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The Global Education Collaborative
Helping Teachers and Students Reach the World
This is a community for teachers and students interested in global education. Contribute by adding media, conversation, and collaborative project ideas. Make sure you post an intro in the forum!
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May 7 I am in need of an educator who uses skype to be involved in a call on Tuesday 13th May (Australia time) from aproximately 4:00 - 5:00pm (E.S.T). I am running a professional learning afternoon on s... Continue
Tagged: skype, collaboration
Started by Daniel. Last reply by Maria Leftwich May 7.
Join us at the Online Learning Institute at NECC, co-sponsored by ISTE, SREB and EDC/ETLO. It's a unique, day-long special event at NECC focused on online learning for teachers and students. For m... Continue
Started by Barbara Treacy May 3
Some teachers at a school near Montreal, QC in Canada have been working with their students about playgrounds and issues around playgrounds. The students have decided on aspects of this that they w... Continue
Tagged: playground, bullying, environment
Started by Susan van Gelder. Last reply by Valerie Becker May 3.
My school has begun some really interesting global initiatives involving partnering with school in such places as Mexico, India, China, etc. The past few days, I've begun to hear that we're spendin... Continue
Started by David Colon. Last reply by David Colon May 3.
Does anyone have any articles, studys, or anything they've read or know about digital development and changes in the US Private K-12 Marketing. I'm intrested in things like Laptops, white boards, ... Continue
Hi All - I ran across a post in Google's official blog about their literacy project. It seems to be promoting something called World Book Day, but it's unclear to me when that actually takes place... Continue
Tagged: google, book, day, world, literacy
Started by Lucy Gray. Last reply by Diane Midness Apr 23.
We are writing you to announce two very interesting and interconnected youth projects, one is our Cultures of Peace Online film festival project running September 2008 – December 2008 and the other... Continue
Tagged: culturesofpeace, iforaustria, internationalerversoehnungs...
Started by Gregory Kennedy-Salemi Apr 23
I will be presenting to staff next August about ways to go Global in the K-5 classroom. I would like to share http://www.panwapa.com, http://del.icio.us, and other sites for kids with them. Do you ... Continue
Started by Gail Komarek Apr 22
Greetings Everyone, I am currently completing a course for my Masters of Education entitled Computer Based Resources in Education, and was recently reading a very interesting article by Tim O'Reil... Continue
Started by Jeremy Guerin Apr 21
Greetings Fellow Members, My name is Jeremy Guerin. I am a Canadian ESL teacher currently working in the South Korean public school system on the island of Jeju-Do. In the context of my current Ma... Continue
Started by Jeremy Guerin. Last reply by Joe Dale Apr 20.
Here's the transcript and audio recording of last night's chat. I really like the feature on this web that allows you to leave text and video comments. If you haven't explored EdTechTalk yet, check... Continue
Tagged: sharon_peters, africa, wow2.0, south, sharonpeters
Started by Lucy Gray Apr 16
Last night I experimented with a couple of new Ning features: Notes and Events. I still don't really get Notes; it seems just like the Text feature, which lets ning managers add text boxes. The eve... Continue
Tagged: chat, wow2, edtechtalk
Started by Lucy Gray Apr 15
I'm beginning to plan a project for middle years students to study the Holocaust. I'd like to start the project in October, 08 and run for approximately two months. I would like to incorporate a li... Continue
Tagged: middle, years, collaborative, holocaust
Started by Kimberly Brown. Last reply by Lynne Crowe Apr 22.
Hi everyone I’m Perdita Harper and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I am working to complete a Master in Education (Education Technology) at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) where I am a... Continue
Started by Perdita Harper. Last reply by Gail Komarek Apr 30.
I have recently been involved with an early experiment in building collaborative teaching in a university. The university that I am working for, RMIT, has a priority one vision statement to become ... Continue
Started by Perdita Harper Apr 11
We have a wonderful grade 5 ESL teacher here at ISB who is looking for grade 5 ESL students around the world to start a small, manageable blogging and or podcasting project. Class blog is posted h... Continue
Tagged: blog, partners, podcast, blogging, podcasting
Started by Kim Cofino. Last reply by Kim Cofino Apr 23.
I'm currently working to create a Voicethread where students of the world can upload images of their hometowns and then brainstorm with one another about the similarities and differences between li... Continue
Started by Bill Ferriter Apr 7
Global Education Collaborative Meeting Details I spent my Saturday night chatting with friends, new and old, from around the US and the world. It's so easy to to develop the ties to make these co... Continue
Tagged: gec, meeting, advisory, board
Started by Lucy Gray. Last reply by Cheryl Lykowski Apr 7.
Please take this survey when you have a chance: http://tinyurl.com/5pnhyp Also, we had a FABULOUS meeting tonight via Flashmeeting. 25 people were in attendance and everyone contributed some great... Continue
Tagged: replay, flashmeeting, notes, board, advisory
Started by Lucy Gray Apr 6
I am looking for classes to join me on one of the two ning networks that I created.The first one is for 11 to 13 year olds. At the moment it is Holland, Israel and Kenya working but there is always... Continue
Started by Annemiek. Last reply by Kimberly Brown Apr 14.
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