Now that our first few weeks of school are over and things are beginning to settle into a more manageable pace, I am finally starting to work with our individual classroom teachers to get the technological ball rolling. One of my major goals this year is to continue with the sort of global collaborations I…
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Summer vacation is officially over! For the last week I have been constantly engaged in new teacher orientation activities at ISB. We’ve been wined and dined and orientated to every possible aspect of the school imaginable from culture, to banking, to technology. Although it’s all been very interesting (and extremely thorough), I’ve been anxiously awaiting…
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My eighth grade students just spent two class lessons working as a Sounding Board for the The Horizon Project – another fantastic collaboration with Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis, Vienna International School, Presbyterian Ladies College and Shanghai American School (check out our finished work on our class wiki). This particular group of students has been through…
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For the past year, we have been working on laying a solid foundation for our technology integration program here at M’KIS. This is the second international school where I have developed an integrated program from scratch (with the IT team, of course) and I think we’ve done a much better time this time around. A…
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Clearly I’m enamored with YackPack. As I was walking to work the other day I was thinking about all the different ways I can either use it myself, or encourage our faculty to take advantage of this cool new tool (my walk is about 5 minutes door-to-door, so it was a quick think). Here’s what…
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