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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

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In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá.

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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

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Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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Learning Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will offer a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom. Andy is an amazing blogger, podcaster, and vlogger and a very talented writer.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. I am pleased that students who were somewhat limited in their exposure to multiple points of view on issues and culture are now being introduced to them and like this are broadening their horizon. This Blog is an experiment. The tools of Web 2.0

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

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This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom." A student came up with an amazing metaphor for how intellectual property should work in the classroom and in greater society. The podcast outlines the metaphor further. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

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As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. I like CastingWords overall. Just an FYI for folks thinking about using it. Britt Bravo: Hi!