OneWorld Classrooms Home | Participation Guidelines Home

Digital Video Exchange

Please save for your reference.

Follow the guidelines below to complete your OneWorld Classrooms Digital Video Exchange.

1. OneWorld Classrooms staff will match you by grade level with a partner class/school in the world region of your choice and give you the contact information for a Partner Teacher or Project Liaison at your partner school.

2. Contact your partner teacher via E-mail prior to the exchange to determine exchange timing*, video themes and curricular connections. *You may complete your exchange any time before May 1st, 2009, according to the arrangement you make with your partner teacher. Please make every effort to complete the exchange during the timeframe you arrange.

TIMESAVER: Click here to use our sample introductory E-mail and checklist. [USE THE BACK BUTTON TO RETURN]

3. For each exchange, create a digital video featuring your students. The video may introduce your students; share student artwork; give a tour of your school or town or a nearby site of interest; share something you are studying; or share aspects of your students' lives and culture. Or, be creative! We welcome innovative and interesting new videos! (You will determine the theme with your partner teacher via E-mail.) If you are a classroom teacher, consider involving your Technology teacher.

4. The video should be between 15 and 40 minutes long. Please have students narrate the video where possible.

5. You/students may edit your video at your own discretion (adding titles, effects, etc.), though it is not necessary to do so. (Your partner may or may not have the means to edit.)

6. IMPORTANT: Teachers should monitor all submissions for appropriate content (for more on this, see our Terms of Use).

7. Copy your digital video onto a CD and mail it to your partner teacher via regular first class mail. Include a cover letter or note indicating the teacher's name, grade level, school, city, state/province and country and explaining the content.

If you would like OneWorld Classrooms to share your clips of your students' video on our Electronic Cultural Exchange Library (see Free Travel & Learn Online content below), mail a second copy via regular mail to:

OneWorld Classrooms
51 Belvidere Hts.
Haverhill, MA 01830
USA

Include a cover letter or note indicating the teacher's name, grade level, school, city, state/province and country and explaining the content.

Electronic Alternative: Alternatively, if both partner teachers have access to the Internet, post your video on a free file sharing Web site like Simple Share or SendSpace and send your partner teacher an Email with the location. In your Email, please CC: OneWorld Classrooms at robin@oneworldclassrooms.org.

8. Upon receipt of the video from your partner, send your partner teacher an E-mail to confirm that you have received the video, to say 'thank you,' and to formerly conclude the exchange.

9. If you have any problems communicating via E-mail with your partner teacher -- or if the exchange is not proceeding in the timeframe agreed upon, please send an E-mail to robin@oneworldclassrooms.org.

==============================

FREE TRAVEL & LEARN ONLINE CONTENT

Travel to the world region you are studying from right inside your own classroom, meet students who live there and learn about their languages and cultures. Visit OneWorld Classrooms' FREE Travel and Learn Online content at www.oneworldclassrooms.org/travel/index1.html. To log on, you must enter your username and password.

OneWorld Classrooms Home | Participation Guidelines Home

Arctic students in Rankin Inllet, Canada demonstrating arctic games.

DIGITAL VIDEO EXCHANGE
AT A GLANCE

OneWorld Classrooms matches you with a partner class/school to complete a digital video exchange.
The videos may introduce students to their peers; provide a tour of the school, neighborhood or region; demonstrate a classroom lesson or explore a topic being studied; or share one or more aspects of the students' culture.
Partners are matched by grade/age level.
Partner teachers communicate in advance via E-mail to determine exchange timing and details.
Partners exchange videos via regular mail.

================

CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact OneWorld Classrooms about your exchange, send an E-mail to: robin@oneworldclassrooms.org. We provide E-mail support, whenever needed.

================

TIPS FOR A GREAT EXCHANGE

Teachers are busy people! Where possible, recruit a parent to help coordinate the exchange.
Empower tech-savvy students: put the project in their hands.
Consider IM-ing (instead of E-mailing) your partner teacher. See the Instant Messaging Tool links below and suggest this to your partner teacher in your initial E-mail.
Communicate with your partner teacher via E-mail before, during and after your exchange: before, to work out exchange timing and details; during, to stay on the same page; and after, to confirm that all materials have been sent and received -- and to say 'thank you.'

================

COLLABORATION TOOLS &
RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

From OWC

From Other Sources

OWC: Building bridges of learning between the classrooms of the world!

OneWorld Classrooms Home | Participation Guidelines Home