This is a modified session from a previous presentation for the 2010 Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association.

1. Connect Your Students to the Globe!

2. Hawkesdale P12 College,
SW Victoria, Australia

4. Ally’s blog

5. I introduced myself first and they proceeded on asking me
questions, a lot of questions. I did my best to answer all of
them like what sports we play, how cold it is here, what we
do on weekends, what our schools are like, what are homes
are like, and many other things. We had a lot of fun talking
with each other and I LOVE their accent. We ended up
talking for an hour. I told them that I wanted to eventually
go to Australia and they couldn’t figure out why. They also
asked me about what it was like in university and why it was
fun. I told them, and asked them if they were planning on
going to university and they all said no which was very
surprising to me. They said the nearest university was too
far away..3 hours. I found this kind of funny because i know
alot of people who live farther then that away from home. I
live 2 1/2 hours away, but I guess their culture and stuff is
just different. Anyways I found this experience so much fun
and very interesting, it is so much different there than here,
if you ever get the chance to do something like this, i
believe you should definately do it.

6. Connect, Collaborate and
Create
Malaysia

7. A true global classroom – a student
from Hawkesdale, two from China, two
from Bangkok and one from USA are
taught by an optician about the eye,
using discoverE virtual classroom
software.

8. Why?
• Project based learning
• Share cultures
• Prepare for life, work and play in a flat world
• Learn digital citizenship skills
• Learnt netiquette, online responsible learning, plaguarism
• Digital literacy
• Increase knowledge of geography and history
• Enable self directed learning
• Skills for life long learning
• Awareness of global issues
• Parental involvement

9. The global workforce!

10. Pedagogy
• Years 9/10 students work at 6.75 of Community
Engagement dimension – investigate responses to
issues such as global warming, world poverty etc,
examine the extent to which the international
community is cohesive and able to manage conflict.
• From the Global Citizenship strategy, “students are
equipped with skills, knowledge and attitudes needed
to prosper and thrive in a world characterised by global
mobility and cultural, political and economic
connectivity.”
• “Learning connects strongly with communities and
practise beyond the classroom.” (PoLTS)

11. How do we help children to come to
terms with globalisation?
• Involve and immerse them in collaborative,
interactive global projects.
• Establish personal learning networks
• Work with other countries in real time
• Compile codes of conduct
• Follow appropriate netiquette
• Understand how to work in asynchronous
time

12. asynchronous connections
• Blogging.
• Wikis
• Nings
• Google applications
• Online Mailing lists
• Voicethreads

13. Synchronous connections
• Liveblogging http://www,coveritlive.com
• Videoconferencing www.skype.com
• virtual classroom http://www.elluminate.com and DiscoverE
• Back channels eg http://www.chatzy.com and http://www.tinychat.com
• http://www.twitter.com
• Google applications
• Bridgit conferencing software which comes with Interactive White Boards
• www.flickr.com an online image sharing site
• Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim
• Etherpad
• Edmodo

14. From my classroom.......

15. Boston

16. Australia to Boston

17. Bianca in China

18. Lost in Malaysia

19. Halloween

20. Developing a social conscience

21. Volunteers in Haiti – earthquake
aftermath

22. Mt Rouse

23. Look at the beautiful sunset over my backyard. We had a
severe drought this year. Our cows lost a lot of weight
while the drought was on. My dad was awfully busy
trying to keep water and hay up to them. Since the
downpour of rain, they are in much better condition.
We have a mountain in our backyard called Mt Buggery.
It is really a volcanic tumulus and has 2 trees - a
dead pine tree and a young pine tree on top.
Flick, year 8 blog post

24. Comments!!!
Your “backyard” is beautiful! Thank you for
sharing it with the world.
Lori, California
Thank you so much for sharing your
backyard. When we all share like this, it
makes our world just a little smaller and
better.
She Wolf

25. From me to you!
• Projects by Jen:- http://www.jenuinetech.com/

26. ms1001tales
• Read Kim Cofino’s blog post
• MS1001tales:
http://ms1001tales2009.wikispaces.com/

27. See Maddison’s page

28. Students as experts:- Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA so
students could develop Australian travel posters

29. Cross culture blogging!
Examples of Blog Post Prompts
• Use of technology
• Free topics
• Global warming
• Favorite musician?
• Illegal Immigration
• Popular local tourist destinations etc

30. • There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia
and each day many are sent home. illegal
immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some
people who come here dont have a visa at all.
Illegal immigrants come from all over the world.
what happens to all of the illegal immigrants
once they have been found out is they get
relocated back to the country they came from.

31. Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm
• That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are
really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then
people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that
come to Australia from?
Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm
• How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are
relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I
really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants
doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does
have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like
Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any
countries near it or any land bridges.
Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm
• how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur
us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over
here. which part of austrailia do they go to?

32. Moon Project
http://worldmoonproject.org/

33. Skype (www.skype.com)
VOiP
Live chat
Audio
conferencing
Videoconferencing
Bookmark and save chats
Can record conferencing-
eg powergrammo

34. Skype and slideshare to teach students from Canada about
• Australia and Culture
• School
• Community
• farm
Student from Canada asks questionHow it all looked back in Canada

35. Should Australia go to India
to play sport?
• Foresee and sense cultural
misunderstanding

38. Link with India

39. American School of Bombay

40. Boston Connections
See my blog post

41. Moving on...... at school
Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and
Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what
they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they
are nervous about and what they share in common.

