Teaching in the age of collaboration
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This document summarizes a presentation about teaching in the age of collaboration. The presenter, Fiona Beal, is a passionate educator who has incorporated technology into her teaching. She provides examples of collaborative projects she has done with her students using tools like blogs, wikis, Skype and Google docs. These projects connected her students with classrooms around the world. She also describes projects done by other educators to provide ideas for ways to collaborate using tools she has not yet tried like Google sites and SchoolTube.
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Teaching in the age of collaboration
- 1. TEACHING IN THE AG OF COLLABORATION Presenter: Fiona Beal fionabeal@gmail.com
- 2. Introducing myself Web 2.0 ‘fanatic’ and passionate about combining the curriculum with technology Have taught Grades 1 - 7 and am now the computer teacher at Fishhoek Primary School Life was revolutionised in 2009 by blogging and discovering a whole educational community ‘out there’ Winner of Innovative Teacher 2009 in SA. Winning place in Pan African Finals in Mauritius and participated in World Finals in Brazil Textbook writer
- 3. Question 1 Are we living in the age of collaboration?
- 4. Outcomes for today This workshop plans to: *show why we need to be involved in online collaboration *show the many online ways of doing collaborative projects such as Skype, Thinkquest, Voicethreads, Windows Live, Google sites, Google docs, Blogs, Wikis, Windows Movie maker… to name just a few *show ways of finding virtual partners to join you.
- 5. Back Channel Reflection http://todaysmeet.com/Fiona-Collaboration Introduce yourselves and add thoughts and ideas to share with us…
- 6. Question 2 You say you like doing projects. What do you mean by ‘projects’?
- 7. Project-based learning What is meant by a project? What is project-based learning? (See handout) http://pbl-online.org/ http://www97.intel.com/ph/ProjectDesign/Design/PlanningProjects/ (Intel) What is meant by 21st century skills? (see handout) How does Web 2.0 fit in? Introduction to the NETS (Technology standards) (see handout)
- 8. Introduction to the NETS 1. Creativity and Innovation 2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making 5. Digital Citizenship 6. Technology Operations and Concepts © 2007 International Society for Technology in Education.
- 9. Question 3 How easy is it to introduce projects? Can you give us examples from your experience?
- 10. Creating a Grade 1 – 7 reading scheme (2008) Which class: Whole school How did it come about? My passion for creative writing gave me this idea Description: We created reading books for a formerly disadvantaged school Web 2 applications: PowerPoint, Website, Storymaker2, Impatica, Global Audience: Ourselves, the school we targetted and a web audience
- 13. Bonding through Blogging (2009) Which class: Grade 4&5 combined class How did it come about: I thought of this idea when our school moved next to a home for the elderly Description: The class befriended the elderly on a weekly basis and eventually taught them to blog Web 2 applications: Edublogs Global Audience: project duplicated by six global and one local school
- 17. Global collaborative-writing 2009 Which class: Grade 4&5 combined class How did it come about? This grew out of the Bonding through Blogging project Description: Three ‘virtual friend’ schools linked up and wrote collaborative stories Web 2 and other applications: Etherpad, Slideboom, Storymaker2, PowerPoint Audience: Argentina, Canada, South Africa
- 20. Keeping in touch project 2009 Which class: Grade 4-6 computer club How did I hear about it: I created this idea because we had quite a few refugee children join our school and I wanted them to be able to keep in touch with relatives and friends Description: The Grade 4&5 bloggers helped me teach this group to blog Web 2 and other applications: Edublogs Audience: Africa
- 23. Podcast reading project 2009 Which class: Grade 4 How did I hear about it: I created this idea with some of my virtual friends. We used Vocaroo.com to read excerpts from books we enjoy. Description: We read excerpts from our books and they did likewise. Web 2 and other applications: Edublogs,Vocaroo.com Audience: Argentina, Canada, South Africa
- 25. Grade 2 weather project 2010 Which class: Grade 2 How did I hear about it: Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth is involved in an ‘Around the World in 80 days using Skype’ project from the Langwitches blog. She invited me to join. Our school collaborated with Switzerland and 11 other schools. Description: Questions, answers, discussions Web 2 and other applications: Skype, email, voicethreads, photo sharing, Audience: 12 countries around the world
- 28. Flat Stanley travel buddies 2010 Which class: Grade 3 How did I hear about it:This is an old, well-known literacy project based on a book called Flat Stanley, that I resurrected. Description: We created Flat Stanleys with weekly journals and exchanged them Flat Stanleys from Port Elizabeth, England and the USA. Web 2 and other applications: email, Box.net, Audience: 4 schools in England, USA and Port Elizabeth that I had come across mainly through blogging.
