GLOBAL VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
The Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) is a collection of online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in educationally productive ways.
The GVC vision is to empower, enable and connect students around the world using Internet technology. It provides students with a stimulating, positive and enjoyable environment along with the opportunity to develop skills that are essential in the 21st century: cross-cultural communication, collaboration through teamwork, information technology and website design.
The major projects of the GVC are the annual Contest and the Clubhouse Program. During the Contest, teams from schools from around the world compete in an effort to build websites that best meet contest objectives. Each team is made up of students from schools in different countries working together. The websites are judged on the quality of their content and presentation, effective collaboration, and a focus on helping others through knowledge or activities. The contest runs from October through April, with winners announced and cash prizes awarded in May.
The Secondary Team Of Our school won Merit Award for Exceptional Collaboration and Exceptional Helping Focus for their site - Biomes , the Cradle Of life.
The Link to our website 2012-13
http://1214.virtualclassroom.org/
OUR TEAM MATES
The Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) is a collection of online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in educationally productive ways.
The GVC vision is to empower, enable and connect students around the world using Internet technology. It provides students with a stimulating, positive and enjoyable environment along with the opportunity to develop skills that are essential in the 21st century: cross-cultural communication, collaboration through teamwork, information technology and website design.
The major projects of the GVC are the annual Contest and the Clubhouse Program. During the Contest, teams from schools from around the world compete in an effort to build websites that best meet contest objectives. Each team is made up of students from schools in different countries working together. The websites are judged on the quality of their content and presentation, effective collaboration, and a focus on helping others through knowledge or activities. The contest runs from October through April, with winners announced and cash prizes awarded in May.
The Secondary Team Of Our school won Merit Award for Exceptional Collaboration and Exceptional Helping Focus for their site - Biomes , the Cradle Of life.
The Link to our website 2012-13
http://1214.virtualclassroom.org/
MERIT AWARD FOR THE YEAR 2013-14 FOR OUR SITE - FRIENDSHIP BEYOND CULTURE
The Link To Our Website :
https://sites.google.com/a/gsbi.org/gvc16/
GVC 2014-15The Link To Our Website :
https://sites.google.com/a/gsbi.org/gvc16/
St. Mark’s
Sr. Sec. Public School , Janakpuri won Grand Prize
in the Secondary School Category this year in the Global Virtual Classroom web-designing contest supported and sponsored by Give Something Back International (GSBI),
Dallas, USA for their website ‘Rhyme & Rhythm’. GSBI is a
free educational website building activity that aspires to enable, empower and
connect students around the world by integrating technology into classrooms.
The Team were awarded a plaque , Monetory Award Cheque and one year
scholarship to educate a disadvantaged student for their outstanding
accomplishments. All the participants and the teacher coordinator were awarded
with a Gold Award Certificate and a letter of appreciation for the Teacher
Coordinator Ms. Monika Uppal.
The students demonstrated creativity , collaboration , helping focus
and innovative use of technology in their work and their outstanding website.
A group of 21 students from our
school participated in this contest to form a website in collaboration with
Libery High School , Missouri , USA and Liceo Giulio Cesare ,Rome , Italy . The enthusiastic participants are as under
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S.No
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NAME
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CLASS
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S.No
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NAME
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CLASS
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1
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Aayushi Bhatnagar
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X-A
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11
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Isha Gupta
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XI C
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2
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Garima Rajput
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X-C
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12
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Nisha Sharma
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XI E
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3
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Ananya Raj
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X-C
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13
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Abhishek T.
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XI E
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4
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Mahima Narang
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X-D
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14.
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Aman Grover
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XII E
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5
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Shreya Jain
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X-D
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15.
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Dipen Gupta
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XI D
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6
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Kavya Narang
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X-D
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16.
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Vidisha Kaushal
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XI B
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7
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Vanshika Harjai
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X-D
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17.
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Sakshi Taneja
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X E
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8
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Mayank Shukla
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XI A
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18.
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Sidak Arora
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XII E
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9
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Shubham Sachdeva
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XI C
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19.
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Akshita
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XII C
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10
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Ishita dhir
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X-A
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20.
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Sarthak Kumar
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XI
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11
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Isha Gupta
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XI C
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21.
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Asstha Kedar
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LEFT
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The link to
our GVC 1413 Website is as under :
OUR TEAM MATES
Astrid Ruiz
Sara Wickham
Liberty High School
Liberty,
Missouri USA
Maria Pia Genovese
Liceo Classico Giulio
Cesare
Rome, Italia
Congratulations for receiving the Merit Award for the GVC project.Hope your continued efforts in building strong bridges across nations and around the world will give all of us @ St. Mark's many new friends.Keep it going ......
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