DC 2nd Annual Africa Festival

Please join us at the 2nd Annual D.C. Africa Festival hosted by the Washington DC Mayor’s Office on African Affairs (OAA) on Saturday, July 16th! Following the success of last year’s event, this festival will once again highlight African cultures and African communities in the District of Columbia at the Takoma Recreation Center. This year's  theme will be “One City, Many Voices: showcasing Africa’s cultural and economic contributions to the District of Columbia.” This year’s festival will promote the positive legacy of the African community by highlighting:

• talent
• social and networking media
• social entrepreneurism as a tool for the betterment of Africans in the
Diaspora, and
• Africa’s capability to compete in the global market.

Focal Point Global will have a table to exhibit its US-Namibia HIV Education Initiative and talk about its next project addressing child trafficking. For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154074544662095. We look forward to seeing you there!

85 Broads Atlanta Brunch with FOCAL POINT GLOBAL

Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Atlanta, GA

The Importance of Global Education in the 21st Century

Join the 85 Broads Atlanta Chapter for brunch at Guilford Forest as we welcome Hussainatu Blake, Co-Founder & Executive Director of FOCAL POINT GLOBAL, an international youth education non-profit. In this informative presentation, she will discuss the importance of Global education for youth living in 21st Century and Focal Point Global's second educational project that will be based in Atlanta. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

Visit our gallery to check out pictures from the event!

Innovate Baltimore's February Networking Social

Please join us Wednesday, February 16th at 6pm for Innovate Baltimore's first networking social of 2011. Hussa and Hassa Blake, founders of Focal Point Global, will be guest speakers. Come join us at The GET DOWN to welcome FPG to the Baltimore Arts & Tech community! To RSVP, please visit http://innovatefeb.eventbrite.com/ . We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Innovate Baltimore (http://innovatebaltimore.com/) is where creativity meets technology; where people from all disciplines can find their niche in Baltimore’s technology industry.

Connecting Online Conference 2011 (CO11)

Please join Focal Point Global's founders, Hassanatu and Hussainatu Blake, as they kick off the Connecting Online Live Conference 2011 with a presentation about US-Namibia HIV/AIDS Education Initiative on Friday, February 4, 2011, 7AM US EST/Toronto, Canada EST. (http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/442654-co11-us-namibia-hiv-aids-education-initiative)

The conference focuses on the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. The CO11 will be conducted on IT4ALL Moodle with the presentations on WiZiQ through the Moodle. The themes for the presentations are:

1. Connecting Online to Improve Instruction and Learning: Online Learning and Instructional Experience
2. Experiences with technology in face-to-face and online classes. What worked and what didn't work for you?
3. How do you use technology to promote and sustain your online workshops, consultation, and communities of practice and learning?
4. Research conducted on e-learning, blended online learning, and blended learning.
5. Reviewing or promoting books on integrating technology into the classroom, e-learning, blended learning, and blended online learning.
6. Challenges administrators, instructors, students, and community members face in connecting online.

Connect All Schools

Global competence is an important 21st Century skill necessary for all students to understand and interact effectively with the world. Despite the importance of global competency and engagement, US teachers are not aware of the many options for introducing their students to global issues, world languages, online international interaction and physical exchanges.

Therefore a number of organizations linking US schools with others around the world are coming together in a new "Connect All Schools" consortium to meet a very specific goal ---To connect every school in the US with at least one other school somewhere in the world through virtual (and other) exchanges by 2016. Connect All Schools Initiative has an interactive website (http://www.connectallschools.org/home), built to enable schools to indicate how they are connected to the world and for new teachers, school administrators and parents to work with consortium partners on building new links. Please join Focal Point Global and the Connect All Schools consortium in our efforts to connect all US schools globally. Share your stories about Focal Point Global and/or learn how to partner with us and other organizations.