Malaysia GVC Team on World Walking Day

GVC Team Malaysia participated in the World Walking Day on 28 October, 2012.This event was organized by Nestle Malaysia in conjunction with their 100 year anniversary celebration globally.With a record high of more than 4,000 participants, this event was definitely a success. As for SMJK Poi Lam Team Malaysia, World Walking Day was a very good way to help promote walking as a healthy form of exercise to help prevent or overcome obesity.And this in turn aptly fits in with the theme of our Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) ‘Teenage Health’ Website Design Project.Our participation in Nestle’s World Walking Day was published in two local Chinese dailies wherebyiEARN Global Virtual Classroom and our two project partner schools i.e. Menchville High School, USA and La Salle, Almeria, Spain werementioned and given much publicity.
Submitted by Teacher Veronica Woo, SMJK Poi Lam Ipoh, Malaysia.

Holocaust Remembrance

The GVC Clubhouse and GlobalDreamers are launching this year's Holocaust Remembrance project with the theme chosen by the UN: “Rescue during the Holocaust: The Courage to Care”; honouring those who risked their own lives to save tens of thousands of Jews, Roma and Sinti and others from near certain death under the Nazi regime during the Second World War in Europe. 

The project is at: http://gvc-clubhouse.wikispaces.com/The+Courage+to+Care
You can add your own page and it will automatically show up in the items on this main page if you add the tag:
care
when creating the page.

On our resources page:http://www.globaldreamers.org/13holocaust/resources.html you can find a link to the movie: Safe Haven - the Warsaw Zoo. It is a short movie and can spark great discussions. Also appropriate for all age levels.

Marsha will also do group sessions talking about her mother, a holocaust survivor. This year we are using Google Hangout to be able to include more than one school at a time and to record so that those who were unable to attend can view it. The first one (held on January 22) can be viewed here: http://gvc-clubhouse.wikispaces.com/InternationalHolocaustRemembrance
There are /were a few technical problems, but we are grateful to the fine group of educators and students who participated and helped us work through the problems.

We hope all of you will join us and most of all we hope all of you will always remember the lessons of the Holocaust and always have the "courage to care" when you see injustice in the world.

Marsha Goren - marsha@gsbi.org
Janet Barnstable - jbarnstable@gsbi.org

Wisdom from students and their teacher

Chris Betcher, an Australian teacher, talks about global collaboration and GVC in his blog post: Taking the Long View.

Well worth the time to view and read.

Registration Closes Soon!

Registration Closes Sept 28

Only two weeks left to register! The GVC web design contest offers a great learning opportunity for teachers and students in elementary and high school (or ages 7-18). There are two divisions - up to grade 7 (age 12) and up to grade 12 (age 18).

Contest Benefits

Why would a teacher and class take on this task?

• Real world experience and audience
• Global collaboration
• Learn design-not everyone is a webmaster
• Build on each person's strengths to create a whole; the group is better together!
• Authentic assessment-rubric provided for guidance

Prizes

In each division, top sites win cash; merit award sites win software fromTech4Learning.

Visit our web-site at: www.virtualclassroom.org and learn more about the prizes offered.

The GVC vision is to empower, enable, and connect students around the world using Internet technology.

The World is Our Classroom