A virtual Advent Calendar goes around the world!
Students of the FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Science, course Health management in Tourism, Bad Gleichenberg, in Austria are working with
21 nations on a virtual Advent calendar.
Every day it’s possible to open a new window, which displaydifferent content, like pictures, videos, poems and so on. This virtual Advent calendar is a part of the diploma thesis “Virtual Teambuilding” written by Daniela Rappitsch (7th semester of Heath management in Tourism). The aim is to create collaborative activities together in international groups, which help facilitate the crucial process of getting to know one another
It is amazing to see how excellent students are fulfilling their assignments of tasks, how many contacts they have found all over the world, how they are motivating their foreign partners and how intensively they are working together.
In virtual teambuilding people transfer emotional relationships and expectations regarding conversation-levels into the virtual environment with the support of virtual communication-methods like Moodle, Persony, Skype, MSN, Blogs and other similar programs.
We have decided to announce this Advent calendar to the public because it is nice to show the different perspectives of “Christmas” all over the world.
Christmas doesn’t mean only ; joy and happiness Christmas also means fighting for survival i in many countries.
Please help us to enhance the access to the virtual Advent calendar and visit our guestbook. We are looking forward to seeing your entries on this side.
Therefore please send this link/email to your friends to distribute the ideas all over the world, visit the page and post a message for the students in the guestbook!
You can find the virtual teambuilding calendar under:
http://project.act2win.com/advent2007/
On this side you can also find further information to this project.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask daniela.rappitsch.gmt04@fh-joanneum.at.
Best regards,
Peter Sereinigg