The Global Classroom

Free International Etiquette Guides Understanding other people's languages, cultures, etiquettes and taboos is of great value to the traveller or visiting business person. Scroll down the page for information on a selected number of countries. Topics include language, useful phrases, the society, culture, business and social etiquettes.

Actually Sam posted this site originally. Not sure why I was unable to repost it here without showing that he shared it first. Anyway, there are basic words and phrases like greetings and cultural etiquette given for different countries.

This is an excellent site for helping kids to learn about the climate, population, and cultural ways of people from different countries of the world. I like that the students can click on a world map to start their exploration.

This site has specific cultural videos targeted for elementary, middle school, and high school students. One video I viewed showed a large family meal being shared in Bangledesh. Lots of material here to give students a world view so different from their own.

Excellent resource. My next course deals with the exceptional learner...This is perfect. Merci!

liking the look of sticky notes & highlights...still need to get a feel for when they are best used.

I wish I had just a few more days before students return. It will be interesting to see how familiar they are with diigo.

Excellent site to use with elementary kids.

I love BrainPop. There are so many useful videos and tools on there.

YouTube short about how parents should teach kids to view the Internet as a privilege and be respectful of that privilege.

I think that this video would be useful to use with my fourth grade students and parents.

Starting page for the YouTube Education side of the website.

Good Article which talks about the use of Skype-but also one downside-finding efficient ways to connect with partners

This article gave several ideas on how Skype is being used in the classroom.

Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Peace One Day, among others join Skype in the classroom to deliver dynamic content and guest speakers Helping to educate and inspire the next generation of thinkers, Skype joins forces with Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Science Museum London, Peace One Day, and Save the Children to provide teachers with educational content and access to expert speakers via video calling.

One of the coolest uses of Skype was the music video "One," that featured musicians from around the world colloborating to perform "Lean on Me" in real time. It's very moving, and my students love it.

I'm going to have to check it out after I locate a box of Kleenex! :) How do I find it? Do you have the link?

Want to establish global connectivity in education, but don't know where to start?- Here is one place

Thanks! It looks well thought out.

This would be a fun way to engage our students

Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom. Meet new people, talk to experts, share ideas and create amazing learning experiences with teachers from around the world.

Denise, Thanks for sharing this link. I was excited to see that I could join the educator's skype and connect my students to a forest ranger in Yellowstone, and Olympic events. Amazing!

messed up on the first posting - hope this works

This has two videos about using Google Apps at school. One is from a teacher and the other is a mini demonstration about Google Apps

I viewed this page and the videos and was wondering why my school isn't using Google Apps for everything.