Day 1 at We Collaborate.

Yesterday Kieran, my son, was 18 months old and I received a late-but-expected Christmas gift: a calendar with his pics! Today I enjoyed and share it with my mom and we both were amazed how wonderful he is and how much he looks alike his mom and dad :)

I've also posted a comment a found out in another calendar, about how antique Mexican cultures discovered mezcal-tequila and was created it by gods, very interesting way of thinking about…

Despite the political uncertainty surrounding the recent 2011 Congolese elections, TSO volunteers made the holiday season a bit brighter for impoverished youth in Bukavu, Eastern Congo. Oak Leader, Pastor Samuel Muderhwa and his wife, Faida, hosted a Christmas dinner in Bukavu, DR Congo for over 360 underprivileged youth – including several orphans. The event included a series of inspirational plays, poems and songs – mostly around social themes relevant to Bukavu including rape, tribal…

In addition to a formal education, work experience is an essential part of building a career. To this end, Steven Shyaka and his sister Jeanne Mutoni have obtained internships in their respective fields. Steven is working as a legal assistant in the Kigali-based law…

I have been involved in continuous improvement with a variety of industries.   I was part of PQ Systems, located in Dayton Ohio, when the Quality Kid project was initiated by ASQ and I watched as a number of community colleges offered classes in continuous improvement tools to businesses in the area.  Having been on the fringe of continuous improvement in Education, I am anxious to hear about what has been accomplished,   What worked, what didn't?  What successes can you note to this blog. …

"If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland."

"When a fat girl eats a cheeseburger, people think, "Ew, eat a salad." When a fat girl eats a salad, people think, "Is she…

The Strongest Oak Foundation was a grateful winner of the Collaborate for Good contest (read the entry “Virtual Mentorship for Traumatized Youth in Africa”). We use  Blackboard Collaborate for our meetings as well as to collaborate with our “Strongest Oaks” (clients) in Africa. Two of our executive (Stace and Dan) are currently visiting Africa, witnessing the fruits of our labors first-hand, and…

Sain uu, ene bol ...

Greak poetry is just awesome. I especially like Homer's poetry. It just sounds so nice and relaxing. Hey I think I can be a poet myself,

Democracy is the reality

That's is in the world today

A wonderful system

That requires dedication

To keep the country in tact

To do so may also be called

Protect. 

Yeh I can do this stuff to/

Hello everyone,

Let me explain to you how I'd use and "squeeze" Blackboard Collaborate for a whole year! :-)

I have been selected by PSMLA (Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association) and NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) as a Sans Inc./Mead Fellow, leading an online professional development project about providing FREE training to World Language teachers on creative, immersive, authentic, and FUN ways to incorporate web 2.0 tools…

I plan to improve student achievement by providing online tutoring sessions as a learning resource that exploits the flexibility and power of technology, combining individualized instruction and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, to reach my student learners while they are trying to learn, both in and out of class.  By using Blackboard Collaborate, I will be able to interactively tutor students using the virtual whiteboard and student drawing and writing problems, solutions and…

Consult 4 Kids currently assists 40% of after school programs in California. Our goal is to not stop there. With in the next 7 years, we hope to effect the lives of 70 million youth and 10 million adults through our services. Eventually we will be giving away our services for free through advertising and sponsors.

Since the area in which we assist is so vast, having on training room to work with individuals in each region on how to use the training more effectively would be a huge…

Teaching offers a learning experience to language teachers whenever they use new teaching strategies that promote student participation. We are aware that those experiences vary to a great extent and it becomes essential to share those experiences with fellow teachers now and then. This proposal aims at enhancing such learning (among language teachers) apart from offering teacher training online in integrating technological tools in the language classroom. To begin with, an initial…

1. I want to use this forum and the technology of " Blackboard We collaborate
   
   " to create cultural awareness and respect for different cultures and thus
   
   build bridges across regions. Perhaps at no point in human history, people were
   
   more compelled and motivated to know about each other than now. Because of…

The mission of the Social Media Global Education Connection Project is “To provide leadership, guidance, facilitation and resources to students, educators, and administrators in educational organizations that will promote and enable competent usage of social media by the world’s citizens, workforces, educational institutions, and societies.”

The SMGEC project is sponsored by the Social Media Club, a non-profit trade association whose membership exceeds some 300 K members…

Samuel Enoka Kalama Intermediate School is located on the slopes of Haleakala on the island of Maui, in the state of Hawaii. The opportunity to use a Blackboard Collaborate room for a year would impact our learning community in so many ways. Here is a sampling of what we would do:

-Connect and collaborate with learners from around the world. For starters, we would like to connect with Pacific island neighbors, including classrooms, teachers, scholars and institutions, an area…