Schedule |  Participants |  Press release |  Partners  


  Welcome to a unique video conferencing program offered through the Passaic Valley High School in New Jersey, United States of America.

In a statement on International Education Week 2002, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said, "As we work to end the scourge of terrorism, let us also work to increase peace, prosperity and democracy. We can do this through international programs that promote the exchange of ideas and the sharing of experiences. These programs give us insight into other languages and cultures andin the process build long lasting relationships among peoples based on mutual understanding, respect and trust."

The purpose of our project is to bring students from different cultures and backgrounds together to promote global awareness and understanding. We hope to do this through a combination of videoconferencing, real time e-mail and online chats during one 24 hour period. 		 

 
 

Start time (EST)End time (EST)LocationSchoolLocal time
8 am  Great BritainThomas Lord Audley1 pm
9 am   RomaniaAcademy of Economic Studies4 pm
10 am  CanadaBarrie Learning Center11 am
11 am  Great BritainJohn Kelly Girls Tech College4 pm
12 pm  ArgentinaGrupo Educativo Marin1 pm
1 pm    
2 pm3 pm Mexico Baur International School1 pm
3 pm    
4 pm5 pm Costa Rica Lincoln School2 pm
5 pm    
6 pm  AustraliaWarracknabeal Secondary College8 am
7 pm    
8 pm  JapanWako Kokusai High School9am - 10am
9 pm    
10 pm  Hong KongDiocesan Boys' School10 am
11 pm  IndiaBharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public High School, Hyderabad8:30 am
12 am    
1 am    
2 am  Ukraine GDLN DLC9 am
3 am    
4:30 am  South Africa 10:30 am
5:35 am6:20 am GermanySigmund-Schuckert-Gymnasium11:35pm - 12:20am
7 am  IsraelEshel Hanassi youth village 
  

 
For the participating students and faculty - please go into our course located at http://blackboard.montclair.edu

The course will be open for two weeks, please encourage your students to find their country and correspond with the Passaic Valley Students.
(Please note this course is only accessible to the participating schools.)

Click on LOGIN (on left side of screen)
USERNAME xxxxxx
PASSWORD yyyyyy (Stay in lower case)
Click on LOGIN (after you've entered Username and Password)
On right side of screen it says MY COURSES
Click on PRIS14_01SP03: Around the World (This puts you in the course)

Play with all the buttons on the left.

  

 
For a copy of the press release visit
http://www.njedge.net/activities/aroundtheworld2003/pressrelease.doc [MS-Word]
http://www.njedge.net/activities/aroundtheworld2003/pressrelease.pdf [Adobe PDF]
  

 
To learn about 'Around the World' partners visit
http://www.njedge.net/activities/aroundtheworld2003/partners.html
 

 

Rainforest Connection [Feb 10-14, 2003]

NJEDge.Net coordinated an exciting international K-12 project, showcasing the Verizon/ANJ Newark Portal and the growing partnerships between higher education and K-12 schools. Support from Verizon made this project possible. Project Director Jacalyn Willis commented, "This is very exciting, and a first for New Jersey educational institutions: to actually develop our own video conference with classes from home, and live from a research site in an exotic location. It gives totally new meaning to the Rainforest Connection as an interactive teaching venue." With the success of this project, additional programming from Montclair State University and from field sites will be made available to more schools partnered with PRISM, she said.

To learn more visit http://rainforest.montclair.edu/panama/video/index.html