International Teachmeet March 2012: Pearltrees

International teachmeet screenshot by @johngoh

The last two weeks has seen:

1. The Hills Crestwood #teachmeet (post here)
2. The inaugural #tmbrisbane (see wiki here)
3. The #tmwr2012  (world record breaking attempt) Sydney gathering (post coming!) AND 

  4. Culminated in the 2nd International teachmeet hosted by @abromz  and @BartVerswijvel on   Saturday night 8pm AEST (reflections on the first international teachmeet organised by Arjana and Bart can be found here)

You can visit the International teachmeet wiki by clicking here.   22 presenters from 15 countries presented on Adobe pro connect in a webinar.  Bart created the video below:

An aspect of Teachmeet that I personally find rewarding are the relationships that are formed with fellow educators.  Secondly, the introduction of various resources and web tool, excites me.  On Saturday night @ShellTerrell mentioned this site Present.me which she heard at another teachmeet via @ElindaGjondedaj  You can view my International teachmeet presentation using Present.me, below.

Give Pearl a whirl (Social bookmarking)

Created by @7mrsjames using Pixton

Teachmeet international presentations:

Name of Presenter	TwitterHandle	City/Country	Title of Micropresentation
Shelly Terrell	@shellterrell	Texas, USA	The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Dare to Believe
Chuck Sandy	@chucksandy	Japan	Stepping Back Further
Bram Faems	@bramfaems	Belgium	Making stop motion movies with Movie Maker
Jeannette James	@7mrsjames	Australia	Give pearl a whirl - online organisation
Elinda Gjondedaj	@ElindaGjondedaj	Athens, Greece	Practice Speaking Online
Janet Bianchini	@janetbianchini	Abruzzo, Italy	Fun with Comics
Vicky Loras	@vickyloras	Zug, Switzerland	Word of the Week
Fiona Beal	@fibeal	South Africa	Create wonderful online magazines
Miranda Burke	@CapricornLS	Paris, France	Helping your adult professional students expand internationally
Sanja Bozinovic	@bsanja	Velika Gorica,Croatia	Using a wiki with students
Nataša Ljubić Klemše	@NatasaLJK	Bjelovar, Croatia	ICT initiatives from the 1st grade of primary school
Marijana Smolčec	@mscro1	Ogulin, Croatia	Student-Teacher-Facebook
Jennifer Verschoor	@jenverschoor	Argentina	Games for young learners
Cheryl Arnett	@c_arnett	Craig, Colorado, USA	Let's Go to Disneyland!
Tóthné Bán Gyöngyi	@dondi64	Hungary	One Topic Every Month
Sue Lyon-Jones	@esolcourses	UK	Teaching with Technology - A Basic Checklist
Julian S Wood	@ideas_factory	England	Using online Generators to inspire Learning
Anna Loseva	@AnnLoseva	Moscow, Russia	A tale of two cities (and a bunch of ESP students): Moscow-Grenoble connected
Maja Dakic-Brkovic	@maja_prolece	Uzice, Serbia	Podcast in Piano Lessons
Alina Balan		Ploiesti, Romania	Extracurricular activity implying ITC
Lucas Van de Paer	@vandepaerlucas	Belgium	Evernote, your digital workbook
Barb Hoskins Sakamoto	@barbsaka	Kitakyushu, Japan	Six Word Stories
Suzana Delić	@Suzana_Delic	Zagreb, Croatia	Videoconferences in Schools

Huge thanks to Icha and Cherry who were there with us, but didn't present due to technical difficulties and poor internet connection. 
Yitzha Sarwono, @yitzha_sarwono
Cherry Mathew Philipose, @cherrymp

Keeping the conversation alive,
@7mrsjames

Live meeting: International #teachmeet webinar

18th December, 2011
HAPPY and HOLY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Enhancing your own professional development 
via Global Collaboration.

                                       Amazing photo of  Guernsey, Channel Islands  by Kyle.wood


Last night on Twitter I stumbled across the  #itdi chat and was unsure what the acronym stood for so I asked... It stands for International teacher development institute. This caught my interest immediately.  I believe as educators, we are all responsible for our own learning and continuing to adapt our pedagogy to suit our students and to prepare them for THEIR future world, not ours. I believe schools must encourage a culture of educators supporting their own PD - more of "helping teachers help themselves".  As educators we are professionally responsible and morally bound to provide the best learning environment we can for our students.

Following the hashtag on twitter, I discovered it was the backchannel for a LIVE webinar that was currently concluding, however a new one for #teachmeet was about to start. I followed the links and tried to join the live meeting. This didn't work on my Mac, so I tried on my work HP probook and BINGO! I was able to install Microsoft Live meeting and join in!. Click here for more info.

This online LIVE meeting (webinar) was amazing!  I had the laptop open viewing the international presenters on screen and listening to their presentations (slides were also progressing in background- Click here for the teachmeet international wikispace ) and the Mac assisted my tweeting of the event on #teachmeet hashtag. Listening to the perspectives, insights and learning experiences from educators all around the world was very special. Here is a list of the presenters. They represented countries ranging from South Africa, Croatia, Greece, Indonesia, Switzerland, Wales, Belgium, Spain, England, Romania and India.
Cherry is an English teacher from India who was very helpful with the twitter backchannel.


Tweet doc of last night so you can have a squiz!   
Squiz is Australian slang for take a look/have a glance/be inquisitive.


Recently I was apart of the Connected classrooms #ccglobal Christmas-around-the-world initiative, where we sent QR codes (this is the generator I use)  to schools around the world sharing our countries Christmas traditions and experiences. Amazingly, one of the educators I had connected with last week Vicky Loras @vickyloras was also a presenter last night- truly a small world. So easy to connect these days which is the beauty of online learning. Link to our Glogster here and QR code below.

 

This is a terrific capture of the international teachmeet by Bart (see his contact below)




The event was hosted ever so well by Arjana Blazic from Croatia @abfromz and Bart Verswijvel @bartverswijvel from Belgium. Well done guys!


And another Slideshare overview by @sonjalr

TeachMeet International

View more presentations from TeachMeet_International

Link to the International teachmeet wikispace with further handy links -> Click here.

Over and out. Keep smiling!
Jeannette James