Author Archives: Civic Mirror
Great Spark Talk About 21st Century Learning
While our small team is just too busy developing and supporting to comment on how Civic Mirror is actually allowing teachers and students to do all of the things mentioned by the panel of educational experts in this Spark talk (i.e. flipped classrooms; … Continue reading
WRDSB Educator, Dan Ballantyne, Guest Blogs About Civic Mirror on TVO
In 2010/11 a fella named Dan Ballantyne started using Civic Mirror. We noticed immediately how involved his students became with their simulated nations. This is usually a sign of a good-to-incredible teacher who is able to capitalize on the many … Continue reading
New Getting Started Page + In-Law Relations
New ‘Getting Started’ Page for Students After receiving feedback on how we could improve Civic Mirror for first-time users, several mentioned that having clear steps for students on the Getting Started page upon logging in. Whereas before there was only … Continue reading
Ivan Krastev: Can democracy exist without trust?
This Ted Talk made us think of many Civic Mirror countries and the political problems they experienced as well – can democracy exist without trust? While just a simulation, the number of CM fascist coups in 2011/12 was record breaking. Was … Continue reading
Best CM Election Campaign Video of 2011/12
Our team loves tuning into the CM-related Tweets, status updates, and YouTube videos that make noise online, and a couple weeks back we stumbled upon this one: Not anything unusual, but we noticed Zach, a Grade 10 … Continue reading
CM on Twitter, Incredible Integrations
As the number of students and teachers using Civic Mirror continues to grow, so is the noise it’s creating on Twitter. In fact, severals teachers from the Waterloo Regional District School Board, like Dan Ballantyne for example, are having their … Continue reading
Swaggville – Was it all Just a Party?
Teacher: Ms. Kirsten Anthon Grade/Course: Civics 10, Grade 10 School: Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School Location: Mississauga, ON As we mourn the loss of Swaggville, a 10th Grade Civics course in Mississauga, Ontario, we should take a moment to celebrate … Continue reading
CM Programmers Attend VWBPE Conference on Second Life
The Civic Mirror web-programming team isn’t your typical run-of-the-mill group of coders… quite the opposite in fact. They are not only passionate about all things gaming and code, but today, in their own leisure time, they virtually attended the “Virtual … Continue reading
Governor General of Canada Visits Civic Mirror Classroom in Calgary
The Governor General of Canada, David Johnson, chose to visit the one and only school in Calgary area using the Civic Mirror as part of his Western Canadian tour supporting innovative education programs. CTV News Calgary covered the story, reporting: … Continue reading
Best Free Trial Request of 2011
Most of the time our free trial requests are from teachers or district coordinators, and every once in a while we’ll get one from a student. The educator free trial requests are straightforward, but sometimes the student requests are really … Continue reading
