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Latest international collaboration projects from iEARN
The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) is an online clearinghouse for collaboration projects for K-12 students, focusing on international issues. There are many ongoing opportunities; most are free. From their latest newsletter: 1. MOROCCAN CLASS SEEKING PENPALS. A teacher … Continue reading
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Student Contest – Open Source Software Development
The Google Highly Open Participation Contest Google has announced a new effort to get young people involved in open source development. Student contestants will have the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to all aspects of open source software … Continue reading
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Learning to write collaboratively
From Google Docs: Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in … Continue reading
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WikipediaVision
Here’s something fun to watch: WikipediaVision. This is a visualization of Wikipedia edits happening in real-time. It gives you a real sense of what a global enterprise this is, and how varied the topics can be. In a few minutes, … Continue reading
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Building 21st Century Cities using 21st Century Skills
Earlier this week TechYES advisor Dennis Ostrowski from Saratoga Central Catholic school in Saratoga Springs, NY wrote me explaining an exciting project his seventh graders are incorporating into their second TechYES project. It is called the future cities project and … Continue reading
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Ubuntu rules!
We are big fans of Ubuntu here at Generation YES – it’s the OS we use for all the examples in our Generation TECH student tech support curriculum. Free, runs on everything, and just plain makes sense. If you want … Continue reading
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Slideshare and slidecasting
A nice little bit of Web 2.0 goodness is the ability to create slideshows that live on the web. At worst, web-based slideshows are just one more way to do a presentation (see PowerPointlessness) but hey, it’s easy and fun … Continue reading
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Insomnia Film Festival Student Film Contest
Apple has announced another Insomnia Film Festival for high school and college students. From the Apple website: On Saturday, October 13 at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern time), we’ll post a top-secret list of elements — special props, dialogue, settings — you … Continue reading
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Metaplace – new metaverse “open” for education?
Raph Koster is “an American entrepreneur, game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design.” (Wikipedia) For the past year, his company, Areae has been teasing the launch of a new “metaverse” that would revolutionize virtual world … Continue reading
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Global Cooling Project – Join in!
Visit The Global Cooling Collective The “Year of Global Cooling” is a student network in cities worldwide, planning student-organized and -promoted global Earth Day concerts streamed online. It’s a a “live earth” movement for local bands and green-minded students. Join!