| Description: | 1. Ours is a new class at Bay Port High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A. called Global Viewpoints. Our main goal is to get our students to think in more global terms. To accomplish this we will be: a. Reading newspapers around the globe at least once a week. b. Researching things that might cause culture shock in our students if they were to travel to various locations. c. Learn about hurdles in communication between different cultures. d. Learn how things like religion, language, politics, geography and history influence how a culture develops. e. Learn as much as we can about as many other cultures as we can. 3. To help us accomplish the above we hope to communicate at least four times during each of our semesters with students from other parts of the world. (1st semester runs September 1,2010 – January 15,2011 and second semester runs January 16, 2011 – June 7, 2011) 4. Topics we would like to cover are: a. Holidays, traditions, and festivals b. Current Events c. History and Geography d. Cultural norms, religion and politics. Time Commitment: a. We would like either a live video feed or a recorded video exchange eight times from September, 2010 to June 2011. We are also very open to communicating via the internet in other ways in between. b. Each of our class periods are 45 minutes long. We currently have about 140 total students signed up to take the class. There will be four sections during the first semester (September – January) and two sections second semester (January- June). (Section times are not yet determined but our school day runs from 7:30AM – 2:30PM Central Standard Time. c. Our classes meet daily – Monday- Friday each week – except for one Wednesday or Thursday per month. d. Students on both ends would do some preparation work about their area/country/culture or researching current events before the communication would begin. Scheduling requirements: a. We can be quite flexible as to when we can collaborate. b. Once we know with whom we are going to collaborate we can decide which topic/topics we will work on before our next meeting. Technology requirements: a. We will have access to a webcam and monitors for live or recorded video conferences. We also have a portable video conferencing unit. However, we are more than open to using other forms of internet communication that suits the needs of the collaborating schools. b. We have computer labs we can schedule so each student has a computer. However, it also would work to use one computer for the classroom if the collaborating school wishes to do it that way. Communication: a. We would love to do at least some of the communication real time if others are in the same time zones. However, we also wish to communicate with people in other parts of the world that would make real time communication impossible. |
| Dates: | (1st semester runs September 1,2010 – January 15,2011 and second semester runs January 16, 2011 – J |
| Sign up method: | Email: keitschr@hssd.k12.wi.us |
| Grades: | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Subjects: | Career Education, Fine Arts, Language Arts/English, Performing Arts, Science (Life), Social Studies/History, Technology/Information Science, World Language |
| Outcomes: | a. Reading newspapers around the globe at least once a week. b. Researching things that might cause culture shock in our students if they were to travel to various locations. c. Learn about hurdles in communication between different cultures. d. Learn how things like religion, language, politics, geography and history influence how a culture develops. e. Learn as much as we can about as many other cultures as we can. 3. To help us accomplish the above we hope to communicate at least four times during each of our semesters with students from other parts of the world. |
| Preparation Time Frame: | This summer to prepare for next schol year |
| Methods and Activities: | a. Reading newspapers around the globe at least once a week. b. Researching things that might cause culture shock in our students if they were to travel to various locations. c. Learn about hurdles in communication between different cultures. d. Learn how things like religion, language, politics, geography and history influence how a culture develops. e. Learn as much as we can about as many other cultures as we can. 3. To help us accomplish the above we hope to communicate at least four times during each of our semesters with students from other parts of the world. |
| Responsibilities: | We are open to topics listed above or your ideas. We want our students to think in more global terms and understand more about our global society |
| Agenda: | To be determined by cooperation between sites |
Keith Schroeder
keitschr@hssd.k12.wi.us
BAY PORT HIGH
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