Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Across My Desk (weekly)
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An excellent project set up by Flat Classroom Certified teachers 2011
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A new global project created by Amy Jambour, Flat Classroom Certified teacher 2011
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BISS DezineTech - MYP Design Technology
I highly commend this website created by the Design Technology teacher, Rob Anderson, at BISS, China.
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Second Life™ Newbie Resource | StrawberrySingh.com
Just what I need at the start of the school year! A refresher and reminder about Second Life.
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Sunday, August 07, 2011
Across My Desk (weekly)
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ASB Un-Plugged Conference registration Now Open!
Come to the American School of Bombay in Mumbai, India. Flat Classroom will also be running a full student workshop as well as a teacher workshop.
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Idea Flight | Get your ideas off the ground
"Idea Flight is the only tool you need to share your ideas easily on iPad. Captivate your audience in a whole new way, keep everyone on the same page and network on the fly. Download the free app and see a sample presentation. More engagement. More control. One great idea. Yours."
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E-Learning Journeys: Flat Classroom® Projects
applications now open for elementary, middle and high school projects
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ISTE 2011 Conference Kickoff (full) - YouTube
If you scroll to the last 30 min or so you will see my presentation at the ISTE 2011 opening!
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Flat Classroom® Projects - applications now open for elementary, middle and high school projects
The Digiteen™ Project explores digital citizenship through interaction and provides an opportunity for students to not only talk about digital citizenship, but experience via online connection, collaboration, shared research and presentation. It also has an action project component where a classroom designs an action to be carried out in their own school community and then shared back to the global partnership.
The Flat Classroom® Project is designed to develop cultural understanding, skills with Web 2.0 and other software, experience in global collaboration and online learning, awareness of what it means to live and work in a flat world, while researching and discussing the ideas developed in Friedman's book.
The ‘A Week in the Life...’ Project aims to join Elementary School classrooms globally with a view to exploring what life is like in each area/country through discussion, sharing and collecting multimedia to create final products together. The curriculum focus is Interdisciplinary, how we live, how we communicate, cultural understanding and awareness.
Entry to a each project is via application and subscription. In order to help meet the subscription price, teachers can apply for a limited number of sweat equity positions as ‘lead teachers’.
All details for each of these outstanding projects can be found linked from the Flat Classroom® website. We welcome inquiries to fcp@flatclassroom.org
Watch this space for more announcements of new projects coming, including the repeat of the popular ‘Eracism’ Project, as well as an opportunity for educators to join our next Flat Classroom® Certified Teacher course, also starting in September 2011.
Also, our book, ‘Flattening Classroom, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration one Step at a Time’ is due for release January 2012. Find out more at www.flatclassroombook.com