Online Global Collaborative Projects

Busy teachers' web site: Online interactive projects http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/proj.html
A list of international k-12 online projects including information about the project, and links to the specific host organization.

Classroom connect quests
http://quest.classroom.com
Join Quest Interactive Expeditions and travel with a team of explorers, adventurers, and students to solve great mysteries around the world. Using a variety of online mediums including film, photos, and text, students and teachers follow and participate in actual expeditions in various parts of the world. Students and teachers collaborate with the actual explorers, as well as students and teachers from other participating schools to gather and analyze information.

Computer pals around the world (CPAW)
http://reach.ucf.edu/~cpaw/
CPAW is a non-profit global educational electronic network with a presence in over 20 countries. They provide an online calendar of global projects from which members can choose.

EduWeb: Projects
http://www.eduweb.co.uk
EduWeb is a list of international projects and contacts hosted by a UK internet provider. The site provides search capabilities by grade and/or subject areas and checks all projects before they are posted for educational suitability.

ePALS classroom exchange
http://www.epals.com
Matches classrooms throughout the world. They offer free web-based e-mail accounts to facilitate communication with other students, teachers and classrooms. Also provide links to online projects.

Global kids commons
http://www.kids-commons.net/
In addition to sponsoring a number of Internet projects, this site offers the Electronic Sister School Program, a service through which schools are matched with other schools around the world. Schools then communicate with each other to set up either project or keypal exchanges.

Global classroom project
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gc/projects.htm
Lists projects fro students of all grades.

GLOBE
http://www.globe.gov/
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to understand the global environment. Students and teachers from over 5,000 schools in 70 countries are involved. GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education.

I*EARN
http://www.iearn.org
Hosts 450 interactive, global, and multilingual student projects designed to make a difference on the planet. Projects are designed by teachers. Present in over 30 countries.

Intercultural e-mail classroom connections
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/
The IECC organization manages several mailing lists intended to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for email classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.

International schools cyberfair
http://www.gsn.org/cf/
This international competition encourages K-12 students around the world to conduct research about own local community and then build a web project that tells their story. Now in its sixth year, CyberFair has been described as the largest educational event of its kind ever held on the Internet. This program has brought together more than 500,000 students from over 70 countries.

Kidlink
http://www.kidlink.org/
Links to global projects

Student Innovation Award
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/student/contests/swdc/
This Macromedia sponsored project encourages students in grades 8-12 to submit a website built using at least one Macromedia product (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Ultradev, etc.) that has a focussed subject, or is a student portfolio. Cash and product prizes awarded to winning entries.

ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org
The project encourages 2 or 3 member teams of young people from diverse backgrounds and distant points, to use their creative, technical, and intellectual capacities to develop learning materials on the internet. In the contest year 1999, nearly 7000 young people, and their teachers and schools from 78 nations took part in ThinkQuest programs. The best of these entries in each category are awarded substantial scholarships for all student team members for use in their higher education years. The coaches and schools involved in the award winning teams are also provided monetary prizes for their educational activities. Awards range from $5,000 - 15,000 for each student team member and $1,000 - 3000 for each teacher/coach.

WorLD
http://www.worldbank.org/worldlinks/english/
Links students and teachers around the world with the aid of new technologies to improve educational opportunities and build global awareness. WorLD provides sustainable solutions for mobilizing the equipment, training, educational resources and school-to-school partnerships required to bring students in developing countries online and into the global community.

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