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Garden City, NY-March 10, 2003
Our
very own MiddleSchoolKidz.com webmaster, Sheila D. Gatling,
has been nominated for the prestigious international 2003 Global
SchoolNet Foundation “Online Shared Learning Award”.
ABOUT
THE FOUNDATION
"Since
1984 the Global
SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) has been a leader in demonstrating
and promoting online shared, or collaborative, learning. Today,
GSN continues this tradition by instituting the annual "GSN
Online Shared Learning Awards." Each year GSN will recognize
a number of current K-12 classroom teachers, media specialists,
and other school-based educators who have distinguished themselves
in the area of online shared learning. Qualified educators who
are nominated and selected will receive a cash award in recognition
of their dedication, leadership and hard work.
Online
Shared Learning is known by several different descriptive names:
online collaborative learning, telecollaboration, networked Project-Based
Learning, multi-cultural interpersonal exchanges, telecomputing
and others.
Online
Shared Learning is a variation of project-based learning, with the
added dimension of involving two or more groups or classes of students
in geographically diverse locations working together. Because of
distance, students use a variety of online and traditional communications
media (email, CU-SeeMe, national postal services, fax, couriers,
etc.) in order to accomplish the shared project mission. Students
exchange data, original writing, surveys, analysis and evaluation,
conclusions, final reports, documents, products, and other information...
including a great deal of email and other correspondence among the
project participants."
To view
Sheila’s Candidate Narrative and Testimonials, click here:
1.
http://www.gsnaward.org/viewCandidates/viewCandidates.jsp
2.
enter LAST NAME: "Gatling" in the space provided
3.
and then click the grey submit button
The award
winner and finalists will be announced in early April 2003. To wish
Sheila well in the competition, drop an e-mail to sgatling@middleschoolkidz.com
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