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TIGed will be holding the following virtual office hours over the next two weeks:

Friday March 6th, from 12-1 pm EST (To join, please visit https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.352AB07E00ADFB679895B109502C71.)

and

Thursday March 12th, from 4:30-5:30 pm EST (To join, please visit https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.395DAFC568801BE776E3E2DA158953.)

We aim to hold virtual office hours about once a week so that educators can ask questions and seek support for using TIGed. Participants do not need to be members of the TIGed community or have TIGed virtual classroom licenses to take part.

If you plan on taking part in one of these sessions, please be sure to join at least 5-10 minutes before the scheduled start time in order to configure your audio settings and ensure that you have a compatible version (1.5 or higher) of Java (free download) installed on your computer. (You may join up to 30 minutes in advance of the scheduled start time.) Please note that you will need a working headset in order to participate.

For more information about the Elluminate platform, please visit: http://www.elluminate.com/support.

Thanks!

kagawa

Katherine Walraven's TIGblog
Katherine Walraven's profile

The Teachers Teaching Teachers (TTT) webcast highlights interesting and inspiring stories from classrooms, and is broadcast every Wednesday at 9pm EST through EdTechTalk (http://edtechtalk.com/). By bringing educators together in order to share real-life stories, the TTT webcast keeps to its motto of "Keep it Real!"

I am happy to announce that next week's webcast will feature stories from educators who are using TIGed! If you are interested in being on the show and sharing your stories of how you use TIGed to incorporate global perspectives and media literacy into your classroom, please get in touch with me! [katherine(at)takingitglobal.org]

To tune into the webcast, please visit http://edtechtalk.com/. Again, the webcast is being held at 9pm EST on Wednesday March 4th.

To learn more about the webcast, please visit http://teachersteachingteachers.org.

kagawa

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Nominate! Participate! Innovate!

The Learning Partnership recognizes and celebrates the achievements of educators who use technology to enhance their students’ learning environment by administering the National Technology and Innovation Awards (NTIA). The awards offer educators the opportunity to share best practices and provide tips on how to replicate extraordinary projects in other schools by sharing their experiences at an awards dinner and innovation conference.

Nominate educators until March 2, 2009. You could win 1 of 5 HP Touchsmart PCs!

Visit www.thelearningpartnership.ca/innovation.htm to learn more.

announcement, event, contest

kagawa

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As mentioned in the January edition of the TIGed newsletter, we have reinstituted TIGed virtual office hours! Each week, either Katherine or Suzie will hold a question and answer session online using Elluminate Live eLearning and Collaboration Solution Software so that you can ask questions and seek support for using TIGed. Rather than being available at the same time every week, virtual office hours will continuously be held on different days and at different times to provide for greater flexibility.

This week's virtual office hour will be held Thursday February 5th at 12pm EST. To join the session, please visit https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.AA9F79D8146CEEBE0080E5F2850E6C. Please join the session 5-10 minutes before the scheduled start time in order to ensure that any technical problems are addressed before the session begins.

kagawa

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Hosted in New York City by Parsons The New School for Design, the 6th annual Games for Change Festival will take place May 27 - 29, 2009.

The Games for Change Festival brings together the world's leading foundations, NGOs, game-makers, academics, and journalists to explore how best to harness this incredibly powerful medium to help address the most critical issues of our day, from poverty, climate change, global conflicts, to human rights.

This year, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof will give the opening keynote address. Other featured speakers include:
- James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Chair in Literacy Studies at Arizona State University
- Seth Scheisel, New York Times game critic
- Joseph Kahne, Dean of the School of Education at Mills College and co-author of the Pew study on games and civics
- Tracy Fullerton, Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab & author of Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Designing Innovative Games
- Eric Zimmerman, CEO of Gamelab and co-author of Rules of Play
- Mary Flanagan, Director of the Tiltfactor Lab
- Ian Bogost, CEO of Persuasive Games and author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
- Heather Chaplin, freelance journalist (NPR, New York Times) and author of Smart Bomb
- Henry Jenkins, the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities.
- N'Gai Croal, Technology Editor Newsweek Magazine

For more information, please see the festival web site:
http://gamesforchange.org/fest2009 or e-mail Mark@GamesForChange.org.