a place to weave, unravel, and re-weave PYP threads into fabrics of communication with a choice of threads, colors, patterns, and textures
Welcome to PYP threads!
PYP Threads Elsewhere on the Web
Photos
Videos
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Griebe Constitution
Added by Cristina Milos
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Class 1 student-led conference
Added by Kathy Epps
News from PYP Threads
Hover your mouse over the Exhibition tab (which links to Tod Baker's ning, and you'll see links to 3 other nings of interest to PYP people: The Flat Classroom ning's PYP Group started by Leigh Newton, InquirySchools, a ning created by Sherryl Joseph, and Inquiry Teaching and Learning, a private ning started by Elaine Gwendolen Reimann.
Hover your mouse over the Netvibes tab, which links to our PYP Threads Netvibes page of PYP Threads members' schools' websites, you'll see links to other Netvibes pages created by PYP Threads members.
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. If you click the blue Photos tab, you'll go to the Photos page for this ning.
The Diigo Group tab takes you to our home page at the social bookmark site Diigo.
In the left side bar, you'll find the RSS feed from our Diigo bookmarks page,
a links list 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.
Groups - 6 transdisciplinary themes
Unfortunately, there's no way to subscribe to activity within Groups - you'll have to use the general "recent activity" RSS feed.
Groups
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Tech Integration
7 members
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Visual Arts Primary 20...
12 members
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Librarians
36 members
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Sharing the planet
36 members
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How we organize ourselves
25 members
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How the world works
25 members
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How we express ourselves
27 members
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Where we are in place ...
22 members
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Who we are
27 members
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Exhibition
17 members
2009 Exhibitions
"The exhibition represents a significant event in the life of both the school and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the programme and sharing them with the whole school community. It is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the student profile that have been developing throughout their engagement with the programme." (IBO)
Forum
Looking for a booklist for Celebrations around the world...
If you have anything you can share, I'd be forever grateful!
Started by Bridget Shaughnessy in Library 1 day ago.
Finding Sample Planners 2 Replies
We are just starting out and I want to find some sample planners that teachers can look at. Is there any sight that is a general storinghouse for planners other than the OCC?
Started by Tracy Mruch in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Bridget Shaughnessy 1 day ago.
Any schools interested in setting up some Grade 4 classroom collaborations for the 2009/10 school year? 20 Replies
I am writing from Qatar Academy Primary School, Doha, Qatar in order to invite classrooms from around the world to join with our Grade 4 classes in a long term, but fairly low key collaboration. We...
Started by Nerine Chalmers in Connections. Last reply by Useyyid Gokcen Nov 4.
Discussion of the use of the new IB PYP Math's and Language S&S in YOUR schools 4 Replies
Hello there! Here I am again... I'm just wondering... After about a year of the IB PYP Updated Maths and Language continuums...is anybody ready to discuss how this change in focus has affected th...
Tagged: scope_and_sequence, maths, language
Started by Jacqueline (Jax) Webb in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Anja Junginger Nov 4.
Blog Posts
Useful blog
I came across a blog that I liked. What I wanted to share is the comprehensive list of web tools that can be used collaboratively by students and teachers.
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/student-tools-let-them-fly/
All that I can say is that it saved me loads of time :)
Posted by Cristina Milos on August 30, 2009 at 1:22am
Essential Agreements
Dianne McKenzie, Librarian at Discovery College in Hong Kong, has written a blog post titled "Essentially Agreeing" on her blog, "Library Grits". She writes about developing an Essential Agreement for the Library,… Continue Posted by Kathy Epps on August 2, 2009 at 7:29am — 1 Comment
Class 1 student-led conference questions and some answers
First, I must tell you this is not my class! I'm often in and out of this classroom with my… Continue
Posted by Kathy Epps on July 2, 2009 at 7:06am — 2 Comments
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IB Online Professional Development are pleased to announce the opening of the new web portal which will be the ‘one stop shop’ for online professional development for IB teachers. Teachers will from the end of November 2009 be able to identify their workshop, register and pay using a secure online form. Links built into foot of all [...]Calling Moodle developers
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