Check out: Focus the Nation: Global Warning Solutions for America
Mount Saint Mary College will participate in the nation-wide event by offering campus-wide activities on January 30th and 31st. The Mount will join in the 2% solution, hold a panel debate, view the Inconvenient Truth in the student theater, and hold various discussions on climate change, evidence, consequences, political and social issues, and what you can do about these issues.
For a quick idea for engaging your class in the discussion about climate change add a project to your curriculum and have your students use digital technologies in their project presentation....
- Students can create a video and upload it to Teachertube or YouTube for everyone to view, not just the students in your class.
- Students can create an audio podcast. Students can write their own play or skit about climate changes and its' effect and upload the podcasts for anyone to hear online.
- Students can put together photo slideshows and upload them to Flickr or a create PowerPoint slideshows and upload the completed presentation to SlideShare or Photobucket.
- Students can create a Wiki listing all the resources available locally and online as a collaborative class project or create an individual Wiki with suggestions about global issues dealing with climate changes.
By using technology in your course activities students will be engaged actively - they will 'learn by doing' and remember what they learned.
Since climate change is a global issue using new digital technologies that connect the world virtually would allow the world to hear or view these projects and allow student voices to be heard wide-wide.
If you do a project using a new technology be sure to share it with your colleagues and with us. Everyone will benefit by hearing your ideas too.
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