Finding common ground with students across continents is not as easy as it sounds, but we did it.

At first we had a hard time deciding the theme, and how to present it. Some wanted to do a virtual school, but others wanted to do a collaboration of festivals. The number of people supporting the idea on festivals outnumbered those supporting the virtual school.

Then we had to decide what holidays to display. We all had a hard time coming up with these holidays, but we agreed on three holidays unique to a country and five that all countries share. Through first an email list, and then the Virtual Classroom page, we shared our ideas, our discoveries, and working skills to create a collaborative work of art.

Another thing, that I think is the key to any groups success is a multitude of shear knowledge and skills. You need some people who are great with graphics, but week at writing, some are great at writing, but know nothing about the designing web-pages. When you have a lot of people with different skills, and you put them all together, you kind of combine to become one person, that is great at everything.

Working on the Virtual Classrooms enriched our view and take on things ever so much. By communicating with our partners, using computers on our own, and working independently, we have created this magnificent web site that is the collaboration, hard work, and dedication of everyone