Afghanistan Award Ceremony

Students and teachers in Afghanistan at Tajorbawi Girls High School celebrate their first place award in this year's Global Virtual Classroom web contest. Officials from the town were there also, acknowledging the work done by the school. Along with St Marks, Janikpuri, they created the site "21st Century Skills".

Food for all

Schools in Mississippi, Pennsylvania and India created the website "Food for All" a merit award winner in the GVC contest.  View the site here: https://sites.google.com/a/gsbi.org/gvc1601/

Students in India receive their award certificates

Love is all around you

Students from Rome, working with Russia and India created an award winning site about love.
http://www.liceogiuliocesare.it/pagina.asp?pagina=virtualclassroom

View the site here: https://sites.google.com/a/gsbi.org/gvc1613/

Partners from India proudly display their certificates.

Student leader Tanmay received a special award.

District 97 Schools Earn Top Awards in Global Virtual Classroom Contest

May 3, 2017

Students from Mann and Lincoln elementary schools recently competed in the Global Virtual Classroom Contest, which is a free online collaborative learning project that fosters creativity, cross cultural understanding and helping others. It also teaches IT and Web site design skills to students from around the world.

The student teams who participated in this project had their entries judged on a number of criteria, including content, presentation, collaboration and a helping focus. The helping focus encourages students to demonstrate achievement of a helpful objective (i.e., personal, social and/or environmental responsibility) or support for a worthy cause.

The district's student teams received three awards in the primary school category this year, including:

• Mann Elementary School’s fourth graders won second prize for the site The Beauty and Sorrow of Food. The class partnered on the project with students from Taiwan. The teacher leaders for the team were Linda Chrystall and Ann LaHucik.
   
• Lincoln Elementary School’s fifth graders won third prize for the site Animal Olympics. The class partnered on the project with students from India and the Czech Republic. The teacher leader for the team was Matt Kuntz.
   
• Mann Elementary School’s fifth graders won a merit award for academic excellence for the site Bon Appetit. The class partnered on the project with students from India. The teacher leader for the team was Jim Hayward.

Since 2005, District 97 has won 10 grand prize awards, seven second place awards, seven third place awards and 19 special merit awards in the competition.

Mini GVC Contest 2 Starts Soon

World Collaboration - Program for K-12 Schools
Mini Web Contest Period 2 Feb. 1 - April 15

The Mini GVC contest is open for approximately 10 weeks. Teacher guided K-12 classes and youth groups around the world that have access to the Internet and know or are willing to learn Google Sites are eligible. Groups are assigned by GVC, and may consist of anywhere from 2-4 schools.

Here is a link to the registration form. http://goo.gl/forms/UraQ0g8WRAGrdnkc2

Tools Used by All
Edmodo for communication within teams.
Google Sites for publishing final work.

Awards
Schools who complete their work in the time provided can receive a Gold Star, Silver Star, or Bronze Star Award, emailed as printable certificates. Multiple teams may receive the same award.

See awards from Mini GVC- http://minigvc.wikispaces.com/Winners

Image: Made by Shivansh Singh
https://sites.google.com/a/gsbi.org/gvcm107/