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I am now more aware of the importance of taking actions for earth especially in view of the climate change problem that we are facing in the world today. By working on this project, I have gained a lot of knowledge and understand my role in helping to save Mother Earth, however small my own personal actions may be.
I definitely need to improve on my communication skills in order to express my thoughts and ideas well with others. Besides, I also learned the importance of team work as well as learning how to apply the knowledge that I have gained in this project to my daily life in my effort to save Mother Earth.

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My participation in this project gives me the opportunity to work in a real world situation based on the concept of connecting, collaborating, communicating and creating with others in order to form new discussion and ideas. Besides, I also learned to be cooperative and be considerate of others while working together as a team. Thanks to this project, I managed to learn and improve my communication and decision-making skills Time management is one of the most important skills that I have learned as there were many instances where we have to work setting deadlines for ourselves in order to finish the tasks assigned.

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I learned a lot of things in GVC about the environment. I learned about how energy effects the environment and what would happen to civilization if the ic in south and north pole melts. Also, being in GVC helped me learn a lot about copyright and how to paraphrase. If you plagiarizein College, most universities can kick you out for academic dishonesty. Also if you use copyright information on the website you can get disqualifies. Therefore we spenta lot of time learning how to properly cite. This was a great experience and I would like to join GVC again, but unfortunately will not be able to next year.

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What I have learned while researching is what you should and should not do while you are in our environment. This also helped me learn that I should start conserving and recycling more often while I am at home or just in school. This also helped me learn about copyright because our teacher made sure we knew what copyright was and how to avoid copyright infringement. I now understand the importance of copyright and will make sure to never copy someone else's work while researching, and if I am quoting a source I will also make sure to create a bibliography.

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Teachers of GVC 1315 - http://1315.virtualclassroom.org/

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Teachers of GVC 1315 - http://1315.virtualclassroom.org/

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Learning beyond the classroom helps acquire important life and social skills. It improves communication skills, self-confidence and relationships.

Mrs. Amber Hall (Business Teacher at Littleton High School, Colorado, USA)

Learning beyond the classroom offers a whole host of opportunities you’ll struggle to find within confines of your classroom’s four walls.
Natalia Aksakova (Teacher ,Salakhov's Gymnasia Surgut, Russian Federation)

Working in collaboration with teachers and students is a learning experience for me and my students. I felt really happy to see my students working on this website with enthusiasm and sharing information and working in a team with students of US and Russia .Students also got chance to go beyond their academics and to do some practical work. This type of competition is really useful to empower, enable and connect students of different countries
Mamta Narula (Teacher of Delhi Public School ,Vasant Kunj, India.)

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Dearest Claire and Rudy,

I am really happy we have managed to finish our website. It looks quite nice and collaborative. I'm sure some of the aspects of our work must be unique among the projects taking part.

Collaborating with  you both was a pleasure and our students got to learn so much from this project! Even mistakes -mostl of all the mistakes- have taught them-and us- important lessons. Let's keep the lessons and smile because we are so lucky to have such enlightening, life-enriching experiences as educators and persons.

Claire and Rudy, I want to wish both you and your students a fruitful academic year and of course happy holidays.

Lets keep our fingers crossed for our website and  keep in touch for more  collaboration.

All the best,

Effie

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I have learnt so much making this website, both about I.T. and GMOs.

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I learned how to us iMovie, and understand technology a lot better. I learned about tons of cool programs and shortcuts too. We did Google Earth tours, Scsratch gams, Pixie, iMovie, and learned how to research a lot better.

I learned a lot and think it was really fun.

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It is often said, ‘Individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean.’To build this ocean, students with different skills, from two different countries had united to make what we have today as http://1313.virtualclassroom.org.

We all our thankful for this opportunity which helped us to strengthen our teamwork and understand our friends from Malaysia. Friendship is the tie that is hard to break and we hope this bond to last forever.

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Topic

Similarities

Differences

Funerals

People wear black clothes in many cultures.

