Category Archives: CM News
CM Country “9H22” in Economic Shambles
Written by: Cohen Simulated Country: 9H22 School: Prescott Learning Centre Instructor: Ms. Christy Haggarty Location: Spruce Grove, AB 9H22 is currently facing a severe economic crisis, with inflation reaching unprecedented levels. The country’s annual inflation rate is currently over 700%, the highest … Continue reading
Civic Mirror Forums Fully Functional
Dear Civic Mirror Users, We are excited to announce that the forums are running normally again. You may have encountered an error saying that your post contains too few characters, despite writing a sufficient post. This error occurred when using … Continue reading
Civic Mirror Successfully Migrates Hosting to the Cloud
Written by Daniel Lindenberger –– Lead Civic Mirror Programmer At Action-Ed we’ve recently made the jump from traditional servers to Cloud Computing via Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we couldn’t be more excited about it. We thought we’d share a … Continue reading
Happy New Year Super-Awesome Civic Mirror Users!
Have a Great 2017! We just want to thank all of our users for using the program. Without you guys, Civic Mirror and this transformational social studies program would not exist. Thanks for your continued support, and we look forward … Continue reading
“Playing Civic Mirror Was One of My Best High School Memories.”
Quote from Olivia Haynes’ Acceptance Speech By Jovan Djurdjevic, Social Science Teacher at Iroquois Ridge High School in Oakville, Ontario In conversation today with our Gr. 12 Student of Excellence award winner (chosen out of a graduating class of 310), Olivia Haynes, … Continue reading
No More Draft Manuals!
PDF Versions of Published Manuals Now Available We are proud to announce that users can now access the PDF versions of the published CM Manuals on civicmirror.com. Whereas before users could only make copies of the Draft Manuals, from the Getting … Continue reading
Announcing Better Country Navigation & Trial Features
Relevant Country Switching Civic Mirror allows teachers to turn the social studies classrooms into countries and their students into citizens. For teachers running multiple classes, our “Country Switch / Logout” menu has allowed teachers to toggle between their classes. For … Continue reading
“War Declared” at Boston College High School
Breaking News from Mr. Gartside’s Social Studies Students Using Civic Mirror. Story by James Kester & James Martin After the President of the Republic of Vendette earlier today showed great disrespect to the United Tribes of Kevron, the country decided to … Continue reading
New Property Tax Features!
The Civic Mirror simulation has always included basic income and property tax features. In other words, when a student from a CM class becomes the President or Prime Minister of their simulated country and are given access to the Government Account, they have … Continue reading
Winterset Jr. High’s Civic Mirror Story Published on Edutopia
“Teens Create Their Own Nation“ A year ago, Mr. Jim Heithoff and his middle school students from a small town in Iowa made the Civic Mirror blog as “newbies,” and now, one year later, their story was published on one of … Continue reading
