Tomorrow marks a big day for us in terms of our movement towards a more transparent school community: we are broadcasting a student-led conference on the environment live via Ustream and inviting you, your students, and your colleagues to watch us and interact with us through the chat. Laura Sofen, a 7th grade Language Arts teacher and I sat down about a month ago and worked through our ideas and made this happen for our students. As Laura said, they had worked so hard, inquired so much and grown through this research process, that allowing them this outlet to show the understanding they have gained was a fitting reward. Our goal tomorrow is to engage in dialogue, to pull you (and your students) in from wherever you are. We want our students to see "Global Warming" as truly "global," and not just something they are reading about because we are in an election cycle here in the states. The times are 9:30am, 11:00am, and 1:30pm EST in the US (GMT-5). Please take the time to drop in and bring your students if you can. The students are in 7th Grade, so they are not quite high school age, but in listening to them practice today, they have done their homework and are ready for a global audience. Here is the address for my Ustream channel where will be live from. Hope to see you there. Flickr image credit: "What Global Warming?" from maistora's photostream Technorati Tags: environment, globalwarming, conference, sparta, education, technology, edtech

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Comment by Sylvia Martinez on November 6, 2007 at 12:26pm
Dropped in for a few minutes at the end! Very cool and well prepared group of students.

It gave me the incentive to start up my own ustream account, and I was broadcasting in 10 min. Really easy to use tool.

Thanks!
Comment by Patrick Higgins on November 13, 2007 at 10:21pm
Thanks, Sylvia. If I ever get a chance to catch my breath, I will blog about the experience.

UStream is so easy to use, it makes me want to use it for everything I teach.

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