| Jerry | Date: Wednesday, 05/10/2011, 12:28 PM | Message # 1 |
 Ford Everest
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| Introduction to Collaboration
"From an acorn an oak tree grows"
Collaborative activities can start small, initially within the classroom and then extend to activities with local or global schools. To get started, the teacher must first get connected using common Web 2.0 tools. Next, choose short activities that develop basic Web 2.0 skills and digital citizenship.
When you begin collaboration, start small, be organised and have clear aims and structures. In addition, monitor student participation, be involved in the activity along with the students and provide feedback.
Begin with accessible, short-term interactions. More complex activities require more extensive planning, skills and an extended time-frame.
It is important to embed the activity into the curriculum and to use this opportunity to deliver the ITGS curriculum/syllabus. Collaboration activities or projects should be seen as an integral part of the curriculum, in other words use the technology to teach the ITGS concepts.
Collaboration and Local/Global considerations
- Local: Collaborators who are geographically closer provide more opportunity for synchronous communication and often cultural and linguistic differences can be minimized.
- Global: Collaborators who are geographically dispersed (eg cultural and linguistic differences or different time-zones) require more of an asynchronous approach. However, it is possible for collaborators to be in the same time-zone offering synchronous communication, but geographically distant with cultural and linguistic differences.
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