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The 2nd international Conference on African Culture and Development will be in Accra,Ghana(15th-18th November)
The theme of this year's conference is Culture and the Millinium Development Goals.
Please visit-www.icacdafrica.org for registration
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Balancing time commitments is the key to productivity and sanity. However, now that I have started I also look for some ongoing projects with my older students especially connected to blogging. I fear some will become a little bored with straight text posts, so working with other schools across the globe will keep them excited and motivated. The blogging across the cultures is a great one, as students only write one post each fortnight, on simple but effective global topics. As they are just so keen to have an audience, dots on their maps and comments, they just are off reading the other student;s in their groups blogs even though they have been asked to only comment on two other students.
Parents get involved too as students go home and discuss the students who have visited them.
Oooh... that is long winded but yes to sum up "keep it simple" is the best approach.
Global collaboration brings up so much geography and history, naturally as students really want to know what cities, countries those comments, flags, dots on the clustrmaps, online students etc come from.
In time pedagogy will change to heutagogy, where teachers will help students become self directed learners.
However, there are teachers out ther that do just want to work with people who teach certain subjects, topics and outcomes but I have not restricted my classes at all as the learning is naturally powerful.
Thanks for being part of our NOW Conference ning. So good to have lots of Twitter friends here. You can register for any of our online events that begin on Oct 7th with our keynote, Kym Nadebaum. Feel free to spread the word.
Helen