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ClassChats.com ~ Connecting Students Worldwide A website that many teachers are using to match up with other classrooms and skype and videoconference between them. Several teachers in Maine are doing this that I know of including Cherrie MacInnes. Great place to go! tags : education , learning , flatclassroom , www_world , virtual_communication Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge Are your studetns ready to become eco-heroes? Sign up for this. "The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are partnering again this year to educate, empower and engage students and teachers nationwide to become "Agents of Change" in improving their communities through the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge. This year the Challenge expands to high school, by inviting students in grades 9-12 to join the effort to meet the environmental challenges of our age. This new phase of the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge kicks off today at an exclusive screening of Discovery Channel's new documentary LIFE at Philadelphia's renowned Franklin Institute in conjunction with the NSTA National Conference." tags : education , environment , science_health , worldonline , social_entrepreneurship Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Everything You Need To Know About Detecting Plagiarism and Preventing It Plagiarism facts, free tools, and statistics. tags : education , learning , digital_law , integrity Graduate student scholarships to help you attend ISTE 2010 If you'd like to attend ISTE and are a teacher who is in a grad program, you can apply for a scholarship to help you. "Graduate Student Scholarships for attending ISTE 2010 are available from SIGTE! Deadline to apply is April 30th, 2010 SIGTE is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships in the amount of up to $500 for graduate students to participate at the ISTE 2010 conference June 27-30 in Denver, CO. By providing this scholarship, we hope that more graduate students will have the opportunity to network with others in the field, gain new perspectives on the use of educational technologies in teaching and learning environments, and grow as a scholar or practitioner." tags : education , iste , iste2010 Take the Don’t Fry Day Pledge | Su...

One of my digital film students, Will, went with us to the Flat Classroom conference in India and has a friend who told him about a Film Festival in Korea.  Will showed her some of his work for my digital film class and his friend from Korea fell on the floor laughing at the comedy that he did for film class.  This assignment was to use slapstick humor and a certain number of sound effects in a genre of comedy that we had discussed in class. Just for fun, this also required a lot of editing.  So, I'm just sharing the video here for you which Will posted on the Ning .  Just for laughs! Find more videos like this on Flat Classroom Conference I loved how my dear teacher friends Steve and Julie commented so quickly. My response was this: He is the most gifted videographer that I have ever taught and has an ability to make film's just reach right off the page. Will is a product of Flat Classroom and NetGenEd and improves with every film that he makes! This...

Best content in NetGenEd 2010 | Diigo - Groups You can see the research happening by the students on the @netgened project on this Diigo group. Learning to collaboratively research is an essential skill! tags : education , learning westwood - Open Sim Tutorials and Instructions My ninth graders have completed a module documenting how to do various tasks in OpenSim, the virtual world we use that is hosted by Reactiongrid. This wiki has the links, instructions, and other pages with tutorials on how to do various items. I was assessing this today and thought I'd pass it along as there is some great information to show you how to do things. (If you are a beginning second lifer you may also learn some things.) tags : education , learning , opencontent , edu_trends , techintegrator , arts_entertainment , web2.0 , worldonline , invention [ #gbl10 ]: Game-Based Living: the core of new media literacies [Part 1] - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education Excellent read for everyone in ...

ASCD Literacy in a Digital Age Presentation Notes I just love this presentation from ASCD with Ben Grey and Angela Maiers - the presentation slides are beautiful and thoughts are compelling - a great read on the redefinition of literacy! tags : education , learning , literacy , ascd , all_teachers , professionaldevelopment Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Image via Wikipedia My house was built in 1953 - we bought it in the early 2000's.  We've put in new floors, repainted a few times and been redoing things.  Anyone can build a new house, but if you have an older one in good shape, that says a lot about the people who live there.  At least that is what I tell myself as I struggle to "whip things in shape" around here. As I was working in the front yard today, it struck me that this relates to what is happening in education. If you have the time and money and resources you can build a new school and have exactly what you want -- TODAY. But how long will you have it?  The longevity of a school is determined by the culture and the leadership and the teachers and ecosystem that evolves in that place.  Sure, starting from scratch is attractive and if you have a complete failure of a school (or a termite-ridden house) - this could make sense.  But most often, we have existing schools and have to re-work, reinst...