Hi Everyone!
Please complete the 30 Second Survey on #Decarbonize: #Decolonize to help us improve our future projects!
You can find the survey here.
Thanks,
Carrie
Hi Everyone,
We can't wait to see what students all across the planet are doing to address climate change in their schools! We want to hear about the following:
- Climate action projects - what are you doing in your school and/or community to address or prevent climate change?
- Climate mitigation plans - how is your school mitigating the carbon emissions from the delegates that travelled to Bonn, Germany for the UN Climate Conference (if applicable)
Your project will automatically be added to our global map once you update the details and description here: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/maps/add/locati....
This is your chance to share what you've been doing in your school and community, and also to learn from your friends and colleagues around the world!
Looking forward to seeing what you've been working on!
Carrie
Hi Everyone! Our co-writing team in Germany can access all of our shared files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByykfKw2hH....
Cheers,
Carrie
Hello everyone! If your country hasn't already posted your final blog, please do so today at https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/blogs/14315.
See Activity 4b. for the assignment: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/assignments/111....
Thanks,
Carrie
We are excited to invite you to share your Global Action Projects on our interactive map. You will share about your projects and what you've learned. As many of you have friends and colleagues at your schools who are running other projects, please share the map link with them.
Link: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/maps/add/locati....
Carrie
We are excited to invite you to share your Global Action Projects on our interactive map. You will share about your projects and what you've learned. As many of you have friends and colleagues at your schools who are running other projects, please share the map link with them.
Link: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/maps/add/locati....
Carrie
We are excited to invite you to share your Global Action Projects on our interactive map. You will share about your projects and what you've learned. As many of you have friends and colleagues at your schools who are running other projects, please share the map link with them.
Link: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/maps/add/locati....
Carrie
Thanks to everyone for your participation in today's Global Virtual Town Hall! You contributed some complex ideas, provided concrete examples, asked probing questions, and conveyed your energy and passion for climate change!
If you haven't already, please post today's assignment in Blog 4b. Global Virtual Town Hall: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/blogs/14313
There is only one assignment to go - the final report! (This is listed as Activity 4c. #Decarbonize: #Decolonize - FINAL REPORT).
Please respond to the following questions in a blog post, summarizing your learning and providing concrete examples from the project. Feel free to quote other blogs or resources from the activities in support of your ideas.
1. Connect issues of power (colonization) to climate issues, using examples from what you learned throughout the project.
NOTE: focus on climate issues (i.e. deforestation, greenhouse gases, desertification, flooding) not environmental issues (i.e. contaminated water, poisoned fish, etc.)
2. What is the role of those in power (i.e. colonizers) in climate action? What are the role of the colonized in climate action? Are these roles fixed? How might we navigate these multiple roles? What does it mean to “decolonize” in support of climate change?
3. How might we participate in climate action in different contexts?
Please post your report by October 31, so that we can review it next week to prepare our presentation for the UN Climate Change Conference: https://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/blogs/14315.
Hello Everyone!
This is just a reminder to collect as many survey responses as possible this week, as we will be collating our survey data next week in Germany. Let's see if we can get close to 500 responses per country for the survey in order to get as many youth represented as possible!
Promote the survey through email at your school or across your school district, over social media (like Twitter and Facebook), or through your classes!
As a reminder, you may either use our generic survey or adapt it to your country context, according to the instructions here: http://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/assignments/1111.... Thanks to all of the countries that have shared your surveys with me! I look forward to reading the responses.
Thanks again,
Carrie
The student artwork for #Decarbonize: #Decolonize has inspired us to start an Instagram account! Follow us on @cgeducation_ ! Follow the Tri-Regionals and check out student art. :)
Carrie
Hello Everyone!
This is a reminder to post your blog posts in response to the bilateral collaborations (Activities 3a and 3b) as soon as possible (i.e. today or tomorrow), as it is now time to begin preparing for the Tri-Regional collaborations.
