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Classrooms as Cruise Ships, Not Deserted Islands: Helping Students Build Global Community in the Online Graphic Design Classroom

Your Name and Title: Lisa Hammershaimb, Senior Associate Dean of Graphic Arts, Online Division

School or Organization Name: Independence University

Co-Presenter Name(s): None

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Chicago, IL, United State

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Playful Learning: Connecting Educators through Games

Your Name and Title: Brian Bullock, Project Manager

School or Organization Name: Learning Games Network

Co-Presenter Name(s): Peter Stidwill, Danny Fain

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Boston, MA

Language in Which You Will Present:

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Fostering Global Community Awareness with Student Created Public Service Projects Utilizing VoiceThreads

Your Name and Title: Vicki Phillips General Education Coordinator and English Faculty
School, Library, or Organization Name: Rasmussen College
Co-Presenter Name(s): None
Country from Which You Will Present: USA
Language in Which You Will Present:English
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The Dream Flag Project -- connecting students to their dreams and their dreams to the world

Your Name and Title: Jeffrey Harlan, Director of The Dream Flag Project & English Teacher

School, Library, or Organization Name: The Dream Flag Project hosted by The Agnes Irwin School

Co-Presenter Name(s): Sandra Crow

Country from Which You Will

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iSpy in the Community Global Collaborative Project

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Surrealistic Me- A global digital arts collaboration

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

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Exploring Microlending Through Kiva

As you might have seen in previous posts, my 7th grade daughter is looking for a community service project idea for a class at school. Tonight, we explored Kiva, a microlending organization that gives small loans to people mostly in developing nation

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Join the i-Spy Community Project

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Video Introductions to Communities 2009

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

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Pinwheels for Peace

I'm writing see to see if there are other classrooms/schools around the globe that are participating in the PinwheelsforPeace project on Monday, September 22nd. I was hoping to connect the students in my school with other students participating in th

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SuTree - a useful educational video resource

Hi all, I'd like to introduce SuTree.com (http://www.sutree.com ) - the world's leading aggregator of instructional videos and a growing knowledge community. I thought it might be useful for the members of this community. Feel free to visit SuTree,

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Requesting feedback on video project

Hi everyone, I'm planning to post the project below (and attached) to iEARN, and would welcome the GEC members' ideas on what about it needs changes before posting in iEARN. If any of you also want to get involved, please contact me! Thanks, Rushto

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