Art Link
www.vsarts.org/x1484.xml
This program, sponsored by VSA arts and Creative Connections, invites students from grades 3 through 12 to share their culture, heritage, and communities through visual art with an overseas partner art class.
Electronic Collabration: A Practical Guide
for Educators
www.alliance.brown.edu/pubs/collab/elec-collab.pdf
This comprehensive guide provides an 11-step process for planning and implementing
successful online collaborative projects as well as explanations of various
types of online collaborations, useful tools and resources, and more. (PDF file.)
ePALS
www.epals.com
ePALS is the world's largest online classroom community with over 3.8 million
teachers and students from over 191 counties around the globe. Their website
offers an incredible number of resources, tools and services designed to faciliate
telecollaborative projects. To use these services and participate in classroom
exchanges, you need to register on the site (at no cost) and create a profile
that describes you and your classroom.
Global Tribe
www.globaltribenet.org
A
program that connects young people around the world through meaningful service
projects.
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
(IECC)
www.iecc.org
IECC is a free public Internet service sponsored by Teaching.com that is dedicated
to helping teachers connect with other teachers to arrange intercultural email
connections between their students. To use IECC's services, you must first register
on the site and get a username and password.
iEARN
www.iearn.org
The International Education and Resource Network, or iEARN, is a non-profit
organization made up of almost 4,000 schools in over 90 countries that encourages
teachers and young people (K-12) to work together online to solve social problems
and to improve the quality of life on earth. You or your school must join iEARN
(for a yearly fee) in order to take full advantage of the services available.
Kidlink
www.kidlink.org
Kidlink is based on the idea “that getting kids around the world to talk
to each other will allow them a direct experience with friends having the common
experience of childhood but often in very different circumstances.” Participation
in Kidlink’s youth discussions is limited to students through the secondary
level. To take part in any of Kidlink's sponsored activities, a youngster or
class of students must first register on the site.
Virtual Architecture's Web Home
virtual-architecture.wm.edu
This site supports and extends the use of Judi Harris's book, Virtual Architecture:
Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecollaboration by providing additional examples of curriculum-based educational telecomputing projects
and resources that are related to the ideas shared in the book.
