Collaboration, Collaboration!
I teach 5th grade and would love to find another class to collaborate with. We use Ning as our collaboration site in district, but I would love to make contact with someone outside of district. We could collaborate on various projects and make comments on different blogs our students post about similar items we are teaching. I would be open to even possibly video conferences and creating podcasts with different classes. As well as, sharing jing math tutorials.
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Permalink Reply by Doug on -
Hello Malia,
I work for a k12 district in Northern NJ. I am the instructional technology coordinator. I would love to try and set something up with your class and one of ours. My contact info is below.
Doug Walker
dwalker@jefftwp.org
973-697-3535x5843
www.jefftwp.org
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mull on -
Let us know what you end up doing. We love hearing about these collaborative projects.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Kritzman on -
guys, please consider your collaborative classrooms on schooltown.net. We designed it with teachers as a platform for 21st century skills. I'm the CEO and would be happy to comp your pilot.
Good work!
Mike
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Permalink Reply by Malia Triggs on -
What a great offer! I went to your site and the tools available there are very impressive. I have contacted Doug and hope to have something set up for the new school year shortly. Therefore, if this greatly appreciated offer is still available I am definitely interested. Thanks again!
Mike Kritzman said:guys, please consider your collaborative classrooms on schooltown.net. We designed it with teachers as a platform for 21st century skills. I'm the CEO and would be happy to comp your pilot.
Good work!
Mike
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Permalink Reply by Hector Uribe on
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Hello Malia,
www.WeTeamTeach.org is a website for CTT teachers to collaborate. Visit us and let me know if it would help you to achieve your goals.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Rita Oates on
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Hello Malia,
I'd like to recommend one of the oldest and largest places to find collaborative partner classrooms: ePals.
We have more than 300,000 K12 classrooms in 200 countries and territories. That's more than 13 million students and teachers to search in our safe social network for learning. This global community and our Classroom Match feature are free, as are our powerful and award-winning communication tools: SchoolMail and SchoolBlog.
We also have some collaboration projects as starting points, especially valuable to teachers who are new to the idea of collaborating with a class in another place, particularly outside their own countries. We moderate Student Forums dedicated to the projects, so your students can post questions and get replies over the weekend, related to their class project, without your need to supervise them.
Alan November invited us to hold a preconference day before his BLC, and we are doing so again this year. Right now we have people coming from London (2), El Salvador, China (2), and all over the US and Canada. Last year we had people from 20 states, 6 countries and Puerto Rico.
We leave it to you to decide how you want to collaborate. Our users typically use a combination of collaboration methods: email, twin blogging (only students in the classrooms involved can see the blog so that children under 13 can have photos but not open to the whole internet), podcasts, videos, videoconference, skype, Ning, wiki, and of course postcards and "parcel exchange." One teacher in Russia always chooses projects that are off the computer, such as body measurement, where her students measure circumference of their heads, length of foot, etc. -- all in metric measures of course. The Excel spreadsheets with data about her class and yours become real data to analyze, and you know the variation in 5th graders! She works in a low-computer, limited internet school, but she still has great success in collaborating with other classes because of the kind of projects she selects.
If you are driving distance of Boston, I invite you to participate in our ePals Conference on Tuesday, July 28, a preconference day of the BLC, thanks to the help of Alan November. Or let me know your questions. I'm happy to help!
Best wishes,
Rita Oates, VP, education markets
formerly ed tech director, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (FL)
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Permalink Reply by Joanne Rowe on -
Hi Malia --
I am Joanne Rowe and I work in Birmingham Public Schools as a technology facilitator (integrating 21st century skills...etc.). I contacted one of our wonderful 5th grade teachers, Jason Smith who is interested in collaborating with you. His email address is js26bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us.
My email address is jr01bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us
We are excited about all these collaborative opportunities. Please email us and let us know if you are still interested!
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Permalink Reply by Malia Triggs on
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That sounds great! I will get with Mr. Smith next week and we can discuss some ideas.
Joanne Rowe said:Hi Malia --
I am Joanne Rowe and I work in Birmingham Public Schools as a technology facilitator (integrating 21st century skills...etc.). I contacted one of our wonderful 5th grade teachers, Jason Smith who is interested in collaborating with you. His email address is js26bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us.
My email address is jr01bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us
We are excited about all these collaborative opportunities. Please email us and let us know if you are still interested!
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Permalink Reply by Joanne Rowe on -
Fantastic! He is every excited about this...and he is extremely talented. Can't wait to see what adventures unfold!
Jason is an integral part of our "Ignite" program, which is a Professional Development Program we have in our district, that focuses on infusing 21st century skills and strategies into our classrooms. Jason has been to the BLC conference and truly incorporates many of the concepts into his classroom.I know that Jason uses Wikis, Moodle, podcasts, and would be open to video conferences. You guys will have a blast!
Malia Triggs said:That sounds great! I will get with Mr. Smith next week and we can discuss some ideas.
Joanne Rowe said:Hi Malia --
I am Joanne Rowe and I work in Birmingham Public Schools as a technology facilitator (integrating 21st century skills...etc.). I contacted one of our wonderful 5th grade teachers, Jason Smith who is interested in collaborating with you. His email address is js26bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us.
My email address is jr01bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us
We are excited about all these collaborative opportunities. Please email us and let us know if you are still interested!
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