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Globally-Minded Learning & Collaboration Resources


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AnswerGarden
Poll Everywhere
globeBlackboard Collaborate vRoom
WordPress
Kidblog
Easyblog.org
Voicethread
Lucidchart – Google Add-on
Bubbl.us
Twitter
Google Shared Docs and Other Apps
Flockdraw
Wikispaces.com
Myths & Legends StoryCreator
Storybird.com

Activities
Skype in the Classroom
National Park Service – Junior Ranger and Distance Learning Programs
World Read Aloud Day
Quadblogging
FlatStanley.com
#Comments4Kids
Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots
iEARN.org
Rock Our World
The GEC Great Global Project Challenge
Global Oneness Project

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Welcome!

Welcome to Engaging Education, a collection of resources and ideas that aim to engage our students and help them reach their full potential... as well as engage us as educators in the principles behind what we do every day. I hope you find them helpful, thought-provoking, and time-saving.
Enjoy!

~Nancye Blair Black

Twitter: @NancyeBlackEdu
E-Mail: nblack@nancyeblack.com

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  • A Coming-of-Digital-Age Story

    A Coming-of-Digital Age Story By Nancye Blair Black Performed by Laney Blair Used to be, learning at school was a bore. Textbooks and textbooks and textbooks. Snore! In class, teachers would talk, students would hear. It was the same old story year after year. Until one day, our principal suddenly appeared With a class set […]

  • Growing School Gardens: An Eco-lutionary Move

    Something “eco-lutionary” is cropping up at schools across the country.  While some students might be experiencing the start of the new academic year from behind a desk, others are embracing an expansive sense of classroom that reaches far beyond the schoolhouse walls and into the green. At our public charter school, Lakeland Montessori Middle School, […]

  • New Article in Creative Educator: Authentic Audiences

    “Beyond waiting “To Grow Up” For too long, our students have worked tirelessly for an audience of one: their teacher. When class assignments assume that work is simply preparation for some future “real world,” this singular audience makes sense. But in the course of a 21st century school year, if a class of students never […]

  • Sept 11 Reflections: Democracy, Citizenship and Education

    What should a good citizen do? The question of “what a good citizen should do” in a democratic society begins with an assumption of a universal ethical imperative within democracy.  Perhaps this follows from the concept of democracy itself.  At the onset of American independence, the writers of the Declaration stated that it was self-evident […]

  • Google's Montessori Tribute

    Happy Birthday, Maria Montessori — from Google and the rest of us!

    August 31, 2012. Today would be 142nd birthday of revolutionary Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori. To celebrate, Montessori alums at Google displayed a Google doodle of traditional Montessori learning manipulatives on their homepage.  That’s right –  both Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, grew up as Montessori kids.  What’s more, it […]

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