virtual exchange (cl)

via connected learning series..

session 1, feb 13, 2014:

Leveraging Institution Partnerships for Sustainable Exchange

How can working with institutions make virtual exchange more accessible & sustainable? Learn more about implementation at the school level, through non-formal education, and the national ministry level.

About The Speaker(s)

  • Salma Elbeblawi – Director of Programs, Soliya
  • Kristyn Mohr – Program Coordinator, Global Nomads Group
  • Hela Nafti – Tunisia Coordinator for the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)
  • Samah Al-Jundi – Syria Coordinator for the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)
  • Katherine Korte – High School Social Studies Teacher in St. Louis, MO

session 2  – feb 20

  • Charlotte Cole – Executive Director of the nonprofit Blue Butterfly Collaborative
  • Hannah Weitzer – Program Manager at Global Nomads Group
  • Gayle Hartigan – Computer Resource Specialist at Tallwood High School
  • Chris Dubia – Artist, educationalist, environmental activist and innovator
  • Katja Riikonen – Senior Officer of Training and Facilitation at Soliya
question asked – how is virtual exchange different from video chat or conferencing call.
so – they are seeking to have virtual exchange become a literacy – so that it garners the leverage/notability to start happening more in the classroom.. (i think that’s the focus of this series…)
session 3, feb 27:
    • Francesca Helm – Researcher and English language teacher at the Department of Politics, Law and International Studies at the University of Padova, Italy
    • Renee Day – Teacher at Riverside Unified School District in Riverside, California
    • Sari Khalil – Participant in 2003 Global Nomads Group videoconference about the Iraq war, 2nd year medical student at Dartmouth Medical School
    • Emile Bruneau – Post-doctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT’s Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (Saxelab)

Anna Smith – Director of research and programming for the EXCEL Academy @ New York University

 

[my take – so – can we really ever have a control group..? so.. can we really ever measure…?

so why do we spend all our time… with that….?]

JonBarilone: Loved Chris’s observation from last week that Anna mentioned. But, admittedly, I don’t know if the process alone is enough to encourage (for example) school admins to implement virtual exchange