cross-classroom collaboration (ecoo 2009)

Cross-Classroom Collaboration

Objectives

• Finding the right partner based on your professional comforts

• Matching your comforts to project ideas• Tools that enable a collaboration project with

the right partnership

One group / partnership that was negative.

One group / partnership that was positive.

What was your comfort level (with people, content, etc.)?

What was your comfort level (with people, content, etc.)?

What do you want to learn?

Online Literature Circle & Blog

Ben Hazzard

Joan Badger

Calgary

Seattle

Korea

http://benhazzard.com/?p=42

Online Literature Circle & Blog

Ben Hazzard

Joan Badger

Calgary

Seattle

Korea

Innovators

Laggards

Lots of sites BUT…• Aren’t we more than just a grade level or

physical location?

Development Panel

Joan Badger

Alec Couros

Tammy Bryant

Katie Morrow

Tom Barrett

Jess McCulloch

Lisa Creech Bledsoe

Finding a Partner

Comforts

Connectivity Comfort

How much comfort do you feel with technology?• Low - do not use basic communication technology (e.g.,

do not use email).

• Some - use basic communication technology (e.g., email, internet pages).

• Medium - use most communication technology (e.g., comfortable with VOIP, commenting on webpages, instant messaging).

• Advanced - creates opportunities for communicating online (e.g., blogs, webpages, podcasts, video conferencing).

Connectivism

• Stephen Downes• George Siemens

A Virtual Convener

Constructivist Comfort

How much comfort do you feel with active learning?• Low - delivers information from teacher to student.

• Some - uses some active learning strategies to engage students within delivered information.

• Medium - provides frequent opportunities for students to explore predetermined frameworks.

• High - creates inquiry and discovery based classroom.

Constructivism

Practitioner Understanding

≠Theoretical Understanding

Collaborative Comfort

How often have you collaborated with other classrooms?• Low - first cross classroom collaboration.

• Some - collaborated 1-3 times with other classrooms.

• Medium - collaborated 4-6 times with other classrooms in different schools.

• Advanced - collaborated 7+ times with other classrooms in different schools.

Collaboration

Experiences Vary

BUTFrequency Matters

Matching Partners and Projects

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT HAS PRECEDED UNDERSTANDING

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