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Global Awareness, Community Service and Classroom Project Ideas » Moving at t... - 0 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...ce-and-classroom-project-ideas global awareness teachers curriculum values blog lesson planning collaboration class projects
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "It is very important we help students in our classrooms develop deeper, broader, authentic world views through the information we share and collaborative activities in which we engage together during and after class. It is also critical we help students develop values like respect, empathy, and compassion. Learning is most powerful when it is experiential and connected to the real world, and more opportunities than ever are available to help bring these types of learning experiences to your students. Here are several ideas for research resources and class projects you should consider this year."
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BDG Tour - 0 views

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Tour"
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YouTube - EarthOutreach's Channel - 0 views

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "Explore, create and connect with Google Earth Outreach. Explore our gallery of public-benefit maps in the Showcase. Create maps with the help of online tutorials and tools."
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YouTube - Introduction to Google Earth Outreach - 1 views

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "Explore, create and connect with Google Earth Outreach. Explore our gallery of public-benefit maps in the Showcase. Create maps with the help of online tutorials and tools."
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How To Connect Your Students Globally | always learning - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    Good educators know that the real world is ever more interconnected and interdependent. We all share in facing such planetary challenges as climate change, health epidemics, global poverty, global economic recessions and trade imbalances, assaults on human rights, terrorism, political instability, and international conflicts. We also share opportunities for global collaboration in such areas as scientific and artistic creation, trade, and international cooperation. These challenges and opportunities define the contours of our lives, even in their most local dimensions. Yet in spite of growing awareness of the importance of developing global skills, few students around the world have the opportunity today to become globally competent.
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Profesores de español - La red para compartir y aprender nuevos trucos en la ... - 1 views

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "La red para compartir y aprender nuevos trucos en la enseñanza del español"
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Immersion in other cultures enhances creativity » Moving at the Speed of Crea... - 0 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...r-cultures-enhances-creativity teachers students parents video study abroad immersion creativity research advocacy
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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    Love this video! Great advocacy piece.
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Open Thinking Wiki - 0 views

couros.wikispaces.com/digitalcitizenship students teachers technology internet cybersafety wiki safety
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  • Barbara Lindsey on 02 Jan 10
     
    Targeted primarily to high school audiences but applicable to all. Some great cybersafety resources.
  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "This is a collection of resources that can be used by educators or students regarding the issue of digital citizenship. Note: the questions used here are targeted primarily at high school students, but many of these questions apply to anyone new to the topic."
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Hi, I'm Grace Smith » 36+ Resources To Craft The Perfect Portfolio - 0 views

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "A portfolio can be an amazing platform as it showcases your work, skills, experience and personality to potential clients and employers. However building a killer portfolio that is a lead generator on a consistent basis is a tough task. Whether you're a designer, developer or writer, taking the time to craft a quality, professional portfolio that outshines your competitors, suits your needs and gives you a better chance of a successful and sustainable career is extremely important. With this in mind i chose the Portfolio theme for this week's Theme Thursday as every creative can find something of value in these articles, from crafting the perfect portfolio to promoting your work better for optimal results."
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Curriculum 21 - Mapping the Global Classroom of the Future - About Us - 0 views

www.curriculum21.com/index.php teachers lesson planning curriculum assessment
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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "Curriculum 21 is the outgrowth of the work of a dynamic group of educators worldwide attempting to help colleagues transform curriculum and school designs to match the needs of 21st century learners. The impetus origniated from the Curriculum Mapping work developed by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. As we examined maps emerging across the United States and overseas it was evident that curriculum and instruction remains dated although both students and teachers recognize the need to become current and forward thinking in our planning. Concrete and practical models for updating your school programs appear in her upcoming book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, with ASCD, to be released in January, 2010."
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Global Competency - 0 views

www.edsteps.org/...ManageContent.aspx Teachers Assessment work samples
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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "EdSteps is intended to be a large, public library of student work samples in key skill areas. For each skill area, student work will be presented in a continuum - a gradual progression - from emerging to accomplished work. EdSteps is a grassroots effort to create a resource for teaching and assessment. Rather than assessing work based on a pre-set rubric, EdSteps uses student work as the starting point. After collecting thousands of work samples in each skill area, EdSteps uses a unique process to assess the student work samples, rank them, and create the continuums. (Visit www.edsteps.org to learn about the research-based process that will be used to create the continuums.)"
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Groups | Edutopia Personal Learning Networks - 0 views

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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "We live in amazing times, with massive changes afoot. New ideologies, practices and technologies are cropping up faster than you can say 'tweet.' How do we make sense of it all? And, better yet, how can we work together to help forge this new path forward? We are very excited to introduce Edutopia Groups, where educators can network, collaborate, support and innovate our way into this new world, together."
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Making Music Boosts Brain's Language Skills - 0 views

