Intro & Information

• Group Discussion Forum: http://www.learncentral.org/node/3436 Come to talk about how to keep this conversation going and what concrete things we can do!
• Recording from Session on 6/1/09 "Brainstorming"
• What the wiki is
• How to edit the wiki and add your information
• Meeting times and trainings to use elluminate in LearnCentral
  • Tips from Ann Mirtschin
• Resource page links
• Categories
  • Geography
  • Projects
  • Subject Area
  • Grade-level and/or Age
  • Language
  • Time-frames
  • Time Zone
  • Goals
    • Specified
    • Short-term / long-term
• Features
  • Discussion Board / posting interest
  • Moderated discussion board
  • Hosts or guides
  • Training
    • Series of training meetings
  • Good Examples (written and online meetings)
    • Interviews with those who can talk about what they've done (start with Anne Mirtschin)
  • Illustrated / detailed ways of collaborating
    • Wikis / Flat Classroom
    • Nings
    • LearnCentral
    • Google Wave
  • Ideas area
  • Contacts for questions
  • Salute area - shout-outs
  • Calendar of projects
  • Twitter feed
  • Individual connecting
  • Bringing in guest speakers
  • Rating system?
  • Multiple languages
  • Portal that lists other places you can go according to the categories
• Conclusions
  • Jumping off spot as well as directory?
  • Would need a database to do this

Other Resource Sites

• To add here:
  • Synopsis of the services provided
  • Age / Grade level
  • Any other helpful category information
  • Screenshot of membership/private groups
  • Email template
• Lucy Gray's http://globaleducation.ning.com/
• CAPSpace: Collaborations Around the Planet http://projects.twice.cc/index.php
• http://skypeinschools.pbwiki.com/
• ePals http://www.epals.com/
• Flat Classroom Project http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/
• Global School House http://www.globalschoolnet.org/
• http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/want-to-connect-with-other-classrooms/
• Global School Network http://www.gsn.org
• http://www.cilc.org/
• http://www.language-exchanges.org
• iEARN http://www.iearn.org/index.html
• The Schools United http://www.theschoolsunited.com/community/
• Teachers Connecting http://teachersconnecting.com/
• http://onlineproj4tchrs.ning.com/
• http://projectsbyjen.ning.com
• http://www.nederburgvirtualschool.org/
• EnglishCompanion.Ning.com
• http://www.virtualclassroom.org/
• http://www.earthdaybags.org
• http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/
• http://www.think.org
• http://www.tiged.org
• http://ciese.org

Related Blog Posts

• Help wanted: Sites that connect classrooms across the globe? http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/03/help-wanted-sites-that-connect-classrooms-across-the-globe.html
• The Best Ways To Find Other Classes For Joint Online Projects http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/30/the-best-ways-to-find-other-classes-for-joint-online-projects/
• Around The World with 80 Schools http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/01/03/around-the-world-with-80-schools/
• Ann Mirtschin, "Using Elluminate in the Classroom"

AFRICA

• Algeria — Algiers
• Angola — Luanda
• Benin — Porto-Novo (seat of government at Cotonou)
• Botswana — Gaborone
• Burkina Faso — Ouagadougou
• Burundi — Bujumbura
• Cameroon — Yaoundé
• Cape Verde — Praia
• Central African Republic — Bangui
• Chad — N'Djamena
• Comoros — Moroni
• Congo, Democratic Republic of (also known as Congo-Kinshasa) — Kinshasa
• Congo, Republic of (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) — Brazzaville
• Côte d'Ivoire (also commonly known as Ivory Coast) — Yamoussoukro (seat of government at Abidjan)
• Djibouti — Djibouti
• Egypt — Cairo
• Equatorial Guinea — Malabo
• Eritrea — Asmara
• Ethiopia — Addis Ababa
• Gabon — Libreville
• Gambia — Banjul
• Ghana — Accra
• Guinea — Conakry
• Guinea-Bissau — Bissau
• Kenya — Nairobi
• Lesotho — Maseru
• Liberia — Monrovia
• Libya — Tripoli
• Madagascar — Antananarivo
• Malawi — Lilongwe
• Mali — Bamako
• Mauritania — Nouakchott
• Mauritius — Port Louis
• Mayotte (overseas territory of France) — Mamoudzou
• Morocco — Rabat
• Mozambique — Maputo
• Namibia — Windhoek
• Niger — Niamey
• Nigeria — Abuja
• Réunion (overseas department of France) — Saint-Denis
• Rwanda — Kigali
• Saint Helena (overseas territory of the United Kingdom; including the territories of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) — Jamestown
• Sao Tome and Principe — São Tomé
• Senegal — Dakar
• Seychelles — Victoria
• Sierra Leone — Freetown
• Somalia — Mogadishu
• South Africa — Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
• Sudan — Khartoum
• Swaziland — Mbabane (administrative), Lobamba (royal and legislative)
• Tanzania — Dodoma (seat of government at Dar es Salaam)
• Togo — Lomé
• Tunisia — Tunis
• Uganda — Kampala
• Western Sahara[Africa 1] — El Aaiún (unofficial)
• Zambia — Lusaka
• Zimbabwe — Harare

