eTwinning with American schools?

[MissionV]

Hi All, 

does anyone know of cases of Irish schools eTwinning with American counterparts? 

Regards,

-James.

[Mark O'Hagan]

James

I would imagine that the time difference ( up to 8 hours) might prove to be an obstacle to that?

Mark

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[Simon Lewis]

Hi James

I don't know of any eTwinning projects but I do know that Damien from Seomra Ranga did a Twitter project with an American school a year or two ago that worked well. My school also had a series of online workshops with the New York Hall of Science for a few years too - 8am there and about 1pm here so it worked ok.

Cheers

Simon

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[John Heffernan]

I am going to be meeting US history teachers next week over there, remind me by twitter and I will pass them on the details 

John

[Tony Healy]

Until recently we had American Student Teachers who cam and did 8 weeks teaching practice and when they went back they twinned their classes with the host class here.  The time difference was a slight problem but very often their classes are in early 8-8.30 depending on district, so they would just be in before ours would leave.  With blogs/pod and video casts/ email etc it can be made to work.  Obviously its not as good as schools etwinning in same timezone but where there's a will......

TonyH

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[Joseph Molloy]

Hi James,

ePals (US)

eTwinning (EU)

. . . from my HTC One

Joe Molloy
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Irish eTwinning Ambassador Network
http://www.slua.com

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[Fred Boss]

Hi All,

This might be of interest to this thread and the wider CESI mailing list (especially if you're near Galway at the time). It's a free 1 day conference on the 9th July in Galway. You can register for it here: https://docs.google.com/a/pdst.ie/forms/d/1CFHOyCVpP5ZMcjnvNmwN8AQQnTnfgXcQOxEN0Xv38Ms/viewform

Here's some further info:
http://www.leighgraveswolf.com/2013/05/07/save-the-date-edchatie-friends-great13-july-9-2013/

It's a great (no pun intended) conference involving US student teachers who deliver a free conference when they go overseas and invite local educators to attend. Could be worth making some contacts there for the project being talked about here and more. Some of the US educators involved also teach in International schools around the globe and not only in the US.

The page linked to above contains links to even more info and their past 5 conference events too.

Regards,

Fred

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