Well, I thought it was time to share with you a project that a fellow volunteer and I have began, with cooperation from other people. My friend Paul and I, while brainstorming over a game of Yahtzee, came up with the idea of starting a culture blog. In this culture blog, we would find interested teachers and students around the world to post to the same blog, in hopes that these students could interact and learn with students in other countries.
As of today, we have Paul's group in a small village in Namibia, my future site in Kazakhstan, a friend of mine in Montana, a teacher in Argentina, and my cousin Patrick in South Korea. We have a few interested parties in several other countries as well.
We thought this would be a great way for students to learn about countries or cultures that otherwise they would never learn about. We are open to having more representation from foreign countries, so if you know of any teachers around the world who may be interested, please pass along my email to them and have them get in touch with me. We're hoping to have this grow and become a good learning tool for classes around the world.
Paul, in Namibia has made the first post. Due to winter breaks in Argentina and summer breaks in America, the other schools haven't had the opportunity to post yet. But they will soon and we are all excited about it. Because of my training schedule in Kazakhstan, I won't be able to participate until close to the new year.
http://thepandoproject.blogspot.com/
The name of this blog is The Pando Project. Pando is latin for "I spread" and is also the name of a Quaking Aspen grove in Utah. These trees are 1 singular organism, connected at the roots. We thought that was a good analogy of human kind and liked the latin name, as we intend to spread information on cultures.
We hope you follow it. It should be fun and interesting.
