Category: globalvoices
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Al Jazeera, Arab Spring, & Opposing Extremism in Our Midst in the USA
This evening I watched a wonderful, informative and challenging TEDtalk by Bobby Ghosh: “Why global jihad is losing.” This is an important TEDtalk to watch for several reasons. (It was filmed in September 2012.) According to his official TED bio: Bobby Ghosh is an Editor-at-Large at Time magazine, where he covers conflict, global affairs and…
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Global Collaboration (including The Arab Spring Project) at Yarmouth High School
UPDATE 12.12.2012: I cross-posted a normalized version of this presentation to “Fuel for Educational Change Agents” podcast channel. These are my notes from Amy Sanders’ presentation, “Global Collaboration” at the March 16, 2012, professional development day at Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine. Amy teaches several high school social studies courses, including Arab Studies (last…
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Podcast382: A Digital Witness in Tahrir Square, Egypt in January 2011
This podcast is an audio interview with Rawond, a student originally from Alexandria, Egypt, who was in Tahrir Square (Cairo, Egypt) for the Arab Spring uprising and revolution. In this short interview, she describes her experiences as well as her pessimism for the lack of real political change in Egypt as of today. For more information…
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Reflections from the Bund in Shanghai
On Sunday following the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai, China, I explored the Bund with friends. According to Wikipedia, the Bund: is a waterfront area in central Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western…
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Voices of #iste11 – $15 per Month For Netbooks In New Zealand: BYOD = Buy Your Own Device
Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This first episode is a three minute…
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How to Boil the Ocean: Lessons of Blogging for Online Discussions by @berlinf #heartlandconf11
These are my notes from Berlin Fang’s presentation, “How to Boil the Ocean: Lessons of Blogging for Online Discussions” at the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference on March 8th. Follow him on Twitter: @berlinf. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. See my notes from Berlin’s preso at last year’s conference, “Putting Learning In Student…
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Podcast372: Sharing the Power of Digital Storytelling in Hangzhou, China with Joe Lambert and Wesley Fryer
This is a podcast recording of a presentation by Joe Lambert and Wesley Fryer on digital storytelling at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China on November 2, 2009. Our English presentations were translated as we spoke into Mandarin Chinese. Joe Lambert is the executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, based in…
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To what countries have you Skyped? (from Mississippi) #msmeca11
These are the PollEverywhere results from the survey I shared this morning during the opening session of the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference. Isn’t it amazing to see how many countries educators are connecting to from home today? This same experience of international, synchronous collaboration needs to become a REGULAR learning experience in…
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Podcast364: The ELL Bill of Rights – An Interview with Ruslana Westerlund @EllBillofRights
This podcast is an interview with Ruslana Westerlund, the creator of the ELL Bill of Rights (ellbillofrights.com) and the keynote speaker at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. Ruslana is an educator originally from Ukraine, and has worked for years with English…