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Middle School hosts events for 'Global Collaboration Day' Sept. 17

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Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 is Global Collaboration Day, and Cape Elizabeth Middle School is hosting some of the hundreds of events that will be offered all around the world through the Global Collaboration Day website.

All events are offered online, free, for the 24 hours of Sept. 17, whenever that may occur around the world.

"The number of activities is overwhelming," said Middle School Spanish teacher Susan Dana, who is spearheading Cape Elizabeth's participation.

"There are events for all K-12 content areas, professional development for teachers and administrators, and a basic sharing of ideas about teaching and learning," Dana said in a email to staff.

Her event, Soundscapes from Around the World invites classes from all over the world to record sounds in their area and post them to a website or blog, and add a link to that post on Dana's page at padlet.com. There's already a recording there of migrating geese, a Maine foghorn, and crickets in a Cape Elizabeth field.

Cape Spanish teacher Ann-Marie Dionne will also offer two events, Popular Candy, and Animals, Animales, Animaux!. Both invite students from around the world to contribute to a slide show of photographs labeled in their native language, and in English.

In her email, Dana called participation in Global Collaboration Day "an excellent opportunity to make some connections with other classes around the world."

"Maybe work on a digital story together, collect environmental data and analyze it for science or math, Skype a book discussion, create a song with a music class from another school, discuss school lunches, host a mystery Skype, or whatever interests you and your students."

The majority of events are in English, she said.