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Intended Audience:
Faculty

Here, you can access all the video presentations for the Summer Institute for Global Educators for the year 2022. 

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, Lynn Kawaratani, Engagement Manager, University Center for International Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, Catherine Fratto, Engagement Coordinator, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, Karen Lue, Global Hub Manager, University of Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Public School's Banksville Elementary teacher, Krista Stewart, present on 20/20 Visions and their Letters Without Words zine project.

Intended Audience:
Higher Education, K-12

In this presentation, Dr. Drew Armstrong, Director of Architectural Studies and Associate Professor in the University of Pittsburgh's History of Art & Architecture, presents on “Building Europe: Architecture and the Euro," addressing topics such as Euro Banknotes, architectural design, and European identity.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, educators from the Ellis School present on their multi-year project on Migration.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, Dr. Susan Dawkins, Engagement Coordinator for the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at UCIS, discusses the use of games and gamification for global learning in the classroom.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, Michael Walters, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs Tour Director, and Reagan Harper, Nationality Rooms Quo Vadis guide, lead viewers through the Global 360 experience in a virtual tour of the Polish Nationality Room.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, Dr. Michael Glass from the University of Pittsburgh's Urban Studies program discusses global and local perspectives on cities.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, UCIS staff Dr. Allyson Delnore, Dr. Veronica Dristas, and Samantha Moik discuss the importance of identifying and incorporating HELMS (Historical Context, Ethics, Language Proficiency, Media Literacy, and Social Science Methodologies) into the K-12 classroom.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this presentation, Indian Nationality Room Scholarship recipient and children's book author, Amy Alznauer, ties the themes of math, art, and culture into her children's book, "The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity," and offers strategies for creative ways to teach math and art in the K-12 classroom.

Intended Audience:
Higher Education, K-12

In this presentation, Dr. Sean Guillory, Digital Scholarship Curator of the Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Center at UCIS, presents on “Sketching Russia: American Caricatures of Russia since the 19th c."

Intended Audience:
9-12

In this presentation, Dr. Susan Dawkins, Engagement Coordinator for the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasia Studies at UCIS, shares resources for secondary educators.

Intended Audience:
Higher Education, K-12

In this presentation at the 2021 Summer Institute for Global Educators, Dr. Ruth Mostern, Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses and explains how to use the World Historical Gazetteer website (https://whgazetteer.org/). This website provides "a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales."

Intended Audience:
K-12

Nine, free short documentaries that address a range of topics related to climate change and the ways in which solutions are being generated.

Intended Audience:
K-12

Project Look Sharp, out of Ithaca College, offers free, fully-conceived lessons to teach all levels about media literacy. They are also available to lead workshops in schools (for a fee). Check it out!

Intended Audience:
Faculty, K-12, Post-Secondary

The European Studies Center hosts a collection of K-12 lesson plans and post-secondary course modules centered around the European Union.  These materials are developed by educators who participate in the annual ESC-organized Brussels Study Tour and span a range of disciplines and age levels.