This document summarizes several resources for global collaboration in K-12 classrooms. It describes GlobalSpeedChat, which posts monthly activities for teachers and students worldwide to share. It also outlines CAPSpace, a social networking site that allows classrooms to video conference. Finally, it mentions Teachers' Guide to Global Collaboration, a website that collects interactive global collaboration sites, and Empatico, which provides video chat activities meant to spark empathy between international students.

1. Resources forGlobal
Collaboration in K-12
Classrooms
Kaitlyn Cox, Darian Grimshaw

2. GlobalSpeed
Chat
 globalspeedchat.com
 A different activity is posted each month for teachers and
students worldwide.When the activity is completed, teachers can
create posts/videos to share with others around the world.
Students are encouraged to check out other posts to look for
similarities and differences in classrooms.
 How it can be used: It could be used as an incentive system.The
class could do the activity at the end of the day when they’ve
earned it.

3. CAPSpace
 twicecapspace.org
 Social networking-type site that allows classrooms to video
conference with each other.TWICE members also have seasonal
collaboration events available.
 How it can be used: It could be used to discuss differences and
similarities with classrooms from other parts of the world.

4. Teachers’
Guide to
Global
Collaboration
 globaledguide.org
 A resource that gathers multiple interactive and collaborative
websites in an easy to access format.
 How it could be used:This could be used when the teacher is
looking for a specific type of website to use in the classroom.

5. Empatico
 empatico.org
 Provides activities that can be done while on video chat with
another classroom from around the world.The experiences are
meant to spark empathy between students and an understanding
of similarities and differences.
 How it could be used: It can help students relate to other students
from around the world so they can see how things work in each
other’s classrooms.