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Hi Mindy. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

Hi Mindy, I lead Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, based in Chicago and on the Internet. I hope we can connect you and your students with what we're doing. Visit http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com to see some examples of how we're using maps to draw attention to tutor/mentor programs in high poverty neighborhoods. If youth groups are learning to use maps to tell stories, this would be a great project for them to tell the story of neighborhoods like Howard Street, or parts of Evanston, where kids might benefit from non-school tutoring/mentoring and learning opportunities.

Mindy, as always,you've found a great community of good folks and I"m looking forward to seeing more of you terrific student video and hearing about your work in Barbados. I'm off to Portugal and will let y'all know what's going on there when I get back. What a great site!

Mindy, Good to meet you, I can't wait to look at what your students created! My teachers the last two weeks created some amazing video examples.
http://techcamp.ning.com/video Your work sounds very interesting, I look forward to reading more!

Glad to have you here!

Mindy, rather than giving you my introduction to Worldchanging take a look at their website. Also, take a look at related links that I have put on my CR2.0 member page. You may see other possibilities there for engaging your students.

Thanks for sending me "The Hidden Cost of Cashmere" video. Although the technical skills evident in its production are impressive to me, I'm actually gladder that students are linking the remote and sometimes global effects, locally unsuspected, of the consumption of a commodity used to make a product they buy. A few centuries ago, the commodities were sugar, tea, and tobacco. Their acquisition from regions globally distant from Western European local markets to supply their ever growing daily consumption by commoners had disastrous consequences on first indigenous, later enslaved African peoples. I suppose it could be said that this in a nutshell was "how the West was won." It's important work you're doing. Today's pervaders of globalization to supply a growing demand for cheaper products cannot be allowed to spout their disinformation that everybody benefits from the trading system. Short of genuine, historical transparency in trade relations among peoples, the kind of investigating your students are doing can uncover for them the way in which the world they live in works. And possible see new ways to act to counter social injustice and unsustainable exploitation of the earth's resources.

Have you introduced your students to the "Worldchanging" perspective and activity? It would seem that they are already headed in that direction.

Thanks again for showing me the video.

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Welcome to CR20, Mindy.

You're doing some great work connecting kids across borders on social issues. I'm looking forward to seeing the cinema they make.

Thanks for joining CR2.0,

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