One World, Many Tales

Please print and distribute this call for Participants to anyone interested.

Respond by: July 18, 2001

This project will use multimedia and video to share student life in the US with Spanish-speaking students in Mexico, a South American location, or Spain.
The American students, who are Spanish language students, will produce videos in Spanish,
and send it via streaming web video to a classroom in a Spanish speaking country.
It is hopeful that the Spanish speaking students will reciprocate.
This project will pilot in Summer of 2001, and will extend into Fall of 2001.

Start Date:  July 1, 2001
Summer Completion Date:  July 31, 2001*
*  The actual posted completion date is November 21.

Subject Areas:  Foreign Language, Technology, Fine Arts, Humanities

Grade Level:  6-12

Participants:  2-4 classrooms

Project Leader:  Kim Fitzer  fitzus@kwom.com

The project will begin with the production of one-four minute video that will share
 special aspects of student life in Hinsdale, Illinois.  Students will relate their leisure activities,
 their school subjects, special trips they have taken, friends and other pertinent information.
The students, who were enrolled Advanced Placement Spanish last year, will communicate entirely in Spanish.
This video will be compressed for Web transmission, and will be posted on the Project Web Site .
It will also be sent to classrooms willing to participate in this project.
The objective is for there to be a reciprocal project sent back to the US.
Once the project is complete, all videos will be posted on the Project Website.
 Participants will be invited to submit new concepts for collaboration.
While this project's registration close date is July 30, it is anticipated that it will continue through Fall of 2001.

Timeline:
July 10:  Project begins.  Call for Participants.
July 18:  Website posted (I will forward URL to everyone)
July 26:  First pilot video posted on Project Website.
July 31:  E-mail response to first video.
September 7:  Response to video posted in Discussion Board (will set up on project Website).  Meet and Greet participants.
September 28:  Participants' videos sent to US.
October 5:  Participants respond to videos in Discussion Board.  New project discussed.
October 12:  Discussion Board day.  Participants discuss progress.
October 15-31:  Producing new videos
November 9:  New videos posted.
November 14-16:  "Film Festival"  Invite one other classroom to view and respond to videos.
November 19:  Project closure:  Student and participant survey.

Details:
As the Project leader, I will:
1)  Produce the first video.
2)  Develop the Project Website
3)  Set up Discussion Board in Blackboard.com
4)  Coordinate dates, timeline, discussions
5)  Post all materials sent to me on the Project Website
6)  Keep all participants up-to-date on information.

As a Project Participant, you will:
1)  Direct your students to produce your multimedia projects.
2)  Make sure your students are posting their responses in the Discussion Board.
3)  Be responsive to e-mail communication.
4)  Invite one other classroom in your school, or in another school, to attend the "Film Festival" in November.
5)  Make sure students complete on-line survey.
6)  Complete personal portion of on-line survey
7)  Post response to first video in e-mail by July 31.

Objectives:
1)  US students will gain an opportunity to communicate in their chosen second language.
2)  Participating classrooms will have the opportunity to share their culture with other cultures.
3)  By sharing language, ideas, lifestyles and culture, students will learn to appreciate other cultures.
4)  Students will be exposed to a world that is different from their own, and by doing so, learn tolerance.
5)  Using multimedia will allow students to visually communicate with one another, and "see" new faces and hear new voices.
6)  Students will learn how to use video technology.

Please submit the following information: