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=Session 9: Global Education=



**Essential Questions:**
1. What is global awareness for our students? 2. How do we help our students become globally aware?

Participants in this course will: 1. Develop a definition of global awareness. 2. Outline plans for fostering global awareness among students. 3. Learn to incorporate Google maps, blogging and Glogster into their pedagogy.
 * Objectives:**


 * TASKS:**

__**9.1. Opener:**__ Create a new page in your virtual notebook entitled **Global Education** and answer the following:
 * How would you define global awareness?
 * To what extent would you say global awareness is an important 21st century skill? Please explain your answer.

__**9.2 Readings on Global Education**__ In the following article, authors Crawford and Kirby present an argument for engaging students in global education to foster global awareness. They define global education as that which prepares students to live in a world that is culturally and ethnically plural and increasingly complicated and interconnected, and they define global awareness as a perspective and knowledge base which allow students to better interact with people of diverse backgrounds and acquire 21st century skills in order to solve 21st century problems. All toward the ends of global citizenry and workforce marketability.


 * Before reading the article, please __create a new post__ in the **Discussion tab** of your **Global Education** page entitled "//21st century problems and issues.//" In your post, **brainstorm** what you believe are some of the 21st century problems and issues regarding Global Awareness.


 * Next, please __read__ the article entitled __Fostering Students' Global Awareness: Technology Applications in Social Studies Teaching and Learning__


 * Having read the Crawford and Kirby article, please return to the opener in your **Global Education virtual notebook page**. Based on what you have read about Global Awareness, add to your previous response, building on your new understanding. Please __edit__ your answers to your Opener by writing in a different color - make sure to leave your initial thoughts. Save and upload a copy of the above article into your virtual notebook.


 * Next, please visit the Global Education page **Discussion tab** posts of your assigned classmates and __respond__ to their posts on 21st century problems and issues. Be sure to __reference the article__ you have read on global education and awareness.

In the article, a few suggestions are made about engaging students in global education. While there are a number of resources available through the article which we encourage you to explore, we would also like to present a couple of other technological resources that may be helpful in terms of global education and awareness. We will take a look at the use of Google Maps and blogging.
 * __9.3 Use of Google Maps__:**

As many of you have probably seen in the past, map activities can be an engaging way for students to learn geography as well as other place-specific content knowledge. Map activities are also extremely helpful for visual learners. We can use Google maps to create map activities in which students can find and tag specific places and then add descriptions to the places they have tagged. Here is an example of a map students created for an assignment to identify and describe four Cold War "hot spots":

Cold War Hot Spots map

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In order to begin, you must have a Google account. In many instances it is valuable to have a gmail account in order to take advantage of all of the programs and services that Google offers (including Google Docs as worked with previously in this course and Blogger, which is Google's blogging affiliate that we will take a look at shortly). Once you have a Google account and are at Google Maps, you will click on My Maps, then Get Started, followed by signing in.


 * Please __create a Google map__ entitled **__Places In My Teaching__** and placemark at least 5 places that relate to your teaching. For each placemark, make sure you have a title and a description. It will take some time to get used to using your mouse effectively and navigating the map making. But, you may undo anything you have done and once you have gained some facility, you will be able to create a variety of maps for classroom use and lead your students in making their own.

Once you have completed your map and click **Done**, you will embed your map to your virtual notebook:
 * Click Link on the right side of the page, then copy the bottom of the two links presented, which is for pasting an HTML to embed in a website.
 * Once you have copied that HTML address, return to your virtual notebook wikispace and on your page for Global Education, click Edit.
 * Then click Widget, then Map, then the Google Maps icon and paste the embed code into the open window underneath number 5, then click Save, which returns you to your notebook page.
 * Click Save on that page and your map will be embedded.

One of the amazing aspects of Google Maps and Wikispaces is that the map embeds in interactive form - you can still move what section of the map is shown by using your mouse!


 * Next, below your embedded map, please __write a brief reflection__ on how you might use Google maps in your classroom, making sure to include thoughts on using maps to increase students' global awareness, both in terms of simple geographic knowledge and, especially, information related to the places they might map.

__**9.4 Use of Blogging**__ Earlier in this course we took a look at blogging as a form of student communication. While blogging can be used in the classroom in many ways, one way which especially applies to global education and awareness is perspective blogging. We have found success in having students blog from the perspectives of others, which helps lead to greater understanding and empathy. This ties into Crawford and Kirby's recommendation for role-playing as a way to increase students' global awareness. There are many blogging sites available including Edublogs and Blogger which is Google's blogging affiliate and uses the same username and password as a Google account.


 * Please __create a new post__ in the **Discussion tab of your Global Education** page entitled "Perspective Blogging" and post regarding how you might use perspective blogging in your classroom to increase students' global awareness.

__**9.5. Use of Glogging**__ We have been saving one presentation tool to have you work with, Glogging, which we will now use to wrap up our look at implementing global education in order to increase students' global awareness:

What is GLOGSTER EDU??? __For Educators:__
 * A creative, dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner’s excitement for online creations, keeps learners engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun.
 * A private and safe platform, monitored directly by teachers. Teachers control all the activities of their learners.
 * A valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities.

__For Learners:__
 * A fun, imaginative, and powerful learning experience which fosters independent creative self expression, positive learner-teacher relationships, and teamwork on collaborative class projects.
 * A vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience which integrates learner’s knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner’s desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested.

__Registering__
1. Go to Glogster.com
 * 2. In the top right corner click Register​ **


 * 3. Complete the registration process. When this is done hit**
 * 4. At this point you can create your own glog or you can add your students. To add students you would hit add new students:**
 * 5. Free membership will allow you to create up to 100 student profiles but you will not be able to sort these students into classes. Premium subscription will allow you to create more students and to organize your students into classes.**


 * 6. If you do this at some point you will have received an email with a list of account usernames and passwords for your students. These can be emailed to your students for them to set up accounts. The email will look like this:**


 * 7. To create a glog simply select**




 * 8. It will bring you to the page below. You can play with the tool bar and create, customize and name your glog.**




 * **Before creating your glog, please go to Glogster.com and look at a few of the glogs that people have made, notice what is possible, and see if any ideas strike you as especially impressive. Next, please __create a glog__ that puts together all we have done in this session related to global education and awareness, as well as tying it into the themes of this course: 21st century skills and classrooms.**

__Saving and Embedding__

 * 9. When you have finished creating your glog select** save and publish **from the top right of your page. It will take you to the next screen where you can categorize your glog. (see below)**

Please embed your glog to your Global Education page.
 * 10. When you have set up relevant categories hit** save and publish. **The next screen will give you HTML code to copy so that you can embed your glog into your wikispace.**


 * __9.5. Forum Post__**

How has your definition of global awareness changed from your initial thoughts? How will you develop an understanding of Global Awareness in your classroom?