Transcript The World is an Open Box

The World is an Open Box
Sharing Culture through
Global Classroom
Connections
Sharon Caviness
Kellie Garcia
October 29, 2013
Snack and Survey
Please take a few minutes to complete
the survey on your table. This data will
be used to measure staff and student
growth as we complete this school-wide
culture project this year.
The World is an Open Box
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Global Classroom Connections
Skype / Face Time / Google Hangout Sessions
Pen Pals – Letter Exchange- Emails
Culture Box Exchange
Professional Development in Skype and
Google Earth
• Global Awareness Fair
ACS and GBT
• ACS Strategic Plan- Each ACS student will be globally aware, independent,
responsible learners and citizens. Strategic Objective: All teachers will
engage each student in meaningful, authentic and rigorous work through
the use of innovative instructional practices and supportive technologies
that will motivate students to be self-directed and inquisitive learners.
• GBT Continuous Improvement Plan- Teachey Elementary will improve
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education for
all students during the 2013-2014 school year as measured by an
improvement in the school’s overall performance composite from 71.1%
proficient in 2011-2012 to 75% in 2013-2014. Action step: All grade
levels will provide project-based learning through the adoption of
another country so that students may develop and increase global
awareness.
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Global Classroom Connections
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http://www.epals.com
http://www.globalschoolnet.org
http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/
http://aroundtheworldwith80schools.net/
https://education.skype.com
Please make your grade level connection and adopt
your classroom/country by November 15.
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1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Video Communication
• Skype
• Face Time
• Google Hangout
You will be expected to conduct at least two face-to-face
video sessions with your adopted classroom . One session
should be conducted before Christmas break and another
session should be completed by the end of February. You
are welcome to communicate more often, but these two
are expected.
Pen Pals
• Snail Mail- Postal Letters
• Emails
Students may enjoy communicating with their partner classroom
through letter writing, holiday cards, picture exchanges, etc.
These activities may be incorporated in your writing instruction
and provide additional handwriting practice for upper grades.
Lower grades may consider this activity as one of their shared
writing lessons.
Culture Box Exchange
Each grade will fill a culture box with items that
represent key elements of our own culture.
These may be represented through pictures,
writing, small objects, videos, photographs, etc.
“Their experience of putting together a box or package of things that
represent themselves, their schools and their communities can be a
good exercise in problem solving. Who are we? How do we represent
that? What do we want our friends to know about us? For some
students this may be the first time they have thought about these
things.”
Quote from Diane Midness iEARN-USA
International Education and Resource Network
Elements of Culture
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Government
Language
Religion
Economy
Holidays
Technology
Entertainment – sports, etc.
Food
Way of Dress
School
The Arts- Music / Literature / Art
Deadline for
Culture Box
Shipping
January 17th
*The school will provide one standard size box and postage for
each grade level.
Culture Box Exchange
• Please arrange to have your adopted
classroom send a culture box from their
country. Communicate this expectation early
to allow enough time for the arrival of box and
preparation for a cultural fair.
Other country boxes should arrive no later than
February 28th.
“Once students have something tangible in their hands from
somewhere they may not have known existed before they started a
collaboration, the relationship with their partners becomes very real
and they feel very connected.”
Diane Midness iEARN-USA
Global Awareness Fair
tentatively March 25, 2014
• Each grade level will be responsible for sharing
the information learned about the culture of
their country.
• Artifacts received from the country
• Technology projects-Photo Story, PowerPoint,
Glogster, Voice Thread, Wiki, etc.
(We encourage the use of technology as a way to share final
information learned to meet our STEM objective.)
What is Skype?
• Skype is a software program that allows users
to make text, voice, and video calls through
the Internet to share experiences with people
wherever they are in the world.
Available for download on
devicesMobile phones
Computers
Tablets
Let’s Get Started…
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Go to skype.com
Download the Skype application.
Follow the prompts to install the program.
Open a new account or sign in with an
existing. Follow steps.
Engaging Student Learners with Skype
Skype Roles from “Around the World in 80 Schools”
Practice a
Skype
Learning Call
Today we will be using Skype to connect with Crystal
Simpson, a former teacher and friend who now lives in
Wiesbaden, Germany.
We will work through the roles, just as students in your
classroom would follow roles in the Skype learning call.
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Next Steps…
Familiarize yourself with Skype.
Practice with colleagues.
Practice with grade-level classes.
Begin thinking about ways you can incorporate
this in your classroom and engage students in
global learning. Documents can be found in the
public folder on the network.
• Discuss project expectations with partner
teacher.
• Set up appointment to Skype partner classrooms.
• Next staff development- Google Earth Ideas