Hello, my name is Pintu Thaker and I teach Web Design at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross Georgia, USA. It was very nice working with all of you. Students have enjoyed this global project and developed many skills, such as collaboration not only within the classroom but they collaborated globally with other countries, new web development skills (CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, XHTML, JavaScript, etc…), and they have foster cultural understandings. I am looking forward to work with this project in the future and help students to develop many 21st century skills and cultural understandings.
My experience with GVC1317 was fun. I learned new things about cultures, food safety, and obesity. I’m hoping to do more projects like this. Although we didn’t have enough time in class I still managed to do my research and finish my page. My participation took place in creating a page about obesity and food safety. I read lots of interesting things about food safety and obesity. Every Monday and Tuesday I would do some research and summarize at the end of the period so I could add my information to my page. I like learning about our amazing world.
It has been an honor to be able to work with such a prodigious group of individuals in a worldwide project. Through this opportunity, I have learnt that communication is vital for a team to cooperate and effectively work together. Although we faced many challenges such as time zones and different connotations of words, we worked through it and achieved our goal. To work as a team no matter how many miles away we are apart from one another and build one awesome website. I will bring back this experience to my school and show others how students can work globally on projects they put their mind into.
My experience in GVC was pretty good. It was interesting be able to work on a project with people on the other side of the world. Especially when you get to work on something as important as GVC. You get to work in a large group and you learn a lot from other people and you get more experience in the web design field. I believe that GVC’s main purpose is to bring people that don’t know together and be successful to create a successful website. We need to learn how the Business world works, in order to succeed. Also you learn how to get organized and pace yourself to meet the deadlines required
My Experience in GVC was a Great one, I have learned so much in one semester working with GVC, and across the World with South Korea. I have learned how to work with different people, and interact with them. We are working together to make one Successful Web page, in order to Succeed. This shows us how to Work with Different Countries around the world, and combine our ideas in order to get where we need to.
Working with students from USA and South Korea on GVC was a very unique yet fun experience. It not only taught me how to better organize a website, but also helped me learn better communicational skills and teamwork. Although we faced some difficulties in the process of putting this project together, we managed to pull through. I am glad that I had the opportunity to participate in this unique and exciting project.
GVC was a really great opportunity for me to work with other countries on this website. I learned a lot of things, like new coding. I got the chance to use CSS and JavaScript. I also learned how to build a better website and communicate with others. This project was a great experience for me, since I got to work with people from my school and students from schools in USA and South Korea.
Hello, my name is Andrew M. and I am 15 years old. I have lived in Waterford for my entire life. I plan onstudying web design and graphic design for a career path. I am currently taking Webmasters 1 andWebmasters 2 as an independent study class. I am the project overseer on the Michigan side of theGlobal Virtual Classroom website. I possess a disability known as Juvenile Arthritis for most of my life aswell as Psoriasis. I have worked with GVC last year through last year during my first classes.
Hello, My Name Is Jon. I plan to go to Film School either to become a film editor or an animationsupervisor. My experience with GVC was difficult, but overall I enjoyed it. Oh yeah, I’m also really goodat poker, just a random fact.
Hey everyone I'm Stephanie and I'm a cheerleader at Mott
My experience working on GVC has taught me a lot about how vital communication is whenworking with other people on one project. I have enjoyed working with different studentsaround the world. Although there were difficulties I learned a lot about team work,communication and web design working on GVC.
Hello my name is Dom, I take pride that I never have a bad hair day.
Hi my name is Richard C. I’m 17 years old and in 11th grade. I was content manager for the WaterfordMott High School Global Virtual Class Room team in Waterford Michigan. At Waterford Mott HighSchool I’ve taken many computer technical classes including programming and website developmentand I had a really good experience with global virtual class room on all ends. I plan on going on tobecome a software developer and becoming the best I can. I’m just glad to be a part of such a greatexperience.
