Hello, I have an amazing group of 21 4th grade students. Each student has a laptop and I am interested in giving them a collaboration experience. It can be a short term simple experience or it can be a school year partnership. I have a few ideas and
Read more…Our multiage class (6-8 year olds) is learning, sharing and celebrating the unique aspects of island communities around the world. Through a series of creative online collaboration and communication projects students will learn about each others liv
Read more…Hello, all I am an art teacher in a middle school in South Korea. Now, I’m studying in a master course in the U.S. I’m temporally retiring my job for several years. I started a project that teachers from various countries share their country’s educa
Read more…LinkTV (www.linktv.org) is proud to launch the Global Link of World Educators (GLOWE) project. We’re using LinkTV’s media programs to help develop global cultural and media literacy (www.linktv.org/teachers). But we need your help! Right now we’re l
Read more…We have a unique project opportunity that we'd like to extend to a select group of students interested in filmmaking around international social issues. The Ninth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival will be held in June, 2009 in NYC. We have a ca
Read more…Hi All - I just ran across Kim Cofino's profile on Slideshare and she's got some nifty presentations available on there. Check them out here! Anyone else a Slideshare fan? My username is elemenous if you're looking for contacts.
Read more…Hi Folks, I'm writing in case you don't know about the nationwide climate change solutions teach-in this coming week called "Focus the Nation". It starts with a "2% Solution" webcast at 8PM on Wednesday, the 30th and a teach-in on Thursday, the 31st.
Read more…Hello, I am a teacher of English in a secondary school for girls near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. I have been there for nearly 7 years. I started blogging over 2 years ago now and I love it. I will be going to NECC in 2008 and can't wait to mee
Read more…Thanks to Charlene Chaussis for pointing the main thrust of Edutopia's current issue... global education. I posted a comment there and hopefully some interested parties will join our little group. Check it out here: http://www.edutopia.org/global-ed
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…Check out Teddy Bears Around the World Jose, the Travel Bear writes: "There seem to be different traditions in different countries on how to decorate Christmas trees. I wonder how other Christmas trees around the world look like? Please send us a pi
Read more…Anyone going to this conference in Chicago? Has anyone ever attended this event? Emily Kornblut just told me about it! I'd also be interested in learning more about other related conferences. If you know of others, post them in our forum.
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…I'm giving up on the idea of tagging people to post questions... it's much better when we all just throw questions out there! Anyway, I'm prepping for a panel discussion at NECC and many of you might be aware that the sponsoring group, the Internati
Read more…Here is the replay of our meeting tonight! It went tremendously well, and I'm glad I was able to hook up people from all corners of the world! Thanks to Sharon, Westley, Kyle, Diane, Lisa, Joan, Kim, Karin, Robin, Jeremy and Carolyn who attended at v
Read more…Check out: http://www.ted.com/themes/view/id/45 I've always been a huge fan of TEDTalks, excerpts of talks given at this high-end conference that focuses on innovation in technology, entertainment and design. Today I received a notice that an Afric
Read more…Hello. I am curious to know if any members are from a secondary school in the Middle East. A history teacher would like to arrange for communication between her students (age 17-18) with students of similar age in the Middle East. Any ideas or possi
Read more…Jeff Johnson passed this on to me today, and it sounds like a great conference. Maybe I can get myself up north to Wisconsin for this! ------- *** UNIQUE GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCES *** *** Professional Development Opportunity *** * Please forwar
Read more…Hi - I am planning an 'International Art' project for this Autumn term (September through December 2007) with my mixed KS2 class (ages 7-11) and we are looking for a partner school(s) around the world. The plan is for children to suggest a list of lo
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