chi-chi earthquake

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7848476025023160058

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

http://video.google.com/videouploadfinished?docid=7651837758272913550&cid=b144af47d0970aa4


Allyson, NYC

For Our World

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-252899157170168364

For Our World - Matthew Stepanek's poem with narration by Bruce Wilson

The Gowanus Canal

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7826568595095610356


Nathan from Brooklyn, NY

Parts of the Violin

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5627230018528717171

Aaron Scott, New York City

Ancient marriage customs-a sedan chair

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7114435763116634364

By Jay from Taipei, Taiwan

Digital Story Telling project (submit by March 26)

Project:
This week we'll use multimedia authoring tool to tell a story. You will need to use multimedia resources including images, sound, video, text, music, animation, and any other tools to communicate with the audience. Your mission is to use multimedia to tell a story to motivate and engage your students .

**You can use any multimedia authoring tools (e.g. Flash, MovieMaker, iMovie). If you don't know how to use any multimedia authoring tools, please use free tool PhotoStory (Download PhotoStory ).

**Suggestion:
1. Find a topic of a story in your field. Research how to integrate global perspective into this story.
2. Collect images for this story. You can use pictures you took or download rolalty free images from the resources we provided.
3. Generate narration for this story.
4. Use multimedia authoring tool (Photostory) to complete the story. You can download sound effects or music and add them to your story.

Photostory Instruction:
1. How to use Photostory to create a digital story movie file
2. How to upload the movie you created to Google server

Sample Digital Stories:

• Digital storytelling examples .

Resources:

• Pictures:
  Microsoft Office Online
  FreePhotos
  Pics4learning
• Sound
  A1 free sound effects (right click on the sound file name and choose "Save target as" to save the file)
  Absolute Sound Effects Archive

Google Earth project

Click this link to see the Google Earth project (zip file). Please upzip it to view the file.

After you view the Google Earth contributed by all participants, discuss the following questions:

• What educational potentials you think Google Earth have in the classroom?
• In what ways were the Google Earth placemarks of online members similar? Different?
• From how many different countries did the people in this community originate?
• What did you learn about your online community from their Google Earth palcemarks?
• How did you feel as you shared your Google Earth placemarks?

Discussion topic 3

How can we understand different cultures and countries and the issues that face them, and develop an understanding of the impact our actions have on them?

Discussion topic 2

What can we do to stimulate curiosity, motivate learning, and thus contribute to the raising of standards of global education?

Discussion topic 1

How do we prepare our students for the future world of work? What skills will they need?

Guess Where We Are?

Enjoy!!
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhktjwr4_5f3j7qv

Guess the City!

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=djbqc6p_5gzsc6m

Guess the city!

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgts8zdf_3hctz7c
It is an interesting city.

Guess the city!

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgtk8kj8_0hfq5c7