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Flat World- Collaboration in a 21st Century Classroom

Skype

• Free Video Conferencing• Get experts to speak with your students.• Invite authors to share about their books.• Chat with pen pals from around the world. • Present content that you have learned to pen

pals or other classrooms.

Wikis

• Post problems and have the students discuss how they would solve them.

• Have book discussion or discussion based on content covered in class.

• Display student digital products.• Post resources for additional learning.

VoiceThread

• Students can make reports.• Solve math problems in their own way and see

how other solve them.• Share something they learned about a

particular topic.• Give a book review and review other book

reviews to make a decision about what to read.

EPALS

• Connect your class with pen pals around the world.

• Search for collaborative projects that other teachers post.

• Post your own projects to have other classrooms participate.

National Math Trail

• Take math beyond your four walls.• Make real-life connections.• Let your student’s learn about other

communities.• Let them share their thinking with other

students around the country.

Tikatok

• Create classroom books about content you have learned.

• Make a classroom book of poetry.

• The books can be published and printed has hard covers for less than $20.

Storybird

• Students can write stories using illustrations provided by artist.

• They can send it to other’s and have them post comments or add to the story.

• The story can be embedded.

Xtranormal

• Free• Students can create movies with skits they

have written.• They can change angles.• The voices can be a bit robotic.

Glogster

• Digital Poster• Embed Video• Includes Audio• Can have multiple contributors.

Techno Spuds

• List projects that integrate technology with other content areas.

• Classrooms around the world are encouraged to participate.