UNICEF has realized that it needs to be at the forefront of trying new ideas, collaborating with new partners, and creating systems that can help most vulnerable children and women.
Teachers: Bev Berns, Shaelynn Farnsworth, Shawn Hyer, Erin Olson and Todd Vogts School/Location: Waukon, B.C.L.U.W., Van Meter, Sioux Central high schools in Iowa and Western Plains in Kansas Grade or Level of Students: Secondary (ages 14-18) Idea: Collaborating on a video remembrance project.
As they were located in two different countries, the team relied on Cisco's Collaboration portfolio, consisting of Cisco TelePresence, Unified Communications Suite and WebEx Connect, to brainstorm their initial idea, collaborate on the business plan, and then virtually present their idea to Cisco.
To help address the current need of the bioinformatics research field, universities should "borrow" this multi-disciplinary idea – collaborate with other universities to build research positions that collectively build the crucial HI capacity.
To celebrate, we asked every educator who has written a guest post for us, been featured in a Reader Idea, or collaborated on one of our features to answer two simple questions: Reading their responses, below, is a crash course in how to be a "connected educator".
The word is that he'll be calling on his old pal Sir Tim Rice to write the lyrics, which may not be such a bad idea; Rice collaborated with Tony Hawks on a hit song released only in Albania to win the latter's bet that he could get a number one in Europe.
And teachers are often initially uncomfortable with the idea of being evaluated by their peers, though in district after district, they quickly warm to the idea of collaborating with peers.
She likes the idea of collaborating with circumstance, she wrote in the program notes.
She loved his idea of collaborating on an installation about her continuing adventures in plastic surgery and exchanged contact information.
The Obama administration appears to be reconsidering the idea of collaborating on missile defense as part of the "reset" of its relations with Russia.
