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Title: Balloteers: Voting in the 21st Century (ID:917) $
Begin & End Dates: 9/01/00 to 12/06/00 (Completed)
Number of Classrooms: open
Age Range: 8 - 18 Years
Target Audience: Anyone
Summary: Interactive, collaborative online project in which students maintain an online elections newpaper while learning about the presidential election and about media. Grades 4-8 and 9-12
Key Words: elections, president, jou
Project Level: Basic Project
Curriculum Fit: Social Studies; Language
Technologies Used: Email; List server; Discussion Forum
Collaboration Styles Used: none listed
Full Project Description:
Grades 4-8, 9-12. Students maintain an online newspaper on the presidential election while learning about the elections and about media. Project includes online activities, expert guests, classroom activities and instructions, reading material, moderated discussion, and links to useful research sites. All student writing is posted on the Web, students work in a private Web classroom with schools across the US.
Objectives:
Students learn about becoming citizens and about how to be responsible consumers of new media as they manage an online newspaper on the presidential elections campaign.
Project URL: http://www.onlineclass.com/Ballot
Registration Status: Closed
Registration Dates: 9/01/99 to 10/10/00
Registration Instructions: Register at
to send email to project coordinator. Cathy de Moll -
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Project Coordinator Information
OnlineClass
St Paul,
Minnesota, United States
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