Volunteer Abroad with the International Volunteering Organization Projects Abroad Where it All Started In the early 1990s, some students wanted a break from study - a "gap year," although the term wasn't yet in common use. They approached their geography professor about traveling and working in Eastern Europe. The professor, Dr. Until 1997, Projects Abroad was a small organization with just two part time staff sending university students to teach English in Eastern Europe. Projects Abroad Today Now after over 20 years, we have offices around the world, including two North American offices located in New York City and Toronto. Projects Abroad volunteers are aged from 16 to 75! Projects Abroad in the Global Economy We help to create local employment wherever we send volunteers. Because we work with local colleagues at all levels, our extensive network of local knowledge enables us to channel the skills of our volunteers to places they are really needed. Cultural Exchange and Freedom of Choice Now we are taking this theme of "respect" further than ever.
Fair Use in Education and Research Fair use offers an extraordinarily important opportunity for educators, researchers, and others to make reasonable and limited uses of copyrighted materials. Clipping, cutting, pasting, uploading, posting, and many other activities that are common at the university may be copyright infringements or may be within fair use. When do you need to think about fair use? Some example situations: Uploading materials to CourseWorks or another server.Clipping and copying materials into innovative teaching tools.Posting materials for distance learning.Developing databases of copyrighted works for research.Sharing articles and other materials with colleagues.Developing digital libraries.Placing copies on library reserves. This section includes a variety of resources to help you determine if fair use applies to the ways in which you want to use copyrighted materials. Most recent revision: 081409
Everything You Own In A Photo: A Look At Our Worldly Possessions : The Picture Show Today on All Things Considered, photographer Peter Menzel and his wife, Faith D’Aluisio, discuss their latest book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. But 16 years ago, Menzel was working on another project, called Material World: A Global Family Portrait. He and other photographers took portraits of 30 statistically average families with all of their worldly possessions displayed outside their homes. Hide caption The Ukita family in front of their home in Tokyo.
The Tobacco land cycling - Viaja por Cuba.com Duration: 8 days/7 nights Passenger minimun: 6 guests Next Departures: January 07 and February 25, 2013 Itinerary Day 1. Havana Arrival to Jose Marti International Airport in Havana Transfer to a 3 Star hotel. Day 2. Breakfast and check out. Day 3. Breakfast and check out. Day 4. Breakfast and check out. Day 5. Breakfast and check out. Day 6. Breakfast. Day 7. Breakfast and check out. Day 8. Breakfast and check out. Included * Welcome in the Havana Airport * Transfers airport-hotel-airport * Accommodations * Breakfast buffet * Lunch and Diner mentioned in the program * Visit to all tourist places mentioned * Bus Asistence during all the program * Travel guide Not Included: International flight to Cuba Bicycles Tips Services not mentioned Importante Notes:
Smashing Cameras - "Open Education Resource!" (Official Music Video) - Why Open Education Matters New single "Open Education Resource" by Smashing Cameras Smashing Cameras consists of:Andrew ErricoTommy McAuliffeEthan VaraBrian WalshColin Walsh Original music by Colin Walsh, lyrics by Tommy McAuliffeVideo directed and filmed by Ethan VaraVideo edited by Brian Walsh and Colin Walsh Big thanks to everyone that helped make this video possible!Open Educational Resources are the future! Lyrics: Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource, OER for shortIs a way to learn for people of all sortsThey come in different forms, such as an online courseAn online text or something that can be much moreThey're free in both fees and in legality'Cause they're open licensees or they're public domaineesAllowing access easily to all that want to seeBy skipping the need for the rights to a copy Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource!" Leuman! Read More
The world's favourite foods: interactive Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper Subscribe Custom Search The world's favourite foods: interactive Pasta has been named the world's favourite food, narrowly beating meat or rice dishes and pizza, in a new global survey by Oxfam into the way the world eats today• Food blog: what's your favourite food? Life and style Food & drink More interactives What's your favourite food? Key topics © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Send to a friend Your IP address will be logged Share Short link for this page: Contact us Contact Life & Style editorlifeandstyle@theguardian.com Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@theguardian.com Letters for publication should be sent to: letters@theguardian.com Close
The Global Classroom Project: Building Commmunity We’re always interested in programs that help teachers and their students connect with each other. So when I heard about the Global Classroom Project I asked Michael Graffin to write a blog post to tell us more. About the Global Classroom Project The Global Classroom Project was co-founded by Deb Frazier (@frazierde) in Ohio, USA, and Michael Graffin (@mgraffin) in Perth, Western Australia. Since its humble beginnings in April 2011, #globalclassroom has evolved under the leadership of @mgraffin into an online learning community, connecting teachers and students around the world. This is our story. When we began our 2011-12 Project, we had some goals in mind: Global Classroom Manifesto And we are succeeding beyond our wildest dreams … We now find ourselves running a global educational network involving hundreds of teachers, and thousands of students, across 32 countries and 6 continents. We’ve created a global community. This is impacting on our students too … Kids Speak 2011-12 (@frazierde)
OER Use, Reuse and Remixing I’m starting a new research and writing project today that examines the current state of open educational resources. My interest isn’t simply identifying where the repositories of OER lie or what they contain. Nor am I just looking at adoption or usage (although yes, the research will address all these things.) See, I’m particularly keen to investigate the formats that these openly licensed materials are in, and by an extension whether they’re being remixed. I have my suspicions about what I’ll find in regards to the latter. What are the barriers – to use, re-use, and remixing? Why do we opt to use OER? And finally in the spirit of openness, let me be clear: this research is funded by FunnyMonkey, an education-focused Drupal shop in Portland, Oregon. If you’re interested in chatting with me about this project, feel free to drop me a line -- particularly if you use OER in your classroom! Image credits: Ivy Dawned
Australian Curriculum There is great congruence between global education and the Australian Curriculum. Goals Global education aims to develop global citizens through promotion of open mindedness and a willingness to take action for change, respecting and valuing diversity, and being active in the development of a peaceful, just and sustainable world. It has much in common with the Melbourne Declaration on Education Goals for Young Australians (2008), which promotes equity and excellence, development of successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens. Approach Global education promotes flexible learning, which empowers students to learn about the world, develop values around a positive sense of self, appreciation of cultural diversity, passion for social justice and human rights and building sustainable futures. Skills Critical and creative thinking Ethical behaviour Personal and social competence Intercultural understanding. Perspectives
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Pe' Sla: The Heart Of All That Is: Help Save the Lakota Heart Land! Pe' Sla is an area in the Black Hills of South Dakota (just west of Rapid City) that is considered by the Lakota people to be the Center and heart of everything that is. It is part of our creation story. It is a sacred place. We perform certain ceremonies at Pe' Sla which sustain the Lakota way of life and keep the universe in harmony. This area is partly owned by the Reynolds family. We are hoping to buy as much of the sacred sites as possible. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has designated $50,000 for the purpose of purchasing Pe' Sla land.
Flickr CC Attribution Helper for Greasemonkey Script Summary: Generate attribution text for flickr creative commons photos so it is a one click operation to copy and another to paste where you need (web page, presentation, email) The new flickr redesign of March 2014 has broken the capabilities of this script for good. But do not fret, I have recoded it as a browser bookmarklet tool that provides the same functionality. Get yours today at Everything below no longer applies. This script makes giving attribution to flickr creative commons such a simple thing you cannot believe you had done it any other way earlier. Any flickr photo page you visit that has Creative Commons License applied will display two text fields below the CC license listing (right side of photo). The first box displays attribution in HTML, including the IMG tage to embed the 500px wide version, useful for pasting into a blog post.