We've visited these places in the world so far. Pre-Skypeathon!

Pre-Skypeathon this is where we (my students and I) have traveled so far in the world...without ever leaving the classroom. Some places we have come back to and with some schools there have been proper collaborations and with others the occasional video message. After looking at this map I'm even more looking forward to our Skypeathon and all the new places, and faces, that we will see!

Link to map to read more.

Mystery Skype with Odessa, Canada

The last Skype of the school year was yesterday afternoon and this time we went west to Canada and a little place called Odessa in Ontario. The teacher Brooke MacKinnon contacted me through Skype in the Classroom and we decided to let our students meet via the wonders of technology. Some of my students voluntarily stayed after school hours to be part of the session and they basically kept the questions going back and forth without much of my participation. A great session!

Here's a map of our hangouts/skypes this school year:

A world view of our hangouts/skypes and global collaborations these past few months

As this semester slowly comes to an end (three more weeks to go) I've started to summarize our global connections. Click the picture below to come to our world map with hangouts. 

A world view of our hangouts so far...

Here's our Mystery Hangouts so far...a few more to add in May as we have four more planned before the end of the semester. We're traveling the world - for free!

Traveling the world - in the classroom!

Map of the peeks of the week - so far

Peek of the week 1-10

I'm trying out a Google Map and placing my peeks on it...let's see how it goes.. :)