One of our school goals for this school year is reading. As a school we are focusing on developing a love of reading in our students and evaluating our teaching practices to ensure that our students are meeting their expected learning results with reading. So, I was very excited to read Wes Fryer’s recent post…
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This Friday, September 21st is International Peace Day and one of our fourth grade teachers, Scott, would like to bring a global perspective into his classroom. We hope you and your class can help! Scott has written a post on his classroom blog requesting that students and teachers around the world comment on what peace…
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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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Lately I’ve been thinking, posting and reading a lot about global collaborations. All of my students are currently involved in international projects and I’m starting to make more and more connections with possible future collaborators thanks to The Global Education Collaborative, Classroom 2.0 and NextGen Teachers on Ning. I’m so excited about being able to…
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[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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