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My Hero Project In the My Hero Project task, students will use MY HERO, an interdisciplinary, online, interactive Web site that celebrates the best of humanity through essays, artwork, audio, drama, and short films. Students will publish essays and submit multimedia online about their heroes. The project seeks to promote cultural awareness, activism and understanding through global storytelling that honors the heroes in our families, the community and the world. |
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One Day in the Life In the One Day in the Life task, students will write about, photograph, and discuss their daily lives. Students will exchange messages and images describing days in their lives with students around the world, and then make cross-cultural comparisons. Students may document aspects of a typical day (like visiting the market or going to school) or they may document special days (like vacations, birthdays, celebrations, or holidays.) |
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Youngcast Project The Youngcast Project task is a tandem exchange project in English-Spanish and just in English which provides a structured program of student activities using audio and video podcasting to help students to exchange their ideas and to improve their second language. The task includes a description of the phases of the project. |
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