I just came across something way cool that involves my kids' high school but I only heard about it because it showed up in my "forsyth county nc" Google news alert.  From the SECCA blog:

The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art would like to congratulate all of the students who recently participated in its Inside Out Classroom: Switch Video Project. During this international educational program two groups of students–one from the National Art Honor Society at West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, NC; and one from Lincoln High School in Seoul, South Korea–explored and documented their communities through video and other new media tools. The students maintained an ongoing dialog using Skype™, a web-based videoconferencing software, to discuss the differences and similarities of their cultures with their counterparts. The students then “switched” or traded video footage with their counterparts who edited and finalized each other’s video. To see the students’ final videos click on this linkhttp://iiieyekids.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc.

Now that's what I call effective use of new technology in education.