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"This blog is designed to promote the work of students in Room 8 at Melville Intermediate School. This school is located in the city of Hamilton in the Waikato Region of New Zealand. We are a class of 24 students who are Y7 level (10-11 year olds). We'd really like getting comments and feedback and would love to network with new classrooms nationally and around the world."

There are pieces of this video that were shared at the IU Mentor meeting on March 1 at the Dallastown Intermediate School. You may get the gist of his message of Professional Learning Communities and Global Education

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: * Promote international and intercultural understanding; * Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; * Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; * Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Join free and sign up for Read Aroudn the Planet. You can post your own projects to find partners or join a project posted by someone else.

I will be sharing sites I found in an article called Bring the Word into Your Classroom.

"Mystery Hangout is a social game played with two groups of students. It's a mix of Battleships and 20 questions"