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Category Archives: International VCs
Showing Off VC at a School Opening
Earlier this year we had one of the coolest VCs that we’ve done. It was very simple really, but it was who attended that made it cool! Her Royal Highness, The Princess Anne, was attending a school opening at one … Continue reading
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How to Expand a Collaboration: Poetry with England
Note: This is a real post; even though it’s April 1. 🙂 This week we’ve had 14 classes in England and Michigan connect together to share poetry! We’ve had performances, recitations with actions and motions, and even costumes! What a … Continue reading
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Read Around the Planet with Wales and Allendale
Cross-posted with the MACUL conference blog. Karen Mosier is hosting the first session in the TWICE room this morning (W2-66!). The session is on Read Around the Planet, TWICE‘s signature global reading celebration. A class from Allendale Michigan, is connecting … Continue reading
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Tagged MACUL11
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Snippets of Read Around the Planet
It’s been a great couple of weeks with Read Around the Planet 2011! We had 63 classes participate this year; and only a few of those are getting rescheduled. It’s been pretty busy, so I haven’t been able to blog … Continue reading
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Tagged RAP2011
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ASK Author with Eric Walters
The last three days we’ve been working with York Region District School Board in Ontario to share author Eric Walters between our schools. We’ve also shared it across Canada with other classes in Ontario and British Columbia as well. We … Continue reading
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How to Find International Partners
This is an update of a previous post from six years ago! Time to refresh! So, you want to connect with an international school for a videoconference. Now what do you do? Here’s how I find international partner classes for … Continue reading
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Why You Should Participate in Read Around the Planet 2011
Note: This post is written from my role as a member of the TWICE CAPspace and Read Around the Planet Committee. Today (December 1) registration opens for Read Around the Planet 2011. To prepare, let’s consider top ten reasons to … Continue reading
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Tagged RAP2011, ReadAroundthePlanet
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Is VC an Expensive Luxury?
This morning I had the privilege of presenting some of my research to the Schools Videoconference User Group in the UK. Here are a few interesting tidbits & comments. Safety and Videoconferencing I didn’t get to hear this presentation due … Continue reading
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Three Main Ways I Find Partner Classes
This morning I had a great conversation with Tim Boundy, who coordinates videoconferencing for JANET in the UK. We compared notes on projects we’re running, the trials and challenges of scaling collaborations, and the different ways to partner classes. In … Continue reading
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Continuum of Videoconferencing Collaborations
We’ve looked at a continuum of equipment/software solutions for videoconferencing, a continuum of interactivity, and a continuum of depth of learning. Today, let’s think about a continuum of collaboration. We can think about it on several levels. Continuum of WHO … Continue reading
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