MIDTESOL2011 presentation

1. MIDTESOL 2011 Presentations St. Louis University
Adult Refugee and Immigrant
Students Define Global Citizenship
Using PowerPoint.
Presenters:
Angy Folkes (teacher) teacherangy@aol.com
Alemayehu Guye gudetalex@yahoo.com
Asfaha Gebremichael asfaha_2005@yahoo.com
Ephrem Ashagre ephremkursanie@gmail.com
Virginia Perez Pelayo laberinto1950@.com
Toshpulat Yuldashev t.yuldashev@gmail.com

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3. Student presenters are attending the International Institute of
Metropolitan St. Louis, a site for St. Louis Public Schools Adult
Education and Literacy.
They have had either completed a basic computer class or demonstrated
basic computer skills prior to attending the 3 week PowerPoint class.

4. Creating a basic Power Point was a great way to strengthen what we had
learned from our textbook and work book in the Basic computer class.
(Welcome to Computers for ESL Students 2nd edition (Adendorff, Olivia and Wooden, Lois.
2009. Labyrinth Publications) Welcome to Computers for ESL Students 2nd Edition: Workbook
(Adendorff, Olivia and Wooden, Lois. 2009. Labyrinth Publications)
1. We researched on the internet, and learned to move back and forth with
one or more programs open.
2. We learned quickly how to right and left click because we copied
Google images and pasted them onto our Power Point slides.
3. We learned how to use a smart board and shared our presentations in
our English classes.
4. We learned how to email a Power Point when a USB drive didn’t work
and we are learning about citing sources.
5. We shared definitions of Global Citizenship.
6. We are learning about communities (MIDTESOL) outside the
classroom.
7. We discussed the good and the bad of our presentations.

5. A Quote by Paulo Freire
"Liberating education consists of acts of cognition,
not transferrals of information"
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

6. A Quote about our teacher
“Angy’s awareness of the global connections in peoples’ lives
informs her approach to English language instruction. (Auerbach,
2001: Cambell, 2001) Angy readily invites her students to bring their
preoccupations and struggles into the classroom, a telltale sign of
teaching English from a critical language awareness perspective. She
explained, “I was raised to respect the value of … a bachelors degree
but I also learned to respect not having a degree. I … value what each
individual brings into the classroom.” In this approach, attributed to
Brazilian educator Paulo Friere, students name and share experiences
in order to analyze them, construct knowledge collaboratively, and
join their voices in addressing them. This model of teaching English
connects the challenges that learners face in their local context with a
global movement.”
Source: Adult Education Teachers
Designing Critical Literacy Practices
Becky Rogers & MaryAnn Krammer, Taylor & Francis Group

7. How teachers can use PowerPoint
in and out of the classroom:

8. Animation Sound clips
clips
Current photos
historical
photos

9. Copy & paste

10. She sat in the middle of the
bus.
She didn’t sit in the back.

11. My race against breast cancer.

12. Global warming.

13. Write a letter to President Obama.
Dear President Obama,
Please give everyone a
free bicycle………

14. Join a group.

15. I can make my classroom more
student centered by putting their
names or photos into my lessons.
Future presidents of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan

16. Don’t talk on your cell phone in
class.

17. I can use it to teach vocabulary and
life skills that are linked to CASAS
competencies.

18. It gets the students’ faces out of
their books so that they are better
heard when practicing a dialogue.

19. Students can own their learning by
typing a picture story together on Word.

20. My favorite is creating slides to a song.

21. What a Wonderful World

22. I see trees of green

23. Red roses too

24. Even beginners can create a short
PowerPoint and present it to their
classmates.

25. PowerPoint can bring the world to
our classrooms.
And our students to the world.

26. 2006
MIDTESOL Conference
(Midwest States Teachers of English as a Second or Other Language)
University of Northern Iowa

27. With a scholarship award we rented a mini van.

28. We attended conference sessions.

31. Days Inn in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
We each presented a few slides about ourselves and our native country.

32. We had dinner at the world’s
largest Truck stop on I 80.

33. Nursing home visit

34. They went for a tractor ride on an
Illinois farm.

37. New Salem State Park in Illinois.
Where President Lincoln lived as a young man.

38. Future presidents of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan

41. This land
was made

42. for you
and me!

43. Their English and computer skills got better with
the practice from the trip and they have
continued to use these skills 5 years later on the
job, at college, in the community and while
keeping in touch with each other on Facebook.

