Recently I wrote about Working together 2 make a difference, the Ning I help to run along with Angela Stockman and Mike Poluk. One of our new members, Rob Currin, from Alden, New York, has started a group called The Global Poetry Project. Here’s what Rob has written to explain the project and its motivations;
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October 26, 2009
Global Poetry Project
September 23, 2009
Connections take time
So, it’s school holidays. You’d think I’d be posting like a mad woman wouldn’t you -making up for all of the time I couldn’t post because work was getting in the way.
Well. I haven’t been. I’ve been busy making connections.
Working together 2 make a difference has attracted a reasonable size community of educators but we [...]
May 21, 2009
Working together 2 make a difference finds its way into print
What a nice surprise greeeted me via Skype this morning. Angela Stockman sent me the link to the above newspaper article about her daughter Laura and Working together 2 make a difference.
It was written by Sarah Hanson, a freshman at Alden High who is a member of the site. Sarah has captured the motivation of the site very well [...]
March 1, 2009
Gone Skypin’
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Wow. We had an amazing couple of days last week at my school using Skype to connect our students to the world.
First stop was Buffalo, New York, when Laura Stockman skyped into our Grade 5 class. They were learning about her good works because they have been doing some themselves . Our Junior School last week raised [...]
February 23, 2009
Special things happening….
A little while ago I was encouraging educators to join us on Working together 2 make a difference and support the bushfire relief effort. I am so pleased to let you know that some very special things are happening on that site. Our membership has grown and we have seen the service learning efforts of educators [...]
February 10, 2009
Join us to work together 2 make a difference for fire ravaged Victoria.
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Yesterday I posted about the natural disaster that has ravaged the Victorian countryside. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach read my post and offered to help in any way she could. My good friend Angela Stockman, who I collaborate with on Working together 2 make a difference, also wanted to know what she could do to [...]
February 2, 2009
Service learning = responsible teaching. Join Working together 2 make a difference.
There are some things you do because you have to, and there are some things you do because they’re important. Working together 2 make a difference is something I do because it’s important. I don’t do it alone. I work with Angela and Laura Stockman from New York State who believe in it just as much [...]
October 15, 2008
Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty
Today is Blog Action Day. There are 10,300 Sites participating and these sites have 11,048,452 RSS Readers. That’s a pretty impressive readership. Hopefully these readers will take something away that they can share with others to spread the message even further. Here’s what it’s all about;
What is Blog Action Day?
Today thousands of bloggers will unite [...]
October 6, 2008
Working together 2 make a difference – inspired by Laura.
Recently I said that I wasn’t going to write a post unless I thought I had something to write about that I thought was useful. Well, today I’m writing about something that I think is useful. Better than that, it’s helpful to others less fortunate than ourselves. And that, to me, is important.
Throughout the year I’ve been inspired [...]
