Start Your Own
Collaborative Project
Telecollaborate
- "We, humanity, are one people - with many faces, many colors,
many beliefs - sharing one home, one destiny, one global future. To keep our
world safe and the future promising for today's youth, we must work and learn
and grow together.
"The Internet offers us an immediate way to join together,
telecollaborating with educators and students around the world. Here at
NickNacks, we can help, whether you want to participate in a telecollaboration
or start your own, with information to help you and projects to
join." http://telecollaborate.net/
Class2Class
- a
clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in
Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting
experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the
mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula.
Contributions will be math-oriented, but any teacher or class studying
a subject with a strong math component may submit a project to the database. http://mathforum.com/class2class/
To find ideas for math collaborations, we suggest browsing existing
Internet projects at http://mathforum.com/class2class/c2csuggestions.html
ePALS
-
Over 4.4 million students and
teachers are building skills and enhancing learning with ePALS. Established in
1996, ePALS has 64,379 classroom profiles bringing people in 191 countries
together as cross-cultural learning partners and friends.
Intercultural Email Classroom Connections - At last count more than 7,650 teachers in 82 countries were participating in one or more IECC projects. http://www.iecc.org/
CRESPAR - Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk.
IECC - International Email Classroom Connections for teachers wishing to form email partnerships in other countries.
KidsCom - kids games, chat rooms for kids, video game cheats and other child activities; games focus on fun, learning and Internet safety.
Kids' Space Connection is an international meeting place for children and schoolteachers. Find penpals from around the world! Check out interesting projects you can contribute to, and cool clubs you can join.
KidLink - join a project or create one of your own and find another class to participate! Conduct research, chat with kids and teachers from around the world and more!
Taking It Global - "(TIG) is an international organization, led by youth, empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people in more than 200 countries within international networks to collaborate on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating positive change."
Ongoing Collaborative Projects
Continental Quest - email contact with schools from the 7 continents. Classes exchange information about continents, people, climate and animals, and a Web page is developed for each continent, providing information and worldwide links for students around the world. http://www.msinets.com/~ssutphin/quest.htm
IEARN - International Education and Resource Network - a non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world. http://www.iearn.org/
Global SchoolNet Foundation - Many international collaborative projects for schools. Also hosts an annual CyberFair - Now in its 7th year, CyberFair has been described as the largest educational event of its kind ever held on the Internet. This program has brought together more than 500,000 students from over 75 countries. Take a virtual journey around the globe and learn about people, programs and communities who care! http://www.globalschoolnet.org/
Peace Corp - World Wise Schools - "an innovative education program that seeks to engage U. S. students in an inquiry about themselves, the world and others. Peace Corps with links to World Wise Schools, global education curriculum, other resources on cultures and countries.
Grandmother and Me - a multilingual long-term project about grandmothers all over the world. http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/grandmother/
The
Great Debate Project - Designed for Grades
Six to Twelve, the Great Debate Project features a series of on-line debates
between international classes and conducted through email and internet pages. http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/debate/
Monster
Exchange
- designed to
encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating the
Internet into the classroom curriculum. The real challenge is that a remotely
drawn monster is created only from reading the description! At the end of the
project, both the original and duplicate drawings are digitized and published
on the web in the Monster Exchange Galleries http://www.monsterexchange.org/
My Hero - The goal at My Hero is to discover real-life heroes from around the world using the World Wide Web. This is an ongoing project where students around the world submit their heroes from such diverse fields as the arts and entertainment, sports and science, lifesavers and peacemakers, actors and business leaders. http://myhero.com/home.asp
Sites Alive! - an interactive multi-disciplinary educational Web site which connects families at home and students in classrooms to adventures, expeditions and events around the world, as they are unfolding. Current projects are Oceans Live!, Rainforest Live!, Class Afloat Live!, and Wetlands Live!. Access to these projects requires a fee for registration. http://www.sitesalive.com/
Travel Buddies - Travel buddies are soft toys or puppets that travel the world as representatives of your class. They may go on a cultural exchange with a single school or travel widely on a path chosen by those who forward him to friends and relatives in other places. They go instead of sending the children, an expensive and unrealistic proposition for most schools. Visit this web page to find many ways teachers are using this idea. http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=19&bid=36&btitle=Projects&meid=22
World Trek the Odyssey - The Odyssey allows students to travel around the world via the Internet. A team of volunteers visits 11 different non-western sites, documenting their experiences for posting on the Odyssey website. Students can follow along and interact with them. Everything is archived for future use. http://www.worldtrek.org/
ESP - The European Schools Project supports teachers and pupils in participating in the world of Internet-based Computer Mediated Communications and in using Internet's Information Resources to improve learning and teaching. The ESP is an initiative of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, in close co-operation with a network of regional and national coordinators in various European countries and beyond.
