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When I heard about that project from Professor Viviani, I became very excited. I really liked the idea of that kind of common work on human rights, and I was curious how does a project like that work in the reality.

So, I feel very lucky for the opportunity to be part of it. I got to know a lot of useful technological things like working on Padlet and Edmodo which I have never used before. I am grateful for our colleges that they helped us how to use these sites.  I think I will use them later too, and I will share the information about these websites with my environment as well.

Besides of the technical part, it was truly exciting to work with the students of SUNY Oneonta. I really liked that we all shared little information about ourselves; I enjoyed reading these posts and watching the pictures and videos of home towns.

I guess working together was not that difficult as I first expected. We used several ways of communication (Facebook, Padlet, Edmodo, WhatsUp), and we always informed each other about the progress we have made.

I liked also the Skype-meetings, although sometimes the connection made us some difficulties. It was nice to see the other part of our group, and discuss the project “face-to-face”.

I am impressed how creative the girls were in their work. I think they prepared very interesting lessons for the kids about the chosen human rights. It was interesting to look at this topic from a different – not a legal – point of view. I am happy that they had good experiences with the children at the school and I hope they keep going to teach kids about human rights!

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Our GOOGLE DOCUMENT with All the information

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A sample of the Suitcase Story

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A sample of our Students Map

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http://www.choices.edu/resources/twtn/documents/choices-twtn-refugees-key-terms.pdf

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Despite the bad connection!

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Having the opportunity to work with students who are not only from another school but from another country was an unique and invaluable learning experience.  As business law majors, our partners at the University of Siena in Italy were able to assist us with business law perspective of our topic and in turn we were able to assist them on the education side and how to teach this subject to students such as our fifth graders. Technology is a tremendous resource to utilize in the classroom and this project was a great example of it's usefulness. We utilized Skype, Edmodo, Padlet and many other applications and websites to communicate and collaborate with our partners. I would definitely enjoy implementing an international project with my students one day because it was truly an incredible endeavor.

Even though we were in two different countries and two different time zones, we all worked together cooperatively to create a lesson that the students really enjoyed. It was evident the students were very engaged and interested in the material we were presenting and teaching. We could not have done such an comprehensive and amazing job without the assistance of our partners at the University of Siena. Overall I am very pleased to have had an opportunity to participate in such an experience.

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This is our data analysis graph on the pre- and post-assessment data

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This is our data analysis graph on the pre- and post-assessment data

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I have personally never had an experience like this before and I feel I have learned so much, not only from my Oneonta colleagues, but also the University of Siena students as well. It was really great to widen our horizons as students and collaborate with individuals in a different country. Even though it was difficult to communicate at times, we still had an opportunity to share ideas and collaborate together. What made the communication difficulties easier was that we had many options to keep in contact with the Siena students such as Facebook messenger, Padlet, Edmodo and even Skype. What I found the most intriguing part of this was being able to Skype with people across the world aside from talking through Facebook. I have never experienced that before and it was great to see how our time zones are different, yet we still made this project successful.

Our goal was to create a lesson educating students about Refugees and Migration. The interesting part of this project was gathering information and sharing it among each other through our Padlet. The University of Siena students found amazing information for us to use, which we were then able to alter to teach and share with the elementary students. Technology played a crucial role with this project, because without it we would have not been able to create such a strong lesson and have the students walk away with the knowledge regarding Migration and Refugees. Overall, this experience has allowed me to collaborate with others better than I could have ever imagined because we were given the privilege to work with amazing students from the University of Siena.

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I really enjoyed working as a collaborative group with the University of Siena students. I feel that I learned how to collaborate well with someone from another country through video chatting through Skype and Facebook messenger. Although the connection was not that great, we still had the chance to work together and get to know each other through Edmodo and Padlet. Technology is a great way to communicate with others, even if they are in a different country. I found this project especially interesting when we had the chance to all view pictures and videos of countries I have never been to on Edmodo when we all had to post about ourselves. I spent time watching the videos others posted and found it very beautiful to see how much is out there and it has inspired me to want to travel to all of these places one day to witness the beauty in person.
Technology also helped us co-collaborate to create a lesson plan that the students all enjoyed. We had a goal to create a lesson on the topic of Migration and Refugees, and we all worked hard to find information and put it into our lesson. We all worked efficiently to make a lesson that would engage the students, as well as, inform them on the topic. It was very interesting to teach this lesson because most of the students did not know what a refugee even was. It was our job to teach them all about the lives of refugees through real stories and mapping activities. Overall, the students really enjoyed the lesson.

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Evaluation Criteria for Pre and Post Assessments

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We had so much fun video chatting with each other!

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Lesson 1:
Pre-Assessment: Questioning
Post-Assessment: Completing a graphic organizer pulling information from the refugee stories each student read.

Lesson 2:
Pre-Assessment: Questioning
Post- Assessment: Mapping out the journeys
Post- Assessment: Creating the suitcase story

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Lesson plans (the ones we taught to the Milford students)

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Lesson plans (the ones we taught to the Milford students)

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Lesson 1:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iZa1dKZPEimE8-a8F1WmEKyr9RC-RUw8rMK5fX-Ub08/edit
Lesson 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EKR_bKfZ_utZ5mF8pQHYCgR-6SnbEIS9h0EiczOlEG8/edit?usp=sharing

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Our shared Google document with the narratives

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Our shared Google document with the narratives

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PnR9aiLT8hPYNGpY-IQ14DbPL4KWILcCYrtcFtHNpDA/edit?usp=sharing

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1. One strategy we could use is to do is think-pair-share to go over the stories and help the students share ideas and learn more.

2. Another strategy we could do is more guided questioning throughout the lesson to assess knowledge and reteach what the students don’t know.

3. One other strategy is to use predicting. We could have the students predict what will happen to these refugees after hearing the vocabulary.

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Giorigia Altavilla- Brindisi, ItalyKrisztina Dudás- Hungary, BudapestParviz Imanov- AzerbaijanNargiz Mammadova- Siena, Italy

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Madison and Amanda teaching the fifth-grade students about the key vocabulary terms

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Madison and Amanda teaching the fifth-grade students about the key vocabulary terms

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Brooke and Lindsay teaching the fifth-grade students about Refugees

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Brooke and Lindsay teaching the fifth-grade students about Refugees

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Our project was about the topic of migration and refugees. We wanted our fifth-grade students to understand this topic since it is going on all over the world today. We discuss key terms, actual stories of refugees, and relate the stories to the student's lives. We also have the student use real maps to map out their refugee's journey. The students were able to witness how far some of the families had to travel in order to arrive somewhere that would be safe for their family. the students reflected on how they may feel if they had to flee their country and find a new place to live and go to school by writing their own suitcase story.

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Lindsay Pelinger- Westchester, NYMadison Laspisa- Orange County, NYBrooke Foltmann- Long Island, NYAmanda Girvan- Orange County, NY