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My daughter, Violet, is very excited to have been accepted into the Degree for Audio Production starting in February 2013 at the Byron Bay campus of SAE.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Project Manager Summary | elementaryflatclassroom
"Thank you to all the amazing students and teachers who participated. If you are interested in Flat Classroom Projects, go to http://www.flatclassroomproject.net/about.html." This is what makes Flat Classroom so special and unique - A Project Manager who takes the time to blog about the project and suggest improvements.
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Coffee for the Brain: Round 2 Reflection of Eracism: Global Debate, An Amazing Learning Experience
As Vicki and Julie state, "Once you go Flat, you never go back!" My passion for global education has only gotten stronger through the participation of this project. All of these students that I had the opportunity to work with through both teams that we operated have done nothing but remind why I love my job! Kids are amazing! Simply put. When they shine and show their talents and you know that it is all them that have done the work, then as a teacher/leader you know you have done your job. I simply sat back and watched them blow my mind. It is amazing what kids can do when you place them in a situation where there is no ceiling but the ones they place on themselves. When they remove that ceiling WATCH OUT! because it is a spectacle to behold.
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25 Apps for Global Mobile Learning | Asia Society
"So which apps can help build global competence? With a world of possibilities, what follows is a short list of mostly Apple iOS apps to help you get started. To download, go to the Apple iTunes store, search for the app by name, and click on the price button to synch with your device. Several of these apps are available for Android and other devices, too."
tags: mobile apps globaleducation education
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Where in the World Will You Go Next with PBL? | Edutopia
"Collaborative projects broaden teachers' horizons, too, connecting them with colleagues from around the world. Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) and Julie Lindsay (@julielindsay), founders of the Flat Classroom Project, had never met face-to-face when they launched their first collaborative project several years ago. Now, they have co-authored a book, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds to share their field-tested insights about collaborative PBL. They lead teachers from around the world on several "flat" projects annually, using technology to overcome distances and connect learners in shared inquiry and problem solving. "
tags: education flatclassroom projectbasedlearning pbl globalproject flatclassroombook
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21C - 21C Teachers at Qatar Academy 2009
This series of interviews with women educators at Qatar Academy was inspired by the excellent immersion of 21st Century learning shown in classrooms across the school. in a time of transition into 1:1 learning and Web 2.0 platforms, these women have shown where there is a will there is a way. I admire their tenacity and determination to make learning real, personal and student-centred. I applaud their focus on global interaction and how they have embraced the concept, power and magic of global collaboration.
tags: 21centurylearning education Web2.0 creativity learning
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Educreations - Teach what you know. Learn what you don't.
tags: education ipad online free app sharing
- Wow! This is really impressive, and the collection of material is sure to grow! - post by mrcarchidi
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OpenIDEO is an open innovation platform. Join our global community to solve big challenges for social good.
tags: education ideas flatclassroomworkshop collaboration innovation
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Through the Digital Looking Glass: A Global Digital Citizenship Project - About The Project
Interesting project that potentially joins students across countries and cultures to discuss and create media based on 'Does my digital me reflect the real me?'
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View All the Results of the 2012 WISE Summit Polls | WISE - World Innovation Summit for Education
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JISC Inform / Issue 35, Winter 2012 | #jiscinform
Too Busy to Tweet?
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Australian Council for Computers in Education | Australian Council for Computers in Education
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JISC Inform / Issue 35, Winter 2012 | #jiscinform
Seven top predictions for the future of research
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Home | Australian Teacher Magazine - No.1 national education sector publication
Monday, December 17, 2012
Eracsim 12-2 - Debating across the Globe - Live this week!

3C - THINK Global School (Argentina) Class 2 - Affirmative
2B - Bettendorf Middle School (USA) - Negative
Judges: Catalina Valenzuela (Lead Judge), Karin Linehan and Leigh Zeitz
Recording for this debate
Congratulations to the Affirmative team, THINK Global School for being the adjudicated winner of this debate!

The Eracism 12-2 finals this year are being held synchronously in the virtual classroom, Blackboard Collaborate. Student teams must be ready to speak, respond and rebut with very little preparation between each speaker. Judges are sent to a breakout room at the conclusion of the debate and have about 5 minutes to deliberate and return with their conclusion and decision about the winning team.
