Introduction to TakingITGlobal site and project.

1. TakingITGlobal
Youth making global connections - a social network
for social good
http://takingitglobal.org

2. Mission: To provide opportunities for learning, capacity-
building, cross-cultural awareness, and self-development
through the use of information and communication
technologies.
Vision: Youth everywhere are actively inspired, informed
and actively involved in shaping our world.
Hits per day: 1.8 million

3. Inspire
•Learn about global social issues
•Meet young global leaders
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50999605@N00/3271952766/

4. Inform
•Discuss local and global concerns
•Connect with peers and related organisations
•Share art and writing
•Join action projects

5. Involve
•Start a project and recruit members to help
•Network
•Volunteer within the community

6. Let’s wonder together…
If young people were actively
engaged in all aspects of society, and
thought of themselves as
community leaders, problem-
solvers, role models, mentors and
key ‘stakeholders’…how would the
world change?
- Jennifer Corriero, Executive Director, TIG

7. The New Zealand Curriculum takes as its
starting point a vision of our young people as lifelong
learners who are confident and creative, connected,
and actively involved.
Global awareness and understanding across cultures is key to the
future of the planet. TakingITGlobal helps to prepare students and
youth for today's knowledge economy - engaging them in local
and global issues through an interactive online platform.

8. The General
TIG Site

9. Community
This section of TakingITGlobal focuses on online community
building and cross cultural dialogue, and includes discussion
boards, profiles, and member stories.
Take Action
This section of TakingITGlobal provides ways to take action on
local and global levels. These readily accessible tools include
Project Pages, Commitments, Petitions and Groups.
Resources
This section of TakingITGlobal contains our databases of
resources, members can access thousands of listings from all
over the world: events, toolkits, organisations or opportunities.

10. Youth Media
This section of TakingITGlobal provides platforms on which to
share your expressions with other members. Thoughtful and
creative expression happens on a daily basis through the Global
Gallery, blogs and Panorama Zine, a collection of youth media.
Global Issues
Members and guests can learn about background information on
pressing global issues such as peace, health and culture, and
are provided links to relevant articles, major policy documents,
and key international events.
Regions
This section of TakingITGlobal has information about different
countries and continents (similar to the CIA Fact File). For each
country there is a promotion guide to give guidance on how to
contribute to this section.

13. Educational community
The TIGed Community
• 12731 Students
• 2896 Teachers
• 1432 Classes
• 976 Schools
• 155 Activities
• 72 Countries

14. TIGed - Community
Search a database of
lessons posted by other
educators or communicate
with other educators
through the forum.

15. TIGed - Resources
Activities including
thematic classrooms
compiled by TIG staff.

16. Why get involved
with

17. Secure and free of advertising
Collaborative Resource rich
Why get involved
Global with Monitored
Researched MoE Supported
Educational community

18. Collaborative
Enable powerful, authentic learning
experiences as students connect with
individuals and organisations around the
world and collaborate with them.
Statistics
Over 200,000 current members
Key Competency - Participating and contributing is about being
actively involved in communities. They may be local, national or
global.

19. Collaboration in Action
Survivor Galt Project
Classroom Director of
teacher orphange
TakingITGlobal
Uganda
Canada

20. Collaboration in Action
Survivor Galt Project
Jennifer’s students learned about:
•impact of AIDS in Urganda leading
to many orphans
•human rights issues in Uganda
Raised $600 through 24 hr
collaboration evening at the
school gymn

21. Collaboration in Action
Survivor Galt Project
Every student said we
wouldn't learn as much from the
internet and the library because Mr
Moses is living it right now and we can
ask him a question and he'll give us
the right answer.

22. I think it has
really sparked their
enthusiasm and the
alerted them to the fact
that there is a big world out
there and that there are
many different
perspectives. The kids
have been quite proud to
share their culture with
the kids in Canada.
Wellington High Case Study

23. My students
were amazed at the
ability of the Canadian
students to articulate about
water problems. It was
good role modelling for
my students.
Wellington High Case Study

24. Community - Discussion Boards
Gain multiple perspectives on current issues from those
directly involved

25. Action Tools - Commitments
Investigate a call to action by looking at it from all angles

26. Action Tools - Petitions
Petitions can be started on a range of issues

27. Global
Introduce students to youth-oriented
perspectives from around the world on
today's pressing global issues
Statistics
Over 200 countries represented by
the TIG community
Key Competency - Relating to others is about interacting effectively
with a diverse range of people in a variety of contexts.

