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Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium

October 15, 2009

Using Great Collaboration Practices In Your Classroom

Molly Lynde
Godwin High School
Henrico, Va 23238

When students of tomorrow sit in classrooms of yesterday

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But why WEB collaboration?

Left Brain Answer

Right Brain Answer

collective intelligence-collaboration
transparent - instant gratification
non-hierarchical- democratic
potential for passion - ownership
open to public- real recognition
permanence- searchable resources

NOTE:

You and your students can easily make Wordles at Wordle.net

But why WEB collaboration?

Left Brain Answer

Right Brain Answer

We Collaborate To Learn!

www.masternewmedia.org/online_collaboration/s...

CollaborationThe why is answered- it’s more effectivebut the how can be challenging

In a perfect world, people learn from textbooks but people learnmore from each other.

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Schools have to be the parent/bad guy

We can’t use any (most) collaborative applications that don’t allow moderation by the teacher:
No Google Docs
No Wallwisher
No SimplyBox
No Utube
No Twitter
No Facebook

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When there are obstacles - just remember the mantra, “Technology is my friend....”

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Don’t Byte the Ram That Feeds Ya’

One Collaborative Idea

Sort of a “visual blogging” site

What do you do with Voicethread?

Post documents (Word, PDF), videos, PowerPoints, images, etc
Student create/comment on own piece of project then comment on another group’s piece of a project
Cross curricular collaboration
Interstate collaboration
World wide collaboration!

1. Have students sign a Voicethread Do and Don’t worksheet

2. Have students register with VoiceThread. They will need an email account (Gaggle for in-school use)

3. They will create an avatar (icon) just like they do in Facebook.

4. You can assign coded numbers to identify students.

5. Create a sandbox/play Voicethread so they can get use to the techniques involved.

http://voicethread.com/share/661520/

How do you go about making your own Voicethread?

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To make your own VoiceThread

Register in a teacher k12 account
Choose create
Upload pictures, presentations, documents, images
Comment
Share - choose copy and then paste the unique identifying link on a document or embed in a wiki/blog
Publishing options allows you to choose public, private, moderate

But wait, there is more!

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Licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-share alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0

slide originally created by Bill Ferriter

Cover It Live!

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To make a Cover It Live Event for your classroom:
Register
Create new (verify time and date)
A generated HTML code is produced - copy and paste in a blog or wiki that is open to the public (not protected)
Take the time to create messages, polls, url links, etc. in the Show Prep Folder (numbering in a planned order use is helpful)
Launch your event. Send Welcome message.
Once students enter comments you will have to “allow” or you may send back private messages in order for it to be posted to the blog/wiki for students to see
Double click on any show prep items for instant posting from your moderator seat.
Great for use in Paideia or Socratic seminars or for high level students to summarize the lessons.