Reaching Out

To give the children in our school the experience of collaborating with other chidren from the widest possible spectrum of cultural differences whilst making use of the most modern technologies.
During the academic session - 1998-99 our school children have been hard at work doing many online projects.

Virtual Classroom Contest

          This is our Logo for Virtual Classroom Contest

This was an International Contest organised by AT & T Japan. 300 schools from all over the world participated in this contest and 100 teams (each team has 3 schools)had been formed.

Each team had to make a Website on the chosen topic through Collaboration.

Two schools "Buck Lake Elemetary School Florida USA "and "Smith Jackson Ukranian Bilingual School , Canada" had teamed up with our school to prepare a Website on "OUR EARTH OUR PERSPECTIVE".

We collaborated through e-mails, Chats, Video Conferencing and even snail mail to prepare out website.

Click here to see the results of the Contest......

Polygon Project

The Polygon Project is an experiment in non-verbal communication between children most of whom do not use English as their mother tongue. The children are drawing or photographing their interests and hobbies, their impressions of the other countries in the project and then some aspect of water as studied in their own class in their own country following the curriculum for their school.

Aims of the Polygon Project

• To provide pictures and photos that teachers can use to focus student learning about other countries and about our global dependence on Water.
• To help all students to see in which ways their interests and concerns are the same as children in other countries and to appreciate the similarities and differences in attitudes towards water.

Initially our grade I children sent pictures of Historical monuments in India to The North Shore Country Day School, Chicago .

 
(Rushing Water)

Then each school studied WATER in a manner which fits their own school curriculum and presents their study in drawings or photos - trying to show the viewer what they were learning and experiencing, what concerns them about water quality and what they might do to improve water in our world.

Check the following Link to know more about the Polygon Project

  Weather Report

We have begun a friendship with a school in Winnetka ! Using email, we are trading weather information as well as facts about our classes.

In this project our Grade I students have been exchanging the Weather Report for the months of October-98, November-98, December-98, January-99, February-99. The children also discuss their Weather Preferences.

            
                    Delhi ( India)                                                      Winnetka

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