Stacey Shorey

Shorey's "Making Connections Around the World - Passports for Cinderella" is a multicultural experience and technology integration project in which K-1 students connect with high school students from around the world via telecommunications and laptop computers. The high schoolers make presentations about their countries, explain their traditions, teach the students basic words, share a favorite snack and enact a reader's theater using the folk tale Cinderella. The students also write to students their own age around the world and create their own Web site. This helps them integrate technology, reading, and writing, and builds knowledge of other cultures.