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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Laura Stockman’
September 23, 2009
Connections take time
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’
Image via CrunchBase
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 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 [...]
June 4, 2008
Skyping with Laura.
Today in my Yr 7 class we were involved in a Skype call with the inspirational Laura Stockman from Buffalo, New York. That’s Laura above with the special care packs she has put together for Cheerful Givers, one of the charities she has been supporting. (I hope you don’t mind me using your picture Laura – if you do [...]
May 28, 2008
Laura Stockman – inspiring others across the waves.
Sunday morning I was grazing through my Google reader, kicking back and hoping I’d find something that would inspire me to write. I found something better than that, I found something that inspired me to act.
I checked out Will Richardson’s latest post and discovered Laura Stockman, an 11yr old from New York who has been [...]
