Cultural Literacy Project: Connecting K12 students from Turkey and the U.S. through Web 2.0 technologies

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Yildiz, M. (2008). Cultural Literacy Project: Connecting K12 students from Turkey and the U.S. through Web 2.0 technologies. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 4511-4515). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2008
Vienna, Austria
June 30, 2008
ISBN 1-880094-65-7
  Joseph Luca & Edgar R. Weippl
AACE

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Melda Yildiz, William Paterson University, USA

Abstract

This paper presents the study conducted in Spring 2007 called “Cultural Literacy Project.” The project promotes teaching language, culture, history and literacy through media production in teacher education, offers creative strategies for producing media, for mentoring and tutoring over the internet with minimal resources. The research focuses on: (1) examining cultural and linguistically responsive curriculum designed for K12 students who were in the US as heritage language learners and the ones in Turkey were English as a foreign language learners; (2) multilingual tutoring and mentoring to K12 students about culture, language, and history of the US and Turkey using Web 2.0 technologies; (3) indentifying teacher candidates' reactions, discoveries, and experiences with the project; and (4) the process of developing learning objects such as digital storytelling projects focusing on across cultures throughout history.

Keywords

• Languages
• Social Studies
• Learning Objects
• Literacy
• Mentoring

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