Birgy Lorenz TEA experience

Birgy Lorenz

Birgy Lorenz TEA experience

Birgy Lorenz

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Contents
About me Pelgulinna Gymnasium in brief About Pelgulinna Gymnasium Estonian cusine Estonian folk and pop music Estonian national clothes Facts about Estonia Estonian education About computer classes and topics Emotsioonid Washingtonist Bowling Green first Places to eat with BG card Insights: Savilla Banister, USA 6. feb lessons Please take part of my survey Meeting the Teachers 1 3 8 22 27 28 30 35 37 43 49 65 66 68 73 74

7 feb lesson Curriculum foundations Insights: Salam Saleh from Jordan FOSS Ohio Academic Standards Insights: Mohammed Moustafa from Egypt Feb 8 - co-operation Sunday laundary washing Family stay Insights: Erica van Lindgen 11 feb class 12 feb class Insights: Laxman Sharma from Nepal School visit 1 Playing pool 14 feb valentine day Visiting planetarium Way to recreation centre

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Friday lessons and conference Day in Toledo Change agent Ice Skating Little India cultural capital and science class Snakes, snakes everywhere! 20 feb Crazy weather school visit Fish, there are so many fish! 21 feb lessons 22 feb Chicago weekend 27th class Irex visiting QR code training and school tour @ partner teacher home

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1. march class Toledo arts school Detroit Management issues @ school Feedback Screencast o matic TEA group Charos newspaper two school visits this week TEA dances Family stay vol 2 Ottawa Hills - doing science and sports Basketball bears vs eagels Last school visit Some more insigths Torwards to the end Educators night

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TEA group and supporters BG finish Squirrel hunt Co teaching lecture Last pic in BG Best Western Washington in march Washington TEA cultural event Embassy visit Diplomas and lunch The end!

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About me
December 02, 2012 Birgy Lorenz is informatics and computer graphics teacher from Pelgulinna Gymnasium Tallinn, Estonia. She is also doctoral student in Tallinn University. Her favorite topic is internet safety and innovation in learning-teching. Awards 2010 Teacher of the year in Europe 2011 Teacher of the year in Estonia Founder of Estonian Teachers of Informatics and Computer Science NGO. Articles about me in english: DailyEdventures: http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/07/03/birgy-lorenz/ Techsisters: http://tmblr.co/Z0SnmuXSD8xb Videos: Birgy Lorenz, eLearning Award Winner 2010 - Teaching online safety and citizenship Pelgulina school WiFi example - Interview with Birgy Lorenz Social: Facebook http s://www.facebook.com/birgy

LinkedIN http://ee.linkedin.com/pub/birgy-lorenz/28/342/b0a Research: Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/birgy-lorenz1/ Academia.edu http://tallinn.academia.edu/BirgyLorenz Google citation http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d68EXCwAAAAJ&hl=en

ETIS: http s://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuCV.aspx?TextBoxName=birgy&PersonVI Researches: http://www.birgy.ee/research/

Pelgulinna Gymnasium in brief

December 03, 2012 Topic/Name Country City Country pop City population Local/Public Age or the school Renovation Teachers Students Grades Lessons per class

Ekstra lessons include in secondary level Languages in secondary In gymnasium level Different ICT(robotics, ekstra lessons: mobiletechnology, web programming etc), media, different art lessons, accounting, national defence, different history-culture, psychology, folk dance..

Pelgulinna Gymnasium Estonia Tallinn 1,3 million 400 000 Public school 100 year old (in different houses) 2008/2009 56 860 1-12 grades 1 grades 20 hour/week 9th graders 32; gymnasium 35 Art 1-4 lessons per week, Manual training (2), sports (2), ICT (0-2 depends of the class); Russian, German

Extra curricular activities

Languagess in Gymn level Computers Computers used by students wifi BYOD System used in computers Other gadgets

All is included in all od student Schedule (some things are just optional) Dancing, acting, robotics, mobile technology, music, singing etc Spanish, finnish (some classes), russian, german, swedish 126 (inclusing 45 laptops) 68 (31 of them are laptops) Covers all the school, is possible to monitor It is allowd to bring your own device Windows 7, Linux (estobutu)

5 smartboard, 4 documant camera, 32 projectors, 12 mobile phones, 15 cameras, 2 scanners, 3 TV stants for shadow learning or information Services for 2 Individuaal e-mail (edu@live and students/teachers Google); learning systems (Viko, Moodle, Google and Live; shared folders @school School Eschool Grandes, homework, management home/school relations; KIS, EHIS systems school management Teachers work All teachers divide into a groups of internest eg. Math, primary. There are Workgroups also for class teachers, curricula development, policy development, food, health etc.

