{"id":9358,"date":"2018-07-26T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:50","slug":"when-two-worlds-meet-using-international-virtual-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/26\/when-two-worlds-meet-using-international-virtual-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"When two worlds meet: Using international virtual exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9363\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9363\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg\" alt=\"people sitting at a table participating in a BlueJeans conference\" width=\"559\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg 559w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LSA ISS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Philomena Meechan<\/strong>,\u00a0LSA Language Resource Center, and <strong>Todd Austin<\/strong>,\u00a0LSA Instructional Support Services, recently presented with <strong>Professor Alexander Knysh<\/strong>, U-M Near Eastern Studies, and faculty from St. Petersburg State University, Russia at the SUNY COIL conference in New York and at the UNICollaboration Conference in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. Their presentation showcased how two Near Eastern Studies courses used a combination of BlueJeans videoconferencing and shared Google folders\u00a0as core online communication tools to carry out collaborative projects and to learn about each other&#8217;s language and culture.\u00a0Meechan and Austin are LSA consultants who have provided instructional and technical support for more than 30 U-M courses across multiple U-M units and campuses where videoconferencing technology is used to connect U-M courses with international partner students and faculty. <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/iss\/news-events\/all-news\/search-news\/when-two-worlds-meet---conference-presentations-on-two-lsa-cours.html\">Read their full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philomena Meechan,\u00a0LSA Language Resource Center, and Todd Austin,\u00a0LSA Instructional Support Services, recently presented with Professor Alexander Knysh, U-M Near Eastern Studies, and faculty from St. Petersburg State University, Russia at the SUNY COIL conference in New York and at the UNICollaboration Conference in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. Their presentation showcased how two Near Eastern Studies courses used a combination of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/26\/when-two-worlds-meet-using-international-virtual-exchange\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,204,87,174,485],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-bluejeans","tag-conference","tag-google","tag-lsa","tag-online-learning"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",559,372,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",559,372,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",559,372,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",559,372,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",559,372,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366-559x300.jpg",559,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",559,372,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.1533129419366.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Philomena Meechan,\u00a0LSA Language Resource Center, and Todd Austin,\u00a0LSA Instructional Support Services, recently presented with Professor Alexander Knysh, U-M Near Eastern Studies, and faculty from St. Petersburg State University, Russia at the SUNY COIL conference in New York and at the UNICollaboration Conference in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. 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