Taking IT Global!

[Submission post for the Taking IT Global contest] What happens when you connect 4 schools across the globe to discover the world as our students see it? The best part about unleashing the chaos – learning, collaborating, investigating, sharing, discovering. The International Teen Life project I wrote about a few weeks ago has developed into…

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IT Integration Planning: Requirements for Success

Part of our integration planning has been to make sure we remove as many “barriers to success” as we can. We’ve tried to address all of them on our IT integration planning wiki. Here’s the list we came up with during our planning – all of these items need to be in place for technology…

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Wikis at work: laying the foundation for technology integration

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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1001 Tales: Choose your own adventure

In order to create a truly exciting and enticing story for their 1001 Flat World Tales projects, many of our students are choosing to include alternate endings, in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure books from the 80’s. When we started explaining how to create links between pages, and how they can create…

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Multimedia meets multi-literacy

The International Teen Life project we’ve been working on for the last few months has recently gotten a little press. I love that the students’ work is making it into the news, but what I love even more is their comments on Mr. R’s post about the article: When I had finished reading that article,…

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