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Seeking High Schools (10th, 11th, 12th grade) to collaborate on topics on Justice next year

Hello, I am the coordinator of the Integrated Global Studies School at New Trier High School in Winnetk, Illinois, USA.  I have 60 students who will be studying Science, Social Studies, and English next year under the shared theme of "Justice on this

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Plastics - a boon or bane

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Greetings!

We, Rukmini Devi Public School (RDPS), are one of the premier educational institutes in North-West Delhi,India, imparting quality education to children up to 10 + 2 level. We aim to provide our students and staff an opportunity to e

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high school world culture Anthropology project

I teach a small class of anthropology students at a high school in Vermont, USA.  I would like to do a collaborative project relating to world cultures with a classroom outside of America.  I have never done this before, so I my plans are flexible. 

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9th grade Science/Environmental Science class wants to make international connections for 2010-2011 school year

I am a 9th grade teacher at a medium-size private school in Mumbai, India.  I have been challenged to make some international connections via technology for the coming school year.  I am open to any and all suggestions -- collaborative story writing,

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An opportunity to discuss an issue

Hi, My name is Rob Sbaglia and I am the ICT coordinator at Castlemaine North Primary School, a school of 163 students in Victoria, Australia. We have a strong focus on ICT, with all our Grade 5 and 6 students having their own netbooks, as well as de

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Russia High School Students Looking for U.S. Collaborations

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Earthcast 2010 24 Hour Webcastathon- April 22nd, 2010

Hi everyone,
I'm just letting you know about a great project opportunity that is taking place on Earth Day 2010 (April 22nd). The 'Earthcast' is a live, 24 hour long webcast about all things related to the environment. This is a great opportunity for

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5th grade history/English class wants to make international connections for 2010-2011 school year

I am a 5th grade teacher at a medium-size private school in Fort Worth, Texas.  I have been challenged to make some international connections via technology for the coming school year.  I am open to any and all suggestions -- collaborative story writ

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PI Day is March 14th 2010

Any math teachers out there do anything special for PI day which is coming up in a few days?

At The Children's Storefront in Harlem, all the kids are familiar with this video/song
http://www.thechildrensstorefront.org/pi/PiVideoStrMed.mov
and compet

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Looking for VC with anyone living near a Volcano!!!

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I work at Pt England Primary school in Auckland, New Zealand.  Our students are aged 5-12 years of age.  Every term our whole school works together on a learning Inquiry.  This term it is called 'Active Earth' and we are learning about volcan

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Collaborative Literature Project for 9th grade class

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Our High school, Neveh Channah, in Israel has a history of collaborations with classes around the world. We would be interested  in collaborating with a 9th grade classat the beginning of next school year (september-November, 2010 in a project of

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Collaboration with Afghan Students

I am an English teacher in a small rural town in Ontario.  My Grade 11 English class will be studying Khaled Hossenin's novel "The Kite Runner".  I am looking for a group of students that we can learn about Afghanistan and it's people from.  We would

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Paint the World with Light!

Paint the World with Light is a collaborative project for high school students. The lesson is deliberately open to interpretation and variation to accommodate various photography curricula. ______________________________________________________ P

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International Collaboration for Knowledge Building and Knowledge Forum

Hi there, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I am a Hong Kong teacher searching for international collaboration partnership with European teachers for a project called World Healer www.worldhealer.wikispaces.com . This project was previously impleme

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2009-2010 Winter Wonderland Online Project Announcement

The 2009-2010 Winter Wonderland Project is now open for registration! The Winter Wonderland Project is an online project for grades K-3 that includes winter-themed technology activities with reading, writing, and math components. Registration will o

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Student bloggers looking for connections

I have a small group of 6 grade 6 and 7 bloggers. We started out with the student blogging challenge, but have yet to make contract with any other schools or students. I was hoping that another bloggin school might stop by Mr Hide's Class and follow

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What do you know about Pearl Harbor? Please help.

Let me copy onto this page what my daughter posted on another network: What does "Pearl Harbor" mean to you?? Please help me in this crazy school project. We don't really learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor in our country. Never the less, our Eng

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European Union Project Opportunity for Schools - invitation to take part

Below I have posted information about a European Union funded education project Chain Stories for early language learning via 'Inter-comprehension'. The posting is about how schools, that learn in one of the Romance languages, can take part in the pr

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High School Classroom Global Project -- Any ideas/thougths?

In our Integrated Global Studies School, we are looking for schools around the world to maybe do a project with and become "video pals" with. Topics for collaboration include: carbon footprint, Darwin, about sustainability, and ethics. Time frame -

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GEC Member Featured on Skype Web Site

Frequent GEC contributor Valerie Becker and her Islands Around the World project was featured recently on Skype's web site. Please check out this article and Valerie's postings here. She has posted many videos detailing her previous project on whalin

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