Everyone is welcome to attend our first official GEC advisory board meeting!! We will be using an online conference tool called Flashmeeting. One person speaks at a time using audio or video. Others can chat in a chatroom, share links, and even vote.
Read more…The Laptop Institute (July 13-15, 2008) is an international think tank for schools using or considering laptops or tablets as tools for learning. Created and hosted by Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee, the Laptop Institute offers over
Read more…School Beyond the Walls is preparing a cultural event around "Sharing Poetry". We propose you send us video-poems or voki-poems or text-poems in english of course, but also in evry kind of language... Topic: Praising the Other Poetry reveals this es
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- Diigo is a service which lets you bookmark web sites online. It's very handy because you can also annotate bookmarks, organize users in groups, and create lists of bookmarks. I've started a group within this community for people interested i
Read more…Our kindergarten class (5 and 6 year olds) are studying Iceland. We would like to find a class in Iceland to share information about our towns and schools, our customs and culture. We would love to use Web 2.0 tools like VoiceThread to share our lear
Read more…Peace has been what we are looking for world wide. However, it is sad to learn that there are quite a number of wars on going that is claiming so many lives. Please help me suggest some solutions.
Read more…I'd like to introduce a ning group for administrators - Ed Administrator2.0 - a site where administrators, or soon-to-be administrators, can gather to share ideas, stories and learn about using technology in education. If you or an administrator you
Read more…Our grade 4 class's annual field trip to UNESCO World Hertiage Site Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is coming up sometime in May. I am hoping to partner with another class that is studying Native American culture to work together to prepare for the tri
Read more…I am looking for people willing to watch short student presentations. They are working on PBL projects. One aspect of their grade is communication and presentation. We will be recording their presentations using www.ustream.tv and would like some off
Read more…Hi group, After a year's hiatus, my blog is back up. Please check it out here. Thank you. Jim Lerman
Read more…We are looking for other 5th grades that want to participate "virtually" in our school's 2nd Annual Cyber Fair, scheduled for 5/28/2008, 8:00-10:30 PST. We are especially interested in schools that can video conference using iChat and that are locat
Read more…On behalf of our school, currently being dragged out of the chalk and talk days, I say hello. We are a 7-12 High School, currently engaging Project Based Learning in years 9&10 (14-16 year olds). We are the oldest Catholic School in Australia. In th
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…I found this VoiceThread of Kristina Smith's breakfast project in Turkey and thought, wouldn't this be fun to do with kids around the world? VoiceThread offers free pro accounts to schools. Here's my first VoiceThread project, using pictures from and
Read more…TheVoiceThread "What Could it Be? is a global collaboration project between teachers around the world to contribute one image from their country depicting a unique tradition, typical custom, distinctive perspectives, routines, habits and practices.
Read more…Hi. As I look around at all the great stuff happening with regard to global education, I wonder if there is anybody else out there focusing on natural capitalism and education as an instrument of well-being. I'm trying to see if we can build some edu
Read more…Join us in learning about how eating local foods can improve our environment, our health and our community. Add a photo and a comment of a local diet on our 100 Mile Diet VoiceThread Find out more at our Mathlincs Moodle.
Read more…I may have mentioned this resource before. I was recently reminded of it and the new resources they have by the following announcement. They have added many new activities including some for whiteboards. Enjoy! I spent a good part of a day going thro
Read more…Hi there, I currently teach Year 3 (7-8 year old pupils) in a Primary School (Elementary) in the valleys of South Wales (old South Wales UK). We have been playing with web 2.0 collaboration tools for about 15 months now, mainly blogs and podcasts - u
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