Vermont Schools: Implementing New Technologies with IVECA

Vermont Schools and their partner schools across the Globe used Zoom [https://www.zoom.us] for the first time this semester. Students were able to interact with each other in real time and the video quality helped the experience become even more meaningful.

Vermont teachers also used Zoom to have lesson planning meeting with teachers across the world. During those meetings teachers were able to share their screens, annotate the screen using markup tools and text with the whiteboard features. Each participant was able to chat with individuals privately or with the whole group. They also could indicate if  they had questions with a raise hand feature.

Good Job Vermont School of bringing to IVECA new ways to communicate! Let’s become one big group of Global citizens that connect to each other via Zoom.

American and Brazilian Students Study Collaboratively about Energy and Its Effects in Daily Life

On December 10th Bellows Free Academy (USA) and Olímpio Vianna School (Brazil) had their so expected Live Class. The global exchange had as a theme the ways their respective countries have been dealing with energy and its effects in daily life. Both classrooms presented to each other the most common usage of energy and its resources.

Brazilian fifth grader Matheus C. da Silveira shared his critical thinking when mentioning “Brazil has spread throughout its territory rich vegetation consisting of rainforest […]

Unfortunately most of the population does not treat the environment as it deserves”.

American 4th-grade student, Tommy, learned about the impacts of energy usage in Brazil and demonstrated intercultural competency by relating to his peer and comparing geographical differences from both countries. He says: “I am so sorry about the damage. I learned that it’s bad to mine near huge rivers. Your country is different from our country because we don’t have many mines. I hope the damage gets fixed soon.”

After such rich sharing of knowledge, both nations inspired each other by with cultural presentations. Olímpio Vianna demonstrated how to prepare the most famous tea in Southern Brazil called Chimarrão. Bellows Free Academy engaged the Brazilians with American traditional holiday songs.

Congratulations! Bellows Free Academy and Olímpio Vianna’s students are now Global Citizens!

IVECA Is Now Associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI)

In November 2015, the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) recommended association to the Department of Public Information (DPI) for IVECA Center for International Virtual Schooling. The Department of Public Information (DPI) approved the recommendation on November 20, 2015. Mr. Jeffrey Brez, Chief of the NGO Branch, congratulated IVECA Center in its letter of approval:

“It is my pleasure to welcome your organization to the Department of Public Information. We look forward to a productive partnership in pursuit of our common goals.”

IVECA has also been in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since February 2013 and is aligned with the new goals for sustainable development determined by the UN Secretary-General’s Global Initiative on Education-Global Education First Initiative (GEFI).

Our community of students, teachers and alumni are proud of another achievement. Together, we are engaged to promote global education and intercultural competencies worldwide.

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