As a reminder, your partnerships are as follows:
| US | Peru |
| Indonesia | Nepal |
| Philippines | Ghana |
| New Zealand | Kenya |
| Costa Rica | Canada |
| Australia | Morocco |
| Brazil | Nigeria |
| Slovenia | India |
Thank you,
Carrie
Students and teachers from around the world! t's time to gather as many perspectives on climate change as possible - and we have created a survey to help you out.
To complete and share a general copy of the survey, please use this link: https://goo.gl/forms/Wxv3dSwCtrRO7WF13
If you want to modify the survey to fit your country's unique context, talk to your teachers about how! I've sent them a link today that enables you to change the survey to fit your needs. Full details about the survey are available here: http://encounters.tiged.org/cop23/assignments/1111....
Whichever you choose, please share the survey as widely as possible, to all students of all ages around your country. Share on email or social media (Facebook, etc.) to get as many students involved as you can.
We would like to get as many students to answer the survey as possible - they don’t need to be part of this project to participate!
Have fun!
Carrie
Hello #Decarbonize: #Decolonize!
Thanks to everyone who has been submitting artwork on climate change!
We are posting your artwork online as quickly as possible - check it out here: https://gg.tigweb.org/tig/decarbonize-youth-art-fo.... Find your own piece of art - and see what other students are creating!
You still have time to submit! Whether you make artwork in class on on your own, submit it for display at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany before October 15. Find out the details and submit your artwork here: https://gg.tigweb.org/tig/decarbonize-youth-art-fo....
Carrie
Hi Everyone!
Thanks so much for all of your blog posts in response to the activities! Your mentors have been hard at work, reading through your blog posts and responding with comments to help you extend your ideas. Your mentors are PhD scholars (senior level university students), who are experts in climate change and colonialism. They love your ideas - and they are taking time to share some of their own!
If you haven't already, take a look back through your blog posts to see what they've said - and also to respond to their questions, if they've asked any. Feel free to thank them, share stories, and add comments in response to their comments. Let's continue this global conversation!
Carrie
Hello!
Thanks to everyone who has been posting blogs in response to the activities! The project is underway, and you are starting to generate some great conversations about climate change!
It is important to remember to title your blogs carefully, according to the following:
Country: Blog Name. For example, Canada: My Ecological Footprint)
This will help your online mentors and other students identify your blog post according to your home country. This will also help us find particular blogs later when we prepare our paper and presentation for COP 23.
Thanks!
Carrie
Hello!
Thanks to everyone who has been posting blogs in response to the activities! The project is underway, and you are starting to generate some great conversations about climate change!
It is important to remember to title your blogs carefully, according to the following:
Country: Blog Name. For example, Canada: My Ecological Footprint)
This will help your online mentors and other students identify your blog post according to your home country. This will also help us find particular blogs later when we prepare our paper and presentation for COP 23.
Thanks!
Carrie
Dear Educators and students,
On behalf of the International Coordination Committee, we would like to welcome you to #Decarbonize: Decolonize COP23. With over 100,000 youth from every corner of our planet working together, your students will be helping to lead the world’s largest synthesis of youth voice in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP23, in Germany in November.
This space is populated with resources and learning activities to help to learn about climate change and the current policies/debates/controversies surrounding the issue. Now that you'ved joined the classroom, begin by saying hello in the Discussions section and feel free to contribute discussion threads and responses freely over the coming days. It would also be great if you could complete you TIG profile to help everyone get to know you better. In the Files section, you'll find additional videos and readings that may be of interest to you.
If you have any further questions about our international collaboration, please e-mail [email protected]
Warm regards,
~ The Global Encounters Team
Here is the link to the Working COP22 document, link.
Here is the link for the writer's retreat, link.
Here is the link for the slides for COY 12 Presentation link
Hello everyone!
My name is Sam Karras and I will be helping out in facilitating the COP 22 project. I will be making weekly announcements for the project and working with schools to ensure that they have the support they need. I will also be here to provide feedback on any of the work you are doing here on encounters and will be glad to offer advice as needed.
