Photo ArtLink VTC is a cutting-edge, videoconference-based program. Students in paired classes in the U.S. and abroad explore meaningful aspects of daily life by taking digital photos of various aspects of their cultures. They gain new insights into their own culture and share/compare them with their partner class during two facilitated, live video-conferences.
By participating in Photo VTC, your students will learn to:
- Be introspective about their culture and their place in it.
- Communicate key aspects of their culture through the art of photography.
- Dialogue effectively as they present and field questions about their photos.
- Understand through their partner’s photos the realities that exist in their partner’s world.
- Discover and explore the values that underlie the surface aspects of every culture.
- Become conscious global citizens
Creative Connections provides our partner teachers with:
- An energized, motivated partner class and full contact information
- Comprehensive program guidelines
- Two fully facilitated live videoconferences
- Our office staff, always available, for advice over the course of the exchange
- Access to our online teacher network of partner teachers around the world
Countries partner classrooms are from:
Participants over the past two years have included middle school classes in Mexico, Nicaragua, India, Ireland, and Russia, as well as the U.S.
Requirements:
Participating classes must have access to IP videoconferencing equipment.
Photo VTC ArtLink Dates:
The two-conference exchange can take place over any 2-3 week span from February - May, Follow-up discussion and the sharing of further photos can be carried out on our CulturExchange online site.
Enrollment Fee: $425 per class (Only US classrooms pay to participate)
"These videoconferences have a great importance for our students in developing cross-cultural literacy and global awareness...it gave our students a truer global perspective." Anna Zorina, English teacher at School for Global Understanding, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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