Creating+a+Global+Communication+Center


 * Project Overview:**


 * Partnering on YackPack or TokBox for Early Elementary:** Connect students in several international schools to create a “global communication center” as Alan November suggested in the roundtable discussion. Each teacher will create a YackPack for each student in your class, each student will have 4 partners in other schools around the world, for a total of 5 students in each Pack. This will enable the exchange to be more constant, more flexible and sometimes involve just a portion of your pack and other times all of your pack (depending on curricular needs).

[|YackPack] is an audio e-mail service that allows students to share and exchange ideas in a user friendly graphical interface that requires little to no reading skills. [|TokBox] is a slightly more complex video e-mail/live video chat service.

The Pack can be used for: storytelling, practicing reading with emotion, share their favorite book, talk about the author, reflecting on learning and the process of learning (metacognition), collecting “data” (for ex: for graphing activities). Students will use inspiration / kidspiration or an online mind mapping software to brainstorm ideas about what they will talk about so students are not reading from a script.

This project could be extended by creating a collaborative [|Ning] or [|Imbee] for the classes for a place to share pictures, videos, etc and/or video conferencing with [|Skype] or [|TokBox] (video e-mail) where video would be required to enrich the experience.


 * Project Update:**

Uh oh! It looks like YackPack is going to start charging for it's services (more details [|here])... not good... so we may have to re-think this project idea. Perhaps a Flat Classroom using Ning would be better? What do you guys think? We can use the discussion tab to share our ideas :)

**Interested teachers, please add your details below:**
Interested **Grade 1** Classrooms: Interested **Grade 2** Classrooms: Interested **Grade 3** Classrooms: Interested **Grade 4** Classrooms: Interested **Grade 5** Classroom: Skype - lenvas || Bucklands Beach Intermediate School, New Zealand ||  ||
 * Teacher Name || Contact Info || School and Location || Start Date ||
 * Kim Cofino & ...... || [|Always Learning] || [|International School Bangkok], Thailand ||  ||
 * Jennifer Peterson & Julie Munro || j.peterson@mkis.edu.my || [|Mont'Kiara International School], Malaysia || End of Oct ||
 * Nancy vonWahlde || nancyvonwahlde@asmadrid.org || [|American School of Madrid], Spain || Feb 08 ||
 * Teacher Name || Contact Info || School & Location || Start Date ||
 * Kim Cofino & Susan Souza || [|Always Learning] || [|International School Bangkok], Thailand ||  ||
 * Kevin Jarrett || [|eBoard] | [|blog] || [|Northfield Elementary School], New Jersey, USA ||  ||
 * Fay Crooks ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Jennifer Peterson & Melanie Brodie || j.peterson@mkis.edu.my || [|Mont'Kiara International School], Malaysia || end of Oct ||
 * Philippe Lane || Philippel@bj.ycef.com || Yew Chung Interantional School of Beijing, China ||  ||
 * Anne Reardon || areardon222@mac.com || PA, USA ||  ||
 * Teacher Name || Contact Info || School & Location || Start Date ||
 * Kim Cofino & ....... || [|Always Learning] || [|International School Bangkok], Thailand ||  ||
 * Tina Coffey || [|tcoffey.edublogs.org] || Virginia, US ||  ||
 * Megan Williams & Lynn Townley || Megan Williams || Mont'Kiara International School, KL, Malaysia ||  ||
 * Teacher Name || Contact Info || School & Location || Start Date ||
 * Matt Kish ||  || [|Elizabeth Haddon School], Haddonfield, NJ ||   ||
 * Kim Cofino & Mary Bellone || [|Always Learning] || [|International School Bangkok], Thailand ||  ||
 * Paul Harrington || [|Class 4H Cefn Fforest] || Wales, UK || Early Nov ||
 * Megan Williams & Sue Arin || Megan Williams || Mont'Kiara International School, KL, Malaysia ||  ||
 * Nancy Von Wahlde || NancyVonWahlde@asmadrid.org || American School Madrid, Spain (after-school club gr 2-4 students) || Feb '08 ||
 * Teacher Name || Contact Info || School & Location || Start Date ||
 * Kim Cofino & ....... || [|Always Learning] || [|International School Bangkok], Thailand ||  ||
 * Megan Williams & Bob Winters || Megan Williams || Mont'Kiara International School, KL, Malaysia ||  ||
 * Lenva Shearing || lenva@bbi.school.nz
 * Chrissy Hellyer || [|TeachingSagittarian] || Taradale Intermediate School || Early Feb ||