The WESchools website is fantastic for students and teachers everywhere. It is so neatly organized and makes it super easy to navigate from different tabs and articles. WESchools is a program that challenges students to identify the local and global issues that empower them with the tools to take action. WESchools also encourages that teachers…
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Exploring the Out of Eden Walk
This week I got to learn and explore more about The Out of Eden Walk on the National Geographic website. This walk followed a gentleman named Paul Salopek, who is a fifty nine year old writer and journalist, across the world on a 21,000 mile walk. This walk took around a decade to complete. While…
Virtual Field Trip to the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
In this blog I will be talking about my experience visiting the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute virtually. I will discuss what I saw, what my favorite part was, and other interesting things about the field trip. How my virtual field trip went I first started my clicking this link which lead me…
Exploring another culture through television
I took a look at episode one of Nuestra Lucha Libre. The show follows the lives of Mexican wrestlers and shows what they do inside and outside of wrestling. There were many cultural aspects in this show, there were so many bright colors and featured clips of people playing music on guitars and such. Click…
Google Cardboard, the virtual reality tool, can contribute to successful global collaborations
What is google cardboard? Google Cardboard is a virtual reality headset from Google. This virtual reality headset is built from basic cardboard or plastic that brings the viewer in a video or gives them a 360-degree view of an image. It makes the viewer feel like they are actually in that location when in reality…
Microsoft Translator for Education
After reading chapter two of the textbook, Sail the & C’s, I learned much more about Microsoft’s Translators tool. Before reading this chapter I did not know that much about about it, the chapter allowed me to learn some of the basics and understandings of it. The Wakelet that was attached to this chapter also…
Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality
In 2015 the United Nations Member States the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. This agenda is a guideline and list of goals that are important to sustain our development. There are a total of seventeen goals, one of which being gender equality. What is the Gender Equality Goal? The gender equality goal is to…
National Geographic Explorer Classroom
A fun web tool from the Global Educators toolbox Blog by Lauren Whaley What is the National Geographic Explorer Classroom? The National Geographic Explorer Classroom is a website run by National Geographic to allow students to talk to National Geographic Explorers virtually to learn more about our wildlife and ecosystem. These students get to hear…
Collaboration in the classroom is essential
Collaboration is when two or more people come together and work to produce something. Having students collaborate and work with their peers can improve a lot of different aspects in the students life. This article allowed me to delve deeper and understand why collaboration is so important for students. One of the most important things…
Collaboration tools to use in online learning
It seems as though virtual learning is our new normal, it is crazy to think we would be at a place like this so soon. Collaborating with students and having students collaborate with each other can be very difficult through a computer screen. This article shows a variety of different web and collaboration tools that…