The Great Global Project Challenge

World Schools  Pecha Kucha Evenings

Khalil Zakari | Ed-Links-Morocco

(Advisory Board Member at The Global Education Conference)

Project Lead: Khalil Zakari

Project Lead's Email Address: kzakari@yahoo.com

Project Lead's Institution: Ed-Links-Morocco

This institution is: non-profit

Additional Project Collaborators:

* Bookland Publishing
* Al Akhawayne University of Ifrane
* Centre Culturel Azrou
* Groupe Scolaire Al Falah Privé Taza

Project Title: World Schools  Pecha Kucha Evenings

URL to Project:

http://edlinksmorocco.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-great-global-project-challenge.html

Project Objectives: 

+ Enhance students' interpretive and presentational communication skills
+ Train students using slideware to present their projects convincingly and artfully
+ Promote intercultural understanding (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)

This project will help students learn to:

+ Investigate the world
+ Communicate ideas
+ Take action
+ Knit connections

Project Short Description:

Most innovative students' projects opt for public speaking as an outlet to demonstrate their presentational skills, challenge their peers and compete for a prize or a certificate of award. Public speaking contests, sad to say, are starting to look much the same in the sense that most candidates draft, edit, learn by heart, rehearse and recite. The Pecha Kucha will force creativity, relevance and concision.

Project Full Description:

For almost fifteen years now, Ed-Links-Morocco, an Advisory Board Member at The Global Education Conference,  has been entertaining distinguished educational and professional relationships between students, parents, teachers, supervisors and textbook designers to maintain its reputation for excellence in the provision of English language teacher education, English language teacher continuing professional development and English language teaching /learning practices.  Ed-Links-Morocco has been elaborating a strategy to increase the productivity of both learners and teachers through publications, workshops, school visits, contests and other enhancement  activities.

Ed-Links-Morocco  will organize and coordinate a series of national and international Pecha Kucha  contests round current issues in order to encourage students  to unleash their creativity, grow interculturalist  and acquire connections.  These contests will be challenging, fun and rewarding... Promised!

In his blog, named "Remixing the Humanities", Richard L. Edwards states that Pecha Kucha "gets students to speak and act like experts on their disciplinary knowledge". A detailed description of Ed-Links-Morocco's  World Classes Pecha Kucha Evenings will be posted soon on:  http://edlinksmorocco.blogspot.com

Participant Limitations: 100 students (to start small)

Standards Addressed in This Project: Common Core Standards

Project Registration: 100 participants. Deadline November 15th, 2016

Project Start Date: November 25th, 2016

Project End Date: April 25th, 2017

Project Grade Level or Grade Levels: 16-18

Subject Areas Addressed in This Project: English and Language Arts

Project Platform: Edmodo

Digitals Tools Used in This Project: 

+ Smart minds
+ Smart Phones
+ Smart tablets
+ Smart boards

Project Concluding Activity or Product:

Ed-Links-Morocco hopes to be able to organize its World Schools Pecha Kucha Evenings finals in Fes_Morocco and invite a dozen students from neighbouring countries to present,  attend the certification ceremony and discover the Middle Atlas. 

Participant Feedback:
http://edlinksmorocco.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-great-global-project-challenge.html

Primary Language(s): English