Hope Windle, Instructional designer from SUNY Ulster with Richard Cattabiani and rebecca smolar from the SUNY LEvin Institute are presenting on these Insternational Online collaborations. SUNY Ulster has not only international forays to other countries but online collaborations with students from schools all over the world. Ulster partners with the SUNY Levin Institute as well as the Universidad Internacional, in Mexico as well as the European Humanities Uninversity in Lithuania

1. Engaging our students in International Online Learning Communities ! Hope Windle, Instructional Design, SUNY Ulster Richard Cattabiani, Director of International Programs, SUNY Ulster Rebecca Smolar, Globalization 101, SUNY Levin Institute

3. The varieties of Going International at SUNY Ulster Online OR Online AND Travel Travel

6. How do you make connections with international partners? Are there places on the web where one might find interested partners? COIL, SUNY’s Center of Online International Learning. http://coilcenter.purchase.edu/

11. Let’s talk about Tools 1. SKYPE! & email 2. Google docs 3. Moodle, ANGEL, Blackboard

12. Do you have any general guidelines on being culturally sensitive?

13. Advice ? 1.Respect Cultural Differences: Listen 2. Recognize the online medium is student centered. 3. Accommodate teaching styles 4. Be flexible

14. Is it an equal partnership?

15. How do you prepare students to take advantage of this opportunity?

24. Your Findings & Questions

25. Richard Cattabiani Director, International Programs SUNY Ulster [email_address] Hope Windle Instructional Design SUNY Ulster [email_address] Rebecca Smolan SUNY Levin Institute Globalization.101 Rebecca.Smolar@levininstitute.org Thank you