Making Global Connections

1. Let’s Go Global!
Making Connections
Online Collaborative Learning Projects

2. We need globally-minded educators
Skills and Competency-building
Models and inspiration
Why Go Global?

3. Global Projects begin.....

4. ...with Globally-Minded
Educators

5. Where to begin?
Making connections outside of ourselves

6. “When you shake another’s hand, that is
the time you truly feel your own.”
- Martin Buber

7. At 59 million, teachers are the largest
professionally-trained group in the world
100 million children do not go
to school, 66% - girls
850 million illiterate adults
HIV-AIDS infections, domestic
violence, the sex trade,
military gangs are dominated
by the undereducated
…and the key to social and economic development

8. Getting Connected
Skills Built
Relevance
Engagement
Cool Tools
Award-winning examples from ordinary
teachers
Project Opportunities and Portals

9. What did this globally-minded student have
to say?
From a Neveh Channah student after receiving peer review from a student from LCC:
quot;Thank you for taking the time to read my paper. I was
touched by your warm words and the gentle criticism.Yes,
some of the spelling should be edited and I didn't want to
burden the reader with too many details and information....
I would love to host you here in Jerusalem and to join you
personally on a walking tour through the streets of
Nachlaot.quot;

10. Getting (and Keeping)
Globally Connected
iGoogle - RSS feeds
Skype
Webcasting
Podcasts
Blogging
Twitter

11. Skills Built
Multiple Literacies: digital,
cultural, media
Cross-cultural
communication
Critical thinking
Synthesis and summary
Info literacy, research,
validation, authentication of
facts
Negotiation and
collaboration

12. Whereas previous generations value loyalty, seniority,
security and authority, the NetGen’s norms reflect a desire
for creativity, social connectivity, fun, freedom, speed, and
diversity in their workplaces.
(Tapscott)

13. Cool Tools & Online
Social Spaces
Wikis
Skype - Webcasting - Podcasting
Blogs
Google Docs
Content-Learning Management Systems
Personal Learning Environments
Full descriptions

14. Award-winning Global Projects
• GVCVirtual Classroom Web Design(2007 Silver Award
Global
Team 06 Wikispace -
Contest)
• From Jerusalem to Montréal - (
ISTE SigTEL )
2007 Silver Award
• Flat Classroom Project - (2007 Gold Award ISTE SigTEL)
• Technospud Projects (2006 Global Schoolnet Award)

15. Karen Guth - teacher at Neveh Channah School in Etzion
Bloc, Israel:
quot;I would say that this became a project that engaged the
minds, skills, and hearts of our students. It turned the English
Bagrut project into an international research, writing,
thinking, and teaching opportunity.quot;

16. quot;From all of the work that we have done with other
students, I have learned how to look over other people's
work and let them edit my own.”

17. Other Portals
• Global Virtual Classroom
• Global SchoolNet
• iEARN
• Taking IT Global
• Teachers Without Borders

18. takingitglobal.org

19. Books of Influence
The World is Flat - 3rd ed. (Thomas Friedman)
Wikinomics - (Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams)
A Whole New Mind (Daniel Pink)
Knowing Knowledge (George Siemens)
Three Cups of Tea - (By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)

20. Global Projects begin.....
...with Globally-Minded
Educators
Sharon Peters
sharonpeters@gmail.com
mtl-peters.net/blog