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Add links and descriptions to resources shared at the Global Competence Institute in Vancouver, WA, August 11, 2010 via comments to this post.

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  2. Jennifer Geist August 12, 2010

    Thanks to Aysha and Michele, Gilda and Kelly, and to Howard for bringing us all together at the Insitute yesterday! I learned so much about what everyone is doing to bring global perspectives into our education system in a sustainable and impactful way. Thanks for including us at Bridges. Here is our website for anyone who wants to see more stories!
    http://www.bridges2understanding.org
    I hope that everyone will join our Online Learning Community when it is launched this month. Please visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgesworld and follow our tweets: twitter.com/BridgesWorld

    We’ll let you know what is going on next, (Teacher Training in Seattle on September 25: 8 clock hours!) and connect you with resources for digital storytelling in the classroom.

    Thanks again, Jennifer

    Here are links to Bridges presentation and handouts from the Global Competence Institute:
    – Bridges Global Competency PPT (PDF)
    – Bridges Cultural Self-Portrait (PDF)
    – Bridges Lesson 5a CSP Español
    – Bridges Photo Story 3

  3. Michele Anciaux Aoki August 12, 2010

    Here are links to some of the information we shared at the Global Competence Institute.

    EdSteps http://www.edsteps.org
    EdSteps Overview

    Global Competence
    http://www.edsteps.org/CCSSO/SampleWorks/EdSteps_global.pdf

    The presentation materials from the Partnership for Global Learning Conference in Rockville, MD July 8-10, 2010 are also online:
    http://www.slideshare.net/internationaled/presentations

    They include PPTs from

    West Virginia Go Global: http://www.slideshare.net/internationaled/teachers-global-knowledge

    New Jersey:
    http://www.slideshare.net/internationaled/state-initative-for-global-education

    How to Foster Global Citizenship
    Mark Gerzon, Founder and President, Mediators Foundation & Co-Chair of the Global Leadership Network
    http://sites.asiasociety.org/pgl2010/webcast
    (Hear him speak about “Opening Our Eyes, Opening Our Minds, Opening Our Hearts, and Opening Our Hands.” His book is American Citizen, Global Citizen.

    How to Teach Global Competence
    Veronica Boix-Mansilla, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education (she’s on the CCSSO Global Competence Workgroup)
    http://sites.asiasociety.org/pgl2010/webcast

  6. Laura Adriance August 13, 2010

    Thank you to organizers and participants alike for a wonderful experience at the conference!

    Links to just about everything in my presentation can be found on the Delicious page here:
    http://delicious.com/globalcomp

    Global Classroom resource packets and lesson plans/units (free PDF downloads) are here:
    http://world-affairs.org/globalclassroom/profdev/Teacherresources.htm

    You may find the World Affairs Council on Facebook here:
    http://www.facebook.com/wacseattle?ref=ts

    And follow us on Twitter here:
    http://twitter.com/wacseattle

    If you have 20 minutes, I recommend this recent TED talk by Ethan Zuckerman called “Listening to Global Voices” – definitely worth the time to watch!
    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ethan_zuckerman.html

  7. Martha Hickey August 16, 2010

    A sincere “thank you” to Michele and all the other organizers and participants of the Global Competence conference. And thank you to those who have posted the links above.

    Please feel free to contact Russian speakers in your school districts to let them know about the Russian Flagship Partner Program at Portland State University–open to students in any major and offering scholarship support and a year of study in St. Petersburg: http://www.pdx.edu/russian-flagship/

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