Merging Social Media

With Education

By Cindy Greco and Vivian Davis

Educators around the world are using YouTube to reach students. From Edutopia, to Khan Academy, to the YouTube movement for education, learners everywhere can learn virtually anything.

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Edutopia

Khan Academy

South Seneca, NY SchoolJanuary 2011, students at South Seneca Middle School began corresponding with students in Slovakia and Poland, sharing their experiences of life in central New York and learning about life in the partner countries.

Slovakia

Students conducted distance learning using Skype, wikipages, email, videos & websites, which are vital skills for 21st century literacy.

This project gave the students at South Seneca an

innovative way to improve their writing,

comprehension and technological skills. Materials

and test results from this program have been

presented at several teacher conferences in New York

State.

This e-twinning project

was funded with a grant

from the European

Union and designed to

foster learning

experiences that will

inspire new generations

to understand and

appreciate European

diversity & culture.

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‘We make use of state of the art-video

conferencing technology, allowing both Yale

and Cornell students to participate in the same

class taught by me, while being in different

locations.

We can all hear and see each other and have

different ways of classes in the future, and

collaborate in group study, much like in any

“normal” language classroom.’

Chrissy Hosea, Lecter in Dutch, Yale Univ.

Visiting Lecturer in Dutch, Cornell Univ.

In Fall 2011, Cornell & Yale universities launched a pilot program for teaching Dutch courses by video conferencing via Skype from Yale University.

A CORNELL - YALECOLLABORATION

BASED ON THE SUCCESS OF THE DUTCH DISTANCE

LEARNING PROGRAM,

CORNELL HAS JOINED WITH COLUMBIA

UNIVERSITY TO ADD ROMANIAN TO

THEIR COURSE LIST.

THE CORNELL-YALE COLLABORATION ADDED MODERN GREEK TO THE ROSTER AND

EXPANDED WITH EVEN MORE DUTCH

CLASSES.

http://education.skype.com/ A community to help teachers connect their students to the world

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To Sum Things Up…

G l o b a l C l a s s ro o m