Take your classroom outside of the school building walls! This workshop will lead you to online resources and collaboration tools for participation in multiple communities of global educators. Using Web 2.0 and global collaboration practices, connect your students to classrooms from around the world in cultural exchange and ambassadorship. Organizations such as Taking it Global, Journey North, Flat Classrooms, and many others offer exciting opportunities for your students to use 21st C Skills to learn international cooperation and collaboration as well as environmental & social/cultural appreciation. Use school-safe email such as ePal and volunteers from Peacecorps to connect with international pals or join on-going international projects. You may even be ready to learn to create your own international projects and find resources to help you along the way. (Teacher Evaluation Standards II b-Embracing diversity in community & world; III d Incorporation of 21st C learning skills)

1. The Global
Classroom
November 2013
ppt. by Robin D. Seamon

2. When I Become a Teacher
VIDEO: (PASSCODE)
http://futurefriendlyschools.org/values/globalcitizenship/

3. For starters…
Connect with global
partners, teachers, & students:
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Students email
Students exchange letters
Students Skype
Videoconferencing

5. Connect your classroom with a Peace Corps Volunteer serving abroad. Peace
Corps Volunteers in the field exchange
emails, letters, videos, photographs, and telephone calls with classrooms in
every state and the District of Columbia. The Correspondence Match program
matches up Peace Corps Volunteers in the field with American classroom
teachers. The result? A vibrant two-year exchange of
ideas, stories, pictures, and artifacts that helps American students in the
classroom learn about the people, geography, and cultures of the world from
the direct experience of Volunteers living in other countries
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/classroom/correspondence/

8. http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/symbolic/A
bout.html

9. • US & Canadian students send a symbolic monarch
to Mexico as the real monarchs are migrating to
their southern nesting grounds.
• Children from Mexican villages will ‘take care of’
the symbolic butterflies until Spring.
• When the real monarchs return to the US &
Canada, Mexican send symbolic butterflies back
• In the interim, students can learn about the
amazing monarch butterfly & it’s 4 generation
journey as well as cultural exchange with students
from Mexico through the Journey North website.

11. Video conferencing
with TIGed
(Taking It Global)

12. http://encounters.tigweb.org/events/
Some are free, some
have a fee $100

13. The next step…
Join a project with global
partners, teachers, & students:
• Students Investigate- Find resources
• Students Collaborate- Share findings

14. Stove Project
http://futurefriendlyschools.org/values/globalcitizenship/ (5 min) PASSCODE

16. • Find an email partner class
• Join a project to find other ePals
classrooms seeking project
partners
• Find resources & lessons to add
Common Core to your curriculum
• Explore Learning Centers that
allow student communication

17. COMMON CORE
http://www.epals.com/commoncore/

18. http://www.epals.com/

19. http://www.epals.com/

20. ePals Central

21. http://www.epals.com/findproject.php#age_range=0&collaboration=0&commoncore=&country=&du
ration=0&language=0&p=1&project_type=0&region=&search_text=

22. Getting StartedAn Overview:
The First Project
-from ePals

23. http://www.epals.com/projectdetail.php?id=dd46ace1-131f-44cf-b6c7f103a3cc3eee

24. http://www.epals.com/projectdetail.php?id=dd46ace1-131f-44cf-b6c7f103a3cc3eee

25. http://www.epals.com/projectdetail.php?id=dd46ace1-131f-44cf-b6c7f103a3cc3eee

26. http://www.epals.com/projectdetail.php?id=dd46ace1-131f-44cf-b6c7f103a3cc3eee

29. LEARNING CENTERS
http://www.epals.com/learningcenter.php

30. LEARNING CENTERS

31. More
-from ePals

32. GLOBAL CITIZENS
http://en.community.epals.com/epals_cares/d
efault.aspx

33. http://en.community.epals.com/smi
thsonian_on_epals/default.aspx#.Ul
11uPfy_To

34. Extension…
Create & recruit members to a project
with STEM skills and learning.
• Students collaborate using Web 2.0
tools & 21st Century skills to
identify and explore a real-world
problem.

36. http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/

37. Some good ideas…
Existing projects
on TIGed

38. Taking It Global

39. http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/

40. http://dfa.tigweb.org/schools/ind
ex.html Use CHROME
DeforestAction: take ecourses to learn how to participate.

