Silvia Tolisano (Langwitches.org/blog) and Miguel Guhlin

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I started my Wednesday morning meeting with the multicultural diva, Silvia Tolisano (Langwitches), and found out that she’d been born in Germany, raised in Argentina, and married an America and lives in the U.S.!!

From her, I found out about her upcoming presentation later today entitled, Infusing Global Awareness Through Technology. You’ll be able to find her presentation online at her blog, http://langwitches.org/blog/

My notes on her presentation appear below (under the photo)…one of the neat things about her presentation was that she brought books based on her blog! Wow!

Miguel’s Notes on the Preso:

• Facilitator: Silvia Tolisano, San Jose Episcopal Day School, Jacksonville, Florida
• Do your students fly out around the world?
• Any kind of opportunity to broaden horizons to another culture?
• http://www.langwitches.org/blog
• Received a grant that allowed her to send 2 faculty members abroad, to China and Egypt, and Costa Rica/Peru.
• With the teacher travelling during the school day, we virtually took our students along with us with blogs, videos, podcasts, and involving them in the classroom, help them see, taste smell all the senses…waking up in them to what’s out there.
• 4 year old preschool and 11th grade. Science, media, technology, languages…everybody was in art, music…everybody involved.
• Core Ideas
  • Infusion
  • Integration
  • Collaboration.
• How can we put languages, traditions, food, and infuse it into the curriculum?How can we collaboratively work with students around the schools, across continents, do collaboration with global awareness?
• We created—for every single trip we took—a blog. We uploaded photos, video, impressions. Then, students were able to experience—through the blog—what we had experienced that day.
• We recorded the Great Wall of China, uploaded the audio file of us huffing and puffing up the stairs, measuring the bricks in the wall, etc. Blogs were a central piece for infusing all the different media.
• Tools –
  • WordPress.com – blogs
  • Flickr.com – over 4000 photos
  • Delicious.com –
  • Skype.com –
  • VoiceThread.com –
• (Love the Tai Chi (sp?) example Silvia shared.
• Travellers posted their latitude and longitude and then students back home had to plot the route in GoogleEarth.

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