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It'S Back To School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around The World [Ellen Jackson, Jan Davey Ellis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada

It'S Back To School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around The World [Ellen Jackson, Jan Davey Ellis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada

A great example of a fairly simple global project that involved 33 classes in 17 countries around the world.International Dot Day encourages creativity in people around the world on Sept 15th. Students drew a dot using an iPad app. These dots were shared via dropbox, flickr or email to Chrissy Hellier who created the project. She put this great little video together.

Inspiring initiative from New Zealand - creative ideas for how to share over 100 days. This could be the catalyst for an interesting global project!

"The efforts of the Connect All Schools consortium and like-minded programs, such as Flat Classroom, Edmodo, Twitter chats, Global Read Aloud Day, Skype in the Classroom, Microsoft's Partners in Learning, Global Classroom Scrapbook Project, and the Intel Teach Program, have vastly increased the diversity and number of students gaining global awareness and empathy beyond what would be possible through study abroad alone. Still, only small fraction of U.S. K-12 students currently have access to some kind of international experience, whether physical or virtual."