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	Folk Tales Project Description: The purpose is to study Global Community and Cultural Diversity through folk tales. Kids today know "Three little Piglets", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella". Unfortunately they know little about folk tales of their own country. And they know nothing about folk tales in other countries. Each classroom is split into groups. Groups read different folk tales from around the world. Students discuss the folk tales with the whole class. Students may e-mail their reactions to the folk tales and interact with other classes. Students decide which folk tales they would like to share with other classes in the world and write their stories. Students develop computer skills in word processing, image digitizing, and e-mail. A folk tale provides an opportunity to learn customs, traditions, beliefs, and views. Demonstrates students share their own culture: Yes Real Life Issues: Provides the teacher with an opportunity to share folk tales from 14 countries. Age Level: 5-18 year old End Products for Students: Publication on website and in print Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing, involves about 3 months student work URL: http://www.nsc.ru/folk/ Contact: iearn@us.iearn.org Level of Technology Used: e-mail and WWW-based discussion forums. Supporting Organization: iEARN-Russia Longevity: 3 years Languages: Multilingual,and adaptable to any language *Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html*

	A Vision Description: "A Vision" is an international literary magazine that publishes art, poetry, and prose created by secondary school students. Its purpose is to use art and the medium of creative writing to demonstrate that despite linguistic, cultural, ethnic and racial differences, teenagers around the world share the same hopes, fears, interests and concerns. This project has received an award from Columbia University for Best High School Publication in the United States two years in a row. Students develop computer skills such as word processing, image digitizing, and e-mail. Demonstration of Cross-Cultural Awareness, respect, and appreciation: yes, as it can be seen by the diversity of contributions. Demonstrates students share their own culture: yes Real Life Issues: students read poems and literary pieces and write their own. They find meaning in doing it for they have a that their work be published. Educational Standards and Benchmarks: teachers can adapt activities to their ESL needs. Age Level: for 8-12 grade level End Products for Students: Publication on website and printed publication that is sent to every participating organization. Time of student involvement: Depends on individual teachers. Submissions are accepted from September to April every year Contact: iearn@us.iearn.org Level of Technology Used: e-mail and web based forums. Supporting Organization: iEARN-Lebanon Longevity: 10 years Languages: English and others *Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html*

	The Contemporary Global News Magazine Description: The Contemporary (TC) is a global news magazine project that provides students with an opportunity to learn about issues of national and world importance and to promote cultural understanding as a step toward encouraging youth to have an impact on the direction taken by our world. Articles submitted to TC are placed in the iearn.tc web based forum for the purpose of generating discussion about the issues being considered for inclusion in the magazine. Suggested topics for discussion are placed on this forum. Students are also invited to post other topics of interest. On an ESL class teachers can use this student written and produced magazine for: Practicing reading skills at an advanced level: students can use skimming and scanning techniques for information. Practicing speaking skills at an advanced level: students can have social interaction while discussing the articles that appear in the magazine. They can discuss the content of the articles, analyze them and evaluate them critically. They can express their personal opinion and judgement using language that demonstrates appropriate levels of language, figures of speech and patterns of organization. Practicing writing skills at an advanced level: Students can summarize an article, express their views and opinions and even write a formal letter to the editors of the magazine expressing their feelings. Age Level: 13-19 years old End Products for Students: Student writing is peer-edited and printed in both hard-copy and for the WWW in a publication called "The Contemporary." Time of student involvement: Depends on individual teachers. Submissions are accepted from September to April every year. URL: http://www.iearn.org/projects/tc.html Contact: iearn@us.iearn.org Level of Technology Used: e-mail, WWW-based forums, newsgroups Supporting Organization: iEARN-USA Longevity: 10 years Language: English, and others *Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html*

Folk Tales Project

A Vision

The Contemporary Global News Magazine