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Building Learning
Communities
Projects for the Global
Classroom Connection
Dr. Howie DiBlasi
“Emerging Technologies Evangelist”
Digital Journey
[email protected]
Twitter: hdiblasi
www.drhowie.com
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Conference Links:
www.drhowie.com
Twitter: hdiblasi
e-mail: [email protected]
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Dr. Howie DiBlasi
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Extensive experience
Education field, (20 years)
Business leader, (10 years)
C.I.O. (14 years)
• “Vocational Teacher of the Year” for the
State of Arizona
• “Top Secondary Leaders in America”
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• "Pinnacle Award" for outstanding
Professional Development Programs
• I.S.T.E. as the “Best of the Best” for
outstanding Professional Development
Programs
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www.drhowie.com
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http://www.edutopia.org/magazine
• Edutopia is Support for Educational Reform
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Global Collaboration
Why ?
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•Skills
• Tools
• Projects
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Communication and Collaboration
• NETS: 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.
• Common Core: W.5.6.
• With some guidance and support from adults, use
technology, including the Internet, to
produce and publish writing as well as to
interact and collaborate with others.
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Numerous examples exist in the Common Core to encourage
collaboration and many are easily facilitated though blogs
and
social media.
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11 Things students learn when they
are working collaboratively?
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Leadership
Communication
Learn about cultures
Time management
Working together
Use web tools
Views of culture, economics, ecology, geography, literature, art,
and/or social awareness
8. Solve a problem with another student who has a completely
different background and experiences
9. Utilize their critical thinking skills
10. Provides competitive edge in regards to understanding global
issues
11. Become global citizens
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For more information check
these resources:
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Start Your Own Collaborative Global Project
Ongoing Global Projects You Can Join
Projects with a Science and/or Math
Focus
About Globalization
Technology and Instruction
Virtual Classrooms
Conference Call Guide.com is an excellent
resource for the virtual classroom.
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Using a backchannel:
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http://todaysmeet.com/
• Let’s check this out…..
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http://todaysmeet.com/nl3
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Type in your FIRST Name- CLICK JOIN
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Questions To Ask…
Your turn >>>>
Tell me about any collaboration
sessions or projects in your
school or district…
How do learning technologies improve student outcomes?
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Global Collaborative Projects
• http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Global_Collaborative_Projects.htm
• About Global Projects
• Teacher's Guide to International
Collaboration on the Internet
• Connecting Cultures: A Teacher's Guide to a
Global Classroom download as a pdf file
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Questions To Ask…
Your turn >>>>
Tell me about any collaboration
sessions or projects in your
school or district…
How do learning technologies improve student outcomes?
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But how do I make ….
• Connections
• Collaborations
• Communications
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Give Kids A Global Voice:
Globalize the Curriculum
http://www.epals.com/
Using Web 2.0 Tools
Social Networking
for Global
Collaborative
Learning
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ePals Education Network |
ePals.com
www.epals.com/Join
Collaborate with other Classrooms &
Educators Worldwide.
Free to Join!
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• Connecting
classrooms in 200
countries
• 20 million students
& teachers
www.epals.com/Join
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E-Pals
Project Search
Select a Country
Select a classroom from the list of profiles
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Student/Collaboration:
Project Overview
• Friendly letters with email
• Compared cultures
• Connect: Skype/Video Conf
• Completed “documentary”
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Project Search
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Find a project - Looking for a project you can join? Use the
powerful search tools on the left to find other ePals classrooms
seeking project partners, then submit a join request
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Select a
classroom
from the list
of profiles
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www.epals.com
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The Way We Are
En Español
http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DivID=TheWayWeAre_overview
• What makes me who I am?
• Collaborative learning
experience
• Learn about the daily lives
• Cultures
• Climates and geography
• Live in other regions of the
world.
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http://www.epals.com/projects/thewaywea
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Standards
• National Geography Standards
Places and Regions
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Standard 6: How culture and experience influence people's
perception of places and regions.
Human Systems
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Standard 10: The characteristics, distributions, and
complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
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Standard 12: The process, patterns, and functions of human
settlement.
National Education Technology Standards (NETS)
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Essential Questions
• How is my life similar to and different from
my ePal's life?
• How does the natural environment where
my ePal lives affect his or her life?
• What effect does the culture in my ePal's
region have on his or her life?
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The Way We Are
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What makes me who I am?
Collaborative learning experience
Learn about the daily lives
Cultures
Climates and geography
Live in other regions of the world.
• What is "The Way We Are"?
• http://www.epals.com/projects/thewayweare/
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Culminating Activity
• Students will create final digital
presentations about themselves and their
ePals reflecting an increased
understanding of the differences and
commonalities between their cultures, their
environments and their lives.
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Projects - Collaborations
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• The Way We Are
• Digital Storytelling
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• Holidays and Festivals
Around the World
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• Global Warming
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• Habitats
• Weather
• Natural Disasters
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• Water
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• Maps
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Collaboration across the Digital Divide:
Hello From Sao Paolo, Brazil
New York Students and their
ePals in Botswana
Louisiana and United Kingdom
Students from the Guangxi School, China
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Helpful links:
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Taking it Global for educators
Taking it Global
Global Education Ning group
Teachers without Borders
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
ePals
Instructional Technology Community Site
Speed of Creativity
Wikis
Blogs
Bridgit
Distance Learning
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Your turn…..
