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Agenda

 * **8:00** || **Welcome**


 * Global Awareness Quiz**


 * 7 Billion - Food for Thought**

media type="vimeo" key="10333367" height="360" width="640" ||  || Brainstorm: What are the skills and understandings that can be gained through global connections?
 * Global & Cultural Understanding - Opening Video** || More info on Skype Around the World:
 * **8:30** || ===**Why Make Global Connections?**===

**21st Century Skills**
|| 21st Century Skills Brochure ||  ||
 * **9:00** || ===Small Group Discussion===


 * How do we encourage global and cultural understanding in our classrooms? How can we do better?**


 * Do we teach our kids in a systematic way how to conduct lives of purpose and service?**

**How can we expose our students to a greater "diversity of perspectives, viewpoints, and life experiences"?**

**What is the role of technology in bringing diversity and intercultural awareness into the curriculum?**


 * Each group respond to 4 questions on your wiki page
 * Share with whole group || * Group 1
 * Group 2
 * Group 3
 * Group 4
 * Group 5

||||  || [|Searchable Standards] ||   ||   || Today's Meet Wikis Padlet
 * **9:45** || ===Individual Work===
 * Search your standards (or content area of your choice) for the identified skills and understandings*. Add references to wiki page.
 * In which standard do you find opportunities for global connections and/or service learning projects (if not explicitly stated)?
 * Share highlights with whole group || * Reading Writing Communicating
 * Mathematics
 * Science
 * Social Studies
 * Music
 * World Languages
 * Health
 * Dance
 * Drama and Theater
 * Physical Education
 * Visual Arts
 * ISTE NETS for Students
 * ISTE Table
 * **10:30** || ===Tools to collaborate globally and "glocally":===

Blogs
 * Quadblogging

media type="youtube" key="DgZ3X0e67Tc" height="315" width="420" || Our Today's Meet Wiki Example - Kristin Lubich, Mountain Ridge Our Padlet Quadblogging - Sign up here ||  || p4w3ii Skype - Additional Resources ||  || media type="custom" key="26255584" || * Mystery Skype
 * **11:30** || **Lunch** ||  ||   ||
 * **12:30** || More tools to collaborate globally and "glocally"
 * Edmodo
 * Skype || Our Edmodo Collaboration Space- Join with code
 * **1:00** || Skype with:
 * Toni Olivieri-Barton, Woodmen Roberts Elementary
 * Have your questions ready!

Livebinder on Skype in the Classroom ||  || Start building your lesson/unit plan
 * **1:30** || Time to explore resources



Global Connection Planning in Google Docs || **More Project Examples**
 * "Framing a Skype Learning Experience", by Silvia Tolisano
 * Brian Crosby's High Hopes Project
 * The Journey North video
 * The Journey North Website
 * Karl Fisch: Skype Interview with author Cory Doctorow
 * EF Tours - Student Projects ||  ||
 * **3:15** || Share your lesson ideas ||  ||   ||
 * **3:45**
 * 4:00** || Closing Video- Global Student Leadership Summit with EF Tours || My pictures from China ||  ||