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Exercise-Collaborative Web-Based Research Project: Structure of the Chinese and American School Systems Task: Students will research the educational systems (all age levels), of the opposite country. Purpose: To gain a knowledge of similarities and differences in the educational systems of each country and to gain an understanding of how the students are impacted by the structure of the educational culture that they live in. Partnership shall consist of Chinese and American students

Teacher Responsibilities: (For the purposes of this project, Yuki, Annie, and Angela will assume both the roles of teacher and students)
 * The teacher will have previously introduced culture of the opposite country through a series of lessons
 * The teacher will discuss general guidlines with the students for this project.
 * The teacher will serve as facilitator, offering guidance and clarification for the students.
 * The teacher will open the Wiki site for the students use.
 * The teacher will monitor the progress of the partnership and the work load of each student, in which final project grades will be based.

Student Responsibilities: Due Date: December 10, 2010 Extended Project: Students will collaborate to format their future extended project. Using the complete series of culture lessons, the students will submit an extended project using their choice of format between clay animation, slideshow, podcasting, or videocast. (Of course the students must have had lessons on all of these formats prior to this project assignment).
 * Students will hold open discussions among their partnership to organize and delegate responsibilities of the project.
 * Students will set timelines and discuss resources.
 * Students will use their partner as their primary source of information.
 * Students will conduct a series of interviews with their partners. These interviews may include others who are available from the opposite country.
 * Students will submit their work on the Wiki site.
 * Students will proofread and edit, (with discussion), each submission of work from their partner.
 * Students will continue to work together to edit until both are in agreement and ready to submit the final project.