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Distance Collaborations

A group for educators to talk about ideas, ask questions, share success stories, and actually plan for collaboration between schools.

Members: 400
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Collaborating for REAL Student Improvements!

As you visit/join this Distance Collaborations Group, you may want to give a few stats about yourself and your education position to let new/old group members know how they can collaborate with you.

Additionally, here's a terrific project where high school and college students can collaborate locally AND globally. There are infinite possibilities out there!

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Raymond Riley

Collaboration for Digital Media Projects 5 Replies

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Communities

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Ginger Lewman

When you first join, make sure... 60 Replies

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Ryan Folmer

High School World History Perspectives Project 7 Replies

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Jennifer Gleason

4th grade classes looking to Skype with an Expert outside of New York State 1 Reply

Started by Jennifer Gleason. Last reply by Katherine Bolman Jan 26.

Michelle Kester

Middle School Science Collaborators needed

Started by Michelle Kester Jan 20.

Dayna Laur

Immigration: A World Perspective 1 Reply

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Michele Lattanzio

Classroom collaboration interest 10th grade Literature and high school drama 4 Replies

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Bob Zenhausern Comment by Bob Zenhausern on December 3, 2009 at 9:19pm
The Enabling Support Foundation has initiated an international collaboration for classrooms throughout. We will match classes and provide ongoing support for projects ranging from general cultural exchange to specific projects to meet specific needs or for special needs students. Right now at least 15 classes from Morocco are interested in improving the English proficiency of students and classes in the Caribbean are being formed. You can see the initial development of the project and Register you class to become involved at www.enabling.org/drupal/teleeducation
Bob Zenhausern Comment by Bob Zenhausern on November 27, 2009 at 9:25am
Saidani, I may not have made myself clear. If your students are 16 to 19 they would match with younger students and act as Big Brothers. The match would be based on English proficiency. It would be expected that the collaborating classes which have English as a first language would have a higher English proficiency than students of the same age where English is not the primary language. The big brother approach lets your students interact with younger students as mentors because of their experience.
Saidani miloudi Comment by Saidani miloudi on November 27, 2009 at 8:18am
Thanks Bob for the project and invitation.But the partners' age may be a hindrence to understanding for better communication.We have students between 16 and 19 of age so they can't mix up nor match with older persons, I think.
Bob Zenhausern Comment by Bob Zenhausern on November 27, 2009 at 5:47am
The teachers in Morocco have started to express their interest. The Moroccan students are learning English as a second language and are would not match their age mates whose native language is English. The program will be developed as a Big Brother project where older Moroccan students will "mentor" younger students here but they will be conversing in English at a common grade level. The teachers will decide the nature of the collaboration between the students.

If you are interested, send you email and information about your class: age, grade level, goals. We will find matches and the teachers can then email about what they would like to do.
Saidani miloudi Comment by Saidani miloudi on November 27, 2009 at 1:29am
We're a group of Moroccan teachers looking for collaboration in lesson plan exchange, digital story telling project partnership/sharing.Happy AID LEKBIR that will begin tomorrow Saturday Nov. 28th
Tina Hudak Comment by Tina Hudak on November 26, 2009 at 9:00am
I am the Lower School librarian at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. In January I would like my book club which consists for 4th and 5th grade boys to communicate with another school - possibly New Zealand, Canadian or a Latin American country - to discuss reading books. If anyone might be interested, please e-mail me at thudak@cathedral.org. Thanks so much!
Mohammed Nour Comment by Mohammed Nour on November 25, 2009 at 4:09pm
Hello all,

I will soon be teaching EFL at a Prep Year program with a university in Saudi Arabia and am looking for a class to collaborate with my students. They will be around 17 or 18 years of age, with basic knowledge of English.
The one catch though is that I can really only partner with other male only classes due to cultural sensitivities.
If you or anyone else you know may be interested, please email directly at 'mhmd.anour@gmail.com'. Alternatively, I am on ePals where I can be reached at 'mnour@epals.com'.
Thanks in advance.

Mohammed
andrew bendelow Comment by andrew bendelow on November 25, 2009 at 8:12am
Professor Cobb,
Would your class be interested in working with my high school sophomores at our suburban Chicago school, part of a K-12 district? We would be interested in digital story-telling and distance collaboration, and I and my fellow teachers would be willing to explore working with your grad students on the development of online curricula. We have a workspace already http://wiki-land.wikispaces.com , but we could be doing more distance collaboration with it.
Thank you for your consideration,
andrew
Aries Cobb Comment by Aries Cobb on November 25, 2009 at 6:21am
Dear Bob,

Thank you.
Can we meet in Dimdim on December 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. eastern standard time? We can prepare for our panel discussion. Please let me know if this works for you. Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Aries Cobb
Bob Zenhausern Comment by Bob Zenhausern on November 25, 2009 at 5:36am
Aries, I have spoken to Khalil Zakari who is the spokeman for the Ed-Links Morocco ning. http://ed-links-morocco.ning.com about locating teachers who are interested in collaborating with other teachers or collaborating with your grad students.

Sign onto the Ed-links Morocco and say hello to Khalil.
 

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