-
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.
-
Global Virtual Classroom portal. Connects classrooms around the world for collaboration. Mystery Skype - call for classrooms now.
-
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.
-
Pearson - Connections Learning offers a range of solutions that can be customized to fit your students’ needs and your school’s resources.
-
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. "
- World Yellow Pages for Higher Studies. Find University, Institute, Colleges world wide & talk business. Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com - post by Muskan Roy
-
Lincoln Interactive: Over 250 Online Courses for Grades K-12
-
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.
-
Transatlantic Journey 3.0 - Flat Classrooms
Yvonne shares the many uses of a mobile device for communication, productivity and learning
-
Created by Lisette Casey, as part of the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course
-
Helen provides a resourceful video that shares how important games and gamification are for learning
-
#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.
-
"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!"
-
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!
-
Five minutes of the Best of WISE 2012! World Innovation Summit in Education, held in Doha Qatar November 13-15, 2012
-
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
-
Nominate Your Favorite – 2012 | The Edublog Awards
It's on again in 2012! Nominate your favorite and most inspiring Web 2.0 users.
-
MentorMob Innovators: Carol Mortensen – Creating the Ultimate Online Learning Center with Symbaloo
-
Young WISE Learners from the WISE conference in Qatar, November 2012 blog here.
-
Did you miss something at the Global Education Conference Nov 12-16? You will find all recordings and links on this page! Enjoy!
-
The 2012 Global Education Conference - Google+
Images of the Global Education Conference 2012. Amazing experiences.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
-
"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
-
I invite you to support this student initiative!
-
HHR Sheikha Moza launches this initiative at WISE 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
-
Collaborating for Change - Monkey Say, Monkey Do?
WISE - World Innovation Summit for Education Graham Brown-Martin
-
Greg Whitby shares his insights into what school could/should be like.
-
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!
-
tags: research collaboration education
-
50 Education Leaders Worth Following On Twitter - Edudemic
tags: education twitter leadership
- Download latest movies http://www.moviezhut.com - post by moviez hut
-
Announcing the Global Student Leadership Forum — THINK Global School
tags: globalthinktank education student
-
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
-
This is fun!
-
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."
-
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
-
Home for the Google hangout by Australian Computer group. This weeks hangout featured Flat Classroom with Vicki and Julie
-
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
-
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!
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Digital Dimensions in Manila
I also spent some time with Rina Bautusta (President) and Edric and Doris from the Knowledge Channel Foundation based in Manila. This was an enlightening time as I learned about the TV shows the KC create and disseminate, and how many communities throughout the Philippines are not connected or have very little access to the Internet therefore television remains a major means of multimedia content for education. We talked a lot how to improve learning and access to digital resources in underprivileged communities. Teachers across the country are wanting to learn new methods but often lack support and facility to implement these. There is no easy answer, and real change will only come when infrastructure across the country is improved, however I do feel there is a lot that can be done to change pedagogical approach even before full or regular access to online tools is available.
Rina also provided an opportunity for me to speak with other educators and also representatives from other organisations AND the Filipino Education Department at The Beacon School, which is a Filipino Community IB World School led by Principal Mary Chua. This was an excellent session and I spoke about Flat Classroom as well as ISTE and the support this global organisation can provide to teachers, as well as 21st Century learning.
The Digital Dimensions Workshop was held over 2 days with about 35 teachers, mostly from Brent IS.
- integrate the use of Web 2.0 tools into the daily life of an educator;
- work as a collaborative team and explore the potential of global collaboration in the curriculum
- develop quality digital assessment tasks and associated rubrics; and,
- support project-based digital learning.
- Integrating Web 2.0 and emerging technologies
- 'Flattening' the classroom locally and /or globally
- Modelling collaborative learning modes as process and as part of project design
Julie and staff at the EARCOS office, Brent IS, Manila |
Web 2 Smackdown! |
Teams working on project |
Final team presentations! |
Some comments from participants:
"I will use much better/interesting presentation of ideas than I have been and I will work on promoting/facilitating deeper 'discovery' using tech tools. I have a much better understanding of how I can use Delicious effectively to help guide students." Joseph Levno, Director of Academic Affairs, Brent IS
"Where can I take this? It feels like the possibilities are endless!" Mary Meikle English Lit and ESL Upper School, Brent IS
"This is a timely workshop, others should also find time to go." anon
Find out more from my portfolio, Learning Confluence, re professional development opportunities that can be brought to your school.
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
-
tags: blendedlearning education
-
Index page to the research programs of Common Sense Media.
-
Great pics from the Learning 2.012 conference held in Beijing, China mid-October
-
Thank you to Duane from Manitou, Canada for sharing his class wiki and how the Personal Video piece is explained to his students. This is excellent teachersourcing!
-
Alltop is a syndication website for blogs. Lots of topics and an excellent way to find blogs to follow! You can create your own account like this.
-
Interesting to see the rise of Edmodo in this set of statistics.