The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching
Written and edited by Julie Lindsay, and published by the International Society for Technology in Education in 2016, The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching is for global educators and global education leaders who want to know how to take learning global.
This book provides essential pedagogical approaches and frameworks for global collaborative learning. It is also a collection of anecdotes, inspiring examples, case studies and resources. It is guaranteed to provide educators and education leaders at all levels of education new ideas and modes for connecting and collaborating with the world for meaningful learning.
Case Study 1.7: Julie Carey – Write Our World
Julie Carey is a Flat Connections Global Educator who is following a passion for helping kids share their stories. She is an inspiration to all global educators as she focuses on supporting kids to tell their stories and creates a library of eBooks for other kids to access and learn from.
As she told me way back before the book was published, “Our work is inspired by the emergence of collaborative online educational innovations that connect students from all over the world.”
Julie’s non-profit organisation ‘Write Our World’ is going from strength to strength. As a social enterprise it’s aim is to support global citizenship and multicultural literacy. Make sure you browse the website – as this blog post is written it now has 111 books, 382 authors and 25 languages represented!
Connect with Julie
Twitter: @writeourworld
Email: julie@writeourworld.org
Website for Write Our World: http://writeourworld.org/
Examples of the student-created ebooks – from Bhutan and Afghanistan
The Day I Knew My Name
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The Global Educator Case Studies are a unique collection from a period of time in online global collaboration, specifically the first 20 years of access to telecommunications, online learning and connective and collaborative technologies in schools and universities.
Click on the links below to access the case studies that are currently available. Additional pages will be published here soon.
Part 1: Global Educator Case Studies
- 1.1 The World is my Classroom - Anne Mirtschin
- 1.2 A Globally Connected Educator - Kim Cofino
- 1.3 Leading the Global Classroom Project - Michael Graffin
- 1.4 Taking Teacher Education Global - Janice Newlin
- 1.5 Early years Students go Global - Karen Lirenman
- 1.6 Being an International Educator - Lizzie Hudson
- 1.7 Write our World - Julie Carey
Part 2: Global Education Leader Case Studies
- 2.1 Yvonne Marie Andres: Global SchoolNet
- 2.2 Mahmud Shihab: Leadership to Connect
- 2.3 Ed Gragert: Global Connections
- 2.4 Cameron Paterson: Leading a School to be Global
- 2.5 Ann S. Michaelsen: Teacher, Global Collaborator
- 2.6 Eva Brown: Teacher Education Goes Global
- 2.7 Michael Furdyk: Social Entrepreneur, Global Educator, Technology Gur
- 2.8 Alan Preis: National, International, Global Educator
- 2.9 Matt Harris: A Cosmopolitan Life
Part 3: Online Global Collaboration Case Studies
- 3.1 Mali Bickley: Good collaboration is good teaching
- 3.2 FCGP Amy, Sheri, Perla, Ann, Cindy, Roger, Brian, Andrew
- 3.3 Early years collaboration - Leah, Devon
- 3.4 Leadership for successful online global collaboration
- 3.5 One million lights, Tracey
- 3.6 Global STEM Learners, Janice Mak
- 3.7 Global Read Aloud, Pernille Ripp
- 3.8 The Travelling Rhinos Project, Karen
- 3.9 The Working World
- 3.10 FCGE Kate, Katrina, Louisa, Dianne, Katie, Bonnie
Part 4: Take Learning Global Case Studies
- 4.1 The Global Education Conference - Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon
- 4.2 The ‘Learning2’ Conference - Social and Global Learning
- 4.3 THINK Global School - Learning to be global while living globally
- 4.4 The K12 Online Conference
- 4.5 Our Global Friendships
- 4.6 Leadership for global learning - A reflection on higher education experiences in Australia - Judy O'Connell
- 4.7 Integrating the Global Learning Experience into Teacher Education - Dr Leigh Zeitz
- 4.8 VIF International Education and VIF Learning Center
- 4.9 The Centre for Global Education
- 4.10 Global STEM Education Center
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