This blog post is cross-posted with E-Learning Journey's
In a recent letter to me, the manager of ictQatar e-Education, Dr Ghadah Omar Fakieh wrote:
"I wanted to share with you that we are expanding our e-education website to provide more awareness and allow collaboration and exchange for experience with schools. since QA is one of the schools in the country leading e-education. I thought that you might want to contribute."
Here is my respo…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on June 22, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Parent and Student Meeting, June 8, 2009
We are pleased to announce Qatar Academy will commence a 1:1 laptop implementation in the Senior School starting in September 2009. As approved by the Board of Governors, all students in Grade 7 and 8 will be provided with a laptop for their personal educational use while at Qatar Academy.
Brand and model: HP Elitebook 2730p Notebook
Specs: Tablet PC, 2GB RAM, 80GB HD, Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300
Full documentation of our 1:1 journey at Qatar…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on June 11, 2009 at 8:30am —
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TEDxQA
This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED
Date: Thursday, June 4th
Time: 2:30 – 5:30pm
Location: Qatar Academy, Education City (specific location tba)
Announcing the first ever TEDx event to be organised at Qatar Academy.
Theme: Learn…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on May 21, 2009 at 12:53pm —
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We are really pleased to welcome
Kim Cofino, 21st Century Literacy specialist from International School Bangkok, to Qatar Academy again. This time Kim is working with the Senior School on a 2-day professional development initiative to "create the future" with a focus on using 1:1 laptops in the classrooms and online learning including Web 2.0 tools.
This opportunity for teachers to workshop, discuss, confront, explore, create, collaborate etc is about…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on February 18, 2009 at 9:56pm —
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(Cross-posted with
E-Learning Journeys)
Qatar Academy are preparing for their 1:1 learning with laptops. The school Board approved recently that all Grade 7 and 8 students in 2009-10 will have a new laptop (bought by Qatar Foundation). What this will finally and ultimately look like is under discussion. To promote the use of laptops and online learning in a…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on November 22, 2008 at 2:19pm —
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Today is the last session for the QA Primary School PD strand with the following discription:
"Footprints on the Digital Sands of Time" - What is means to be an educator in the 21st Century
As an educator in the 21st century do you follow digital footprints? Do you leave your own digital footprint? How important is it to have an online presence, a personal learning environment and a virtual network of colleagues? This session will look at starting with baby steps and show how easily thes…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on October 22, 2008 at 11:40am —
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Hello from Doha, Qatar
Qatar Academy are proud to be the host of the first
Flat Classroom Conference: Leadership Workshop and Student Summit to be held January 24-26, 2009 in Doha, State of Qatar. This conference has been kindly sponsored and supported by HSBC Bank.
The
Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools for connection, communicati…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on October 10, 2008 at 2:08pm —
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Here is the over doc. from David Spragg re PD opportunities in the Primary school, Wednesday's 1.30-3.00. This is an exciting and worthwhile planned approach and I applaud the organisers. We need to work harder to help the senior school catch up!
Overview doc attached.
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Added by Julie Lindsay on October 7, 2008 at 5:07pm —
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Munira, Karen, Andrea and myself are here in Shanghai at the Learning 2.008 conference held at Shanghai Community International School. The
conference Ning is full of sessions and resources.
The sessions are searchable via tags. The 'keynote' presenters I strongly suggest you explore are
David Warlick,
Ala…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on September 20, 2008 at 4:04am —
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Welcome everyone to another year of E-Learning at Qatar Academy.
Just wanted to remind you of some essential resources to start the year.
Each Monday an E-Learning Update will be published on the
E-Learning wiki here. This will answer many of your questions and also provide extra resources and incentives to keep moving with embedding ICT into your daily professional and classroom practice.
Also available, all…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on September 4, 2008 at 9:00am —
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I just caught up with this today....knew it was coming and that my friend
Vicki Davis spent hours producing it.
Seven Steps to a Flat Classroom is now available on
Atomic Learning.
For Qatar Academy the login is - ID: qataracad PW: doha
Topics covered include:
- What is a Flat Classroom?
- Connect yourself
- Connect students
- Create pro-learner…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on May 13, 2008 at 11:30am —
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OK, just on my way home....hungry family wants lasagna cooked for dinner...but had to share these with you.
Tablet PC workshop
Lots of other workshops by Mark Wagner that are really worth checking out!
and...the best is last....
Sketchcast! This is great! Going home to play some more...after the lasagna
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Added by Julie Lindsay on May 11, 2008 at 5:19pm —
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The Ning is a place for us as teachers to relate our pedagogical successes (and near misses) with our colleagues. This serves two main purposes:
to share ideas, thoughts and reflections and foster an informed and interactive online learning community;
to inform latest classroom applications and adventures in 21st century learning so that others may also know what is going on in the school (and the world) and make decisions as to whether all or part of the practice can be transferre…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on May 4, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Hot off the press!!
Doug Johnson, (Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato (MN, USA) Public Schools ) who writes
The Blue Skunk Blog, is offering his book "Machines are the easy part; people are the hard part" as a
free download at Lulu. (You could also buy a…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on May 1, 2008 at 12:06pm —
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I am always interested when a new '7 Things you Should Know....' help-sheet comes out from
Educause.
From their website it states:
The "
7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on April 29, 2008 at 11:31am —
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As we move towards the end of the year and madly try to plan for next year I wish to remind you of the E-Learning wiki and the resources that have been started. I also wish to thank the teachers across the school who have put in time and effort on the Mobile Computing and Online Learning teams and started the conversations that will move the school forward. Stay tuned for news about more opportunities for input.
The
E-Learning for Life…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on April 26, 2008 at 10:31am —
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It is late and I am just about done with thinking today...however I did find some great resources and made some tired but mildly perceptive comments on my blog this evening that I would like to share with you. These relate to thinking, classroom reform, Blooms Digital Taxonomy resources........if you are interested, follow this link to
Thinking about Thinking.
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Added by Julie Lindsay on April 14, 2008 at 10:57pm —
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Yes, I know I should be writing reports..........is that why the Ning is so quiet this weekend???
A couple of essential resources came across my desk today:
Web 2.0 is the Future of Education in
Tech learning Blog and written by Steve Hargadon
Baby steps fo…
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Added by Julie Lindsay on March 14, 2008 at 6:43pm —
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I want to share this blog post with you all. It is an award winning blog post in that it 'won' the Edublog 2007 'Most Influential post' award recently. It is authored by
Karl Fisch, co-author of '
Did You Know' and author of
2020 Vision. Both of these videos are essential viewing as we embrace 21st c…
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