44. “Action is embedded in the critical consciousness
raising of my students. Action is part of being a citizen.
Be it learning to read a children’s book to their child, or
attending MIDTESOL. Students are learning more
about their social world and how to be agents in their
world.”

45. Asfaha

46. Global citizenship
By Asfaha Gebremichael

47. “My country is the world and my
religion is to do good.”
• Global citizenship is a new word to me

48. • But I do have a little understanding of what
it means. I think it means to bring a world
into one village legitimately.

49. • This means you can solve problems easily.
And you can eradicate the differences of creed;
race and eliminate global warming. I am sure,
you understand our world is the victim of
greedy people, big corporations and others.

50. • Finally I would like to tell you what Thomas
Paine said (British author ) he was a
pamphleteer “My country is the world and
my religion is to do good. ”
• please we ought to fallow him.

51. • This is an Eritrean refugee camp in Ethiopia Shimelba. It was
This is the tyrannous and established 2004 as a second camp. I was there for two years
dictator. and referred to the capital Addis- Ababa for about 37 months
.I want to introduce you the living situation . In the single hut,
Esaiyas Afewerki there are 4 to 8 people. Each person is assisted by world
food program (WFP) :15 kg of wheat ,1kg white bean ,1 tea
cup salt , 3 laundry soaps and 0.9Lit of oil per month . As you
see in the picture -- no electric supplies .The only one is for
baking traditional food (injera) and soup. You have to go
some where esle to fetch dry wood.

52. This is Eritrean refugee camp in
Ethiopia shimelba

53. Please see this interview that you can
understand a lot about the tyrant leader
at Youtube
Talk to Al Jazeera-president Isaias Afewerki

54. APPLAUSE

55. Ephrem

56. We hope for this universal concept to be workable.
In the near future we hope to see global citizenship diversify!

57. II believe in the human mind being heard first in order to regroup the
outstanding skills, using services that are natural, in their local domain.
Highlight of experiences
I had been participating in some rural development programs as a program
officer/construction.
This project was overseen by save the children/NGO-Norwegian missionary
donors . I also had sometimes been residing in refugee camp/ UNHCR, but
participated in similar field to implement basic civil and social infrastructures
which includes incentives to local citizens who lived within the same boundary.

58. Society’s Participation In A Community Based Technology Project
Matching inputs ~ giving individuals ideas so that they can fully participate in the community is
key. This will enable them to create new skills for a better understanding of society.
.
In general, simplicity, moderate skills, obtained local materials, social relationship and reliable
information is needed.

60. Always they are
innocent and
curious. They will
be real and perfect
global citizens.

61. Who participates in the project.

62. A Community Based Technology Project:
Mud bricks for housing.

63. Benefactors of the projects.

65. Find the source of a Spring water.

66. The source of a spring is ready.
Are you thirsty?

68. APPLAUSE

69. Toshpulat

70. I am from Uzbekistan, which is
located south of Russian and north
of Afghanistan

71. People
Uzbekistan has vast natural resources, minerals, exports a
gas, gold, uranium, cotton fiber and etc. at big volumes.
It has had a vast irrigated lands and 300 sunny days in a
year. The extent of unemployment is enormous. 6-7
million from 28 million people live abroad in search of
work. Still the majority of population lives in poverty and
misery, living on less than $1 per day to per person.
Many scholars, students and workers are engaged to
gathering cotton for 60-75 days every year in the rural
farming communities.
Uzbekistan is among the 10 most corrupt countries in the
world. The officials, mostly senior, quickly become rich at
the expense others by embezzlement, bribery, alien
raids. They use foreign assets to this in the country.

72. On the13 of may 2005 in Andijan
a demonstration began against the
Karimov regime.

73. President Karimov commanded to
shoot at demonstrators.

74. In Andijan about 700 people were
shot.

75. Opportunity to defend human rights and freedom of citizens has been
impossible, absolutely. Any protest of citizens is brutally suppressed without
delay. Organizers of demonstrations and active participants have been
arrested, physical and mental torture and sentenced to lengthy prison terms for
being not guilty of “terrorism, religious and political extremism in a constitutional
basis, and drug trade”, etc.
Uzbek people are highly intimidated by endless terror and torture, lawlessness
of police and state security agencies, who with the connivance of the
government do whatever they want to demonstrate their power over people.

76. • The tyrant dictator Islam Karimov has been the
president of Uzbekistan for 21 years. He doesn’t
like democracy and his people.
• Karimov was caught stealing, but he is not afraid
of punishment and takes all possible steps to
stay President until his death.

