After spending a year getting to know elementary students and elementary teachers (it’s definitely quite a switch from middle school), I’m finally starting to feel like I know what kinds of projects are appropriate and achievable in the elementary classroom. All of the projects I completed with our amazing teachers last year really helped me…
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Jen Wagner and I are so thrilled to be sharing our thoughts about globally collaborative projects at the wonderful K12 Online conference this October. Here’s the title and description of our session: Connecting Classrooms Across Continents: Planning and Implementing Globally Collaborative Projects Ready to “flatten” your classroom walls? Looking to take web 2.0 tools to…
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At the beginning of every school year, I’m reminded of how important it is to build collaborative relationships with teachers. As a resource person I believe the most crucial area of my relationship with teachers is becoming a true collaborative partner with classroom teachers – actually teaching together with them in the classroom, building on…
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Over the past few months, I’ve worked on two major projects with several of our fourth grade classes: Books Go Global! and the 1001 Flat World Tales project. I absolutely loved working with fourth grade and it was especially interesting to do the 1001 Tales project for the second time with such a different age…
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This Friday ISB will be celebrating Earth Day in style as part of the fantastic Project Global Cooling developed by Clay Burell. Thanks to the tireless work of Justin Medved, James Denby, Dennis Harter and the ISB Green Panthers team, we have a plethora of events going on throughout the day in our elementary school (see the schedule of events for more details) and…
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