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IB Teachers Using Twitter Wiki

 

How to find your way around this ning

Here's a guide to the links at the top of this page:

NEW - There's a new tab "Sharing PYP practice".  Clicking there will take you to a new blog from the IB PYP office intended for "Sharing examples of what PYP implementation looks like in IB World schools" Visit this new initiative from the PYP, leave a comment, and subscribe to the RSS feed.

When you click the Photos tab, you'll go to the Photos page for this ning. Hover your mouse over the Photos tab, and you'll see a link to a group on Flickr called "Illustrating the PYP". You're invited to join the group there, and post your photos.There's also a link to the Visible Thinking Group on Flickr, and to the Librarian Edge page on Flickr.


Hover your mouse over the Nings tab; you'll see links to other nings of interest to PYP people: the PYP Group on the Flat Classrooms ning, (started by Leigh Newton),  Library 2.0, and Teacher LibrarianTalkabout Primary LanguagesArt Education 2.0K12 Online Conference, and Classroom 2.0 (a huge education ning, with more than 50,000 members, and 660 Groups!)

Hover your mouse over the Netvibes tab; you'll see a link to our PYP Threads Netvibes page of PYP Threads members' schools' websites, and to another Netvibes page with links to the Netvibes sites created by PYP Threads members.

The Diigo Group tab takes you to our home page at the social bookmark site Diigo.

 

The PYP Threads Daily tab is visible to members only. When you click on the tab, a new web page will open, and you'll see a newspaper-style page which organizes links shared on Twitter by PYP Threads members into an easy to read newspaper-style format.

In the left side bar, you'll find the RSS feed from our Diigo bookmarks page, a links lists of blogs and photo groups of PYP Threads people (let me know if you have a blog, photo gallery, video site, start page, etc., that you'd like linked here), and a feed of the Tweets of PYP folks who have listed Twitter accounts in their Profile Information. You can see the full page at Twitter.

Blog Posts

THe Exhibition and the Garr of Presenting

My school recently held their 2012 PYP exhibition.  For those who are not affiliated with the PYPin any way, The Exhibition is the showcase event of the PYP.  Teachers decide on the Transdisciplinary Theme (In this case Sharing The Planet), students select something they are interested in, find another who is interested in the same issue, together formulate a Central Idea, devise Guiding Questions and investigate.   Our school, like most international schools, has a transient student…

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Posted by Travis Ion on May 19, 2012 at 2:51am

Using a wiki to encourage collaboration and parent involvement in Kindergrten

Throughout the year, as part of a whole class inquiry into Writing to Entertain, the children have written many different fictional works and have taken several through to the publishing stage. They have had lots of opportunities to work collaboratively with the other children, both in YIS and in other countries through Kinderplay global projects.

Today I introduced the children to a collaborative writing wiki I had set up for last…

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Posted by Tasha cowdy on May 12, 2012 at 10:00am

Forum

Handwriting 6 Replies

We are researching handwriting at our school--trying to put a policy in place. We are a PYP school. Other schools' policies out there? Who teaches handwriting? How? How often? Stand alone?Continue

Tags: PYP, handwriting, language

Started by Kristen Blum in Language. Last reply by Christianne Cowie yesterday.

Allocating time: Specialist subject teachers and homeroom 8 Replies

I'd love to find out what other schools do to balance specialist subject teaching with homeroom teaching.At present in Upper Primary students have 2 50 minute periods of French, 2 of Music, 2 of PE,…Continue

Started by Moira Noble in Library. Last reply by Tanya de Hoog yesterday.

Displaying central ideas - should we do it? 78 Replies

Hi Everyone The 'elephant' in the roomThis subject has been niggling at me for quite some time. I think it's fair to say that there is an assumption in most PYP schools that we should have the…Continue

Tags: central, ideas, christopher, pyp, frost

Started by Christopher frost in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Christopher frost on Thursday.

ACARA 6 Replies

Next week I am going to begin to address our Programme of Inquiry. I thought I would start with Where we are in place and time and try to look at what ACARA says we need to do in history, what is…Continue

Started by Jacqui Ellison in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Meaghan Leslie Walker on Thursday.

visual art scope and sequence 5 Replies

Hey everyone,I am in the process of developing the visual art scope and sequence for my school in Delhi India. And to be honest I am a little overwhelmed at the moment by the sheer size of the…Continue

Started by Aditi Singh in Inquiry. Last reply by Mark Exton on Wednesday.

PYP art in the early years 1 Reply

does anyone have any unit planners (stand alone or integrated) to share for early years (pre-school) art?  i am having a hard time trying to reconcile my more experiential philosophy of art in the…Continue

Started by Kristin Anson in Early Years. Last reply by Mark Exton on Wednesday.

PYP Skills assessment in the Early Years

HiWe are currently reviewing how we assess in our Early Years classes to make sure that we can say exactly where our children are developmentally. One thing we are working on is looking at developing…Continue

Started by Kate Bowen in Early Years on Wednesday.

