The spring semester certainly presented its challenges, but we are happy to report on 3 successful CLICK projects that ran despite COVID and a quick shift to online instruction. Below we share their goals and project descriptions.
55 students, 7 teachers, 4 campuses, 3 CLICK projects.
“The French-American Film Connection”
University Partners: Middlesex CC, IUT Cachan (Paris Saclay)
Discipline (Course): Film Club, English for Mechanical Engineers
Project Summary: In international teams, students chose a topic and wrote, filmed and edited a short film accessible to English and French audiences (3-8 minutes).
Project Length: 11 weeks
Technology Tools: Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Youtube
Team details: Teachers - 2 US, 1 FR; Students - 7 US, 5 FR
Objectives:
Produce a joint French/American final short film project
Collaboration:
Works respectfully and equitably within a small group in order to complete a multi-step project
Demonstrates the ability to create a film proposal, goals, purpose, plan, outline (or script), film and create a final cut.
Manage time and deadlines to produce their assignments across time zones
Online Citizenship:
Creates/contributes to empathetic and meaningful interaction by building on the cultural and linguistic diversity of on-line communication
Demonstrates a positive attitude towards cultural and linguistic diversity in on-line communication
Effective Use of Technology:
Demonstrates proficiency in 4-5 technological tools: Zoom, Whatsapp, Google Docs, and other defined software applications in order to build the project with an international team.
“International Banking”
University Partners: Housatonic CC, IUT Sceaux (Paris Saclay)
Discipline (Course): Business/Marketing, English for Business/Marketing
Project Summary: Students worked in international teams to perform a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis on an international bank. They completed a preliminary grid with the information they obtained. Then, they surveyed other students to find out what potential consumers are looking for in a bank. Finally they gave a presentation as the main component of the capstone project. The presentation included their findings from the surveys they conducted as well as recommendations to improve the bank.
Project Length: 4 weeks
Technology Tools: Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, Google Suite, Survey Monkey
Team details: Teachers - 1 US, 1 FR; Students - 14 US, 19 FR
Objectives
Demonstrate ability to use SWOT analysis, survey methods and also analyse data and act on results;
Show evidence of appropriate use of technologies for cross-country team work including Google-classroom, google docs, google-forms, WhatsApp, Zoom/Skype, power-point/slides
Demonstrate ability to communicate complex ideas in English to different audiences;
Demonstrate ability to work in a cross-national, cross-cultural team;
Creates/contributes to empathetic and meaningful interaction by building on the cultural and linguistic diversity of communication
Demonstrates a positive attitude towards cultural and linguistic diversity in on-line communication
“Impact of National Cultures in Web Design”
University Partners: Northwestern CT CC, IUT Sceaux (Paris Saclay)
Discipline (Course): Business/Marketing, Business/Marketing
Project Summary: In international teams, students analyzed the websites for McDonalds, Starbucks and Disney World. They identified best practices, made comparisons between websites, and offered recommendations for improvement.
Project Length: 6 weeks
Technology Tools: Facebook Private Group, WhatsApp, Zoom
Team details: Teachers - 1 US, 1 FR; Students - 4 US, 6 FR
Objectives
Determine and analyze the differences between effective practices in france and the US
Ameliorate the current website with the improvement recommendations, comparing best practices in the host country and other countries
Be able to understand different terminology used across countries
Work effectively in a cross-national team, managing time zones and international communication technologies to produce a final team project
Are you interested in getting started with virtual exchange and designing your own CLICK project? Register for a workshop or contact us today!
July 7, 2020
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