The Eastchester UFSD and Global-Leap are proud to announce the 2011 Genocide and Human Rights Project.
The project involves a series of international multi-point videoconferences with recognized experts that focus on four historical events: the genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and Sudan.
Each of the video conferences provides an opportunity for high school/secondary school students to interact with each other and a guest expert to learn about the events, share their knowledge and exchange ideas. The format of these moderated conferences includes an opening backgrounder by the guest expert, followed by a round-robin Q&A session with the expert.
In addition to these video conferences, students from the schools collaborate on Moodle site, participating in forums and chats about genocide/human rights. They will also develop wiki on the four genocides, in addition to an “action project” that impacts on genocide or human rights. The action projects are shared during the culminating video conference.
The conference dates/times are as follows:
April 27: The 8 Stages of Genocide with Dr. Gregory Stanton (George Mason University),
8:45-10:00am EST.
May 4, 2011: Genocide in Rwanda with Dr. Gregory Stanton (George Mason University), 8:45-10:00am EST.
May 5, 2011: Genocide in Darfur with Ms. Laura Jones (Enough Project), 8:45-10:00am EST.
May 10, 2011: Genocide In Bosnia with Dr. David Pettigrew (Southern Connecticut University), 8:45-10:00am EST.
To Be Announced: Genocide in Cambodia with Dr. Alex Hinton (Rutgers University), 8:45-10:00am EST.
June 10, 2011: Culminating Video Conference (Presentation of Action Projects and Program Evaluation Discussion), 8:45-9:45am EST
Thus far, We have a school in the United Kingdom and one school in Italy as confirmed participants. We are seeking up to four more schools that are interested in participating in complete project:
- all the video conferences
- participation in forums, chats and wiki development on the Moodle site
- development of an action project to be presented during the culminating videoconference
Participating schools must have an IP video conferencing connection and should be available for a test call to our bridge during the week of April 11-15.
If you are interested participating in the project, please send an email (to John Blaser at jblaser@eastchester.k12.ny.us) that includes the following information:
- Name of school/district
- Location (city, state, country)
- Name of teacher
- Participating class and grade level
- Number of students participating
- Confirmation of IP connection and IP address
- Confirmation of intention to participate in the video conferences, Moodle site activities and the action project
There are no fees for participating in this project. Test calls to our bridge will be done during the week of April 11-15 in preparation for the first videoconference. Please contact us promptly to arrange your test call to the bridge.
John Blaser
Technology Integration Specialist
Eastchester High School
2 Stewart Place
Eastchester, NY 10709
Telephone: 914-793-6130, ext. 4413
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