42. discoverE – virtual classroom software

43. Wall wisher – see link

44. Skype and Videoconfernemcing

45. West Java Earthquake
September 8th
• 7.3 richter scale
• 64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630
people displaced in nine districts in West Java
and one in Central Java.
• Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged
in 12 districts in West Java and one district in
Central Java.

46. Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12
hours after the occurrrence using skype

47. Will Richardson quote on
Learning is Now!
• What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these
days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your
students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and
geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing,
all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were
thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that
it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the
ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge
and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is
the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using
these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for
sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.

48. Australian food – the meat pie with sauce
Sharing Cultures

49. Traditional Costumes
Students from Malaysia show national costumes

50. Street dancing from Malaysia
Students from Malaysia ‘wow’ us with street dancing rendition

51. Sharing objects that are
symbolic of our countries

52. A linkup with a school in Russia

53. Grades 3 to 7 listen to students from Singapore talk
about racial harmony
Racial Harmony Day with Singapore

54. International Friendship Day

55. Some useful sites
• Tips on videoconferencing
• Around the world in 80 schools
• Wiki for skype in schools
• Theedublogger

56. Elluminate
Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

57. Say hello

58. Favourite Foods

59. Technology used at home

60. What do you look for in a friend?

61. What skills are important to learn?

62. What symbol best describes your
country?
The emu

63. Across the World – Russian linkups
http://acrosstheworld.wikispaces.com

64. Request from Ekaterina
• The US Embassy and one of our local libraries
are organising a competition of students
projects under the general title "Russia nad
the USA - Facing Each Other" . One of the
projects category is Climate Change Issue. The
school kids will have to present any kind of
investigation on the Global Warming topic.

65. …..Thus, they will get their own statistics and as
the result they will be able to compare the
average opinion in our local area concerning
Climate Change Issue with the average
opinion from other parts of the world. To be
honest with you, an average Russian person is
not well-informed on this topic. My students
will have to make this conclusion and they will
try to suggest their own ideas how they can
change the situation at least at the level of our
school.

66. A tweet on twitter asked my online contacts to
fill in the survey for the Russian students from
Soglasie school in Western Russia. Many
completed the survey for them – both
teachers and students.

67. Further Twitter requests
• paulbogush
• @murcha @taniatorikova @sujokat 7th grade
class in school looking for exs of current music
being listened to by 12 yr olds in Aus-Any
names?

68. Year 12 Mandarin LOTE student
(distance education) talks to Malaysian
student in Chinese using skype

69. Flat Classroom Projects
• Flat classroom projects
• Digiteen
• Netgened projects
• Eracism

70. http://netgened.wikispaces.com

71. Let’s walk a ning
http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/

72. School’s in at 9pm!

73. Keynote speaker – uni lecturer from Doha,
Qatar, speaks to students at Qatar Academy
and Hawkesdale P12 College about citizenship
journalism.

74. Listening to the citizenship journalism address

75. Awards Ceremony

76. This is a flatclassroom!

77. Challenges
• Time management
• Language
• Time zone
• Cultural differences and expectations
• Infrastructure
• Leadership
• Exam and testing periods
• Extracurricula activites
• Firewalls/filters

78. Tips/advice to ensure that these
projects run smoothly?
• Start with small, short projects
• Communication is of prime importance
• Commitment and dedication are essential
• Get to know the other staff prior to and throughout the project, to
gain confidence in each other
• Do not be frightened to ask for help or ask questions of any nature.
• Be prepared to work hard (as hard as you may have ever worked in
your life) and take risks
• Work your blogs to the fullest giving step by step instructions to
classes where possible for each lesson to clarify the tasks that need
to be done in your own mind and also for student reference.
• Give out check list sheets to ensure that students remain on track
• Enjoy the journey into the best that 21st
century learning can give.

79. What do I need to succeed?
• Patience
• Commitment and dedication
• Determination to succeed
• Risk taking
• Willingness to work hard
• Preparedness to work in a team
• Enthausiasm
• Sense of humour
• Organisational skills
• A passion for learning

80. Networking

81. Networking sites
• http://learncentral.org
• http://www.classroom20.com
• http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/
• digitalcitizenship.ning.com/
• Digital citizenship
• School Beyond the walls
• Edna for Australian educationalists
• Global projects
• http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com
• use a search engine as there are many

82. Where to find global partners?
• Learn Central
• Skype partners
• Around the world in 80 schools
• ePals
• The Edublogger
• Twitter
And search online for more

83. Where to find global projects?
•classroom2.0
•Flat classroom projects
•Edna for Australian educationalists
•Global projects
•Flat Classroom Projects
•Jenuinetech Projects
•Global Education Collaboration
•Blogging Challenge
• use a search engine as there are many

84. Where to learn more
• Tech Talk Tuesdays (3:45-4:45pm, Melbourne Aus
time): goto http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com and
look for Events listed on the right hand side or goto
http://techtalktuesdays.globalteacher.org.au
• eT@lking Wed 8-9pm (Melbourne Aus time): part of
the Australia series in http://learncentral.org or read
my blog at http://murcha.wordpress.com
• classroom20LIVE
• Look for twitter updates