Just Skyped into the SAIS conference in Atlanta- Alecia presented there, and asked if I could be available for a quick conversation.  We had no technical problems and it went well.  I talked about starting a global partnership, how it's best to start small and simple and work up from there.  Moving from email, we are now working on a podcast to post on our wiki.  The 6th graders have done a great job with it,  they chose their own topic, and working in partners within our own classroom, they have created vodcasts to post.  The main point of this brief project is to learn the nuts and bolts of podcasting so that when we create a podcast for our Peru classmates, they will already know the basics.  We have had some difficulty connecting with our Peru classmastes due to our schedules; we were on Fall Break, and before that they were on Spring Break.  I'm looking forward to the next few weeks in November when our classes have more common time with each other.