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Italian students have conversations (in Italian) about their participation in the Eracism project and what they have done. These three podcasts are recorded in Italian (and some English).
The official London Olympics education site. You can register and join their blogging network. This is definitely something you may want to do with your students.
The London games has a "get set" website which is their official educational platform for the Olympic games. I've just spent a little time looking at what you can do there, but you can register, blog about the games, and connect with others. This is the sort of global event where you can meet other classrooms and interact with others.
IF you are a foreign language teacher, you should take a look at this lovely wiki where teachers are sharing stories and students and teachers are writing them. Language is a perfect place to flatten the classroom.
"Hi!
And welcome to the Wikispace where you can share and enjoy stories written by and for teachers and learners of French, German, Spanish and Italian.
At the last count, we had 86 Storybird creations, contributed by 30 different authors in 4 different languages."
This game uses legos. Use this presentation and the legos to have a picture of how wealth is distributed around the world. This is a fascinating activity that I think you could do at all ages.
This global wallplanner is an excellent tool to use in the classroom and for planning. My only complaint is that it is a bit small, you may want to print it out or enlarge and print on several pages- otherwise get out your reading glasses. Or you can do like I did and save it on your desktop and blow up the sizes.
This wall planner has international days, weeks, and events to help you plan and highlight global themes to use in the classroom. You should download this and use it in your post planning to get ready for next year to include global themes in your curriculum. What a great thing to do during post planning to get ready and communicate.
As always, no matter what site you use, think before you click. Do you know the person? Is the person you're working with the kind that can sniff out such things before sharing the link. Here's an article from cnet about how crooks are using pinterest and tumblr. This is the sort of thing to share with digitalcitizenship education courses.
"Malware writers are aiming at such hot social networks as Tumblr and Pinterest to trap a new wave of victims, says a report out yesterday from GFI Software.
"Established sites like Facebook and Twitter have long been a breeding ground for new cyberattacks, but now we are seeing scammers taking an interest in the popularity of newer sites like Pinterest in order to catch victims off guard and trick them into clicking on something they shouldn't," Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher at GFI Software, said in a statement.
Analyzing the malware landscape in April, the security firm found a host of schemes and scams directed at social network users.
One of the great pleasures of my life is working with the Flat Classroom project but now, we have these incredible conferences -- capped at around 250 people students and educators come together to envision the future of education and understand 21st century learning environments by experience. We flatten the conference as students pitch ideas to teachers and vice versa. Our goal is you leave the conference ready to collaborate. It is intense but it is life changing and fun. Hope you can join us - here are the dates - go to our website to find out more. This is run by our 501(c)3 nonprofit. We do take donations to help students from countries without the finances to send them be at the conference so we can represent true diversity and inclusiveness as we talk about education.
Flat Classroom® Conference heads to Europe (Germany December 6-8, 2012) and Asia (Japan March 8-12, 2013) - here's the information you need to get started to plan your trip!! Bring your students and join us! I'm taking a group of students to Germany so if you want to come early and tour with us, let me know! http://bit.ly/KchopE
Yes, higher education can be involved in Flat Classroom projects.We have two ways that this happens now: Expert Advisors and Judges. Here, Lisa durff has put together some great handouts about how this works if you want to do this in your course this fall.
SEveral hundred lessons and information on the European union that you can download and use in your classroom. This is very topical with the current crisis in Greece that is worth a discussion in the globally literate classroom.
A discussioni guide from Education World on the economic crisis in Greece. You can use this along with the other materials to discuss this topic.
Here are some lesson plans on the European Union, its formation and the current euro crisis.
As you talk about current events, you should include discussions about the European Union but also about the particular happenings in Greece. Greece could run out of money in 6 weeks unless a coalition government is formed soon. Many citizens don't want to slash budgets but the facts are that banks are in banking to make money and won't just extend loans based on goodwill anymore. Here are some lessons and resources to use to discuss Greece and have some very interesting conversations about credit and financial responsibility.
Enjoying the lovely stories of the students sharing recipes and making dishes from around the world. This week, students have been making Baklava with a recipe from Iraq.Here is their video.
"...my least interested students began asking me for spelling and grammar tips" http://t.co/XAZBubb2 #ellchat #flatclass #penpal
World Fair Trade Day is May 12. Here are some lessons to use to talk about it.
A nice article about how Katya Toneva and ICS, a school in London are innovating by using netbooks, blogging, collaborating globally, and flpping the classroom.
Two of my students animated this video using the touch screen computers, hand drawing, and a bamboo tablet mostly using PhotoShop and paint.net. This is their freshman project and I'm so pleased with what they did. They wanted to encourage people to recycle and that they can change the world.Such a great job. I hope you'll share this video.
The newest graduates of the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher program 11-3 have "graduated!." They are an amazing group of teachers: Cynthia Sandler, Cindy Shultz, Kathy Scarpato, Sandy Wisneski, Phil Macoun, Kevin Duncan, Michell McGarvey. Read about them and their projects on the blog. Congratulations! It was great getting to know you!
Kyle Dunbar (@edtechdunny) has a reflection on how to start connecting with the world and our new Flat Classroom book. This was an amazing birthday present for me today because it shows that Julie and I have accomplished what we set out to do: create an experience for teachers to join in.
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