Category: globalvoices
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Podcast36: Genocide in Darfur: Speaking Out on Human Rights
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum declared a genocide emergency in 2004 for the Darfur region of Sudan in Africa. This genocide is ongoing, and we need to speak out to help educate others about the importance of taking action to stop this genocide. We need to act together as human beings who not only care,…
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A Million Voices for Darfur
A Million Voices for Darfur is a website that enables you and your students to directly communicate with President Bush and urge him to take action on behalf of the United States to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Enter your name and email address, and add an additional personal message.…
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Podcast32E: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
This is an enhanced podcast that can be played through iTunes, viewed as a webpage, or heard as a mp3 version (see the show notes.) 21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how…
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Podcast32: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how blogging and podcasting can be used to cultivate the digital literacy skills our students need for success today and tomorrow. Program Length: 39 min, 43…
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Holocaust cartoons
CNN is reporting this morning that: A prominent Iranian newspaper says it is going to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West will apply the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide against Jews as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. How sad that…
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EdTech: Tool for Empowerment, Vocational Opportunities, Social Change
Some thoughts on the recently released 45 minute short film, Local Voices, Global Visions. Educational technology has potential to serve as a transformational change agent. That is the underlying assumption behind our statewide Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP) project, and has been an evolving article of faith in my own pedagogic creed since I started teaching…