Today marks the first day of the first middle school 1001 Tales writing workshop! Our students have just been introduced to the project and will be working with students in Serbia and Canada to produce myths and legends for the alien king about Malaysia. If you are a middle school teacher, and would like to…
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Last night we went out with a group of teachers from school. While we try to avoid talking about school on the weekend, it invariably comes up since we all work together. Last night we had an especially good conversation about technology, specifically blogging, and I realized that these casual conversations are, often times, even…
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This is the kind of feedback I love to get when starting an integrated project: The wiki is so cool! It is the perfect solution to group projects where you want the kids to collaborate but when it comes time to save information there is always a problem since one student stores everything in his/her…
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At this time last year I never would have thought I would be working with teachers all around the world on so many different projects. Forget about that feeling of isolation I used to feel due to working in international schools… The world of web 2.0 has opened my eyes to so many possibilities that…
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I am extremely dissappointed that I was unable to participate in the recent NextGen Teachers International Voices netcasts due to my horrendously slow internet connection here in KL. And, now, thanks to Chris‘ recent meme, I’m crystal clear on just how slow it is: I see that Julie’s at about the same connection speed, and…
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