Teacher from Bettendorf, Aaron Maurer, who is also a Flat Classroom Certified teacher (although this is not a requirement for inclusion in the Eracism project) shared a thoughtful blog post after the debate last week. In this he says:
"These two pictures show education at a high level. We have students listening, analyzing, and trying to process new ideas and concepts in real time without much time to finalize as a team. During the short quick breaks they quickly dispersed ideas and had to quickly gather all their ideas, write ideas down and looking for that one loophole that we needed to win. It was remarkable. I sat on the floor with my coffee and just watched it unfold. I try very hard to keep my thoughts and ideas out as this is their debate. I do give them things to ponder, but never give facts or information directly."
Aaron has another team debating this week, this time against a team in China - and you can imagine the logistics behind how we have finally determined a time for teams to debate live, given that China is 14 hours ahead of where Bettendorf is located.
Eracism Project fosters a global debate, it also fosters learning about the world through interaction with others who live in different circumstances and have different ideas and opinions. It also teaches both educators and students how to use the technology available to connect and communicate effectively.
Please join us for the live final debates this week:
Link for the Debate classroom.
TOPIC: "Global management of natural resources will cause more harm than good"
Bracket A
Date and Time of Debate Final: Monday, December 17th, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. EST, 14:00 GMT. Find YOUR DATE and TIME for this event
3A - Quality Schools International Bratislava (SLOVAKIA) - Affirmative
6A - Lounsberry Hollow MS (USA) - Negative
Judges: Karin Linehan (Lead Judge), Catalina Valenzuela, Susan Adams
Bracket B
Date and Time of Debate Final: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 at 8:30am. EST, 13:30 GMT. Find YOUR DATE and TIME for this event
8B - Bettendorf Middle School (USA) - Affirmative
3B - American International School of Guangzhou (China) Class 4 - Negative
Judges: Leigh Zeitz (Lead Judge), Catalina Valenzuela, Susan Adams and Andrew Csizmadia
Apply for Eracism 13-1 NOW - Involve YOUR students in this global debate next semester! Applications open until February 7, 2013.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Coffee for the Brain: Eracism: Global Debate, An Amazing Learning Experience
Aaron Maurer, middle school teacher with student teams participating in Eracism 12-2, shares his thoughts about the final debate where one student team debated in the HS round.
tags: eracism2012 education debate
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Flat Classroom Certified teacher Aaron Maurer shares his frank views and strategies for global collaboration and global education with Dr Z from the University of Northern Iowa. Excellent insight into how to flatten the classroom walls and meet challenges headon to globalize attitudes and experiences of students. Thanks Aaron!
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10 Surprising Facts About Students Using E-Textbooks - Edudemic
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Canadians for 21st Century Learning and Innovation: Shifting Minds: A vision and framework for 21st Century Learning in Canada. Download the document and learn more.
tags: digitalcitizenship education 21centurylearning framework research
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Early Childhood Around the World
Global project from Jason Graham and Tasha Cowdy
tags: globalproject fcct12-1 education
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What is the future for learning? [Short Documentary]
tags: futureofeducation education
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Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn.
tags: education video viralvideo
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2012 Internet Trends (Update) — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
Contemplating the statistics and trends identified in this report in terms of the impact on education.
tags: statistics education
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BBC - Future - Technology - Can schools survive in the age of the web?
tags: research onlinelearning education
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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An interesting panel session that will also be streamed to the world coming up this week.tags: globaleducation education
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This article brought back to me the excitement I had for years and years of being in a library and the joys of discovery and 'ambush' as the author describes. Since teaching overseas in schools with sub-standard libraries, and in conjunction with the changes technology has brought, I have lost that feeling of anticipation and adrenalin rush of actually walking into a library, a space of learning full of resources waiting to be plucked off shelves. Yes, times are different, but I enjoyed this article because it did help me to remember the past.......Yes I also feel sad for what is lost, but the one constant in life is change of course.
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"Teacher Preparation for the Global Age: The Imperative for Change, highlights promising practices identified during this meeting and subsequent discussions and suggests a framework for internationalizing the education of all pre-service teachers and increasing the number of world language teachers, especially in less commonly taught languages."
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Students from the A Week in the Life Project 12-2 talk about their schools.This is an excellent artifact for comparing similarities and differences between lifestyles and cultures. Chin and USA represented.
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Interesting brainstorming and research tool.
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Site by Wesley Fryer. Great resources
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Wesley Fryer created this excellent portal leading to ideas, tools and resources for media in the curriculum. I love this!
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"SpeakingImage is an application for creating interactive images and share them with others. You can also create groups, add wikis and set different permissions to manage collaborative work "
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Have you watched this yet? Chris Betcher does an excellent job of sharing the importance and impact of collaborating globally for students in high school.
