Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6JJ59701373; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:05:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:05:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5197AA38-BA1B-11D7-8D41-00039381D39E@theworld.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "David J. Rosen" <DJRosen@theworld.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2956] Re: International Virtual Visits and DL X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 3286 Lines: 80 Hello Jay, The International Classroom Virtual Visit Web pages [ http://brooklynesl.swsites.net ] that you, your students and your partners in South Africa have made are terrific. They are an excellent example of project-based learning which involves collaboration and learning at a distance. The project stimulated a lot of writing, much of it beyond students' introductions to exploration of their cultural and political questions. I very much like the discussion around the film, Serafina, and think that film discussion is an idea to promote in this coming year's International Classroom Virtual Visit project -- having students in different countries -- if they can -- view the same film (or video) and then discuss it from their different perspectives. For those who are interested in project-based distance learning I recommend Eunice Askov's chapter on Australian Distance learning in the recent NCSALL Publication on adult education DL, _Expanding Access to Adult Literacy with Online Distance Education_ http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu/research/op_askov.pdf For example, at the TAFE (Technical and Further Education) Institute in New South Wales, students use WebCT to do Webquests, just one of many interesting examples Askov describes. Also, the appendix of this publication has an excellent set of descriptions of major DL products. David J. Rosen NIFL-Technology Guest Moderator DJRosen@theworld.com On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Jklokker@aol.com wrote: > Ishrat, David & all-- > I am one of the teachers whose class partcipated in the virtual > classroom > visit project last year. My class is a high-intermediate ESL class of > adults in > Brooklyn; we partnered with a class of South African adults--mostly > Zulu > speakers who are also learning English--who are studying computer > literacy. We > used our sites rather like Bulletin Boards where class writing and > pictures were > posted on a regular basis. Some of the writing related to questions > exchanged by the classes, other to field trips (we went to Ellis > Island & several > members of the class went to a rally in support of public education in > Albany). > We also had both classes view the same movie--"Sarafina," which is > about life > in South Africa during the apartheid era--and share responses. If you > would > like to see a record of our work together, you could visit the > web-site for my > class: http://brooklynesl.swsites.net.\ It is linked to the South > African > class's site, too. > > All in all, the experience was exciting and interesting for all > involved. > The one frustration came when we tried to connect our classes directly > for > chat. I was able to get all of my students signed up for yahoo chat, > but we were > never able to communicate with the South African students because of > technical > difficulties that I still do not totally understand. I would very > much like > to hear from others who have had good or bad experiences using > inter-class > chat. I chose to use yahoo only because that is what I am most > familiar with. > Are there other chat providers, perhaps ones that are more convenient > and more > appropriate for an academic setting? > > Jay > > Jay Klokker > jklokker@aol.com
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