Category Archives: CM News

Civic Mirror’s New Year’s Resolution is to help our educators and students keep pushing the envelope when it comes to active, experiential education. Our team has been so busy developing that we haven’t paused to tell you what we’ve been … Continue reading →

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 →

The Civic Mirror Team is proud to announce partial support for the various emoji characters that are found on iPhones/iPads and other mobile devices. From Wikipedia: ” … the word literally means “picture” (e) + “letter” (moji). The characters are used … Continue reading →

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 →

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 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 →

Just in time for the start of the school year is the launch of Civic Mirror 2.2.0, with a focus on making life easier and better for the Educators and ‘Keymasters’ in our community. Registering and using Civic Mirror has … Continue reading →

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 →

This is the first in our new series of Developer’s Blogs, where we show you a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes and under the hood of Civic Mirror. With the recent launch of Civic Mirror 2.1.0 … Continue reading →

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 →