Monday, February 8, 2016

Project Update

We have continued to experiment with new hosting strategies, including social media exchanges. We are beginning to gather feedback and reflections on exchanges, which will be synthesized into a final product: a sort of protocol describing the best hosting strategies. I can only speak for myself, but I feel as though our efforts have improved the experience. I think just having the idea that hosting is a privilege and an opportunity to connect and to learn in the back of my mind has motivated me to capitalize on the time I have with the guests as much as possible.

Gabi and I have been meeting with Ms. Chung and Ms. Diederich to strategize about host plans. We also worked with Dr. Wei to facilitate host-guest interaction with PS 161 before the students arrived. We accomplished this with short introductory videos sent via WeChat, a solution that evaded the Great Firewall and pleased the PS 161 administration.

This week we have our French students on campus, and I will write about Poly's experience with them soon.

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