This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a Chinese Moon Festival celebration in my town. I sat at a table with a wonderful group of folks – some I already knew and most I had just met. Thinking afterward about the great time we all had together, I tabulated our combined ‘diversity’ and came up with: two American sisters with Pennsylvania-Dutch roots (one, a journalist; the other – retired), our Chinese hostess (a Chinese teacher) & her husband (also a Chinese teac

I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to be part of an international Global Literacies Team which we formed last spring and which is working together on a number of exciting projects. The whole matter of 21st Century Literacies is one of interest to many lately. The American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is spear-heading one initiative exploring literacies in our ever-more connected global communities, including expanding traditional definitions of literacy

We are more than half-way through August…and my new website is far from more that half-way complete. I am keeping my early September official launch date in view…but also staying flexible – as all good intercultural activities must be – flexible, right?! Since I switched website providers and am learning WordPress as I design my new site, progress is slow partially because there is a lot of process that needs daily attention. Progress (the finished product in this, and any

I was thinking today of how lucky I am to be in the business of working globally! I had a phone meeting with a Chinese friend with whom I am setting up an exciting project which involves a student trip to China which will begin next week. I was in Florida and she was in California, although she’s usually based in DC. The students who will participate are among those I have trained through Global SKILLs in the past year. One is from Thailand and one is from the US. This i

Hi! While I get acquainted with my new hosting service and learn my new design program, I thought I’d share with you a few views from where I work. I’ve spent part of the summer at home here in beautiful southwest Florida and part of the summer traveling, including a 10 day road trip with a friend (from FL to NJ) and a few days with friends in NJ. The nice thing about my work is that I can work at home and also that I can take whatever my current project is with me…here are

Greetings! Thanks for stopping by our Global SKILLs website. We appreciate your patience as we switch hosts and rebuild our site. We look forward to having the site ready for full use by September 1st. During August, please come by and see our progress. We’ll be posting updates, and publishing pages as we get them done. Plan to join us for our BIG site launch celebration in early September – there will be some fun activities and surprises for everyone to enjoy! #Blog #Aud