I found two sites that connects students and teachers from around the world. The first site is: http://www.thinkfinity.org/global-connections
This site has blogs from students and teachers around the world. You can communicate with them through their blogs and learn about them. It also has a a link called thinkfinitycommunity (http://community.thinkfinity.org/index.jspa ) where you can view other educators/parent's blogs. This site offered a great start for educators who want to have a network with other teachers from around the world.
The second site that I visited was: http://www.epals.com/
I really like this site because it was not as confusing at the first site. If offered many resources for teacher under the Teacher Link. You can share your work and see other teachers work. You can also view online resources such as the skillbuilders library.For students it offered forums, videos, storytelling, and students work, which can be viewed by other students.
The really nice thing about this site is that you can search other classrooms by country or by project. I think it would be nice to do this with school age students as a multicultural school project. The students will have a chance to learn about other students from around the world by viewing other class's works. Students can start a project and then learn about other students projects. It it a great way for students to make epals with other students from other countries. I would love to do a project like this in my class.
It looks like Epals is a popular one! I think that it is a great idea to use with kiddos and I'll be using it in my classroom in the future.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of students having blogs and reading other students blogs from around the world. I think it's a great way to connect students and learn about different cultures.
ReplyDeleteEpals is great, and it looks like everyone found it! It also seems very easy to navigate and use!
ReplyDeleteI liked Epals too. I also looked into thinkfinity. I plan on using this site as a resource to help make my first teaching experience easier. There was a great many articles that I may be able to tap into for future lessons of my own!
ReplyDeleteI found epals too! It seems as though this website is very popular an for good reason. I loved having a pen pal in grade school so I am looking forward to having my students use epals as a way to connect with he global community.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing how something that is simple can change the way you look at something? I looked at epals too, and I was also impressed with the way it was setup. I didn't look into it a whole lot, but it did seem easy.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like everyone likes epals and found it to be interesting in implemented in their future teaching. I think I will go read about it since everyone found it to be very impressed.
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