Global Collaboration

          It takes a village to raise a child, that was what I grew up hearing and believing.  Today the same applies to education, it takes global collaboration to make and keep our students smart and on the cutting edge.  This is a site that caters to students from grades 1 to 12, and covers subjects like The Square of Life Project (grades 1-5), which teaches about "Local and Global Environments is an Internet-based elementary level collaborative project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students from around the country and the world."   Down The Drain (4-8), which encourages students to pay attention to the amount of water they use in their homes. Finally, Home Lighting in Developing Countries (9_12), "Students integrate solar and LED technologies to produce model lighting systems for use in developing countries." This is definitely a form of technology I can use because this would be a great way to save on energy and save a tremendous amount of money yearly. Not being connected to electrical poles, deletes the worry of losing electricity during storms, especially winter storms here in Buffalo New York.