What is my global collaboration project?
At the moment, I am looking for partners in the course to do the assignment.
The suggested examples for collaborative projects were the following ones:
Read Aloud to the World
The Global Read Aloud
Young Clovers
Around the World with 80 Schools by Langwitches
Write Your Story
The Monster Project
The Lunchbox Project
The Global Hello Project
Coffee Chug Wiki
The Odyssey World Trek
Glogsters From the World WikiThe collaborative web tool to plan the activity, were among others, the following collaborative tools: Padlet, Voicethread, Skype, Skype Education, Google Docs and Slides, Edmodo, PBWorks, and Schoology.
With these tools, our students will be able to post discussions, a debate, or share resources about a topic.
What I most use is Skype in the Classroom, which is a free tool to educators all over the world. It has different possibilities
- Virtual field trips - We have "visited" and talked about biodiversity and ecosystems with Lisbon Zoo
- Guest speakers - We talked to an IT entrepreneur business woman who founded last year her own Educational Robotics company
- We are on the waiting list to 2 more virtual field trips "the unhuggable firiends" about reptiles and spiders and another about turtles.
- However much I would like to exchange with other classrooms in the world (mystery skype) we cannot have that in the school.
To use skype is really easy. You only need to download skype, create a skype account, connect the laptop to the IWB and that's it. There are hundreds of guest speakers, learning activities and schools all over the world willing to connect.
What did planning a global collaboration project with a peer in this course teach me?
You can work asynchronous (luckily) and still get things done.
Other people 's views enrich your knowledge and experience.
You never know enough, other colleagues can teach you from their experiences which are totally different from yours. Collaborative work gets you working double faster once you agree on the goals you want to reach and the tasks you all want to accomplish
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