Patrick Henry High & Guangxi University of Technology blogs

an online French lesson today

Yaodong — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:57:04 -0400

From 5:30 (11:30 in France)to 6:10 on October 8,Yaodong met Vincent and his class on Elluminate and Yaodong sat in Vincent's class for about 30 minutes,listening to Vincent teaching though Yaodong's French is practically nil. The kids were very attentive and active during the class.Yaodong saw them raising hands before answer the teacher's question.During class break, a few students were brave enough to ask Yaodong some questions about Liuzhou,about the most famous Chinese food,etc.Yaodong taught them how to say 'Good morning' in Chinese.In return, they taught Yaodong how to say 'Good day',"Good bye',etc in French. Then,Yaodong introduced Liuzhou to the French students by showinng a website of Liuzhou.

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

Breaking News:Boston Epal Conference2008

Yaodong — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:25:09 -0400

First ePals Conference in Boston on July 15: global, project-based learning through free communication tools

ePals held its first conference for tech directors and teachers on Tuesday, July 15, in Boston. Our one-day event is a preconference day to Alan November’s Building Learning Communities 2008 Conference.

Speakers
Carol Bar French Instructor/College Now Instructor, Blue Valley, KS High School
Michael Casey Principal/Teacher, Gallon Jug Community School, Belize
Professor Jack Crowell Professor of Mathematics,Delta College, Michigan
Dr. Howie DiBlasi, Digital Journey
Dr. Sheila Gersh Director, Technology & International Projects, Center for School Development City College of New York

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

Students Have Their Say

Yaodong — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:22:26 -0500

Below are quotes from my former students who were involved in e-learning.The best evaluation on education sometimes is from students themselves rather from educators.They know themselves better.
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Wu Yuyin: This course gives me a bridge which leads me to the real English kingdom, and becomes my important enlightenment……Once I receive a letter (she meant an email.---yaodong), I will think about it before I embark on writing. I feel my mind has a lot of sentences dancing and shining. My epals are to be appreciated…….E-learning
teaches me how to communicate. When I communicate with a foreigner,

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?

Email writing project 2006

Class04 — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:33:16 -0400

Candy has 31 students from her grades 11 and 12 who have written to Yaodong's students in his Class051 of Grade 05. They will write on a weekly basis,discussing culture matter or school life.For Yaodong's students this is a very good experience for the them to practise English online and get to know the outside world.Candy's students are eager to know more about China and how her people live or how students in China spend their time both in and out of school.

Candace Podcast - Future in Review

epals administrator — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:14:00 -0400

Candace Pauchnick speaks at the Future in Review Conference about the benefits of technology integration into the curriculum.