Traveloteacher

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It's been more than a week since I came home from Capetown where I attended the MS Worldwide Innovative Education Forum. There are different reasons why it was an out of this world experience. Firstly, my project Greetings from the world made it to the finals in the Innovation for Collaboration Category. This is the best result ever achieved by a Croatian teacher at a worldwide competition. However, this project is not strictly Croatian, it's rather global in the true sense of the world, and I'm just a member of a team of exceptional innovative teachers who love this project. Secondly, who doesn't like to travel? I have a strong passion for travel and this was an amazing opportunity for me to travel to South Africa for the first time. Seeing Cape Town at the foot of the stunning Table Mountain , its many depressing townships, the Cape of Good Hope, pretty proteas in bloom, cute little penguins which I couldn't swim with, as well as the excellent South African wine w...

The Partners in Learning Worldwide Innovation Education Forum held in Cape Town last week was a true celebration of enthusiastic, inspiring and passionate teachers. These are the finalists and the award winners in four different categories: The Innovation in Collaboration Award The finalists are: ( I'm proudly one of them ) And the winners are: Best Practice: Martin Ryum and Mette Hauch, Denmark: Teachers Leave Them Kids Alone First Runner-Up: Jan Webb, UK: Working in a Classroom Without Walls Second Runner-Up: Ian Fogarty, Canada: Xenotransplant Debate Anna Karlsson, Sweden: ICT Enriched Learning The Innovation in Content Award The finalists are: And the winners are: Best Practice: Pat Yongpradit, USA: Game Programming with the Microsoft Zune to Promote High School Women in Technology First Runner-Up: Adriana Silva de Oliveira, Brazil: School on the Cloud Second Runner-Up: Peter de Lisle, South Africa: Biodiversity The Innovation in Community Award The finalists are: And the winn...

I'm doing the final preparations for the trip to Cape Town. My level of excitement is at 10!

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...

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.