Resources

Events
Teachmepeace presented at the International Technology, Education, and Development Conference in Valencia, Spain on March 4th, 2008
Read Technology Based Collaboration Tools to Enhance Peace Education Initiatives

Web Resources
United Nations Cyber School Bus
United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project

 Columbia University Teacher's College Peace Education Learning Portal
Resources for educators hoping to develop curriculum and courses


Education for Peace - A Framework for K-12 Curriculum
Education for Peace is a conceptual framework from which schools may devise a program comprising the transmission of universal values and enduring attitudes, and the development of skills which will enable our students to become active global citizens.

The Network M
Uniting socially and spiritually striving individuals

Great Ideas
The website of Psychology Press/ Holistic Education Press, a company focused on returning balance to education

Alliance for Children
Breaking the cycle of child abuse.


Karuna Center
Addressing the growing challenge of ethnic, religious and political conflict.


Facing History
Helping classrooms and communities worldwide link the past to moral choices today.


Public Conversations
The Public Conversations Project (PCP) guides, trains, and inspires individuals, organizations, and communities to constructively address conflicts relating to values and worldviews.


Jane Goodall
JGI is a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.


Free the Children
Children helping children through education.


Peace Jam
Nobel Laureates work with youth to create peace.


World Prayers
Prayers for peace from around the world.

Dr. Jing Lin
Dr. Jing Lin is currently an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at University of Maryland, College Park.

Resources for Cross-cultural Interaction and Project Work

As you begin to explore the possibilities for cross-cultural interaction, global classroom projects, and new learning opportunities, the following organizations can assist you in your efforts.

ePALS Classroom Exchange - Connects users from around the globe, providing the tools and meeting places to create a worldwide community of learners. The tools include ePALS SchoolMail™ and SafeBrowser™ as well as built-in language translation designed for schools. Whether you want project ideas for your class-to-class partnership, or discussion areas where you can contribute your views on a matter, ePALS strives to make it easy for members to make meaningful connections with each other http://www.epals.com

Jack Johnson - All At Once - Resource to connect nonprofits through his foundation.
http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/allatonce/nonprofits

Global Connections and Exchange Programs
An online resource on the website of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State that includes links to classrooms worldwide through a range of programs.
 http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/citizens/students/
worldwide/connections.htm

GEM – Global Education Motivators
Founded in 1981, GEM has consistently worked with students, teachers and administrators through on-site and distant learning workshops and classroom program support to promote a better understanding of the world and its people. GEM has always maintained a close association with the United Nations as well as several other affiliations.

GEM provides various videoconferencing applications and offers packaged videoconferencing programs that can be customized through brainstorming with teachers to fit the individual classroom situation.
http://www.gem-ngo.org/

Global Gateway - A database for schools and colleges (5 - 19 age range) looking for partner schools anywhere on the planet to develop international education projects. It is managed by the British Council, but it is open to all schools. http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/

Global Junior Challenge - The Global Junior Challenge is a world-wide competition launched by the City of Rome to award prizes to the best projects using new technologies for education training purposes of youth up to the age of 29. Their webpage has a service to find new partners for your project. You can see which projects are looking for partners by country or register your own project in the Partner Search database so that others can see your details.
http://www.gjc.it

Global Nomads Group
Founded in 1998, the Global Nomads Group (GNG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to heightening children's understanding and appreciation for the world and its people. Using interactive technologies such as videoconferencing, GNG brings young people together face-to-face to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss their differences & similarities, and the world issues that affect them.
 http://www.gng.org/programs/current.html

Global SchoolHouse - GSH has a registry of collaborative projects organized by topic, grade, and project date. Among the resources on the page:

iEARN – International Education and Resource Network
A global, non-profit network for classes of students aged 5-19, iEARN has been facilitating student and teacher-designed on-line collaborative projects and face-to-face meetings since 1988. Over 20,000 schools in 110+ countries participate in approximately 250 iEARN projects covering all aspects of the curriculum.

Kidlink - Global, non-profit organization. Has rendered free services to youth through the Internet since 1990. In 2005, Kidlink had over 100 public and private conferencing communities for youth and adults (mostly teachers and parents) in over 30 languages, a private chat network for participants only, and a multi-lingual web site of more than 100,000 pages. Services were supported by 500 volunteers living in over 50 countries. Most are classroom teachers. Home page: http://www.kidlink.org

Kidlink's objective is to empower, educate, and prepare children and youth through the secondary school level for global inter-personal networking. Its motive is provided at http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/backgrnd.html.

