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Phenomenal global collaboration project involving students from 15 countries. Teaching assignment is replicated across continents. Last year's project, Rock n Sol, was featured in the California K-12 Technology Showcase. This year's project, "Are You Game" focuses on digital storytelling. Students collaborate to compose music, make movies, podcasts, and experiments and met in face to face video-conferences. Using Garage Band, kids annually create a collaborative song that has been touched in every continent in the world. Each week, each group contributes 30 seconds with a specific musical instrument. Even blind students are involved in the project.

Create Collaborative Photo Books and Photo Albums. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see examples of products students have made.

Global SchoolNet's Projects Registry (PR) is the oldest (1995) and largest online clearinghouse for teacher-conducted global learning projects. The PR contains more than 3,000 annotated listings - and is searchable by date, age level, geographic location, collaboration type, technology tools or keyword. The PR is a central place for educators to find global partners and announce projects.

Free collaborative Web 2.0 tool for mapping out ideas.

Discover Web 2.0 and how it can be used with today's youngest learners to enhance creativity, communication, and collaboration. Explore student work and watch tiny techies in action!

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you can make with your students to share and print.

Grades 6-12. In this BYOL session with Rod Hames, teachers learned how to involve, and support students in engaging and powerful thinking generated by a project featuring blogs, collaboration, mathematics, literacy, and competition.

A free five-day, multiple-language, multiple-time zone online collaborative conference on global education. Teacher, student, curricular, policy/leadership, and change tracks.

Global collaboration project headed by Vickie Davis and Julie Lindsay. Connect your classroom locally and globally to create meaningful and authentic learning communities using Web 2.0 tools and emerging technologies.

Classroom Observation Tool optimized for the IPHONE. C3 is a data collection, collaboration and coaching tool designed to help administrators conduct walk‑throughs, get an accurate snapshot of the classroom, analyze data, and share concepts with staff. It is a web‑based application that can be used with most web browsers, and is optimized for use on an Apple iPod Touch or iPhone. The program is server‑based, which means that all data is instantly available, and there is no syncing required from device to device. The data resides away from the computer or handheld device, so it can be accessed from the Internet with an account login.

Thinking People's purpose is to provide a place for Thinking People to share, collaborate, and support ideas; seek, provide, and contribute knowledge; congregate with other Thinking People and express themselves in an intellectual community.

Session with Rob Bayuk, Microsoft K-20 Marketing Manager. Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. The new student-centered curriculum will provide guidance and activities for your students on how to search effectively, how to analyze "the anatomy of a search result," and moreover, understand how to judge the validity and source of the content they find on the web. This curriculum was developed collaboratively by ISTE and Microsoft and will be available soon, free to educators.

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below."

Chris Lehmann's inspirational speech on the need for schools to change, embrace technology and encourage independent learning.

24/7 online help with homework and assignments.

The TIE Colorado/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp is designed to build understanding, facilitate conversations, and develop a framework for change. Leaders from all levels (school and district administrators, IT professionals, classroom teachers, librarians, district coordinators, and others) will engage in a day of learning and thinking that will lead to developing a working plan for improving communication and collaboration practices in their schools or districts. Watch the live session streams here.

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