Shambles Termly Newsletter –November2007page 1 of 2

“Shambles”Newsletter: November2007

Designed to support International Schools in S.E.Asia (and friends)

This copy of the termly Shambles newsletter is a one pageedited summary(designed to be printed) of highlights of the original online version at the order and design are different to facilitate easier reading …. and if you are reading this on paper then, of course, the links are not active. … feedback is always appreciated.

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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)

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Second Life(3D online virtual world)

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5th February2008

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Chris Smith

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