Comments on: Spin The Globe – Adelaide Meets Fairbanks

By: Local Or/And/Before Global | Graham Wegner - Open Educator

Local Or/And/Before Global | Graham Wegner - Open Educator — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:16:03 +0000

[...] tying this all back to my wiki reflecting is that Doug and my experiences with Spin The Globe show that collaboration is not a worthwhile goal by itself and that it is pretty easy to be seduced [...]

By: Teachers Teaching Teachers » Blog Archive » Spin the Globe: A conversation with Graham Wegner, Doug Noon, and Joel Arquillos - TTT87 - 01.16.08

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:07:55 +0000

[...] Teaching Generation Z » Blog Archive » Spin The Globe – Adelaide Meets Fairbanks by Graham Wegner [...]

By: alexanderhayes

alexanderhayes — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:23:12 +0000

I’ve always admired Graham’s resolve to incorporate online and networked learning principles as part of his delivery & assessment for education.

This project ‘Spin The Globe’ has been one of the highlights of things working for educators using easy to access, cheap online tool.

It is a credit to Graham and Doug and I think they deserve every accolade they get. Well done guys.

Your an inspiration and i cant wait to hear all about it at the EdTechTalks session today as part of the FLNW2 cricus and touring un-events

By: leighnewton

leighnewton — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:42:40 +0000

I like the possibilities this kind of interaction provides. Two international classes could write on any number of topics, but starting with themselves is a great idea. My Grade 5 students are starting a unit on expression through art. I could imagine them working on art in this region of Azerbaijan, while another class works on art in their own region. Surely it would also assist students to be tolerant citizens of the world.

Thanks Graeme for the article.

Leigh Newton (from South Australia)

By: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:20:57 +0000

Graham, I was absolutely captivated reading about this project. The way you and Doug wove several strands of curricula together while engaging your kids in meaningful, relevant and engaging content is wonderful … it made me wish my own son, also in grade 6, was in your class.

I think it was a stroke of genius to engage kids by talking about themselves (kids (well, everyone really) love talking about themselves) and comparing and contrasting what they know (or were learning) about the places they live with peers half way across the globe. You’ve very concretely leveraged your professional networks, a suite of web 2.0 tools, and coupled all this with Marzano’s #1 teaching technique that most impacts student learning: Identifying Similarities and Differences.

I particularly liked the way you used the size of text to visually display responses from students that were more or less frequent.

Way to go Graham! Thanks for sharing this.

The wiki is protected so I couldn’t leave this comment in the “discussion” tab. Please pass along my kudos to your students and warmest regards from wintry Winnipeg, Canada.

Cheers!