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Fully Online COETAIL Program Begins Feb. 5th

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I am proud to announce that working with Buffalo State-SUNY we are now offering a fully online Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy (COETAIL) Program to International Educators. This is a special program that only International Educators (Educators working at recognized International Schools) can apply for.

I can’t …

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Tanzania, Kilimanjaro and Obama?

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Just over 24 hours off the plane from the most amazing trip to Tanzania. As my wife and I prepare to transition back to life in America in June, we figured one last fantastic trip to Africa was in the cards….so off to Tanzania we went. 

Climbing Kilimanjaro

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Why I love this generation

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Nothing more to say.

Created by Benya Kraus 10th Grade Student at ISB and CEO of Kraus Productions

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Virtual Learning in a Crisis

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Disclosure: The following thoughts/reflections are not necessary the views of ISB or its community

It has been a few weeks since we were in a virtual school situation here in Bangkok. Although the flood water continues to slowly move South into Bangkok our school has reopened with no immediate threat to flooding in sight …

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COETAIL Year 2

A blog post I put out to this year’s COETAILers….cross posted here

Ready or not a new school year is upon us and the CoETaIL Program continues to expand. This will be the second year of CoETaIL under this site and structure and the expansion of the …

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World Virtual School Symposium

I hate missing ISTE this year but don’t worry it’s for a good cause. 

Over the past three days I have been meeting with other international education regions to discuss the World Virtual School Project (WVS). At the moment this is an International School project being driven by the Department

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When We Allow Their Imaginations to Shine

Step 1: Watch this

 

Step 2: Read the reflection

Step 3: Ponder the creativity and the ideas that come forth when we empower students and then get out of the way so they can learn.

Step 4: Leave Sarah a comment

I’m once again left thinking about Dan

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The Classroom Newspaper Google Docs Style

3rd Grade Teacher, Laura Chesebro here at ISB continues to impress me with her innovative use of technology with kids. First there is her class website/blog where she engages both parents and students. Then there is the fact all her students are blogging themselves. Another example of her innovation …

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Learning 2.011: Let’s do it again!

 

Although I’m officially retired from the planning committee this year…..I’ve been honored as being invited as a speaker and cohort leader for next year’s Learning 2.011 conference. We learned a lot last year about using the cohort model along with the unconference approach and this year the …

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CoETaIL Program Taking Off!

The program was started here at ISB in 2009 in a partnership with Buffalo State – SUNY. The program is designed to introduce teachers to many new Web 2.0 tools, have conversations about New Literacies, and turn the tools and conversations into action in the classroom.

Since our original …