Talking Heads- Continuing the conversation about global initiatives in other schools
Global Education Summit (GES) participants and other school leaders are invited to compare notes on global education in their schools. Schools with innovative programs or solutions will have the opportunity to share what works, how, and why.
Presenters:�

Dick Hall, NAIS Board Global Task Force
Barbara Chase, Phillips [...]

I was simply blown away yesterday when I saw Wicked on Broadway. It was not only the amazing set and costumes and incredible voices of the actors, but it was the connection I heard and saw in the story line. The underlying theme that the theatre piece was able to deliver so clearly by the [...]

This past Wednesday I attended NAIS- Global Education Summit in New York. Here are my notes that I took
International Perspective needs to be strengthened. Extending global perspectives in the wider educational scheme
Kwame Anthony Appish
Go beyond the minimizing of people. Defining a person by only one thing: women, Jews, Muslims, etc.
Fear of differences and how it [...]

This workshop was presented by Vicki Weeks from the Lake Side School in Seattle. She is the Director of Global Studies.
As the world grows smaller, how can we encourage students to value the diversity and complexity of a global society? Lakeside School has embraced this challenge and built a model for a global service [...]

Visual grammar in film and videography
From shooting through editing you are creating a “video reality” from the raw material you record during the event. This “video reality” is built using the videography and editing techniques presented in this guide.
(tags: video tutorial digital_storytelling)

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone
* Fast Spanish Train * Browse * FAQ * Blog Stream live video fast to the world. Right from your phone.
(tags: video cellphone tools)

MyGLife.org
(tags: global_education games)

Educational Flash Games
(tags: educational games geography)

PocketTweets: Twitter For Your iPhone
PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone. See the latest tweets [...]

Here is a list of the plugins that I use on the Langwitches Blog, powered by WordPress

AddThis- Social Bookmarking Sharing Widget
Anarchy Media Player- will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web [...]

Last week I had a great Skype conversation with Laura from Architecture of Ideas. Laura contacted me regarding the What Could It Mean? VoiceThread and how she and her students could contribute and collaborate in this project. She suggested the creation of a Wiki for interested teachers. So, I created
whatcoulditmean.wikispaces.com.
On the Wiki you will find [...]

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Welcome to World’s Free webmeeting
(tags: webconferencing)

My Wonderful World Blog mentioned in an article entitled “Are Americans hostile to global knowledge” Susan Jacoby (author of “The Age of American Unreason”) , Noah Oppenheim and Matt Lauer’s interview on the Today’s Show (17th of February 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55KHxhTXbmU

There are a few video clips that are incredibly straight forward examples in showing how globally illiterate [...]