Collaboration and teamwork are becoming increasingly important skills. New technologies now allow individuals around the world to work together. Examples discussed include Innocentive, which connects over 120,000 scientists and engineers to solve problems, and Wikipedia, where thousands collaborate on documents. The "Flat Classroom Project" uses tools like email, Skype and social networks to connect classrooms globally and foster understanding between students. Scientists in Antarctica also use blogs and online exchanges to share their work and educate the public through projects like "Ice Stories".

1. OPENER #7
Collaborate or Die!
Opener #7
ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION & INTERACTION

2. INSPIRATION FOR COLLABORATION

3. From highly competitive focus
towards a greater need for
collaboration & teamwork skills
Management guru, Peter Drucker
argues that society needed knowledge
workers. He said "workers without
skills might as well stay at home”.
In his book “The World is Flat”-
Thomas Friedman documented, with
the emergence of Globalization3.0,
individuals from all corners of the
globe can participate in a world
economy

4. Collaboration Tools
-Enhances Work
Productivity &
Team
Collaboration

5. Tools in
Enhancing Team
Effectiveness
Those who have access to the above tools, can share knowledge and generate ideas
faster!!

6. With online collaboration, any individual or organization can
discover new partners, procedures and problem solving
strategies.
• In their book, Wikinomics Tapscott &
Williams describes how thousands or
millions of connected individuals can
work together on documents such as
Wikipedia to create new products or
enhance the value of existing ones.

7. INNOCENTIVE
• Created network of over 120000 scientist &
engineers
• Solving complex problems and challenges that
1 could develop into new products and services
• Ultimate in collaborative systems for advancement
of humankind
• Involves humans meeting humans in an online
2 collaboration and sharing environment with goals
of creativity, innovation and problem solving
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8. COLLABORATION POINTS BY TAPSCOTT
&
WILLIAMS
Given the exponential growth in the number of
connection points, the networks that TAPSCOTT and
WILLIAMS point to can spawn innovation and perhaps
even social movement.
With Voice IP, for instance, the expression that
someone is just a phone call away is now a reality for
those who could not afford long distance calls
Collaboration possibilities suck as Skype and Google
Talk for free online peer to peer voice collaboration
join people together for research, writing, thinking,
training and education in ways nor previously possible.
As mentioned earlier in the title of Tapscott and
Williiam’s book, wikis are excellent tools for
companies, schools and educational institutions to
accumulate, store and reuse experts knowledge on
different topics.

9. PURCHASING PENGUIN PALS

10. WHAT IS PENGUIN PALS?
Club Penguin is one of many popular social
networking sites where kids ages six to fourteen
take on an avatar-Penguin of different colors in a
virtual world!
In this club they can interact with other kids,
negotiate the etiquette of how to play games with
people they have never met in real life
Initial registration for this club is free which lacks
certain features.
Disney paid 350million to acquire Club Penguin
as they realized half the kids on the internet may
be members of one or more of these virtual
worlds by 2012

11. JUST 1 KG MORE

12. WHAT IS “just 1 kg more” & how
to participate?
1 kilogram more in your travel Travellers bring 1kg inexpensive
pack. It is a cross between charity educational material to give away
& travel along their travel path
To participate, one follows three Stories and pictures are shared in
easy steps: the 1KG website where we see
- Carry online collaboration technology
have a direct impact on learning in
-Communicate rural communities that may lack
-Share access

13. WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF 1 kg
more”?
Andrew Yu initiated this idea in April 2004 when he was
touched by a story of two volunteer teachers who were
teaching in Yunan province. Andrew was encouraged by the
words of the volunteer teachers when they said “Material
deprivation can be overcome. What we need is the chance
to communicate to the outside world!”

14. What is innovative about 1KG?
Creative combination of Internet technology &
face to face communications
The 1 KG website provides a wide array of
resources & information for travelers
The web helps 1kg travelers gather all the
necessary information prior to their travel & to
later share their stories with others who might
be inspired to take part.

15. 1 KG’s TWIN PROJECT

16. What is 1KG’s twin project?
In September 2007, 1kg started TwinBooks
A child in as city buys one of the TwinBooks
and the other book is donated to a kid in a
remote village.
With the twin books project, the 1kg people
have found another innovative way of making a
contribution to rural education in China with an
influx of resources in the form of books

17. RAISING GLOBAL ePALS

18. What is Raising Global ePals ?
Projects related to
environment such as
Resources take the
the GLOBE project,
form “Ask the Expert”
Kids as Global
forums
Scientist, and the
Journey North.
Students learn
Individuals students that educational
ask questions of Dr. resources, including
Math. Dr. Universe or human ones, exist
a Mad Scientist. beyond their
classroom.

19. E PALS
According to an article from Steve Lohr of The New York
Times, ePals is a great example of a socially responsible
company.
 Students in this unique program simultaneously upgrade their writing skills
and increase their sensitivity to different cultures and regions of the world.
To help international exchange, ePals offers a means to instantly translate
email exchanges into different languages.
Overall, ePals is easy to use, collaborative and safe.

