Chinese and English schools connect through their Activboards
Schools in London and Houhai use what is called an Activeboard. This thing is super cool. Students are able to teach other students across the country different lessons, ect. they are also able to ask and answer questions about themselves. I found a blog that teachers shared ideas on other ways for students to communicate, and also telling how cool they thought this lesson was. This idea was brought about by a teacher who visited different countries, and found out about all this technology, she wanted to start it in her schools, and so she did.


http://blog.prometheanplanet.com/?p=221



Brendan Smith, an educationalist and an environmentalist had a great idea of putting fresh water aquariums in the classroom. Some schools in Galway Bay, Ireland had tanks put in, but not only did these tanks inhabit water creatures, but they inhabited water creates from their very own Galway Bay. This gave the children an opportunity to see what their actual surrounding were. The children loved it, and were able to notice how an ecosystem works and what creatures have what jobs. I thought this was a special way of allowing the children to really see what happened right out side their homes and schools.
Marine Aquarium in a School Classroom, Connemara
http://brenspeedie.blogspot.com/2006/01/marine-aquarium-in-school-classroom.html