In our collaborative learning projects, we have one called (Dream a dream with Ein Ganim). This project based on dream a dream for promoting world peace and understanding between the children in from different cultures. Foods are familiar to children every day but foods in different cultures they might have different backgrounds. The foods could reflect each country’s history and their current social psychology. Some special foods might have background stories that could encourage their people to live in peace and without any sorrows.Purim Food – Haman’s Ears,this  lesson plan was designed by israeli teacher, Marsha Goren. The director of Dream a dream with Ein Ganim.She said that Jews have a lot of holidays in a year. Purim Food is the children’s most favorite one. This lesson plan is wonderful for Chinese children to learn Israeli Culture. Through the Purim Food collaborative research, A Chinese teacher Pauline who is in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province in China has designed a similar lesson plan on Chinese common breakfast food: Youtiao (fried dough sticks). In this issue of the magazine, we will have these two lesson plans as collaborative teaching and culture learning interative activities between the children in China and Israel.

http://www.globaldreamers.org/activities/ tresources/purim.html

John Wu (Âê¥ÁßâÂÅ€), the Chinese educator in South China, who is doing research on integrating English teaching into collaborative learning  with ICT skills. He spares no efforts to introduce all the Chinese teachers to dedicate in teaching and learning in collaboration. In the end of his article advocate the magazine readers to learn from Marsha and Pauline, and Lilian and Ann those who follow as Friends and Flags collaboration. Karen Eini is a famous scholar in Israel in education field, her viewpoint of promoting collaborative learning between children from around the world on her website encourages more and more school teachers and students to participate in  different kinds of the activities online and offline in our daily life: “If the motion of a butterfly's wing has the power to create, a storm the size of a hurricane in another state, then certainly collaboration between children of every race, has the potential to make our world, a much better place.”

http://www.friendsandflags.org/