Collaboratory Collaborations:

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Collaboratory Collaborations Sponsored
Projects Staff Development in the Collaboratory
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Sponsored Projects in the Collaboratory

• The Collaboratory Project is a Northwestern
  University initiative developed to support
  educators in the use of Internet technologies in
  the K-12 classroom. (5 years old)
• The Collaboratory is the Northwestern
  Universitys laboratory for collaboration on the
  Internet in which teachers create and manage
  projects for their students. (2 years old)

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Sponsored Projects

• Collaboratory Sponsored Projects are Illinois
  standards-based projects
• They can easily be "shared" by teachers and their
  students
• Sponsored Projects may involve "experts" in a
  particular curricular or content area.
• They can be developed by Collaboratory teachers,
  associates, volunteers, or experts in any content
  area.
• Collaboratory Sponsored Projects are "supported"
  by Collaboratory staff, associates, and
  volunteers.

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Sponsored Projects

• A Sponsored Project can easily be "shared" by
  teachers and their students without having to
  create their own project in the Collaboratory.

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Sponsored Projects, 01-02

• Kid-Made Toys from Around the World
• Steps to Success
• Creating Science Fair Projects
• Broaden Your Horizons-Literature and Learning

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Kid-Made Toys from Around the World

• Presented by
• Sue Sherman-Martinez
• Julissa Chapa-Estrada, Eli Whitney Elementary
  School
• Michaeline Rojek, Lincoln Park High School

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Northwesterns Collaboratory Project
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Welcome to Kid-made Toys in the Collaboratory

• First Sponsored Project
• Over 350 students and 13 teachers from 3-7th
  grade
• The project was integrated throughout the
  curriculum
• Older students mentored younger students

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Integration of Curriculum and Real World Relevance

• Reinforced all areas of language arts reading,
  writing, speaking and listening.
• Covered areas in math, social studies and science
• Brought relevance to the recycling of common
  materials
• Relied on collaboration between students

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Overview of Activities

• The calendar provided a time frame for specific
  activities.
• These dates were fluid to allow for differing
  class times and extended lessons

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Survey of the Toys We Like

• Allowed students to view continual changes
• Allowed for higher order thinking using questions
  based on graphs
• Classroom graphs were also developed and discussed

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Researching Toys from Around the World

• Students chose categories based on questions
  posed in project and class
• Helped to reinforce understanding of categories

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World Play Toy Page

• WorldPlay Toys page was used to grab students
  and teachers attention and desire
• Also reinforced the knowledge of categories.

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World Play Toy Selections
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Posting Toys in MediaSpace
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Room 203, Eli Whitney
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Selected from Eli Whitney
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Selected from Eli Whitney
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Selected from Eli Whitney
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Selected from Lincoln Park
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Selected from Lincoln Park
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Selected from Jahn
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Selected from Jahn
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Selected from Jahn
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Impact of this project

• The teachers and students enjoyed this project
  and the toys they created.
• An atmosphere of technical skills and
  collaboration was developed
• Primary teachers are interested in joining this
  project when it starts up again in March
• Several teachers have expressed an interest in
  creating their own projects within the
  Collaboratory

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Steps to SuccessCreating Great Science Fair
Projects

• Presented by Marge Rappe and Gloria Pogofsky
• Jordan Community School and Norwood Park School

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What is Steps to Success?

• A web-based interdisciplinary unit integrating
  technology, science, math and language arts
• Aligned to Illinois Benchmarks
• Project portal for students to use

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Components of the Portal

• Survey Studio
• On-line Calendar
• Cybrary
• Internet Book Club
• MediaSpace
• Conferencing

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Survey Studio

• Pre-survey before the students begin the project
• Post Survey after students complete the project
• Data can be viewed immediately

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On-line Calendar

• Resource for students
• Due dates
• Science fair presentation dates

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Cybrary

• List of pre-selected websites to aid students in
• Selecting a topic for a science fair project
• Researching the topic
• Steps to successfully conduct the experiment
• Ideas on presentation

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Internet Book Club

• List of printed references related to science
  concepts and science fair

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MediaSpace

• Location where students work is displayed
• In the form of text, graphics, sound and/or video
  and video

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Conferencing and Messaging

• The ability to communicate about projects
• Either email
• Or real time

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Impact in the classroom

• The Cybrary gave students a wide variety of
  science fair topics to choose from and resources
  for research.
• MediaSpace contained examples which supported
  student topic decisions.
• MediaSpace examples gave parents an overall
  picture of what students were expected to do in a
  science fair.
• The Survey Studio survey gave students and
  teachers an overview of participant knowledge and
  experience.

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Broaden Your Horizons-Literature and Learning

• Presented by
• Sue Sherman-Martinez, Maria Gonzalez, Jody
  Kinner, Eli Whitney Elementary School

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Poetry
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Discussion
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Discussion
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MediaSpace
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MediaSpace
Morning Girl By Michael Dorris
Kidzilla
By Jorge P. 4th grade student
If I were a Taino I would like to be called
Kidzilla because it would be cool to have a name
like a movie monster. This name is right for me
because I like to see Godzilla movies.
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To Participate

• You need a Collaboratory account
  http//collaboratory.nunet.net/
• Click participate!
• Go to the Collaboratory Project website at
  http//collaboratory.nunet.net/sponsoredprojects20
  02/
• Check out the schedule and register!

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