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The "Big" Shifts in Learning

Replied Sep. 23, 2007

Creating Globally Collaborative Projects for the Elementary Classroom

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Creating Globally Collaborative Projects for the Elementary Classroom

Replied Sep. 21, 2007

Always Learning (my blog)

ISB21: A New Team for a New Year

Last year when I arrived at the International School Bangkok, I stepped into a fabulous new learning space we now call The Learning Hub: Not only does it look amazing, but the concept of our Hub is to combine digital and traditional literacy into one flexible learning zone where students, teachers and parents alike can explore [...]

Getting to Know You

At the beginning of every school year, I’m reminded of how important it is to build collaborative relationships with teachers. As a resource person I believe the most crucial area of my relationship with teachers is becoming a true collaborative partner with classroom teachers - actually teaching together with them in the classroom, building on [...]

A New Year Begins

After nice, long, relaxing summer of traveling, spending quality time with family and friends, and lots of excellent eating (all essential qualities for the perfect summer, in my opinion), I am definitely ready to start another exciting school year! And lucky for me, it’s already shaping up to be totally amazing… I’m so excited to be [...]

Hello Summer!

Phew! Time flies when you’re busy! It’s hard to believe we’re on week three of summer holidays already and our first trip back to Germany since we last lived in Munich three years ago is already over. Clearly I’m going to be doing very little writing over the next six weeks or so (not so [...]

Students Teaching Students

I just had a fantastic meeting with two of our wonderful grade 5 teachers, Sandra and Diane, to brainstorm ways to naturally embed 21st century literacy skills into our (Lucy Caulkins) Readers’ Workshop (RW) units of study for next school year (Reading is a school focus for next year). The grade 5 team is looking [...]
 

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Currently living in Bangkok, Thailand
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After seven years as a middle school tech facilitator, first five at Munich International School in Germany, last two at Mont'Kiara International School in KL, Malaysia, I am now the 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the International School Bangkok.
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http://mscofino.edublogs.org

Kim Cofino's Blog

20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0

[Cross posted from my blog, Always Learning]

We all know that you only get out of a conference what you put in. So, I did my best to make the Learning 2.0 unconference sessions work for me by moderating 2 of the 3 sessions (during the third session I was totally wrapped up in Alan November’s amazing presentation on

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Posted on September 18th, 2007 at 12:29pm — No Comments (Add)

Energized and Inspired: Reflections from the Learning 2.0 Conference

[Cross posted from my blog, Always Learning]

What a weekend! I’ve barely been able to sleep since the Learning 2.0 Conference started because my brain has been in overdrive - just being around so many like-minded people in one place was absolutely the most inspiring experience I’ve had in years. Over the summer I was jealously following the tweets from

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Posted on September 17th, 2007 at 6:40pm — No Comments (Add)

Collaborative Projects Developed During Unconference Sessions Today!

Another great unconference session today!

Our group came up with tons of great ideas for collaborative projects for elementary. These ideas are only a starting point, please feel free to add anything you would like to start collaborating on in the replies:

The starting point:

Grade 5 Ideas:

Book Club / Literature Circle: Use Ning to share our thoughts on our reading - create literature circles with students from a variety of school… Continue

Posted on September 16th, 2007 at 11:26am — No Comments (Add)

Overcoming the Obstacles: Keeping the Conversation Going

Had a great session with Will and Sheryl today on embracing "problem" technologies.

Lots of problems:

  • YouTube
  • Facebook/MySpace
  • Texting
  • Wikipedia
  • Filters/Firewalls
  • Access
  • Inappropriate content
  • MP3 Players
  • Fear/Fear Mongering
  • Cyber-bullying
  • Consistency
  • K-12 schools
  • Managers/
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Posted on September 15th, 2007 at 5:37pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Roundtable Discussion Favorite Quotes

A few of my favorite quotes from the fantastic roundtable discussion last night:

Will Richardson:
  • the network is the most powerful piece of learning
  • kids need models for appropriate, safe, effective use for blogging (in response to Jamie McKenzie's point that students are blogging about nonsense that no one is reading - the problem is that people are reading!)
Shery Nussbaum-Beach
  • web 2.0 levels the playing field to create more a
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Posted on September 15th, 2007 at 6:53am — 3 Comments (Add)

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At 6:57pm on August 17th, 2008, Ann Krembs said…
Hi Kim,

I like following your blog, and I really admire the program you guys are implementing at ISB. I'm looking forward to meeting you in person during the Learning2.0 Conference. Currently, I serve as the head librarian at the American School of Bombay. Until September...:) Ann
At 3:36pm on September 18th, 2007, David Carpenter said…
Now we are talking. Your efforts to bring the theory into real practice are wonderful with the 20 project ideas. Nice work.
At 9:26am on September 18th, 2007, cindy wainikka said…
Great ideas for elementary classrooms. I have not signed up for yak pack before. Is it easy to partner with other schools around the world? How do you go about doing that?
Thanks
At 8:44pm on September 13th, 2007, Dan Robinson said…
Hey Kim, I am working with some English lout named David at TAS :). He mentioned that you would be worth catching up with.
 
 

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