Computer Chronicles - This theme promotes writing across the curriculum. Interaction online revolves around producing a newspaper called The Computer Chronicles. Each class has the opportunity to sponsor one or more sections of the newspaper as their Learning Circle project. They solicit articles from their partner classes and edit them to create one section of the newspaper. This section is combined with the other sections sponsored by circles partners to form the completed newspaper, the Circle publication.

Places and Perspectives - Places and Perspectives encourage students to explore the regional history, culture, government, and geography by sharing their knowledge with people from different locations. The goal is to help students understand how historical events and geographic conditions interact to help shape their lives and gives them a deeper understanding of themselves, their families, and their communities. Each classroom sponsors a project for a section in the Places and Perspectives Review. For instance, a classroom might sponsor a section on local legends, interview native inhabitants, or the elderly, describe the historical attractions of the area, examine local constitutions, or compare weather patterns, map studies.

MindWorks - MindWorks is a writing theme designed to enhance creative and expository writing as well as develop different forms of self-expression. The goal is to help the student learn how to communicate their thoughts and feelings in writing, then share and compare them with other students from distant places. The Circle publication for Mind Works is a literary magazine that might be called Creative Minds, Mind Works, or a name selected by the group. The sponsored projects could be a specific form of writing such as personal narratives, place poetry, city dialogues, school fables, local myths, or personifications of local products. Or students can select a topic to sponsor and request different forms of expression on subjects like family, jobs, schools, or cities.

My Hero - My Hero Learning Circles is a joint venture between Learning Circles and the My Hero project (www.myhero.com). This Circle will bring together students and teachers who are interested in collaborating with other schools from diverse areas of the world on the topic of My Hero through writing, photography, and digital video.

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