Global+Collaboration+Projects

Global Collaboration Projects
Presenter: A.J. Juliani Time: 9:25 Room: H01

What Is a Global Collaboration Project?
My Experience with Flat Classroom Project (last year with 10th graders) and Net Gen Ed (this year with 9th graders)

Why?
Introduction to Globalization 3.0

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How?
Three Steps: 1) Expand Your PLN

Social Networks (acting as a PLN)
 * Twitter (Twitter for Teachers, Another Twitter for Teachers)
 * [|Digital Arts Education]
 * [|Challenge Yourself to Blog]
 * [|Classroom 2.0***]
 * [|Connected Principals]
 * [|Edcamp Philly organizers]
 * [|ELTChat]
 * [|EFL Classroom 2.0]
 * [|English Companion Ning***]
 * [|Fireside Learning Ning]
 * [|Helene Blowers, 23 Things]
 * [|Independent Schools Educators Network]
 * [|Learn German with Deutsche Welle]
 * [|MyEnglishClub]
 * [|New Media Literacies Community]
 * [|The Global Education Collaborative***]
 * [|The Educator’s PLN***]
 * [|UDL4ALL]
 * [|Voices of the Gulf]
 * [|VSTE]

Edublog PLN Nominations


 * 1) [|Classroom 2.0]
 * 2) [|Connected Principals]
 * 3) [|#comments4kids]
 * 4) [|Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 Class]
 * 5) ECI831 class
 * 6) [|EFL Classroom 2.0]
 * 7) [|#ELTpics] / [|ELTpics on Flickr]
 * 8) [|Global Education Conference 2010]
 * 9) [|Intel Education Teachers Engage Community]
 * 10) [|ISTE 2010 Newbie Project]
 * 11) [|Music PLN]
 * 12) [|The Reform Symposium]
 * 13) [|SMARTBoard Revolution Ning]
 * 14) [|Teachmeet]
 * 15) [|The Educator’s PLN]
 * 16) [|Tom Barrett’s Interesting Ways series]
 * 17) [|VSTE]

2) Prepare Your Students > 3) Choose the Right Project for your Class
 * Wikis (Wikispaces, Wetpaint, PBWorks)
 * Social Networks (Ning, Schoology, Edmodo)
 * Video Creation (iMovie, Final Cut, JayCut)
 * Research
 * ePals
 * Flat Classroom Project
 * Net Gen Ed
 * Eracism
 * Digiteen
 * Edublog Awards
 * Make Your Own

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When/Where?
Plan ahead but be flexible...remember it is difficult to work asynchronously.

//Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.// //It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.// //Every morning a lion wakes up.// //It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle// //or it will starve to death.// //It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or gazelle.// //When the sun comes up, you better start running.//