Ok, I was playing around and found this great site that lets you track the locations of different people visiting your site. I just had to try and and put one on this site. I also put one on our Cultural Exchange wiki. Heritage is attempting to increase the “global” cultural awareness of our students. We have a wiki called the Cultural Exchange wiki for students who are in other countries to post information & photos about that country and our students can ask questions to learn about the culture and people. Currently, most of the students who are posting are American college students studying abroad. We would love to find participants who are natives for each different country, and in one case we have. If you know someone who would be willing and interested in participating, please let me know.
If you visit the site, the countries listed across the top are those for whom we think we have found foreign participants. Not all have had a chance to post information, but several have and are quite interesting. These different country pages are also listed along the left-side navigation bar. I encourage you to visit the site! Take your students to the site and see what they think about it.
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This seems like a very cool tool, but I have not found a way to zoom in past the continent level. It would be really interesting to get it down to locations within cities to see what population is being served, though I doubt common IP addresses are that specific.
I think this is a great idea. I had a penpal when I was in 7th grade. We stayed in contact through college. She lived in England, and we would often share pictures and stories about going to school in our countries. I did a summer semester abroad at Cambridge University and spent some time with her. Ironically, we lost contact when she moved to the States. Anyway, I think as the economy becomes more and more a “global economy” that it is important for students to be exposed to people from other countries and to learn about other countries. Way to go!!!
I really like this idea. I think this can be used to really help kids get the idea that what is posted is actually a part of the world community. Thanks for sharing!!
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