Hands across the Oceans » Sister Classes

What Makes a Country Unique?

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:27:27 +0000

Students around the world are taking part in a project showing videos and photos of what makes their countries unique. Here in Kuwait you can make a video about Kuwait, one of the other Gulf states or cities, or its wildlife.

Examples may be found in

What makes Brazil a unique country?

What makes Toronto special?

Multicultural Uniqueness

You will have to create an account with Animoto.

Maryam Khalid’s video – What makes Hawaii unique?

Interesting Blogs from around the World

Dot MacKenzie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:51:40 +0000

Interesting blogs from around the world are displayed in this pageflake.

Webheads’ Theme Song

Dot MacKenzie — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:16:21 +0000

Webheads’ theme song, dedicated to anyone who spends a long time on a computer. Written and sung by Michael Coghlan.

List of Participants in Sister Classes’ Project

Dot MacKenzie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:36:54 +0000

Teachers and students from a variety of countries around the world are taking part in a sister classes’ project. This was started in 2008 with a group from Kuwait, the U.S.A., Rumania, Hungary, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil. Since then, it has expanded to include people from other countries, e.g. Spain, Mexico and Russia.

Students are able to display their work online in the Student showcase blog. Short movies, paragraphs, voice threads, flowgrams and more are displayed there. Then anyone can post comments on their work and/or take part in student forums.

The project aims to develop the students’ knowledge of other countries and cultures, and their writing and computing skills. Teachers taking part in the project also develop their computing skills. It is an interesting way to show everyone we are all part of the global village.

Name	Location	Start	Institution	Ages	Blog/Homepage
Berta	Venezuela
Dot	Kuwait GMT +2	Oct	Kuwait University	18 to 35	ELU Science ELU Science homepage KUOLL Dot MacKenzie Homepage for 161 and 162 students Kids’ Writing, Malaysia Displays written work by Malaysian students and teachers Malaysia Provides information for Malaysian teachers and students Hands across the Oceans Displays work for university students Kuwait University Older blog for KU students
Elena Delgado	Mexico
Guillermo Lopez	Pereira, Colombia	Aug			Guillermo Guillermo (Wordpress)
Hala	Sudan	Nov
Isabel Neves	Portugal	Mid Sept
Ismail Fayed	UAE
Larinda
Larry Ferlazzo	USA	Sept			Larry Ferlazzo
Lisa Stornes	Norway				Lisa
Maria R Di Monaco
Michael Stout	Japan	Oct			Michael
Mona Bran	Romania
Pau De Las Heras	Spain	Mid Sept	IES Collblanc, Tarragona	16-17 (43 students)	Class blog
Ronaldo	Brazil				Ronaldo
S Gray	Alaska, USA	Sept		Alaska standard time
Sebastian Mercado	Argentina				Sebastian
Sister classes					Student Showcase This is our student blog. You can subscribe using an RSS reader for the posts here Student Showcase comments. If you don’t use an RSS feeder, you can subscribe to the posts by email, but have to go to the blog to do it. You’ll see info on the right side. However, you can’t subscribe to the Student Forum comments, so I would suggest that once a class has left comments there, teachers let the rest of us know. Sister classes teachers’ blog This is our teacher’s blog. You can subscribe using an RSS reader for the posts here.
Tibor Prievara	Hungary
Victor Kirllin	Russia

News about Hands across the Oceans

Dot MacKenzie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:33 +0000

The Sacramento Bee newspaper in California, USA, had an article about the American students who are involved in the project with students from other countries. You can read it by following this link.