Presentations By And Interviews With Epals Users

Presentations about ePals use in classroom and research 1. Candace Pauchnick, CUE 2009 conference presentation in Palm Springs, CA “San Diego, China and Others Collaborate through Email, Blogs, and Web Conferences” Candace shares highlights of her seven years of experience pairing her students in San Diego with students in China and other places. This features both video of Candace and her PowerPoint slides. She provides a lot of practical suggestions for using blogs and pen pals with students in a high school language arts classroom. She also shares sources of free online books. The first 29 minutes are one presentation, and the time after that is a second presentation, both about how she uses ePals. Tim DiScipio appears in a portion of the video. https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-0307.1231.M.B4187F29D22C5C3C400A49755711D2.vcr 53:00 minutes (really two presentations in one-hour time slot) 2. Vodcast interview with Candace Pauchnick about English students in China (ELL) working with her HS English students, made during ePals conference July 2008 in Boston, “Case Study: San Diego-China Classroom Collaboration with ePals SchoolMail, SchoolBlog and More.” For the past seven years, Candace Pauchnick has used ePals to partner with Yaodong Chen's students in China. http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=43194&title=ePals_Conference___Candace_Pauchnick_Interview or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Urj27gqIQ 8:30 minutes 3. The Power of Global Thinking. Kevin Honeycutt interviews Adina Popa, a technology resource teacher from Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, we discuss ways that teachers integrate ePals in classrooms and digital literacy as well as global understanding. We also discuss the intrinsic motivation that comes along for the ride when we allow them to connect. She brings great enthusiasm to the idea of empowering kids with global connections. http://web.me.com/khoneycuttessdack/Kevin/Driving_Questions_Podcast/Entries/200 8/12/3_The_power_of_global_thinking.html 8 minutes 4. Hill City Brings the World to Their Classroom with ePals – Teachers from rural Kansas share their travel buddy projects with ePals, K-4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4miYlR8kDOk 3:20 minutes 5. Hill City, KS grade 4 teacher shares her experience with ePals and travel buddies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AytLawSGop8&feature=related or

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=44715&title=ePals__Hill_City_Elementary_School_Kansas_Travel_Buddi es 4:00 minutes 6. Why use technology? New Literacies researchers Ian O’Byrne and Greg McVerry from the University of Connecticut share ideas for 21st century learning, problembased learning, and reading comprehension from the ePals conference 2008. They recommend empowering students to help increase learning in a three-phase approach, based on their research. Dr. Kari Stubbs from ePals also contributes ideas about teacher professional development. http://web.me.com/khoneycuttessdack/Kevin/Driving_Questions_Podcast/Entries/200 8/12/3_Why_use_technology.html 9 minutes