77. Uzbek Unrest and Victims

78. We are against dictatorship
president Karimov.

79. We engage in struggle and we resist
against the dictatorship in
Uzbekistan.

80. We are the Birdamlik Movement

81. • birdamlikharakati@yahoo.com
• WWW.birdamlik.info
• 4006 A Hydraulic Ave. St. Louis,
MO63116
• 314-762-9392
• 314-600-2889

82. APPLAUSE

83. Virginia

84. Human Rights

85. What are Human Rights?
• Human Rights are those liberties, faculties and institutions about
basic goods that include all people because of their human condition
to guarantee their dignity.
• They are independent of particular factors, such as status, sexual
orientation, and ethnicity.

86. Do I have a Human Rights?
• Yes!, we have. They are inherent to the person, they are
also irrevocable, intransmissible and irreducible.
• They are the conditions that allowed create a integral relation
between the people and society that allowed to them be a Juridical
person, letting to made a identification with himself an with their
congeneres.

87. They do not depend on the exclusively given rights of the Constitution
because they are independent of the law of everyone country.
•

88. .Where do they come from?
• Human Rights come from the Natural Rights, since ancient times we found
some reference for example, we found some idea about them in the ancient
Greek Literature.

89. Where do they comes from?
The first intents to limit the exercise of the government power and
create laws to protect the human rights were “nationals”:
The Magna Charta of 1215
The law of habeas Corpus of 1689
The Bill of Rights of 1689.

90. The first Declarations of the
modern world

91. The Declaration of Independence 1776

92. The French Declaration of the men and
Citizen Rights of 1789

93. What were the most important Declarations of an
International Character?

94. The declaration by United Nations 1942

95. The Declarations of Human Rights of the United Nations
1948
Eleanor Roosevelt argument in the United Nations were to be effective
internationally it should not concern itself with nations, but with the
rights of mankind

96. Do you think that since that moment there haven’t
been anymore violations to the Human Rights?

97. No, unfortunately no
• There have been a lot of violations of
Human Rights by all the world

99. In “News for You”, a weekly Publication from New Readers
Press there was news:
Eye for an eye Law.
Is it possible to mutilate or torture to punish the aggressor?
What is the opinion of Amnesty International?
•

100. Civil Rights

104. Amnesty International was founded in
1961
• Is an independent worldwide human- rights organization it works to free
people imprisoned for their beliefs, color, ethnic origin, sex, religion, or
language, provided they have neither or nor advocated violence, also works
for fair an speedy trials for political prisoners an for an end to torture and
executions.

105. The first International Criminal Tribunal is
established in the Hague to deal with war
crimes in the former Yugoslavia in 1993

106. The World is Just
There is some Justice in
There is no Justice in
the world
the world

107. APPLAUSE

108. Alemayehu

109. The journey to the safest place:
it takes a lot of process for the
refugees

110. Refugees suffer a lot when they run away from their home due to political
crisis, prosecutions, detention, torture.
They spend their time in detention with out social justice for themselves
or their home land.
They go to a neighboring country to save their life and to feel safe.
great opportunity to participate in this big events

111. In the country of refuge they face other difficult times because of lack of proper
documents. I am one of the victims who has gone through a very difficult time
as a refugee for over 15 years. The host country relocates all refugees to the
remote areas where there is no proper educations, healthcare, and access to
the basic fundamental rights for man kind. That’s why most refugees who come
to America do not understand English. It is hard for them to understand and
communicate easily, find job to become independent and successful in a new
country.

112. Many refugees across the globe are uprooted from their home
country because of bad leadership and leaders who stay on
power too long.

113. Dada refugee camp in Nairobi Kenya
The horrible refugee life

114. Climate change affects each and every one all over the world, for this reasons
the world leaders should come together with lasting solutions in order to save
the planet.
We better do the best we can as a citizen of all nations.

115. Climate change :Effects
Global climate has already had observable effects on the
environment .The potential future effects of global climate
change include more frequent wild fires, longer periods of
drought in some regions and an increase in the number,
duration and intensity of tropical storms

117. I hope the world leaders come together with the lasting solutions .
We would like to thank my teacher Angy the International Institute,
the St. Louis Literacy Roundtable and MIDTESOL for giving me this
great opportunity to participate in this big event .

118. APPLAUSE

119. Do you agree….
their teamwork,
willingness to lead,
eagerness to study,
critique of the world,
hope to better the world,
and participation at MIDTESOL past and present
demonstrates what global citizenship looks like?

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