Author Archives: Civic Mirror
Civic Mirror Message Mis-sends #1
When students send messages to one another within civicmirror.com, they have the option to be email notified when a message comes in. Sometimes students reply to the support email address that sends this notification, sending it to the CM Team … Continue reading
Exciting New Features with Release of Civic Mirror 2.4.0
Program Now 100% Online, New Features for Teachers, and Twitter Hashtags This latest CM version release, 2.4.0, is one for the books. Daniel Lindenberger (CM’s Lead Programmer) and Derek Lam (Programmer and Tech-Support Wizard) worked tirelessly over the summer on … Continue reading
Bananoland and Unipigland
Message From Ms. Carly Althauser @ Asia Pacific International School, Seoul, South Korea: Hello Civic Mirror Team! I thought I’d fill you in on some happenings in Bananoland & Unipigland. Bananoland recently declared war on Unipigland and Unipigland decided to take … Continue reading
Is Civic Mirror Helping Schools Escape from Education’s Death Valley?
Sire Ken Robinson has some incredible things to say about how schools lack the flexibility – or instructional and structural ability – to allow creativity and human dreams to flourish. We believe that Civic Mirror bucks this trend, and is … Continue reading
Lakewood High School’s Civic Mirror YouTube Video Channel
For whatever reason, Civic Mirror seems to attract above-average teachers, and many of them are simply teaching super stars. Starting with Sara Shackett a few years ago, the social studies teachers at Lakewood High School – just outside of Denver, … Continue reading
Meet CM Resource Super-Creator, Ms. Amber Rainke!
New CM Library Resources! While the Civic Mirror Library – a space for educators to share their customized and CM-related assignments, activities, and modifications – has been alive for several years, only recently did our development team cleaned it up … Continue reading
Coming Soon! Mobile-Friendly Online Civic Mirror Manuals!
No More PDF Draft Manuals! Civic Mirror continues to improve. Today we’re happy to announce that we are roughly halfway through designing and developing online versions of the CM Manuals. Because the simulation sets up in-class events that students run themselves, and … Continue reading
Developing Leadership in Young Women
One of the most educationally valuable aspects of Civic Mirror is its ability to offer students leadership roles in a safe, educationally-oriented way. Students can become Presidents and Prime Ministers, Senators and House Representatives, high-stakes businesspersons, lawyers and judges, and … Continue reading
Winter 2013 CM Community Enhancements
This week we released some improvements to the Civic Mirror Community that we want to share with everyone. CM World News We have overhauled the CM World News page to better displays the most recent activity in the CM Community … Continue reading
Case Study: 7th Grade Success Story
Ms. Nina Franklin and Brier Terrace Middle School Students Talk About Civic Mirror Last year, Nina Franklin, a 7th Grade social studies teacher from Brier Terrace Middle School in Washington state (just north of Seattle), ran the Civic Mirror with … Continue reading
