| Faculty Exchange Visits WVSU and WMSU visit UGA during March/April 2004 The Filipino Team Members of the Fulbright Partnership Grant's initial participation in the exchange visit aspect of the project started upon their arrival in Georgia on March 18, 2004. The visit came shortly after the UGA team members visited Iloilo City, Philippines in February, 2004. The exchange visits aimed to internationalize University based Science Education.  WVSU-WMSU Exchange Visitors during their courtesy call with the Dean and three Associate Deans of the College of Education in Aderhold Hall.  WVSU-WMSU Exchange Visitors poised for a picture-taking session while on their way to visit the Natural History Museum on the UGA Campus   WVSU-WMSU Faculty Exchange Visitors confer with Dr. Fausto Sarmiento, Director of International Education at the University of Georgia.  Dr. Lourdes Morano explains to UGA students enrolled in a service learning course the general makeup of the candies brought over by the WVSU faculty all the way from Iloilo City.  UGA faculty discussing the community immersion pictures of WVSU students with the corresponding course facilitators.  WVSU Faculty Exchange Visitors, Profesor Hilde Montano, Dr. Irene Abaygar (above), Dr. Lourdes Morano and Dr. Magdalina Prisas (below) interact with UGA students of Drs. Katherine Thompson and Elizabeth Pate's Service Learning Class.   Dr. Belinda V. Belisario, a faculty of WMSU and participant in the exchange visitor program, presented her research finding before faculty and doctoral students of the Mathematics Education department.  Dr. Magdalena Prizas (above) and Dr. Irene Abaygor (below) interact with students from Mr. Jamie Calkin's elementary science methods class during a tree planting ceremony at their new international garden.  A poem entitle "The Garden" is read by an undergraduate student in Mr. Jamie Calkin's elementary science class to set the mood for the tree planting. The Garden  Mrs. Anna Scott briefing the WVSU-WMSU Exchange Visitors about the Hispanic Outreach Project.  Sister Margarita of Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela gives WVSU-WMSU Exchange Visitors, together with Mrs. Anna Scott and Jodi Toppen-Wheeler a general view of what the sisters are doing in the Hispanic community.  Dr. Irene Abaygar (above) together with Dr. Lourdes Morano and Hilde Montano (below) observe and coach Hispanic children during a visit to the Oasis Catolico after-schol outreach program.   WVSU-WMSU Exchange Visitors participate in a role play activity with UGA Science faculty and graduate students during the cultural orientation at the home of Dr. Thomas Koballa.   Mrs. Anna Scott, a doctoral student in science education, provided a quick lesson on how to speak (and understand) the idiocyncracies of "Souther dialect" during the cultural orientation at Dr. Thomas Koballa's home. A visit to Stone Mountain, a large granite outcrop, provided Filipino visitors with insights into the geological history of Georgia.  Lourdes Morano stands at the beginning of the trail leading to the top of Stone Mountain.  Hilda ("Pinky") Montano gets some tips from a Stone Mountain naturalist.  Irene Abaygar examines a very old cedar tree found on Stone Mountain.   A visit to the lab of UGA scientist Dr. Richard Wynn provides Filipino visitors with an opportunity to learn how fish are being used as genetic markers to trace environmental pollution.   After learning about the "Virtual Gorilla" computer modeling program, visitors from the Philippines visit the Atlanta Zoo to see real gorillas in action.  UGA mathematics educator, Dr. Les Steffe, guides Filipino visitor Dr. Belinda Belisario, as as she rides a horse for the first time. Dr. Belisario is later surprised to learn that Dr. Steffe is the same mathematics educator that she cited throughout her dissertation work on ethno-mathematics.  Hilda Montano grooms her horse under the watchful guidance of Dr. Les Steffe. |