How we express ourselves ideas needed!! 4 Replies

Hi,We are still in our infancy with PYP and IB at our school. We often meet and plan and collaborate, but as many of our staff are still awaiting IB workshops, we need some ideas to get us up and…Continue

Started by Tristan Lee in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by cesar barrero on Tuesday.

Exhibition - "Sharing The Planet" 4 Replies

Hello everyone,This year`s exhibition will be "Sharing The Planet".  Apart from the usual "pollution is bad", "urban growth is encroaching on the natural environment of flora and fauna" and…Continue

Started by Travis Ion in PYP Exhibition. Last reply by Christopher frost on Tuesday.

Recommendations

I have to write up the recommendations for the IBO. They are the ones that the visiting team at Authorisation singles out. I am not sure how to go about this. Can someone please add some helpful…Continue

Started by Jacqui Ellison in Professional Development May 11.

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Christianne Cowie replied to Kristen Blum's discussion Handwriting
"Hi to all, In my school we are also debating the issue of handwriting. We are not actually debating the need or not for handwriting to be legible, proportionate, etc. we are debating the model. I know some schools are even questioning the need for…"
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Sharon Noronha replied to Sharon Noronha's discussion I need help with my planner on "How we express ourselves" in the group Early Years
"Thanks Maureen, We used to do the unit on Nursery rhymes, poems and songs through the year too but I think it should be a different unit as we do do a lot of songs, poems etc any which way in all the units :). I'm still giving "using play…"
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Tanya de Hoog replied to Moira Noble's discussion Allocating time: Specialist subject teachers and homeroom
"Hi Moira, We are on an 8 day cycle, with 8 40 minute periods/day.  Per cycle students receive 8 French periods,3 music periods, 2 design and tech periods, 1 double art period, 6 or 7 PE ( 1/2 year of swimming when 7 periods), and 1 library for…"
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Travis Ion posted a blog post

THe Exhibition and the Garr of Presenting

My school recently held their 2012 PYP exhibition.  For those who are not affiliated with the PYPin any way, The Exhibition is the showcase event of the PYP.  Teachers decide on the Transdisciplinary Theme (In this case Sharing The Planet), students select something they are interested in, find another who is interested in the same issue, together formulate a Central Idea, devise Guiding Questions and investigate.   Our school, like most international schools, has a transient student population…See More
yesterday
Maureen Waldorf replied to Sharon Noronha's discussion I need help with my planner on "How we express ourselves" in the group Early Years
"Hi Sharon, I always find myself having a lot of niggling thoughts about How we express ourselves, precisely because the children should be expressing themselves through all different creative forms and media all the time. So I think that it's…"
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Recent photos added to the "Illustrating the PYP" group on Flickr.com

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Online Conferences and Courses

"DigiTools in the Classroom"

A free online workshop from EVO


Starts 9 January 2012

By the end of this workshop, participants will have 

had a hands-on experience on how to take advantage of digital/online tools

explored some web2.0 tools that can give support to student-generated production  

understood the processes through which students can successfully use digital tools to enhance their learning 

seen examples of different types of digital tools in use

suggested activities based on the tools they explore

networked with other participants and shared visually appealing and conten-rich possibilities for their educational contexts

understood the potential of digital tools to foster multiliteracies in the 21st century classroom

enhanced their media literacy skills to meaningfully incorporate digital production into their lesson plans

explored the different tools as a sandbox for future classroom use and shared with peers 

Sign up at this link.

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2011 GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

was be held November 14 - 18, online and free. Sessions took place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. 

You can still join this network and find links to the recorded sessions here.  The Twitter hashtag is #globaled11.

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IB Online Workshop Calendar

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Classroom2.0 LIVE

"Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. You are invited to join us for our weekly Saturday show (on Eluminate)... If you miss a show, you will find links to the recorded session under the Archive tab." 

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Edublogs Teacher Challenge


"The Teacher Challenge is made up of free 30 day professional development challenges where participants are stepped through weekly tasks that increase their skills while working together as part of a global community.


The Challenge is open to anyone who wants to increase their skills – blogs will be used for reflecting your progress while learning and connecting with each other.

However blogs don’t need to be hosted by Edublogs to participate! Participants can complete as many of the tasks as they like and in any order." (read more and sign up here)

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The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. Information about our 2011 conference is posted here soon! Over 140 presentations from 20102009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 are available, along with archived live events. Follow the K12 Online Conference on Twitter and Facebook!

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Help a United World College – Send a tweet to President Chavez of Venezuela

The Simón Bolívar United World College was opened in 1986 by the Prince of Wales and eminent agriculturalist Dr Luis Marcano Coello. Situated at the base of the Venezuelan Andes, the 676 hectare farm is home to students mainly from the Caribbean and Latin America and is one of the few UWC colleges that does [...]

International Baccalaureate student develops free IB iPhone app

When you think about what it is to be an IB student, volunteering your time to make things happen is one of the characteristics that comes to mind. A few months ago, we received an email from Peter Bryan, an IB student, who volunteered his time to develop the IB’s first public iPhone app. It [...]

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