This
Week’s Highlight
Germantown Friends School
GFS English teacher Meg Goldner
Rabinowitz’s “Voki,” the online teaching persona she created for
her Global Online Academy “Media Studies” course.
Global Online Academy
Germantown
Friends School has ventured
into the realm of online instruction this year. Along with Sidwell
Friends in Washington, D.C., and the Lakeside School in Seattle,
as well as seven other leading independent schools across the
country and abroad, GFS is a founding member of the Global Online
Academy (GOA), a not-for-profit organization offering world-class
online courses taught by passionate and gifted teachers.
The mission of the GOA is to replicate
in online classrooms the intellectually-rigorous programs and excellent
teaching that are hallmarks of its member schools; to foster new
and effective ways for students to learn; and to promote students’
global awareness and understanding by creating truly diverse, worldwide,
online classroom communities. Courses are limited to 18 students
per class, who work independently as well as collaboratively on
projects using Skype and the Internet.
GFS can now offer courses that would
not otherwise be available to its students through this global
program and its interactive, geographical-, cultural-, and ethically-diverse
learning environment.
