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Project ideas already in motion (online only)

More projects to consider (online only)

Connecting urban and indigenous children worldwide (online only)

Also, please review the following sites listed on the Teachers Without Borders website page: Global Collaborations (online only)

Recommended Reading:

Living Values education site includes bibliographies, resources, emphasizes diversity (online only)

Network of networks for global knowledge (online only)

Assignment 8: your global collaboration

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Assignment 8: Your Global Collaboration - Making a Plan

Part One

You and your students, along with your fellow teachers and their students, are being asked to participate in a global educationlearning exchange that will take place over three weeks. You can use the project links on the previous page as a source of inspiration or createsomething entirely new. Please fill in the following and send to your learning circle for feedback:

Objectives - Why did you choose this project? What is your learning objective? List the information/skill(s) to be learned.

Student groups - Assignment of roles; how group will conduct its work; how many times the group will meet and length of timefor each group session; what they are supposed to do each time they meet?

Process - What you will do to prepare students for this assignment; length of time for each of the group sessions; the environment for learning - preparation of the room.

Presentation&Evaluation - Determine in advance (and discuss with the class ) your criteria for a "successful"project; create a schedule for presentations - accountability and evaluation of the project; presentation skills: (clarity, artistry,compelling quality); how you will ensure that each student has made a contribution; how you will reward the group?

Part Two

• 1) Write a two-page Reflection Paper describing how you, your students, and your learning circle addressed each of the abovequestions; how it went during the three-week period (provide a summary of student reactions to this global collaboration project); andthoughts for enhancing the learning exchange.

Webquests - using the internet to connect globally

Definition

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by a student is drawn from the resources on theInternet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. WebQuests are designed to use students' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support students' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, andevaluation.

There are at least two levels of WebQuests that should be distinguished from one another:

Short-Term WebQuests

The instructional goal of a short-term WebQuest is knowledge acquisition and integration. At the end of a short-termWebQuest, a student will have grappled with a significant amount of new information and made sense of it. A short-term WebQuest is designed to becompleted in one to three class periods.