I am currently an Undergraduate student at MacEwan University, and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. I am studying Nursing and Biochemistry, so my background is not in climate change, but this is a project that I am passionate about and I will be glad to provide support as I can, and I am always happy to continue learning and developing as well.
To start us off, I have attached our COP 22 climate change national dialogue survey in this post. Please open the link here and open the form for your country. We are looking to add 4-6 questions specific to each region in which the survey will be run. Please consider questions that might be directly relevant in your country with regards to climate change for this year's survey and add them to your country's version of the survey found within the link. These could either be with a general focus on climate change, or with a special focus on water climate.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z6EfTQqDd4Pq-C...
Thank you very much, I am looking forward to working with each of you on this project! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you need support! I can be reached at the following if you have any questions or otherwise need to contact me!
decarbonize@tiged.org
samk@takingitglobal.org
Cheers,
Sam Karras
Hello again everyone, I am making this announcement as I have just sent emails out to the teachers identifying the bilateral pairings (they can be found under the blogs folder 'bilateral pairings' where you can post work done with your pairing). In addition I am asking that people registered on the virtual classroom, or those registering set their display name to show some identification of which school they are posting for. In my display I show up when posting as CGE Sam Karras. In order to change your display name go to your profile, select "edit profile" and change input some identifier of your location on your display name. This would go a long way in making it easier for us to provide support when necessary and to give effective feedback for the assignments.
Many of the schools have also been paired with a Graduate mentor to support their work as well. You can find your school's graduate mentor and an introduction under the discussions section. Please check this out and leave a comment so that you can familiarize with eachother!
Another thing I would like you to consider is submitting content for the public webpage. This can include photography, artwork, multimedia, etc. and can be emailed to me at samk@takingitglobal.org please also remember to use our hashtags when tweeting or posting about climate change or anything to do with this project! #decarbonize #blueyouth
Thank you very much, and good luck as we move forward in the assignments with the bilateral pairs! Please shoot me an email if you have any questions or would like any support with this.
Cheers
Sam Karras
samk@takingitglobal.org
Bilateral Collaborations, Triregionals, and the Great Barrier Reef
Posted by Terry Godwaldt on 30 May 2017Hello again everyone! As we continue along in the assignments and collaborations I am really enjoying seeing all of the work that has been, and is being done by everyone on the virtual classroom. By now I hope most of you have had a chance to meet with your bilateral partners to collaborate and I am looking forward to reading the reflection blogs following this piece. We are also approaching the date for our Global Virtual Town Hall on October 28th and as such it is paramount that we are able to complete these blogs and begin work on the triregional portion of the project.
Another thing I would like to bring to your attention is the following:
https://www.outsideonline.com/
This article presents a narrative around the condition of Australia's Great Barrier Reef due to coral bleaching as a result of climate change. It is a great read and certainly is closely related to the work being done as part of #Decarbonize and #BlueYouth. A number of the blogs already posted on the global classroom directly address the problem of coral bleaching and I would encourage you all to give this a read.
As always, please do contact me if there is anything at all that I can offer support on or if you have any questions. Thank you very much!
Sam Karras,
SamK@takingitglobal.org
As we move into our week of Tri-Regional conferences, I would like to thank everyone for all of the amazing work that has been done so far!
This video was done in advance of the last conference. I'd encourage you to think of similar projects that you can do to share. Videos are a great way of engaging people in the conversation! Other than videos we can also contribute in other forms such as art, poetry, etc. To expand the conversation.
In addition, I would like to take this opportunity to engage you all in further collaboration on a more informal platform where discussion and sharing can take place. We have created a Facebook group to connect participants in this project to further build the community around climate leadership as part of the Decarbonize: Blue Youth project for COP 22. Please find the facebook group at the link provided below, and we will be glad to begin the conversation over this other platform.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/decarbonizeblueyou...
Once again, thank you all for your insights through your blogs and collaborations!