Mandatory training 160 hours per 5 year is mandatory to stay in the same excellency level Feedback We use Microsoft Pilsr.com research tools for grading innovation and we do once a year Ahole school feedback (parents, teachers, students), and 1-9 grade class teachers have the obligation to have development interview with student/parent School ICT Everything technical outsoursed management (domain, emails, LAN), at school just for fun only one webserver for training webprogrammers www.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee but all School web usints (eg. Math, art, primary etc) have thir own blogs to promote schoolife Smart Europe@ home Extra projects http://smarteurope.weebly.com/ running this year Internet Safety http://fame.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/eng Mobile learning (est) http://ulugeh4.havike.eenet.ee/wordpress/
Extra curricular activities (Comenius) Safe and active schoolday (est) http://fame.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/aktiivne/ A lot of E-twinning projects Learning math thru computers (Est, Finland, Sweden)

Awards/Programs

Microsoft Pathfinder school 2011 Esafety youth to youth program 2010 (European Schoolnet) Local awards (folk dancing festival most groups from one school, North-Tallinn award, Birgy Lorenz Teacher of the year 2011, Tallinn best educational leader Tnu Piibur(director of the school) 2012 Local Authority, projects (Tiger Leap Funding for ICT Foundation or ohter for ICT) Ideology of using Training for teachers lasts 15-45 ICT minutes, different tutorials (shorter than better). Teachers are very recomended to participate in projects, lead projects, use ICT in lessons; teaching groups have laptop labs what they can lend for their classes; students can soose between win/linux to boot up the system themselves. Stuff is stored in clouds (teaching), ohter private stuff in educational national databases. We empahsise not using paper or printing out stuff (paper free school). There is always the latest software available. Every class from 7th Grande has student ICT helping staff (ekstra curricular work). Everybody is respponsible on their own gadgets.

Ideology

Every class, every teacher should have some project (class, local, International) Innovation is allowd and welcom. Doing things differently and changing the curricula when needed is allowed.

About Pelgulinna Gymnasium

December 03, 2012 Pelgulinna Gymnasium is school what is situated in capital of Estonia. We have ~860 students and ~60 teachers. We teach: art, music, computers, handycraft and other compusory lessons as math, science, sports, languages. We have classes form 1.-12. grade, usually the class size varys 18-32 students. In highschool level we offer 3 track to follow: art, prgamatics (math, economy, computers, national defence) and humanities (languages and acting, cultural history and other). Examples of traditional events: teachers day christmas sale and concert open school week fachion show National day celebrationsw Citizen day visiting theaters, cinema, concerts, museums and sports events

art and natinal defence camp weeks: art, math and science WiFi day Singing contest and free mic internet security day robotics contests

Webs (in estonian language) Schoolweb http://www.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/peaveeb/ Events http://pgyritus.blogspot.com/ Arts http://pelgulinnakunst.blogspot.com/ Sports http://pgsport.blogspot.com/ ICT http://pelguit.blogspot.com/ Primary http://pg-algklassid.blogspot.com/

Students TV (PG-TV) http s://www.youtube.com/user/PGTelevisioon 2011-2012 http s://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL698069E14C5BE3CC&feature=p

History overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17iRCZ2rWCU&feature=share&list and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc0xeflIL1U&feature=share&list=S

Projects: Safe and safe schoolday http://fame.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/aktiivne/ Smart homes @europe (ENG) http://smarteurope.weebly.com/ Pelgulinna Gymnasium history Pictures form school:

Electronic Estonian language dictation contest

Schools 100 year celebration - Getter Jaani concert

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Pictures form past

School cafeteria won 1st prize in Tallinn

WiFi day and lecture

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Work and manual training teacher presents tripod for mobile phone

Auditorium for 80 people

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Primary classes

Ordinary classroom

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Cloakroom with extra gaming corner

People in the corridor having a break

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Art corridor 1

Primary corridor with games on the floor

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Ordinary break

Class for handycraft

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Art class

Music class

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Hall

Sculpture and art print class

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Sportshall

Sports teacher explains indoor skiing

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Stadium

Schedule

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Swimmingpool

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Estonian cusine
December 04, 2012 Recepies: http://www.healthy-life.narod.ru/wor_ek66.htm Pictures:

Potato, blood sausage, sauercraut, bacon, cranberry jams

Herring, potato, sour cream and onion

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Sprat, egg, dill, tomato and cucumber

Chiken, tang mash, pickled cucumber

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Pork shank, potato porridge, cranberry, tang mash

Black bread (rye)

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Rubarb cake s

Kama, whipped cream and cottage shees with strawberries

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"Snowballs" with kissel

Links: Learning the Traditional Foods of Estonia http://www.thepauperedchef.com/2006/07/learning_the_tr.html Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_cuisine

