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Web Based Projects

http://www.hamiltonschools.org/davies/10best/sld001.htm This slide show discusses the many ways in which to use the Internet. It is a little out of date, but still informative.

http://www.k12science.org/collabprojs.html The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science (CIESE) provides excellent, well supported collaborative projects. One of my favorites is the Human Genetics project, which allows students to collect and compare data on dominant and recessive traits. CIESE also provides teachers with Primary Source & Archived Collections Projects. Check out their Curriculum page for more options.

http://mathforum.org/class2class/ Math Forum's "Class2Class is a clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula."

http://www.landmark-project.com/ggl/index.html "The Global Grocery List is a long standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines."

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html "The Global Schoolhouse is the original virtual meeting place where
educators, students, parents and community members can collaborate, interact, develop, publish and discover learning resources." Join an Expedition to observe and communicate with real world explorers, or visit the project registry to search for projects that are relevant to your curriculum.

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/about/index.html "NASA Quest allows the public to share the excitement of NASA's authentic scientific and engineering pursuits like flying in the Shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring distant planets with amazing spacecraft, and building the aircraft of the future."

Mentors & Class to Class Connections

http://www.askanexpert.com/ Pitsco's Ask an Expert "connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have volunteered to answer your questions for free!"

http://emissary.wm.edu/ "The Electronic Emissary is a Web-based telementoring service and resource center that helps kindergarten through grade 12 teachers and students with Internet access locate mentors who are experts in various disciplines, for purposes of setting up curriculum-based electronic exchanges among the teachers, their students, and the mentors."

http://www.iecc.org/ The Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connection "is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships."

http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/Projects+Resources/locators.html Judi Harris provides a Correspondent Locators page along with a web-based project index.

http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/backgrnd.html "Kidlink is based on the idea that getting kids around the world to talk to each other will allow them a direct experience with friends having the common experience of childhood but often in very different circumstances. By hearing a range of opinions and developing familiarity with different ideas, we can hope to overcome some communication barriers and solve some problems in a more co-operative manner."

http://www.epals.com/ "ePALS is the Internet's largest community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges, project sharing and language learning. ePALS is also the leading provider of school-safe emailTM, eMentoring and web-browsing technology for the global educational market."

http://www.iearn.org/ The International Education and Resource Network "is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world."

http://teachers.net/mailrings/ "Join a network of over 50,000 of the world's brightest educators, connected through the magic of e-mail. No cost to join - simply complete the form below and select the mailring you'd like to join. Once you're subscribed to the mailring, you'll receive further instruction for posting and immediately receive e-mail from your teacher colleagues around the world!"

http://www.2learn.ca/Projects/ProjectCentre/projintro.html "Telecollaborative Learning Projects@ 2Learn .ca provide great motivation for your students, engaging them in real-world learning experiences --while you, the teacher, become a guide, facilitating these extraordinary opportunities . Exploring the many Project resources and tools we have built, you will discover that your classroom need no longer be bound by four walls!"