VE 2023 - Global Education

VE 2023 - Global Education

About the VE

On the day of the meeting

* The program & schedule

* The teams & the task leaders

* The lecturers

The Partner Teachers Name Institution Contact Hanne Juel Solomon Tel Aviv university, Tel Aviv, Israel hannejue@tauex.tau.ac.il

* The partners

The Partner Classes

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

VE theme and project description

Part 1 - Find a video

On this page you will find all the instructions and links to the preparation part of the exchange

Getting ready for Kick-Off

The teams

Part 2 - What is Virtual Exchange (VE)?

Reljanovic Glimäng & Sauro (in press)

Ibrahim (2021)

Navigating the site

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Together with your teammates from your university, find a short Youtube video (max 2 minutes) that – from your knowledge at the moment – represents the city (Baltimore and Tel Aviv) where your partners study (this could be news, a tourist ad, a music video, a trailer from a TV series set in the city, etc.). Prepare to share your video in the first meeting and discuss responses in your team. (If a team member cannot make it to the kick-off, share the videos in your own channels and discuss during the week).

* The program & schedule

On this page you will find all the links that you might need on the day of the meeting

On the day of the meeting

What do you know about life in Baltimore, and in Tel Aviv? Take this opportunity to find out more. So when you are left with a bit more time interact with your new friends. Think about what you would like to know about their lives; as students, as people living in a different part of the world. Click on the question mark to see possible questions that you might be interested in getting answers to.

Have you scheduled meetings for your team?

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

5.11.23

* The program & schedule

Food? Streetlife? Studentlife? Hobbies? Film? Music? … How do they spend their free time? What would they suggest you’d do if you came to visit their country? Where do people hike? What are your own norms and expectations? Are these norms shared by all members of the group? Are there any that surprise you?

Passcode: 866231

On this page you will find all the links that you might need for Task 1.

Task 1 - Getting to Know Each Other

Have you scheduled meetings for your team?

This week you will make contact with your partners and set up an instant communication channel for your VE team (WhatsApp, Messenger).

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task description

Before you get started, listen to/read the two texts assigned here on the right as background to the theme Global competence and inclusive English teaching. In this individual task you will get to know your group members through brief (recorded) educational stories related to English as a school subject. Your stories and different cultural examples will provide a starting point for discussing global competence and inclusion as part of teaching English, which will be a running thread in the Virtual Exchange project. The task includes two parts: complete part 1 before November 12; complete part 2 before November 19.

Kumaravadivelu (2013) English language teacher education in a diverse environment

Global Competence (2018)

The assigned articles:

Part 1 Nov 6-12

Part 2 Nov 13-19

The task:

* The program & schedule

On this page you will find all the links that you might need for Task 2.

Task 2 - Global competence and inclusion in the Classroom - Comparing/Collecting

Have you scheduled meetings for your team?

This week you will make contact with your partners and set up an instant communication channel for your VE team (WhatsApp, Messenger).

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task description

Team leaders: Students from UMBC

Student working groups develop a fact file about an issue or challenge related to diversity and inclusion that was identified in their video introductions in task 1

Global Competence (2018)

The article for the task:

Part 1

Part 2

The task:

The template

* The program & schedule

On this page you will find all the links that you might need for Task 3.

Task 3 - presenting ideas in a multimodal presentation

Have you scheduled meetings for your team?

This week you will make contact with your partners and set up an instant communication channel for your VE team (WhatsApp, Messenger).

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task description

Team leaders: Students from TAU

In this final task (which has 3 parts - be sure to read all the way to page 3) you will build upon the work you did for task 2 to plan and create a multimodal video, (max 7 minutes) using multimodal tools (see the examples above), focusing on your fact file. Your aim is to clearly identify an issue of Global competence and inclusive English for the English/TESOL classroom and present possible ways of managing or dealing with the issue that would be helpful for other English/TESOL teachers and student teachers. In preparation, please view the two example multimodal presentations from prior groups of students.

Link to assignments from earlier years for inspiration

Part 1

Part 3

The task:

Part 2

Planning and Brainstorming Dates: December 4 - 10

Creating and Publishing your Multimodal PresentationDates: December 11 - 17

Viewing and CommentingDates: December 18-20

* The program & schedule

On this page you will find the schedule for the weeks of the VE. Use it when you plan your meetings.

Schedule

The teams

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Each task will be led by students from a different institution Consider what it means to be a task leader. A task leader is not the boss or someone who does all the work. A task leader is a coordinator and facilitator who does the following: liaises with the instructor when the team has questions about the task; initiates discussions of task instructions and checks so that all team members agree on how best to approach and carry out the activities together; takes the role as mediator, driving team-discussions onward by for example posing questions, suggesting ideas and making sure that everyone is included; organizes, runs and records your video conferences or delegates someone in your team to do this; makes sure that team activities are visible on the task Padlets.