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One of our first grade classes read the book Flat Stanley by Jim Brown. They sent paper Flat Stanleys to relatives and friends around the country and received images and stories back.
Then, inspired by the “worldwide” success” of the “other first grade class’” podcast episode of the Magic Tree House, the six year olds wanted [...]

Cross posted on TechLearning Advisor Blog
Podcasting has been around for a while now. It has also made it’s entry into the world of schools. Teachers of younger students are venturing into the world of digital storytelling in the classroom and are recording their students digitally.
The benefits for students to practice skills such as the following [...]

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 more, [...]

Using visuals to create and support stories is a skill we should encourage and nurture in our students . It should be obvious by now that I consider storytelling an integral part of a teacher’s toolbox. You can read about the Need for Storytelling and Why Storytelling Can/Should Be Anywhere/Everywhere and will understand why storytelling [...]

I am guest blogging on My Wonderful World Blog (National Geographic Education Foundation) in honor of Geography Awareness Week 2009 the week of November 15 – 21!
This year’s theme is “Get Lost in Mapping: Find Your Place in the World”.

I wanted to share a successful geography lesson that continues to grow throughout the school year.  [...]

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If you are looking to participate in an easy and cute global project, that your students, school and parents will absolutely love, then this project is for you!!
Are you in higher education [...]

Last week I posted a lesson with the Middle School social studies students, “News Events Assignments with a Twitst“.
Students and their teacher have really taken to this assignment with incredible enthusiasm and creativity. Since each grade level has started entering current events onto their map, they have discussed, edited, and revised their entries. The printed- [...]

It is the time of year again, when Jose, the famous travel bear, hits the road.
This year, Jose will be traveling with two new travel companions (elementary school teachers from San Jose Episcopal Day School) to Italy. They will be live blogging on the  SJEDS travels to Italy blog.

If you are new to reading the [...]

Over the years (from Elementary to High School) , I cannot tell you HOW many times each of my own daughters had to find news articles to bring in to class to share. These assignments came in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they were required to write a summary, print out a representative image and [...]

I subscribe to the RSS feed of the Flickr group Great Quotes about Learning and Change. The following image by Scott McLeod popped up in my reader a few days ago.

by Scott McLeod
As a former World Language teacher (Spanish & German) and being passionate about bringing global awareness to colleagues and students, I know HOW [...]