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WE ARE THE WINNERS :)

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Kėdainių 'Atžalyno' gimnazijos mokinių komanda tarptautiniame konkurse GVC(globali virtuali klasė) laimėjo bronzos medalį

[] Global Virtual Classroom International Web Design Winners Announced

//Give Something Back International Foundation announces the winners of the 2011-2012 Global Virtual Classroom web design contest. Three top winning teams in each division - primary (grades 1-7) and secondary (grades 8-12) will receive cash awards for their schools. Teams consist of classes of students from three different countries who form a collaborative team from October 1 to March 31, culminating in the creation of an integrated website.//

Sarasota, FL, May 04, 2012 --([|PR.com])-- Results are in for the Global Virtual Classroom 2011-2012 Contest, in which 22 teams of schools around the world built and submitted websites - an exercise aimed at enhancing abilities required for the 21st century -- cross-cultural communication, collaboration and computer skills.

12 teams from 36 schools participated in the primary school category and 10 teams from 28 schools participated in the older secondary school category.

The Award-Winning Sites are:

Primary Division Gold GVC1101 - Healthy Lifestyle Taiwan, Russia, Mississippi-USA

Silver GVC1103 - Bullying 101 Illinois-USA, Taiwain, Tennessee-USA

Bronze GVC1109 – Unity in Diversity Kenya, Illinois-USA, India

Special Merit Awards listed at www.virtualclassroom.org/win11.html

Secondary Division Gold GVC1121 – Women’s Rights India, Virginia-USA, Malaysia

Silver Award GVC1117 – Breaking Borders with Social Networking UK, Missouri-USA, Australia

Bronze Award GVC1114 – World’s Strangest Festivals Canada, Lithuania, Colorado-USA

Special Merit Awards listed at www.virtualclassroom.org/win11.html

Congratulations to all!

The Global Virtual Classroom website at www.virtualclassroom.org contains links to to all participant sites. The application for participation in 2012-13 will be available June 1, 2012.

Merit Award winners will be contacted by Tech4Learning,com with a special link and registration code which will enable you to download the free software prize.

One more time, congratulations to to all, and thank you for helping make the Global Virtual Classroom a great experience.

Janet Barnstable GVC Program Manager





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Just credit it like this: Photo by XXXX (can be just student first name), GVC1114 [19:44:17] Janet Barnstable: so it might look like: Snow, by Joe, GVC1114 **Shrove Tuesday** (Lithuanian: //Užgavėnės//) || Feb25 || [] ||  ||
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 * **The Coronation Day of King Mindaugas** (Lithuanian: //Karaliaus Mindaugo karūnavimo diena//)

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 * **St. John’s Day** || Feb 25 || [[file:Midsummer.doc]] ||  ||
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refrain from partying, listening to loud music, dancing and other boisterous kinds of entertainment. People go to church, light candles. In a Lithuanian’s house you can often find an Advent wreath with four candles in it. The first candle is lit on the first week of Advent, the second candle – on the second and so on. Singing calm, wistful songs of religious content is rather common. Cribs and Christmas trees are placed in the main squares of towns, and people decorate their own homes to bring joy to each others’ hearts.jj [] || [] (only karaoke) LauraIIIa
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Kedainiai Atzalynas gymnasium Students - Introductions! - Please post a "comment" to this message introducing yourself. Please include a little information about you, and any strange festivals you have attended

Also, in the "Profile Section" under the "bio" please add the text "Kedainiai Atzalynas gymnasium,Lithuania"