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Bernajean Porter shares many ideas and resources via this wiki. "Turning UP the H.E.A.T. is meant to reach, inspire and encourage education leadership to seek higher ground for learning visions and results, utilizing technology as a "backbone" strategy for innovating school cultures" ~ Bernajean
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An outstanding post from Jodi Amri from Stafford Primary School as she shares her end of project reflection via this teacher blog for the A Week in the Life project, a Flat Classroom Project for Grades 3-5 (8-10 year old). Her last paragraph: "We are teachers and students who want to make a difference in our world. We know we can do this when we reach out to others around the globe to share our common interests and concerns and build bridges of understanding between us. The Week in the Life project has given us this opportunity. It has also shown us what technology integration should look like. In this season when we give special focus to the things we are grateful for, we want to acknowledge the opportunity we have each day to learn with and from each other, as well as to be inspired by the learning all around us."
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"After more more than a decade of e-safety work in UK schools, the evidence suggests that most young people, who are supported and informed, know the key e-safety issues and are able to stay safe online."
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tags: education prediction
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Publication by Steve Katz,Technology Integration Specialist Korea International School South Korea @stevekatz. Very useful and thorough, highly recommended for teachers across all disciplines.
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This is an excellent article written by Wikispaces founder, Adam Frey, and James Byers.tags: education wikispaces
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"Mobile technology and social networks aren’t just disruptive to existing industries like communications and media, they are also helping the change the way that students learn and how education is delivered both in North America and around the world. And the disruption is just beginning."tags: education mobilecomputing
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Ed Tech Crew interview Julie Lindsay and talk about teaching and learning in the 21C including all things Flat Classroom
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"Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds. "
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Excellent collaborative work by teachers in the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher 12-1 cohort re designing a handshake for Middle school students using Glogster.
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Capture tasks, collaborate and get organisedtags: education organisation
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A free tool that works in conjunction with Google docs. It grades and reports analytics on student performance.
Flat Classroom Project for Teachers - Concept and Practice
So, similar to the Flat Classroom Project, see the FCP12-2 current project as well, teachers were put into mixed teams (Friedman flatteners), across different themes (Pink's themes) and collaborated on research to share on a wiki, then created a personal piece of multimedia (based on their topic and theme) and inserted an outsourced clip from another team member.
Here are some examples to see what I mean.
Barb's video - Social Entrepreneurship and PLE's
Jason Graham - also Social Entrepreneurship and PLE's - but quite different to Barb's
Caroline Black talks about Social Entrepreneurship and PLEs
Julie Balen's is about tackling PLEs from the Innovation, Invention and Prediction angle.
Helen CcConaghy The Education of Generation G shares how games and gamification can improve learning.
Lisette Casey shares her insights into Tablets in Education.
Tasha Cowdy - Tablet Computers in Early Childhood Talks about changing how young people communicate with the world through their CLN - Class Learning Network.
Tablet computing in Early Years education from tasha cowdy on Vimeo.
Yvonne Caples share through Transatlantic Journey 3.0 about communication and productivity with a mobile device.
Well done to the FCCT 12-1 cohort! They are also about to do their final presentations to complete the course. These are on their new global project designs. Everyone is welcome to attend as they are part of our Future Learning Action Talks (F.L.A.T.s). The next FLAT is on December 6, please join us online to hear about progressive global project design and ideas to flatten the classroom. You can find all FLATs listed as events on the Flat Classrooms (educators) Ning.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Why Khan Academy Is The Wrong Answer
This blog post really resonates with me. Content delivery is only part of the answer to teaching and learning now. All teachers and schools need to broaden their horizons.
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Global Virtual Classroom: A Free Online Educational Program
tags: education globalclassroom
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Global Virtual Classroom portal. Connects classrooms around the world for collaboration. Mystery Skype - call for classrooms now.
tags: globalcollaboration education
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EDEN - European Distance and E-Learning Network
The European Distance and E-Learning Network exists to share knowledge and improve understanding amongst professionals in distance and e-learning and to promote policy and practice across the whole of Europe and beyond.
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Pearson - Connections Learning offers a range of solutions that can be customized to fit your students’ needs and your school’s resources.
