To celebrate Veterans Day today, we have 4 sessions with panels of our World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Students from MI and TX are interviewing our local veterans. Here are some of the questions students asked today: Where did you sleep when you were in active duty? Have you ever been back to where […]
This post is cross-posted at the MACUL conference blog. Last TWICE session of the day, not quite so packed but still a great group. Presenters are Linda McConville, 4th grade teacher, and Diane Nye, media specialist, at E. P. Clarke Elementary, in St. Joseph, MI. Videoconferences their school has done are the ASK programs, the […]
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving, so I thought I’d write about a few Canadians I’m thankful for today! Hope you all are enjoying your pumpkin pie! I had mine for Sabbath dinner. Yum Yum! Karen Andrews, Senior Manager, Research and Planning. Stakeholder Technology Branch. Alberta Education. I met Karen at NECC 2005 in Philadelphia. That was […]
In working on my literature review, I ran across a reference to this paper. Thankfully, it’s been shared online so you can read the whole article if you wish. Hanvey, R. (1977). An attainable global perspective. New York: The American Forum for Global Education. The paper suggests there are five interdisciplinary goals for global education: […]
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to either take my research survey or forward/promote it with your local videoconference coordinators/site managers. After the first week of the survey being open, I thought I’d share the status of responses. I’m hoping for at least 400 responses to achieve statistical significance. We’re about 40% […]
To celebrate my 3rd blog anniversary, I thought I’d finally respond to Gail Desler’s tag for a passion quilt meme. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, so this is the result of simmering. My passion, as you well know, is bringing engaging experiences to students, generally via the technology of videoconferencing. I want […]
Well, here I am at work again on a snow day making a videoconference happen! All my schools are closed, including our admin building, and one of my local classes in particular is probably disappointed. I know the teacher is. Today was our day for MysteryQuest International, a special version of MysteryQuest where we have […]
Today we have another MysteryQuest International session. The class from Canada had a very creative presentation. They presented from a tour bus including driver, running commentary on the site, and Q&A about the country. Creative presentations are harder to take notes on, but they are much more fun to listen to! In yesterday's session the […]
Today we have a very special event, a MysteryQuest International session with 3 countries represented (Canada, the US and Pakistan). I was a bit concerned about the various accents represented in the session, but with PowerPoints and visual clues and time to repeat the clues, everyone was able to get the clues written down. We […]
I've been working on test calls with Pakistan, Peru, and Costa Rica in the last couple days. Here are some resources that I've found helpful! International Country Calling Codes. This neat little site is great for figuring out dialing strings for ISDN calls. Enter your country and the country you're connecting to, and you get […]