 * Eimantas ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=818953477&del=true"]] ||
 * Arnis ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1408634031&del=true"]] ||
 * Monika ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1112794954&del=true"]] ||
 * Eimante ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=622449362&del=true"]] ||
 * Sonata ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1332361671&del=true"]] ||
 * Gabija ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1035516794&del=true"]] ||
 * Lauryna ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1472152795&del=true"]] ||
 * Raminta ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1015335788&del=true"]] ||
 * Simonas ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=712688440&del=true"]] ||
 * Sarunas ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1233582278&del=true"]] ||
 * Jonas ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1416316882&del=true"]] ||
 * Deimantė ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=1225828686&del=true"]] ||
 * Kamile ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=730313869&del=true"]] ||
 * Simonas L. ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=715305209&del=true"]] ||
 * Alfredas ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=996784851&del=true"]] ||
 * Marius ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/avatar/nopic.jpg width="25" height="25"]] || [[image:http://www.twiducate.com/images/delimage.jpg link="http://www.twiducate.com/managestudents.php?sid=643105687&del=true"]] ||

Our **Global Virtual Classroom** program, www.VirtualClassroom.org, now in its ninth year, continues to successfully facilitate cross-cultural understanding and collaboration between thousands of primary and secondary students from 62 countries! We also have continued our financial support for the education of 120 needy children in Southeast Asia.

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Christmas Eve

Our design team is currently working on... William, 3D navigation graphic design Danny, navigation artwork animation and graphics Resse, finishing navigation site map Resse/Evan, compiling a list of graphics and animations required for the website navigation We ask that you please start researching on the strange festival’s already provided **when, where, why**. 1.What events/competitions take place during the festival? 2.The history of how the festival started leading up to the present day. 3.How far away do people come from to participate in the festival? 4.What kind of booths/games are there? 5.What is the timeline of events that occur during the festival? And anything else that helps the reader understand about the festival, and any other interesting facts about the festival. If you can find out if there are any differences in the way our countries celebrate traditional holiday’s that would be most helpful. Canada and America are very similar in many festivals and celebrations but I’m not sure how Lithuania might differentiate. For example Lithuania I believe celebrates Christmas a little differently and I know that thanksgiving is a little different in America as well. So we could use thorough descriptions of the traditional holidays we all celebrate. Thanks!

**LITHUANIA**

1. **Shrove Tuesday** (Lithuanian: //Užgavėnės//) — it is a merry carnival. It is celebrated on Tuesday, the eve of Ash Wednesday, to mark the winter's end.

2. **St. John’s Day**, also known as **Midsummer Day**, **Feast of St. John** (Lithuanian: //Joninės//) — from ancient times people marked the time of the return of the Sun, the shortest and longest night. In olden times it was called the __Feast of the Dews__. When Christianity was established in Lithuania, the name was changed to __Feast of St. John__, according to agrarian folk calendar, the start of haying.

3. **The Coronation Day of King Mindaugas** (Lithuanian: //Karaliaus Mindaugo karūnavimo diena//) — Lithuanians have a new nice tradition of singing the Lithuanian national anthem at the same time all over the world on July 6th — the day of Coronation of King Mindaugas.

4. **Street Music Day** (Lithuanian: //Gatvės muzikos diena//) —the only one day per year in Lithuania when many cities are full of music sounds is the Street Music Day. The idea of this festival belongs to the most famous Lithuanian rock singer Andrius Mamontovas.

5. **A twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper** (Lithuanian: //Kūčios//) — the meal consists of twelve meatless dishes representing the twelve Apostles. The tradition of the supper can be traced back to pre-Christian times and connected with remembrance of the souls of deceased ancestors.

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So, here are the schools with whom you will be working over the next six months: **//(Tim still needs to join twiducate.)//**

09 GVC13 08 GVC09 07 GVC10 06 GVC02 || Littleton High School || Littleton || Colorado || 80121 || USA || ahall@lps.k12.co.us || ahall@lps.k12.co.us ||
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 * Amber || Hall || 10 GVC20
 * Laima || Ardaviciene || NONE || Kedainiai "Atzalynas"gymnasium || Kedainiai || Kedainiai || -Lt 57438 || Lithuania || laimukasenator@gmail.com || atzalyno@centras.lt ||
 * Tim || Alguire || Entered once 2009-10, won first prize for water world. || Athens District High School || Athens || Ontario || K0E1G0 || Canada || timothy.alguire@ucdsb.on.ca ||  ||

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