This document discusses cross-classroom collaboration and finding the right partnership based on professional comfort levels. It explores different levels of comfort with technology, active learning, and collaboration. Teachers are encouraged to reflect on what they want to learn and how they might use cross-classroom collaboration, then to match their comfort levels to project ideas and potential partners. Contact information is provided for further discussion.

1. Cross­Classroom Collaboration
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2. 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
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3. Inclusion:
One group / One group /
partnership that partnership that
was negative? was positive?
What was your What was your
comfort level comfort level
(with people, content, (with people, content,
etc.)? etc.)?
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4. What do you want to learn?
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5. Finding A Partner
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6. Similarity = Professional Attraction
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7. Connectivity Comfort
Connectivity Comfort
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8. 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).
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9. Connectivism
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10. Constructivist
Comfort
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11. 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.
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12. Constructivism
Practitioner Understanding
Theoretical Understanding
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13. Collaborative
Comfort
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14. How often have you collaborated
with other classrooms?
Low ­ first cross classroom collaboration.
Some ­ collaborated 1­3 times with other
classrooms.
Medium ­ collaborated 4­6 times with
other classrooms in different schools.
Advanced ­ collaborated 7+ times with
other classrooms in different schools.
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15. Collaboration
Experiences Vary
BUT
Frequency Matters
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16. Matching Partners and Projects
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17. Similarity = Professional Attraction
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18. Lower Constructivism Lower Collaboration
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19. Higher Constructivism Lower Collaboration
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20. Lower Constructivism Higher Collaboration
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21. Higher Constructivism Higher Collaboration
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23. TeachersConnecting.com
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24. Reflections:
What did we want to learn?
How might you use
cross­classroom
collaboration?
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25. 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
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26. email:
ben@mrhazzard.com
slides & notes:
benhazzard.com
skype:
bhazzard
twitter:
benhazzard
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