Asia Connects British Columbia!

Conference Program

 

 

 

Monday September 29: OPENING CEREMONIES/OVERVIEW OF ASIA

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:30 ABACA Youth Performers

9:30-10:30 Premier Glen Clark: Welcome and Team Canada speech

Minister Raymond Chan, Canada's Year of the Asia Pacific

10:30-11:30 Icebreakers: map activity and Asian awareness quiz

11:30-1:30 Opening Ceremonies from Winnipeg

1:30-3:30 Computer instruction (webchatting, netscape)

Group Discussion: Overview of Asia

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Tuesday, September 30:

MAKING ASIA A PART OF YOUR LIFE / CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICAION

8:00-8:30 Computer Interaction

8:30-9:00 Pacific Rim Arts Club: theatre presentation

9:00-9:45 Speaker panel:

-Capilano College Asia Pacific Management Program

-former participant from Canada World Youth

9:45-10:00 Break

1O:00-11:15 Group discussion: Making Asia a Part of Your Life

11:15-11:45 Lunch

11:45-12:30 Computer interaction

Webchat with Asia Connects Nova Scotia

12:30-1:30 Speaker: Nancy Paris-Seley

1:30-2:30 Group discussion: Cross-Cultural Communication

Point-to-point videoconferencing with Asia Connects Toronto

Webchat with Winnipeg speakers

 

Wednesday, October 1: ASIAN AND WESTERN VALUES

8:00-9:00 Computer Interaction (maybe 8:30-9:00 Singapore Solutions)

9:00-9:45 Video: Double Happiness (part 1)

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-10:45 Video: Double Happiness (part 2)

10:45-11:15 Speaker: Mina Shum, Q&A

(or Singapore Solutions)

11:15-11:45 Lunch

11:45-12:30 Computer Interaction

Webchat with Asia Connects PEI

12:30-1:30 Panel Discussion: Burnaby South Students, first and third generation Asian youth

1:30-2:30 Group Discussion: Asian and Western Values

Webchat with Asia Connects Saskatchewan

 

 

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Thursday, October 2: BEHIND THE HEADLINES

8:00-9:00 Computer Interaction

Webchat with Winnipeg speakers

9:00-9:05 Slide Presentation on Human Rights

9:05-9:45 Panel: Human Rights

-Merinda Logie

-Xavier Fritado

-Jennifer Wade

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-10:45 Child labour learning activities

10:45-11:15 Video: Manufacturing Consent (20 minutes)

Speaker: David Webster from ETAN

Speaker: Indonesian government???

11:15-11:45 Lunch

11:45-12:30 Computer interaction

Point to Point Videoconferencing with Asia Connects Nfld

12:30-1:30 Group discussion: Behind the Headlines

Webchat with Asia Connects Labrador and Calgary

1:30-2:30 Activities with Judy Young's class: kimono tying, karate, sushi making, Chinese calligraphy

 

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Friday, October 3: FIELD TRIP--ABERDEEN AND YAHOHAN MALLS

8:00-8:45 Computer Interaction

8:45-9:30 Creation of Learning Activities

9:30-11:30 Trip to Aberdeen and Yoahan Centre in Richmond

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-1:15 Bus back to Burnaby South

1:15-2:30 Creation of Learning Activities

Presentation of Learning Activities

Point to Point Videoconferencing with Montreal

 

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Saturday, October 4:

YOUR FUTURE IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY / CLOSING CEREMONIES

9:30-10:15 Speaker Panel

- Debra Nortman, ABACA Youth Records

- Jennifer Jones, Jr. Team Canada

10:15-11:30 Closing Ceremonies from Winnipeg

11:30-12:15 Whole Group discussion: Your Future in the Global Community

12:15-1:00 Group discussion: Your Future in the Global Community

1:00 Dragon boats?!?!?!?!?!