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iNACOL - International Association for K-12 Online Learning
"We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership association based in the Washington, DC area with over 3,800 members. We are unique; our members represent a diverse cross-section of K-12 education from school districts, charter schools, state education agencies, non-profit organizations, research institutions, corporate entities and other content & technology providers. "
tags: education blendedlearning virtualclassroom online k-12
- World Yellow Pages for Higher Studies. Find University, Institute, Colleges world wide & talk business. Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com - post by Muskan Roy
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Lincoln Interactive: Over 250 Online Courses for Grades K-12
tags: virtualclassroom onlinelearning blendedlearning education k-12
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From “The 20% Project” to “Staff Development for the 21st Century” Education Is My Life covered all the big topics in 2012. This book takes the best articles from our blog and compiles them into a must read for the education community. Whether you are interested in technology, 21st century leadership, or staff development — this resources provides information and inspiration to all.
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The Global Monster Project from Western Illinois University
tags: globalproject education
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Transatlantic Journey 3.0 - Flat Classrooms
Yvonne shares the many uses of a mobile device for communication, productivity and learning
tags: fcct12-1 education mobilecomputing
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Created by Lisette Casey, as part of the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course
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Helen provides a resourceful video that shares how important games and gamification are for learning
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#Flatclass Project Sekolah Bisa - YouTube
Jason Graham completed this video as part of the Flat Classroom Certified teacher course, and the Flat Classroom project for teachers assignment.
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iTeach: FCC10: Giving Learners Choice
tags: education choice fcct12-1 flatclassroom
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"Barb, love the clever use of Animoto for this as well as the practical way you showed the usefulness of a PLE for social entrepreneurship. Thanks!"
tags: education fcct12-1 flatclassroom
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Interpersonal Communication in the Age of Technology: It Takes Skill - Flat Classrooms
'Quad-blog' post by Flat Classroom Certified teachers in the 12-2 cohort. Excellent resources and discussion points. A very well written post!
tags: technopersonal education flatclassroom communication research
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Five minutes of the Best of WISE 2012! World Innovation Summit in Education, held in Doha Qatar November 13-15, 2012
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Learning with Meaning: Launching a Virtual Book Club
Join Kyle Dunbar and the next Flat Classroom virtual book club! Meetings will be on Mondays at 7:30pm EST on the following dates: January 7th January 21st February 4th February 18th March 4th March 18th
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Nominate Your Favorite – 2012 | The Edublog Awards
It's on again in 2012! Nominate your favorite and most inspiring Web 2.0 users.
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MentorMob Innovators: Carol Mortensen – Creating the Ultimate Online Learning Center with Symbaloo
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Young WISE Learners from the WISE conference in Qatar, November 2012 blog here.
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Did you miss something at the Global Education Conference Nov 12-16? You will find all recordings and links on this page! Enjoy!
tags: globaled12 education
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The 2012 Global Education Conference - Google+
Images of the Global Education Conference 2012. Amazing experiences.
tags: globaled12 pics education
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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"Studio Schools are a new type of government-funded state school for 14-19 year olds of all abilities, but with an innovative and important difference!"tags: education innovation
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I invite you to support this student initiative!
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HHR Sheikha Moza launches this initiative at WISE 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Collaborating for Change - Monkey Say, Monkey Do?
WISE - World Innovation Summit for Education Graham Brown-Martin
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Greg Whitby shares his insights into what school could/should be like.
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A Week in the Life 12-2 - Class Handshakes
The Flat Classroom Project for 8-10 year old students (Grades 3-5). Wonderful handshakes shared via a Symbaloo interface. Excellent!
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tags: research collaboration education
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50 Education Leaders Worth Following On Twitter - Edudemic
tags: education twitter leadership
- Download latest movies http://www.moviezhut.com - post by moviez hut
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Announcing the Global Student Leadership Forum — THINK Global School
tags: globalthinktank education student
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Learn2Talk: Julie Lindsay - YouTube
A Global Journey - the Learn2Talk (mini-keynote) I gave at the Learning 2.012 conference, Beijing October 2012
tags: jul learning2 education learn2talk
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This is fun!
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iPad — Cedars School of Excellence
"Cedars is known as the home of the world's first whole-school 1:1 iPad programme. Because we receive many enquiries about this every week - more than we can easily handle - this page is designed to answer your initial questions about our iPad deployment."
