Have you ever wanted to collaborate with someone in a different country? Share ideas, student projects, products or have an International buddy? If so, use this thread to make those connections. Post your Skype or any other VOIP application information so that others who are interested can contact you and make those educational collaborative connections. Don't forget to include your country, grade/subject area and any other important information about your future educational project. Also share any informaton about your class or project that you are willing to work on with another class.

JoAnn did a wonderful job of creating a google spreadsheet for us to collect our connections around the globe. Complete the spreadsheet and then come back to this thread and share your experience. See you in Cyberspace.

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Hi! I am Kristine Torres. I teach 6th grade social studies. I teach about ancient cultures: Mesopotamia, India, China, England, Greece, Rome, Egypt. etc. And I love it. If I couyld skyoe with someone who lived in one of these cultures . . . AWESOME!

My skype name is Kristine.Torres and I live in Missouri, at the moment!

My name is Gail Laubenthal and I am a Pre-Kindergarten teacher in Austin, Texas. I am looking for other 4-6 year old children to skype with. My interests are varied, but I use science topics as my key themes throughout the year. I also find ways to integrate technology using digital microscopes and cameras, iPads, iPods, computers, and the Mimio Interactive tools (IWB). My Skype address is gaillaubenthal.

I am a Kindergarten Teacher in Austin, Texas and I Skyped with a class in New York last year and my students and I loved it! I would love to connect with another Kindergarten Class abroad. My skype name is: Jackietotten

I would love to connect with another first grade class and share ideas. Contact me at mcavazos1@austinisd.org to discuss any projects we could work on. I would like to connect prior to getting the classes together. Look forward to hearing from a class abroad.

Hi everyone. I am a 4th grade teacher in Austin, Texas, USA. I would love to Skype with a class that has students around the same ages

as mine. They are about 10 years old and we study Science and Language Arts, in my class. I was hoping to have our students share some of their "personal narratives" with each other. Our new school year starts in mid August, so I will be ready to roll in around October.

Vanessa, this is a great idea. I am wondering if there is a way that we could create a chart where people could fill in info on grade level they teach and areas and age they are interested in connecting with and their skype name etc and people could update it possibly in a google doc or if there is a way to do it within the engage community. It can be time consuming to scroll through everyone but if you could search it by grade level, location etc. it might be easier. Not sure if there is a tool in the community that we can use.

I like connecting the link to this thread. I could even post it in the original post. Guests could post on the spreadsheet as well as continue to engage in conversations about making global connections.

Now that the majority of schools are embarking on a new year, let's get those global connections started. Don't forget in addition to completing the spreadsheet, make those first contacts. Be the first to contact someone to start a global project. I can't wait to hear about them.

I want to share the following project that I did last year and have just registered for this year. It is open to all grade levels from all over the world. The neat thing is that we have a common project and can Skype/collaborate with others about our findings. It is interesting to have the students compare what they found in their one square meter of earth. Vanessa thought this might be a project that this group could do.

Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments is an Internet-based collaborative project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students from around the country and the world. Participants will:

Hi, my name is Caroline and I teach Geography to the upper secondary students at a local girls' school in Singapore. The Secondary 3 and 4 levels here would be equivalent to the 10th and 11th Grades in the high school system in places such as the Unites States.

I was just wondering if there are chances for any collaboration with my students on projects involving global issues such as climate change, deforestation, development, globalisation, tourism, geography of health and disease, GM food etc.

Our distance learning office sets up collaborations for the 60 school districts in Central Texas. What do you have in mind? What age group would you like to include? We are doing a GEOchasers event on May 3 and 4. You can read more about it at geochasers.wikispaces.com

We are just starting a collaboration with a school in the Czech Republic through video conferencing and a companion website for asynchronous communication. If you are interested, please let me know. Some of our fifth graders are planning a presentation on the types of schools you can find in the United States in a few weeks. We would love to have others join in.

Hi my name is aqsa i am an Telecom Engineer and i am teaching computer and maths in The City School Senior Branch . I want to join you people and my email ID is cancerianaqsa@yahoo.com . Please reply me soon i am waiting for your reply .