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Global Collaboration: Modern Pen Pals

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Video Pen-pals Global Collaboration via Level Up Village has made an impact on my students!  It all started in the fall of 2015 on the side lines of my son's soccer game.  When I first heard about Level Up Village, I was intrigued and wanted to try it with my class!  But, at the time, LUV's offerings were related to science and technology, and since I am an English teacher, the courses didn't fit. So, the solution was to create my own course that related to literature I was using in my classroom already!  So, that's what I did! Read " Creating Meaningful Global Connections "--the article I wrote about my first experience with Global Collaboration (and why English teachers should try it)on Edutopia.org. The experience was so positive and contagious that Greenwich Time ran an article about it!  And, much to my surprise, when googling my name, I found that someone blogged about my article and their own experience with global collaboration.  I hop

You were on TV? What?!

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Yes, it's true! In 2015, my family filmed an episode of The Property Brothers at our home in Connecticut. Check out the before and after photo gallery here ! Wanna catch a re-run of the episode?  Check when it will air here .