I looked at the ThinkQuest website (www.thinkquest.org). This website is an online learning platform that helps students develop important 21st century skills. This is a free teaching tool that allows teachers to easily integrate project learning and technology into their classroom curriculum. Some important skills students could learn include: critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, cross-cultural understanding, technology, communication and self direction. All these skills are very important to for the modern workforce, and they are also keys to being a successful student.
I also looked at the website ePals Global Community (www.epals.com). With this website the class can communicate with others classes in the area and around the world. This is a good website for students to connect with others students around the world and learn new cultures. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. The students can make friends or “pen pals” not only in their area, or elsewhere in the United States, but also around the world. ePals is the social network optimized for student learning. ePals Global Community allows teachers, parents and students to use safe and secure email, connect with other classrooms and participate in project-based learning together.
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (www.iecc.org) is a free service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. This is a great website that has many tools for teachers posted by other teachers around the world. The website includes topics like professional development, problem solving, lesson plans, newsletters, different classroom strategies and much more. This is a great website for new teachers to use when they become confused, overwhelmed, or in need of some extra support.
-Marco Olson Guillén
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