IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

Earth day Scavenger Hunt

http://www.cdli.ca/~dfurey/earthday/index1.htm

Earth day Scavenger Hunt

http://www.cdli.ca/~dfurey/earthday/index1.htm

Japanese IB students

Hi my name is Susan Vang. I am a Sophmore in the IB program at Luther Burbank High School. I'm doing a research on Japanese IB student in Japan, I would like to know what type of stereotypes the Japanese students has about the American people.

For example:

• What clothes the Americans wear?
• What they eat?
• How they look like?
• How they behave?
• What kind of music do they enjoy?

If anyone can answer these question please reply back to me as soon as possible. Thank you =]

Japanese students

Hello my name is Tseng Vang. My school is researching on sterotypes on japanese students. My sterotypese is that they eat seafood, study all day long, where uniform, have cool looking hair, play a lot of online games, and read mangas. Are my sterotypes true? Please tell me if I am right or wrong. Also tell me what is your sterotype of an American student is. Thank you for reading this

Global Issues Network Conference at WAB in China

Here's a wonderful weekend of teaching and learning about global issues. Keynotes have included Maurice Strong, Jean Francois Rischard,Hafsat Abiola and Jane Goodall. Boyd Roberts from the IBO is presenting on "sharing our humanity", the IB's community theme. Great weekend!

One laptop per child (OLPC)

Seeing sivadeel’s recent post on the OLPC Project I thought that it may be of interest to know that in the Publications group of the IB we’ve been researching it.

We obtained an OLPC XO laptop this year as part of a ’give one, get one’
scheme (our 'give one' XO went to OLPC Mongolia) so that we could test how well
IB online publications perform on new, more restricted hardware platforms.

Kodaikanal International School - Building a School - Village Development Project

This small remote village of Thamaraikulam (Tamil Nadu, India) has been adopted by Kodaikanal International School for development projects. This project was targeted at building a village school for the underprivileged.

"Connect with the Community by Sharing our Humanity"

CAS programme at the INDUS International School is pursued across the curriculum from IB PYP through to the IB Diploma programme with a varied focus with the one common goal of achieving a connect with the community by sharing our humanity.

What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You? - Peter Singer on personal giving for good causes

A New York Times article by professor of bioethics at Princeton, Peter Singer. He considers ethical issues associated with money and wealth - and what obligations we have to give money away personally.

New York Times, 17 December 2006

Three easy ways to make a difference - suggestions from Princeton professor of bioethics Peter Singer

Extract from Peter SInger's website:

http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/make_a_difference.html