Cheers,
Sam
Due to scheduling conflicts and some difficulties in connecting over the triregional meetings, I would like to extend the invitation to participants from all countries to connect to our triregional video conference on WebEx at 7:00am GMT October 26, 2016. Here is the information to connect!
Meeting number: 627 492 085
Meeting password: goglobal
link: https://cmr-us.webex.com/cmr-us/j.php?MTID=m9f52c4...
Video address:
Dial 627492085@cmr-us.webex.com You can also dial meet@cmr-us.webex.com and enter the 9-digt meeting number to join your meeting. Skype for Business (Lync) users need to dial <username>.cmr-us@lync.webex.com or <meeting number>.cmr-us@lync.webex.com
Audio connection:
+1-855-749-4750 US TOLL FREE
+1-415-655-0001 US TOLL
In advance of this meeting which is taking place in approximately 14 hours from the time of this announcement, I would encourage you all to review the work completed as part of assignment 4: Tri-regional report - policy, awareness, and action. We will be discussing this work at the triregional meeting tonight. Following this meeting, I would like to invite you all to post reflection blogs on your experience at the triregional meetings. If possible, these should be completed before the Global Virtual Town Hall taking place at 2:00-4:30 PM GMT on October 28.
Once again, thank you all very much for your work! Please email me if you have any questions or need assistance!
Sam
samk@takingitglobal.org
Hello once again everyone!
The time is almost upon us and with Morocco and the White Paper just around the corner I want to encourage everyone who hasn't done so already to post reflections and recommendations from the bilateral and triregional collaborations. We will be having our Global Virtual Town Hall meeting at 14:30 GMT on October 28th and we would like to have as much information and reflection from the schools as possible in advance of this piece.
This meeting is a chance to bring us all together to share and discuss the work that has been done at each of the schools over the course of this project and it is paramount that we are all able to attend and collaborate for this meeting. I have included the details for the meeting in this post and I hope you are all able to attend!
Date/Time: 14:30 GMT October 28th, 2016
Meeting number: 622 720 223
Meeting password: goglobal
Meeting Link: https://cmr-us.webex.com/cmr-us/j.php?MTID=m4f3da7...
Video address:
Dial 622720223@cmr-us.webex.co
Audio connection:
+1-855-749-4750 US TOLL FREE
+1-415-655-0001 US TOLL
As always, I'm here to help if you need anything!
Cheers
Sam
samk@takingitglobal.org
Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you all this video produced by Team Morocco on what they had prepared to speak on at the Global Virtual Town Hall before we had some technical difficulties in the meeting. Please do check out their video as they have done some amazing work here!
I'm very excited by all of your work and am looking forward to completing the White Paper. I think we all have something great here not only in the work, but in the community! It was powerful to be able to come together and share at the Global Virtual Town Hall
As always, thanks for your participation!
Sam Karras
Samk@takingitglobal.org
Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you all this video produced by Team Morocco on what they had prepared to speak on at the Global Virtual Town Hall before we had some technical difficulties in the meeting. Please do check out their video as they have done some amazing work here!
I'm very excited by all of your work and am looking forward to completing the White Paper. I think we all have something great here not only in the work, but in the community! It was powerful to be able to come together and share at the Global Virtual Town Hall
As always, thanks for your participation!
Sam Karras
Samk@takingitglobal.org
Hello everyone! I am excited to finally be getting started on the White Paper here in Marrakech! Here is the google Doc to sign up for the different sections of what will soon become the paper. Please find the google Doc at this link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVbuNmS9CL5Jpb...
In our discussion just now we determined that it was important to keep the following in mind:
1. Keep it organized, easy to navigate.
2. Simple, accessible language, Uniform language, cohesive.
3. Fun/interesting to read.
4. Actionable/Examples that make this accessible.
5. Representative of the global youth opinion, not just the opinions of the collaborators.
6. Intended to instill a sense of urgency
Please find the COP 21 paper by following this link as well
http://decarbonize.me/cop21/COP21_Whitepaper.pdf