Creating & Connecting

Online Collaborative Projects

To infinity & beyond....!

What is the purpose?

Taking teaching, learning and communication beyond geographical boundaries.

Creating your own community... or joining someone else’s community.

'The social sciences learning area is about how societies work and how people can participate as critical, active, informed, and responsible citizens.' (The New Zealand Curriculum, 2007)

Rock Our World

Start within your class.

Global Communities

The Flat Stanley Project is a penpal activity- but it's far

more than that, too. By sending a Flat Stanley it's as if the senders and the recipients have a mutual friend- a little flat guy they can both talk

about.

Technicolour Collaboration

Where could your cluster start?

Store your collaborative projects on your cluster wiki

Start with 2 students from each school

Students decide on a project as a test eg – creating a collaborative piece of music, collaborative poem, story, image

Students decide on a project as a test eg – creating a collaborative piece of music, collaborative poem, story, image

Here’s how you do it....

Collaborative Story

Students use GoogleDocs to collaborate on a story, issue or whatever you want.

Music

Using Audacity is a great place to start

School (1) sets up the first track & sends onto school 2 via and

onwards.