INCORPORATING TECHNOLOGY TO INFUSE GLOBAL OUTREACH TO THE WORLD LANGUAGE

1. INCORPORATING TECHNOLOGY TO INFUSE GLOBAL OUTREACH TO THE WORLD LANGUAGE AndalleMandjiny

2. What is Global Education? • The Maastricht Global Education Declaration (2002) states: • Global education is education that opens people’s eyes and minds to the realities of the globalised world and awakens them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and Human Rights for all. • Global education is understood to encompass Development Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainability, Education for Peace and Conflict Prevention and Intercultural Education; being the global dimension of Education for Citizenship.

3. Our Focus • As Foreign Language Teachers, we have been the first group to focus our student’s attention to the world around us. • Today with the abundance of technology available to us, it is easier than ever to learn with the world about the world!

4. Are You Up for the Challenge? • Being overwhelmed by the technology is not a solution! • Learn a couple of new things. • Implement them in your class within the framework of your lesson plans. • Evaluate and assess how to make them your own. • Slowly increase the difficulty level of the tools you use.

5. Types of Tools • For the Educator • Online quizzes • Online game makers • Online multi media presentations • Creating movies • Creating varieties of multimedia support. • Smart Board • For the Students - Photo story 3 - Web quests - Interactive games - Incorporating Audio - Windows movie makers • Use of Flip and Digital Cameras

6. What types of tools do you use now? • In your groups discuss the tools that you are currenly using in your classrooms?

7. How do you Rank Yourself? • If you are currently using technology in your lessons, how would you rate yourself? • Did you learn the technology by yourself or did you take classes? • How much time did you have to spend to master the programs? • Today, tools available online are usually easy to master and offer step by step assistance in setting it up.

8. Student Involvement • When a new technology is employed with students, make sure you know how to trouble shoot before attempting the assignment. • Prepare for problems and find the answers as this is more than likely to happen. • Test the assignment with a fairly independent class, to weed out any weaknesses before expanding to all of your other sections.

9. 21st Century Learners • Proficient in a wide variety of topics but still learners in the tools that we would like them to use, some of them essentials they should have learned in their CTE classes. • Include a disciplinary action plan, for contingencies where students are not following your instructions and are in sites that you did not allow.

10. Easy Ways to Implement a Global Education • I earn Websites http://www.iearn.org/ • Epals Websites http://www.epals.com/ • Peace Corps Partnership http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond/ • Collaboration through Wikis http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://pbworks.com/ • Coverdell Worldwise Schools http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/ • World View from UNC-Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu/world/

11. iEARN Website A way to learn about the World with the World

12. What are some benefits? • Find projects already going on. • Find projects that will fit the curriculum you are teaching. • Find them across the world in countries speaking your target languages. • Interact directly with other educators who share your ideas and will provide a different perspective to your lessons. • Students have authentic interactions via the use of technology. • Increased interest in your projects will results in increased enrollment in your classes.

13. iEarn France • http://www.iearn.org/ http://www.iearn.org/

14. Epals http://www.epals.com/

15. Epals – More than penpals • ePals Wanted • Teachers from around the globe are looking for classrooms to partner with on collaborative projects! Read and respond to other teachers' posts and post your own! • This is one website where you want to enroll students and establish strict guidelines as to your expectations for communications. • This website offers you a forum and lesson plans. 

16. Peace Corps Partnership http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond/

17. Global Education Starts Here! • By corresponding with a Peace Corps Volunteer, students will gain keen insight about what it is like to live and work in the country to which they are sending their letters. • My experience with Erin Jurkovich from Suriname.

18. Coverdell Worldwise Schools http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/

19. What does Coverdell Offer You: • Sample Lesson plans for various topics: • http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/lesson.cfm?lpid=2913&sid=8 • Use them in combination with your lesson plans to introduce cultures around the world.

20. World View • www.unc.edu/world • World View’s Website: look here for information about programs and resources • www.global.nytimes.com • NYTimes Global Edition • www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages • Front pages from the newspapers in 49 different countries • www.scholar.google.com • Google Scholar: search engine for scholarly literature • www.southerncenter.org/educational_materials.html • Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS) educational materials • www.globalization101.com • A guide to globalization • www.culturosity.com • Cross cultural solutions • www.culturosity.com/Pop_Culturosity_Guides.htm • Foreign film and photography guides • https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html • CIA World Fact Book • www.6billionothers.org • Hear and watch testimonials from people around the world • www.lib.unc.edu/reference/instruction/inst210.html • Global resources from UNC-Chapel Hill Library • www.pbs.org/now/politics/globaldebate.html • Understanding Globalization: a PBS site with a good introduction, pro and con quotations table, • and links to globalization sites • www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html • Library of Congress: electronic resources from all over the world • www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy • NC in the Global Economy

21. World View • Maps and Imaging: • earthobservatory.nasa.gov • NASA’s Earth Observatory • www.earth.google.com • Google Earth • sketchUp.google.com • Google SketchUp: create, modify, and share 3D models • www.worldmapper.org • “The world as you’ve never seen it before”

22. World View • Resources by Region: • www.unc.edu/world/africa.shtml • Africa • www.unc.edu/world/asia.shtml • Asia • www.unc.edu/world/EU_resources.shtml • Europe • www.unc.edu/world/latin_am_resources.shtml • Latin America • www.unc.edu/world/Middle_East_resources.shtml • Middle East • www.unc.edu/world/eurasian_resources.shtml • Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern Europe • Collaboration Tools: • www.voicethread.com • Collaborative, multimedia slide show that allows people to leave comments in 4 ways - using • voice, text, audio file, or video • www.elluminate.com • Provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions • www.pbwiki.com/edu.wiki • Create a Website that can be edited and easily collaborate with others • www.skype.com • Synchronous audio/visual conversations with other Skype users via the Web • www.youtube.com • Watch and share original videos worldwide • Also see: www.teachertube.com and www.youtube.com/eutube • edublogs.org • Blogs for educators • secondlife.com/showcase/education • Free online virtual world imagined and created by its participants • Web Referencing Tools: • www.xe.com • Currency converter • www.bbc.co.uk/languages • BBC Languages • www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html • Metric Converter • Miscellaneous: • http://www.wordle.net • Web application for creating “word clouds” • bubbl.us • Web application that lets you brainstorm online

23. Technology to Use • Flip Cameras • Digital Cameras • Skype • Audacity • Any activity that was low tech can be turned into a technology rich activity by using the above. • Photo Story 3 • Windows Movie Maker • Screencast-o-matic • Jing • Power Points • Online Language Sites • http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/default.htm • Quia.com • Edhelper.com