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21st Century Tools to Connect and Collaborate
ePals is is the world's largest and fastest growing online classroom community ! Over 11 million students and teachers from 191 countries are building skills and enhancing learning with [|ePals]. Looking for a way to create a collaborative, on-going project? Join [|Thinkquest]. Teachers can create th project and accept participation from a classroom somewhere in the world or join an already created problem. Students not only identify the many facets of a problem, they generate numerous solutions and more importantly they also take action. The final projects are web-based. Check out the Thinkquest library full of innovative ideas.
 * ePals **
 * Thinkquest **

[|The Nature Conservancy] in association with the Morgridge Family Foundation & Promethean Planet are seeking a teacher to participate in a hugely exciting project! Scientists from The Nature Conservancy, assisted by The American Museum of Natural History, are visiting the islands of Palmyra and the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean in March. They’ll see first hand the amazing diversity of life found here and view efforts to conserve the fast vanishing marine and terrestrial habitats. [|Meet the team]! These [|online activities] offer students to be actively engaged in learning. Activities frequently change.   Download [|Skype] for FREE video/audio collaboration with anyone in the world. All you and the people you connect with need is a computer with a web connection, a camera and a microphone. On a mac the camera and mic are built-in. For PC users, purchase an external camera and mic for about $50. 
 * Rediscovering Darwin **
 * Scholastic's Online Interactive Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-size: 110%;">Skype **