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The K12 Online Conference is a free online conference inviting participation from educators around the world interested in using Web 2.0 tools and technologies in their teaching. The 2007 conference began with a pre-conference keynote on October 8. Over the following two weeks (October 15-26) forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog [...]

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Ning is a site that allows users to create social networks. Each network is made up of individual pages, along with forums, group blogs and file libraries. I’m new to Ning, but there seems to be a lot of potential here for professional collaboration. I recently joined two networks: EFL Classroom 2.0 and Global Education. [...]

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I just found another email list for educators interested in bringing global issues into their classes. It’s called World 727, and it’s run by Merry Merryfield, a professor of social studies and global education at Ohio State University. To join, simply send an email to Professor Merryfield at merryfield.1@osu.edu. She also oversees TeachGlobalEd.net, a wonderful [...]

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mp3 First, I talk about an anti-plagiarism activity that Kira came up with. She split her class into two groups, and prepared a paragraph. Two students from each group were asked to pass the paragraph on to their classmates. One group did this by summarizing the meaning of the paragraph, the other by memorizing the [...]

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