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In Touch: Using videoconferencing to connect your class to the world Teachers assist students in creating a list of questions to ask from any content area to build a better cultural understanding and build relationships with students from other countries. Students can learn about the history of that country, cultural foods, climate, religion, celebrations, language, [...]

Science and history fairs have been held across the United States (and maybe other countries?) for years. Having grown up in Germany and Argentina, the first time I encountered these events was with my oldest daughter at her elementary school in the 1990s.  According to Wikipedia, Science fairs have been held across the USA since [...]

Just a few days ago, Andrea Hernandez (edtechworkshop) and I had a  conversation about our Personal Learning Network. A “working definition” by David Warlick says that a Personal or Professional Learning Network: involves an individual’s topic oriented goal, a set of practices or techniques aimed at attracting or organizing a variety of relevant content sources, [...]

In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute: Alan November tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community. Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as contributor” and to globalize our curriculum by linking students with authentic audiences from around the world. (For [...]

Create a font from your own handwriting – fontcapture.com (tags: fonts typography generator) Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright | Teaching Copyright # Definitions of Copyright: What Do They Know? # A Brief History of Copyright and Innovation # Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright # Peer-to-Peer File Sharing # Fair Use: You [...]

Here is a growing list of interesting sites to explore for elementary school students. Please add any favorites of yours in the comment section. Elementary Learning Sites Learning your Alphabet Help a monkey shake coconuts out of the tree Count Us in Games Games designed to help children understand basic number concepts Between the Lions [...]

This post title is “Teaching Information/Research Skills in Elementary School”, but this post is as much for adults and older students. Many adults are overwhelmed with the quantity and new kind of media that is available and accessible through technology. Older students in High School and College might not feel overwhelmed, but have never been [...]

Storytelling used to be the only way to pass one generation’s knowledge on to the next one. Oral transmitted legends, fairy- and folk tales for example allowed elders to explain and help understand the world around them to their descendants. When books were scarce or did not exist and few knew how to read them, [...]

I am posting the following school project I am planning on introducing to our entire faculty in the next few weeks. If any of my teachers are reading this …congratulations… you have advanced notice This time the approach to the collaborative project is internal. I am involving all grade levels (Pre-K through 6th grade) within [...]

I have wireless access in the conference room. So I am blogging live! Catholics and Protestants Protecting Jews during the Holocaust presented by Clara Krug. Georgia Southern University In 1940, German occupiers and the Vichy Regime began to arrest foreign Jews. As the war continued, both governments also arrested French Jews. Some French citizens helped [...]