3 Series on Collaboration: I Will If You Do

Posted on October 18, 2007 
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Collaborative Project Ideas for the Language Classroom (and other classrooms – it’s all adaptable!)

I’ve written a couple of posts on collaboration and it was also the topic of my first podcast. So, to round it all off here are some resources and ideas for collaborative projects.

SOME GREAT COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES:

IDEAS:

  1. Teaching other classes some of the language you are learning. A great authentic audience task for your students!
  2. Assessing each other’s work. Your class could send their recorded reading to another class for assessment, or their writing etc.
  3. Sharing writing. A favourite is writing about a teddy or some other character and then sending it to the other school for them to write about it’s adventures.
  4. Sharing games – create a class games list between you and use Skype calls to hold games sessions.
  5. A collaborative research project, a Flat Classroom. Students could work in teams on 4 (2 from one school 2 from another), communicating through email and a wiki, and put together a research project on any given topic. Check out the link above to see what’s happening around the world with Flat classroom projects.
  6. Share artwork created in your LOTE room or other classrooms.
  7. Create online slideshows to share with VoiceThread. They could become an introduction to your project or another way of presenting a lesson to you partner classroom.

Here is a great example of a collaborative project. Voices Of The World was created by Sharon Tonner and the result of September’s Task was a group of Vokis (an avatar that you can add a voice recording to) recorded by students from all around the world. It is a great project and my kids had fun doing it. We’re looking forward to this months task which is singing our national anthem for the rest of the world! Love it! You can check out the Voices of The World Vokis here. If you’d like to join the Voices of the World ning network you can find it here.

So, get in to some collaboration with another class and let me know how you go! Stay tuned for results of a couple of collaborative projects I’ve got in mind…

Where in the world will you go?

To read more about collaboration projects and ideas you might like to check out these posts: A Virtual Tour at Midnight, Typing Furiously, and Talk Swap – webcams, Skype and 4 Chinese kids.

Also, check out the first episode of the technoLOTE podcast which is called Classroom Collaboration the Ning Way.

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