Kidz Online – A nonprofit educational organization whose mission is dedicated to preparing K-12 students and teachers to live and work in the information age through innovative peer-to-peer technology training distributed using advanced digital technologies. To accomplish this, Kidz Online provides hundreds of free educational streaming videos and lesson plans; free registration at the site allows users the ability to download these resources for use on their local computer systems and networks.

In addition, Kidz Online produces over forty live, interactive video webcasts each year. These webcasts support Kidz Online and a variety of other educational and non-profit institutions in their efforts to use modern communication tools to connect with national audiences.
http://www.kidzonline.org

Schoolworld Internet Education – A division of Schoolworld Internet Education Foundation. It offers the opportunities for direct interaction with schools from around the world and provides a platform for using the Internet for teaching enhancement.
 http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/

TakingITGlobal – An on-line community for young people interested in making a difference. The highly interactive website provides space for youth expression, connection to opportunities, a platform for youth voice, and support for action.

The site has featured themes that are updated on a regular basis and are developed together with members and external partners. Among recent featured issues were: Rural Youth (developed together with the Food and Agriculture Organization), Human Rights (developed with the International Center for Rights and Democracy), and the Millennium Development Goals, in partnership with the UN's Millennium Campaign. Through the site, young people can connect directly with their peers from more than 200 countries, read their inspiring profiles, and debate common concerns through active discussion boards, instant messengers, and personal 'weblog' (diary-like) pages. In August 2005, TakingITGlobal launched a new version of its community, with new features and more exciting opportunities for young people to take part.
http://about.takingitglobal.org/

Telecollaborate! The website provides the tools for teachers to design, develop and publish their telecollaborative projects. A good collection of telecollaboration resourses including links to project directories, and useful online applications for project developers.
 http://nschubert.home.mchsi.com/

ThinkQuest – an international student competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Teams of students and teachers are challenged to create websites on educational topics and compete for exciting prizes. The completed websites are published in the ThinkQuest Library (http://thinkquest.org/library/index.html), a rich learning resource used by millions. http://www.thinkquest.org/

Web Accessibility Initiative - WAI has created "Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites" to provide a high degree of usability for persons with disabilities. http://www.w3.org/WAI/

National/Regional Networks
European Schoolnet - -provides support and projects for European schools to demonstrate how Internet technology can be integrated into classrooms.

EUN Community http://community.eun.org/ The website provides teachers and learners with tools for building online communities, sharing files and news articles, participating in online forums, instant messaging, and publishing web pages. There are communities focused around curriculum subjects, school projects or created by educators to discuss professional issues.

Etwinning – School partnership in Europe

The project provides the opportunities for two schools from two different European countries to start partnership and take advantage of ICT tools to work together to obtain pedagogical, social and cultural benefits. Students are motivated by an opportunity to learn about each other, their school culture, and family while practicing their ICT skills at the same time.
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/index.htm

SchoolNet Africa: Learning through Networking - SchoolNet projects in about 30 African countries demonstrate growing interest from governments, schools and the private sector. The demand for SchoolNet Africa has evolved from national school networking programs. The Cape Town Declaration (September 1999) by representative school networking projects from 10 African countries called for the establishment of SchoolNet Africa. A key player is SchoolNet South Africa. One of the website sections, Learner Center provides space for international online collaboration among young people.
 http://www.schoolnetafrica.net

Technology Resources for Collaboration

Alerts

Alerts provide the user with notifications on new websites, postings, articles, etc. related to topics entered by the user.

·         Google - http://www.google.com/alerts

·         GoogleAlert - http://www.googlealert.com/ (Not run by Google)

·         Search Alert - http://www.searchalert.net/

·         Yahoo! Alerts - http://alerts.yahoo.com/

 

Blogs

·         Blog.com - http://blog.com/

·         Blogger - https://www.blogger.com/start

·         Facebook – http://www.facebook.com

·         Live Journal - http://www.livejournal.com/

·         MySpace – http://www.myspace.com

·         Open Diary - http://www.opendiary.com/

·         TypePad - http://www.typepad.com/

·         Typo - http://www.typosphere.org/

·         Windows Live Spaces - http://spaces.live.com/

·         Xanga - http://www.xanga.com/

·         Vox - http://www.vox.com/

Calendars

Communications Tools

Instant Messaging (web-based, no client):

