Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i7V1n7R02914; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:49:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:49:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1dd.2a8615cc.2e65329b@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2813] New Season for the International Classroom Virtual Visit Project X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 2664 Lines: 67 Colleagues, This may be of interest to the teachers and students in your programs. Meta Potts, Moderator 4-EFF list Glen Allen, VA 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 visit? A small group of students, camera and clipboard in hand, and with questions prepared in advance, visits 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 choose 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 would like to look at classroom visit projects from previous years go to: http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/school.htm Scroll down the page to choose an ID and password. That's it. Easy and free. If you are already on the I.C.V.V. e-list, send an e-mail to: icvv@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@comcast.net Susan Gaer sgaer@yahoo.com
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