1. CULTURAL AWARENESS, CREATIVITY & TECHNOLOGY IN CLASS MONICA DOMINGUEZ MULHOLLAND

2. Overview Warm-up Why Global Learning? The 5 C’s Intro to Blogs Blog Themes throughNarrative, Poetry, Art & Video Recap Q & A’s

3. GLOBAL LEARNING GL TRANSCENDS TIME, SPACE AND CULTURE VIRTUAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS THAT OPERATE VIA ELECTRONIC NETWORKS IN VOGUE WITHIN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS & SOCIAL INTERACTION REAL-LIFE LEARNING CREATIVE , TRANSFORMING & ENGAGING Incorporates the 5 C’s of LL.

4. The 5 C’s of Language Learning

5. Blog: Spanish is Fun! Theme 1: Intro to the school year

6. Blog: Spanish is Fun! Theme 1 (Cont.) Show & Tell

7. Blog: Spanish is Fun! Theme 2: Snow Storm Feb. 2010

8. Blog: Spanish is Fun! Theme 3: Intercultural Awareness Chile Peru

9. Blog: Spanish is Fun! Theme 3: Intercultural Awareness (Cont.) Santa Fe Salta Patagonia Misiones

10. Volunteer Student Contributor Okie Dorian, Northern Virginia Community College Blog contributor since 2007

11. Volunteer Student Contributor

13. Pets

14. Visits to the museum and theater

15. Poem to her lost puppy

16. New puppies

18. Project Participants (cont.) Teacher Training Institute, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina Spanish 4 Foreigners, Salta, Argentina InstitutoPolitécnico, Santa Fe, Argentina Instituto Superior de Publicidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Prof. Sandra Goronas Contributor since 2007

19. Blog: Spanish is Fun! Video Studio

20. A Multi-media project http://web.mac.com/mdmulholland/key2spanish/Lesson_Plans.html

21. The Fun Theory The Piano Stairs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw&hd

22. 66% more people chose the stairs Can we get more people to learn languages by making it fun?

24. Recap & feedback Session Description: Integration of Technology into the Curriculum Cross-Cultural Interaction Engaged Learning Real-World Communication Any questions or comments?