20091224本校國際化課程研討

時間：2009.12.24(週四)12:40~13:30
地點：四樓視聽教室
人員：如簽到簿

討論內容：
一、講師高屏區農改場賴榮茂課長，準備內容豐富的簡報，以豐富的經驗配合相片結合學生的生活,深入淺出的說明，學生發言提問也相當擁躍，部份相片非賴課長提供，因此，使用時他還需先徵求同事的同意才能使用。

二、植物專家演講活動省思，因為植物種類有十種，講師時間分配活動快結束，才講一半的植物，或許安排2小時較恰當。

三、離學期末聚會有12次，主要的進度是，將植物專家演講內容整理成逐字稿(妥由打字行)，將逐字稿中翻英(付費翻譯)，加強小朋友的植物介紹說明(港口茶、芒果)錄製成podcasting。畫植物圖畫及寫心得，對象為所有參加同學(包括演書班四年級同學)，優秀作品發給獎品，及確認ppt內容相片的授權。

四、12/28(一)中午回應伙伴作品心得，錄製作品請至小會議室。12/29(二)中午發畫紙及心得稿及講義。12/30(三)上午預定安排參觀植物，下午完成圖畫及心得。12/31(四)交圖畫紙及心得，評選優良作品頒獎。

GVC- Did you received this?

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Hi GVC Teachers,

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Rick has received our first podcast ~ We did a nice job!!!

Hello Helen,

They did great! Melody, Ben, Jonathan and Peter were wonderful. It is 1:40 am here. I got out of bed for a drink of water and saw the email notification on my computer. I could not wait. I posted the podcast immediately. I had other changes to the site pending so it will take about 15 minutes to upload. But the students are now on the site. I will write a comment in the morning when I load the other wonderful pictures you sent. Your group is doing beautifully. Anne is sending nice things as well. All of our students are on a two-week Christmas holiday right now. They will be back in school on Jan 5. If your kids are in school, though, don't stop sending their work. I will update things just as quickly as I can.
Thanks again and congratulations on producing your first podcast. The format was fine. I had no problems uploading it to the site.

Best wishes to each of you,

Rick

給植物專家的問題

1. 為什麼芒果的果皮是黃色的？
2. 為什麼芒果的果核那麼大？
3. 為什麼纖維那麼粗？
4. 適合重香蕉的氣候？
5. 香蕉的副產品？
6. 香蕉的學名？
7. 甘蔗成熟都被人類吃掉，那它們又如何繁殖下一帶？
8. 甘蔗是不是熱帶水果嗎？
9. 紅甘蔗和一般甘蔗有什麼不同？為什麼紅甘蔗比較甜？
10. 第一個發現檳榔的人是誰？
11. 檳榔可以做成哪些食品？
12. 檳榔除了拿來食用外,還有甚麼用途？
13. 茶放久了會壞嗎?
14. 茶葉不食用，放久了會有甚麼變化?
15. 茶樹除了茶葉還有甚麼地方可以利用?怎麼利用?
16. 黑珍珠為什麼會這麼甜?
17. 黑珍珠在還沒銷售的味道是如何?
18. 黑珍珠有沒有對國外銷售?
19. 咖啡一天如果喝太多會怎樣嗎?
20. 喝咖啡對身體有什麼影響?
21. 世界上有多少種咖啡?
22. 做咖啡一定要加咖牛奶嗎?
23. 咖啡的發源地在哪?
24. 請問咖啡的沖泡有哪些方法?

20091223_Website updates

Hi everyone.

I believe I have uploaded everything you have sent to me. The podcast from Raey Guang is wonderful. The Living Museum pix from John Muir are excellent. I have a good bit from Harrison to get put up yet, but I think we are looking pretty good. I know the site map needs updated but I will probably let that go until I am sure of our pages. Keep sharing your feedback. I need to know your thoughts and ideas.

Merry Christmas,

Rick

Reminder of Judging Criteria

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Dear GVC Participants-

I hope this messages finds everyone well and hopefully most of us are getting a well-deserved break. I just wanted to remind everyone of the judging criteria that we use for the judging for the 2009/2010 contest.

Consistent with the goals of our sponsoring organization - the Give Something Back International Foundation – in 2008 we added a new criterion related to the "Helping Focus" of your websites. The breakdown of the now four criteria is as follows:

- Content (25%): To what degree is the website appealing to a worldwide audience?

- Presentation (25%): How well is the information presented? How well does it use the Web medium?

