The first feature is the "2014 Junior Folklorist Challenge", where students from age 8-18 can join this program and discover a tradition to share with others. In another program named "Spark Lab", students can become an inventor and join the Global Invent-It Challenge. Students can experience new cultures without leaving classrooms.
By selecting languages and ages, students can match a classroom on the website. Once there are a list of classrooms you can join, by reviewing the details, students can find the most interested classroom and take part in it. Students can contact and collaborate with the teachers that they interested. They can also find some projects on the website, where they can find a project and join one to collaborate with other students from all over the world.
There are many centers for students to explore, such as common core implementation center, the game room, science center, and the writing center, etc.
In the teacher resources part, we can find several collaborating tools, experiences, resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.There is also a teacher forum for teachers to communicate and exchange ideas.
For me, this website is so strong and multi-faced. I would like to let my students to join one classroom and contact with those excellent teachers to learn and ask questions. As for teacher myself, the collaboration tools that I can take into my classroom are of great help.
I hope you have the opportunity to try out some of the projects with your future students if you are teaching k-12.
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