Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/07/2012

• The IB News - daily

  Ah, my friend Julie finally gets the book in China! I'm so excited for her (and for us) and now I'm pouring over the public Kindle comments that my friends are leaving (or really anyone.) If you read on Kindle, sign in online and then make your notes public and I'll be watching! ;-)

  tags: education flatclass

• Global Education – When Hard Work Pays Off « coal cracker classroom

  Suzie Nestico did an amazing job this past semester as our project manager for Flat Classroom 11-3. Here, she reflects on what her students learned and the individual awards of her students. I love hearing the reflections of students. It is so similar to what we've heard before and yet it is new every time another student says he/she now understands what it is like to collaborate and connect with others throughout the world.

  tags: education flatclass

• Are you an iCitizen: A Project on Citizenship in the 21st Century - Be the Change

  Beth Sanders from Birmingham Alabama shares her students' iCitizen PSA announcements. This is a project that they have been working on to share their thoughts about what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century. I do hope she'll continue to take her students out into the web to connect even more but this is a great start.

  tags: education digiteen digitalcitizenship globaled flatclass

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/06/2012

• Valentine's Day card Design - Resources - TES

  great ideas to help students design their own cards for those they care about.

  tags: education teaching lesson plans

• Coronary Heart Disease and Diet - Poster - Resources - TES

  It is a great tie in with Valentine's day to share about heart disease and heart health. Here is a poster you can use in the classroom to talk about diet and coronary heart disease.

  tags: teaching education lesson plans health

• Teaching Resources, Classroom Resources & Lesson Plans - TES Resources

  Valentine's Day lesson plans and activities for teachers.

  tags: teaching lessonplans holidays elemchat

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YouTube subscriptions to rock the classroom

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YouTube's initiative to add original programming to their site is producing quite a few "channels" of interest to the educator. It would make sense to set up a YouTube account for your school id and have a filtering system that lets you bypass to get to these great resources. YouTube is a distribution system and like all distribution systems: books, podcasts, etc. it has been criticized for content. It is and always has been: what content do you access that determines how well it is used.

So, here's a roundup of some of the YouTube channels you may wish to add to your YouTube subscriptions. Now, I just have to get on my Roku to determine the best way to bring these into my living room.

The Open University - Produced by open.edu there are many topics here and ratings on their website, but now the content is being syndicated to YouTube as well. Check out the website for free courses and close captioned video.

Yale University courses has a channel and playlists. It isn't quite as well organized as some of the others but is one you can use to find more content.

Library of Congress YouTube Channel - I've noticed some literary author's having their birthdays celebrated here but also concerts, national book events and more. This is a treasure for librarians and literature teachers.

BBC Worldwide - The "best of British TV" has come to Youtube. In addition to educational content, there are also playlists with clips of great shows like Sherlock. (which is coming back for a second season. I have to wonder, however, when they'll realize to just put the whole show through so we can watch it.

The Intelligent Channel - this is a new launch (read the Open culture article) to establish "intelligent conversation" on the web.

The Spangler Effect - A science teacher who makes science fun. This is a great channel and has tons of potential. (See the Guinness World Record experiement opener.) I do hope that he lets us start forwarding past the disclaimer which is a bit long to have at the beginning of each video.It is funny once and I'd show it the first time, but the other times, it should be a skipper.

TED Education channel - Where teachers will share their lessons.

If you want to get a full rundown of new channels coming to Youtube, check out their list of original channels. Of interested to educators, Deep Sky Videos (depths of space, galaxies, etc.), Sci Show,

Personally, I'm looking forward to being able to subscribe to "Stan Lee's World of Heroes" but it isn't available yet.

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eBooks and Book News (weekly)

• 1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy

  This teacher is using iTunes producer to write books for her students in Indonesian and has run into trouble, however, here is her advice with screenshots and graphics. Some very practical advice to those writing free ibooks for their students.

  tags: education apple edapp eduapp ibook ebook

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/04/2012

• Knotebooks - Anyone can contribute. Everyone can learn.

  Website with tons of math and physics resources shared through a community. This site will give you the best physics and math multimedia on the web in one place. The partners are MIT OpenCourseware and Stony Brook University. This is another way to mashup content and how material is becoming more open

  tags: education news math math_teacher

• Sweet Search

  This search engine is intended to be for students and has widgets and add ins for web browsers. The websites that are returned in this engine have been evaluated by "research experts." In this case, you have a curated sort of search. 

  tags: education news media mediacenter librarian

• Sympoz - http://sympoz.com

  Online classes and courses in all types of topics. 

  tags: news education elearning

• E-learning - Online Tools and Applications on Go2Web20

  Tons of web 2 tools for elearning. Here are some I haven't played with yet. If you love playing with apps, this website will give you lots of them.

  tags: education web2 eduapp edapp news

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/04/2012

• Education Week: U.S. Schools Forge Foreign Connections Via Web

  Excellent article about collaboration between US and overseas classroom includes Flat Classroom superstar, Suzie Nestico.

  tags: education flatclass globaled

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/03/2012

• CarrotSticks Online Math Games

  If you're teaching addition, your students can play carrot sticks free. There is a fee for advanced games. Targeted to grades 1-5, this is a multiplayer math game.

  tags: teaching lessonplans elemchat math_teacher

• Online Coloring pages, Kids games, printables, crafts- Kidopo

  This website is full of coloring pages, printables, and games. This looks like a website with useful materials for elementary teachers.

  tags: teaching lessonplans

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