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Follow the guidelines below to complete your Classroom Connections: PowerPoint Exchange.

1. OneWorld Classrooms staff will match you with a partner class/school in the world region of your choice and give you the contact information for a Partner Teacher or Project Liaison at your partner school.

2. Contact your partner teacher via E-mail prior to the exchange to determine exchange timing*, presentation theme and curricular connections.

*IMPORTANT: You are responsible for determining with your partner a specific deadline for completing the exchange. Please make every effort to complete the exchange during the timeframe you arrange.

TIMESAVER: Click here to use our sample introductory E-mail and checklist. [USE THE BACK BUTTON TO RETURN]

3. For each exchange, create a PowerPoint or PhotoStory presentation to share with your partner class/school. The presentation may introduce your students; share student artwork; give a tour of your school or town or a nearby site of interest; share something you are studying; or share aspects of your students' lives and culture. (You will determine the theme with your partner teacher via E-mail.)

TIP: Please see presentations already posted by participating schools on OneWorld Classrooms' Electronic Cultural Exchange Library. Or, be creative! We welcome innovative and interesting new presentations!

4. The presentation should contain photos and text and may also include audio and/or video. It should contain between 15 and 30 slides and be smaller than 25 MB. Please minimize the size of photos so the file can contain maximum content with minimal digital size.

TIP: Encourage your students to do their very best work, since the presentation will be a window through which others will learn about them and their culture. If you are a classroom teacher, consider involving your Technology teacher.

IMPORTANT: Teachers should monitor all submissions for appropriate content (for more on this, see our Terms of Use). OneWorld Classrooms will make final decisions about what content is posted, based on file size, appropriateness, etc.

5. E-mail your PowerPoint to your partner teacher and to paul@oneworldclassrooms.org as an attachment. Include a note indicating the teacher's name, grade level, school, city, state/province and country and explaining the content.

If the file is too large to send via E-mail, post it on a free file sharing Web site like Simple Share or SendSpace and send the location using to your partner and the Email address above -- OR copy it onto a CD and mail it via regular mail to:

OneWorld Classrooms
PO Box 534
N. Andover, MA 01845
USA

Include a cover letter or note indicating the teacher's name, grade level, school, city, state/province and country and explaining the content.

6. We will post your PowerPoint presentation and your partner's on OneWorld Classrooms' Electronic Cultural Exchange Library (see Free Travel & Learn Online Content link below). You and your partner (and other participating classes) will be able to view each others' presentations on the password-protected ECEL.

7. Upon your partner's presentation, send your partner teacher an E-mail to confirm that you have viewed the presentation, to say 'thank you,' and to formally conclude the exchange.

8. If you have any problems communicating via E-mail with your partner teacher -- or if the exchange is not proceeding in the timeframe agreed upon, please send an E-mail to paul@oneworldclassrooms.org.

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POWERPOINT EXCHANGE
AT A GLANCE

OneWorld Classrooms matches you with a partner class/school to complete a student-created PowerPoint or PhotoStory exchange.
Partner teachers communicate in advance via E-mail to determine exchange timing and details.
Presentations may be posted electronically and will be available for viewing on OneWorld Classrooms' password-protected Electronic Cultural Exchange Library.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact OneWorld Classrooms about your exchange, send an E-mail to: paul@oneworldclassrooms.org. We provide E-mail support, whenever needed.

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TIPS FOR A GREAT EXCHANGE

Teachers are busy people! Where possible, recruit a parent to help coordinate the exchange.
Empower tech-savvy students: put the project in their hands.
Consider IM-ing (instead of E-mailing) your partner teacher. See the Instant Messaging Tool links below and suggest this to your partner teacher in your initial E-mail.
Communicate with your partner teacher via E-mail before, during and after your exchange: before, to work out exchange timing and details; during, to stay on the same page; and after, to confirm that all materials have been sent and received -- and to say 'thank you.'

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