Create a Collaboration
Activity
Please read this entire page before beginning
this project!
50 Points
Collaboration on the Internet
is the purposeful 2-way sharing or exchanging of information between individuals
and/or groups through the web. Collaboration is an
important concept that addresses many issues in our 21st century global society.
Since many educational web sites
are dedicated to sharing information with teachers and students, the
teacher's job is to make an informed decision about the quality and validity of
this information before it is given to the students.
Tools for collaboration include Email, Listserves (also known as mailing lists and mailrings), Newsgroups (also known as Usenet), Chat, Audio and Video Conferencing, Web Forums, and Online Collaboration Tools.
The purpose of this assignment is to explore the concept of WEB collaboration for both you and your students. Your mission is to develop a lesson plan in which your students collaborate and share information through the Internet. The lesson plan should be in a web page format on your web site and saved as "collaborationlp.html"
Web site resources for collaboration can be found at: http://teacherworld.com/collaborationlinks.html
Your activity should meet the following requirements:
Communication should be from your classroom to another classroom or person through the Internet.
The other classroom for collaboration should not be a classroom in your building or school district.
Information from the collaboration should be integrated into the curriculum.
The collaboration should involve every student in the class.
Your collaboration lesson plan should have a link to and from your home page.
You must follow the lesson plan format at http://teacherworld.com/lessonplanformat.html
Please note that this collaboration activity could also be developed as a NetQuest
As with any other assignment, to receive credit for this assignment, no technical, grammatical, or misalignment errors will be accepted. Please check your work!
Following are guidelines for completing this assignment.
1. First, visit the following site:
Teacher's Guide to
International Collaboration on the Net
http://www.ed.gov/print/teachers/how/tech/international/guide.html
This is an excellent
government resource on collaboration. The site provides many resources and
examples of collaboration. The section titled "10.
Planning and Starting a New
Project" will give basic information on how to
get started.
2. Next, visit the links at:
Teacherworld.com's Resources for Collaboration
on the Internet
http://teacherworld.com/collaborationlinks.html
As with an other assignment in this course, you need to spend time gathering information and resources before you begin. The more time that you spend on research, the easier you will be able to generate ideas and create a high quality activity that will excite you and your students.
3. Consider these questions:
4. Finally, develop your activity using the lesson plan format at http://teacherworld.com/lessonplanformat.html