Global+Schoolhouse

====Global Schoolhouse was launched in 1984 as the Free Educational Mail (FrEdMail) Network. With the help of a grant in 1992 from the National Science Foundation, the Global Schoolhouse Network (GSN) website was created to showcase online collaborative learning. ====

====The first few schools to participate where from states such as California, Virginia, Tennessee and London. These schools studied topics such as ground water pollution, solid waste management, natural disasters and weather (www.globalschoolnet.org) ====

====Global Schoolhouse can be a great global collaboration tool because of some it's ready-made projects that allow for flexible time commitments for the teacher.These projects also don't require iEARN's specially trained facilitators. They are designed as teacher to teacher collaboratives. ====

====ePals, another global education network, was started in 1995. Tim DiScipio and John Irving created a network that allowed students to find "pen pals" on the web. The site is secure, so it is safe for student use. It was the first site to integrate a translation tool. Teachers showed that students started to care more about their writing because a real audience was now reading their work. ====

====Other projects mentioned in this chapter were Science Across the Wolrd in the Netherlands. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Discovery Channel, and the Public Service Broadcasting. ====

====TakingITGlobal- organized for students in schools and in independent learning situations. This site encourages and motivates students to get involved in improving their own communities, as well as global ones. ====

====eTwinning- Allows any European school to register and partner with another school on the basis of a specific subject or theme. It also offers ready-made projects to teachers. ====