Dwight School Seoul, an IB school that teaches students ranging from preschool to high school, sits on the city of Seoul, South Korea. The school has a history of 2 years, but has a faculty from all over the globe who are experts of their areas. Dwight was very active participating and winning basketball, soccer, swimming, volleyball tournaments across international schools within South Korea and has been continuously interaction with its local and international community in numerous ways such as funding local orphanages, planting trees in Cambodia, and building houses in Vietnam. The motto of Dwight Seoul is "to ignite the spark of genius in every child", and indeed, I as a student of Dwight, can feel the growth within my peers and myself.
Mr.Williams comes from a design engineering background with experience in the defense industry in Southern California, and later in the mobile phone industry in India, Myanmar, and South Korea. He received his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and teaching certificate from Drexel University. Mr. Williams has a particular interest in using technology to enhance learning and make science and design principles accessible to the diversity of students in every class. His interests outside school include hiking, snowboarding, and foreign language study.
My name is Sameer Bhagwat, I’m 17, originally from India, and have lived in South Korea for 8 years. I like all subjects and love to play volleyball and soccer. I always try to be positive about things and try to enjoy everything I do, though it is very difficult to do so. I was assigned as the project manager for GVC, this brought forth quite a lot of challenges. All in all, through the GVC project I learned more about group dynamics and in some ways benefited by understanding the importance of time management.
My name is Marina Hobday, I am 17 and have lived in London and Seoul. I have no race. I like writing poetry and lyrics to be able to express my experiences and problems in society. I hope to study about cultures and become a social entrepreneur in the future. In GVC, I have contributed as communication officer and researching about symptoms of obesity.
I joined this GVC group at the beginning of the school year last year. I found this project particularly interesting as I have never taken part in a large scale project like this. Also, since I have great interest in computer technologies, a project like this that involves a lot of computer uses, such as online communication and website building, caught my attention and interest. Although I was not directly involved in website making in the project, I think working in this GVC group was a valuable experience for me. I was able to learn how important organization and communication is in such a large scale project. I hope that I can use this experience from GVC group in other fields in future.
Junwoo Rha is an 18 year old Korean boy who currently attends Dwight School Seoul in Digital Media City, Korea. He is a wannabe-geek and a lover of all kinds of music. In fact, he is also the school's unofficial DJ, spinning records and partying all night when he's not busy doing geeky stuff like studying for physics or watching My Little Pony(lol). He is known for his long messy black hair, big glasses, and weird sense of humour. What he lacks for in speedy eating, he makes up for in his positive attitude and diligence. Although not quite sure what he exactly wants to do when he grows up, he wishes to become a scientist one day. In the GVC, he has contributed with research about the effects of obesity. He also apparently likes to write about himself in the third person.
I have joined the GVC at a late point and thus have not contributed as much to the group as the others. However, I was thrilled at the fact that I was able to work once again on the internet as the last time I have done so was a couple of years ago. Trembling over my old memories to use Adobe dreamweaver was troublesome yet the experience was simply-said "fun". I enjoyed my short time being a part of this club and I am glad that this website stands in front of the public with its unique domain.
My name is Noor Alsaeed from Saudi Arabia. I am in the 10th grade. I have lived in the united states, United Kingdom, Korea and my home town Saudi Arabia. My name means light in arabic. People say that I’m a photographer but I’m not really sure. In GVC, I have been a fairly active member where I helped research about the causes of Obesity.
My name is Seung A Jung and I am 15 years old. I am Korean and I lived in Thailand for about 4 years. I miss Thailand a lot, the air, the sky, mostly the environment. I also like all kinds of animals, especially the ones with fur. I used to horseback ride when I was in Thailand, but I stopped when I came back to Korea few years ago. However, I enjoy staying in Korea more than staying in Thailand, because the food here is great. In Global Virtual Team, I have contributed with research about personal stories based on childhood obesity.
The Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) is a collection of free, online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in educationally productive ways.
The GVC vision is to empower, enable, and connect students around the world using Internet technology.
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