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**Online Collaborative Learning Projects: Find a Project**
[|ePals Global Community]: started as an email site, has evolved into a site filled with collaborative projects, teachers looking for epals, blogging opportunities, etc. [|Global Schoolnet:] check out the Projects Registry (some listed individually below)

**Current Specific Collaborative Projects** (Feb 2008)
[|To Kill a Mockingbird Discussion]: grade 8: Use of web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis) to discuss To Kill a Mockingbird. 2nd year, so kinks ironed out! [|Rafi.ki]: site with free collaboration through 2008.

**Online Publishing Opportunities for Students: Essays, Poems, Video, etc.**
[|New Pages:] the mega-site, with lists of places for students to publish. Includes contests. [|Teen Ink:] National Teen writing magazine online. [|This I Believe:] NPR's site with essays from the famous and ordinary folks. Anyone can submit an essay. [|The People Speak]: United Nations Foundation: issues, discussions, contests (Example of current contest: [|Think Globally, Report Locally]) [|UNICEF's Voices of Youth]: UNICEF's teen site, with ongoing projects, discussion boards [|Circle of Stories:] Native American Storytelling, with emphasis on process. Lesson plans to include submission to the site of a student's family history. [|Mix It Up] from the Southern Poverty Law Center's www.Tolerance.org: a contest where teens submit essays on how they encourage tolerance at school. Site also has lots of resources for learning about tolerance. [|Poetry Forge:] Students use online tools to create and submit poetry. [|Clickable Poems]: unusual site with poetry with hyperlinks. Click on submissions to see how students can submit audio files. [|Earth Day Groceries Project:] students decorate grocery bags (poetry?) with environmental messages and deliver for Earth Day (April 22) [|Just One More Book]: a podcast/book review site for younger children's books. Idea: students review a children's book,create podcast, submit. [|Bookhooks:] Online spot for illustrated "book reports." [|Favorite Poem Project]: Famous people read their favorite poem. Idea: have your own favorite poem event, video the best, and post to your website? [|TeacherTube:] Language Arts channel; you register and submit the best of your students' podcasts, videos, etc. Student-created music gets around copyright issues.

**Ideas for Next Year:**
These links are great, but deadlines for this year have already expired :-( [|Doors to Diplomacy]: US Dept of State Contest in which student teams research and develop websites to showcase international issues and diplomacy in one of these 8 categories: Leadership Traits, Peace&Democracy, BusinessTrade&Economics, Science&Technology, Safety&Security, History of Foreign Relations, Health&Environmental Awareness, Arts&Culture [|Newsday:] Online Newspaper [|Internet Radio Project] [|Newseum's PSA's on the Five Freedoms]