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  • dorie conlon on 23 Feb 10
     
    very interesting article from National Geographic - "brain-imaging studies have shown that music activates many diverse parts of the brain, including an overlap in where the brain processes music and language"
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Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Many of today's teachers make a critical mistake when introducing digital tools by assuming that armed with a username and a password, students will automatically find meaningful ways to learn together.  The results can be disastrous.  Motivation wanes when groups using new services fail to meet reasonable standards of performance.  "Why did I bother to plug my students in for this project?" teachers wonder.  "They could have done better work with a piece of paper and a pencil!"
  • With shared annotation services like Diigo, powerful learning depends on much more than understanding the technical details behind adding highlights and comments for other members of a group to see.  Instead, powerful learning depends on the quality of the conversation that develops around the content being studied together.  That means teachers must systematically introduce students to a set of collaborative dialogue behaviors that can be easily implemented online.
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  • While these early interactions are simplistic processes that by themselves aren't enough to drive meaningful change in teaching and learning, they are essential because they provide team members with low risk opportunities to interact with one another around the topics, materials and instructional practices that should form the foundation of classroom learning experiences.
  • A tagging language is nothing more than a set of categories that all members of a group agree to use when bookmarking websites for shared projects.
  • In Shirky's terms, teams that embrace social bookmarking decrease the "cost" of  group transactions.  No longer do members resist sharing because it's too time consuming or difficult to be valuable. Instead, with a little bit of thought and careful planning, groups can make sharing resources---a key process that all learning teams have to learn to manage---remarkably easy and instant.
  • Imagine the collective power of an army of readers engaged in ongoing conversation about provocative ideas, challenging one another's thought, publicly debating, and polishing personal beliefs.  Imagine the cultural understandings that could develop between readers from opposite sides of the earth sharing thought together.  Imagine the potential for brainstorming global solutions, for holding government agencies accountable, or for gathering feedback from disparate stakeholder groups when reading moves from a "fundamentally private activity" to a "community event."
  • Understanding that there are times when users want their shared reading experiences to be more focused, however, Diigo makes it possible to keep highlights and annotations private or available to members of predetermined and self-selected groups.  For professional learning teams exploring instructional practices or for student research groups exploring content for classroom projects, this provides a measure of targeted exploration between likeminded thinkers.
  • Diigo takes the idea of collective exploration of content one step further by providing groups with the opportunity to create shared discussion forums
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The Tempered Radical: New Opportunities to Connect and Create. . . - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • I've truly embraced digital dialogue because it provides me with the opportunity to be challenged and to grow all at once---and on my own time. The traditional barriers of time and space that prevent teachers from learning from one another are eliminated by technology---and the terms "relationships" and "professional development" are being redefined by new opportunities to connect and create together.
  • Last year, I tried to pass that digital enthusiasm on to the sixth graders of my classroom. Together with peers, my students collaborated on a wiki, recording nearly everything that we learned in my science and social studies class. The collective efforts of 90 motivated kids resulted in nearly 80 pages of content that had been revised and refined almost 400 times.  They also joined an effort to create a classroom podcast program that earned over 20,000 page views from visitors in 125 countries ranging from Bolivia to Burkina Faso. With over 110 posts, our "little adventure" drew recognition from technology experts like Will Richardson and was spotlighted on national resource websites like MiddleWeb. 
  • The children of my classroom grew as digital citizens throughout the year. They learned to see the Internet as a tool for collaboration and communication---rather than simply as a vast online research encyclopedia. They practiced posting on our own digital discussion board, polishing the unique skills that it takes to engage others electronically. They judged the reliability of online resources together, became experts at questioning, grew willing to open their work to review and revision, learned Internet safety practices important for protecting themselves and saw the potential of becoming citizens of an electronic world where content is being created at a blinding pace.
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  • What are we going to do with our wiki and blog at the end of the year?" they asked often. "Can we take it with us to seventh grade and keep recording what we're learning? It would be neat to see what we had at the end of middle school!"
  • Our students will buy and sell from countries across the world and work for international companies. They will manage employees from other cultures, work with people from different continents in joint ventures and solve global problems such as AIDS and avian flu together.
  • But what I've grown to realize is that very few people have really embraced the changing nature of a tomorrow that remains poorly defined. We know that the Internet today is far more powerful than ever before---and have heard about companies that are capitalizing on these changes---but we haven't figured out what that means for us. We're jazzed to have access to information and geeked by interactive content providers, but our digital experiences remain somewhat self-centered.
  • the new National Educational Technology Standards for Students being developed by the International Society for Technology in Education. These standards reflect an increased need to teach children how to use the Internet in new and different ways. Perhaps the most challenging---and important standard---for educators to embrace will this one:Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: A. Interact, collaborate and publish with peers, experts or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. B. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. C. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. D. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.Does that sound like the digital work being done in your classroom, school, district or state?!
  • Together with the Center for International Understanding, North Carolina in the World is developing partnerships based on digital collaboration between schools in North Carolina and nations ranging from China to Mexico. Teachers and students in partnering schools are learning to use Web 2.0 tools like web-conferencing and wikis to connect kids across continents. Not only do these efforts help to build a general knowledge of other countries in our children, they are providing concrete opportunities to use technology in new ways.
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Nicolas' Cool Wiki - My Blog - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 23 Jan 10
     
    student (looks like elementary) with blog and wiki. Crowdsourcing for ideas for name of blog. Thx to@tonnet for link
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Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - 0 views

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) is the oldest (1954) multi-language association of pre-kindergarten through university teachers in the country. Although nominally a regional association, its activities, publications, and annual conference attract participants from around the country and the globe. Currently, about 40 states and 10 foreign countries send a total of 2,500 educators to the Northeast Conference each year."
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