This document outlines ways to connect students beyond the school walls through technology. It discusses using the Socrative app for polling students, connecting with other classes through Mystery Skype Calls and ePals, taking online courses on Coursera, and using tools like Twiducate and Google Docs for inter-school collaboration. The presenter asks teachers to consider how their own classes can become more globally and locally connected through these outer-school and inter-school connection opportunities.

1. Connecting StudentsBeyond the School Walls
ROCHELLE RUGG
TEACHER LIBRARIAN/ BIBLIOTHECAIRE
ÉCOLE W.S. HAWRYLAK SCHOOL
ROCHELLE.RUGG@RBE.SK.CA
@ROCHELLERUGG
HTTP://MAVIEENIMMERSION.WORDPRESS.COM/
HTTP://WSHLIBRARY.EDUBLOGS.ORG/

2. Outline of Session
 1. Download the free app: Socrative Student
 2. Socrative Test
 3. Today’s Meet:
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https://todaysmeet.com/Rochellerugg
4. We are Global Citizens
5. Outer-School Connections
6. Inter-School Connections
7. Applications in your class
8. Questions and sharing time

3. Socrative
Room Number:
7918445

4. Todays Meet
todaysmeet.com/Rochellerugg

5. We are Global Citizens

6. We are Global Citizens
 “Regina and Saskatchewan have recently seen a
remarkable increase in the number of new
Canadians who are choosing to settle here. This is
great news for our communities, and our economy. It
is also great news for Regina Public Schools where,
this year, we have seen more than 500 students who
are new to the city” (Julie McRae, April 18th, 2013)
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http://www.rbe.sk.ca/sites/default/files/pages/files/eal_neighbourhood_schools2.pdf

7. Outer-School Connections
 1. Mystery Skype Calls:
 http://pernillesripp.com/2011/10/25/so-you-want-to-domystery-skype/
2. ePals :
- http://www.epals.com/#!/main
3. MOOCs : Professional Development and Higher Learning.
https://www.coursera.org/

8. Outer-School Connections
 Huffington Post Article
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/troy-tenhet/beyond-schoolwalls-conne_b_1825754.html

9. Inter-School Connections
 The Inter-School Novel Study Project (Background)
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http://www.slideshare.net/RochelleRugg/inter-school-novelstudy

10. Inter-School Connections
1. Twiducate: Twitter for students
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http://www.twiducate.com/
2. Google Docs : Creating together
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https://drive.google.com/a/go.rbe.sk.ca/?urp=https://docs.go
ogle.com/#shared-with-me
3. Socrative and Todays Meet

11. Applications in Your Class
 How can you see your class becoming more
connected globally and locally?

12. Questions and Sharing
 Twitter – best PD ever…