Sovereign states lacking general international recognition

• Somaliland — Hargeisa

ASIA

• Afghanistan — Kabul
• Armenia[Europe 1] — Yerevan
• Azerbaijan[Europe 1] — Baku
• Bahrain — Manama
• Bangladesh — Dhaka
• Bhutan — Thimphu
• British Indian Ocean Territory (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)[Asia 1]
• Brunei — Bandar Seri Begawan
• Cambodia — Phnom Penh
• China — Beijing
• Christmas Island (overseas territory of Australia)[Asia 2]
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (overseas territory of Australia)[Asia 2]
• Cyprus[Europe 1] — Nicosia
• Georgia[Europe 1] — Tbilisi
• Hong Kong (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)
• India — New Delhi
• Indonesia — Jakarta
• Iran — Tehran
• Iraq — Baghdad
• Israel — Jerusalem
• Japan — Tokyo
• Jordan — Amman
• Kazakhstan — Astana
• Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (commonly known as North Korea) — Pyongyang
• Korea, Republic of (commonly known as South Korea) — Seoul
• Kuwait — Kuwait City
• Kyrgyzstan — Bishkek
• Laos — Vientiane
• Lebanon — Beirut
• Macau (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)
• Malaysia — Kuala Lumpur (seat of government at Putrajaya)
• Maldives — Malé
• Mongolia — Ulaanbaatar
• Myanmar (also commonly known as Burma) — Naypyidaw
• Nepal — Kathmandu
• Oman — Muscat
• Pakistan — Islamabad
• Palestinian territories (collectively the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip)
• Philippines — Manila
• Qatar — Doha
• Saudi Arabia — Riyadh
• Singapore — Singapore (city-state)
• Sri Lanka — Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
• Syria — Damascus
• Tajikistan — Dushanbe
• Thailand — Bangkok
• Timor-Leste (also commonly known as East Timor) — Dili
• Turkey[Europe 1] — Ankara
• Turkmenistan — Ashgabat
• United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi
• Uzbekistan — Tashkent
• Vietnam — Hanoi
• Yemen — Sana'a

Sovereign states lacking general international recognition

• Abkhazia[Europe 2] — Sukhum
• China, Republic of (commonly known as Taiwan) — Taipei
• Nagorno-Karabakh[Europe 2] — Stepanakert
• Northern Cyprus[Europe 2] — Nicosia
• South Ossetia[Europe 2] — Tskhinval

EUROPE

• Albania — Tirana
• Andorra — Andorra la Vella
• Austria — Vienna
• Belarus — Minsk
• Belgium — Brussels
• Bosnia and Herzegovina — Sarajevo
• Bulgaria — Sofia
• Croatia — Zagreb
• Czech Republic — Prague
• Denmark — Copenhagen
• Estonia — Tallinn
• Faroe Islands (overseas territory of Denmark) — Tórshavn
• Finland — Helsinki
• France — Paris
• Germany — Berlin
• Gibraltar (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Gibraltar (city-state)
• Greece — Athens
• Guernsey (crown dependency of the United Kingdom) — Saint Peter Port
• Hungary — Budapest
• Iceland — Reykjavík
• Ireland — Dublin
• Isle of Man (crown dependency of the United Kingdom) — Douglas
• Italy — Rome
• Jersey (crown dependency of the United Kingdom) — Saint Helier
• Latvia — Riga
• Liechtenstein — Vaduz
• Lithuania — Vilnius
• Luxembourg — Luxembourg
• Macedonia — Skopje
• Malta — Valletta
• Moldova — Chişinău
• Monaco — Monaco (city-state)
• Montenegro — Podgorica
• Netherlands — Amsterdam (seat of government at The Hague)
• Norway — Oslo
• Poland — Warsaw
• Portugal — Lisbon
• Romania — Bucharest
• Russia[Europe 3] — Moscow
• San Marino — San Marino
• Serbia — Belgrade
• Slovakia — Bratislava
• Slovenia — Ljubljana
• Spain — Madrid
• Sweden — Stockholm
• Switzerland — Berne
• Ukraine — Kiev
• United Kingdom — London
• Vatican City — Vatican City (city-state)