28. Importance of Being
Globally Aware
Global economy
Global issues

29. TakingITGlobal
Demographics

30. The conflict in Gaza - View from Palestine
“I am eyewitness from Gaza ...Hamas and othere
factions are trying to defend palestinians from the
continuing masacres ,invasions,airstrikes . hey ,
Palestinian factions do not own
tanks,warplanes ,warships and rockets ... they have
homemade missiles , minds and simple weapons , they
cannot do anything against israeli great powerfull
army”

31. The conflict in Gaza - View from US supporter of Israel
“You said Hamas won legitimate elections - I have
some questions for you...
1 - do you think there is any chance they would allow
new free elections in Gaza now? If not how can they
maintain democratic legitimacy?
2 - if Bin Laden was elected in Canada tomorrow and
declared his intention of destroying the United States,
then started firing missiles at us - how would you
expect our government to react?

32. Global Issues - Peace
Broader information on the overall topic including useful links

33. Global Issues - Peace
Broader information on the overall topic including useful links

34. Global Issues - Peace
Broader information on the overall topic including useful links

35. Regions - Middle East
Region and country information

36. Resource rich
A huge bank of tools and resources to
help students understand issues and
learn from other members.
Statistics
Over 1 million pages of content
Key competency - Thinking is about using creative, critical, and
metacognitive processes to make sense of information,
experiences, and ideas.

37. Resources - Toolkits and Publications
Excellent resources for how to take action

39. Global
Issues
Broader
information
on the overall
topic
including
useful links

40. Regions
Regional and
country
information.

41. Multi-modal
Participate on the site in a range of ways
such as through images and video.
Statistics
14451 images in the Global Gallery
Key competency - Using language, symbols and texts. Students
who are competent users of language,symbols, and texts can
interpret and use words, number, images, movement, metaphor,
and technologies in a range of contexts.

42. Youth Media - Global Gallery
Art work for expression

43. Games to help understand concepts

44. Games to help understand concepts

45. Moderated
Content on TIG is checked to make sure
it is appropriate.
Statistics
Apart from blogs, all other content is checked
before it appears on the site.

46. Ministry of Education Supported
Costs to schools are heavily
subsidised by government funding.
Facts
The MoE, CORE Education and TIG have
signed a three year contract to support TIG in
schools.

47. Researched - quotes from projects
“My understanding of it has grown deeper through the things
that I automatically assumed were true, weren’t true and my
perspective changed entirely and my opinions are different.”
Jeffrey - student
“We had expected some of the students to be overwhelmed by
the amount of anticipated work, but they appeared to have taken
on some of the TIGed spirit; they felt empowered, enthused, and
challenged”
Ann - Teacher

48. Getting support
Support to Training
workshops with
develop lessons
staff/
using TIG departments
Full day In-class
workshops for Virtual support
teachers (across
support with
and newsletters
schools) using the tools
TIGed Project

49. Virtual
Classrooms in
TIGed

50. TIGed - My classes
Set assignments with TIG
content as a resource
Each student can have a
separate blog (private or
published to TIG)
Have your own private
discussion forums to explore
issues
Students can publish writing to
this space

51. TIGed - My classes
Create bookmarks to useful
web resources
Publish art work and
photography in your own
protected space
Link your classroom to a
YouTube channel to include
videos
Create maps related to your
studies using mapping tool

52. Joining my virtual
classroom demo
You can join as a student by visiting
this link:
http://collaboration.tiged.org/
educators/register/
The registration code is joinsoc
Or join as an associate teacher by
visiting this link:
http://collaboration.tiged.org/
educators/assistant/
The registration code is teachsoc

53. Project Coordinator Contact Details
Until 4th September 2009
Suzie Vesper · TIG Project Co-ordinator
CORE Education Ltd
Location: Wellington
Mobile: 021337430
Email: suzie.vesper@core-ed.net
Skype username: suzcorey
From 7th September 2009
Liz Stevenson · TIG Project Co-ordinator
CORE Education Ltd
Location: Whakatane
Mobile: 021724953
Email: liz.stevenson@core-ed.net