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Students submit
artwork to the Echo Foundation
Hugh Morton's Visit to CCDS
Joel Sartore's Visit to CCDS
Click here for your environmental reading pleasure!
submitted by Karen
Oldham and Chris Gawle
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Postsecondary Programs Working with K-12 Schools
Following are examples of postsecondary programs working with
K-12 schools in creative uses of the Internet in connecting classrooms globally.
 Ex*Change 3
Interactive Communication and
Simulations (ICS)
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom
Connections
International
Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS)
International School
Partnerships through Technology (ISPT)
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- Description. The goals of EXCHANGE are to provide an opportunity
for non-native English speakers to express themselves through the use of English to create
a unique source of knowledge and insight about different cultures. To accomplish these
goals, EXCHANGE publishes writings of non-native English speakers from all over the world.
- Age Level: Elementary to university
- Curriculum area: ESL/Second Language Acquisition
- End Product(s) for Students: Writings published in
"EXCHANGE."
- Timeline/Schedule: Variable (Time necessary to write a
submission)
- URL: http://deil2.lang.uiuc.edu/exchange3/
- Contact: exchange_editor@uiuc.edu
- Level of Technology Used: Email, WWW
- Supporting Organization: The Intensive English Institute and the
Division of English as an International Language at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- Longevity: 2+ year
- Languages: For learners of second languages
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.htm |
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- Description: Based at the University of Michigan School of
Education, the Interactive Communications and Simulations (ICS) project is a dynamic
program of exciting and innovative educational telecommunications exercises. Using
accessible telecommunications, students can spend part of every school day in a
"global classroom." ICS exercises have been designed to help teachers teach,
mostly by encouraging active learning, learning through design, and providing flexibility
so that teachers can integrate the on-line and classroom experiences. All of its projects
link participating students with teams of university student mentors, whose role is to
support and challenge the students in their endeavors.
During
the 2000-2001 school year, ICS is offering curricular exercises in a variety of areas.
These include role-playing simulations on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the inner-workings
of the American legislative process. They also conduct a global issues forum built around
vicarious travel called Earth Odysseys, which this year centers on Central America.
Student writers are linked both with peers and with university student mentors in the
International Poetry Guild, and they are currently piloting their newest exercise, the
Rivers Project, a collaborative venture with Japanese educators which connects students
around the world in the study of history, culture, ecology, geography, politics, and art
related to rivers and water.
- Age Levels: K-12 grades
- URL: http://ics.soe.umich.edu/
- Contact: telephone (734) 763-5950, or by email at stanz@umich.edu.
- Supporting Organization: Interactive Communications and
Simulations group at The University of Michigan
- Longevity: 10+ years
- Language(s) of Communication: English and Japanese
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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- Description: A free service to help teachers link with partners
in other countries and cultures for e-mail, classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. Since
its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships.
At last count, more than 7650 teachers in 82 countries were participating in one or more
of the IECC lists.
- Age Levels: K-12 grades, postsecondary
- URL: http://www.iecc.org/
- Contact: Craig Rice (cdr@stolaf.edu),
Bruce Roberts (roberts@stolaf.edu), Howard
Thorsheim (thorshm@stolaf.edu)
- Sponsoring Organization: St. Olaf College
- Longevity: 1992-
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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- Description: Offers educational simulations of international
relations at both the university and high school levels. Students at a participating
institution represent the decision makers of a selected country and negotiate solutions to
global problems via the Internet with peers around the world.
- Age Levels: high school
- URL: http://www.icons.umd.edu/
- Contact: icons@gvpt.umd.edu
- Supporting Organization: ICONS, University of Maryland
- Longevity: 1992-
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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- Description: High school classrooms in North Carolina, USA
partner with classrooms around the world to communicate and collaborate on curriculum
related projects.
- Age Level: grades 9-12
- Curriculum Focus: All high school curriculum areas
- Supporting Organization: Center for International Understanding,
The University of North Carolina
- End Product(s) for Students: product which can be reports, web
pages, videos, computer presentations, etc.
- Timeline/Schedule: August to May each school year
- URL: http://www.ga.unc.edu/NCCIU/ispt
- Contact: Diane Midness dmidness@ga.unc.edu
- Level of Technology Used: e-mail, WWW research, chat, threaded
discussions, web page construction
- Longevity: 1997-
- Language(s) of Communication: English
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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Charlotte Country
Day School 
An International
Collaboration