cross-classroom collaboration (ecoo 2009)
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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
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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