Our school mascot, José, is a traveling bear. He enjoys roaming the world, getting to know new places and meeting interesting people.
The Teddy Bears Around the World blog will provide the space to hang out and communicate with different teddy bears around the world to hear more about their lives and adventures. This will allow [...]
Let’s create a story about traditions, customs and practices around the world for and with our students.
We need to sharpen our kids’ skills to foresee and sense cultural misunderstandings, instead of letting them grow up to be insensitive an believing everyone will have the same cultural background knowledge.
VoiceThread, “What Could it Mean?”
I am looking for [...]
Shifting and changing our schools is also about reflecting and analyzing our individual teaching practice.
They cannot be talk of learning (on students’ part) and growth (on teachers’ part) without reflecting on a lesson or project:
What did I start out with?
What was the learning objective?
What were variables?
What was the outcome?
Successes and pitfalls of the lesson [...]
Having written a few days ago about What is in a Field Trip?, it was time to put the theory to practice.
Gail Lovely ‘ s quote about “framing a field trip” resonated with me
framing the event in learning before and after – & give them something to do while there!
Our third graders go on an [...]
Third graders have been exploring animals of the Costa Rican rainforest.
Each class created a story they presented in their podcast episode. They recorded and edited their own individual segments.
Ms. Barnwell’s class from Jacksonville, Florida, jumped off a plane and parachuted into the Costa Rican rainforest. Their mission is to survive among the most dangerous and [...]
Kindergarten teachers and students transformed their classrooms into the country of Brazil. Each student became a tour guide and Brazil expert, sharing what they had learned about this country from South America.
Click on the “Play” button to listen to each podcast episode.
Listen to Mrs. Cronin’s class recording of their tour around Brazil.
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First graders have paired up with first graders from the American School of Madrid, Spain. Each student in both schools recorded their “I have a Dream” essay. The students were assigned a “buddy” from the other class. They listened to the dream their buddy described in the audio comment, then illustrated it.
http://voicethread.com/share/314807/
Six schools in six countries in one hour? Is it possible?
Over 100 participants in 23 countries have shown desire to connect with other schools and left their contact information.
Time zones issues seem to be the biggest hurdle in connecting our students with schools from the Eastern Hemisphere during school hours.
I invited the students in my [...]
SJEDS is taking on the challenge of connecting our students (PreK- through 6th grade) to at least 80 different schools in order to circle the globe once.
We will be connecting with other school through Skype (a video conference program) to say Hello, Hola, Ni Hao, Shalom, Hallo, etc…
Students will learn about:
geography
cultural awareness
global awareness
global collaboration
technology integration
social [...]
Third Grade studied endangered and threatened animals of Florida in their science curriculum. TechConnect, together with the classroom teachers planned to take this unit to the 21st century and have students, not only research facts, but become experts in their assigned animals and make a difference by share their knowledge with others. They were to [...]
