The Foundation team is proud to announce a new installment of our Voices from the Field testimonial video series, this time with a special feature on students from RTC in the Globaloria Civics Track! Watch classmates Caleb and Valerie talk about how Globaloria is helping them approach civics learning from an exciting new angle:
The Civics Track, which was first announced to the Globaloria community at the June Academy, is becoming one of the most dynamic initiatives of our program. The games topics developed at RTC alone range from how a bill becomes a law, the differences between political parties, the three branches of government, the Second Amendment, different types of political systems, the judicial branch, public debate, and environmental policy!
Visit the Voices from the Field page to see the whole series!
Showing posts with label civics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civics. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Civics and Blogging
Ask and ye shall receive:
Given its popularity with team RED, the "shaming mechanism" of having the educators' blogs listed and organized based on their most recent update, is now updated and in-place on my blogroll . The new educators' blogs should all be now listed there as well. If you do not see your blog there, please comment with your blog address so I can add it.
The first day of the Globaloria Summer Academy was a blast. I got to unsheathe my baby: the Globaloria Guide to Blogging site. Like a beaming mother, let me draw your attention once again to all of the cool hyperlinks links I used there. Aren't they beautiful?
It was a whirlwind day: we learned how to wiki, set up blogs, game and brainstormed about civics. It got me thinking about different possibilities and opportunities we have to open the conversation about civics to kids with games online. Georgia Tech runs a great blog about News and Gaming, and one of my favorite thinkers about the synthesis of News and New Media is Jeff Jarvis' blog Buzz Machine, see also Publishing 2.0.
Finally, if you liked the video Idit showed us of Clay Shirky, you can read his blog here.
He gave the keynote address at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco:
It sparked quite a few interesting reactions. What do you think?
Given its popularity with team RED, the "shaming mechanism" of having the educators' blogs listed and organized based on their most recent update, is now updated and in-place on my blogroll . The new educators' blogs should all be now listed there as well. If you do not see your blog there, please comment with your blog address so I can add it.
The first day of the Globaloria Summer Academy was a blast. I got to unsheathe my baby: the Globaloria Guide to Blogging site. Like a beaming mother, let me draw your attention once again to all of the cool hyperlinks links I used there. Aren't they beautiful?
It was a whirlwind day: we learned how to wiki, set up blogs, game and brainstormed about civics. It got me thinking about different possibilities and opportunities we have to open the conversation about civics to kids with games online. Georgia Tech runs a great blog about News and Gaming, and one of my favorite thinkers about the synthesis of News and New Media is Jeff Jarvis' blog Buzz Machine, see also Publishing 2.0.
Finally, if you liked the video Idit showed us of Clay Shirky, you can read his blog here.
He gave the keynote address at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco:
It sparked quite a few interesting reactions. What do you think?
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