Collaboration on the Internet

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Collaboration on the Internet

• Regina Royer
• Education Department
• Salisbury University
• Salisbury, Maryland

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Creating a Collaborative Project on the Internet

• Humble beginnings 1996
• Limited Success
• Focused Study
• Strategies for Success

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Purpose The students will develop

• decision making skills
• descriptive writing skills
• communication and interpersonal skills
• process writing skills
• global awareness

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Participating Schools

• Australia Argentina
• Austria Brazil
• Canada England
• France India
• Israel New Zealand
• Russia Spain
• South Africa Italy
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• USA

• California Oregon
• Delaware Rhode Island
• Florida Virginia
• Hawaii Washington
• Illinois West Virginia
• Kentucky Arizona
• Michigan Maryland
• Minnesota Maine
• Montana Mississippi
• New Jersey Nebraska
• New York North Carolina
• Ohio North Dakota
• Utah Texas

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Activities

• Introductions
• PreWriting
• Collaborations
• Sharing
• The Columbia River, Oregon

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Activities Introductions

• The Ups and Downs of Washington
• One of the ups is the place called The Space
  Needle. The neat parts about it are the food and
  the view. The view is of downtown Seattle, the
  piers, Pikes Place Market, and Tacoma. Speaking
  of Pikes Place, thats another up of Washington.
  Another up is that our sports teams are the best
  in the west. The Sonics made it all the way to
  the finals. Last year the Mariners made it to
  the finals. Well thats about it for the ups.
• Meeker Middle School, Tacoma, Washington

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Activities Introductions

• Gday mates. We are from Blayney, New South
  Wales, Australia and we are writing to YOU, the
  world. We are a computing class of years 8
  9s at Blayney High School. There are 16 in our
  class and only 4 being boys.
• Were an 8th grade class of international
  students. We come from many places such as New
  Caledonia, Canada, Switzerland, America, England
  and, of course, France. We have between 32-36
  hours of class per week. Our average day starts
  at 8 a.m and finishes at 5p.m except on
  Wednesdays and Saturdays when we finish at noon.
• Cite Internationale Stendhal, Granoble, France

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Activities PreWritingMini lessons

• Descriptive Writing
• details
• organization
• writing on location

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Activities Pre WritingSelection of site

• Place
• Grenette,
• Grenoble,
• France

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Activities Field Trip

• Rock Art
• Museum
• Phoenix,
• Arizona

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Activities Field Trip

• PreWriting
• on
• Location
• at the Pacific
• Garden Grove,
• California

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Activities Field Trip

• Taking Notes
• Letchworth State Park, Rochester, New York

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Prewriting Sjöängsskolan, Kalmar, Sweden
Teacher Lars Lindell

• We have now picked out the place to describe and
  write about. It will be the very old and famous
  castle in Kalmar. The castle is more than 800
  years, and with a lot of towers, rooms for kings
  and queens, and deep down the prison holes. After
  two discussions these are the words we forward
• Nouns moat, land bridge, stonewalls, castle,
  secret door, canons, paintings, towers, wooden
  floor, kings.
• Adjectives old, patterned, cold, big, worn,
  dark-coloured.
• Verbs fight, smell, kill, dance, guard, creek,
  make war, build

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Activities Collaboration The Writing Process

• Prewriting
• Individual
• Collaboration
• Sharing

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The Essays

• St Edward School, Louisville, Kentucky
• What do you imagine when you think of a horse
  race? When we think of a house race, we think of
  the Kentucky Derby and its home, Churchill Downs.
• Ort Ramot, Jerusalem, Israel
• The Old City of Jerusalem is an ancient and holy
  place for three religions - Christian, Muslim and
  Jewish. Many
• people live in the Old City and many come
  from all over the world to visit. We can see the
  city walls, the gates
• and the beautiful, shining gold and silver
  domes of the Old City from many viewpoints in
  Jerusalem.

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The View Through Our Eyes

• The market and surrounding area of
• Les Halles de Sainte Claire.
• Grenoble, France

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Sharing

• Listserv
• Hardcopy

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Sharing Web Pages
Through Our Eyes Web Pages
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The EvaluationParticipant Comments

• Fantastic messages...excellent participation
• Patti Weeg, Kidproj List Manager, Maryland
• Congratulations on such a great turnout.
• Lynne Sueoka, Technology Coordinator, Hawaii
• One of the most exciting projects Ive
  participated in.
• Lynne Sueoka, Technology Coordinator, Hawaii
• It gave me inspiration.
• Ann Buehler, Teacher, Ohio
• This project is a motivation builder.
• Sue Vail, Teacher, West Virginia

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Steps for Hosting an Internet Project

• Communication
• Sharing

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Preparation

• Create an activity
• design a purpose
• state objectives
• design unit activities
• Design a product
• decide how the results will be shared
• web pages
• hard copy

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Preparation continued

• Organize the timeline
• restrict the project to the smallest timeframe
  possible
• divide the activities into units of time that
  cluster in weeks
• create calendar timelines

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Preparation continued

• Consider internet issues
• find a vehicle for constant collaboration to
  occur
• limit the number of participants if necessary
• create a registration form

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Registration Form

• Topic
• Name of school
• Complete snail mail address
• Contact teachers name
• E-mail address
• Approximate age of students
• Number of students participating
• I wish to register...

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Posting

• Listservs
• IECC
• KIDPROJ
• Web sites
• Lightspans Global Schoolhouse

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Introducing

• Acknowledge registrations
• Post participants
• Create introductions for students
• Provide a forum for sharing
• Include graphics whenever possible

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Introducing

• Coffee House
• Create a forum for allowing teachers to get
  acquainted.
• Provide opportunities for teachers to exchange
  among themselves along the way

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Instructing

• Break the task into small steps
• Inform the audience of each task and its due date
• Make weekly contacts
• Provide a sample

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Instructing
Create a sample product

• The Pocomoke River Through My Eyes
• The headwaters of the Pocomoke River in Snow
  Hill, Maryland provide an exciting place to canoe
  during the summer months. Cypress trees line the
  shore, rising high overhead and providing canopy
  to the river below.

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Monitoring

• Allow for sharing of individual tasks along the
  way
• Create web pages
• Provide constant feedback

Great Job!
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Sharing

• Create certificates of completion
• Encourage graphics
• Send hard copies
• Post web pages

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Evaluating

• Distribute questionnaires
• Solicit comments

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Conclusion

• Time constraints
• Benefits

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Collaboration on the Internet

• Get connected!!