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Permalink Reply by Nick Senger on February 28, 2010 at 11:40pm

Hey everyone! I teach Language Arts to 13-14 year-olds at a Catholic school in Spokane, Washington, USA. I'm also the technology coordinator and vice principal, and I'm looking to connect my twenty-one students with another classroom. I've never done a collaborative project and would love some guidance and mentoring. Our school has iMacs and Macbooks, digital cameras, and document cameras. I'm pretty tech-savvy as an individual but still finding my way when it comes to integrating technology into my teaching. Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

Permalink Reply by AJ Juliani on July 7, 2010 at 5:58pm

Hi Nick, do you cover human rights any time during the school year? If you do, Project: Global Inform could be a great way to collaborate with us over on the east coast. Let me know if you do!

Permalink Reply by Drew McAllister on March 2, 2010 at 7:20pm

Hi, all! I'm a tech integration specialist for a suburban school district in St. Louis, Missouri. I'm an instructional tech advisor for our foreign language and fine arts coordinators here, so I'd be most interested in any distance collaborative projects that have a language or fine art component in them.

Our schools (middle and high) host classes in French, German, Japanese, Latin and Spanish. Chinese will be added next year.

I'm looking forward to becoming acquainted with the group!

Permalink Reply by Rachael Horst on March 6, 2010 at 10:24am

Hello! I am a graduate student at WVU working on my last semester of school. For part of my contract I'm student teaching in Germany and connecting my old PDS (the place where I did my student teaching) to the German Realschule I'm about to start at. We're using Google applications to collaborate and I wanted to learn more about collaboration and possibly get some ideas for further development of this project.

Permalink Reply by Ryan Swank on July 4, 2010 at 7:27pm

I'm a middle school English / Language Arts teacher in Western Maine. I've taught 6th grade the past 4 years but next year will be working with 7th and 8th graders who have struggled academically. My goal is to create experiences that will engage them and get them to read and write as much as possible.

I have a few thoughts on ways I'd like to collaborate with other classrooms. I'm planning on having students use VoiceThread to start discussions on some of the readings we will explore this year (still TBD). Perhaps we could pair up with another classroom to read a common online recreational text and share comments in Voicethread. My state's virtual library, Maine Marvel, has full text for high-interest publications such as Rolling Stone, Field and Stream, and Sports Illustrated. Our students could, for instance, made a PDF of a favorite passage, share their thoughts, and invite comments.

My students also write in Google Docs, and I would welcome opportunities to exchange peer feedback that way.

I look forward to exploring the possibilities!

Permalink Reply by AJ Juliani on July 7, 2010 at 5:38pm

Hi all - this group sounded like the perfect place to collaborate with other teachers about my new non-profit organization- Project Global Inform (project-inform.org). I've also set up a group for PGI on Classroom 2.0, so feel free to join if you are interested in learning more.

Along with PGI, I've also been a teacher in the Flat Classroom Project this past year, with over 70 of my students participating, creating, and collaborating with students from Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia and in the US (New Jersey and Vermont). It was a huge success and my students loved it. Looking forward to collaborating with all of you!

Permalink Reply by Wendy Melnick on July 8, 2010 at 10:13am

Greetings. I am a grade 10 - 12 teacher of Media Arts in Hamilton Ontario. i am looking for a class to collaborate with on a media project. The Media Arts classes work in a mac lab and learn to create wikis, blogs, podcasts, short films, documentaries, commercials, posters, brochures, banners, business cards and stop frame animations (we also produce the yearbook with a DVD). We are able to take any content and make a multimedia product.
I was thinking of a project where kids could conference about the project, set up a timeline, parameters, objectives etc, then connect on a regular basis as the project moves forward. I have done this with a university level history class, where they supplied the content and my students produced a documentary and web site based on this.
Do I have any interest? It could be a science, math, history, civics etc class - we can handle any content. We have both Skype and iChat. I would like to start either in September or February.

Permalink Reply by Wendy Melnick on July 8, 2010 at 10:14am

Greetings. I am a grade 10 - 12 teacher of Media Arts in Hamilton Ontario. i am looking for a class to collaborate with on a media project. The Media Arts classes work in a mac lab and learn to create wikis, blogs, podcasts, short films, documentaries, commercials, posters, brochures, banners, business cards and stop frame animations (we also produce the yearbook with a DVD). We are able to take any content and make a multimedia product.
I was thinking of a project where kids could conference about the project, set up a timeline, parameters, objectives etc, then connect on a regular basis as the project moves forward. I have done this with a university level history class, where they supplied the content and my students produced a documentary and web site based on this.
Do I have any interest? It could be a science, math, history, civics etc class - we can handle any content. We have both Skype and iChat. I would like to start either in September or February.

Permalink Reply by Brian Bufkin on July 25, 2010 at 8:11pm

Hi, I'm Brian. I've been teaching 6th grade technology on a trimester system (I rotate kids every 12 weeks). In that 12 week period I had a pretty tight timeline. I use projects exclusively in class and have done a lot of collaboration with other teachers in my building. I'm going to be starting a new job teaching several different semester long classes (some middle school and some high school) in September. I don't have a handle on my classes, yet, but I really want to include some off site collaborations. I'm interested in collaborative writing and storytelling. I'm looking at the Global Virtual Classroom clubhouse and One Day on Earth, but want to explore more options.

Permalink Reply by J.K. Isbell on August 15, 2010 at 2:58pm

Hello. I have joined this discussion to look for ideas to share with K-6 teacher education students. I've already found lots of ideas for my own classroom and ideas I hope my students will someday put to use in their classrooms.

Permalink Reply by Tom Lucas on August 30, 2010 at 12:36pm

Hi All!

A brief introduction...my name is Tom Lucas and I am an Associate Course Director at Full Sail University. I teach in the Education Media Design and Technology MS program.

Currently, my greatest interest is in the application of technology in cross-cultural education. If you are currently involved in a project like this, or plan to do so, or are a part of an organization that has this focus, please tell me all about it.

I have been studying various approaches, and I am especially interested in those that are low cost (or better yet, free). It is my goal to facilitate and connect educators and technology at a global level in the hopes of promoting greater understanding and peace.

I look forward to talking with you.

Regards,

Tom

Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Bergman on September 2, 2010 at 7:46pm

Hi! I am a high school math teacher in Kansas. I am looking to get ideas for integrating technology into math classes. Any level would be fine, but I would prefer Algebra II through Calculus. I have some ideas, but more is always better! :)

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