Funerals are a sad time for families.

People often serve a meal at a funeral.

Most African cultures do not cremate their dead people.

In African culture women and men have different activities to do. The family will slaughter an animal for the ritual.

Weddings

All people love to take photos.

People dress up.

Weddings are a celebration for families.

People take video at both types of weddings. (USA)

Asian people use henna to decorate their hands.

In African culture the groom pays lobola (bride price) for his wife.

In the Indian culture the bride wears a lot of jewellery.

Some cultures wear white but lots of cultures wear different colours.

In an Xhosa wedding the bride pays 11 cows and goats.  In American weddings brides pay with money.  In both types of weddings, they clap and sing when the bride and groom enter.  (USA)

Music

Different cultures enjoy different kinds of music.

People love music. They can use it to give a message like rapping.

People in South Africa listen to rap music and we do here in the US also.  People clap to the beat of music around the world.  (USA)

People use different rhythms and instruments.

Some music is religious.

There a many different types of music and music is sung in different languages. (USA)

Food and Recipes

People enjoy traditional and food from other cultures like chips and pizza.

Curry is popular in Malaysia and we also eat it in the US. (USA)

Some cultures don’t eat meat. They are vegetarian.

Some people enjoy sea foods.

Holidays and Celebrations

Some holidays are religious.

Humans Rights day in South Africa is similar to Martin Luther King Jr. day because we celebrate our human rights. (USA)

In South Africa many holidays are from the history of the country.

Places

Places to see are similar because they both have beaches.  (USA)

They have different types of animals in South Africa than the US. (USA)

Names

Our names sound very different but have similar meanings. (USA)

African names are about the family and national events - like Nkululeko, meaning Freedom.

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I treasure all the learning moments that I have experienced while working with my team-mates from a school in Ipoh.

My most interesting experience was during my Australian trip where I was given the opportunity to share what my team-mates and I were doing for this project with students from P12 Hawkesdale College. That visit had given me the opportunity to reach out to a wider community in my team’s effort to raise awareness among the public concerning their role in taking actions for earth

.I even taught myself how to create a video using ICT tools like Movie Maker besides learning basic ICT skills like resizing photographs. Through this project, I learned to be a good team player contributing ideas as well as respecting others for their views or ideas.

Most importantly, I now have a better understanding of my role as a student and an individual in society in taking steps to save out Mother Earth, especially so now whereby the problem of climate change will be become more serious by the day if we fail to take actions to save our earth!

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My participation in this project gives me the opportunity to work in a real world situation based on the concept of connecting, collaborating, communicating and creating with others in order to form new discussion and ideas.

Besides, I also learned to be cooperative and be considerate of others while working together as a team. Thanks to this project, I managed to learn and improve my communication and decision-making skills. Time management is one of the most important skills that I have learned as there were many instances where we have to work setting deadlines for ourselves in order to finish the tasks assigned..

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Throughout the duration of this project, I have learned the importance of working as a team in order to complete our project. I learned how to be a good team player by sharing ideas and be open-minded to others’ suggestions in the course of our discussion.

My participation in this project has made me realize the importance of using English as a common language to express our thoughts and ideas as we have to work together with people from other countries. Working on this project, I managed to gain a lot of knowledge and skills which are useful to me in mylife as they help me to grow in my development as a better citizen of the world

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I like this website because it's great for kids and teachers to get to know each other. Also we get to work together and learn social skills. My last and favorite reason I like this is we get to do activities, use cool websites, and communicate with people in different countries. I wish I could do this every year.

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I learned that people in different countries celebrate the same holiday (Eid) as me! I never knew that some people in India celebrate Eid. I really enjoyed learning these fascinating facts about holidays in different cultures.

