Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 01/01/2012

Whole School: Sustainability: Global citizenship teaching resources - TES Tons of global citizenship ideas for your school. As you work to reach the world, these maps, images, and lesson plans can help you get started. tags: education flatclass globaled aweekinthelife11-1...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 12/31/2011

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator from classtools.net QR Code treasure hunt generator. Classtools.net has long been my favorite place for graphic organizers, easy video game review games, and Fakebook, but now there is a QR Treature hunt generator. It does all the work for you. So cool. Take a look and do a kind of treasure hunt kids will love. tags: ...

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Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 12/31/2011

iPad lesson Plans and teaching ideas Here is a great list of ipad teaching ideas and lesson plans across a lot of subjects. tags: eduapp education ipad all_teachers How to Create and Share a Pencast | SmartPen.tv If you want to see exactly...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 12/31/2011

11 Tools for the 21st Century Learner This is a course for Spring Branch ISD which uses a blog as the framework. I also love how 9 hours of professional development is being given for the educators in this course. We need more embedded PD that gives teachers an opportunity to embed their learning in their daily activity. Embedded PD is the key to transformational learning. While there is...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 12/31/2011

Curriculum changes could spark supply crisis - news - TES The US is not the only country in government educational induced turmoil. Here is an overview of what is happening in England right now."Make teachers redundant or have them teach subjects they are not trained in - that is the stark choice cash-strapped secondaries will face if national curriculum changes proposed this week are introduced,...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 12/31/2011

My Wish List for Education in 2012 | Education Is My Life TEacher AJ Juliani (a Flat Classroom certified teacher) writes a beautiful and profound blog on his wish list. He understand and gets global collaboration in the classroom. Especially moving is this quote:"My wish list for Education in 2012 is centered around the belief that it is time to try “new things in new ways”. It is time to...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 12/30/2011

An Alternative to Student Gifts | Expat Educator This teacher asks for students to donate to a charity  if they really must give a gift. Great ideas. tags: education teaching Seth's Blog: The reason productivity improvements don't work (as well as they could) ...

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Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 12/30/2011

Splashtop App Opens a Whole New World for me on my iPad – DEN Blog Network DEN Educator Carolyn Stanley shares how she's using Splashtop to stream Discovery Streaming to her ipad and the other uses that she's finding. This is something that teachers using ipads need to know about and test in their classrooms. tags: education splashtop...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 12/30/2011

Humble People More Likely to Lend a Hand | Psych Central News Some people look down on the humble. Don't. They may be the one to help you when you most need it. For me, I like to follow people I see helping others on Twitter or Facebook because it tells me about who they are (i.e. the #endslavery tweeting some of us have been doing.) On a note, does this mean that nonprofits who spend...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 12/30/2011

PediaPress – Catalog This is the catalog of books from Pedia press. While some editors are wikipedians, it is interesting to me how one of the top books is American Warplanes of WWII that has one editor. It looks like you can take it and pull from wikipedia and then edit. This is very interesting. While it is not new news about pediapress, when it first came out we didn't have such examples...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 12/30/2011

Application for Flat Classroom® Project 2011-2012 Current application dates for Flat Classroom projects.I'll be running NetGenEd and co-planning Eracism with Julie as well as work with the book club starting in February. Flat Classroom Project - application deadline January 23, 2012 for FCP12-1 Digiteen - application deadline February 1, 2012 for Digiteen 12-1 'A Week in the Life...'...

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