[Icvv] New Season for International Classroom Virtual Visit Project

[djrosen@comcast.net]

Dear Colleague,

The International Classroom Virtual Visit project will begin again this 
September and October, linking classrooms across the world to enable students to meet each other virtually, share information about their cultures, their classrooms, and their communities, and to build world understanding. Classes can include English as a Second or Other Language, Adult Basic Education,  elementary or secondary education, or family literacy.  Students can be from age seven to adult.

This year we hope classes will continue to share student-to-student questions
and answers, and to choose and discuss a film which each class agrees to watch.  We also hope that  some classes will be interested in making a community virtual visit Web site to share with their partner class.

What is a community virtual vsiit?  
 
This is where a small group of students, camera and clipboard in hand, and with questions prepared in advance, visit a community institution, agency, employer or service to learn more about what the organization does.  The group then takes this information and makes a Virtual Visit Web site so that other students locally and across the world can learn about this community institution, too.  In this case we hope that students will chose a local institution which will be of 
interest locally, to their partnering class, and to others around the world.  
This could be an historical site, a tourist attraction, a manufacturer or farm
which employs environmentally friendly practices, a visual or performing arts or 
cultural center, a newspaper or television station....or.....  whatever students
and teachers choose together. They should be places of interest to the students, of course.

For examples of virtual visits made by adults and teenagers in Eastern 
Massachusetts and Southern California, take a look at:

      http://alri.org/visits/vv.html
 
If you would like to participate in this year's project, sign up on the I C V V 
e-list  by going to:

     http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/icvv

If you are already on the I.C.V.V. e-list, send an e-mail to:

       icvv at lists.literacytent.org 

indicating your interest.  Be sure to describe your class, when it starts, and 
what age group or nationality, if any, you would prefer to partner with.  

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net
 
Susan Gaer
sgaer at yahoo.com






























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David
David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net