Resources

Telecollaboration

Virtual Architecture
http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/Telecollaboration/index.html

The Virtual Architecture website was designed to accompany Judi Harris뭩 book, Virtual Architecture: Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing, but stands on its own merit as a source of information about joining, planning, and carrying out telecollaborative projects and other telecomputing activities. The telecollaboration section of the site includes descriptions of the various kinds of activities and an extensive list of annotated links to telecollaborative projects.

Telecollaborative Projects
http://www.WebTeacher.org/macnet/telecollaborative/telecollaborative.html

This web resource, hosted by WebTeacher, provides a clearly-written overview of telecollaborative projects. Sections include a brief introduction to the telecollaborative approach, a description of what makes a good project, and a step-by-step guide to building and implementing a telecollaborative project. Also included is a list of addition Internet resources devoted to telecollaboration in educational settings.

MITUPV Exchange
http://mitupv.mit.edu/

MITUVP is an online educational exchange between students at MIT and the Universidad Polit?nica de Valencia. The North American students of Spanish and the UPV students of English collaborate to plan and implement a 뱕irtual university?in which students learn about the culture and language of their counterparts through interacting in a number of forums devoted to various aspects of the lives of university students.

Midlink
http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/

Midlink is an online magazine with a collection of collaborative online projects from K-12 classes. Midlink offers students a virtual space in which to become published authors, and it offers teachers many model projects to join, adopt or adapt for their own use. Resources include an honor role webpage with links to the best projects which have been selected and evaluated by an editorial panel of teachers. This is a rich source of good ideas and planning strategies.

Kidlink
http://www.kidlink.org

Kidlink is a global non-profit organization devoted to international collaboration between students up to the secondary level. Kidlink sponsors a large number of diverse projects that include telecollaborative activities. Some of the largest projects include:

• My Future Job
  http://www.kidlink.org/english/career/index.html
• Who am I?
  http://www.kidlink.org/kie/nls/index.html
• Making Our World Better
  http://www.kidlink.org/english/voice/index.html
• I Have a Dream
  http://www.kidlink.org/dream/index.html

Most projects include instructions for teachers on how to participate and how to integrate them into their classes. General information for teachers is available at http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/snapshot.html.