- NEW in 2008- Helping Focus (20%): To what extent does the website help users share cultural differences and/or understand environmental or social responsibilities and/or helps others and/or learn about key topics or issues?

- Collaboration (30%): How fully did the students participate in the project? How well did they work together to create their website?

As you can see, the Helping Focus criteria is an extension of the Content criteria, explicitly encouraging teams to include content related to advocacy or involvement in the topic of the site.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you for your hard work and participation in the GVC Contest.

Charles Elsey
GVC Program Manager

20091217本校國際化課程研討

時間：2009.12.17(週四)am8:10~10:10
地點：二樓電腦教室
人員：陳嘉斌主任、戴綺老師、林孟萱老師、胡唯毅老師。

討論內容：
一、觀看RICK架設的PODCAST,其中的影片為QUICKTIME格式，需下載外掛程式才能播放，看能不能教會學生下載外掛程式,或試看看itune播放程式。
http://web.me.com/g4husky/GVC0906_Friendship_Blossoms/Our_Podcasts/Our_Podcasts.html

二、這兩天再請學生蒐集植物相關問題，以便12/24能和植物專家探入討論。

三、介紹DREAMWEAVER和FIREWORKS簡易操作功能。

綺_Site Update

Hi friends,

Just wanted you to know our site has been updated. Helen sent some great pics from Raey Guang. Thanks, Helen! Students there are using dreamweaver for some of their work. Those pics have been made into a slideshow and are posted on the movie page. A few have written comments on the podcasts. You can write comments directly to the blog and to the podcasts, so feel free to do so. We have three days of school left before a two-week break. Don;t let our break stop you. I will be here most of the time.

All the best to each of you,

Rick

萱_The recent mail from Principle Theresa

(Theresa wrote) Helen,

I am still working on collecting names.

We have had three snow storms come through, so many distruptions in our usual school schedule.

I am sending out another round of email survey's today so that I can finish collecting names for you!

Theresa


(Helen replied) Dear Theresa,

I'm sorry to hear the bad news. Hope everything is fine there.

You probably will receive a mail package recently. It's about the basic introduction of Pingtung. And along with it is a DVD called Cape NO. 7. It's quite famous half months ago. I'm not sure if you've heard that or not.

Anyway, the story of "Cape No. 7" begins with the extradition of the Japanese aliens. When the Japanese Colonial Period ended, all the Japanese in Taiwan had to be extradited to Japan. It makes the end of an era, leaving not only regrets and hatred, but friendship, affection and love. A teacher was in love with his student at that time. When they could finally be together, they were forced to be seperated
by the ending of the war. The story is derived from the pity of love, and thereby comes an old address from the Japanese Colonial Period.

Hope you enjoy the film. You're very welcome to give us feedbacks after watching this film.

Best Regard,

Helen


(Theresa replied) Dear Helen,

Everything is well here...but because we have missed lots of school, we are behind on our work! The kids are not as bothered by this as the teachers!

I got your package today! How wonderful! I can't wait to watch Cape No 7! How very exciting!

And, your students did a fabulous job on the introduction to Pingtung! These are outstanding, Helen! I am anxious to share these and get photos to send back.

Thank you so much for the package.

Theresa

綺_Website updates

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all of the great materials you sent today. Anne, I put introductory things on the Muir page with hyperlinks to two more pages. I would like to know your thoughts.
Helen, your pictures are in the albums page and best of all, the hard copies you sent arrived today. My kids were so excited. We took a lot of pictures and those are on the site as well.
My kids added a two podcasts and made many more that we will have to edit. Both the blog and the podcasts pages have reply buttons for kids and us to respond. As this grows, we should each respond from time to time.

So please, take a few minutes this weekend and check it out. I'm looking forward to your advice and comments.

Rick

Practice site update

Hi guys, Rick just sent a update news to us.
He mentioned the growth of the practice website and also what teachers and students should do in the following days.
He also mentioned the podcasts, and he added very good videos from him and his students.
I think maybe we can also create videos and make them podcasts!!
Take a look at Rick's letter below.

Pizzicato


Hi everyone.

Our blog is now working on the practice site. We wrote an entry and set up to allow responses. We would like to have many entries from each school. Give your students a topic, have them write a few paragraphs and email it to me. If you have a photo to go with it, please send that as well. Anne and Joy, a few stories about Camp Palomar would be perfect. Pizzicato and Helen, we would love to see stories from your students. Judy, this would be a good venue for our philanthropy activities.