- 31. Fifa World cup project 2010 Which class: Grade 4 How did I hear about it: We joined Thinkquest and I noticed this invitation to join a project Description: We all created and shared activities relating to the Soccer World Cup. Web 2 and other applications: Thinkquest Audience: 159 schools in England and South Africa
- 34. Paying It Forward 2009/2010 Which class: Grade 5 How did I hear about it: The Innovative Teacher winners from SA and Nigeria in 2009 planned a project together Description: We decided to each reach out to our communities in different ways and try to make a difference Web 2 and other applications: Wikispaces, Office 2007 Audience: 3 schools in South Africa and 3 schools in Nigeria.
- 38. Winter Olympics 2010 Which class: Grade 6 How did I hear about it: One of my virtual blogging friends told me about it. Description: The Canadian Olympics took place at the beginning of this year and the organiser planned activities around that event. Web 2 and other applications: Wikispaces, Big Huge Labs, Slide.com, Microsoft Office, Audience: 56 schools from around the world.
- 41. Grade 7 classroom blogs Which class: Grade 7 computer monitors How did I hear about it: I wanted to introduce the idea of classroom blogging around at my school so we started a blog for each grade team. Description: Monitors were assigned to collect and type news,take photos, and upload information to the blogs every week. Web 2 and other applications: Blogger.com, Slide.com, Picasso albums, Shabby blogs, Audience: The parent body and the world
- 51. Newsletter swap 2010 Which class: Grade 1 - 6 How did I hear about it: We are twinned with a school in England and decided to do a newsletter swap in order to get to know each other. Description: Every six months each grade-team creates a newsletter and exchanges it with England Web 2 and other applications: online newsletters Audience: 2 schools
- 53. Adobe Youth Voices 2010 Which class: Grade 7 How did I hear about it: SchoolNet administers this project in South Africa Description: An eight week online course for teachers and then a thought-provoking photo/video project Applications: Adobe Photoshop Elements; Adobe Premier; online course Audience: 44 schools around the world
- 55. Monster Project 2010 Which class: Grade 5 How did I hear about it: One of my blogging virtual friends told me about it. Description: A monsters body broken into pieces and each participant takes a part to describe in 12 adjectives and part to make. Applications: varied – website, blog, photo applications, movies Audience: 44 schools around the world
- 57. A picture of the monster
- 58. Global newspapers Which class: none in particular How did I hear about it: One of my blogging virtual friends told me about it. Description Ten schools sharing news via a global online newspaper Applications: Publisher,Youblisher.com Audience: 10 schools from around thw world
- 60. Thinkquest digital media Which class: Grade 6 How did I hear about it: Thinkquest competition Description One team in a school collaborating and coming up with a great Wikispaces and Movie project Applications: Wikispaces, Windows Moviemaker, Adobe Premier,
- 62. Question 4 Can you tell us about any interesting projects that other people have done
- 63. Sharing similarities and differences with America http://kstadler.posterous.com/
- 64. Using a wiki to write a class novel http://yrps5m.wikispaces.com/Welcome
- 66. Question 5 Why do you become involved in these projects? Are there benefits to your students?
- 67. Benefits to learners There are countless benefits The students work beyond their classroom walls. They have an authentic audience which encourages best practice as students want their work to look good, be spelt correctly etc. They learn digital citizenship, cyber safety and many important 21st century skills as they use the internet. A collaborative project leads to many valuable teachable moments and allows student directed learning. Tolerance, respect for and information about different cultures
- 68. Question 6 Where do you find projects to get involved in?
- 69. Ways of finding projects Blogging Finding virtual friends and setting up projects with them. Looking at project sites that connect classes Developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and setting up projects with some of them.
- 70. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Global_Collaborative_Proj ects.htm#Start Your Own Collaborative Project
- 72. http://iearn.org/projects/2009-2010iEARNProjectBook.pdf (in the Shared folder) http://media.iearn.org/projects
- 77. http://onedayoneworld.pbworks.com/ (an example of a wikispaces project)
- 83. A wiki of networking sites http://www.educationalnetworking.com/List+of+Networks
- 84. Question 7 Also can you describe any projects that you haven’t been involved with but are good examples of collaboration done well? Maybe they have used applications that you haven’t yet tried?
