Shambles Termly Newsletter –November2007page 1 of 2
“Shambles”Newsletter: November2007
Designed to support International Schools in S.E.Asia (and friends)
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Shambles Termly Newsletter –November2007page 1 of 2
What’s New
Theme Blogs .. new ones added
Shambles Podcasts
Head hung in shame … not many new Podcasts posted over the past few months - will try harder ;-(
International Baccalaureate: I.B.
Not much to report here
Social Networks and Virtual Worlds
| Virtual Environments | Social Networks (Web 2.0) | Second Life for Educators |
National Educational Computing Conference NECC
handouts, PowerPoints Blogs and Podcasts. Available online
Learning 2.0 Conference Shanghai
All over … but still alive at
New Secondary National Curriculum (EnglandWales)
The new programmes of study have been designed to give teachers a less prescriptive, more flexible framework for teaching, creating more scope to tailor the curriculum to meet the needs of each individual student.
AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner (USA)
Released in October 2007
Storytelling events and Storytellers in Hong Kong
Email Reat-Gradely Associates
Libraries and Immersive Learning in 3D Virtual Environments
ALESS Assoc. of Librarians in Eng. Speaking Schools (Hong Kong)
CPD event
Google for Educators Discussion Group
Google's K-12 Education initiative
Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge
This UK Schools challenge has been extended to include a school in New Zealand and they are looking to expand it to other overseas schools.
Advertising on Shambles
'Shambles' is a free service because of sponsorship and advertising. This newsletter is also available for sponsorship.
Gateways to Understanding Symposium
20-24, 2008. Amsterdam
Arts-based and museum-based, this symposium involves addresses how to use your city’s cultural resources as the ultimate resource for your classroom.
Google Launches Chinese Language YouTube
The Taiwan site features locally produced content, including that from YouTube's four Taiwan media partners, China Television Co., Sanlih E-Television Co., Lion Travel Service Co. and Taiwan Broadcasting System.
Yahoo Teachers
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Bangkok Teachers Network
Conference Sat 17th November 9:00-3:30 at RuamrudeeInternationalSchool, Bangkok.
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Ictopus
(ICT online primary user support)
Web TV and Video on Demand (VoD)
The brilliant aspect in the Web TV list is not just accessing TV programmes but the ability for you and your students to actually set up their own online TV stations at very low cost ...
Want to Learn FLASH .. free .. with an online mentor
Geoff has agreed to work with individual teachers to give them the skills to use his templates (and the Flash4 90 trial which is free to educators) in the classroom at k-12 (primary&secondary)
Int.Sch. ICT Co-ords come together in Japan
Also visit their Wiki at
What kind of information technology user are you?
STOP PRESS
InternationalSchoolsIsland (isi)
Established in
Second Life(3D online virtual world)
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5th February2008
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Chris Smith
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