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Estonian folk and pop music

December 04, 2012 Folk music

National song festival

Pop music

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Estonian national clothes

December 04, 2012 Every Estonian county has their own clothes. Some examples

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Facts about Estonia

December 05, 2012 Facts about Estonia:

Fun to watch: Kati and me (EstDocs 2012 Short Film Competition - Third Place Award)

Facts: Estonia is the smallest of all the Baltic States, being only slightly bigger than Switzerland or Denmark, population 1,3 million Tallinn is our medieval capital and by far the biggest city, with a population of around 400,000 Estonia is almost 50% forest. has over 1,500 islands has the highest number of meteorite craters per land area in the world are 550 schools (most of them have les sthan 300 students) have free WiFi almost everywhere; lots of e-services like E-income tax declaration! We are Skype homeland; In 2011 Tallinn will be the European Capital of Culture In 2011 we also have EURO

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Medeval and new city of Tallinn

Sports, folk dance and song festivals

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4 seasons weather +35 to -35 C degrees Flag: blue sky or sea, black earth or bread and white freedom

Situation map (Europe)

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National anthem:

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President: Toomas-Hendrik Ilves (opening Keynote form ICGOV2011 - in english language)

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia VisitEstonia http://www.visitestonia.com/en/ Estionan official gateway: http://estonia.eu/

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Estonian education
December 05, 2012 Information of education http://www.hm.ee/?1 Estonian education tree

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ICT and education possibilities thru my eyes: click here

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About computer classes and topics

December 06, 2012 In Pelgulinna Gymnasium computer class there is happening a lot of interesting stuff. Computer graphics and mediatechnoloy lessons we learn how to draw pictures in vector and raster graphics; we animate and do videos, we make also music and use mobile phones. In webmedia lessons we develop web as a project.

Lesson in animating with colors and shapes

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Lesson with mobile phones, discover Euro coins (Euro 10th anniversary)

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Outdoor learning with app "Kes kis - who was there?"

Fathers day Drupal web programming lesson Mobile technology lessons we develop programs (apps) for Microsoft Mobile and Android based phones.

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QR project Robotics classes we program robots and also participate in various national contests.

Programs used at school: OP systems: Windows 7 or Linux Estobuntu, Android, Windows phone Informatics: MS Office Libre and Open Office Win RAR, 7ip Videolan Tux Typing Tux Math Scarch Kodu Game Lab Skype MSN Live

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HotPotatoes Sebra Keyboard Pro Lego mindstorm Safari, IE, Mozilla, Chrome Computer art: TuxPaint Inkscape Gimp ArtRage ArtWeaver Picasa Irfan Wiew Scribus Terragen MovieMaker MonkeyJam Photosynth Pixia PhotoPhiltre PhotoFilmStrip MS Silverlight Paint.Net Audacity Google SketchUP PhotoStory3 and a lot of e-tools:)

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In Estonina language: Internet safety project (ENG) http://fame.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/ Mobile learning lessonplans and apps http://www.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/mobla Computer graphics programs and tasks http://www.pgarvgraaf.blogspot.com/ Future classroom http://tulevikuklass.blogspot.com/ Smart Book project http://tarkraamat.blogspot.com

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Emotsioonid Washingtonist
February 02, 2013 Drive 3+9 hours pane time. Topics> cross cultural differences, introducing yourself and your country, everyday object that presents your country. Our was leflector and ID card. Pictures about: my name in arabic, poster fair, food, Washington, meeting head of the Ebmassy. ......................... Kohalesit 3h Mynchen, 9h Washington. Turvakontrolli vahepeal ei lbinud, sest lasti niisama l2bi lipsata. Ka muus osas l2ks libedalt. Teistel hotellis ikka juhtus: kes jagas tuba inimestega x programmi vliselt. Kes oli liftis kinni jne. Minul miskit nii erutavat ei juhtunud. Sk on sdav, tuba hea (ameerika standard). Inimesed programmi maadest rgivad head inglise keelt(enaus inglise keeele petajad). Asi on kavalalt korraldatud, et kik kigiga kokku puutuks. Teemad: kultuurilised erinevused enda tutvustamine ja postrid

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isiklik vi maad tutvustav asi Meie valisime tutvustamiseks helkuri. Oli kll ka muid valikuid (parmupill, ib kaart jne), kuid helkur tundus olevat enam igapevasem:P Samas sai ka turva teemalt id kaart ra mainitud. Minu nimi Araabia keeles

Eesti poster koos Riina Hallasega. "stonia" lb ka laineid.. nagu Narnia.