- 85. Applications I still want to try Google sites Google docs Windows moviemaker and School Tube Glogsters
- 86. Projects to look at A collaborative writing project with Tracy Muller’s class in Ontario, Canada, http://writingpals.wikispaces.com/ They used Google Docs for the writing and the partners compared notes via Skype. Global Newspaper Written by Kids http://globalnewspaper.wikispaces.com/ Starting this year, school children across the globe are creating a global newspaper. Currently there are six countries participating: USA, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Lebanon, and England. If you would like to see you classroom contributing to this paper, email Garret Ferguson at lafayette4@gmail.com Recording projects on a SchoolTube channel http://tinyurl.com/y8hqodn Bob Greenwood from the USA keeps a record of all their videos of all their projects on a School Tube channel
- 87. O.R.E.O. Project http://www.jenuinetech.com/ Jen Wagner’s JenuineTech.com presents the tenth year of using the Oreo® cookie to teach Math, History, Language Arts, Science, Technology, and more in your classroom! This project is open to classrooms of any grade in any location! This year students will stack the original Oreo® cookie and counted how many Oreos® they can stack before the Oreos® tumble! Holiday Card Exchange http://www.jenuinetech.com/Projects/hce09/hce09information.htm Jen Wagner organizes the Holiday Card Exchange project. It had 787 classrooms from 46 US States, 7 Canadian Provinces, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Scotland, Russia, & the United Kingdom. Classrooms are teamed with 24 other classrooms to exchange holiday cards. Myst III Exile http://www.timrylands.com/ Tim Rylands strategically uses Myst games to support literacy and communication skills and to facilitate whole-class discussion. He regularly focuses his lessons around Myst Exile, due to the compounding realism of the game as well as the fantastical elements that help to inspire his pupils and improve their metaphorical skills.”
- 88. The Monster Project http://www.smithclass.org/proj/Monsters/index.htm Each class chooses a Monster part. Then, each class writes a description of that part and sends it to this project web. When all of the descriptions are in, each class builds a single MONSTER using everyone's descriptions from the table below. Elissa Gerzog began this as an e-mail project in the 1990's called Monsters Monsters Monsters©. Terry Smith of Hannibal, MO began running it as web-based in 2000. The Landmark Games http://kidspace.kidlink.org/start.php?HoldNode=25955 Classes choose a Landmark any where in the world. Students research facts concerning the landmark and compose nine interesting clues. Three clues per week are posted by the landmark moderator to the Kidproj listserv over a three-week period. All registered teams can ask one yes or no question per week of each team in the game. At the end of the three weeks the team that guessed the most landmarks is declared the winner! Past Participants are from: Russia, Sweden, USA, Germany, Taiwan, China, Pakistan, South Africa, France, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and the Czech Republic.
- 89. A Room with A View http://aroomwithaview.pbwiki.com/INTRODUCTION Each class captures a monthly picture of the view from a classroom window throughout the year and watch how the scenery changes. They write descriptions of what they see change and to also share with other classrooms about what they have observed. The description includes the date, time of day, weather, and temperature. Voices of the World http://votw.wikispaces.com/ Voices Of The World was created in June 2007 by Mrs. Tonner a former ICT Specialist at The High School Of Dundee in Scotland, United Kingdom and now a Lecturer in Primary Education at The University Of Dundee. The project started as an eTwinning project to connect children in Europe using their voice and their own language. Since the project started in 2007, children from around the world have 'Let Their Voice Be Heard'.
- 90. Google sites https://sites.google.com/a/sanandres.esc.edu.ar/global-projects/ This teacher from Argentina keeps all her projects together using Google sites
- 91. Question 8 How do you learn how to use the Web 2.0 tools?
- 92. Useful tutorial video sites Watch a video on any topic you’re interested in. Try You Tube for a start. (There’s also School Tube and Teacher Tube). Many teachers have channels with all their videos on them such as http://www.youtube.com/user/LearnitN5 . Another interesting group is the Common Craft videos.
- 93. Useful instructional blog sites There are a number of blogs that supply teachers with excellent Web2 resources. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ http://langwitches.org/blog/ http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ http://ilearntechnology.com/ http://cffmv.blogspot.com http://theedublogger.com/
- 94. Question 9 Is there anything you would still like to do in the way of projects?
- 95. Projects based in Africa I’d like to get more into projects based in Africa as well as my other global projects.
- 96. Question 9 What tips or advice would you give others to ensure that projects run smoothly?
- 97. Suggestions Start with small, short projects. Join a project first before creating your own. Commitment and dedication are essential Get to know the other educators prior to and throughout the project, to gain confidence in each other Do not be frightened to ask for help or ask questions of any nature. Be prepared to work hard (as hard as you may have ever worked in your life) and take risks Work your blogs/wikis to the fullest giving step by step instructions to classes where possible for each lesson to clarify the tasks that need to be done in your own mind and also for student reference. Give out check list sheets to ensure that students remain on track
- 98. Supporting documents This presentation and the supporting documents are available. Supporting documents for this session are: Project-based learning The NETS standards 21st century skills Here are a number of other documents in the Shared Folder.
- 99. That’s it for now! Remember: A journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step!
- 100. Handouts Printouts: The 21st century teacher Are you a 21st century teacher? NETS standards Project-based learning Shared folder: Signs of being a wqst century teacher 1010-1011 iearn project book Amazing web2 projects Core Curriculum projects How to create a voice thread
- 101. Any qestions or comments? http://todaysmeet.com/Fiona-Collaboration Thanks folks!