Global Collaborations PreK-12 (Session 10)

[Kim Cofino]

An open session to discussion global collaborations with Kim Cofino and Julie Lindsay

A huge thanks to Jabiz for taking notes:

Started by sharing ideas:

Interests:
Chemistry (transition to university)

Talk about Nings and their benefits - good place to get started, explore other projects, make connections to other interested and like-minded educators, get project ideas, post your own project ideas to connect with other classes
Good place to meet with people of similar interests
Great Nings to join:
Classroom 2.0
Ning In Education
Flatclassrooms
Intrepid Classroom
Global Education Collaborative
iEarn

Define project goals.
What are the assessments?
Find the tool that fits your needs.

Good examples of Ning:

Julie: All six graders on a Ning as a tool to create community. Eliminates email, share what is going on in school, bypassing server.

How do you monitor behavior?

Don’t filter, but monitor. There are problems, but these ate teachable moments.

Good Collaborating Projects:

see list of resources here: http://connectingacrosscontinents.wikispaces.com/resources

How do you get teachers involved?

Embed the collaboration and technology into the curriculum
Help build admin of changing scope of learning
Things will always be changing and you’re never really done.
Don’t talk about tools. Talk about what teachers want to do.

Making people change?

Success stories:

Bring parents on board.
Great planning is key
See session five by Kim Cofino for more details on a successful project.

Please add your interest in global collaborations as a comment to this forum so that we can continue our conversations beyond the conference :)

[Julie Lindsay]

Resources from Julie:

Flat Classroom Project archives: http://flatclassroomprojects.wikispaces.com/

Julie's 7 steps to a flat classroom Learn2cn presentation

Nings to Join:
- Flat Classrooms Ning (for educators to find each other): http://flatclassrooms.ning.com
- Classroom 2.0
- Edublogger World
- Techno-languages
- Ning in Education
- The Global Education Collaborative
- Digital Citizenship

Blog Post: How to Flatten your classroom - Getting Started

[David Chritiansen]

Hi, gr8 session. Thanks. David Christiansen GSIS Korea [e-mail]

[Jonathan Chambers]

Thanks Kim, Julie... and Jabiz for the notes.
Jonathan Chambers, ESL, Shanghai American School. [e-mail]

[Madeleine Brookes]

What about MYP and Global Connections....???

[Julie Lindsay]

Madeleine

Come and join our Flat Classrooms Ning http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/
and create a new group for MYP...there is already one there for PYP

[Samran Wiriyaphong]

Loved it.
We're doing a science unit and we want to bring real scientists into the classroom (using Skype.) Where can we find them?

Sam ([e-mail])
Primary School IT Teacher
SCIS, Shanghai, China

[Jabiz Raisdana]

Great talk everyone. Like Kim said, I am no expert but would love to continue to build my network and help you out if I can.

[e-mail]

Here is the blog I was talking about and the Ning.

[Laura Price]

Thanks for the information.
Laura Price--Taejon Christian International School
5th Grade Teacher ([e-mail])

[Smriti Safaya]

Now if only we had some time off to digest all this and plan plan plan the collaboration...!
Thank you to all for the great insight.

--> Am especially looking to work with educators and students who are interested in exploring world issues and social consciousness through action and global community involvement.

I teach High School humanities, english and science (IB, MYP and Ontario curriculum)

Smriti Safaya @ the Canadian International School of Hong Kong ([e-mail])