Collaborate with a country new to your experience

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" closure_uid_ysz30q="131" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div closure_uid_3st3u4="108"><div closure_uid_92neax="108"><span closure_uid_vrqrfh="106" closure_uid_ysz30q="130" style="line-height: 115%;"><span closure_uid_3st3u4="106" closure_uid_vrqrfh="125"><span closure_uid_92neax="106" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Are you planning a collaborative project this year or next year? Have you considered linking with a school in Israel? I must confess I have done projects with schools in many countries but have never had a school from Israel among them. Via Twitter (@Langwitches) I came across this link today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems that <span class="apple-style-span"><span closure_uid_ysz30q="129" style="background: white; color: #444444;">RT</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #444444;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span closure_uid_3st3u4="131" style="background: white; color: #444444;">the Israel Ministry of Education looking<span closure_uid_3st3u4="130" style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>for twin schools around the world </span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" closure_uid_ysz30q="132" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><a closure_uid_3st3u4="132" href="http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/MadaTech/hatamat_marechet_21/lemida_shtufit.htm">http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/MadaTech/hatamat_marechet_21/lemida_shtufit.htm</a></span></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_ysz30q="179" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_6kj614="147" closure_uid_ysz30q="264" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMPqdsvg5O3Mz0iF5oM3UatxpVCTUrjNruS_MK99otW9CqooQYvonoE4ZMBTnd6Pwr_oTva8lAGRxsYjIa2ckJ38dE4WJr0bYENtwHNnTub7X30b6wIUBcYgEwx89_qzxOCJZ_Kzf8kg/s1600/israel2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMPqdsvg5O3Mz0iF5oM3UatxpVCTUrjNruS_MK99otW9CqooQYvonoE4ZMBTnd6Pwr_oTva8lAGRxsYjIa2ckJ38dE4WJr0bYENtwHNnTub7X30b6wIUBcYgEwx89_qzxOCJZ_Kzf8kg/s400/israel2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" closure_uid_ysz30q="132" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" closure_uid_ysz30q="132" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div closure_uid_vrqrfh="127"><div closure_uid_3st3u4="141"><strong><span closure_uid_3st3u4="140" closure_uid_vrqrfh="126" style="color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The website says that “collaboration and communication is one of the main outputs of the National ICT Program. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students are expected to perform learning tasks while using a variety of collaborative tools available on-line. Our goal is to promote intercultural communication between schools from different sectors, cities or countries. Herewith is a list of 20 Israeli exemplary schools which demonstrate broader integration of ICT along with the use of advanced pedagogical processes.One may find a diversity of population and form of habitat in this list: Jewish, Arab, Druse, observant (religious) or secular in central urban cities, development towns, rural settlement areas with cooperatives like Moshav or Kibbutz and so on.” </span></strong></div></div></div><div closure_uid_ysz30q="266"><div closure_uid_92neax="130"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span closure_uid_3st3u4="157" closure_uid_92neax="128" closure_uid_vrqrfh="130" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It goes on to provide a list of schools with contact details</span>.</span></span></strong></div></div><div closure_uid_92neax="129" closure_uid_ysz30q="266"><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div closure_uid_vrqrfh="132"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span closure_uid_3st3u4="158" closure_uid_ysz30q="265" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mmm, this could be a way of linking with a country new to one’s experience</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong><strong><span closure_uid_vrqrfh="134" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I wonder if language would be a problem? Why not consider writing to one of these schools? </span></strong></span></span></div><div closure_uid_3st3u4="159" closure_uid_vrqrfh="131"></span></div></div>

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