Links+to+Resources

=District 96 Resources= ====[|District 96 Website Resources:] Use this form to provide information about Internet based resources.==== ====[|District 96 Volunteer Resources:] If you, or someone you know is able to act as a resource for District 96 Global Communications projects, please submit (or have them submit) the following form. If a project is developed that requires the volunteer's involvement, a district staff member or representative will contact the person listed as the Contact Person below.====

__Other Resources__
Starting a Project - Visit the Global Education Wiki and review things to consider for starting a global project.

[|Great Early Learning Global Projects to Join: Jen Wagner] These season projects are open to join. They are usually for K - 2 students and involve a seasonal or holiday connection.

[|ePals] - Huge corporate resource with mix of projects. Access to online projects is through ePals Global Community and is free. This includes collaborative projects with National Geographic, Smithsonian and also member initiated projects. Site is international and there are members from all over the globe. . Extensive forums including the Teacher Forum ePals Wanted where members can post and reply to requests for collaborators. ePals is used by the International Baccalaureate Organization as a virtual classroom. In addition to the free area – there are premium services for a cost (unknown). These are Learning Space (a virtual workspace and collaboration management tool) and in2Books (an eMentoring programs that bring kids and adult volunteer mentors together through book discussions).

[|Global SchoolNet] – Includes organized online project with detail information, also includes collaboration project lists, and the organization also offers training to educators. This is a good place to post a project and request partners to join. Go to the Project Registry to post a project and invite others to join your project.

Global Education Wiki - A huge resource including many links about global collaboration (books, sites, and active projects etc). Has a large project directory. Built as part of the 2010 Global Education Conference, the site seems to have stopped being updated around Nov, 2010 (the time of the conference).

[|GLOBE] The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSP's) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment.

[|iEarn] includes link to Collaboration Centre to help teachers find projects. iEarn is international with the ability to find iEarn groups by country. There is a cost involved.

[|Scriblink] - A cool virtual whiteboard

[|Thinkquest] – This is Oracle’s on-line learning platform that can help with project management. It is free though registration is required. Once the school is registered, teachers can have individual accounts with their own students under their account. Students can create personal pages for projects. Members get access to online projects as well (not sure what projects exist).


 * Skype Resources**

[|Edublogger Skype List] - another list of possible skype partners organized by country. It is about a year since the last reported update.

[|The Skype an Author Network] - Helps facilitate the identification of author’s willing to skype with classrooms.

[|Skype for Educators] - Small database of educators/experts willing to skype with classrooms – there doesn’t seem to be a weeding process to evaluate people who sign up.

[|Skype in the Classroom] - A directory of educators available to skype that is maintained by Skype (this is in Beta)

Get Ideas – [] - a global online community for education discussion. Includes research and peer discussions on all education topics, not limited to global communications.