2. Why do it???
The aims of global projects are to connect students around
the world using Internet technology. It aims to provide
students the opportunity to develop skills that are essential
in the 21st century:
* Cross-Cultural Communication
* Collaboration
* Citizenship
* Creativity
3. • A creative writing
workshop made
up of schools
around the world,
connected by one
wiki. This blog will
be the home to
the award-
winning stories
from each group
of schools that
participate in the
workshop,
different topics,
different grade-
levels, different
cultures, brought
together by the
power of stories.
4. Mission Possible - Our
World is in Our Hands
• Lower Primary Project put
together by a team from Taiwan,
the USA, and Canada, provides
a look into the students' desire
to protect the Earth. Clean
water, pollution, climate change,
and other environmental
concerns are discussed along
with a video on the Earth as
seen from space.
5. This project was created by team of students from
Canada, Malaysia and the USA. Their site is an
overview of cultural comparisons across the three
countries, along with essays and surveys on issues
of interest to the students. Their objective was to
celebrate quot;the events, cultures, and festivals that
bond people together.quot;
7. Global Teenager Project
• 6000 pupils from 30
countries have taken part in
the global teenager project,
which allows students to
discuss environmental,
social and human rights
issues. This virtual network
of secondary schools in
both the developing and
developed world aims to
help foster an upcoming
generation of information-
literate, knowledge-oriented,
culturally-aware individuals.
8. • Organizing concerts
in locations around
the world to happen
all on the same day:
April 19, 2008 —
Earth Day Saturday.
Who performs? Any
band that wants to -
high school, college,
local amateur bands.
This is a student-run,
global collective that
started in Seoul and
now has members in
Paris, Honolulu and
Kazakhstan
9. International Teen Life
The purpose of this
project is to have
teenagers from different
locations around the
globe exchange their
thoughts and
perceptions of what their
lives are like. By viewing,
reading, and listening to
the perspectives of
others from around the
globe, we hope that
students will gain a
greater perception of the
similarities and
differences of people's
lives around the world.
10. • The aim of the project was to use the internet to
work together and explore:
• - Current Environmental Issues
• - The way these issues are being dealt with in the
respective countries
• - Exploration of any International Agreements on
these issues
• Issues include climate change, animal testing,
ozone depletion, endangered species, deforestation,
fossil fuels, pollution, water and recycling
11. Tools & Online Social Spaces
Wikis
iChat/Skype - Webcasting - Podcasting
Blogs
Google Docs
Content-Learning Management Systems (Moodle)
Education/Social Networks (TakingITglobal, Ning,
Facebook, Bebo)
