Are you starting to think about your videoconferences for the 2010-2011 school year? Maybe you want to connect to another country. I notice many collaborations on CAPspace looking for partners in Latin or Spanish countries to practice Spanish. I also got an email this summer from someone complaining that they had registered on many sites, [...]
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I’m cleaning my website again, and archiving old things here on my blog. This is a lesson plan / planning page for an international project we did in 2008. The report from 2008 is on my blog here. Around the World: Misconceptions Resolved Description: Students will identify misconceptions they hold regarding other cultures, while identifying [...]
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Global Poster Session: Diane Midness, iEARN-USA with Tonya Muro Phillips, Global Nomads Group. Last night in the poster sessions, Diane and Tonya explained how GNG and iEARN partnered to extend the learning in the GNG videoconferences. Global Nomads does amazing programs by taking videoconferencing equipment onsite to remote locations throughout the world. Featured programs included [...]
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Today we have a 2nd grade class connecting to Wales to share what they’ve been learning about light and shadows, via puppet shows. First the students in the UK told us about some of the light-related vocabulary and facts they learned. Then they told a story about a worm with rhyme and shadow puppets, as [...]
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Today we had another videoconference with a class in Wales, UK. This collaboration is a result of the Jazz workshop and is a spin-off of the Monster Match format. Both classes created teddy bears, wrote descriptions, and emailed them to the partner classes. Then they made each other’s teddy bears. Today’s videoconference was to see [...]
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Today we have several amazing videoconferences for our rural students in Berrien County. EcoConversations Reed Middle School, in Bridgman, is connecting to a class in the UK to discuss environmental issues. The class in the UK shared with us information about carbon emissions, including some great posters and a RAP that started with: hey hey, [...]
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Cross-blogged with the Official MACUL Conference Blog. This morning I had a nice turn out for my session on Instructional Strategies That Work with Videoconferencing: Global Interactive Collaborations. The main feature of our session was a connection to students in India who shared information and pictures about the famous temple in their town. I thought [...]
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Are you following the K12 Online Conference? If not, at least take a moment to review Kim Cofino’s keynote presentation and the resources for “going global” that she has posted on her wiki. Great stuff, including many videoconferencing resources! After you get your feet wet with that, browse through all the other great presentations posted [...]
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This morning we have another EcoConversations connection with Dowagiac Middle School and Westcliff High School for Girls in the UK. The first presentation was from a group of students in the UK who shared how McDonalds (eating burgers) is making a negative impact on the rainforest and the environment: no recycling, litter, impact on health, [...]
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This morning Bridgman Elementary is connecting to Wales in the UK for a project that was written in the Jazz workshop this summer: Guess My Pet. Before the videoconference started, I noticed the teachers using best practice to set presets on their visuals (which were neatly mounted to hold them still). Nice to see Jazz [...]
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