Dr. Sheila Gersh - CultureQuest

Dr. Sheila Gersh, City College of New York
CultureQuest: An In-Depth Look at Project-based Learning with ePals

CultureQuest - students learning about theirs and others cultures from within the city and around the world
Example: topic of music and how music is seen in different cultures

Referencing NETS for Teachers and said there are new ones but they are about the same as the old ones. She should have taken the time to read the new NETS-T to see that they are different.

Students are learning and teachers are learning from students all at the same time
Students need to learn to summarize
two column pages copy and paste into first column and second column rewrite into own words

Skills related with culture quest
Pedagogy skills - varying ways of teaching/engaging students

This presenter should have examined who her audience is, most of the stuff she mentions is stuff we have all be using for years. PowerPoint and adding narration with audio :-( as if we didn't know this.