Instant Messaging (Download):

·         AOL Instant Messenger – http://www.aim.com

·         Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/

·         ICQ - http://www.icq.com/download/

·         MSN Messenger – http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

·         MySpace IM - http://personalweb.about.com/od/myspacecom/ss/myspaceim.htm

·         Yahoo! Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

·         Zoho Chat – Instant Messaging and group chat tool: http://zoho.com

Internet calling:

Voice email and Voice discussions:

Document Delivery/Display

Groups

Miscellaneous Tools

·         Google Teacher Resources

o    http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/community.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html

Photo Sharing Sites

Flickr - http://flickr.com

Fun with flickr:

Other photo sharing alternatives:

Podcasting

·         Odeo: http://odeo.com

·         PodOmatic: http://podamatic.com/

·         Clickcaster: http://www.clickcaster.com ($4.99/month for basic)

·         Gcast: http://www.gcast.com/

·         Talkr - turn any blog post into a podcast http://www.talkr.com/

Open Source Editing Tool  

·         Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Creative Commons Legal Guide for Podcasting: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide

Portal Pages

RSS Feed Readers - Blog Aggregators

First Type: When you always use the same computer. Use Firefox Browser with the Sage ExtensionSage Extension(http://sage.mozdev.org/)

·         Home Page: http://sage.mozdev.org/

Second Type: When you want to access your feeds from any connected computer (web-based readers)

Use Bloglines or Google Reader

Search Engines

General

Scholarly

Visual Search Engines

·         Grokker - http://www.grokker.com/

·         Kartoo - http://www.kartoo.com/flash04.php3

·         Quintura - http://www.quintura.com/

·         Quintura for Kids - http://kids.quintura.com/

Social Bookmarking

·         Backflip - http://www.backflip.com/dir_start.ihtml

·         Blinklist - http://www.blinklist.com/

·         Blogmarks - http://blogmarks.net/

·         Connotea - http://www.connotea.org/

To Do Lists

·         Remember the Milk - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

·         TaDaList - http://www.tadalist.com/

·         Voo2do - http://frassle.net/

Video Sharing & Capture

 

Virtual Worlds

 

 

 

Web Conferencing

Web Office Tools

Databases

·         Lazybase database: http://lazybase.com/

·         Zoho Applications – http://zoho.com

Notebooks

·         eDaily Diary - http://www.edailydiary.com/

·         Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/noteboook/

·         Zoho Note Book – Online Notebook: http://zoho.com

Presentations

·         AjaxPresents – http://www.ajaxwrite.com (Firefox browser only)

·         Empressr web presentations: http://www.empressr.com/ - (Embed video, charts, graphs, etc.)

·         SlideFlickr – http://slideflickr.com

·         SlideShare for PPT slides: http://slideshare.net/

·         ThinkFree - http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         Thumbstacks Presentations: http://www.thumbstacks.com/

·         Zoho Show – Online presentation tool – http://zoho.com

Spread Sheets

·         AjaxXLS – http://www.ajaxwrite.com (Firefox browser only)

·         EditGrid spreadsheets: http://www.editgrid.com/home

·         Google spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/

·         ThinkFree - http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         Zoho Sheet – Online spreadsheet service – http://zoho.com

Word Processing

·         AjaxWrite – http://www.ajaxwrite.com (Firefox browser only)

·         Google word processing: http://docs.google.com/

·         ThinkFree - http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         Zoho Creator – Online web applications creator: http://zoho.com

Web Page Building

Web Polls

Wikis

·         EditMe - http://www.editme.com/95 per month) (Starts at $4.

·         Flexwiki - http://www.flexwiki.com/

·         Jotspot - http://www.jot.com/

·         MediaWiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki (Used to build wikipedia)

·         PB Wiki (aka Peanut Butter Wiki) - http://pbwiki.com/

·         Project Forum - http://www.projectforum.com/pf/wiki.html

·         Schtuff - http://www.schtuff.com/

·         SeedWiki - http://www.seedwiki.com/

·         Stikipad – http://www.stikipad.com/

·         Wetpaint - http://www.wetpaint.com/

·         Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia

·         Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

·         Zwiki - http://zwiki.org/FrontPage

Good Sources of Info

  
 
Community Organizations
Waupaca Women for Peace Waupaca, WI
 
 

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