41. Promo video at BOTTOM (PASSCODE)
http://dfa.tigweb.org/schools/?section=ew

42. http://dfa.tigweb.org/schools/?section=ew
Students participate in monitoring the forests of Borneo.
Each student is assigned a parcel of land, and through the use of satellite
imagery, identify and mark changes in land patterns over a period of
time, reporting disturbances, collaborating with neighbors who hold the
land around their hexagon to explore whether or not the disturbance is
related to illegal activity. These changes are shared with relevant local
authorities, who will then investigate any deforestation in that area.
Students share on the Earthwatchers WIKI.

43. http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/project
s/ridetolearn/ (use CHROME)
Welcome to Ride To Learn, an online space
where you can follow the cycling expedition World x Cycle - with students around the
world, meet the explorers, and use our
activities base to support your learning about
the people and places we visit along the way.
The World By Cycle expedition is a bicycle
circumnagivation of the world that explores
the origin stories of everyday things, bringing
Adventure Learning to classroom education!

45. Screencast WEBTOUR (PASSCODE)
http://treadlightly.tigweb.org/foredu
cators/

47. http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/a
yiti/game.html

48. http://futurefriendlyschools.org/values/globalcitizenship/
COST
for
school
Future Friendly Schools engage with
local, regional, and global organizations to
access expertise and contribute to positive
change. Schools sign up to participate as a
Future Friendly school... 1 year to accomplish a
global-connection initiative
Future Friendly Schools engage with local, regional, and
global organizations to access expertise and contribute to
positive change.
Future Friendly Schools integrate global issues and
diverse perspectives into curriculum and pedagogy to
reflect our interconnected world
Future Friendly Schools provide professional learning
opportunities related to global citizenship.
Future Friendly Schools have a culture that promotes and
celebrates global citizenship
Future Friendly Schools connect and collaborate locally
and globally to build intercultural understanding and
teamwork
Challenge
Through the certification process itself, educators at your school will challenge themselves
to develop and showcase teaching practices that align to the values of global
citizenship, student voice, and environmental stewardship, and incorporate the
approaches of immersive ICT use and project-based learning. Your school will receive a
personalized online portfolio page, showcasing highlights of your practices for others to
learn from, share, and comment on. You will also receive a confidential summary of
responses from educators and students to their respective surveys, providing insights into
areas of excellence and improvement.

49. RESOURCES for
Teachers

50. http://principledlearning.org/1/category/Great%20G
lobal%20Videos%20and%20Resources/1.html
Teacher resource blog:
http://kimcofino.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-toconnect-your-students-globally/
http://principledlearning.org/events-recordings.html

51. http://principledlearning.org/events-recordings.html

52. Citations
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9.
seamonscience: http://seamonscience.pbworks.com/w/page/28166703/Teacher%20LINKS
Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/classroom/correspondence/
Journey North: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/symbolic/About.html
TIGed: Global Encounters: http://encounters.tigweb.org/events/
ePals: http://www.epals.com/
ePals Project: http://www.epals.com/project-detail.php?id=dd46ace1-131f-44cf-b6c7-f103a3cc3eee
ePlas Learning Center: http://www.epals.com/learningcenter.php
ePals- Global Citizens: http://en.community.epals.com/epals_cares/default.aspx
ePals- Smithsonian:
http://en.community.epals.com/smithsonian_on_epals/default.aspx#.Ul11uPfy_To
10. Flat Classrooms: http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/
11. TIGed: http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/
12. TIGed- Earthwatchers: http://dfa.tigweb.org/schools/?section=ew
13. TIGed- Ride to Learn: http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/ridetolearn/teach.html
14. TIGed-Tread Lightly: http://treadlightly.tigweb.org/foreducators/
15. Future Friendly Schools: http://futurefriendlyschools.org/values/global-citizenship/
VIDEOS:
1. When I Become a Teacher http://futurefriendlyschools.org/values/global-citizenship/
2. The Stove Project http://futurefriendlyschools.org/values/global-citizenship/
3. TIGed- DeforestACTION 1 http://dfa.tigweb.org/schools/index.html
4. TIGed- DeforestACTION 2 http://dfa.tigweb.org/schools/?section=ew
5. TIGed- Ride to Learn http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/ridetolearn/
6. TIGed- Tread Lightly http://treadlightly.tigweb.org/foreducators/
7. TIGed- Ayti Simultaion Gamehttp://www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/ayiti/game.html