find ways to expand and impr
I wanted to share with you a project that we just announced here in Maine. The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) in partnership with the United Nations World Food
I'm in the process of preparing for several events and publications and your help is needed. Most notably, I'll be speaking at the TEDxNYED conference (http://tedxnyed.com/2011/) in March o
I'm prepping for a slew of articles and presentations related to global education. Please take a few minutes and share your stories, and I will potentially include them. It would also be a huge help if you could share this survey with inte
This simple collaborative project is based on the children using a photograph to ask as many questions as possible through maths. Every two weeks there will be a new photograph shared . Over the first week the children are encourged to come up with a
I am about to embark on a project with my 6th grade which I have called A Better World. The students are going to compose their own rap songs based on global issue, using GarageBand. These rap songs will then be used in the creation of short "splic
I usually refrain from sending out a deluge of emails to our membership, but I thought that today's announcement by Google was worth sharing. Google is sponsoring an online global science fair in partnership with CERN, LEGO,
Same-Language-Subtitling (SLS) is the simple idea of subtitling the lyrics of musical videos in the same language in which they are sung. Call it 'Broadway Karaoke', or 'MTV Karaoke', or in India --Bollywood for mass reading! A deceptiv
Happy New Year, Global Education Collaborative Members!
Just a reminder....If you weren't able to catch November's online Global Education Conference, all the recordings can be viewed here. Please browse this treasure trove of presentations; there
Middle School Art Teacher (Grades 6, 7, 8; Ages 11-14) is looking for opportunity to exchange art with students of similar age from different culture. Can correspond through email, post office mail, videoconferencing or other web 2.0 technologies -
Marilyn Singer wrote a children's book "On The Same Day In March"
that describes the weather and climate for countries around the world. I
would like to give elementary classrooms an opportunity to compare the
climate and weather in your area with ot