20. ICE STORIES

21. What is Ice Stories?
From January to March 2008, educators at the
Exploratorium in San Francisco could access a
series of Webcast from scientist at McMurdo
Station near the South Pole as well as scientist in
the South Shetland Islands and another remote
southern locations.
Students can read about experiments related to
Antartica’s ice dynamics,climate change, penguin
breeding behavior and the response of the polar
marine ecosystem to the effects of global
warming

22. CASSANDARA BROOKS
She is a scientist involved in the Ice Stories. Her life
focuses on the life history and population of Antartic
tooth fish.
She will posts information in her blog. Once she
posted “ I stepped out on deck this morning to find
the sea fog had finally lifted, revealing an immense
ocean of ice: the world of Antarctica
To help a reader better appreciate her situation,
Cassandra will include pictures of Antartic ice and the
coastline of Antarctica with he blog post.
Cassandra will receive replies from her post from
different countries and shares her knowledge and
exchange ideas with different people from different
people around the world.
She says people living near each other first get to
know of each other’s work from reading blog postings
about their similar experiences in a far off land.

23. CASSANDARA BROOKS
Her closing words as she heads to her master’s
commencement, were quite poignant, "I cannot stress
how important I think it is to educate the public,
especially in today’s world when all or human actions
are having such a growing impact on the world,
including Antarctica.
Cassandra is simultaneously a teacher and a student!
She adventure learning projects not only expose
students to the real world of science, but they also
enable students to share in the scientists’ passion for
their occupations.

24. ICE STORIES &
COLLABORATION
Web technology provides opportunities for kids to
be mentored by adults and older students. With
these resources young people around the world are
collaborating with online technologies.

25. FLAT CLASSROOMS

26. What is flat classrooms?
Inspired by Friedman’s The World is Flat book,
Davis & Lindsay collaboration is named the “Flat
Classroom Project.”
This projects creates unique curriculum projects,
friendships and understanding.
Pragmatic approach to technology is used in this
project

27. DAVIS & LINDSAY SAYS
Their students and teachers have used email;Skype,wikis
shared online video and audio exchange
Social networking tools such as Ning provide them with
a means of creating educational networks
For others who wish to attempt similar projects they
have designed a seven step model for creating a flat
classrooms that focuses on connections, communications,
citizenship, contributions, collaboration, creations and
celebrations.
They are inspired by the potential for a global
transformation of education brought about by the Web
2.0 and other learning technologies
Taking a different approach to education, they did not
allow a lecture and test philosophy but rather a
collaborative, project orientated activities that would give
students a taste of the work-related professionalism and
teamwork needed later in life.

28. SISTER PROJECT to Flat Classroom
Horizon Project is a new venture which involves senior
high school students from Spain, the United States,
Australia, Japan, Austria and Qatar who explore higher
education technology trends that have been forecast
for the next one to five years in the annual Horizon
Report from Educause
They have also initiated the Digiteen Project in which
their ninth and tenth-grade students explore digital
citizenship along with students from an international
school in Vienna.

29. Flat Classroom future
David & Lindsay says perhaps
Flat Classroom projects are
one solution for the drop out
crisis highly evident in the
United States and many
other countries today

30. MICROSOFT IS GROOVY

31. Peer to peer
teamwork
Teamwork
SharePoint
Send instant
messages &
engage online
Collanos Online way to
keep track of Tools
discussions forums Workplace documents
among members
WE ALL LEARN
framework-simple
safe, practical and
collaborative
learning
Online sticky Use able to work offline
notes
Enables work teams to collaborate
Groove on a document where changes are
Concept
mapping &
Project automatically synched to everyone's
calendar
tools
(document management
tools
workspace.
sharing)
Webrowsing

32. Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta
Live Workspace can tell students who
has worked on a document,
spreadsheet, contact list or database.
This tool is embedded in Microsoft
live@edu with free email and
calendar tools
All Microsoft word, Excel, and Power
Point files can be opened, saved,
shared and changed online
Students now can collaborate with
numerous people online in the wee hours
and students who adapt this tool will be
more employable and interpersonally
aware

33. ONLINE COLLABORATION
• If you want to talk to • Free online services • In educational settings
someone in the 21st are increasingly this tools are used for
Century you have a moving into fully online team
host of options: functional collaboration and class
collaborative interaction.
exchanges or courses.
Adobe Connect Pro, Dimdim allows sharing of
Live Person tool is used
Elluminate, pictures ,Power point
tor students to talk to
WebEx,Centra / online slides,PDF files ,videos
someone online.
chat/phone/text message etc

34. A COLLABORATIVE PATH

35. Summary of Collaborate or Die-
#Opener 7
 Some synchronous tools, in particular cost more then educational institutions'
and organizations typically have budgeted. But the costs are coming down and
many tools are being made open source.
 Collaboration are not highly acclaimed social phenomena but is a vital
learning principle
It is difficult to pin point what online collaboration is about because there is so
many forms of it
Many other openers directly or indirectly rely on collaboration and
collaborative tools.
Collaborative tools are yet another indicator that the lockstep factory model of
education is out of sync with current learning possibilities and viewpoints.

36. Summary of Collaborate or Die-
#Opener 7
WE ALL LEARN FROM:-
our peers
experts we have never met
from resources generated from another country or culture
Archival records of online learning activities completed
recently or long ago
Our learning futures rest not only on the realization that collaboration is
not simply an empowering engine for economic expansion made
possible by Globalization 3.0, but also the gains in education that
underpin the economic ones.