[NIFL-POVRACELIT:1416] International Classroom Virtual Visit Project

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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 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