It’s taken a little while, but the collaboration between our students and students in Kracow, Poland has finally started to gather steam. Right now, they’re talking in some depth about the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and life in the respective countries. The hope is that it will continue through the end of the school year with a number of different classes involved. I know that most of what they are doing could have been accomplished with a regular discussion board or maybe even e-mail, but the students and the teachers are all liking the Weblog because of its ability to share photos and archive the discussions in an easily accessible form. They are also making use of Manila’s notification function to let them know when stuff has been posted. It reminds me of the project Anne and I did last year, and I think it will lead to some other such projects in the future.
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