Hi All, I've decided to do something fun for my Y8 students (12-13 year olds). If you would like some of your students have a go, you'd be welcome to join us. I've created an online survey asking students to say which is their favourite film and ano
Read more…Lucy may have already posted about this, but just in case she hasn't...teachers can get a free upgrade to "PLUS" (which means advertisement-free) if they use the following link to create their wikispace: http://www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teachers100K The
Read more…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,
Read more…I had a wonderful time meeting some of you at NECC. Now I am exciting about attending our iEARN International Conference and Youth Summit in Cairo, Egypt. There will be about 800 teachers from about 70 countries and 300 youth from around the world. T
Read more…San Antonio ISD's instructional technology is launching an initiative this fall "Online Literature Circles. We are using Moodle for the forum. We are inviting all grade levels 3-12 to participate . Please help us launch this 21st century model for le
Read more…The K12 Online conference starts Monday with David Warlick's keynote. If you need help figuring out how to participate, or are trying to help other teachers at your school, the k12onlineconference.org site has been redesigned and has a new "help des
Read more…Hi All - Welcome to our newest group members; this ning now has over 100 people interested in global collaboration! Don't forget to post an introduction in this forum and select the Introductions category. Westley Field, a member of this group, is
Read more…I'm a musician, composer - turned IT educator over time. I help run The Global Challenge - a worldwide competition for high school students, who form small teams (2 US and 2 non-US) and then create an innovative solution to global warming that can sc
Read more…Hi All - I'm starting a wiki to house materials for units of study on cities. I'd like kids and teachers to add info and pictures about field trips, lists of their favorite books, morning messages, etc. It's a private wiki right now, but you are wel
Read more…I've posted this before in different forms... here's another reincarnation: I've created several resources for everyone interested to participate in and to use in the course of presentations and workshops: 1) a ning group http://globaleducation.nin
Read more…"A portal to Connect Classrooms to the World: Global Citizens can Share Talents and Skills with Students. Teachers can find Global Citizens (Volunteers) willing to help in a field of interest that they are working on in their class."
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Read more…Hi All - I lifted another idea from Classroom 2.0 ning... a Meebo chat widget ! I installed it in the bottom of the main page. Meebo is very interesting... you can make chat rooms and show of videos in them as well as aggregate a number of chat acco
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…Hi Everyone. I am glad to have found this community and hope to make some great contacts. I have taught at Lincoln Elementary since 2001. In my teaching career, I have had the blessing of teaching at every grade level from pre-K to 6th in places as v
Read more…Hi, I just found this forum through the NECC birds-of-a-feather wiki. What a cool forum!! I'm managing a nonprofit project, eSpindle Learning, that created the most comprehensive and easiest online vocabulary tutoring program - our goal is to help pe
Read more…HI all, I'm trying to find some clips of teachers actually teaching in the classroom. This is for mentors-in-training to be able to do observations in a protected setting. Looking for 6-10 minute segments on the elementary, middle, and high school le
Read more…I've been traveling like a madwoman to various conferences and speaking engagements. I could write a book on what I am learning, but for the sake of brevity, I'd like to post on the idea of social entrepreneurship. The keynote of the NCTI conference
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…¡Hola a todos! My name is Lisa Stevens and I teach kids aged 3 -11, mainly but not exclusively Spanish. I teach at two schools - one (Mere Green)for an afternoon each week teaching yr1 and 2 (aged 5-7) Spanish, and at my other school (Whitehouse Com
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