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» Welcome The 1001 Flat World Tales - 0 views

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    The 1001 Flat World Tales Writing Project is a creative writing workshop made up of schools around the world, connected by one wiki. This blog will be the home to the award-winning stories from each group of schools that participate in the workshop, different topics, different grade-levels, different cultures, brought together by the power of stories.So, enjoy the tales, click around, meet the authors - and check out their blogs!
anonymous

Nationmedia.com | Daily Nation | COMMENTARY | Climate change inescapable fact - 0 views

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    Climate change inescapable fact Story by NGOVI KITAU Publication Date: 6/9/2008 CLIMATE CHANGE LEADING to global warming is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world. The World Environment Day was marked last week, and it is necessary to examine the state of our environment. Our moderate weather and tropical climate encourage a range of outdoor activities. We have been fortunate to live in a country that has marvellous mountains to climb, fabulous beaches to bask in, magnificent vegetation and animals in our famous national parks. We have great lakes and rivers to explore, fertile highlands to grow cash crops and rear exotic dairy animals in, extraordinary lowlands to grow food crops in, the magnificent Rift Valley, beautiful plateaus and hills covered by dense tropical forests and giant trees, and great savannas for grazing our animals in. And what do we observe today? Long and recurrent droughts, flooding whenever it rains, melting of ice on Mt Kenya, destruction of the Mau and other forests, continuing and alarming soil erosion, silting of dams, degradation of the eco-system, accelerated desert march, loss of biodiversity, and persistent human conflict over scarce resources.
Dave Truss

DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories - 0 views

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    Visit the storymaking steps, tools, and the featured StoryKeeper's Gallery designed to inspire and jump start beginners. Browse Bernajean's Blog and Podcasts sharing the continuous journey and lessons learned along the way of coaching others in the art of digital storytelling.
anonymous

WOW: Bringing Science Alive! (wiki) | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss - 0 views

  • What happens when you: Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
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    What happens when you: Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
Dave Truss

CTV.ca | Kielburgers join forces with Oprah on new campaign - 0 views

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    Some "O Ambassador" projects include: * Building a package of school supplies for a classroom in need * Planting a tree on school grounds * Creating "AIDS Awareness" posters * Organizing "Read-A-Thons" * Collecting old blankets and sleeping bags for local homeless shelters
Dave Truss

The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia - 0 views

  • I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
  • In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.
  • I wonder whether, twenty-five or fifty years from now, when four or five billion people are connecting online, the real story of these times won't be the more global tests and transformations these technologies offered. How, as educators and learners, did we respond? Did we embrace the potentials of a connected, collaborative world and put our creative imaginations to work to reenvision our classrooms? Did we use these new tools to develop passionate, fearless, lifelong learners? Did we ourselves become those learners?
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    I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
anonymous

Science Alive! » home - 0 views

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    Welcome to our Science Alive project! We are students in two Middle School Grade 8 classes that have been working on a Science topic of our own choosing. First, we chose a topic and then we had to create our own wiki page that demonstrated our understanding of our topic. We had to show Higher-Order Thinking Skills as seen in Blooms Taxonomy.
anonymous

Global Warming Washing Away Entire Communities - 0 views

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    A funny thing happened just before a ceremony was to be held last week to commemorate a $3 million sea wall around the village of Kivalina way up on Alaska's Arctic coastline. The village, home to Inupiat natives for 4,000 years, is about to be washed into the sea, and the 1,800-foot wall is supposed to stop that. Alaska There's growing evidence that villages in the far North like Kivalina, Alaska, are being eaten up by the ocean due, at least in part, to global warming. (Northwest Arctic Borough,The Anchorage Daily News/AP Photo) But along came a modest storm, with winds of up to 40 miles per hour, and 160 feet of the wall washed out. The ceremony was canceled.
anonymous

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/12/2008 | Study finds recent global warming unpreceden... - 0 views

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    Its conclusion is that temperature increased and decreased a little over the centuries, but the fluctuations were small enough that the line was roughly flat, like the shaft of a horizontal hockey stick. Then, from about 1980 to now, temperature increased sharply, more than any increase before - like the blade of the hockey stick. For the past 10 years, climate-change skeptics have been calling the hockey stick bogus. Now the scientists who studied the climate record and produced the original hockey-stick graph have done a new study using more data from more sources - and they got the same pattern.
anonymous

Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse - 0 views

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    WILKINS ICE SHELF - A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent. "We've come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes," David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), told Reuters after the first - and probably last - plane landed near the narrowest part of the ice.
anonymous

Climate Change Threatens Migratory Birds, Report Says - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • “Birds are excellent indicators of the health of our environment, and right now they are telling us an important story about climate change,”
anonymous

Our view: Alaska knows well the stakes in debate on global warming: ADN Editorial | adn... - 0 views

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    It is most appropriate for Alaska to be hosting this week's Indigenous People's Global Summit on Climate Change here in Anchorage. Alaska's indigenous people know well a cruel irony of global warming: Those who are suffering the most from a warming climate are those who contribute least to the problem -- and they generally have the fewest resources to cope with the damage. Warming trends in the world's Arctic are undeniable. Sea ice is shrinking, giving storms more chance to pound unprotected shorelines and eat away at low-lying communities. Melting permafrost causes homes and other buildings to heave and twist.
anonymous

Hill gears up for big climate week - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com - 0 views

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    "In my 33 years on the Energy and Commerce Committee, I cannot remember a week of hearings quite like this one," said Markey. "With so much at stake and such little time, I am pleased that our country's business, science and environmental leaders are lining up to engage in this historic week of hearings."
anonymous

Ban invites world leaders to 'unprecedented' UN climate change summit - 0 views

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    "Climate change is the greatest challenge facing this and future generations," he said at a press conference in New York. "Emissions are rising and the clock is ticking."
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