[Icvv] Welcome (back) and some important information for all

[David Rosen]

ICVV Colleagues,

Usually messages on this list are short, but today's is a little 
longer, and rich with information.

Welcome back, Hans.  I believe that you and your students have 
participated in the International Classroom Virtual Visit project every 
year since the beginning in 1999, and you -- and they -- have done some 
terrific work.

For those of you who want to see Hans Seidensticker's and Heather 
Leal's International Classroom Virtual Visits from past years, you'll 
find them linked below.

Hans'  Adult Classes (some of them, at least)

	http://www.hseidensticker.de/591ab.htm

	http://www.hseidensticker.de/591c.htm

	http://www.hseidensticker.de/LO.htm

	http://www.hseidensticker.de/521ab.htm

	http://www.hseidensticker.de/485a.htm

	http://www.hseidensticker.de/gh.htm

	Note Hans' students' wonderful photo tour of their town and area, 
Bielefeld,
          Germany.

Hans is looking for partner classes for this year. (See his message 
below)

Heather's 6th and 7th grade Students

	http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~hwleal/virtualschool.htm

	Note Heather's clever solution for how to have schoolchildren's faces 
on the Web 	without their actual faces being there.  Putting children's 
faces on the Web, in the 	United States, at least, is against some 
(,maybe all) schools' policy, for reasons of
           safety.

All the projects are listed, by year (since Spring of 1999) at:

	http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/school.htm

Susan Gaer and I encourage partnering sites to choose a film or video 
which students at both sites can view, and then discuss by email. This 
is based on the successful partnership in 2002-2003 between Jay 
Klokker's class at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn 
[ http://brooklynesl.swsites.net./ ] and the Hilton College Vula 
Program in South Africa [ http://www.hiltoncollege.com/vula/index.htm] 
. Both classes saw the movie, Serafina, about Apartheid in South 
Africa, and they discussed it. See [ 
http://brooklynesl.swsites.net./about.html]

Let's hear from everyone.  Describe where you are, your class(es) -- 
kind and level of class, age of students, what you and your students 
hope to find through this project, etc.  Then when you see a posting 
from someone whose class might be a good match with yours, e-mail that 
person.  When you have a match, post back to the list to let us all 
know.

If you have questions, this is the place.  Post to the list and Susan 
and I -- and others -- may be able to help.  All questions are welcome. 
  Technical, content, process, and others.  Each year there are new 
ideas, new ways of doing this.  The creativity comes from you and your 
students.


All the best,

David

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net

Hans Seidensticker wrote:

> From: HSeidensticker at t-online.de (Hans-Dieter Seidensticker)
> Date: Thu Sep 9, 2004  1:52:27  AM US/Eastern
> To: David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Icvv] Welcome (back)
>
> Hello David!
> We Germans here in Bielefeld are also pleased to be invited so nicely  
> and would certainly like to be matched again. We would be interested 
> to be partnered with an Australian class as we are doing a course on 
> Australia this fall. All the best to everybody on the list and let us 
> have nice exchanges.
> Hans-Dieter Seidensticker, Bielefeld, Germany