Practice

Explore, practice, and sign up for connections. Starred projects are good for first time participants.
 * International Classroom Connections on the Internet **

Teams of three schools each “give something back” to their communities and create a website describing what they did. || * Application is due to Global Virtual Classroom **September 30, 2011 **. Schools around the world raise awareness or take action in their local communities. //Research should be about ////local San Diego organizations // and individuals. || * One teacher per school must register the project online at [|http://www.globalschoolnet.com] by **November 2011 ** in order to participate.
 * **Project ** || **How to Participate ** || **Project Milestones ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Epals * ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Teachers create accounts on [|http://www.epals.com].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Teachers select partners on e-pals site.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Students participate as arranged by teachers. || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Find partners.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Decide on a project.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Collaborate. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">My Hero * ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students register free on [|http://www.MyHero.com] at any time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">iEARN members may do MyHero learning circles. || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Students may pick a hero.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Research and write, film, or draw.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Turn in work online.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">See work if accepted. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Global Virtual Classroom (GVC)* **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Sign up now at **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">[|**http://www.virtualclassroom.org/application.html**] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This is a way to work in depth on a project with two other classrooms. Teams pick topics. || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">September 2011—Sign up with **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">[|**http://www.virtualclassroom.org**] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Oct. 2011 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">—Meet two assigned partner classes **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">November 2011 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">—Select topic and begin research. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">February 2012 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">—Post research on final website.Prize money is possible. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">CyberFair sponsored by Global Schoolnet* **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Due date is Mid-March 2012. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Only one entry per school is allowed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This is perfect for field trips. An “event capture” of a single visit with interviews with accompanying research may be enough content for an entire CyberFair entry. || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Fall **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">—1. Write about, find statistics about, draw, record, and photograph related trips, events, seminars, and class projects. 2. Save student work digitally by sending all to a common email or posting work of each class on a blog or wiki (linked to the school website). Work by hand may be photographed or scanned. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Spring **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">—1. Collect all digital work. 2. Add original banner, menu, and a narrative explaining what was learned. 3. Post work to designated server. 4. Turn in completed project notice to globalschoolnet on time. 5. Evaluate six projects on time in April. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Project Registry* ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Look at [] . || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Find a project that is a match for your class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Sign up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Participate. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Globaldreamers* ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">This project will continue until 2013. Find it at [|www.globaldreamers.org], or on the project registry.
 * || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Send in your work for holidays or other events. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">UNESCO International Day of Peace **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students worldwide raise awareness of peace. || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Contact peacedoves@janegoodall.org ,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">See also [|**http://internationaldayofpeace.org/about/background.html**] || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Discuss reason for event.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Prepare pinwheels, flags, poems songs, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">March, photograph the action.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Share photos online.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">UNICEF ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">World Math Day* ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Look at description at [] . || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Sign up in February on WorldMathDay.com.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Practice.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Compete live with students.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">iEARN Learning Circles **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">5-10 classes worldwide work together for ten weeks. Project choices are a “newspaper” or “an assigned book” or group participation in myhero.com. || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Sign up as a teacher or as a school at [|http://www.iearn.org] . There may be a fee.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Applications for learning circles are due in **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">September **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> for the fall and in **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">January **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> for the spring.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Projects are due in **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">January **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> for the fall and in **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">May **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> for spring session after ten weeks of collaboration. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Week 1—Teacher introductionsWeek 2—Class surveysWeek 3—Topic selectionsWeeks 4-8—Classes continue friendly chats and work on projects.Weeks 9-10—Post projects and say goodbyes. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ThinkQuest ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">See how teams are formed. Individuals may join. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Talking Kites--iEARN **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Fly kites for peace…First done by Israeli and Arab children over the barricade dividing their city… || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This is for members of [|http://www.iearn.org]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Join the project by March.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Send photos, films, and writing to iEARN.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The fly date is around March 21st. || # <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Make kites.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Discuss peace.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Fly.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Report to iEARN. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Connect All Schools ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Read about other connections.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Report on your collaborations. ||  ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Fly.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Report to iEARN. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Connect All Schools ** || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Read about other connections.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Report on your collaborations. ||  ||