What tools are you
using to collaborate?
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Communication Skills
(Written-Oral-Presentation
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Finding the Right Tool
•4 Tools
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Glogster
Glogster.EDU
• Lesson ideas to foster creativity and
higher order thinking skills
• Teachers and students can create
interactive posters for research,
websites, presentations, reflection,
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Glogster
Glogster.EDU
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Gloster.edu Sample 4th Grade
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Use VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/
This is Brazil: http://voicethread.com/
• Language Channel http://voicethread.com/#q.b37780.i218912
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http://voicethread.com/#q.b45226.i236813
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LiveSlide
• Allows teachers to create or download
presentations and share with the entire
class
• Via ANY device, be it desktop, laptop,
tablet…even a smartphone.
• Teacher or student to annotate directly
onto any slide while the rest of the class
follows along on each of their own personal
devices
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LiveSlide https://liveslide.org/
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BoomWriter Offers Collaborative
Publishing for Kids
• http://boomwriter.com/
• Provide a safe online place in which
students could collaboratively construct a
story.
• Provides a story starter for a story and
students continue the story by writing
additional chapters.
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•Collaboration
Project Ideas
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This I Believe
• international project engaging people
in writing, sharing,
• the core values that guide their daily
lives
• short statements of belief
• http://thisibelieve.org/
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This I Believe
Thirty Things I Believe…
by 6 year old - Tarak McLain
I believe life is good.
I believe God is in everything.
I believe we're all equal.
I believe we can help people.
I believe everyone is weird in their own
way.
I believe hate is a cause for love.
I believe we should be generous.
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This I Believe…NPR
• Essays New and Old-Thirty Things I Believe
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• Tarak McLain's group celebrated their 100th day of class
• Some kids brought 100 nuts or cotton balls.
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• Tarak brought a list of 100 things he believes.
• Now a first-grader, Tarak shares his top beliefs
about God, life, nature and war.
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This I Believe Essay-Writing Guidelines
• Writing and submitting your own statement of
personal belief.
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• Tell a story: Be specific.
• Take your belief out of the events of your life.
• Consider moments when belief was formed or
tested or changed.
• Your own experience, work, and family, and tell of
the things you know that no one else does.
• Your story needs to should be real.
• Make sure your story ties to the essence of your
daily life philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs.
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This I Believe Essay-Writing Guidelines
• Be brief: Between 350 and 500 words. About three minutes
when read aloud at your natural pace.
• Name your belief: If you can’t name it in a sentence or two,
your essay might not be about belief. Also, rather than
writing a list, consider focusing on one core belief, because
three minutes is a very short time.
• Be positive: Please avoid preaching or editorializing. Tell us
what you do believe, not what you don’t believe. Avoid
speaking in the editorial “we.” Make your essay about you;
speak in the first person.
• Be personal: Write in words and phrases that are
comfortable for you to speak. We recommend you read your
essay aloud to yourself several times, and each time edit it
and simplify it until you find the words, tone, and story that
truly echo your belief and the way you speak.
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Shoeless and Bark
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Opened for registration: :)
If you wish to register for this project, please click HERE.
• http://projectsbyjen.com/Projects/snb2012/2012snbhome.html
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• Join with classrooms around the USA and
CANADA
• Celebrate the 210th anniversary of the
Lewis and Clark expedition!
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Who is your
hero?
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My Hero Project
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=marco_torres
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/index.asp
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• Objectives:
1.Describe the characteristics of a hero.
2.Recognize the hero in a story.
3.Name heroes in their lives and express
why those people are heroes to them.
4.Use a computer to access the Internet, find
and read stories on the MY HERO
Website.
5.Distinguish between a hero and a
celebrity.
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The Digital Hero Book project
http://www.digitalherobook.org/
• inter-classroom exchange of personal and
positive stories by youth from around the
world
• focus on their strengths and “hero” qualities
• digital storytelling with online group
collaboration
• develops literacy, digital media skills and
cross-cultural awareness.
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The Best Part of Me
• Students will identify a positive physical feature of
themselves.
• Students will work in pairs to take part in an online
writer's workshop.
• Students will create a descriptive poem about their
favorite feature.
• Students will create a digital photo of the physical
feature.
• Students will create a Photo Story Frame about
their favorite feature.
• Students will record the audio of their poem for
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Photo Story about their favorite feature.
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Journey North
• Web Site:
• http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
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Journey North
• engages students in a global study of
wildlife migration and seasonal change
• . K-12 students share their own field
observations
• classmates across North America
• track migration patterns of monarch
butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping
cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other
birds and mammals
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Building Learning
Communities
Projects for the Global
Classroom Connection
Dr. Howie DiBlasi
“Emerging Technologies Evangelist”
Digital Journey
[email protected]
Twitter: hdiblasi
www.drhowie.com
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