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If you are NOT teaching or attending an international school, nor live in a metropolitan city, raising global awareness among your students does not happen by osmosis. As a teacher, you have to work hard to expose your students to multiple languages, cultures, geography, different customs and traditions. Global Awareness, according to The Partnership for [...]

Grade 3 Skype Experience « Teaching Inquiring Minds Using Skype in class… ‘I thought it was over-rated…Maybe just an over-hyped novelty…Probably end up being a one-time thing…’ Boy was I wrong. It was worth the hype and more. The students level of excitement, the wide eyes, the ooohs and ahhhs. (tags: skype_in_classroom AroundTheWorldWith80Schools) Issuu – [...]

Teaching without boundaries | Stuff.co.nz Around the World with 80 Schools started in January 2009 as a project to connect students in schools around the globe using internet communication software that allows millions of individuals worldwide to make free video calls. In the third quarter of last year, Skype users made 3.1 billion minutes of [...]

Instructifeature: A window on the world — Using Skype in the classroom One of my personal favorites, Around the World with 80 Schools, is the brainchild of Silvia Tolisano. She challenges teachers to connect with 80 different schools. At the “Around the World” website, you can sign up to become a part of the project [...]

Once Upon A Teacher: Skype in the Classroom Around the World with 80 schools. I signed up immediately to make my contact information available to other schools looking to participate in this project. Before I had time to even think about what we wanted to do first, I received an email from a teacher in [...]

Women of the Web 3.0 #121 Silvia Tolisano | EdTechTalk Talking with Women of the Web and the Around the World with 80 Schools (tags: langwitches podcasting WOW3)

Alan November talks about the importance of making students contributors to their own learning. I have been following his work for years (seen him present in person a couple of times too). I have been especially paying attention to his thoughts about how, over the years, it seems that we have taken away the reason/relevance [...]

Around the World with 80 Schools started in January 2009 and is an ongoing project. In order to join you have to be directly involved with students (Pre-K-16, Adult Language Learners, etc.). This is NOT the platform for you, if you are charging a fee in order to skype with students. The challenge is to [...]

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy | Derek Sivers The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire. (tags: leadership video inspiration motivation) Slavery Museum 4 Teens Students create a contribute (tags: glogster social_studies wiki project-ideas) Should We Let [...]

How to Access 30,000 FREE eBooks for the iPad | GilsMethod.com The how-to below will show you where to get the ePub formatted eBooks and how to add them to your iTunes library so that you can enjoy them on your iPad. (tags: iPad ebooks) Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Reflecting on the power [...]