Your Name and Title: Anne Mirtschin
School or Organization Name: HLW Skypers - Hawkesdale P12 College
Co-Presenter Name(s): Katherine Zablatnik, Steve Sherman, Jen Maley, 譚智玲 (Lin-lin Tan), Sebastian Panakal, SoJeong Kim, Effie Kryktasis, Maria del Carmen Colussa and more
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Australia, Switzerland, Greece, USA, South Africa,Taiwan, India, South Korea, Sth America and more
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): All who are interested in successful global connections and collaboration
Short Session Description: A session presented by successful global educators from across the world, sharing their successes, experiences, classroom stories and the resultant challenges of synchronous and asynchronous global education.
Full Session Description:
It is five years since a global skype group of educators was formed by a Swiss teacher named Katherine Zablatnik. It was named "HLW (Hello Little World) Skypers". Over this time its international membership has increased in both number, global breadth and variety of collaboration. This session presented by a number of educators from across the world and will share some of the following:-
-Why global education is important.
-Why this group has been successful
-highlights over the last 5 years
-the global learning outcomes that have eventuated
- organic nature of learning with examples of the conversations that might take place on the 24 hour skype chat
-the tools used for learning across cultures and countries,
-classroom stories of global connections and collaboration
-tips and hints for successful global education and more.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: https://sites.google.com/site/skypershello/
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