Erinevaid rahvaid osaleb programmis 30 maalt, 90 inimest. Heledapisemaid on 3: eesti, lti ja poolatar.

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Ajavahe muidugi mjub nii, et kell 4 klps leval. Washingtoni linnas: Jaht valgele majale (oli teine nurga taha peitunud)

Linnatuur jalgsi ja bussiga:

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Kohtumine suursaadikuga:)

Ja sgid on ka ameerika moodi:

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Rohkem pilte on Facebooki galeriis: http s://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200411031783098.2197480

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Bowling Green first

February 05, 2013 Airplane takes us to the Detroit, that is 1 hour drive from Bowling Green. We also get glimpse of Perrysburg that is very nice.

We settle to the hotel of Best Western. Good beds, location near Mac Donalds and Wendy.

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Campus is big and lot of things to do. Library is open until 12.00 evening and ICT facilities 24/7. Different kinds of foods in food court. Everything is accessible thru BG card. We got also new email, canvas learning environment, mac laptop, ipad..At home it will be a problem, that I need more these tools when I get custom to it:)

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We have lot of lessons in different categories like curricula development, technology workshops, cross and general cultural topics. Lecture about sexual harassment issues in USA. All tasks are interactive and participatory, so it is good that we learn a lot of new methods.

Tallest tower teamwork building exercise

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Rules and regulations

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Discussion about dealing with minorities and cultural differences: how same/strangers are treated; race, gender, age, sexuality, disability issues. Methods: Hole in a paper see it close, further. Questioner; Star and a story to rip the star when you are hurt.

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Flowchart about curricula development and implementation

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Pieces about academic, behavioral, managerial, systems, humanistic, reconceptualist approaches

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Colored pie about your and your school approaches

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Technology class: whatsaaaaappp Also people are really nice and group is in a good level, so there is a lot to learn from each other in learning but also from cultural aspect vise. We also met Bowling Green community

More pictures http s://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200500765226378.2197757

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Places to eat with BG card

February 06, 2013
View Bowling Green in a larger map

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Insights: Savilla Banister, USA

February 06, 2013 She is a professor of classroom Technologies and has done it for 12 years. Before that, she was a music teacher for K-12. Listing best achievements she is very proud of her family children and grandchildren, in educational sense she also points out that she has published many research articles and now direct the Center of Excellence for 21st Century Educator Preparation. Life motto: It's all about the learning!

Savilla is exited about working creative and motivated teachers. Also she is now involved with Digital Texts Learning Community, BYOD project with BGSU students and camera deployment in k-12 schools. But sometimes the technology also gives us challenges like how to use it in that way that everyone feels like they are involved and have an access. Her hope is that someday all people will have connection to

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internet and it gives better chance to them to be a part of the curriculum. Learning is changing and it is in this way to everybody, so the best is to learn it together. Past year learning achievements she talks about syncing all her information from all devices to the cloud...learned by experimentation... and all went OK! So you can do it too! Others say: she has a uplifting energy and she can keep up with everything Whaaaat! she is very professional and knows a lot about new technologies, at the same time she doesn't forget to have fun

Need more: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/edhd/directory/stl/page57435.html

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6. feb lessons
February 06, 2013 a. Curricula and lesson plan development lessons Tomlinson, C. A., & McTighe, J. (2006). Integrating differentiated instruction and understanding by design. Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. Book. What matters in planning for student succsess? Learning evidence Academic diverse in classroom Assessment - pre, fomal, summary Grading and reporting principles - goal based, learning curve, sepparate sets of achievements Methods: discussion including real life object to help to imagine;

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zigzaw (everyone groups of 5 reads different paragraf, groups make a presentation, new groups emerge and everyone explains their paragraf in 5-6 minutes).

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b. Tech: blog, Google form learning, BGSU web wiki usage Blogs you will find in the right.

Tools and videos: What is Web 2.0? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxID2GQWaqI

1). Blog (Blog in Plain English) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=fvst

2). Google Documents (in Plain English)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

3). What is Prezi? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxhqD0hNx4Q

Example Prezis Vocabulary Learning--Household Tasks Wilfred Owen's Poetry and Life 4). podcast (in plain English) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eitai5SuZ3w

Podcast Examples Radio Willowweb The Savvy Technologist 5). Social Bookmarking (in plain English)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

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Please take part of my survey

February 06, 2013

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Meeting the Teachers

February 07, 2013

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7 feb lesson Curriculum foundations

February 07, 2013 Differentiate learners and learning Methods: gallery walk - 4 different sub themes and 6 different type of learners, walk around and add your ideas how they are learning.

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candy and toothpick exercise - 4 minutes to build something, then remove candy. Explain how it is similar to differentiate learners.

