GLIP

This is the first of many posts which will reflect and document my participation within a Global Literacies Initiative Project (GLIP).  Its goal is to join together students of a variety of grade levels in a variety of countries together with a common assignment.  The assignment has been divided into 3 phases, each of which has specific directions, some of which encourage and require the students to work together.  I am in a group with 16 other students from 9 different schools in 4 different countries.  The schools range from elementary school through college.


I have been assigned the role of Technology Facilitator for this project, and I am VERY nervous about this fact.  I keep wondering about what types of technology issues I may encounter while trying to work with a group this diverse.  At the same time, I am very excited.  One of the other students within my group is a fellow NCSU student who is in another class.  His role is to be the Group Facilitator and lead everything.  I think this will make things go very smoothly

I am very excited about GLIP, there seems to be a lot of opportunities in how this can go.  The whole project is being completed on a Wikispace website, which will enable everyone to edit it and add their own twist and opinions to everything.  I look forward to see how different people and different cultures approach a similar topic.
The first phase of the assignment just requires for everyone to respond to a few questions about what makes them the person that they are.  I have a poem that I wrote about the different things that make me “me”.  I believe that I am going to try to and incorporate it somewhere in my answer.  I like the flow of it, and I think it helps answer what Phase I is looking for.


Sooo… here goes!