Oct 13 Continuity
Team:
With your permission, I'd like to ask Joy Wiggins to come and speak to our group, during the last 30 minutes of the Continuity. She might want to do a speaker phone call in like Scott does because she lives in Dallas but I hope she can come.
Joy is a professor at UTA who is going to work with children in Tanzania this summer through a UNESCO and UNICEF program. Joy and I are copPIs on a Quality Enhancement grant (Podagogy) I wrote last year for an internal program at UTA which is working to increase interactive learning and HOTS (Higher Ordered Thinking Skilss) with undergraduates on campus.
We have talked briefly about how great it would be if she could work with reading and writing with the Tanzanian children there, and then have them podcast the Bluebonnet SI who would then respond to the children's writing and podcast back.
I need Joy to explain it to us either via this board and/or at Continuity so we can see what we could do about getting funding to work with her. I don't know what equipment her children would have or what kind of internet access. Those are things we might find out. We also might could use the "Helping Kids Cope Kits" to send to Tanzania if we can fundraise a way to get the books again. We need to pray for a corporate sponsor from here to take us on! Ideas anyone!
Katherine, I'm hoping you and maybe Scott could help research a funding agency for this grant, but let's start now, by talking to Joy. I'm going to invite her to our blog.
What say thee(s)?????????
With your permission, I'd like to ask Joy Wiggins to come and speak to our group, during the last 30 minutes of the Continuity. She might want to do a speaker phone call in like Scott does because she lives in Dallas but I hope she can come.
Joy is a professor at UTA who is going to work with children in Tanzania this summer through a UNESCO and UNICEF program. Joy and I are copPIs on a Quality Enhancement grant (Podagogy) I wrote last year for an internal program at UTA which is working to increase interactive learning and HOTS (Higher Ordered Thinking Skilss) with undergraduates on campus.
We have talked briefly about how great it would be if she could work with reading and writing with the Tanzanian children there, and then have them podcast the Bluebonnet SI who would then respond to the children's writing and podcast back.
I need Joy to explain it to us either via this board and/or at Continuity so we can see what we could do about getting funding to work with her. I don't know what equipment her children would have or what kind of internet access. Those are things we might find out. We also might could use the "Helping Kids Cope Kits" to send to Tanzania if we can fundraise a way to get the books again. We need to pray for a corporate sponsor from here to take us on! Ideas anyone!
Katherine, I'm hoping you and maybe Scott could help research a funding agency for this grant, but let's start now, by talking to Joy. I'm going to invite her to our blog.
What say thee(s)?????????
posted by Scott S. Floyd @ 9:21 PM
9 Comments:
At 10/02/2006 9:42 PM,
Scott S. Floyd said…
I'm in however I can help. I think it would be great to work with other countries. I could always to some distance learning conferences between classes if they have access. I have that in my classroom. Maybe they could do an iChat/Skype with her while she was there.
By the way, did you hear that Kansas State is putting over 6000 course podcasts on the net?
At 10/03/2006 9:03 PM,
Kinderbeanie :) said…
I think this is wondermous!
Two questions...isn't Continuity every other month? Were we planning on doing work--grantwriting, etc...on the 14th date? I'm game for whatever, I just need to clarify for those I sent reminders via plaxo...
Let me know!
At 10/05/2006 6:33 AM,
Katherine said…
I'm in too.
Response to continuity: We have so many things to talk about and share we are meeting monthly. Katherine
At 10/05/2006 7:20 PM,
Kinderbeanie :) said…
Great news! Ms. Wiggins has accepted and will be at the October 14th meeting!
Come one, come all!
Joyce :)
At 10/05/2006 7:22 PM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
I didn't know that about Kansas. I can't wait to share that with Pete.
Joy is coming to speak to the group on Oct 14th. Can they call you so you can be in on the planning? Joyce, I'll give you the phone codes.
At 10/05/2006 7:23 PM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
Joyce, I think you'll really enjoy Joy (lot of Joy in that sentence) Thank you so much for your nice reply to her e-mail!
At 10/05/2006 7:24 PM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
Is that Sat the 14th, right? I think I put the wrong date on the lead off post!
At 10/14/2006 2:55 PM,
Kinderbeanie :) said…
Excellent meeting with Dr. Wiggins!
She is such a caring and interesting person. We could connect so cohesively, if we choose to do so, both through the YA camps and SI 2007. Lots of possibility and positive work for us collectively and individually.
Notes will follow about the wonderful information she shared and Scott is going to upload the PPT she presented.
I'm so excited about the possibilities of this venture!
Joyce :)
At 10/16/2006 7:21 PM,
Kinderbeanie :) said…
Dr. Joy Wiggins came to speak to our BWP on Saturday, October 14, 2006 from 10:00-12:00 noon. She brought a wealth of information concerning peace and how we are, as a nation, in desperate need to create a more peaceful and tolerant future.
She began her PowerPoint (which is referenced under Katherine's email at this address: http://www.txbluebonnetwp.org/bluebonnet/Blog/Tanzania_Project-_Camp_Kilimanjaro%5B2%5D.ppt , titled: Matokeo ya Utafutaji: Peaceful Paths:An Exploration of Peace through International Children’s Literature in Tanzania and the United States. She has been researching cultures and literature from various educational settings around the world. She has taught in elementary in the U.S., and at the Zhejiang University of Technology, as well as 6th Grade for DISD. She is currently teaching at UTA in language arts, literacy research, and multicultural children's literature.
Dr. Wiggins' vision with this project is to enhance global awareness and to find peaceful resolution of conflicts that face our world. She is trying to foster children's understandings regarding the global community in which we live. She is interested in seeing how this project will influence social action. When the children review and critically discuss the perspectives of others around them, they will be creating communities of inquiry. Dr. Wiggins wants to help bridge the gaps between cultures through blogging, podcasting, and dialogue regarding literature and how they are going to internalize the need for change and understanding as opposed to those of hate and fear.
Through connections she has in Tanzania (www.campkilimanjaro.com), her previous school where she taught in Dallas, at the Martinez Learning Center, through her association with the Yaxche Learning Center (www.Yaxche.org) in Taos, New Mexico, and the Texas Bluebonnet Writing Project at UTA, she is attempting to incorporate new perceptions and in turn create change within the learners and others in the project.
She is going to go to Tanzania this summer and is interested in finding technological resources for the Camp Kilimanjaro learners, and ways to connect to learners here in the U.S. who will be corresponding with one another.
Joyce :)
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