On May 1 2006, the international "Global Virtual Classroom" website contest announced the winners for the past school year 2005-2006. 

The Grade 10 Technology Enriched students from South Grenville District High School did not place in the top three finishers but were awarded a Special Award of Merit for Creativity.  The list of award winners can be found here (http://virtualclassroom.org/contest/2A.html).

The students created an on-line magazine for teenagers, entitled OnePlanet.  They worked together with a Secondary school from Russia and one from Seattle, Washington, and shared ideas, work, and files.  A truly international project and a great experience !  Read OnePlanet here (http://gvctemp20.virtualclassroom.org/).

The creative elements of the site included all original writings, animations, drawings and pictures.  Students used high-end software applications quite extensively, including Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop - all Ministry licensed software titles.  Within the OnePlanet on-line magazine, students created the cover page (Fireworks), the Table of Contents page (Photoshop), and the page template (Fireworks).  Russian students added some drawings, poems and written work for the articles.  Canadian students enhanced the magazine with "advertisements".  The complete project was modeled after a real magazine ; visitors to the site could literally flip pages forward and backwards between the various sections of the magazine.

The Global Virtual Classroom contest is a free online "rich" web experience for teachers and students around the world.  Yearly, teams of schools work together and develop a website /project in which the students work together, share ideas, collaborate and interact with one another and learn about  different cultures.  This year students from 20 countries around the world, participating in 25 web site development teams, 22 of which successfully submitted sites to the program, these entries have been judged as the cream of a very good crop. More information can be read here (http://virtualclassroom.org/index.html).