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Chris Smith Shambles Newsletter November 2009 ... online

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Added by Chris Smith on November 10, 2009 at 11:47pm — No Comments

Durff K12Online2009 LAN Party

Please join us on November 18, 2009 at 22:30GMT/3:30pmPST/ 4:30pmMST/5:30pmCST/6:30pmEST for a live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference

On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in l… Continue

Added by Durff on November 9, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments

mrsdurff Flatclassroom09-3 SoundingBoards

Every fall a global project takes place led by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis. This year over 220 students from 5 countries will research trends in information technology and globalizatio… Continue

Added by mrsdurff on October 30, 2009 at 9:23pm — No Comments

Anna Tuttle You May Be Wondering How I'm Doing.

Alecia rightfully asked for me to respond in writing about my first Skype conversation with the Peru students. I couldn't keep my mouth shut after our first 'meet-up' with the Santa Rosa School- I told everyone I saw that day how wonderful it went and how proud I was of my students! However, I needed to put this in writing. Below you'll see a copy of my blog post concerning my reaction to both of my first interactions (I Skyped with both of my classes, so it took two different days of "meetings"… Continue

Added by Anna Tuttle on October 27, 2009 at 10:23pm — No Comments

Dorothy Burt The Education Project Bahrain 2009

In October 2009 I was fortunate to be one of 300 educators from 65 countries around the globe who attended The Education Project Bahrain 2009 conference. This conference was set up by H.H. Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, The Crown Prince of Bahrain and Chairman of Bahrain’s Economic Development Board, to look at solutions for the gap in quality of the global education system.… Continue

Added by Dorothy Burt on October 27, 2009 at 10:15pm — No Comments

David Comp New Facebook fanpage for International Higher Education Consulting Blog

I just created a Facebook fanpage for my International Higher Education Consulting Blog. If you are interested in international exchange and citizen diplomacy issues you may want to become a fan here: http://tinyurl.com/yktodfz If the link doesn't work you can always search for "International Higher Education Consulting Blog" within Facebook and you'll find it. Continue

Added by David Comp on October 19, 2009 at 9:06pm — 2 Comments

Chris Smith College Fair in Second Life

On the 24th October there is a College Fair in Second Life ... the 2nd year this has run. This is a Global initiative but most of the Universities and Colleges who are building their exhibits/booths are USA centric. It would help to have more worldwide ... so I hope you can help spread the word. The first weekend is the presentations (all slots now full) and then the College/Univ exhibits stay up until 13th November. Full details are at ht… Continue

Added by Chris Smith on October 17, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Chris Smith Give a shoutout to Yokohama International School Students

Quoting email from Genki Unno (unnog at yis.ac.jp) ----------------------------------------- START "Just to let you all know, Yokohama International School is on its Field Studies this upcoming week of Oct. 19~23. And continuing from last year, a large portion of our 10th graders will be blogging with mobile phones and computers equipped with eMobile modems for the week. I will also be on the ground with our Hiroshima group. You can check out our materials and updates on… Continue

Added by Chris Smith on October 17, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Jeffrey A. Roth Facebook Apps for Education

Facebook has been making many inroads into education over the last few years. Many institutions are using Facebook sites to publicize events on campus, as well as to aid in their recruiting. As well, many students, instructors and administrators are using a number of Facebook applications for a wide variety of academic purposes. Recently we’ve been examining a number of Facebook apps that are relevant for educational use. We’ve assembled a small list of 20 facebook apps here and are happy to h… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 15, 2009 at 11:07am — No Comments

Jeffrey A. Roth The Times Higher Education World Rankings: Harvard Ranked #1, Cambridge #2

The Times Higher Education rankings have been released today, and we’re very excited to see a client of ours, University of Cambridge has moved up to #2 ranking globally. Harvard maintains it #1 ranking and Yale comes in at #3. Rather than quibble about where you school ranks, I’m curious if you believe such rankings are important and offer value. Did you or your children use lists like this to help decide which school to attend? Let us know what you think. Please feel free to join our upcomin… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 8, 2009 at 12:45pm — No Comments

Chris Smith Connecting Classrooms Globally

Mini tour around the Shambles website to resources helping to enable global connections between classrooms. Continue

Added by Chris Smith on October 7, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Erik Black Eyed Peas “Youth Voices” PSA Empowers Youth Through Digital Arts

The Adobe Foundation and The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation today unveiled a new public service announcement called “Plant Inspiration.” The PSA promotes the launch of Adobe Youth Voices, a non-profit that stresses the pow… Continue

Added by Erik on October 7, 2009 at 5:22pm — No Comments

Tara Calling all art and technology educators from around the World!

I am looking to exchange information with you, (lessons, class information..etc.) I alos have created a ning just for us!Come an dcheck it out! visualarteducators.ning.com Looking forward to meeting you! Continue

Added by Tara on October 7, 2009 at 4:05pm — No Comments

Danielle Choo Looking for educators to chat with!

Hi everyone! I am currently a substitute teacher in NY who is looking for educators around the world to chat with. I am looking to learn about how other teachers are using technology in their classroom. Continue

Added by Danielle Choo on October 5, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

lady di Primary Partnership?

Hello all. I am looking for a few classrooms across the world to participate in a global project about trees. It involves adopting a tree common to your geographical location with classrooms across the world three times a year; fall, winter and spring. Here is the ning that explains what could be done with this. http://worldtrees.ning.com/profiles/blogs/trees-around-the-world Thank you Diane Darrow Continue

Added by lady di on October 3, 2009 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Melissa Z. Social Studies Around the World

Hi Everybody! I'm looking for social studies teachers from outside of the United States to talk to, compare notes and education and all that comes with it. Anybody interested? -Melissa Z. Continue

Added by Melissa Z. on October 2, 2009 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Danielle Miner would love to meet an early childhood educator or adminstrator outside the continental US, in order to compare stories, get new ideas....

etc.... anyone out there who can share my stories of success, craziness, and just plain love of children and learning on the other side of the globe?? Continue

Added by Danielle Miner on September 29, 2009 at 7:25pm — 2 Comments

David Comp IHEC Blog will Participate in Blog Action Day 2009 Focusing on Climate Change

October 15th will be Blog Action Day 2009 and International Higher Education Consulting Blog has registered and will participate. The theme of Blog Action Day 2009 is Climate Change and my plan is to highlight the various efforts and resou… Continue

Added by David Comp on September 29, 2009 at 12:26pm — No Comments

Jeffrey A. Roth Does Twitter have a place in Education?

Clearly this has been a tremendous year of growth for Twitter. Current valuation estimates of the company are in the order of $1 billion, and users are expected to reach 250 million over the next few years. A an eLearning provider, on a daily basis, we are talking to schools that looking at using it both for themselves as well as possibly having their students use it in some fashion. Campus Technology recently reported,… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 18, 2009 at 1:08pm — 1 Comment

Jeffrey A. Roth Does eLearning need to have a ROI that’s more than just money?

The Adobe Captivate Blog earlier this month reported on a Higher Ed blog - http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ “Around 70% of faculty believe that the learning outcomes of online learning are inferior to F2F.” This got me thinking about business eLearning. I have seen all sorts of content classified as eLearning and as an educator I have to ask – Is it important to have learning outcomes associated with eLearning for it to… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 18, 2009 at 8:19am — No Comments

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