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WILD!
About Video Conferencing
Crazy Challenges Madcap Collaboration
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Collaborative Projects
What are they?
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Collaborative Projects

• Relevant to curriculum
• Students engaged
• Includes a problem or challenge

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Collaborative Projects

• Includes opportunities for students to present or
  share
• Includes PRE-conference activities
• Suggests POST-conference activities

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Generating a Project

• Start with curriculum
• Format for high-level thinking
• Beg, borrow steal

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Katy ISD Challenges

• American History Challenge
• Texas Trivia Challenge
• Math Marvels
• Landmark Challenge
• Vocabulary Ventures

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Katy ISD Collaborations

• Pen Pals
• Poetry Festival
• 100th Day
• Storytelling
• Mascot Mania

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American History Challenge

• Name 4 of the 5 Great Lakes.
• Name two reasons people choose to settle in the
  13 colonies.

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Texas Trivia Challenge

• Who is Houstons famous television doctor?
• What was the battle cry of the Texans at the
  Battle of San Jacinto?

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Tile Totals

• Jeremy is helping his dad lay new tiles on their
  kitchen floor.
• The kitchen floor is 8 feet wide and 12 feet
  long.
• The tiles are 4-inch by 4-inch squares.
• How many tiles will Jeremy and his dad need to
  tile their kitchen?

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HINT
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Hint 2
1 foot 12
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1 Square Foot
Tile
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Tile Totals

• Jeremy is helping his dad lay new tiles on their
  kitchen floor.
• The kitchen floor is 8 feet wide and 12 feet
  long.
• The tiles are 4-inch by 4-inch squares.
• How many tiles will Jeremy and his dad need to
  tile their kitchen?

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Landmark Challenge Part 1

• Man-made
• On an island located near one of the 13 original
  colonies
• Taller in feet than ten 10s
• QUESTION?

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Landmark Challenge Part 2

• A gift from France
• Includes a poem
• Designed by Bartholdi and Eiffel
• QUESTION then ANSWERS

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Welcome to our Katy ISD Poetry Festival
Playing with words
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Cadavre Exquis

• Article (A, An, The facilitator will provide)
• Adjective
• Noun
• Adverb
• Pretense Verb
• Article (A, An, The facilitator will provide)
  
• Adjective
• Noun
• Prepositional Phrase

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Cadavre Exquis

• OKE Adj Verb Prep. Phrase Adverb Noun
  Noun Adj.
• PE Noun Adj. Adj. Verb Prep. Phrase
  Adverb Noun
• JHE Adverb Noun Noun Adj. Adj. Verb
  Prep. Phrase

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Social Studies

• The dangerous oxen joyfully carrya rocky coal
  mine under the hot, hot sun.
• A hard soldier slowly rides thebrutal Indian in
  the summer.
• The fluffy hemlock harshlyfights the Navajo
  wagonacross the sunny plains.

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Poetry Cafe
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How do I do it?

• Define the project
• Announce/Advertise
• Collect participants
• Finalize schedule
• Follow-up Feedback

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WILD!
About Video Conferencing
Linda McDonald Instr. Tech. Facilitator