Borderless Classrooms:

Using creativity, ethnographic research and cross-cultural as a foundation,
Jeannie Joshi developed an exciting new educational tool kit to help middle-school students,
across the world, develop social literacy and a heightened awareness of their own potential
in contributing to their community.

The thesis includes both on-line and off-line components designed to appeal to the program's target
audience: middle school students. The digital component included a unique and interactive
online social networking platform, which leverages the Google Maps API as the foundation for the interface.

Offline components of Borderless Classrooms included playful, interactive, design-based hands-on
learning workshops. Through these tools, Borderless Classrooms provides student's access to a global,
interactive and culturally diverse audience, thereby encouraging them to see themselves
as part of a larger, cross-cultural community.  

Website launch, summer 2011.