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Student Summit for WHS today

Feel free to join us today at 10:45 am and again at 1:20 pm as the students at Westwood present in the student summit for Horizon 2008. Just click on the elluminate link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.9301D01FB411E98248792B3A33F345 Bring a mike and you may ask them questions. Next Wednesday at 5:20 am EST the Qatar class will have a summit and at 9:30 AM the… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on May 20, 2008 at 10:39am — 1 Comment

Final Checklist for WHS Students

1) Make sure you have uploaded your video to the Ning. (See instructions.) Due 5/16/2008 2) Post the video on your main wiki page using the video template.Due 5/16/2008 3) Post the link to the video on the… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on May 15, 2008 at 4:04pm — 1 Comment

What do you say to someone who is not there?

We have some students contributing, communicating, responding and participating. And we have some students who simply AREN'T THERE! We are entering a new age in our society with Face to Face (F2F) is simply not enough because so many of us are communicating computer to computer (also called Peer to Peer or P2P). I say that we need effective "techno-personal" skills. If you do not respond, you do not exist. If you do not exist, you cannot be promoted, you cannot get an "A," you cannot ge… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on May 8, 2008 at 5:36pm — 2 Comments

Setting up your PLN

Today my students are setting up their PLN (personal learning network) in Netvibes. The advantage of doing this is that you have ONE page to start with that includes EVERYTHING you need to stay on top of the activities in Horizon. Setting up your Netvibes

Include the RSS feed for your main page's wiki edits --
You can find the location of the RSS button, by going to the Teams p

… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on April 7, 2008 at 6:37pm — No Comments

Hello Horizon, How are you?

I'm so excited to be joining in this project again this year as a co-planner with Mrs. Julie Lindsay in Qatar. This project is actually a direct result of the fact that Mrs. Lindsay and I both blog. We connected in the Fall of 2006 as we both had our students read an excerpt of Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat. Julie found my blog, we created the Flat Classroom Project and then Thomas Friedman, the book's author found us. What beg… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on March 18, 2008 at 2:09am — No Comments

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The Horizon Project is a sister to the Flat Classroom Project. This Ning is where teachers and students will connect, communicate and collaborate for the Horizon Project 2008. Co-founders: Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis

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