| Jose Fuentes |
I really like the idea of introducing students to other countries and while not physically being there, using technology to visit that country and explore that country's culture, tradition, and music and things that regular people like you and me do in that country. I think that this is simply invaluable. There is too much out there that needs to be explored and new ideas that have to be shares. It is just too sad to see how some people refuse to do this and come up with weird comments about other countries. For instance, the way they talk, or they way they dress, or the music they listen to.
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2007-11-14 20:03:01 |
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| Janetta Garton |
Quotes
• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. St. Augustine
• Traveling and sojourning among various people makes men wise. Miguel Cervantes
• One destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller
• The most important trip you make in your life is meeting people halfway. Henry Boye
• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc
• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better say home. James Michener
Program Description
• Dupont grant allowed Florida teachers to visit China; See beyond wall of classroom, school, town and country; Create a journey for your students; Children must grow up to be global citizens
• Global studies curriculum: Study of world cultures weaved into curriculum; Objective: introduce students to new country each year; 3 components:
o Travel: 2 faculty members to focus country to collect data, artifacts to bring back
o Connections: student connect with traveling teachers, mascot, website, epals, podcast, blogs
o Interdisciplinary Instruction: units, teacher perception, parts to whole or diversity
• Engage the students, create a connection to their own lives, make journey come alive for them. Travel bear for lower grades, Upper grades used amazing race competition
o Letters from Felix, rabbit lost at airport and ends up traveling the world and he sends postcards from each country back home classroom, each class made a present for him to take on travels (blanket, outfits, backpack,) Students would look for their items in videos or images posted on the blog.
o 3-4 grades Trekkers; using personal passports, read blog, listen to podcast, answer questions or solve problems written in their passport
o The Amazing Race: try to anticipate what will happen next, 12 teams, given clues to next destination; last team to arrive at pit stop is eliminated. Class team read blogs, heard pod casts; ping pong time zone, great wall, tai chi,
• Nov 30 2006 left, Visited a school and tourist sites; looked at Food transportation culture; completed Sound seeing tours, videos; Return home, continue to focus on China
• Technology made it possible to create a virtual connection: Laptop webcam video camera mp3 recorder ipods; Windows movie maker, word press blog, audacity, del.icio.us, sjeds-travels-China is the tag sites blocked in and couldn’t always answer students comment questions, flickr with upload tool, skype, time difference 13 hours made it difficult to use skype.
• 2 teachers to Egypt this year;
What You Can Do, No Travel Required
• Get a mascot and piggyback on their program
• Follow their bear through their blog
• Design your own amazing race
• Create own studies using lessons and activities provided
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2007-10-31 12:22:37 |
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