Archive for the 'Global Projects' Category

Mar

30

Earth Hour “goes global”

March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

According to Reuters, more than half (58%) of Australian adults turned off their lights to support the second year of Earth Hour on Saturday night (March 29). In an amazing demonstration of the powers of viral marketing, Earth Hour made its way across the globe with an estimated 30 million people taking part worldwide. [kml_flashembed [...]

Dec

8

Students speak out

December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There has been lots of discussion about realising student participation in the edublogosphere in the past year. Driven be a belief that students “should be participating in our edublogger conversations on an equal footing, as equal partners”, Clay Burrell and others have helped students set up Student 2.0, a blog that is “administered, designed, edited, [...]

Nov

13

Watch this space – Flat Tales ’08

November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Clay Burell has set up a new high school wiki for the 1001 Flat World Tales ’08 project that will link students from Korea, Honolulu, Australia (X2) and Atlanta. This project follows the inaugural Flat World Tales project last year and is an innovative way to introduce students and teachers to the benefits of a [...]

Oct

20

Going Global

October 20, 2007 | 6 Comments

I’ve written before about the possibilities and difficulties associated with global or “flat world” projects. This is an area of learning that I am really fascinated by and hope to get a feasible project off the ground next year (as we only have about five weeks of class time remaining until the summer holidays). [slideshare [...]