Collaborative Tools for Global Communication & Reflection

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Chris Roche @techmeetsedJason Graham @jasongraham99

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Who we are

Jason Graham Chris Roche

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Where are you in the world?

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Overview

This session will incorporate tools that have practical applications in the classroom for teachers who wish to share, collaborate and learn in a global community.   

Tools enhance student learning

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Aims

• Discuss how web tools can be used to enhance student learning

• Share understanding of what it means to reflect in a digital world

• Try out different tools

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Workshop Wiki

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What is a collaborative web tool?

What collaborative tools mean to us

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Collaborative tools

• Twitter • Twiducate• Wallwisher• Voicethread• Symbaloo• Glogster• Bitstrips • GoogleDocs

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Focus Question 1

What do 2.0 collaboration tools mean to you?

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Focus Question 2

How an you use online collaboration tools effectively? What are some

issues and challenges?

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 Example # 1 Twitter

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SExample # 2 Symbaloo

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Focus Question 3What are some issues that migh arise whe communicating and collaborating

globally?

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Focus Question 4How is web collaboration different from other types of collaborative

methods?

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Example # 3 VoiceThread

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Example # 4

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Focus Question 5

• How can global collaboration encourage global citizenship?

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Example #5

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Last words

• Tools enhance and advance student learning

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