Communication+and+Collaboration

This page correlates with the NETS - Student Standard stated below:

2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

(Post your activities and lessons here that fall under this standard.)

I am having my students complete a physics wiki. Students in different classes work collaboratively to explain the information in the chapter. This comes out looking like a physics text. Next year we will take this wiki and add to it by including applications of the concepts. I will also structure my wiki differently. Instead of asking students to post by chapter, I will give them themes to contribute to. For example we will have the areas of Motion, Force, Energy, etc. Here is the link to my wiki .(Ben)

Another activity my students are working on is to link the terms from each chapter using Mindomo. Students identify the key terms and draw out the relationships using a concept map software. [|Mindomo] is online and collaborative allowing multiple students to work on the same file from different locations. (Ben)

I used voicethread during my poetry unit. My students had to first write their own poems and then post them under their accounts on the voicethread website. After each student did this, they had to invite three other students, in the same class, to view their poem and comment on it. So, the students took their pictures in photobooth, and then either commented on their peers' poems by speaking or writing. After we worked on this for two days, the students were able to open up their poems and see the comments left for them. (Ashley)

Final Review Vodcasts - I've posted my final review guide on a wiki and asigned parts of the guide to specific groups of students. Each group must answer the assigned studyguide questions, use "Keynote" to construct a presentation, record descriptive narration to go with the presentation, export their presentation as a Quicktime file, and upload the Quicktime file of the group's presentation on the wiki page, by the appropriate section of the review guide. (Heather)

Andrea: As I mentioned in my email: check out [|Mindmeister] for a great way to have students create concept maps collaboratively. It is free and easy to set up with student emails, ie: gaggle.