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Printable flyers here to print and distribute.
India Times features DLDAV Model School's involvement in awareness of women's rights.
Cultural Exchanges with Schools in Canada - article featuring the Italian/Canadian penpal exchange arranged through the GVC Clubhouse.
Aga Khan School recognized by Ismailimail for their third place win.
HINDUSTAN TIMES a leading Daily in New Delhi, the capital of India, congratulates St. Mark's on it's award.
Patch.com highlights Mann students' gift to Hephzibah and donation of their GVC prize money to the orphanage in Cote d'Ivoire.
Point Option School noted for their Exceptional Creativitity.
Andrew Ezzell, president of GSBI, wrote an article for the Sarasota Sister Cities Newsletter. The page excerpt can be read here.
Oak Park District 97 schools earn top awards in GVC contest - Oak Leaves newspaper article.
John Muir school news through the San Diego Unified School District talks about their GVC work and awards.
Students at Horace Mann elementary school make and sell lanyards to help "lace up the Digital Divide". Read about their entrepreneurial efforts to bring the orphanage into the 21st century.
Island Village Middle School has included the Global Virtual Classroom program in its Tuesday/Thursday special opportunities classes. As you read through the page note both the Core Curriculum and the Special Opportunities sections to see how this school organizes student learning.
On November 19, 2010, Ronda Zelezny-Green and Janet Barnstable presented the Global Virtual Classroom as part of the first online Global Education Conference. Ronda was in Boston, Janet just West of Chicago. Attendees were from Israel, Cote d'Ivoire, England, Missouri and other USA locations. The conference was powered by Elluminate.
The session about the Global Virtual Classroom program was recorded and is available for playback at anytime using this link: http://tinyurl.com/GVCsession. You will be asked to accept a plugin from Elluminate, the program used for presenting and recording. Session is approximately 45 minutes.
Charles Esley (Florida), Marsha Goren (Israel), and Janet Barnstable (Illinois) were interviewed by Kathleen Shryock who wrote and article about GVC for the publication Leadership for Student Activities. Download a PDF of the article here. [558k]
The magazine issued by Gdyński Ośrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli (GODN) - the in-service training centre of the educators of Gdynia, Poland, features two articles on GVC. Issue 2 [4.7MB pdf] has article by Aleksandra Blalteberg with comments by Janet Barnstable. Issue 3 (coming soon) continues with more about the contest. The editor-in-chief of the magazine and director of the centre is Mrs Elzbieta Wojcik.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/06/04/stories/2009060461380200.htm from The Hindu: Online edition of India's National Newspaper Jun 04, 2009
Iraqi professor and GVC participant, travels to USA to promote understanding and cultural exchange.
http://betch.edublogs.org/2009/11/07/a-decade-of-global-learning/ from a blog of a former GVC Teacher from 1999. He is writing about the GVC program and has a great video interview of his students who participated in the GVC Contest.
Safe Haven Joins the Global Virtual Classroom - International Press Release from Blue Heron International Pictures.
Report of GVC Awards at St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi, India.
