Seems like a tall order for students to be able to both elaborate and discuss a number of international and
Category: Lesson plans
School lumps by ability, not age
A novel approach to education with no grades and no grade levels. The RISC Approach to Schooling is a revolutionary
Obama’s statement on death of Osama bin Laden- writing a newspaper article
[cnnvideo url=’http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/05/01/sot.obama.bin.laden.dead.cnn’ inline=’true’] Objectives: Imagine you are attending this press conference and have a deadline to write about this historic
Writing better blog posts
Here are some useful tips I found at the Edublogger web-page on how to write better blog posts and get
Students creating content online – Live Internet Radio Show
Assessing students’ communication skills In Norway the students get two grades in the class called “International English”assessing the students communicative
Who speaks English?
Competency goals: One of the competency goals in “International English” goes like this: Give examples of other varieties of English
How to make a splash in social media
Take a look at this 3 minutes presentation on TED. Do you see any areas where you as students could
The media’s role in international society
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive
Google tools and bloom’s revised taxonomy
Via the page Free Technology for Teachers I found this website by Kathy Scrock. There are so many different ways
This is just the coolest moment to be a learner right now!
In this moment our kids can learn pretty much whatever they want whenever they want! This is a shift we
How to write a Great Blog Comment
Ever since my students started to write blogs I have stressed the importance of writing comments. Lately I have been fortunate to
The book Challenge!
This week I have a contest for my students. I’m calling it the book challenge but I think perhaps I
Listening to music online!
I love listening to radio stations from places I have visited. And I have a long list of favorite stations.
Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos
Using video in class
These are some cool links to places where you can find videoclips to use in class From Larry Ferlazzo’s webpage
