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Multicultural Project  ITC 5260   Fall 2011   Created by:   Jared Brush, Liz Cruse, and Cindy Hayes The focus is on Mexico! How can we gain a better understanding of our neighbors to the south and can we give them a better understanding of us? **Executive Summary **  The main issue we see with this unit is coordination of all the various aspects of the projects with another classroom overseas. Many obstacles exist, such as timing everything so the project flows smoothly and efficiently, possible technology issues, and of course language issues. We would have to find a class able to speak English and Spanish and our class would need a strong background in Spanish as well. We were successful in brainstorming how different literacies would come together to make this project work. It is exciting to think about our students being connected to other students around the world working together and learning from each other. As time goes on, we feel technology is only going to make projects like this easier and more commonplace. Upon implementing this project, we would surely find out through experience how to tweak things to make them work more smoothly. As teachers, we all know how you can only plan so much and often times it takes actually executing the plan to know where the snags are and to learn how to anticipate obstacles so that next time they are not an issue. We would love to see how this project works in practice!