Through the 1001 Flat World Tales project, our seventh graders are quickly learning that writing, to be read online, should look very different from writing to be read off-line. We realized that when reading online we need: lots of space between paragraphs clear and deliberate headings in large, bold font bullets to organize lists of…
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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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Do you have this problem in your schools too? Teacher A has been told to integrate technology. Although there has been some technology training throughout the year, Teacher A does not have much time to devote to learning all there is to know about technology integration (and even less time to actually learn how to…
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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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