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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 - home If you want to see what a massive collaboration of elementary students looks like, meet "A week in the life" the Flat Classroom project for kids ages 8-10. Here is a recent wiki. tags: education flatclass globaled Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .

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: education teaching qrcode Terronez Library Media Center - “He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge — where it is written and where it is to be found.” — A. A. Hodge Since August 2006 this Media Center has been blogging, sharing links and information. Such useful information here. Sometimes we show by example more than we can say by giving assignments. You can tell students blogging is important but if you don't do...

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 how a LiveScribe pen works, this is an excellent tutorial video. It isn't super fast but it shows you how it really works from beginning to end. This demo is how to create a pencast. Although some of you may be doing this on your ipad using some of the new apps, the Livescribe pen is a sub $100 pen that is very powerful. If you prefer to take notes you can record everything on the pen. I've had one and really enjoy it. tags: education eduapp math math_teacher ...

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 a time and place for getting away, we have traditionally only used that "away" method when we also need to use the "learn right here" method of delivery as well. Take a look at what Karen is doing here as you evaluate your pd delivery methods. I also have to admit that Spring Woods High school is one that has been an outstanding contributor to Flat Classroom in the past, so I personally know they are walking the walk here. tags: education news elearning professio...

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, ministers are being warned. The bleak scenario is predicted by heads’ leaders and teacher recruitment experts if the Government follows the recommendation of its national curriculum review expert panel to make history, geography and modern foreign languages compulsory for all 11 to 16-year-olds from 2014." tags: news education edreform uk ukedchat edu_trends Presidential ...

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 look for “Next Practices” instead of “Best Practices”. It’s time to put ideas that are unproven into practice, learn from our failures, and celebrate our successes. Here is my wish list:" Worth a read. tags: education globaled flatclass all_teachers bestpractices Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our...

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) "You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment." Want to get more out of your classroom: make the commitment first then start making the plan. This is called "owning" your goal in Franklin Covey-speak. tags: education teaching PediaPress – Home Printed books from wiki content? This website allows you to custom combined a variety of wiki articles from wikipedia or your favo...

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 eduapp Evernote Sponsored Groups | Evernote Corporation If you look at evernote for your school, you can have an evernote sponsored group. Here is the information on this. However, with the basic evernote being free, unless you want to share notebooks, etc. you may decide just to let everyone have the free account. tags: education eduapp ...

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 all their time sidling up to the arrogant are wasting their time? I don’t know and certainly “judging” people as to whether they are arrogant or humble is risky business. Sometimes I’ve thought a person was arrogant only to later find that they were really an introvert or nervous around large crowds of people. “The only other personality trait that has shown any effect is agreeableness, but we found that humility predicted helping over and above that.” In most cases, a person’s decision to help someone in need is influenced by temporary factors, such as time pr...

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 to review. tags: education news 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 ...

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...' - application deadline February 15, 2012 for AWL12-1 Eracism - application deadline February 30, 2012 for Eracism 2012 NetGenEd - application deadline February 1, 2012 for NetGenEd 2012 APPLY NOW! to become a Flat Classroom® Certified Teacher. Courses will run starting in September and November 2011, as well as March 2012. Global Education Conference 2011 tags: flatclass education globaled edu_news ...