Tapping VoiceThread and OneWorld Classrooms for Powerful Global Connections

When: February 23, 2016 3:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time)

OneWorld Classrooms is a nonprofit whose mission is to build bridges of learning and understanding between local and global classrooms through the arts and technology. Director Paul Hurteau will inform workshop participants about how they can involve their classrooms/youth groups in the K-12 Global Art Exchange, through which students share original art with each other and complete follow-up conversations via VoiceThread and Skype. Since 2009, over 25,000 students from 65 countries have participated in the program and another 250,000 students have seen program art displays in their schools. … Continued