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Global Virtual Classroom Contest

The Global Virtual Classroom Contest is a global team cooperation and web site-building activity for students from 7 to 18 years of age. Schools from around the world collaborate to build web sites that are judged on the quality of their content and presentation, and on the collaboration. Team 6-7-8's second and third period ASL/English students are teamed with students from two other schools, Hai- Tung  Primary School in Tainan City, Taiwan, and St. Therese Education Center in Parkville, Missouri.
	We selected "The Wide World of Sports" as our theme for our web site. All the students and teachers worked together to create a winning web site so we decided to use a wiki (pronounced weekee) to create a framework for our final web site. This wiki allows us to add, delete and edit our work together. Learn more about wiki in Wikipedia and look at our GVC 06-18 Wiki to see how our work progressed. Once the work was completed in the wiki, we transferred it to our GVC 06-18 Wide World of Sports web site.
This year's KDES team. To see our more serious side, click here. Below are the various activities the students will need to complete to create the web site. Visit the Links section for websites for this project.

Activities

Each week the students complete activities related to GVC. Click the activities below to see what we've been doing.

Make a new page and link in Wiki

Trading Cards

Brainstorm subtopics of Sports

Vote on a topic

Log into Nicenet and introduce yourself!

Brainstorm subtopics of Sports

Each class brainstormed a variety of sub topics for the topic "Sports." Click here to see 2nd period's ideas. Click here to see 3rd period's ideas.

Vote on topic ideas

Our students voted and the top two favorite topics were "Dance" and "Sports."

Introduction

1. Go to the Nicenet home page (http://www.nicenet.org).

2. Click "Join a Class" and enter the Class Key to set up your accounts.

3. Type in a username and password. Create one that you won't forget!

4. Type in your email address...firstname.lastname@gallaudet.edu.

5. Click "Join the Class!"

6. Read the welcome message. Click "Finish Registration."

7. Under Conferencing, click "Student Introductions and Chat."

8. Read the introductions from other students.

9. Scroll back to the top and click "Post Message to Student Introductions & Chat."

10. Write about yourself and include some of these topics
    • Where do you live?
    • Describe your home.
    • What are your interests?
    • What kinds of things do you like to do?
    • Do you have pets?
    • What are your favorite foods, music, TV programs, etc?
    • What sports do you play or follow?
      
      
11. When you are done with your introduction, click "Post New Message."
    
    
12. Don't forget to logout when you are done.

Links:

Global Virtual Classroom Web Sites

GVC 06-18 Widoe World of Sports

GVC 06-18 Wiki

Global Virtual Classroom

Nicenet Internet Classroom Assistant

2004-2005 GVC Backyard Animals