What is TIGed?
TakingITGlobal for Educators (TIGed) provides rich, interactive global learning experiences by leveraging the resources of the world’s most popular online community for youth who want to make a difference. We bring a global education perspective to the most innovative applications of online social networking and digital media to create relevant, engaging, and student-centered learning opportunities. The TIGed tools include:
· Virtual classroom communities that teachers create and moderate to fit the needs of their students and objectives of their
curriculum
· Activities database with lesson plans connecting TakingITGlobal’s content to Mid-continent Research for Education and
Learning (McREL) curriculum benchmarks and 21st century skills
· Student blogs, podcasts, maps, image galleries, live chat, discussion boards, and student writing features that allow students to demonstrate their learning and develop a portfolio of their work, while expressing themselves and engaging in constructive dialogue around important topics
· Educators’ collaboration center that enable educators to network and find partner classrooms
· Collaboration tools to support project-based partnerships between classrooms in different parts of the world
· Curricula and games providing specialized content on timely global issues.
Social networking for social good: TIGed not only gives students an online space to customize, connect with others, and share ideas on a global level, it also gives educators an additional level of access to support meaningful student research and literacy on major social issues. TakingITGlobal is an educational community where students are empowered as learners and leaders beyond the classroom.
TIGed is an advertising-free space where online privacy and safety are paramount.
W h o Uses TIGed?
Since its launch in 2006, thousands of educators and students have joined TIGed. Teachers are integrating the tools and content in innovative ways into a range of learning environments – from service learning and civic engagement, to one-to-one laptop programs, online learning and virtual schools. To learn more about examples of TIGed’s uses, see our best practices guide.
Research and partnerships with school, district, university, and NGO educators have been integral to the development of resources that both introduce inventive approaches to global learning and directly meet the needs of teachers and students in the classroom.
About TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal is an international, youth-led organization that provides opportunities for learning, capacity-building, cross-cultural awareness, and self-development through the use of information and communication technologies. Our vision is a world where young people are more inspired, informed, and involved in their communities on local, national, and international levels. Our award-winning flagship program, TakingITGlobal.org, is the leading social network for youth globally who want to make a difference, with over 180,000 registered members in more than 200 countries. TakingITGlobal.org is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and Turkish.
With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, TakingITGlobal has a team of over 20 dynamic young staff and interns, as well as regional engagement staff located in the United States, West Africa, China, and Latin America, and hundreds of volunteers around the world.
TIGed is a Microsoft Partners in Learning Mid-Tier Project. In addition to Classrooms for the Future, our education partners include the International Society for Technology in Education, the Global Youth Action Network, World Savvy, Global Kids, the Leading English Education and Resource Network (Quebec), Youth Voices Research at the University of Toronto, and the Teacher Leadership Project.
TIGed & Classrooms for the Future
TIGed is pleased to partner with CFF to offer by providing TIGed licenses to each participating school, enabling up to 15 educators at each school to join TIGed and create an unlimited number of virtual classrooms for project-based global learning.
Intermediate units may also create TIGed accounts to use the tools and resources in providing support and training to CFF coaches and teachers.
To view the CFF page on TIGed, you must be logged in with your TIG username and password. If you do not have one, you can join in just 30 seconds at www.TakingITGlobal.org. Once you are logged in, go to http://www.tigurl.org/cff. Then, scroll down through the alphabetical list of schools to find yours. Click on the “claim school” link on the right to register.
Fill out all the required fields on the registration page and follow the steps to submit information and complete the process. When you are finished, you will see your school’s page, where you can create classrooms.
If your school has already been claimed, this means another coach has already set up the membership on TIGed. Click on the “join school” link to register with the existing account.
Lost your TIG username or password? Can’t find your school on the list? Have other questions? Contact Katherine Walraven, Education Program Manager by email () or telephone (+1-416-977-9363 extension 318).
http://www.tiged.org
19 Duncan Street, Suite 505, Toronto, M5H 3H1, Canada
Tel: (+1) 416-977-9363, Fax: (+1) 416-352-1898