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I thought this project was a wonderful learning experience for my students. It was very interesting for them to learn about different cultures, customs, and traditions. They were also excited about being able to easily communicate with students that live so far away from them. I would definitely want to participate in other similar global collaboration projects in the future.
Edgewood Elementary School

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Holidays Around The World is a great topic because it is a very important, interesting, and fun way to learn about other people's cultures. It is very interesting to see how people in different countries and cultures celebrate the same holidays very differently or celebrate different holidays that are similar to ones that we celebrate.

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To begin with, we made cordial and warm relations with Russia and USA which added friendly negotiations with them. We gained the knowledge of their culture and religion. While interacting online, we were made aware of the different festivals which were celebrated in their country. Our soft skills got sharpened making us more techno-savy. A lot of research work was done which was not only informative for other country but also enhanced our knowledge about the topic 'Festivals and Celebrations'.
St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School , Janakpuri, New Delhi , India

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I like GVC project very much. It was very interesting to read introductions from students in India and the USA, as if we met them personally. Drawing is my hobby and my favourite part was to draw for the project. I also enjoyed interviewing my teacher.
I like to read about the holidays that we don't have.

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I think GVC is so interesting. I like learning English very much since kindergarten. By joining in GVC, I learn a lot of things and improve my abilities. Dor example, by doing environmental protection all the time, we can live in a clean & safe environment.

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I learned more about doing environmental protection in GVC, and I realize how serious pollutions are! I also knew the reasons of extinct animals nd plants. When I designed the future eco-friendly house, I knew the functions of wind energy and water power. I love GVC.

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Wow what an experience! It made our Biology lessons interesting as we hae Bio diversity and Wildlife as topics. We researched extensively and collected facts. We communicted, collaborated, designed, concluded, analyzed and what not. Quite an enriching experience it was!

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I was amazed to see my skills developing do fast. I made new friends and communicated with them. It was quite a learning experience for me. I enjoyed being part of it and looking forward to participating next year too.

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I am happy because when I read the posts, especially our international friends' ones, I could appreciate their ides and their works and I encouraged to post my own story that my grandmother told me during my Christmas holidays and the photo of the small town where the story takes place.

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I learnt a lot of things chatting with students from others countrys and other cultures,I've understood that the world is very different and it's beautiful to know other traditions.We've met people from America and India.Actually we had already met our Indian partners in a videoconference last year!.It's nice to write thoughts knowing that people on the other side of the world are going to read.My connection with a different country from Italy is only edomodo, so I'm sorry to be finished with this progects.Edomodo platform is organized very well,better than others.I will always have a beautiful memory of it.Thank you.

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My Experience in GVC was a Great one, I have learned so much in one semester working with GVC, and across the World with South Korea.

I have learned how to work with different people, and interact with them. We are working together to make one Successful Web page, in order to Succeed.

This shows us how to Work with Different Countries around the world, and combine our ideas in order to get where we need.

This helps us in the Future, when we enter In the Business world, we will have experience already and not be as behind as others. We need to learn how the Business world works, in order to succeed.

The more interacting we do with different countries, the more experience we will have, and more opportunities, more chance we will get to find a job.

Experience is Good, because you learn what you need to know, for when you’re ready to do the actual Job, and do what you Love doing.

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I’m Marina, a 15-year-old Greek student from Athens, Greece. It’s been a great experience working with the GVC team. It’s thrilling to realise how different and similar life is around the globe! For example in January while we had a mild 19º C winter, it was a soaring 45ºC in Warrandyte, Australia and a freezing -10ºC in snowy Louisville, Colorado! What I most enjoyed was the cooperation between us. We worked together to design the website, find content, take photos and create videos.

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Home Page of Global Virtual Classroom 1314

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Greece Interesting Facts about Greece: 1. Greece has 9000 miles of coastline, making it the 10th longest coastline in the world and has an estimated 2000 islands, with the biggest one being Crete. Furthermore, 80% of Greece is made up of mountains. 2.

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For this website, and virtual classroom, our goals as a group and online community is to not only learn about globalization, but to learn about each other, different cultures and making friends across the globe.  What’s interesting, in fact, is those goals are all involved in globalization.

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