This document discusses connecting classrooms across the globe through various online projects. It describes projects like keypal exchanges, postcard exchanges, monster exchanges, and the Flat Stanley project where students can collaborate with classes in other areas. Several websites supporting these projects are provided. The document encourages charting a course to connect classrooms internationally and further information on setting up connections is available through the listed website.

1. Classroom Connections
Connecting, Communicating and Collaborating
with Classes Across the Globe
Kirstin Anderson-McGhie
@Keamac
http://authenticict.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Connections

2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/papazimouris/346630496/ Ioni's world DSC01433a

17. Similarities and differences
were identified and
discussed

56. My monster is called Ping Pong. Her skin colour is dark blue. She has one eye and red and brown hair.
Her clothes are a cheerleader top, it is purple with a red C on it. She is wearing a light blue skirt.
On her head is a pair of antennae, they are grey. On her feet are some beautiful brown high heel
boots. In her right hand is a red pompom. Ping Pong
has purple in the middle of her eye and she has a black outline. My monster is from Planet Cheerleader. Ping Pong is a very
happy monster cheerleader.

58. Hypno 2000 is a slime monster. He is light green. He has two big white eyes with
a thick black outline. In the centre of his eyes he has red swirls.
He has two brown holes on the
side of his head. He sticks out his front teeth and his tongue. He has brown spots
down his body.

60. Dynamite has a squared face that’s green and on all the corners it’s curvy. He has 3 eyes, a nice smile and teeth
(the teeth are made from triangles). One tooth is down, another is up and the last one is down. he has a tall,
rectangular body and it’s dark blue. Also, he has a big, orange DS on his body. Also on the top of his head are
green triangles for ears - they are wide apart. At the bottom of his body there are 2 tall rectangles that are also
green - one on the left and one on the right - for his feet. On his feet there are yellow circles for each of his
toes. Last of all is his devil stick. His devil stick is red and black with 3 triangles on top, like a fork. The part with
the triangles is red and the other half is black. Around his devil stick there is a zig-zaggy line that is yellow and
inside the line there is a shade of really light blue.

64. Lampyclock has a medium triangle head with orange and blue stripes. He has square eyes with two big black dots
in the middle. He has a pink nose and a pink neck in the middle of the bottom of the head. He has a triangle
mouth with white teeth. Then there is a fat medium circle with a line around near the line with a star in the
middle with lines around the star. The legs go down then to the left then a space. Then another one, it goes
down then right, then down, then two more down across to the left then another one down across to the
right. He is holding coffee in a cup that is brown. He has rectangle arms with a black outline. On the circle there
are sticks near the neck. So that’s my Lampyclock.

68. My monsters body is the shape of a door. It has three heads and it has a
very nasty attitude. My monster has two tentacles. My monster has two
tongues and they are red with snakes. One tongue has sharks and that’s
why no monster will challenge my monster.

84. Keypals, Travel Buddies & Other Online Projects
http://www.epals.com/
Postcard Exchange http://pcg.cyberbee.com/
Monster Exchange
http://www.monsterexchange.org/
and
http://monsterproject.wikispaces.com/Welcome
Flat Stanley Project
http://www.flatstanley.com/how.php?nav=teachers
Quad Blogging http://quadblogging.net/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/1721982928/ Story Bird http://storybird.com/
We begin by charting a course

85. Click on the link below to find further information and examples to
support this presentation.
http://authenticict.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Connections
keamac@gmail.com