1. Merging Social Media
With Education
By Cindy Greco and Vivian Davis

2. Educators around the world are using YouTube to
reach students. From Edutopia, to Khan Academy, to
the YouTube movement for education, learners
everywhere can learn virtually anything.
Edutopia

3. South Seneca, NY School
January 2011, students at South Seneca Middle School
began corresponding with students in Slovakia and
Poland, sharing their experiences of life in central New
York and learning about life in the partner countries.
Slovakia
Students conducted distance learning using
Skype, wikipages, email, videos & websites,
which are vital skills for 21st century literacy.

4. This e-twinning project was
funded with a grant from
the European Union and
designed to foster learning
experiences that will inspire
new generations to
understand and appreciate
European diversity &
culture.

5. ‘We make use of state of the art-video
conferencing technology, allowing both Yale
and Cornell students to participate in the same
class taught by me, while being in different
locations.
We can all hear and see each other and have
different ways of classes in the future, and
collaborate in group study, much like in any
“normal” language classroom.’
Chrissy Hosea, Lecter in Dutch, Yale Univ.
Visiting Lecturer in Dutch, Cornell Univ.
In Fall 2011, Cornell & Yale universities launched a
pilot program for teaching Dutch courses by video
conferencing via Skype from Yale University.
A CORNELL - YALE
COLLABORATION

6. BASED ON THE
SUCCESS OF THE
DUTCH DISTANCE
LEARNING PROGRAM,
CORNELL HAS JOINED
WITH COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY TO ADD
ROMANIAN TO THEIR
COURSE LIST.
THE CORNELL-YALE
COLLABORATION
ADDED MODERN
GREEK TO THE ROSTER
AND EXPANDED WITH
EVEN MORE DUTCH
CLASSES.
http://education.skype.com/
A community to help teachers connect their
students to the world

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To Sum Things Up…