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Test your learning style http://www.learning-styles-online.com/

Ideas and reading:

First days at school http://www.edutopia.org/blog/cheat-sheet-first-days-school-jose-vilso Homework myth http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-homework-myth

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Insights: Salam Saleh from Jordan

February 07, 2013 She is an English teacher for 6. and 7. grades in an UNRWA school and she has done it for 12 years. She also teaches art classes if needed. Shes motto: Hitch your wagon up to a star

Salam-s best achievement is supervising human rights activities and was chosen twice as one of the top 5 teachers in the area. She has found in the TEA program very interesting and liberating and the best so far has been in technology sense how to blog. Here biggest challenge is how to cope with using different devices with different formats as there is so many to choose. Her dream is that technology is used to build mutual understanding among people. In the end she is inviting all

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people to come visit the amazing city of Petra/Jordan....one of the Seven Wonders of the World. To find out more visit her school FB: http s://www.facebook.com/amir.hassan.prep.g.s.n1

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FOSS

February 07, 2013 Here is overview of my class http://birgytea.blogspot.com/2012/12/about-computer-classes-and-top My reflection about Free and open software: http://birgyblogi.blogspot.com/2012/11/free-and-open-software.html Usually we use a lot of freeware, as it doesn't cost money. Now there are a lot of talk about switching also from MS to Linux in system and office vise. The problem is that people are not aware of using Linux, at the same time we save 14 dollars in every year per computer. In the longer run it is useful, but the change is very difficult for the layperson.

With Audacity at schools we usually do 3 exercises: make 1 minute telephone ringtone and test out how the program works

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design 20 second school bell using different sounds, think of that the bell should be uplifting and speakers don't give good audio (bass) design 3 minute song that you will use later to make a cartoon-movie. You must include 6 songs, 10 effects and 3 people from class speaking-singing in your song. With Google Sketschup we do these 3 exercises: future house to test out how the program work pick a picture of real house - cultural building (listed) or your own house and design it in 3D apartment and garden design - make your dream apartment (everyone uses the same basic typical apartment With Inkscape we do a lot of exercises: Design your name

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Redesign or make a copy of real product design eg. morning serials box or face

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Make a gaming cards, if needed use also Gimp Design a newspaper with 4 pages

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Ohio Academic Standards

February 07, 2013 Focus> Apply research, development, experimentation and redesign based on feedback to problem solving Comparing countries: In our country also the national curricula has just changed. We have 12 different standards that subdivide to subjects to different classes. Estonian language and literature Math Foreign languages Science Social studies Art Technology Sports Optional:

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religion informatics career cross and interdisciplinary topics

Also research starting from 6. grade is extremely important to practice. Now students must preform or present evidence in the end of 9th grade and 12 grade that they can do research or preform alone or with group. So there is a lot of similarities that happens in our country and Europe and in the US.

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Insights: Mohammed Moustafa from Egypt

February 08, 2013 He is a English teacher @ high school students and he has done it 12 years. Motto: Shoot for the moon and if you did not get it, you would put yourself among bright stars.

He is very interested about dealing with different students. He is learning a lot in TEA program about ICT, so the knowledge is rising a lot. He also had a nice project with students when they did a English language magazine about shool life.

If you want to http://mrmohammedtea.blogspot.com/

read

more:

He is very into sharing information about Egypt, so there are some pictures

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Feb 8 - co-operation
February 08, 2013 Co-teaching options:method list Pros and cons

Visiting the library and finding about searching options and services that are available.

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Tech 4: Make a Google site: http s://sites.google.com/site/birgylorenz/ Collaborative tools (comment) At our school we are using blogger, Facebook, Edmondo, Fakebook, Orkut, Wordpress, Google tools Usually teacher decides that what she/he wants to do and then ICT personnel introduces the tools. Students also lean cooperative tools in computer class lessons.

Here is our study about student-teacher relationship that happens using online tools. It is a pre-peek and there was 71 international teachers/students that participated. You are:

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High School Student

University Student

3 17 14 11 24

4% 24% 20% 15% 34%

Teacher
IT Specialist

Other adult Teacher and Student at the same time How old are you?

1%

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less than or 10 years old 11-20 years old 21-30 years old 31-40 years old 41-50 years old older than 51 You are: male female

4%

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49%

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28%

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11% 1%

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34% 65%

Your Internet habits:

Describe your activity in the web. You use Internet for:

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Social Networks (Facebook, Rate, Linkedin jne)

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91%

Fast posting (nt. Twitter)

Blogging (Blogger, Weebly, Wiki, Wordpress)

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30%

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54%

Creating Web pages (ether your own on for someone's business)

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24%

31 44% Newsportals 38 54% Other 24 34% People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%. I spend in Internet about:

Playing Online games Forums

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14%

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1-4 hours a day 5-8 hours a day 8-12 hours a day more than 12 hours a day I consider myself as:
Experienced and advanced computer user

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27

38%

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15%

6%

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77%

Average computer user User with low computer skills

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20%

1%

In Internet you mostly interact with:

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My family My friends People I know People I don't know

Colleagues

33 60 57 33 41

47% 86% 81% 47% 59%

My teachers (in case you are the student) My students (in case you are the teacher)

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16%

9%

Other 3 4% People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%. How do you add people to your friend-list?

