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**Welcome to the Olympic Mascot Project** Meet the [|Vancouver 2010 Mascots]

This project will begin as a writing project for students to participate in collaborative writing and learning about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Olympics. As part of the project the students will send a flat version of the Olympic mascots on a tour around the world. In combination with the existing Olympic mascot interactive website, students will participate in writing in English to classrooms that the mascot visits. They will share information about their schools and the communities in which they live. They will send the Olympic mascots to a participating e-Pal classroom where the mascot will remain for two weeks. After this time the school will forward their mascot to the next destination. The project schools will follow the travels of the mascots as they reach the next visiting classroom. The goal is to bring awareness of each others schools and community, improve student awareness of the world and its people, bring awareness to the World Olympic competition in Vancouver BC in 2010, and provide friendship and global awareness through the passing of the touring Olympic Mascot.




 * Everyone involved in the project agrees:**
 * 1) To take responsibility for the care and transport/shipping of the Olympic mascot to the next project School as designated by the Project Coordinator
 * 2) Encourage social responsibility and global awareness through the participation of the collaborative writing project
 * 3) Demonstrate good writing skills amongst students and participate in responsible email netiquette
 * 4) Communicate in a timely manner with the project coordinator when the mascot has arrived and where it is to be forwarded after your session.
 * 5) Participate with your students in the shared writing space of wikispaces http://olympicmascots.wikispaces.com/ to show the updated travels and a class photo with the Olympic mascot. Enter your school city on the collaborative map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110863979377915166754.00043e3a8437e11c05a67

Email Julia Poole at poole_j@sd36.bc.ca http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/~poole_j/