snowblog 2010 project

SNOWBLOG CT NETCITY 2010

Administrators: Gal Springman, Dr. Smirnova.Facilitators: Tatyana Zubenko, Nina Lyulkun Participants: Students from USA, Ukraine, Tel Aviv, China

Whiteboard & Tools (permission required)Chat box (no permission required)Microphone & Webcam (permission required)

WiZiQ Platform

Microphone: Please make sure your microphone is ready for audio interaction but mute your mic after you finish talking by clicking on the mic icon.Chat box: Feel free to ask questions and add comments, but refrain from conducting personal chats.Netiquette: Make sure you use polite language and avoid capital letters as they could be misunderstood as shouting.

WiZiQ interaction Guidelines

Agenda for today:

1. Introductions: WHO We are and WHY we are here2. Snowblog's History - Gal Springman3. Supervisors and the participants4. Expectations and Outcomes5. Web 2.0 tools to employ

Snowblog CT Netcity2010

Our Project's Home

A little bit of History…

Qu YingShanghai

China, Mainland

Language Connections Key Milestones Language Connections Key Milestones

1999-2000 founding Language Connections Non profit Org. 2003 Presenting the multicultural dialog model and its implementation at UNESCO (United Nations Educations Science Culture Organization) international conference on intercultural education, Finland2003 -2004 Implementations of several pilot projects partially sponsored by the Belgium government.2005 participating as consultants in EU three- year INTCULTNET Project, connecting university students from five European countries. Dialog model international workshop in Tel Aviv for teachers from the Czech Republic, Finland and Serbia.

Gal Springmam, All Rights Reserved, 2009

Snowblog a web-based

intercultural gated

social community of learners By

Language Connections Coordinated by Gal Springman

2004 – 2007 participating in Apple sponsored international educational online project with 17 classes from all over the world. (going on for the fourth year) 2006 - 2007 Online presentation of the dialog model to Kita City board of education (Japan). Beginning a series of online meetings and video conferences with students and teachers from Japan, China, Peru, USA, Germany, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. Dialog model workshop in Assykkala Finland with Finnish, Czech, Serbian, Israeli (both Jewish and Arab) and Palestinian teachers. Two high-school classes from Finland join Language Connections project.

October 2007 - 2008 Gal Springman participates as an invited speaker in MIT LINC Conference in Amman, on the Middle East e-learning initiative, together with Palestinian students participating in Language Connections’ project. Launching Language Connections’ Jerusalem CTnetCity project, connecting Muslim high school students from Jabel Mukkaber with Jewish high school students from West Jerusalem. A school from Kita City , Japan, joins Language Connections activities,A school from Hong Kong and a class of university students from the Academy in China, both join Language Connections’ Snowblog program.


Social reporting: popular sports in the spirit ofthe Olympics

Finland, Japan, China, Israel


Social reporting:Urban / rural landscapes

Finland, Ramallah, Israel, Gaza


Social reporting: living by the waterIsrael, Gaza, Finland


Different activities in SnowBlogface to face meetingsChina, Finland, Israel, Ramallah


A social meeting of learners

Undergraduate students of Mykolayiv State University named after Sukhomlinskyi

Facilitator: Tatyana Zubenko, Ph.DAssociate Professor of Education

Dr. Smirnova and the Students of Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY

Web 2.0 Tools for Snowblog Project

• Gmail + google Applications Gmail + google Applications for Education http://sites.google.com/site/sdusdgoo/http://sites.google.com/site/sdusdgoo/

• Image capturing, re-sizing tools: PixresizerPixresizer http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htmhttp://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

• Flickr,Flickr, Picasa(Google), FastStone CaptureFastStone Capture http://www.faststone.org/FSCapturehttp://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

• Vimeo, Blip.tv, Youtube, • Digital story tools: Voicethread, Photostory 3• From speech to movie XtranormalXtranormal

Good Luck to us all!Good Luck to us all!

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