Taquina+Abrams+-+Collaborative


 * **iEARN: My Hero Project**
 * http://www.iearn.org/projects/myhero.html
 * This collaboration project asks students and educators to participate in online journal entries about global heroes. There is also a link to “Mi héroe” so that students may submit entries in Spanish.


 * **Friends and Flags Project (sponsored by iEARN, and others)**
 * http://www.friendsandflags.org/
 * This site promotes “cultural diversity and global collaboration” between students and teachers in over 50 countries (many, Spanish-speaking). Each school is placed in a group with 6 other countries, and students prepare 6 “cultural packages” of their own country to send to the other participants. They will, in turn, receive 6 packages with cultural information from the other countries in their group.


 * **Intercultural Email Classroom Connections**
 * http://www.iecc.org/
 * Here teachers can connect with teachers in other countries to establish online pen-pal connections for their students. Teachers must register to use the site; free.


 * **ePALS Classroom Exchange Projects**
 * http://www.epals.com/projects/
 * The **ePALS** web site introduces technology and the Internet into classrooms around the globe. It is “the world’s largest online classroom community” that provides safe email connections, collaborative projects, and fundraisers. Teachers can search for collaborative projects related to their curriculum, or they may search for “classrooms” in specific countries with which they can hold discussions and email (ex: Spain, Peru, Italy, China...).


 * **Mondialogo: Intercultural Dialogue and Exchange**
 * http://www.mondialogo.org/
 * The “Mondialogo” mission is to generate enthusiasm for intercultural exchange, and to encourage young people to enrich their lives through this dialogue between cultures and civilizations. The Mondialogo School Contest is that in which students from two countries form a “Team” and agree to participate in an intercultural project, to be supervised by the teacher, and submitted online. On this site students are able to speak to and work with students from another country.