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CONTENT:
This award-winning site from the Global Schoolnet Foundation is a great resource for teachers and students to integrate online collaborative learning into their curriculum.
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AESTHETICS:
This site is well designed, easily read, and has small, colorful graphics.
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ORGANIZATION:
A top navigation bar, together with a left-side index, guides users through the site easily. There is also a handy site map that indexes all of the content for quick access.
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REVIEW:
Education World takes a fresh look at this Web site, which was last reviewed June 1996. The Global Schoolhouse "provides free online support to teachers, schools, and kids." There is a wealth of information here for teachers looking to use technology as a communication tool in their classrooms. The Global Schoolhouse brings corporations and schools together to offer a long list of projects that allow students from around the world to work together online. A highlight of the site is the Project Registry, a database of school Internet projects, where teachers can search for collaborative projects to join or submit one of their own. There are currently over 800 projects available that can be searched by age level, start date, curriculum area, technologies used, difficulty level and keyword. A complete section is devoted to classroom conferencing that offers tips and suggestions, a FAQ file that will answer all your questions about video conferencing, a school directory and other resources. Among the many other resources at this site is a comprehensive guide for implementing online project based learning in the classroom, news and discussion lists, links to online conversion tools, and Web links.
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01/10/2003
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