Two graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are exploring the use of social media by school leaders to build relationships within their school community as well as to deepen and extend their connections to other leaders outside of their school community.  We are looking for school leaders who would be willing to share their use of social media and their participation in communities of practice. Would you be willing to have a 15-20 minute conversation with us? Please…

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In today´s society it is impossible to think about life without the influence of technology. We live in the age of digital culture, and are connected by many different types of devices, such as mobile phones, computers, television and an increasing range of new products; I could go on and on.  However this begs the question: what is the impact of this new era in our life style? What changes will result from our…

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Students 13 years and over want to learn more about your country first hand by working with your students. 'What do we know' global project is now open for classes - students use social media to actively participate and learn from each other.

So far we have:

Australia - What do we know? at http://webtowhere.ning.com/group/australia

Romania - What do we know? at…

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Over the past few years, a new approach to signaling individual skills and competencies has emerged the cutting edge of the education sector. Badges, already used successfully in games, social networking sites and youth development groups such as the Girl Scouts and 4-H, are now being developed in digital form to represent the wide range of non-traditional learning experiences critical to success in a global society.

Digital badges can showcase learning that takes place outside of…

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Next global project ready to begin - The Webtowhere project - http://webtowhere.ning.com/group/time-lets-compare

My students, from Australia, have just started to collect

data on how they spend their time each day – they can estimate this if

necessary. Let your students compare how they spend their time with my students.

Get your students involved - allow them to combine social media and…

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My students have started to make groups. They can be so clever at times - check out one student group at http://webtowhere.ning.com/group/the-big-happy-closet-thingy-majigy?xg_source=activity

My students are still waiting for others around the world to join them. They don't understand that their closet could be different to closets of others depending on where they live. They find it…

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Venue: Serbia

Time: 2nd to 10th of May 2011 (8 days)

Participants: High School Students (14 to 19 years old) and

Teachers interested to implement media literacy and media education in curriculum

Media Educators of the Media Education Centre (Belgrade, Serbia) and High Mowing School,…

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I am just from Interactive Intercultural Educational Workshop from Tehran, Iran. We have worked in Animation film with teachers and students (12 to 17 years old). It is implementation of our Educational project in Media Literacy! You can see some films made during this workshop at our youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/rajcevicm

The Media Education Centre (MEC) for children and youth is founded 1993 as no-political, no-profit NGO, gathering civilest willing to work for aims of scientific and professional researches about influence and use of media in non-formal education of children, young people, educators and all other interested people through media literacy, and in accordance with human and children rights on access to information, rights to preservation of cultural, national and religious diversity and the right… Continue

Please excuse cross-postings, but I love this video, created by Kansas State University students. You can view it at:
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119.