Science and Math Focus
The Jason Project - an educational project begun in 1989 by Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic. Students and their teachers have participated with research scientists in deep sea archaeology; probed the changing conditions of unique ecosystems; compared shallow and deep ocean habitats; pondered the mysteries of chemosynthetic life forms; studied bio-diversity, plate tectonics and volcanoes, geo-thermal hot spots, glaciology, human and animal migration; and compared conditions experienced in space and under the oceans. http://www.jasonproject.org/jason_project/jason_project.htm
Journey North Annenberg/CPB math and science project; an annual Internet-based learning adventure that engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
WhaleNet - a unique interdisciplinary, hands-on, collaborative telecomputing project to foster excitement and learning about the natural world. http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html
Students on Ice - organizes unique learning expeditions to the Antarctic and the Arctic. Our mandate is to provide students from around the world with inspiring educational opportunities at the ends of our earth, and in doing so, help them foster a new understanding and respect for our planet. http://www.studentsonice.com/splash/splash.htm see also http://www.epals.com/tools/forum/forum.e?bo=64&at=db
ThinkQuest - an annual contest designed to encourage students from different schools and different backgrounds - - indeed, from different countries! - to work together in Teams toward creating valuable educational tools on the Internet while enhancing their ability to communicate and cooperate in a global, interconnected environment. http://www.thinkquest.org/
KidLink Web Site - a grassroots project aimed at getting children up to the age of 15 involved in a global dialog through networked projects. http://www.kidlink.org/english/
KidNews KidNews is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world; anyone may use stories from the service for educational purposes, and anyone may submit stories. http://www.kidnews.com/
The Mythos Zeus Speaks! - an online collaborative study of Greek mythology. This is an interdisciplinary curriculum that encourages history research and reinforcement of concepts through drama and creative writing. It is highly interactive and lots of fun. http://www.onlineclass.com/mythos/index.html
Collaborative Online Projects - a listing of projects in a variety of disciplines. http://www.onlineclass.com/general/schedule.html
Down the Drain - This Internet-based collaborative project will allow students to share information about water usage with other students from around the country and the world. Based on data collected by their household members and their classmates, students will determine the average amount of water used by one person in a day. They will compare this to the average amount of water used per person per day in other parts of the world. http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/drainproj/index.html
Global Grocery List - a long standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines. http://landmark-project.com/ggl/
BioKids - Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species - addresses both inquiry and life science content standards through data collection of animal species, examination of species patterns and distribution, and the development of individual species accounts. The electronic discussion board and the creation of their own web-based biodiversity maps allow students to compare and share their findings with students and researchers around the world. http://www.biokids.umich.edu/
Online
Schoolyard and Classroom Investigations
- invites
participation from any school in any country around the world.
Online projects that allow students to,
collaboratively or independently, conduct scientific investigations in their
schoolyards and classrooms, and then submit their collected data using an
online form. http://web.stclair.k12.il.us/splashd/Experimt.htm
Earthwatch Global Classroom - Research program categories include archaeology, biodiversity, cultural diversity, endangered ecosystems, global change, oceans, world health. Features include Teachers Teaching Live From the Field and Virtual Expeditions With Scholastic Explorers. http://www.earthwatch.org/ed/home.html
Animal Diaries - The purpose of this project is to give students all over the world a safe place on the web to publish stories about animals and their interaction with other living things. It is hoped that this site will inspire and encourage authorship among students of all ages as well as a love of reading. http://www.tesan.vuurwerk.nl/diaries/index.html
The Globe Program - hands-on program that joins students, educators, and scientists from around the world in studying the global environment. http://www.globe.gov/ (A sample list of countries involved in included in this book Partner Countries.)
About Globalization
Africa Action - The Africa Policy Information Center has a wealth of information and updated articles about African issues and people, and a current focus on Womens Rights in Africa.
Daily Nation on the Web - The Daily Nation is one of Kenya's online and print newspapers.
Center for World Indigenous Studies
The National Peace Corps Association
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