Cross-posted with the MACUL conference blog. The last session in the TWICE room today at the MACUL 11 Conference was with Roxanne Glaser of Whirlidurb, sharing how to participate in Monster Mayhem along with excellent tips for quality videoconferences. As usual, Roxanne modeled excellent presentation and teaching strategies! While we experienced a Monster Mayhem collaboration [...]
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Cross-posted with the MACUL conference blog. It’s Thursday afternoon and Danielle Letter is hosting a session in the TWICE room called Stories from the Classroom: Our First Year of Videoconferencing. We are videoconferencing with a class in Bridgeport-Spaulding and they are sharing about all the videoconferences they’ve done this year. Guess Who First the students [...]
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Welcome to my MACUL BYOL participants! The session is called Around the World in 80 Clicks (with thanks to Silvia Tolisano). Here is the link to many Skype resources. Handouts were: VC Continuum (handout .doc version or blog version with links) Skype How To Handout Collaborative VCs Wiki with lesson ideas Assignment: Please use the [...]
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Here are links to resources and projects mentioned in my Designing Quality Videoconference Projects hands-on session at MACUL 2011. Featured Projects EcoConversations MysteryQuest USA HistoryQuest5 MysteryQuest World HistoryQuest8 Collaboration Examples Collaborative VCs Wiki Sample Agendas Projects Booklet TWICE Resources TWICE Website Read Around the Planet RAP Flyer Collaborations Around the Planet CAPspace Flyer CAPspace Scavenger [...]
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Finishing up my 21st Century Communication Collaborations class, with some great lesson plans created by the teachers. One of the participants, Kristen Dow, from Mars Elementary, Berrien Springs Public Schools, used her Read Around the Planet videoconference as her project in the class. Her lesson plan is a great example of how to tie the [...]
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It’s been a great couple of weeks with Read Around the Planet 2011! We had 63 classes participate this year; and only a few of those are getting rescheduled. It’s been pretty busy, so I haven’t been able to blog too much of it; but I did capture some pictures and little snippets to share [...]
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The last three days we’ve been working with York Region District School Board in Ontario to share author Eric Walters between our schools. We’ve also shared it across Canada with other classes in Ontario and British Columbia as well. We split the author fee among all the schools participating. We’ve been collaborating like this for [...]
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Help! Can anyone help me find another 8th grade social studies class? Here’s what my teacher wants to do: Dates: February 22 – March 4 (M-F) (negotiable) 10:40 – 11:25 a.m. EST A Southwestern, rural Michigan eighth grade class, studying the Great Depression, would like to connect through Skype, with a class from a different [...]
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As many of you know, I’m currently teaching an online class – 21st Century Communication Collaborations. One of the participants in the class is doing Weather Buddies – a year long collaboration with a Dallas ISD class. She described a serendipity moment during their last VC: In our weather buddies vc my class had written [...]
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This is an update of a previous post from six years ago! Time to refresh! So, you want to connect with an international school for a videoconference. Now what do you do? Here’s how I find international partner classes for my teachers. First, think about times Before you even start looking for a partner, do [...]
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