Our work feedback

We are very grateful to GVC for giving us such great opportunity to work as one team. We all enjoyed the experience greatly. Our team was lucky enough to have all skills needed for the work.

All schools have contributed in all aspects of the project, writing, drawing, computer part but we all have special skills that were of the most use for the project.

All kids worked in collaboration with the partners in creating their lessons. They didn't have such things as "our work" - "your work". The first priority was to help partners, with texts illustrations, pages.

American students were good text writers and excellent illustrators. We are impressed by the quality and quantity of their work.

Croatian students are very creative writers and their language skills are impressive. We all value their help with interactive exercises.

Russian students, although not very good with the laguage, were useful with illustrations and technical part of the project.

Kids and teachers are very sorry that the project has finished. We wish we could go and go on working. We have decided to keep in touch and work on our own projects in future. We want to thank GVC for creating the team GVC 06-03!

Students' feedback

Doing GVC has shown me how use a computer and I have learned many things about The U.S., Russia , and Croatia . I hope everyone has learned as much as I have doing GVC.
Sarah

Hello,
Using GVC is very fun. I think the website is really coming together. All of the different subjects and drawings are just great. I love being able to be a part of it.
Ashley

I think GVC is really fun. I love getting messages!!
Jenna

I think the website is really going well. I can't wait until it gets done. The different classes are really neat.
Jenna

This is cool I am learning more and more about Russia , Croatia , and the U.S. every Monday.
Christian

I love GVC. I learned how to work on websites and I learned alot about the world history. Before GVC, I didn't know Croatia existed.
Hannah M

I love GVC! It taught me a lot about Croatia and Russia and their customs! Russia and Croatia are two very interesting countries. I am most happy to be sharing this new learning experience with them!
Alexis

I learned to use a computer better and learned more about Russia and Croatia . This has been a really fun project.
Chandler

I am soo happy to be working with Croatia and Russia ! I particularly like language the best! They have taught me a lot, and I am very glad to be working with them!
Cinderella

This project has been a really great experience! Being able to interact with people from different countries was a fascinating thing to do. I would love to do this again.
Simeon M

I think that G.S.B.I has been a very great experience for all three countries. It is a very interesting project. Within these last few months I have learned so much about all of the countries, even my own U.S.A. I hope everyone else has too.
Love,
Nicole S.

GVC has really given me a lot of exciting experiences. It helped me to learn new languages and about CROATIA , RUSSIA , and the USA . This is an awesome project.
Your friend,
Chelsea

Hello, this is Journey. I just wanted to tell you about how I feel about GVC.

GVC taught me that in many ways how to teach other people the English language who don't understand our own language. It also taught me to learn the other two languages. I know some words but not many. I LOVE GVC!!!
I think that GVC has taught me a lot about different places!! I have also made many friends!! YAY!! I love it!!
Lilly G

GVC has taught me things about Croatian and Russian kids. I got to experience how they speak and how they live.
Lakelyn

We love GVC! It is a great project! We don't see foreign people in our city. GVC gave us chance to meet foreign friends. Our team is wonderful. We learnt a lot about the USA and Croatia. It was very interesting to behave like teachers in our topic and teach many lessons.
We liked to write, to draw and do pages.
We want to work in team GVC 06-03 again.
Russian students


We have become better writers in English! It was hard at the beginning but later we understood the point and worked together and in groups. We talked a lot about our ideas.

It was very interesting to see and read what our partners were doing. Sometimes we were unsure about what steps to take, but working with others showed us the right way.

Our teacher was encouraging us all the time. She taught us to think critically and to revise each piece of work in order to make it better. It took time to understand that she didn't criticize us but the things we did.

Our feedback on GVC project is very positive. We didn't avoid to ask each other and our teacher about the difficulties.We wanted to improve all our abilities.

We didn't have a permanent access to the Internet and computers at school, but I think we did a very good job. Working with Hot Potatoes was exciting and we learned much.

GVC project makes sense and it was interesting. The knowledge we have achieved will be very useful in our future learning.

We made my spelling and grammar much better. We have also learned to write better.

We had an opportunity to see and read our own work in more critically way. Our partners were our motivation to try our best all the time After all, we are richer in knowledge than before and we will try to improve our weaknesses in the future.

We asked a lot of questions during our work on this project. It was the best way to get advice from our three teachers. Sometimes we couldn't decide on some parts of the assignment because we weren't sure if something was more important than other part. It wa easier when our teacher told us that she was learning together with us.

We really hope that our ideas are useful for others in this project. We were learning so much about new topics.

Our English grammar is better now. GVC project helped us to identify our grammatical "key troubles."

We learned to be our own better reader because we practiced reading our work critically. Now we are more able to think about our writing problems that we have had in the past. We were looking over our papers all the time. We gave ourselves more critical distance from our writing than before by coming back to them more often so we were able to offer ourselves better solutions.

Drawing for our partners and illustrations for their works was amazing. We felt responsible for what will appear along with thier stories. We learned much about Russia and USA.

We tried hard to have a clear understanding of the material we worked on. We have improved our English by learning for a purpose.
GVC Team from Croatia

Feedback from teachers
We, as teachers involved in the Global Virtual Classroom project, feel that by doing activities such as this with our students that we are preparing them to think globally. Our students must be prepared in the area of technology and in the global arena in order to have a successful future. We also feel that by raising awareness of other cultures, we are teaching our students to respect and tolerate diversity. Our students have learned the huge lesson that even though students may speak another language, eat different food, or have different holidays that they celebrate, we are all very similar in so many ways. We are all human beings and we must learn to co-exist in this big world that we call Earth.
Deborah Holt and Milana Zubritskaya

GVC project has been a real challenge for my students and for me. In spite of the fact that we've had a number of obstacles and difficulties during the working process (the lack of Internet and computers since the school has been under the reconstruction), I would say that GVC was a precious experience.

With the emergence of new technology , which brings us together , the kids have had an opportunity to learn new skills and expand their knowledge in various fields of subjects.

Of course, the major field was the English language. Learning and working in English, which is a foreign language for my students, they have improved their writing and speaking skills in great deal.

The students have gained familiarity with the terminology in Science and Literature as well as in oral fluency . In addition, because the final product will be a common work compiled into a web-site , the students have also gain ed increasing interests to the idea of working with their partners from the USA and Russia. Lastly, students have develop ed their ICT skills .
I t is important to note that especially in an intensive language learning , where students have had a number of reasons for using English, the GVC project have been a wondeful experience for all involved.
Rozalija Baricevic

We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all GVC students from the USA and Russia and their teachers Mrs Deborah Holt and Milana Zubritskaya.

We are thankful for your tireless effort and dedication to our common GVC project "House of Knowledge". Your initiatives for improving and developing our knowledge has been of great value for us, the students from IGK school in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.

We indeed appreciate your partnership and it is our sincere hope that we will continue our friendship in the future.

We would like to extend our gratitude on behalf of the teachers in IGK school who helped us with this project: Mrs Vesna Srnic (Art), Mrs Slavica Bosnjak (Physics), Mrs Blanka Marinovic (History and Geography), Mrs Zeljka Kovacevic (Biology) and Miss Blanka Rajsic (Librarian).
The GVC Team, Croatia