Tumblr, Youth Twitter, and a Global Darfur Awareness Event on Teachers Teaching Teachers tonight!
We have two guests planned for tonight’s Teachers Teaching Teachers live webcast. Join us, at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times
First:
We will be talking to David Karp the 21-year-old founder of Tumblr, an interesting new blogging platform that some of us have been talking about adopting. (See the TTT88 podcast: Me and my inquiry in relation to a whole community of learners - TTT88 - 01.23.08.)
Second:
George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher in a school just outside of Washington D.C. will be joining us. Mr. Mayo has been an early collaborator on our http://youthtwitter.com site, and his students are getting the word out for a Global Darfur Awareness Event to take place on March 6th: Here’s George Mayo’s introduction to this project:
A group of students started this Darfur Awareness blog as part of a classroom project: http://stopgenocide.edublogs.org/ Students were really into this topic and have decided they would like to continue, even though projects are officially over. So we have teamed up with Wendy Drexler’s 3rd grade students in Florida and are co-sponsoring this Global Darfur Awareness Event:http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com/ Project bloghttp://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/ Project wiki Mission Statement: Many Voices for Darfur Blog This is a global collaborative effort involving k-12 students from around the globe to raise awareness about the genocide in
Darfur. On March 6th, we are asking students from around the world to visit our Many Voices for Darfur Blog and leave thoughtful, well-written comments.