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I know everybody in my friendlist in person and this is my criteria for adding people

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There are people who I don't know in person in my friends list, but I do interact with them
I do accept requests from friends of my friends
I play online games, so I accept everybody

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57%

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34%

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I accept every request I get

In my friends list I have teachers as friends (for student)
In my friends list I have students as friends (for teachers)

0%

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26%

13%

People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.

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Are you also member of a group (network) without adults (for students)/without students (for adults) Yes No You are usually:
The one who sends request and searches for new contacts The one who accepts requests and doesn't search for contacts

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24% 75%

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25%

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Your beliefs:
I believe that: - I think everybody is free to choose who to interact online with

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No
Probably Not

1 1 4 12

1% 1% 6% 17%

Maybe
Probably Yes

Yes 52 73% I believe that: - I think everybody is free to choose who to interact offline with No 1 1%
Probably Not

3 7 17

4% 10% 24%

Maybe
Probably Yes

Yes 42 59% I believe that: - I think students and teachers should interact online (besides school hours) eg. be friends in FB No 7 10%
Probably Not

9 21 18

13% 30% 25%

Maybe
Probably Yes

Yes 15 21% I believe that: - I think students and teachers should only interact online using online learning environments)

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No
Probably Not

19 23 12 10

27% 32% 17% 14%

Maybe
Probably Yes

Yes 6 8% I believe that: - I think students and teachers should interact offline (besides school hours) No 5 7%
Probably Not

11 26 16

15% 37% 23%

Maybe
Probably Yes

Yes 12 17% I believe that: - I think students and teachers should interact only in class time No 27 38%
Probably Not

24 4 12 3

34% 6% 17%

Maybe
Probably Yes

Yes

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Sunday laundary washing

February 10, 2013 First time laundary washing in USA. 75 sents soap and stuff, 1,75 washing and 25 drying. Some of us did it first time in their lifetime.

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February 10, 2013 We stays with Erica at Dave and Linda's place. They have lovely house in Bowling Green. They have son and a daughter that are already grown up. We visited car show in Toledo, some friends, lake Erie, different family houses, cornfield and a church. On the way we saw also Mary and Laxman from TEA Fellows. It was a wonderful insight of the American way of life and hospitality. We enjoined every minute of it and take only good memories with us! Here are some pictures about the weekend. See more ht t p s : / / w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m / m e d i a / s et/?set=a.10200539532075525.2198184.13 75039516&type=1&l=4d2eec9657

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February 10, 2013 Erica is English African teacher form South-Africa. She teaches great 10-12. Motto: You can only have peace with others when you have peace with in your self. And you can only have peace with yourself when you have peace with god.

She is the blond one.

She has 4 dogs and 2 cats and she lives in a rectory. She is also a pastoral psychiatrist. She works with people with stress, children with learning disabilities. Funny fact: Beertjie Africans that sounds like Birgy and it is small teddy bear.

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February 11, 2013 a. Lesson Plan thru differentiation Foss and paid software Copyright and referencing

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February 12, 2013 Technology lesson: Early Valentine day celebrations!

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Audio Software Garageband (http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/) Audacity (FOSS) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Vocaroo (online audio recorder) http://vocaroo.com/ Audioboo (online audio recorder) http://audioboo.fm/ Yakitome (text to speech) h t t p : / / w w w . y a k i t o m e . c o m/tts/index AT&T Natural Voice (http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php) Video Software Window Movie Maker (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/movie-maker-getiMovie (http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/) MovieMasher (http://www.moviemasher.com/) Online Converters Online_convert (http://www.online-convert.com/) Zamzar (http://www.zamzar.com/)

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Insights: Laxman Sharma from Nepal

February 13, 2013 You know famous Nepal people, but you don't know they came from Nepal - Buddha, Tenzzing Sherpa other Sherpas and now Laxman the most educated and well appreciated teacher. Life motto: I want to change the world educating children!

