[NIFL-WORKPLACE:602] interesting instructional project....

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Colleagues,

We will soon begin the fourth cycle of our International School and
Classroom Virtual Visit Project. This time it's called the
_Understanding Cultural Differences School Virtual Visit Project_
because adult learners, and young people in elementary and secondary
schools, will not only share with their partner schools pictures and
writing about themselves, their school and their community, but they
will also choose a cultural understanding theme to discuss. The project
is designed for students who would like to collaborate and learn in a
global environment using e-mail and the World Wide Web, and who would
like to discuss strategies for overcoming cultural misunderstanding,
ending cultural conflicts, and/or bringing about world peace.

Here's how it works: your class will be matched with a class in another
part of the country or world. Here's what each class will do:

         * Step 1: You and your students make a Web page of a tour of your
class, school and community. You'll need access to a digital camera (or
a regular camera and scanner) and you, your students, or someone will
need to make and put up Web pages.

         * Step 2: Your class looks at the Web page tour of your partner
class and then your students email the students in your partner class
questions about their community and ideas for overcoming cultural
misunderstanding. Partner class students also e-mail you their questions
about your Web page tour, your class, school, and community, and about
the theme for discussion.

         * Step 3: You answer each others' questions by e-mail, and possibly
continue back and forth with more questions and answers.

         *Step 4: You compile the questions and answers on a Web page and
link these to your original Web page tour. All this generally takes 3 -
5 months.

If it sounds like a project you would like to learn more about and
possibly participate in, sign up on the International Classroom Virtual
Visit electronic list at the bottom of the Web page:

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

We look forward to having you and your students as part of this year's
project.  Also, please feel free to pass this message on to other colleagues.

Susan Gaer
Santa Ana College
sgaer@yahoo.com

David J. Rosen
Adult Literacy Resource Institute
david@alri.org