Classroom adventure on the information superhighway

The article discusses a project which brought the information highway to the children of Black Rock Academy, School 51, which serves a working class district in Buffalo, New York, USA. In the summer of 1997, the author completed her Ph.D course work by participating in a summer study tour to Ghana, West Africa. This inspired her to begin a year long writing assignment with her students in both 7th and 8th grades, to the children in Ghana. She also created a lesson for Black History Month, 1998, in which students wrote poems, letters, stories, and essays about famous African Americans, and researched cultural and historical information about Ghana. The author's students created a lesson on the Web site with the theme of: Black Rock Academy: Reaching Out To The World. They wrote essays about African Americans, provided information about Akan culture on the Web site, and conducted research on the Internet and created links to the most interesting sites. Thus, combining computer technology and language arts pedagogy to facilitate interaction between the students of Black Rock Academy and Agona Duakwa has led to a more intense and meaningful learning experience for the American students and a better understanding of cultural differences and similarities.