Resources
Author’s site with project resources: www.academicedge.net/collaboration/sites.html
Finding
Keypals
Rigby Heinemann Keypals www.reedbooks.com.au/heinemann/global/keypalt.html
Rigby
is a great resource for students and teachers seeking
partner classes.
There are very recent requests, and the site seems to get
a lot
of use. The site has some guidelines for netiquette for
e-mail exchanges.
The requests for partners are broken into K–8 and
9–12
categories. This site is out of Australia; is sponsored by
Reed
Books, an educational publisher; and also contains lesson
plans,
hot topic guides, and other resources.
e-mail Classroom Exchange: www.epals.com
The
chat section is a bit limited and seems to be sparsely
used; however,
the search feature for the database of classrooms seeking
partners
is very useful. The profiles of classes seeking partners
seems to
be used frequently—there are very current entries
from several
classes seeking partners.
Finding
Projects
KIDPROJ: www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/
This
site was one of the first and still one of the best.
KidProj is
a part of KidLink and is a support area for teachers and
others
seeking to develop and implement interclass collaborative
projects.
A calendar of events, a list of current projects, and
forms for
joining projects are available. KidLink and its associated
mailing
lists have been around for a long time and are well
respected and
supported.
Mentoring
Projects
Hewlett-Packard E-mail Mentor Program: www.telementor.org/hp/
This
is Hewlett-Packard's site for matching employees with
potential
K–12 student apprentices throughout the world. In the
1996–1997
year, more than 1,500 employees participated in the
program.
Asking
Experts
Quest: NASA K–12 Internet Initiative: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Quest
houses several wonderful NASA-supported projects that
include broadcasts,
scheduled chat events, online materials, and more. Recent
hot topics
include the brain's functioning in microgravity (Neur0n),
the Mars
pathfinder mission, and shuttle flights. Those seeking to
pose questions
during interactive chat sessions with NASA scientists
should check
the schedule http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/common/events/
regularly because only the first 25 to register are
usually permitted
to post questions.
Publishing
Work
KidPub WWW Publishing: www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
KidPub
is a site for publishing work for the world to view and it is
currently thriving.
There have been literally thousands of stories and other artifacts
published
by kids. I had some intermittent difficulty reconnecting to the site,
but when
I got there, I found a great and growing collection of student work
from around
the world.
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