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FCP Teachers at the Global Education Conference 2012
A list of the many Flat Classroom Teachers presenting on global collaboration and learning at the Global Education Conference, November 12-16. All details at http://globaleducationconference.com
tags: flatclassroom globaleducationconference globaled12 education
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Home for the Google hangout by Australian Computer group. This weeks hangout featured Flat Classroom with Vicki and Julie
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The Best Unit I've Ever Taught (By Accident) | Edu Musings
An inspiring story of student engagement that changed the world
tags: collaboration pbl education
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Flat Classroom and Global Collaboration | WISE - World Innovation Summit for Education
tags: WISE flatclassroom education
Saturday, November 10, 2012
How to attend the Global Education Conference!
We encourage you to attend GEC as it is totally free and totally online, and there is ALWAYS something in your timezone when you are free for an hour or two during the day. Help is also needed to promote this further leading into next week, so we encourage you to also spread the word and share any press materials or badges.
Flat Classroom are excited to share with you the MANY presentations scheduled for the Global Education Conference, November 12-16, 2012 (next week!) from our very own Flat Classroom teachers and friends! Here a list of Flat Classroom teachers and Flat Classroom Certified Teachers who are presenting at GEC. Please support them, add their sessions to your calendar. You will learn a lot about Flat Classroom projects across K-12, as well as a lot about other global projects and global collaboration generally.
Not sure how to attend?
An online conference can be daunting - especially one that runs 24 hours a day, 5 days in a row! How do you access this? How do you make the most of this opportunity?
Black board Collaborate is the virtual classroom for presentations during the conference. Make sure you have downloaded the Java app necessary before you want to attend a session. It is easy to do, but if you are opening Blackboard for the first time it may take a few minutes.
Here is a short video to help you learn how to access the tools and be comfortable in this environment.
Thank you to the multimedia students at Middle Bucks Institute for Technology who created this video.
This video provides clear instructions on how to participate, how to find the sessions in YOUR time zone and how to access the Blackboard Collaborate rooms.
Thank you to the multimedia students at Middle Bucks Institute for Technology who created this video.
In addition - a SPECIAL invitation for those with students in upper middle and high school. Are you promoting 'leadership'? Do you have students who want to develop leadership skills, who want to share your ideas and meet other students online? Do you have students who want to discuss how positive change can be made in the world and plan with others how to do this? If so we invite you to encourage them to join the Global Student Leadership Forum (the NEW name is Global Think Tank - to be announced at the launch!). Flat Classroom and THINK Global School have joined together to support this student initiative. The launch is during GEC, and we invite you to attend, and your students to attend. All details HERE. Sign up to be sent more information HERE.
Here are some recommendations for sessions to attend, especially for middle and high school teachers, (don't worry, by Nov 12 each link below will also have the session time and link to the Blackboard Collaborate room to attend). It is impossible to be part of everything...BUT each session will be recorded and you can also access it after the conference!
- An international perspective on Mobile Learning - by World Virtual School
- Take your classroom global - by Kate Gatto, TakingITGlobal
- Online Model United Nations: MUN 2.0 and the Digitally Connected Delegate - Lisa Martin
- From Inspiration to Red Carpet: Showcase Awareness with a Film Festival - Bill Bass
- Why Isn't That in Our Textbook? Global Connections for Historical Understanding - Cameron Paterson
- Global Collaboration, Exploration and Innovation - Gayle Berthiaume
- A New Learning Legacy - Important Stories from the Flat Classroom - Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis
- DeforestACTION! Global Education for Environmental Stewardship - Sara Hassan (this is a wonderful TakingITGobal initiative)
- Global Citizens, Global Leaders: Preparing Every Learner to Lead in a Global Context - Chad Fairey
- Youth Voices Videos: The Brazilian Experience - Patricia Faustino
- Navigating a Flat World: Teaching Globalization in Secondary Education - Craig Perrier
- Information Technology in a Global Society Goes 3D - David Deeds
- "BYB with SAP" Burst Your Bubble with Student Ambassador Programs - Beate Nguyen
- FIGHT - for a voice, awareness and change - Bailey TGS
- Global Student Leadership Forum - Lee ann Thomas and TGS students - Yada, Paul, Hannah
- World Language Meets Glocal PBL: Local Solutions for Global Refugees - Jennifer Klein
- The local becomes global with student journalism on NewsAction.org - Tatyana Safronova
- Introduction to Project-Based Global Learning - Honor Moorman and Jennifer Klein
Don't forget to LIKE the Global Education Facebook page. If you are tweeting this on, please use the #globaled12 hashtag, and follow this tag next week!
Finally, help us to promote the conference through your networks. Promotion via Badges and Press releases.
Have a great Global Education Conference everyone!