Traveloteacher

I'm an Innovative Educator and I'm going to Cape Town! What a respectable siganture! I still can't believe that I'm one of those who will have the opportunity to meet innovative educators from all over the world. What's more, I'm one of them! What have I done to deserve this? I just came up with an idea - and these fabulous teachers were kind enough to join me with their students. They are Innovative Educators and I wish they all went to Cape Town with me! Viviana Alayo , Colegio Machado de Assis, Joinville, Brazil Candace Townsley , Owasso Public School, Owasso, Oklahoma, USA Valerie Burton , West Jefferson School, Harvey, Lousiana, USA Dan Roberts , Saltash Community Schools, Saltash, UK Eva Büyüksimkeşyan and Culya Yapici , Esayan Armenian High School, Istanbul, Turkey José Romão ,Colegio de Alfragide, Alfragide, Portugal Clara Vieira , Escola EB 2,3/S de Vale de Cambra, Portugal Monika Hardy ,Thompson Valley HS, Loveland, Colorado, USA Shannon McClintock...

I had the pleasure of hearing Professor Sugata Mitra at the Innovative Teacher Forum in Berlin in March 2010. In his splendid keynote he talked about his Hole In The Wall experiments and children from slums and poor, remote areas in India who acquire basic computer skills, even though they don't speak English and don't have a teacher to help them. They learn because they want to.

Unbelievable as it may seem, Greetings from the world won its second award! It was chosen among 30 outstanding projects to represent Croatia at the Innovative Education Forum in Berlin next week. There will be more than 150 participants from 44 countries. I feel so lucky to be able to take part in such an amazing event and am looking forward to meeting teachers who use new technologies in their classroom. The fact that Greetings from the world will be representing Croatia at the Forum, by no means implies that this is a strictly Croatian project. I'm proud to represent innovative teachers who I have become friends with via twitter or wiki and whose students have shown the world what Brazil, the USA, Turkey, Portugal, Australia, India, the UK and Argentina are like.