Key Notes from the K12Online Pre-Conference Keynote

This past Monday evening, at 7pm Bangkok time, the ISB Learning Hub team (including our fabulous admin team: Annelies, Struan, and our superstar tech coordinators: Justin and Dennis) got “geeked” as we watched the pre-conference keynote of 2007 K12Online Conference here in our fabulous Learning Hub: We started by watching the 2006 keynote presentation by…

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Essential Understandings for 21st Century Literacy

Last week our elementary admin team along with our curriculum coordinators had an excellent meeting about the direction our school is moving in terms of technology and 21st century literacy. Here at ISB we have amazing resources, all the hardware and software you could ever want, and we’re focusing our professional development on authentically embedding…

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The Hook: Going Global With Collaborative Book Reviews

Update: Check out our new wiki: Books Go Global! Please feel free to add your class to our Participating Schools page and collaborate with us! Thanks to Lucy Gray for inspiring our wiki layout with her fabulous Cities of the World wiki (another amazing global collaboration to join!) ———- Today I introduced our two fourth…

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Xtreme Learning: Using Ning to Engage Highly Able Readers

As part of our school-wide focus on reading this year, and our organizational goal of ensuring that we engage our highly able students, two of our grade 5 classrooms are creating a collaborative Ning to allow our “high fliers” to share and communicate with each other – even if they are not in the same…

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Voices of the World

Not every global collaboration has to be a time-consuming, classroom changing, priority rearranging project. Sometimes, you come across one that is so simple (for the participants – not the poor, overworked, organizer) that it’s just impossible to pass up (have I mentioned that it’s practically impossible for me to say “no” to any project?)… Voice…

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