Friends and Flags
Friday, September 21st, 2007Friends and Flags ( 1999-2008)
A heartfelt thank you to all the teachers and students who participated in Friends and Flags for the past 10 years!
The project has come to a close but the memories remain!
What was Friends and Flags all about anyway?
Friends and Flags was an award winning global project that celebrated cultural diversity. Since 1999 Friends and Flags has connected thousands of teachers and students from over 65 countries in international clusters for a dynamic multicultural exchange. Participants interacted in a vibrant online community and exchange cultural packages sent via post to 2 international partners in their cluster. This blog site hosts some of our wonderful memories during this exchange.
Slide Show: Click here to see a slide show created in 2007 to explain about F&F.
Community Projects:
1. Friends and Flags Logo Contest: Partners from around the world submitted logos for the project. Winning logos received mouse pads, key chains and a t-shirt with their logo on the products. Logos were put on products in the Friends and Flags Store:
2. Friends and Flags Project Store
Friends and Flags project store was filled with products designed by Friends and Flags Partners. The store helped us raise money for the project. Here is a F&F teachers coffee cup!
3. Friends and Flags Multicultural Calendar: For three years Friends and Flags created a Multicultural Calendar which was sold in the Friends and Flags store. Each month included pictures of the partners from around the world. Special thank you to Janet Barnstable for helping to create the calendar!
4. Friends and Flags Chain Poem: Friends and Flags project hosted a global chain poem and partners from around the world were invited to contribute verses to the poem! This poem was then published in Friends and Flags chain poem book.
5. Friends and Flags Multicultural Quilt : During the past 10 years we have collected patches from partners for a huge Friends and Flags quilt. See slide show for pictures.
6. Friends and Flags Global Bead Chain: Starting in April 2006 Students from around the world were invited to collect beads and send them as class chains for a global bead chain project. To date we have collected over 2000 beads. Chain and Quilt are being finalized.
7. Friends and Flags Mystery Country Game: Parnters sent in descriptions about where they lived and participants had to guess the mystery country!
8. Friends and Flags Blogs
Sample Blogs
Blog between Iceland, USA, Poland and Canada
Karen Eini, Project Director