GENERAL INFORMATION

POLICIES

It is your responsibility as a participant:

To keep track of the assignments, instructions from the faculty team, and the participation of your team in the group space.
To plan and organize your time and activities in order to deliver on or before their due dates.
To make sure you get your teammates' contact information and to establish a line of communication with them in order to organize and plan the delivery of the collaborative activity on time.
Take into account the time difference between the countries.
To keep a respectful, honest, and professional attitude towards the work of your team as well as with the faculty team.

In the collaborative activities, it is the responsibility of each member:

To keep a collaborative attitude to teammates and learn from them.
To make sure your contributions are active, critical, analytical, and reflective. What you say in each contribution must go further than a superficial comment.

HOW DO I GET MY DIGITAL BADGE?

The Vice-Rectory for International Affairs from Tecnológico de Monterrey awards a digital badge to students who participate actively in the GSL Classroom experience when they have met the following criteria:

Participation in the Icebreaker.
Participation in Team Activities.
Participation in the Reflection.
Obtain 80% of the total of the GSL Classroom.

At the end, students will receive an email with their digital badge and another to answer a survey that will serve to continuously improve the GSL Classroom experience.

TOOLS

During the experience you will be using some technological applications that will enhance your learning process. The tools will be easily accessed through this platform.

ENG_ Time and date.mp4

It might be a challenge to agree on the best time to meet due of the time difference between the country or countries in which you are collaborating, for this reason we present a guide to the Time and Date so that you can visualize the most convenient time to agree on synchronous sessions with your multicultural team.

COLLABORATION

Padlet is a tool that allows you to store and share multimedia content, it is a digital wall in which professors and students can collaborate by inserting images, links, documents, text, videos, audio, among others.

You can learn some basic aspects of how to use Padlet on the following link: Click here

COMMUNICATION-SLACK

Slack is a collaboration hub that connects you with your classmates. Slack will be useful during the Teamwork.

Here is a quick guide on how to register: Click here

An invitation to join our Workspace will be sent to your institutional email account. Take into consideration that first, you will need to Sign Up.

Please make sure you received the invitation and follow the steps to join the workspace:

Check the Slack email invitation
Click on Join Now
Confirm your name and set a password
Click on Create Account
After this, you will be redirected to the application in its web version.

MS teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app built for hybrid work to keep multicultural teams informed, organized and connected, all in one place.

Make sure you have received the invitation to the email provided by the Faculty Team and explore how Teams can help you and your international colleagues meet, communicate, and share documents during the collaboration.

VIRTUAL MEETINGS

Zoom is a web conferencing platform that allows high definition video calls with some features like desktop sharing, whiteboard, chat, and video call recording. You can access from anywhere using your computer or mobile device. You will be using Zoom to interview an international peer.

RESOURCES

To participate in GSL Classroom you will need to have access to a computer or telephone equipped for audio and video conferencing. To minimize interference, headphones and a microphone are required for conferences.

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