Read Around the Planet 2010
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Port Washington celebrated it's third year of participation in Read Around the Planet. Classes from all five elementary schools joined the celebration resulting in 34 successful connections with classrooms in 13 states as well as England! Port Washington was part of the 1,950 classrooms and over 45,000 students from the US, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the United Kingdom who took part in this amazing global event!
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Special thanks to all of the Classroom Teachers, Librarians, and Technology Department Staff
for making "Port Around the Planet" an experience our students we will treasure for always.
for making "Port Around the Planet" an experience our students we will treasure for always.
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Read Around the Planet is a celebration of NEA's Read Across America. Classrooms used interactive video to connect with other classrooms "around the planet" and read to each other. The activity was sponsored by TWICE (Two Way Interactive Connections in Education) and Polycom, in cooperation with NEA. Teachers sign up through TWICE who then pairs up classrooms around the country as well as internationally. This activity is open to all K-12 students in public and private schools who have access to two-way interactive videoconferencing equipment. Once paired, the classroom teachers plan, via email, the presentations and then meet live between the last week in February and the first week in March. Each connection lasts thirty minutes to an hour depending on the grade level and amount of information exchanged. |