He worries a lot of about climate change and science.Children should know all of that as they are the ones that Change the world. Laxman can speak 5 languages: english, nepali, hindi, japan, newari (local). Laxman has worked as teacher 22 years in remote area where there are lot of mountains. As you know Nepal holds a records in 8 out of 10 highest mountains in the world. He has also traveled to the up to the base camp in Mount Everest known as Dzomolungma.Population is 27 M in 15 M square Km area.Kathmandu is the capital city which

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School visit 1
February 13, 2013 I am testing out Perrysburg Juhior High and my partner teacher is Lisa. She is a computer teacher and has also worked as educational technologist. School website: http://www.perrysburg.k12.oh.us/schools/perrysburg-jr-high-school

American school schedules are little bit different. They start at 7.30-8.00 and end around 2-3. Lessons are 42 minutes and then there is time to move to another class in 4 minutes of time. Students have also 1 hour lunch break in-between somewhere. All classes are the same 8 hour day for students first from 12 grades. Computers is learned as a period eg. 2-3 months every day one lesson and that is it. All students have school emaili that is provided from Google.

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February 14, 2013 Today it was valentine day, little celebrations and we had soup!!!

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February 15, 2013 Journey to the center of the universe and back, or something..

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February 15, 2013 I wanted to go to the recreation center, but when I arrived it was full of people. It was huge. After I just went to the hotel hot tub instead..it was HOT!

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February 15, 2013 Today we made another lesson plan and discussed different curricula issues. Methods: When you read take notes using symbols

Read and pick a idea. Then present it and let other comment, then summarize. Write idea, then someone writes the next line etc.

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February 16, 2013 Imaginarium - science factory

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Change agent
February 17, 2013 Briefly explain what transformative teaching and learning means to you and how you see your teaching working towards change (for your students, your peers, your community, yourself .. For me the biggest change started 3 years ago when I was tired of teaching and there were less to discover any more.. thankfully I was wrong:) What happened 3 years ago was that Microsoft looked me up with my little project about internet safety and floated me around the world: England, Germany, South/Afrika, Seattle (USA) and EU Commission Denmark, Sweden, Belgium. For me it is important to see and hear what others are doing as in my country I have reached the level of competence as many of us innovative teachers and educational technologist. TO TRAVEL and SEE what OTHERS DO is most importance in transforming learning&teaching.

My school and coworkers are in a top level in the world in my mind when I look around that is happening in the world. They have best boss and almost best environment regarding computers and internet and freedom to use it. They also travel, participate in programs and I am happy that they see thru that what is really important in changing and learning. We have long way still to walk, but they are

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Innovative teaching for me is empowering students, listening the voice and guiding it like national curricula asks us to do. I like that our newest curricula is almost the future that I see in my mind - no special subjects, rather than areas of teaching. ICT curricula was they way as I teach as I was also part of the development group. I like that it all is developed bottom up and with experts. Understand the curricula and make it your own.

Teacher is not alone in the class as experts must be also be involved, sharing and cooperation should be present in everyday classroom. Students have responsibility and teachers are mentors in that way. The problem is as in everywhere in the world - why innovation does not leap from class to class? At the same time I see that it is about organization culture as some schools present co-teaching and idea leaping, we call it innovative schools. INCLUDE EXPERTS and OTHER TEACHERS, schools. I also like to visit other schools, I call it spying as I get much out of it for my school. CELEBRATE what OTHERS have doing and share BEST PRACTICES. I get exited when I share ideas and people share theirs. GET

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Lesson that I have not yet learned is when to REST and not be a part of everything. To know when to say NO it is important, but I do not have the skill for it (in my real life). When I am abroad then it is in the other way.. I do not have these kind of issues and I know how to enjoy life..

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So I do not have answer how to develop professional way and not run yourself to death with doing that:)

Some words about community - we have very critical state for now in that field as salary and work peace. Lot of good teachers are considering not to stay teachers any more or just leave to work somewhere else e.g.. Finland. As people are poor then they cannot do much to support teachers and it all moves into a not so good social crisis that will effect future generation a lot. At the same time all depends whom to compare - western

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For students it is sharing responsibility and give options to fail. School is the place where to learn life and make mistakes. Also humans tend to learn more from mistakes rather than success.

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February 18, 2013 Discussions about cultural capital issues. Close circle and phereperia.

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February 19, 2013 Research - what it is and how to do it

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Rope jump 10 stations Jumping with multiple ropes Estonian language: kummikeksu moodi hpppamine, kergejustiku moodi teatevistlus, rnga keerutamine,

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February 21, 2013 Desk Olympia (6 back, 4 in the front DEBATE 2 minutes per table, after 1 minute to get agreement), about flat classroom and world http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/ http://www.flatclassroombook.com/

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February 22, 2013 Outdoor lesson globe.gov

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February 27, 2013 Soap and water 5E model 3 types of inquiry: with guidelines; with goal; set your own goal Soap towers

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Technology class - make Glogster Develop your own team logo, cheer and name the players. Design your own mascot and team flag.

