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Facilitated by Westmoreland Museum of American Art (US) & LVR- Industriemuseum (Germany), this exchange brings together students from Pittsburgh and Ruhr Valley regions using technology with a focus on art and music that share a common industrial past. Funded by Museums & Community Collaborations Abroad, a program of the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs of the US Dept of State in partnership with the American Association of Museums.
Museums and Community Collaborations Abroad
Welcome to Building a Transatlantic Bridge, an innovative project providing opportunities for collaboration and interaction for high school students in the Greensburg Salem School District and for high school students in Oberhausen, Germany.
Project Web Sites
- Born of Fire
- Exchanges Connect
- Facebook Fan Page
- Feuerlaender
- Flickr
- Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Oberhausen
- Greensburg Salem High School
- Gymnasium im Gustav-Heinemann-Schulzentrum Dinslaken
- Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule Oberhausen
- LVR Industriemuseum
- Ruhr 2010
- Transatlantic Journal Project
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art
- YouTube
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Blog Archive
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- THE JOURNALS ARE HERE!
- NEW WEB SITE
- Germany Blog Dec 9th
- Old Fashioned blog Dec 8
- Katie's Skype from Germany!
- My old fashioned blog Dec 7
- Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium students
- German students journals
- more videos from Katie's visit
- videos of German schools from Katie's visit Dec 09
- students of the Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule, Oberha...
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- Merry Christmas
- Back to work
- press release
- positive feedback
- résumé
- journals r heavy
- Greensburg students use Web, journals to build a b...
- I'm packing my suitcase
- Exchanges Connect
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I'm waiting 2 fly out of Pittsburgh. Had to pay xtra to check my bag! Art is heavy. Literally.
ReplyDeleteIn a few minutes, I´ll jump into our company car and pick up Katie at the airport in Düsseldorf...and I´ll help her to carry her heavy bag:-)
ReplyDeleteKatie has landed in Düsseldorf. Right now she´s at her hotel... Our day starts in few minutes with an introction-round of our museum staff. After that she´ll visit our exhibitin "heavy industry"
ReplyDeleteThe day is nearly over. After visiting our museum, we invited Katie to a "typical Ruhr-Valley"-Snack: sausages and french fries with ketchup and mayonnaise. And now she also knows what a German kiosk looks like. In the afternoon we started working on Transatlantic Bridge: We met with our teachers and discussed the main topics. Tomorrow we´ll visit our partner schools and Katie will present the Journals...
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of heavy. I sent 8 copies of our Born of Fire book and CD to Stephanie yesterday. They're on they're way. We are so excited about this project and can't wait to see Katie's photos and videos when she returns.
ReplyDeleteOur day yesterday was very busy. We first visited two of our partner schools. At the Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule we attended an art class. Katie showed the American Journals and we could take a closer look on the German ones. At the Freiherr-vom-Stein Gymnasium we have seen an English class of a 6th school year. Katie talked about the project and the students translated her speech into German.
ReplyDeleteAfter that we went back to the museum and started sightseeing. We went to the Gasometer in Oberhausen and took the elevator to the top. There we had a nice view over Oberhausen. Our last station for the day was the "St.-Antony-Hütte", which is our second museum in Oberhausen. The day ended with delicious meal in a Polish restaurant.
Judy and I just spoke with Katie and we hope we have helped her with the laptop and she will be able to update the blog tonight. Currently, she is on her way to the Christkindlmarkt (Christmas Market) with Stephanie and Thomas where they will enjoy some gluewein (hot, spiced red wine) - a tradition in Germany. Check back tonight or tomorrow for news from katie.
ReplyDeleteHere is the latest information about Katies visit: Yesterday our museum organized a press conference in the foyer of our museum. Surrounded by historical machines Katie, Thomas and some of the teachers talked about their projects and their expectations and ideas. Besides the regional press, also the young press (a school magazine) attended the conference. Also the Journals have been presented by Mrs. Reiber and two of her students. After that exciting morning, we started a sightseeing trip in the Ruhr Valley. Thomas and Burkhard showed us the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen. Then we drove to Hattingen and got a perfect guided tour at the Westfälisches Industriemuseum Henrichshütte. It was really athmospherical to see the blast furnace at night. Finally we showed Katie our Christmas market in Dortmund with the highest Christmas tree on earth (maybe). Katie soon started a hunt on souveniers ("Is that typical German?"). It was a very nice evening!
ReplyDeletehello! i am having so much fun here, maybe i'll stay? We had a busy day again yesterday. i cant wait to show the journals to our students! i have so much to talk about, but not much time. we also took lots of pictures that we will be sharing!
ReplyDeleteSee the photos on exchanges connect!
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