This document provides information on four resources for facilitating global collaborations in K-12 classrooms: Powerful Learning Practice, EdChat, the Global Education Conference, and Creative Connections. Powerful Learning Practice is a website that teaches leadership and teaching skills through a five-step process. EdChat started as an education-focused Twitter feed and has become an award-winning way for teachers worldwide to connect and discuss projects. The Global Education Conference allows educators to collaborate on projects and find ideas from its eight years of past conferences. Creative Connections facilitates art-based collaborations between students globally to help them learn about different cultures.

1. Resources For Global
Collaborations in K-12
Classrooms
Emily McGee and Katrina Jensen

2. Powerful Learning Practice
It is a website with courses to teach you to be a leader and educator based on a five step process.
1. Introduction of concept or topic
2. Explore
3. Practice
4. Apply
5. feedback
It boasts a learn at your own pace class for leadership skills. I would use to try new methods of
motivating my students or just change pace.
https://plpnetwork.com

3. EdChat
This start as a twitter feed for educators and has become award winning. It is meant to connect teacher
across the world and open up conversations for many people.
http://edchat.pbworks.com/w/page/219908/FrontPage
It would be fun to talk with teacher about other art projects they do in class

4. Global Education Conference
● Educators can collaborate with people from all around the world in a number of
ways
● Public page available to post perspective project ideas and recruit others to
participate
● Over 8 years of archives of past conferences so that users can get ideas from
previous projects
● Teaching resources
http://www.globaleducationconference.org

5. Creative Connections
● Facilitates the learning of students all over the globe from foreign peers
● Arts-based projects and collaborations
● Goal to help students all around the world appreciate their own culture and learn
of others
● Students can post are work and collaborate with other students around the world
concerning perspective and constructive criticism
https://creativeconnections.org/