Three Online Projects Anyone Can Join

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Three Online Projects Anyone Can Join


RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/ProjectKAVE/random1.html
To register for the project, contact Stolzenberg at hstolz@xxxxxxxx
If you have a student who does something extra-special, why not let people
know about it -- on the Internet. The Random Act of Kindness of the Month
project allows teachers to submit a paragraph about a child who has been
especially kind and helpful. Photos can be posted as well. Random Acts of
Kindness is part of Project KAVE -- Kids Against Violence Everywhere, which
was created by a team of teachers to promote peace. Harriet Stolzenberg, a
teacher at P.S. 279 in Brooklyn, New York, has been running the Random Act
of Kindness of the Month project since 1998. Teachers have participated from
New York, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana,
Tennessee, Montana, Missouri, Hawaii, Virginia, California, New Jersey,
Michigan, Georgia, Delaware, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania in the
United States, as well as from Manitoba, Montreal, Nova Scotia, Canada, and
New Zealand.


TRAVELING KIDS
http://www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~csinger/travelingkids/
Have your students' families ever expressed a wish for a guide to
kid-friendly destinations? Well, with the ongoing Traveling Kids
collaborative project, your students can help write one of their own.
Students aged 6-10 research places of interest in their home state that they
have enjoyed visiting. They record such information as the location's
address, hours of operation, and entrance fees, and use Kid Pix to write a
description and create an illustration of that destination. Then, the entry
is posted online at the Traveling Kids Web site.

MONSTER EXCHANGE
http://www.monsterexchange.org/
In Monster Exchange, students create a monster.
During the project, each class is paired with students from another school.
Each student draws a picture of a monster, writes a precise description of
the creature, and e-mails the written description to students in the other
classroom. Those students attempt to reproduce the drawings from the written
descriptions. (See Education World's Monster Exchange Site Review.)
Besides giving students a chance to be creative, the project forces them to
write clearly, Calvert said. "They must learn the five-step writing process;
they know their work is being read by a real audience in some distant place."




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