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BLC ePALS Conference Interviews

cpauchnick — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:33:03 -0400

Kevin Honeycutt created interview podcasts of the ePALS executive staff and teachers during the Building Learning Communities ePALS conference on July 15, 2008. To view these interviews open his website: http://kevinhoneycutt.org then click on "Driving Questions in Education". Kevin is an extremely talented educator and he has fascinating lessons and resources on his website. You will definately benefit from seeing what he does. Do yourself a favor and save his site as a favorite! - Candace Pauchnick

Our China and U.S. Web Conference Today, June 3 & 4, 2008

cpauchnick — Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:54:32 -0400

This was an exciting day. Please read everyone's comments on our web conference. Since that day Yaodong and I have created a PowerPoint presentation that is posted on this blog page. Please view this to see what we did.
Candace Pauchnick

* Important Notice! *

cpauchnick — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:29:03 -0500

You do not need to login or have a password to look around and leave messages on this blog. The login and password are only for the administrators who created this blog. This blog is open to the public and we encourage all people to please leave us comments.
Sincerely,
The administrators: Candace Pauchnick & Yaodong Chen

ePALS Student Forum

cpauchnick — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:29:54 -0500

One of the students from Guangxi University of Technology in China posted a message in the ePALS Student Forum, in the Social Issues titled "Paternal Love".

Eleven of my students from Patrick Henry High School posted replies to the original posted message. Here is the direct link to that section of the Student Forum:
http://www.epals.com/tools/forum/forum.e?bo=69&at=vm&id=40272&res=11&ofs=0&xtp=37#jtff

The ePALS Student Forum has so many students from all over the word discussing such a myriad of subjects. It's certainly an exciting place to visit.

Candace Pauchnick
Human Psy&Soc.teacher

New ePAL Connections....

cpauchnick — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:07:39 -0500

Patrick Henry High School students are now getting ready to begin another international connection with students at Guangxi University of Technology in China. They may also participate in joining with students in other countries, too. Students will exchange emails each week and discuss a different cultural topic. General guidelines for discussion consist of the following topics:

* Traditional holidays and celebrations:
What types of holidays are celebrated and why? Compare which holidays are the same and how they celebrate them. How do people celebrate people's birthdays? What other information can be shared about traditions?

In the Beginning...

cpauchnick — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:08:00 -0400

The walls came down in my classroom, symbolically, in 2002, as I joined my high school sociology students to other students in the Czech Republic through the exchanging of e-mail letters. Since then, through the use of ePALS.com, I have had my students connected to Ukraine, Italy, France, Austria, Colombia, Romania, Uzbekistan, Germany, Philippines, Taiwan, Belgium, and China. I’ve had my students involved in live-video conferences with Ukraine, Italy then climaxed with China last spring. This blog gives us the opportunity to share summaries, examples of our work, our learning and our inspiration with the world.

China and U.S. Live Web-Video Conference Presentation

cpauchnick — Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:27:00 -0400

The live web-video conference between students at the Guangxi University of Technology in Liuzhou, China and the students at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, California, are presented in the PowerPoint presentation at this link:

http://henry.sandi.net/staff/cpauchni/webcon.html

This presentation is narrated so please turn on your computer sound and click on the speaker icons on each slide.

Some of the sound, from the students talking and singing, is not clear because it was inserted from another recording. The quality went down since this is actually the 3rd time around for being recorded and the equipment I used is not the top quality. As students could hear Sue singing in China at the actual conference her voice rang out true and clear in the most beautiful way.

Sue (Liu Xiaohui) sings from China for the world.

cpauchnick — Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:02:00 -0400

Sue, Liu Xiaohui, from the Guangxi University of Technology in Liuzhou, China, sings such a truly beautiful song for our students at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, California, U.S.A. through our live-web conference. Her voice is so lovely and it was such a joy to hear.

Cara's shares about her live-video conference with China.

cpauchnick — Sun, 9 Apr 2006 02:08:00 -0400

Cara, a student at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, California, U.S.A. wrote about her experience with the live-video conference with students in the Guangxi Polytechnic University in Liuzhou, China.

"Sitting in class while listening to a classroom full of people in a different country has to be one of the most empowering things I've been through. Being able to communicate and being able to see the differences and similarities in a school in California, U.S., and a school in Liuzhou, China, is amazing. I enjoyed being able to see just how small the world is, and how big we think the world is. Talking to several different countries has broadened my horizons and has opened my mind to show me other world cultures. This program can help people of different backgrounds interact and could close the narrow-minded gap that some people live in."

We enjoyed our e-pals.

cpauchnick — Sun, 9 Apr 2006 02:04:00 -0400

Fa-Qiang and Nick, from Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, California, both wrote to students at the Guangxi University of Technology in Liuzhou City in Guangxi, China. I was surprised Fa-Qiang asked to write to a student in China since he is Chinese himself and this is what he shared in his final report.

Fa-Qiang: "In this epal project we get to talk to people from all over the world and I chose to talk to someone from China. Why? Because I am also Chinese but I don't really know much about it so I would like to learn more about my culture. I learned a lot of things through my epals." He actually wrote to two students, Mengtian and Guanjing. In his final report he shared how much he enjoyed learning about all the stories behind Chinese traditions and holidays. This gave him more meaning to his background. His final sentences: "I really enjoyed talking to them and getting to know the Chinese world more. They are also great people to talk with and I enjoyed this assignment very much."