Category: globalvoices
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The Future is Unwritten by Miguel Guhlin
These are my notes from Miguel Guhlin’s OTA 2008 keynote, “The Future is Unwritten.” In my free time, I serve as instructional technology director for San Antonio ISD All resources from today’s session: http://snipurl.com/ota2008 My core values #1 share more In New Zealand last year, Jenny Litchfield – has a face that tells a story…
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Holiday traditions around the world
VoiceThread is not just a wonderful tool for sharing ideas and and school presentations like book reports. It’s also a a great venue to ask an international audience to share experiences like holiday traditions. Currently, this one includes folks from the U.S. (Mays, Kansas), New Zealand, and Israel: I either had never heard, or didn’t…
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International and domestic US travel / contact maps
I reviewed my Flickr profile page this evening and noticed I hadn’t updated my “Visited Countries” map since making the trek to Shanghai in September. I went ahead and added Japan as well, but (like Australia) I don’t really think a mere visit to the airport should qualify as a “visit.” create your own visited…
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Planning for Human Rights Day Participation: Dec 10th
We generally “observe” holidays in U.S. public schools, but we don’t often “participate” in them. Sure we have class parties and sometimes have different school-wide celebrations, but do those activities really constitute “participation” or “commemoration?” In the case of Veteran’s Day this week, some schools did invite veterans to come and speak at special events.…
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Over 84,000 site visits in the 2007 K-12 Online Conference
I’ve posted some screenshots and statistics from the ClustrMap of the 2007 K-12 Online conference to the newly opened K-12 Online Ning site this evening, in a post titled “Participation around the world in 2007!” The header image for the K12Online Ning is aptly subtitled, “The Conference That Never Ends!” Please join the ongoing conversations…
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When Night Falls 2007: Plan to Participate!
Today is the final day of new presentations in the 2007 K-12 Online Conference, but the learning opportunities and connections are really just beginning. All 41 presentations from the 2007 conference will remain available online indefinitely, hosted by the College of William and Mary, joining the 41 presentations from the 2006 conference which also remain…
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Shanghai Cricket Market VoiceThread
I created and published a short VoiceThread this evening I titled “Shanghai Cricket Market.” Apparently crickets have both a lucky/superstitious value for many Chinese people living in Shanghai, as well as a “sporting” value for gambling. We learned a lot more about crickets and saw all different sizes in this Shanghai Cricket Market when my…
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Value of blogs and citizen journalism demonstrated in Myanmar
According to CNN’s recent article “Blogs helping expose Myanmar horrors,” blogging citizen journalists like Ko Htike are helping get information out of Myanmar despite the ardent efforts of government leaders to silence them: Armed with a laptop, a blogger named Ko Htike has thrust himself into the middle of the violent crackdown against monks and…
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Typhoons do include a lot of rain
Well, what are the chances? We’ve come to China for the first time in our lives, and we’re here in Shanghai fairly close to landfall for a category 5 typhoon! This is the current location of the typhoon relative to us in Shanghai: When we left to explore the city this morning there was light,…