Cross-Classroom Collaboration

Objectives Finding the right partner based on your professional comforts Matching your comforts to project ideas Tools that enable a collaboration project with the right partnership

Finding the right partner based on your professional comforts

Matching your comforts to project ideas

Tools that enable a collaboration project with the right partnership

One group / partnership that was negative. One group / partnership that was positive. What was your comfort level (with people, content, etc.)? What was your comfort level (with people, content, etc.)?

What do you want to learn?

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Innovators Laggards

Lots of sites BUT … Aren’t we more than just a grade level or physical location?

Aren’t we more than just a grade level or physical location?

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Finding a Partner

Comforts

Connectivity Comfort

How much comfort do you feel with technology? Low - do not use basic communication technology (e.g., do not use email). Some - use basic communication technology (e.g., email, internet pages). Medium - use most communication technology (e.g., comfortable with VOIP, commenting on webpages, instant messaging). Advanced - creates opportunities for communicating online (e.g., blogs, webpages, podcasts, video conferencing).

Low - do not use basic communication technology (e.g., do not use email).

Some - use basic communication technology (e.g., email, internet pages).

Medium - use most communication technology (e.g., comfortable with VOIP, commenting on webpages, instant messaging).

Advanced - creates opportunities for communicating online (e.g., blogs, webpages, podcasts, video conferencing).

Connectivism Stephen Downes George Siemens A Virtual Convener

Stephen Downes

George Siemens

A Virtual Convener

Constructivist Comfort

How much comfort do you feel with active learning? Low - delivers information from teacher to student. Some - uses some active learning strategies to engage students within delivered information. Medium - provides frequent opportunities for students to explore predetermined frameworks. High - creates inquiry and discovery based classroom.

Low - delivers information from teacher to student.

Some - uses some active learning strategies to engage students within delivered information.

Medium - provides frequent opportunities for students to explore predetermined frameworks.

High - creates inquiry and discovery based classroom.

Constructivism Practitioner Understanding ≠ Theoretical Understanding

Practitioner Understanding

≠

Theoretical Understanding

Collaborative Comfort

How often have you collaborated with other classrooms? Low - first cross classroom collaboration. Some - collaborated 1-3 times with other classrooms. Medium - collaborated 4-6 times with other classrooms in different schools. Advanced - collaborated 7+ times with other classrooms in different schools.

Low - first cross classroom collaboration.

Some - collaborated 1-3 times with other classrooms.

Medium - collaborated 4-6 times with other classrooms in different schools.

Advanced - collaborated 7+ times with other classrooms in different schools.

Collaboration Experiences Vary BUT Frequency Matters

Experiences Vary

BUT

Frequency Matters

Matching Partners and Projects

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Comforts

Constructivism Comfort Lower Higher Collaboration Comfort Lower Higher

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French

Rural & Northern

Provinces