In this activity, you will be working in groups; Faculty will assign you a team where you will be collaborating with international peers.
We will be working along eight different steps, check the full description below:
Start contacting your peers as soon as possible. It is important to know them before the session on June 9.
You will be invited to a synchronous session on intercultural communication with guest speaker Dr. Darla Deardorff using UNESCO Story Circles to introduce intercultural effectiveness. Zoom link to the session will be provided to the email you entered for registration. The session will be recorded for those who couldn´t attend the meeting.
We will ask participants to answer voluntarily a short pre-survey for this COIL activity. The link will be delivered at the end of the session and also it will be sent to your registered email for his activity.
You will be invited to an online lecture by Dr. Terry Wiley, Past President of the Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington, DC) on topics related to language rights, immigration, bilingual education, racism and language policy. Zoom link to the session will be sent to the email you entered for registration. The session will be recorded for those who couldn´t attend the meeting.
After you attend the lecture with Terry Wiley (or reviewed the recording in case you missed the session) and along with your Team, react and reflect about the topics covered. Explain what you have learned from the lecture and what your thoughts are. This could be done in a synchronous session or asynchronous in Slack. We will send you an email invitation to join the Workspace to our Slack channel.
Remember to go to our Slack Channel on our Workspace and contact your teammates, just send a brief message to say hi and start the conversation in your channel (#team_). If you have any trouble accessing the Workspace on Slack, send an email to glasserman@tec.mx including your name, institution and Team number describing the issue or problem with your access.
Tell your team members about the topics related to Intercultural Communication (and its effectiveness) you are currently working on in your work/studies in general. The idea of the activity is to come up with a topic such as leadership and communication, diversity, equity and inclusion, sustainability and education for sustainable developing learning, race and justice, language and bilingual education that the whole team shares an interest and can contribute to. Also, the topic should be something you find worth presenting to the others (i.e. a topic you think might be useful professionally).
How is the topic relevant in the cultural context of each country to the team members represented?
Based on your conversations and some research, you will create a video that you will share with the other Teams. Ideate freely, the more ideas you share, the bigger the chance that you will come up with an exciting topic. Some well-known examples of ideation techniques are brainstorming and mind mapping but feel free to use any technique you are familiar with and find suitable!
All team interaction must start through Slack, this app facilitates the asynchronous interaction. If you decide to schedule a synchronous video conference with your team, that will be awesome and we encourage you to do so. You can schedule a meeting through Zoom, Google Hangouts (Meet), Microsoft Teams, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Jitsi or any other tool that let you connect. Don’t forget to use the recording option to save evidence of your conversation or print screens if possible.
At the end of this page, you will find some useful guides to use the apps. Check out how to join Slack and how to schedule and record a free 40-min meeting in Zoom. Tutorials for the other tools are available on the main video content providers (I.E. YouTube, Vimeo, etc. ).
Also, you can take a look of previous COIL videos delivered (with different focus on the themes) to guide your teamwork:
https://padlet.com/glasserman1/ref2021
Once you have discussed with your team, create a short video. Remember that as a Team you will be required to explain a bit of the topic (in case someone doesn´t know anything about it), but focusing on how it is relevant in the cultural context of each country the team members are represented, and how International & Intercultural Learning is relevant in each country.
You can be as creative as you wish, meaning that your video could be told with images, video of yourselves, text, and so on. Just don´t forget to be respectful and keep in mind that at the end all videos will be shared with the entire group.
Here are some further guides on how to work on your storytelling process:
We will have an optional session on June 23 to review drafts of final videos. Decide with your Team if you would like to attend the session with the Faculty of this COIL activity. It is not mandatory to attend this meeting.
Just as you did during the Icebreaker & Symposium Phase, go to the following Padlet board and insert the link or embed your video. This can be done by one of the team members of each group. Remember to review the privacy options and set them as public so everyone can view your final video and comment on it.
Start communicating with your team members through your channel in Slack.
Also, to attend two synchronous sessions with guest lecturers that will help you to settle the context of the collaboration project.
Your Team will deliver a video. You will produce a final collaborative project related to how diversity, equity, social mobility, social justice are considered and experienced in the education settings where you live and work. Intercultural communication (and its effectiveness) is the overall umbrella for these collaborations and considerations. Although the final video assignment suggests a more narrative format, your video could also include data which describe the extent of the issue in your locations as well as education policy and practices to mitigate the most serious effects.
We recommend you to work on a shared Google Slides file where everyone can contribute and also you can add some narration. You can schedule a Zoom Meeting, Google Hangout, Meet or any other App to present your story and record the session. There are many other free apps that could be helpful, you might be familiar with some other tools and you are free to decide what to use to build your story. Discuss with your Team what will be the best option for all of you.
Remember you will be required to post your final video on a Padlet. If you decide to first upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo, just make sure to set the privacy options during the development of this activity so only your teammates have access to it. Also, if you decide to upload your video into a shared space such as Google Drive, Dropbox or any other cloud service, review its shared options during the development of the video. When the final video is ready, change the settings to public so everyone can watch it on Padlet. If you have any questions or you need assistance, please contact glasserman@tec.mx
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. Links will be shared in the Slack Workplace.
We will keep track of each participant on how it is perceived his/her contribution for this activity (based on the evidence presented in Slack and in the final video in Padlet). Each host institution, SJSU and ITESM will decide how grades will be assigned in their institutional courses (if it applies, due to some cases would be voluntary with no grade involved).