The warehouse page is up, but I renamed it the greenhouse page. It is for student work we are waiting to place. Let's see what grows here. :-)

We added our first student-created link on Harrison's Native Trees and Plants page. The kids were really excited about this. It is about the American Elm tree. The student did a great job on citing his work.

I am also ready for podcasts. Do each of you have the means to create them? They are really simple, especially if you have a Mac. If not, Send me a video of yourself or the student(s) who record it. I can convert most formats, but make your file sizes as small as possible to save space on our site. The same is true for movies you make as well as slide shows. Let me know what formats you are recording in so I can plan accordingly. Students will also be able to post comments to the podcasts. I will try to post one or two tomorrow as an example.

Don't hesitate to create a podcast, write a blog post or respond to those of others. GVC likes to see the teachers sharing with each other and with the students. Everyone on the team needs to show collaboration.

Please let me know weekly what your students are doing so I can post the information in our report on Nicenet.

Thanks,
Rick

GVC Reminders

We just got a letter from the GVC committee.
Take a look at what they said:


Dear GVC Participants:

It has been a great start to the contest this year and I am very excited to see the progress of each team and how excited the students are during this time.

I would like to also take this chance to remind all teams that each week I should receive a progress report from one member of your team. This helps me get a closer look at what your team is doing, where you are planning to go and it will help me provide any assistance that is necessary.

Lastly, each team is also asked to send me a Team Plan. For those of you who have not yet submitted your team plan, please include the website topic, any plans to overcome challenges (such as differing school schedules and language differences), a statement describing how often teachers and teams will be in contact, and a schedule for putting the website together.

Keep working hard and as always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask or send me an email. Thanks for all that you do.


Charles Elsey
GVC Program Manager

GVC- Did you received this?

GVC committees concern if we can get their mails.
We do!
So, just take a look at their mail.

Hi GVC Teachers,

We have heard from some of you that our emails are not getting through your spam filters. Some of you have also told us that you must send us an email and for us to reply to your email in order to get through the spam filter. If this is the case for you, please send us an email so that we can reply to you.

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and
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20091210本校國際化課程研討

時間：2009.12.10(週四)am8:10~10:10
地點：二樓電腦教室
人員：陳明輝主任、戴綺老師、林孟萱老師、胡唯毅老師。

討論：
一、GVC夥伴Anne已收到我們寄去的introduction poster，特別對原住民議題感興趣和關心莫拉客風災的後
續狀況。Nice Job

二、GVC進度報告
學生已蒐集部分植物的資料，並紀錄下來，學生蒐集資料的能力已大有進步。本週五將帶學生拍攝校園植
物，並將相片整理後上傳至GVC夥伴的網站。

三、12/24(四)中午請植物專家到校演講，請學生根據各組負責的植物準備3~5個問題，向專家請教討論。問題可界定在植物與人的聯結上。

四、暫定12/30(三)上午帶學生到校外拍攝植物。學生可與農植物專家面對面討論。

Anne's got our introduction projects!!

Hi eveyone:
I just got a letter from Anne that she's got our introductions!!
She and her students like our projects and she said that they are interested in the aboriginals and really concerns the Morakot typhoon.
Nice job, everyone!!
cool!

pizzicato

20091203本校國際化課程研討

時間：2009.12.3(週四)am8:10~10:10
地點：二樓電腦教室
人員：陳嘉斌主任、戴綺老師、林孟蓉老師、林孟萱老師、胡唯毅老師。

討論：
一、blog中的英文文章，分工改寫成我們的報導，有些內容不適合直接張貼，請分配。

二、影印mind mapping的範例供中午學生上圖書室的同學參考，這是可訓練學生快速記憶的方法及整理活用資料的過程。

三、寄給Georgetown的資料已包裝好，加贈乙片海角七號DVD，裝妥後寄密西根州，以後兩校可以針對影片內容做討論。

四、追踪Georgetown筆友資料的進步。
我們的姊妹校十分喜歡這個idea，Principle Theresa已傳遞此消息給班上老師，由班上老師詢問自願參與此活動的學生。Principle Theresa希望我們除了提供學生的E-mail外，也希望能包含性別這部分，應該是做男女男女的web pal配對。

五、感謝孟蓉師找到農改埸的植物專家，預訂安排在一月初兩次午休授課。

六、GVC的進度報告。
學生已將自我介紹PO上Nice Net，也分配各小組負責的植物種類，並讓學生到圖書館蒐集資料，將每次的討論進度紀錄下來。