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Barbara Lindsey

Toni Theisen's wiki on globalcompetency - 0 views

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    Some excellent resources addressing the issues of global competency
Barbara Lindsey

Copyright for Educators, Cycle 2 - Mar 2010 | p2pu - 0 views

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    Global copyright resources for educators on peer2peer univ
Barbara Lindsey

Launching the ITU Telecom World 2011 Meta Conference | ITU World 2011 - 0 views

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    We are inviting 10,000 global school children (8-18)  to design the innovations that could make a real difference to their world. 28 28 28 28 Sign up your school or class now, and your students can start influencing thousands of decision-makers in information and technology communications.
Barbara Lindsey

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars - 1 views

  • Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?
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    Thanks to Clif Mims for posting this info. A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your
Barbara Lindsey

2011 Conference Quick Links - The Global Education Collaborative - 0 views

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    RECORDING LINK
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Education - One Day On Earth - 0 views

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    Across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period. By participating in this historic event, you will help capture the diversity of life and culture on this planet. Together we will create a document that is a gift to the world.
Barbara Lindsey

When college students reinvent the world - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

  • Cultural anthropology professor Michael Wesch came up with “World Sim” to push students to stop asking, “What’s going to be on the test?” and to contemplate bigger questions: Why are some people poor and some rich? How does the world work?
  • The goal, he says, is to create an environment where students can expand their capacity for empathizing with and loving those who are different from them.
  • Professor Wesch sets up the simulation by giving each culture a certain amount of power in the beginning – symbolized by playing cards. Then, based on a complex set of rules the class has devised together, students go through each round of the game – striking alliances, trading cards, and sometimes starting “wars” over resources.
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  • “When you learn by doing – like in the World Sim – you can come across these profound discoveries that you just couldn’t get in a lecture,” says Nick Timmons, another teaching assistant.
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  • A number of his Midwestern classmates say the course has given them an understanding of cultural differences and globalization – insights they expect to carry into career fields such as healthcare, engineering, and social work.
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