Although we live in all different places, and have different backgrounds, we all have some things in common, or have at least heard of these things. You can go to the left menu on this page and choose a topic you're interested in communicating about. Some ideas include: culture, environment, global warming, health, politics, technology, sports, and many more! On this page you can click basically anywhere in the world, and click on different peoples profiles and read about them, and their area and what they do.
I think this could be useful for a teacher to use as a resource when studying different areas, and pick out certain people they may want to study or contact. It would also be fun for the students to just surf around the website and maybe find a pen pal! Within this website there are many more programs that support global communication.
I also found EPals which is a network for safe connection to over 200 different countries and territories. It makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally. There is a different section for teachers, students, and families. I think this would be an awesome website to be able to find pen pals for all of the students in your classroom. They can connect classrooms for the age groups Kindergarten - 12th grade.
http://www.epals.com/
http://www.tigweb.org/.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8940619-reading-globally-k-8
Epals are good website. I think you can share cultures together becoming more global citizen! ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of Epals! It would be such a great (and instant) way of connecting kids from one classroom to another.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of students having pen pals. The Epals website sounds like a great way of doing that.
ReplyDeleteEveryone really seemed to enjoy having pen pals as a kid, so Epals will probably be a great resource for us to use in our classrooms. TalkingITGlobal sounds very interesting, I hadn't heard about this site but as future educators I think it is important to up-to-date on global issues. This awareness will help us become more culturally responsive teachers.
ReplyDeleteI looked at Epals too. I agree. It seems like a great website for penpals for kids. It would be a great long term project to assign children inn the classroom. I didn't run across Connect Globally, but it seems like a site that woould be great to explore!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the website TakingItGlobal! I think this is a really neat way to stay up to date on global activities and current events while getting news from people that are in that area first hand.
ReplyDeleteI like the new twist on an old story with epals. No more waiting for weeks for a foreign pen pal to write you back! And, no more stamps!!! Yay!!
ReplyDeleteWow, I am really have to go and learn about epals because everyone is considering it for educating it in their class. Sounds like a great idea to help kids learn.
ReplyDeleteE-pals sounds like a good way to connect with other students and educators around the world. Students can learn so much about each other from communicating with people their own ages on something like e-pals. The best part about it is it would be so much faster than writing a letter.
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