Your Name and Title:
Andrew Malstedt and David Harris
School or Organization Name:
Global Lives Project
Co-Presenter Name(s):
Andrew Malstedt and David Harris
Area of the World from Which You Will Present:
San Francisco, California
Language in Which You Will Present:
English
Target Audience(s):
Teachers
Short Session Description (one line):
Join us for a discussion of the Global Lives Project and how educators K-12 and beyond can utilize this video library of human life experience to explore peoples, cultures and nations outside of students’ immediate classrooms and communities.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
The Global Lives Project has created a crowd-sourced library of human experience. These videos following 10 lives of 10 different individuals in 10 different countries for 24 hours around the world provides an unedited and unnarrated experience of life and the acts of daily living outside of our own.
A school day for Edith of Malawi could compliment a comparative creative writing curriculum for secondary school students. A whole day of running a restaurant in rural China would bring a fun resource into an economics curriculum. A night of performance and hanging with friends in Sau Paolo, Brazil would translate well into an international arts and music lesson.
Andrew Malstedt and David Harris
School or Organization Name:
Global Lives Project
Co-Presenter Name(s):
Andrew Malstedt and David Harris
Area of the World from Which You Will Present:
San Francisco, California
Language in Which You Will Present:
English
Target Audience(s):
Teachers
Short Session Description (one line):
Join us for a discussion of the Global Lives Project and how educators K-12 and beyond can utilize this video library of human life experience to explore peoples, cultures and nations outside of students’ immediate classrooms and communities.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
The Global Lives Project has created a crowd-sourced library of human experience. These videos following 10 lives of 10 different individuals in 10 different countries for 24 hours around the world provides an unedited and unnarrated experience of life and the acts of daily living outside of our own.
A school day for Edith of Malawi could compliment a comparative creative writing curriculum for secondary school students. A whole day of running a restaurant in rural China would bring a fun resource into an economics curriculum. A night of performance and hanging with friends in Sau Paolo, Brazil would translate well into an international arts and music lesson.
These videos, translated and subtitled, are freely available to teachers through the Creative Commons Licenses and can be used to explore a variety of topics in the classroom including an interpersonal study of demographics, global economics, and social studies. With the aid of real-time video and a wide diversity of footage, the students are able to engage with these studies in a contemporary and technologically exciting way.
The Global Lives Project is currently developing an Educational Program and invites teachers around the world to join the effort. Teachers in Jakarta, Indonesia and Grymes, Virginia USA are already integrating the human library of experience into their classrooms and we are excited to offer this tool to teachers of the Global Education Conference. Join us for the discussion on how your class can be a part of this exciting new resource for globally minded citizens and students alike.
The Global Lives Project is currently developing an Educational Program and invites teachers around the world to join the effort. Teachers in Jakarta, Indonesia and Grymes, Virginia USA are already integrating the human library of experience into their classrooms and we are excited to offer this tool to teachers of the Global Education Conference. Join us for the discussion on how your class can be a part of this exciting new resource for globally minded citizens and students alike.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:
http://globallives.org/en/
http://globallives.org/en/
Replies
Hi Meghan
Thank you for your session proposal for the 2011 Global Education Conference! We're pleased to let you know that your submission has been accepted! Your proposal is now in the "accepted proposals" list on the website. Here are some important tasks for you.
1. As a speaker you actually schedule your own session time at http://globaledcon11.youcanbook.me. This allows you to see the available slots and to pick something that works within your time zone, work schedule, or other constraints. We encourage you to do this quickly, as proposals are being reviewed in the order in which they were submitted, so your priority for selecting a session time depends on you scheduling right away. When you do select you time, be sure that the scheduling system has the correct time zone for you!
To schedule your session, you should open http://www.globaleducationconference.com to your presentation proposal (you can do a search on your name to find it, or click on "My Page" in the top menu and then click on the "discussion" link on the left side to find it). Open the session booking link from above in another tab. You will find it easiest to copy the information from one to the other rather than re-type it. Once completed, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking.
2. As a speaker, you need to make sure you are a member of the conference "speakers group" on the network website. Most of our announcements to speakers will be sent to the members of this group, so as not to email all site members. Join the group (or check to make sure you're already a member) at http://globaleducation.ning.com/group/2011-global-education-confere....
3. Speakers are responsible for knowing how to use Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We will have a cadre of volunteers on hand during the conference to help with any issues, but you need to go through the moderator training for Collaborate if you are not a seasoned user. There are a variety of training resources at the Collaborate website, and we are also holding six live one-hour training sessions (don't worry, attending any one will be be enough--we just wanted you to have several time choices for attending. All the relevant information is at http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/training. Please look at this page soon.
Again, we are so delighted to have you participating in the 2011 Global Education Conference. Thank you!
Best,
Anne Mirtschin Organising Committee, The 2011 Global Education Conference
mirtschin@gmail.com