Полезные ресурсы — Bring Your Lessons to Life through Global Collaboration on ePals!

Research shows that collaborative learning has a positive effect on student achievement. Collaborative, project-based experiences inspire students with real-world problems and bring lessons to life with dynamic, participatory learning. Students are more motivated and try harder because they're communicating with real people, for a real purpose.

You  can leverage the power of global collaboration in your classroom with ePals, a learning network that connects more than one million classrooms across 200 countries and territories. With ePals, students can  work together using familiar web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis and media galleries to collaborate on research, discussions and multimedia projects.

Here are just a few ways to start using ePals in your  classroom:

▶ Create Real-World Connections for Each Topic: Find project partners for each content area your students are studying to enhance understanding and application of new concepts and to meet Common Core standards including Writing 6 and Writing 7.

▶ Pair Students with Global Peers: Pair students within a project workspace with peers from other countries to accomplish specific goals, such as completing joint inquiry projects.

▶ Host Online Discussions: Host dynamic discussions between students by posting forum topics for students to build on each other’s ideas and learn to express their own thoughts clearly and persuasively.

▶ Share Student Work: Have students publish their work and ideas to the project group using media galleries and encourage peer review.

▶ Create Collaborative Content: Use wikis to have student groups author joint content, such as a digital presentations and multimedia research reports.

You can join for free now  and start taking advantage of all the tools  ePals   has to offer.