tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31113474699063616012011-10-06T09:49:51.410-04:00Global Virtual Classroom is an free online educational program to promote communication, collaboration and understanding among students around the world.jbarnstablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08121608462094304440noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111347469906361601.post-54135753828252431822011-09-06T17:10:00.002-04:002011-09-06T17:31:40.602-04:00

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Cultural Exchanges with Schools in Canada - article featuring the Italian/Canadian penpal exchange arranged through the GVC Clubhouse. Click here for a PDF presentation of the project.

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HINDUSTAN TIMES a leading Daily in New Delhi, the capital of India, congratulates St. Mark's on it's GVC website contest award. St. Mark's Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, won two silver awards.  In the primary division, their 7th grade partnered with 5th grade from Lincoln School, Oak Park, IL and Riverside School, Czech Republic.  In the secondary division high school aged students from St.

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Patch.com highlights Mann students' gift to Hephzibah and donation of their GVC prize money to the orphanage in Cote d'Ivoire. These students, very dedicated to "lacing up the digital divide" donated their $1000 first prize money to the orphanage for technology in their library. In a similar move, teacher and students of Denmark Empowerment Charter School in Denmark, Wisconsin, USA, donated

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Dallas, Texas, May 2, 2011 – The Give Something Back International Foundation (GSBI) has announced the winners of the 2010/2011 Global Virtual Classroom Contest (GVC) -- a free online collaborative learning project that fosters creativity, cross cultural understanding, helping others and teaches IT and website design skills amongst students working together from around the world. Sponsored by

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Students at Horace Mann elementary school make and sell lanyards to help "lace up the Digital Divide". Read about their entrepreneurial efforts to bring the orphanage into the 21st century.

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Sarasota Sister Cities Association has formed an alliance with Give Something Back International Foundation and the Global Virtual Classroom. Andrew Ezzell, president of GSBI, wrote an article for the Sarasota Sister Cities Newsletter. The page excerpt can be read here. The mission of Sarasota Sister Cities Assn. Inc. (SSCA) is to foster international relationships between Sarasota and cities

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Message from GSBI president and founder, Andrew Ezzell: I wanted to let you know about a program we are sponsoring for the benefit of the children of Haiti that were devastated by the earthquake one year ago this month. The Give Something Back International Foundations, the sponsor of the GVC program, has decided to sponsor the education of 100 poor K-12 grade children from Haiti as well as

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Island Village Middle School has included the Global Virtual Classroom program in its Tuesday/Thursday special opportunities classes. As you read through the page note both the Core Curriculum and the Special Opportunities sections to see how this school organizes student learning.

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On November 19, 2010, Ronda Zelezny-Green and Janet Barnstable presented the Global Virtual Classroom as part of the first online Global Education Conference. Ronda was in Boston, Janet just West of Chicago. Attendees were from Israel, Cote d'Ivoire, England, Missouri and other USA locations. The conference was powered by Elluminate.The session about the Global Virtual Classroom program was

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The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities. Andrew Ezzell, Janet Barnstable, and Ronda Zelezny-Green's

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Tech4Learning has offered software prizes for Schools who have not won a monetary award in the GVC contest but have received an award of Merit. The primary division will receive Pixie and secondary will receive Share. Each school on the merit teams will be given a url to download the software and a license code for it.About the company: Tech4Learning develops desktop and online creativity

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Press release: AT&T Supports 2010/11 Global Virtual Classroom ProgramThe GVC contest registration ends September 30, with team announcements coming out October 1-3. Applications after that will be on a waiting list until able to form an addition team.

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Where in the world will you collaborate this year? It's time! Applications for the Global Virtual Classroom contest end September 24th, that's only 3 weeks left. Teams will be formed by October First. The Clubhouse PEP (people exchanging perspectives) program will also be up and running by October 1.Read additional information and Apply now!If you've already participated before and just now

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I am pleased to announce that Janet Barnstable has been named as the new Director of the Global Virtual Classroom Program. Janet has participated in the GVC programs since its inception in 1996. She recently retired from teaching after 48 years. For the past 18 years she was with Percy Julian Middle School in the Oak Park Illinois School District 97. We look forward to working with Janet and

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The following link is from a blog of a former GVC Teacher from 1999. He is writing about the GVC program and has a great video interview of his Australian students that participated in the GVC Contest.Check it out and learn what it takes to be successful in the GVC Program.http://betch.edublogs.org/2009/11/07/a-decade-of-global-learning/

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<!--StartFragment--> Welcome to our newly designed GVC website!  We hope you will have time to visit the site often and discover the new content, news, tips, and resources! Explore the new Resources section:  we have included many informative, compelling, and free online resources to assist students with research on a broad array of topics.  We have also provided a robust listing of web design

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We would like to welcome Charles Elsey as the new GVC Program Manager starting on August 1.Charles has extensive experience both as a K-12 classroom educator as well as an Instructional Technology Trainer for the Sarasota County, Florida school system. Most recently, he has trained multiple levels of staff on the use of district technology to enhance instruction in the classrooms.He has a Masters

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GVC is pleased to announce a new online registration process for the GVC Contest and GVC Clubhouse. These new online forms are quick and easy to use. Sign up today for either program at:GVC Contest (our website design contest)GVC Clubhouse (our collaborative education programs)Find out more information about these programs on our website at: www.VirtualClassroom.org

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We are in the process of creating and redesigning a new website for the Global Virtual Classroom program to be ready for the next school year. We are receiving help and support for this project from Janet Barnstable and other GVC teachers and supporters.We have also created three new GVC Blogs which will help update students, teachers and supporters of the program. The first is called GVC NEWS &

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