Finding a wonderful opportunity for your students to engage in cross-cultural communication and collaboration with their peers overseas is exciting. So how can you offer… Read More »Finding Funding for LUV Virtual Exchanges
Collaboration in a global context provides students and teachers a great opportunity to learn about the world beyond their classroom and develop skills essential to… Read More »Four Amazing Benefits of Global Collaboration
This past October, two classrooms from Mountain Brook Elementary (Alabama) and two classrooms from Colegio Santo Tomás de Aquino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) kicked off our… Read More »The Power of Music and Global Collaboration: Mountain Brook Elementary & Colegio Santo Tomás
“Talk about the weather?” A student looks at me stunned as if I’ve suggested a ridiculous proposition. He has been staring at his computer screen… Read More »Talk about the Weather
If you’re an educator, you know how buzzwords in pedagogy can come and go. Terms like total immersion, global citizenship, resilience, equity and inclusion, and… Read More »Virtual Exchanges: Why Focus on STEM?
Language learning strategies, technology, student participation–there’s a lot to pay attention to when running a virtual exchange in your class. Certainly, keeping the various procedural… Read More »Hidden Benefits: Building Relationships with Colleagues through Virtual Exchanges
Letter writing: one of the great antiquities every nostalgia-stricken English major mourns. A vestige of a courtly, romantic, Victorian age where people had naught to… Read More »Virtual Exchanges and the Lost Art of Letter Writing
Hi! My name is Shelly. I am an AP and honors Spanish teacher in New Jersey. My amazing experience with the LUV Global Connections pilot… Read More »Bringing Intercultural Communication to the Classroom with LUV Global Connections: One Teacher’s Experience
As an educator, do you ever feel that a virtual exchange can seem, at first glance, a bit ham-fisted and contrived? “Here, Student: we paired… Read More »Project Spotlight: A Virtual Exchange IRL
Our school prides itself on unity and fraternity. One of the ways in which we practice this comes in the form of an annual book… Read More »Improving Cultural Competency Series: Ambassadors