About this workshop

About the workshop—In January 2006, the Parent Program joined with the Learning Abroad Center in presenting a workshop for parents on learning abroad. University staff and administrators were joined by a panel of students who shared their study abroad experiences, and a panel of parents whose students had participated in learning abroad programs.

The workshop was presented before an audience of University of Minnesota parents, and taped so that the material presented could be made available to a larger audience. The video, audio, and podcast of the workshop are posted below. We encourage parents to consider the materials presented here as introductory, and to have their students contact the Learning Abroad Center for more information about the opportunities available to them.

The PowerPoint presentations that accompanied some of the presentations are available in PDF form; you may want to print them before watching the segment.

Tell us what you think—After you have viewed the workshop, please help us by filling out the evaluation form. Your input will be useful in helping us to plan future workshops on this and other topics, and in deciding whether to present them on the web.

Audio and video

Presentation Format	Video	Audio	PDFs: Reference material to accompany presentations
Student perspectives Bee Lee, University student, traveled to Italy and Thailand Claribel Gross, University student, traveled to Ghana Heidi Skallet, University student, traveled to Kenya 19 minutes
How does learning abroad fit into the curriculum? Presenter: Dr. Laura Coffin Koch 7 minutes
Learning abroad: the basics (including financial aid) Presenter: Jodi Malmgren Strategies for support: a parent's role in the learning abroad process Presenter: Antonia Lortis 38 minutes			Learning Abroad Center presentation.pdf
Parent perspectives Dan Hartnett, University parent; Mark Stennes, University parent; Diane Stennes, University parent 14 minutes

Podcast

Follow these instructions carefully to copy and paste the podcast link into your podcast software. For additional workshop reference materials, see the links to the PDFs in the audio and video section below.

Podcast instructions—how to copy the link to the podcast Right-click on the podcast icon (Mac users: click and hold the mouse button). Choose "Copy Shortcut", "Copy Link", "Copy Link to Clipboard," or "Copy Link Location." Paste the link into the subscription field of your podcasting software. This process may vary depending on your software. For iTunes, go to "Advanced" in the menu and choose "Subscribe to Podcast."

Copy this link to download the entire workshop as a podcast 22 MB