Virtual Learning Environments

I’m happy to introduce you to Frank Cohn, Founder and Executive Director of Globalhood, which is the umbrella organization for the Global Potential (GP) program. The Global Potential program empowers low-income urban youth aged 16 to 25 to create positive change in their lives and communities. For 12 weeks, youth participants engage in a social entrepreneurship and leadership training program run at their high school, where they gain skills and knowledge that will prepare them to live and volunteer for six weeks in a rural village in a developing country (where at least half the students have a cultural background).

This semester our class will be working with GP to create two multi-modal educational projects: 1. a Global Potential Alumni Experience and Mentoring Program and 2. Ethnography and Mapping the Batey. I think GP is an amazing program and I’m excited to be working with them and hope that you’re looking forward to it, too!

You can get a good overview of the Global Potential program here:
http://global-potential.org/brochure
and at their blog:
http://www.global-potential.org/blog/
and Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Potential/27679576083?ref=nf

So, without further ado, here’s Frank Cohn, giving an overview of Global Potential and the projects:

Here’s a follow-up video with more detail:

TokBox – Free video chat and video messaging

Here’s the video conversation thread on virtual learning platforms — it’s great to put faces to names and continue the discussion in this forum, so keep the videos coming:

TokBox – Free video chat and video messaging

More on media uses to raise awareness. See this HIV campaign using video and a storytelling format:

Originally from http://vlegroup9.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/hiv-still-a-big-deal-campaign/