Category: globalvoices
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Chinese Parental Expectations, Creativity, and Chinese Film Recommendations
Early this morning (thanks in part to the delayed effects of jet lag) I finished reading Shouhua Qi’s outstanding book, “Bridging the Pacific: Searching for Cross-Cultural Understanding Between the United States and China.” Dr. Qi is currently a professor of English at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. I shared a few ideas I gleaned…
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Deer Creek (Oklahoma) Students and Teachers Using Skype
Saturday’s article in the Daily Oklahoman by Jesse Olivarez, “Internet connection broadens horizons in Deer Creek school,” is one of the first I’ve seen highlighting the instructional use of Skype for classroom to classroom collaborations in central Oklahoma. Deer Creek is the school district located just west of Edmond, where I live. According to the…
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Translate your WordPress blog into 40+ Languages
As humans living on the third rock from our sun, we’re still divided by language differences. I’ve dabbled with online language translators like Babelfish (formerly by AltaVista, now by Yahoo) in the past, but I’m amazed how far this functionality has come in recent months. Richard Byrne reported on Thursday that Google Docs now offers…
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Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!
These are my notes from the NECC 2009 session “Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!” Official program description is: Several distinguished educators will offer actual examples of 24/7 learning approaches to educational practice. Can these technology-based, best practices inform your classroom teaching? Presenters are: Michael Searson, Kean University with Judith Beaver, Andrew…
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Global Collaboration Buzzword or Educational Reality by Carol Anne McGuire
These are my notes from Carol Anne McGuire’s NECC09 presentation “Global Collaboration Buzzword or Educational Reality.” This is about Carol Anne’s project which has been running for 5 years, “Rock Our World.” I am audio recording this session and also recording with Ustream. Unfortunately the Ustream (as it did Saturday for EduBloggerCon) repeatedly disconnected, so…
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Leveraging social media tools for social change
These are some links and resources from Mark Wagner‘s EduBloggerCon 2009 session “Social Media and Social Change in Education” www.thelifeyoucansave.com – website for the book Mark read enroute to NECC which relates to these ideas of social change, social justice, etc. Danger can be creating an “us” and “them” mentality Idea can be helping groups…
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A light table, sand, music, tragic history and a phenomenal artist
Karyn Romeis posted a Russian langauge YouTube video to her blog today. Although I do not yet speak any Russian, the artist communicates a powerful story here in an amazing way which transcends language. What is the backstory? Is this the German invasion of Russia during World War II? What ARE the words of the…
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Ready to webcast and podcast NECC 2009 and discuss K12Online09 at EduBloggerCon
Tomorrow my son and I head out for Washington D.C. This evening we’ve been finalizing our packing, and that meant (for me in anticipation of some webcasting as well as podcasting from NECC 2009) putting together my updated webcasting/podcasting kit. The following image is labeled with mouse-over notes on Flickr: I won’t be using the…
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Sharing by default and empowering others to share
I listened to a presentation recently in which the speaker exhorted listeners to “share by default.”* Often in schools, sharing is sharply limited for students as well as for teachers. This needs to change. The Creative Commons video, “A Shared Culture,” makes a compelling case for “sharing by default” and empowering others to share their…