The Interntational Exposition is in Zaragosa Spain this year 2008. The promoters have offered mascots of the Expo to a school in Zaragosa for a global collaboration project. They have 20 mascots to mail to schools on every continent to promote the Expo and theme of "Water and Sustainable Development". You can twitter me(twitter.com/lbilak) The mascot is cute-named Fluvi in reference to "water, fluidity". He even has cartoons you can see on Youtube.com. You get to keep Fluvi- all they ask is t…

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The creation of the Olympic marathon route

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I recently attended a seminar in Australia where the speaker conveyed, through over-acted theatrics, the notion that grammar is a "means to an end" and "not a thing in itself." He qualified his 'indepth' assertion through a neurological diagnosis: "brain numbingly boring." However, reluctantly, he admitted that this "incredibly boring" set of rules is undergoing a rebirth in primary and secondary school teaching. However, as a consequence of its absence from the curriculum for over thirty years… Continue

Voices of the World is a site where children's voices from everywhere reachable through the Internet can be heard. (I think that must be anywhere on planet Earth by now.) A wonderful experience to expand the learning horizons of the world's youth! Well organized and planned by Sharon Tonner, Primary ICT/International Co-ordinator at The High School of Dundee. Check it out here: http://onevoice.ning.com/

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