Free Webinar for Science Teachers

Just recieved this message:

Dr. Michio Kaku agreed to do a free webinar for both teachers and students at noon EST on December 17th. It's intended for teachers to share with students and Michio is a great speaker to get people excited about science given how he relates complex subjects to what they see on TV and in movies, I think there's be a ton of classes that'd be interested in it. The registration link is at http://tinyurl.com/michiokaku or you can read more about him at mkaku.org.

Save Lively Campaign

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Winter's Chill

Here in Canada, winter is creeping up on us slowly and I am reminded how all our academic responsiblities at this time of year can overwhelm us and make it difficult to try new ways of teaching and learning. I am also thinking about how technology change occurs with us barely noticing. My daughter and I were eating supper at a restaurant during the US election. I wondered how the election was going and she pulled out her IPhone, hooked up to CNN and read me the results. How incomprehensible that would have seemed 20 years ago when she was born! I am currently working on a Virtual Conference with a team of doctors from Portugal. We are probably going to hold the conference in Second Life. So welcome to the first carnival of Year 2 where all the articles this month are web related!

A new resource for K-12 - a message from Steve Hargadon

I've created a collaborative site which I hope will help to build the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in K-12. The wiki is now at http://wiki.k12opensource.com/, and I've set up a Ning community just for Open Source in K-12 at http://community.k12OpenSource.com/.

I hope you'll come join the community and help to build it. I believe that having an inviting and easy-to-use social network will increase exposure, adoption, and idea-sharing around Open Source in K-12 at a time when it is truly needed (both financially and pedagogically). We'll also need some folks to start groups around favored programs--please consider coming and doing that!

Theories

Everyone Needs Therapy shares her thoughts about whether blogging is a safe, educational, therapeutic activity in A Chandler is Safer.

Resources

Match A College says "From web browsing to research to blogging to collaboration, these 50 apps will provide a taste of what may be on the horizon with the semantic web in education."

Royalty Free Music - the name says it all.

The Pathfinder Project - Enhancing Students' Learning Experiences Through the Use of Digital Storytelling.

BBC Wales -A Guide to Digital Storytelling -These guides are written for those helping others to make digital stories but most of the guidance is still relevant if you're making your own story.

Dumb Little Man says "Here are 15 such super-useful sites which aim to provide you with all the tutorials you'd ever need."

Educational Games Research shares 10 great sites for free educational games.

Ryan Bretag created a Blogging Rubric which he has shared on Creative Commons.

Iya-ola from Future Labs is a collection of language learning games with a difference: the player can only progress through collaborating with a learner in a different country. Iya-ola provides carefully structured language exercises using web-based audio-visual chat technology.

Next Carnival

Thank you to all the people who submitted articles this month. Submit your blog article to the next edition of active learning blog carnival using our carnival submission form before January 4th.

Science in Second Life

The New Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach

Genome Island


Imagine the opportunities for all students around the world to obtain a first class science education through a combination of online opportunities and in class discussions. What do you think this might say about the future of education?