This blog is a bi-product of an international collaborative project between my music students at Capitol Hill Day School, an independent school located in Washington, DC, and students of the Instituto de Humanidades, Concepción. The project arose out of my interest in finding authentic folk songs for children in Spanish, and the interest of my colleague (and sister-in-law), Soledad Deocares, to enable her English language students to communicate in English with native speakers.
In this project, students shared folk songs and cultural information with each other. This allowed the students to learn more about each others' cultures and created a lot of excitement in the classroom.
This experience was so rich and powerful for the students that I am now committed to continuing this sort of work, connecting with other teachers abroad and wish to encourage other teachers to enrich their classrooms by collaborating internationally with the use of technology.
My next post will outline the step-by-step process for this specific project that we did together. Following that, I will continue to share ideas and resources and welcome your ideas, as well. We can also stay connected via Facebook. Thanks for checking in!
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