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February 28, 2013 We had today some official visitors

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February 28, 2013 Today we had a QR code training and just seeing what is happening in school labs School TV station

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March 01, 2013 Life science

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March 01, 2013 Music, art, dancing and more - special charter school

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March 04, 2013 In the morning I visited computer management office and have a talks with the company admin and other workers about maintaining schools network and computers. Lot to talk about using macs and development with google chromebook.

Later I met also former guidance concealer and have talk about the work and schedule preparing. Learning points: more teachers are needed, time in the schedule to plan and teamwork. First put the struggling children plan together, then others. Start with less lessons then more lesson modules can also rotate 2-3 times in a year. Learning groups as 6 grader classes math, social studies, science or other.

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March 05, 2013 Strategies of teaching - I like differentiation, 5E model and flipped classroom. I start using it more and think more about experiencing learning not just teaching-learning and training practical skills.

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What is like living in another country - America is too versatile to make conclusion about all of America. I haven't yet gone to Miami. After that I will decide:) America has better beds and pillows - this I would like to take home with me. Missing the most - not really missing, life is good. Food could be better or at least I prepare my own things, here I can rely on what there is to offer. Otherwise the community

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People I remember the most - Savilla (BGSU), Emilio (BGSU), Lisa (Perrisburg Jnr,. H), home stay family and Laxman from Nepal, Salaam from Jordan. What I tell to my students - Most important is that I tell to my teachers that they must stand up and reinvent the teaching. Then students will benefit the most of me being here.

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March 05, 2013 Teaching a little something using screencast. As my American students asked to learn about "Hello and Goodbye", then there is the engagement for them: Embedded File ()

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March 07, 2013 Is it a beach or computer class?

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March 08, 2013 IREX TEA SHAKE from Savilla Banister on Vimeo. BGSU IREX TEA Dance Party from Savilla Banister on Vimeo.

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March 11, 2013 Good school, great people! Seen the preparing for a test, LAB in biology. Real 5E and 6E model usage! Talk with principal about keeping the school running according how to support students and supervise teachers. Viewed the computer class and TV station and have a little Apple and Foss discussion. Also glimpses of good sport results as there were a lot of toffees everywhere.

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March 12, 2013 Today we visited basketball game in BG. Our team was Ottawa Hillls Green Bears. We are OH!

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March 13, 2013 Last day in nice Perrisburg jn high with Lisa! Small presents for students as well. Task for students was critical thinking in referencing and making correct citations.

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March 14, 2013 People from TEA program that I haven yet talked about: Partho and Sarmin from Bangladesh Pharto is founding teacher in his schools and he is a science teacher. His interest is about water pollution, social issues and economics in rural areas.

Sharmin is a free and happy spirit that teaches English language with a smile and good mood. She has a lot of nice colorful dresses also.

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Mary from Costa Rica, the most beautiful country in the wold. She is a hard working women that have opened her hart also towards technology. Shes favorite ideas is to enjoy life as much you can and favorite signature expression is HM!

Serge Pre is from exotic Cote dlvoire. He teaches in a big classroom (90 students) and has a lot of ideas how to share

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Claudia is from Honduras. She likes to go to movies and help others to achieve goals when she has the knowledge to help. She works hard and much and she has also visited Japan. She is the one who is smiling in the back left corner and holding the strings of team trust.

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Gulnar from Kazakhstan is the most experienced educator here. She loves her country and being a teacher. She has a quit sharp humor and knows a lot of Russian songs that she sings with her nice voice. Elena is from Russia and she has a healthy views of how students should be educated and behaved in schools. She likes to be on task and has good computer skills. She also likes a lot American teaching books as they make teachers life mutch more easier. Svitlana is from Ukraine and she has a experiences of teaching in several countries eg. Poland and now US;) She has won award like teacher of the year and her students are very well educated and usually also participate and win lot of awards.

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Mister Panama eg. Gregorio and miss Venezuela eg. Miriam are young and happy teachers - life science meet computers. Grego is nice dzentelmen that after this program will change a lot of things in his school. Miriam is a computer teacher that is so skillful that she has done this job 5 years without the computers. Imagine that!

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March 14, 2013

BGSU IREX TEA...One Word, One Sentence from Savilla Banister on Vimeo.

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March 17, 2013 Preparations

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March 17, 2013 Marilyn Friend http://www.marilynfriend.com/

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March 23, 2013 Lots of dances

Differentiation and...

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March 23, 2013 Whole cabbage meal

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March 23, 2013 Project is over. Great people - wonderful time! Tribute of us all! Professors:

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