The Global Classroom

During the pre-Valentine's day #langchat, participants were sharing the resource love by talking about some of the best ways to incorporate native language speaking interactions into the classroom. Not only were some of the best online apps discussed, but the virtues of old-fashioned pen-pals were extolled and some excellent tips were shared from teachers who have years of experience managing native language speaking activities.

YouTube is rolling out some big new ways to engage with the education community. Continuing with our look at how YouTube can aid teachers and students, it's probably a good idea to actually outline exactly how the video service can help in the classroom. Let's get started.

This site provides multiple ways You Tube can be helpful in the classroom - including sparking discussions, creating playlists for review at home, and adding quizzes to videos.

Great ideas of incorporating You Tube to make learning engaging and relevant.

21 st century educational system makes its classrooms with no boundaries. Technology helps students learn anywhere. Many technological approaches bring the world into your classroom through video conferencing, social networking , etc. Through video conferencing, educators can engage their classrooms and watch students of one class interact with students of another class.

some great tips about both Skype and ePals. Great starter information and idea forum

Information and video about Google Classroom, a new Google app soon to be released that incorporates email/drive/docs to help teachers and students stay organized.

Learn how to instantly share power point presentations, rubrics, assignments and more with students via Google Drive

This post is not about technology. It's about how we (humankind) have been wiring our brains to think about technology. We have quite a hole to climb out of. Not only are our brains already "wired to scout for the bad stuff," the Huffington Post reports, referring to what neuropsychologist and author Rick Hanson calls our "negativity bias."

James is a teacher and a Tech integration specialist who for many years used YouTube EDU videos to enhance student learning and increase their motivation. In this session James provides an overview of the YouTube resources for teachers and students, tips for how to incorporate video into the classroom, and information to get you started in creating your own content for YouTube.

This site provides a presentation that was used to give an overview of implementing ePals in the classroom. I noticed that Newark Schools 4th grade test scores showed reading and writing improvement through twice weekly use of email letter writing with fellow classmates and a peer classroom in Italy.

Article about the growing need for using video in the elementary classroom.

This is a disturbing article. Although not about education at a K-12 level it does trickle down...

Google Support's take on policies and suggestions for Cyber Citizenship on YouTube/

Benefits and drawbacks to using YouTube in class.

elementary intro to how Youtube can be used in the classroom

great lesson for art teachers to teach empathy through this artist

Free teaching resources for philanthropy education.