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Students Create Valuable Information Resources

ACES Alternative High School invite students from around the world to join them as the electronically travel with Explorers Helen and Bill Thayer from the Arctic region of Canada to the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil. In this I*EARN Online Project, students work to make this a great learning experience for others. They invite your comments.

High school student in Alaska are helping to educate the people of the world about Alaska by creating Alaska Online. This site is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project of the Wolf House, a group of over 200 students and seven teachers from Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School, Juneau working with community, state, and national partners. Alaska Online shares the diverse people and cultures, unique natural resources, current issues and popular visitor attractions on the Internet.

The I*EARN Global Art Gallery: A Sense of Family is an important milestone in the use of electronic communication in elementary education. It demonstrates what teachers and children communicating by the Internet can accomplish, both in terms of literacy learning and in developing international understandings.

The students and faculty of Patch High School and Patch Elementary School in Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany have created a set of materials to help students and adults around the world learn more about World War II. They bring their own collection of local stories and interviews to the Internet and they have collected Internet resources to create: The World War II: The World Remembers

Students can share their thoughts in journal form, accompanied by art work, poetry and photos through "The Diary Project" on the Internet. This way students from around the world can see how their thoughts and feelings compare. The best entries are posted with the author's name or as anonymous

Web pages are being posted each day from school around the world. Exploring these lists of school pages will provide many more examples of the work that students can offer to their communities.

Students have been challenged to create resources on the web for other students in a contest call ThinkQuest sponsored by Advanced Network and Services. There is over a million dollars in prize money to encourage student development of educational resources. Another contest which shows how students can work cooperatively with community members is the Share and Unite project sponsored by the Global Schoolhouse network.

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