Sovereign states lacking general international recognition

• Kosovo — Pristina
• Pridnestrovie (also commonly known as Transnistria) — Tiraspol

NORTH AMERICA

• Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — The Valley
• Antigua and Barbuda — Saint John's
• Aruba (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) — Oranjestad
• Bahamas — Nassau
• Barbados — Bridgetown
• Belize — Belmopan
• Bermuda (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Hamilton
• British Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Road Town
• Canada — Ottawa
• Cayman Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — George Town
• Clipperton Island (overseas territory of France)
• Costa Rica — San José
• Cuba — Havana
• Dominica — Roseau
• Dominican Republic — Santo Domingo
• El Salvador — San Salvador
• Greenland (overseas territory of Denmark) — Nuuk
• Grenada — Saint George's
• Guadeloupe (overseas department of France) — Basse-Terre
• Guatemala — Guatemala City
• Haiti — Port-au-Prince
• Honduras — Tegucigalpa
• Jamaica — Kingston
• Martinique (overseas department of France) — Fort-de-France
• Mexico — Mexico City
• Montserrat (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Plymouth (seat of government at Brades)
• Navassa Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Netherlands Antilles (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) — Willemstad
• Nicaragua — Managua
• Panama — Panama City
• Puerto Rico (overseas territory of the United States) — San Juan
• Saint Barthélemy (overseas territory of France) — Gustavia
• Saint Kitts and Nevis — Basseterre
• Saint Lucia — Castries
• Saint Martin (overseas territory of France) — Marigot
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (overseas territory of France) — Saint-Pierre
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — Kingstown
• Trinidad and Tobago — Port of Spain
• Turks and Caicos Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Cockburn Town
• United States — Washington, D.C.
• United States Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United States) — Charlotte Amalie

SOUTH AMERICAN

• Argentina — Buenos Aires
• Bolivia — Sucre (seat of government at La Paz)
• Brazil — Brasília
• Chile — Santiago
• Colombia — Bogotá
• Ecuador — Quito
• Falkland Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Stanley
• French Guiana (overseas department of France) — Cayenne
• Guyana — Georgetown
• Paraguay — Asunción
• Peru — Lima
• Suriname — Paramaribo
• Uruguay — Montevideo
• Venezuela — Caracas

OCEANIA

• American Samoa (overseas territory of the United States) — Pago Pago (seat of government at Fagatogo)
• Australia — Canberra
• Baker Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Cook Islands (territory in free association with New Zealand) — Avarua
• Fiji — Suva
• French Polynesia (overseas territory of France) — Papeete
• Guam (overseas territory of the United States) — Hagåtña
• Howland Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Jarvis Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Johnston Atoll (overseas territory of the United States)
• Kingman Reef (overseas territory of the United States)
• Kiribati — South Tarawa
• Marshall Islands — Majuro
• Micronesia — Palikir
• Midway Atoll (overseas territory of the United States)
• Nauru — no official capital (seat of government at Yaren)
• New Caledonia (overseas territory of France) — Nouméa
• New Zealand — Wellington
• Niue (territory in free association with New Zealand) — Alofi
• Norfolk Island (overseas territory of Australia) — Kingston
• Northern Mariana Islands (overseas territory of the United States) — Saipan
• Palau — Melekeok
• Palmyra Atoll (overseas territory of the United States)
• Papua New Guinea — Port Moresby
• Pitcairn Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) — Adamstown
• Samoa — Apia
• Solomon Islands — Honiara
• Tokelau (overseas territory of New Zealand) — no official capital (each atoll has its own administrative centre)
• Tonga — Nukuʻalofa
• Tuvalu — Funafuti
• Vanuatu — Port Vila
• Wake Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Wallis and Futuna (overseas territory of France) — Mata-Utu

ANTARCTICA

• Bouvet Island (overseas territory of Norway)
• French Southern Territories (overseas territory of France)
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands (overseas territory of Australia)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)[A