Cultural eLearning adventures

CULTURAL e-LEARNING ADVENTURES

VERONICA WOO EU CHENG TESL Teacher ICT Coordinator ( MALAYSIA ) ANNE MIRTSCHIN Accounting and ICT Teacher Web Conference Coach ( AUSTRALIA )

OUR SCHOOLS AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA TOWN / CITY SIZE OF TOWN / CITY POPULATION MAIN OCCUPATION SCHOOL PARTICIPATION IN SPECIAL EVENT(S) IPOH 643 SQ. KM 710,798 ( Yr 2007 ) Business, SM Industry, Professionals, Govt. Employees
2011 Innovations Showcase
( Australia )
2011 Melbourne Writers’ Festival
Visit Perak Year 2012
Prime Minister’s State Visit
State Mid-Autumn Festival
Hawkesdale 150 Farming 2010 Listen to Learners 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival 2011 Innovations Showcase

Australia Malaysia
Hawkesdale Ipoh
White caucasian Malay
A few Maori students Chinese
One aboriginal family Indian
Indigenous people
English Malay
Mandarin Chinese (ESL) Chinese
Indian etc

AUSTRALIA

Perak Tourism Logo Launch Northern Writers’ Gathering Perak Tourism Newspaper Launch School Excellence Day 2011 Skype to Indonesia, Pakistan and Australia ( Rehearsals ) CHORAL SPEAKING PERFORMANCES ( ‘Jom! Let’s Visit Perak ) ‘ VISIT PERAK YEAR 2012’ PROMOTION Skype to Austria Skype t o USA and The Philippines Skype to Pakistan ( Testing Connection )

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Skype to Australia ( Melbourne Writers’ Festival ) Skype to New Zealand ( SMJK Poi Lam / Cosmospoint College ) Skype to Austria, Australia, Pakistan, Indonesia, USA and the Philippines ‘ Visit Perak Year 2012’ Promotion Skype to Indonesia ( Prime Minister’s State Visit ) Skype t o USA and The Philippines ( Northern Writers’ Gathering @ Garden Villa )

Technological and Global involvement Anne Mirtschin :

YEAR 2005 Veronica Woo ONCE UPON A TIME… GLOBAL CONNECTIONS 2005…

‘ OUR EARTH, OUR HOME’ ( Promoting Green Tourism & Malaysia )

20/8/2007 Thanks for your response. Right now, I'm in New Zealand attending an AFS Educators'Program. I'll be returning to Malaysia this Saturday. I will definitely get back to you when things are more settled once I get back to Malaysia. Say, give me about a week's time before I discuss anything with you regarding any collaborative project that I might carry out with your school. Veronica ( Registered with Globalschoolnet.com in Year 2005 )

Does Veronica speak English
much at all?

1. email conversations Fast forward to...... 20/7/2010 It's been quite a long time since I last e-mailed you. How's life in Australia? I was just wondering if you would like to get connected with me and my students via Skype video-conferencing. I'll be doing just that with a school in New Zealand this Thursday. Veronica

Malaysia Day 16 Sept, 2011 Band Rehearsal

YEAR 2010 ‘ The World Is Your Classroom. The Classroom Is Your World’

Traditional ‘ Lion Dance Welcome’ to welcome invited guests to the school. ‘ SELAMAT DATANG’ ‘ WELCOME TO SMJK POI LAM!’

School Canteen ‘Roti Canai’ seller flipping a pancake to make ‘roti canai’ .

13 MAY, 2011 Australian Educators watching live and online in Melbourne via Skype Video-conferencing.

Feedback from Veronica
Thanks Anne for giving us the opportunity to be part of your presentation. I could see right after the performance how motivated our students were. I suppose that’s the reality and impact of having performed in real time to a real audience in another part of the world. And all this despite the fact that they could not see them, the real audience in the hall!

25 – 27 September, 2010 Veronica working in collaboration with Anne

PHOTOS Courtesy of Ipoh Echo http://ipohecho.com.my/v2/2011/11/01/hello-australia-ipoh-is-ready-for-the-next-class/
INNOVATIONS SHOWCASE
CERTIFICATE PRESENTATION
AT SMJK POI LAM
MALAYSIA
ON 6 OCTOBER, 2011.

http://ipohecho.com.my/v2/2011/11/01/hello-australia-ipoh-is-ready-for-the-next-class

emails
Skype
wikispace
YouTube
Google docs
Blackboard Collaborate
Collaborize Classroom

bandwidth and internet access
different school years/terms
different holiday periods/festivals
exam periods
Accents
Shyness of students
Cultural differences

Anne and Veronica (and Yewyankoon) are passionate about teaching and learning on a global scale
Both are ‘wired’ and have similar interests
English is spoken/taught at both schools
Regular communication
Experienced with videoconferencing and technology
Similar time zones
Work ethic – willing to overcome any barriers and issues
Both risk takers etc
Established a trusting relationship
Collaborate as a team

Learning beyond borders
Global awareness
- cultural awareness and
- language awareness
Global competencies
Fostering goodwill and better
understanding
Friendship knows no boundaries
Celebrating diversity and promoting
peace

Sharing a common school curriculum via project-based learning.
Expanding the idea of learning beyond borders to include all levels of schools and society.
Taking learning into local and global communities
Organising programmes and workshops to reach out to more schools locally and globally about the benefits of working with technology and others.
Possibility of implementing twinning school plan between schools for better working relationship and addressing the issue of equity in education ( rural vs. urban, developed vs. developing, etc. )
Use teachable moments and possibilities wherever and whenever possible.

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