Articles On Ongoing Professional Development development programs that provide classroom teachers with Inform and Empower An online network started by opportunities and close collaboration with colleagues http://www.glef.org/php/morearticles.php?id=238
NEA: NEA Today Online to work in a school that emphasized staff collaboration. on that researchbased information in the classroom. Partner Up The IDEA Partnerships, funded by the http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0301/firstfiveyears.html
Extractions: January 2003 Cover Story News Learning Departments Students with disabilities need resources and supportand so do their teachers. W hen Drew Houlihan entered his classroom his first year of teaching, he thought he was prepared to meet the needs of all his students. He was assigned a part-time classroom assistant and he had only 23 students in his class. But soon after his first week, "My confidence dropped and my vision for my classroom had to be adjusted," says Houlihan, a second-grade teacher at A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina. "Eight of my students received special education services and were pulled out of my classroom at least four days a week. I needed to keep updated on my students' progress, and I wanted to collaborate on strategies." Adequate time for planning and collaboration is critical when working with special needs students. All classroom teachersbut beginning teachers especiallyneed time to adapt materials for students who learn differently, to communicate with parents about student progress, and to collaborate with other staff members about appropriate strategies.
EDN 506/COLLABORATION IN THE CLASSROOM WEBLIOGRAPHY Teaching Special Education for the Inclusive classroom. web site is an online textbook written essential characteristics of successful collaboration and best http://medsped.soe.umd.umich.edu/killu/edn506webliography.htm
Extractions: EDN 506 COLLABORATION IN THE CLASSROOM WEBLIOGRAPHY COLLABORATION RESOURCES With the abundance of information available over the Internet, finding appropriate and useful sites can be time consuming and challenging. The graduate students in the Winter, 2002 Collaboration in the Classroom course at the University of Michigan-Dearborn have located, reviewed and annotated dozens of great sites related to the area of COLLABORATION IN THE CLASSROOM!!! It's all about learning from one another, sharing resources, and communicating effectively. All of the sites listed below have great strategies and resources for general and special educators to help them provide the most effective instruction to all students. ENJOY!!! The following websites were compiled and annotated by PAULINE BANDLOW: AREA: Collaboration TITLE: NorthWestern Regional Educational Laboratory LOCATION: http://www.nwrel.org/cfc/frc/collabindex.html AUTHOR/OWNER: North Western Regional Educational Laboratory CONTACT: Webmaster@nwrel.org This is a site designed with activities and tips for the persons involved in partnerships, such as team collaboration in the school setting. This site focuses on the idea that collaborations are constantly changing views, goals, and people but that there is still a core viewpoint to the team. This site has activity ideas to use as tools in developing a strong working partnership among coworkers. Threads include: Organizational activities, Vision building tips and activities, Communication tips and activities, and Exploring Diversity tips and activities. They are easy to follow and insightful. These could be incorporated into any form of partnership/team setting. A great site for anyone trying to improve collaboration among employees/coworkers.
Georgia State University PT3 Achievements are modeling the use of technology in the classroom. will begin putting their core courses online so as to A. Project goal To increase the collaboration of in http://itc.gsu.edu/pt3/achievements_99-00.htm
Extractions: Our pre-service teachers completed an assessment that included questions concerning their own level of technology use and comfort as well as their perceptions of technology as a learning tool, and their beliefs as to its relative importance. They were then given the same surveys at the end of the semester and a comparative study was done. The same surveys were sent to recent graduates for a comparative study, to see if we are making a difference. When the evaluation was conducted:
A. Nadine Burke at least two of the instructors online office hour that humanities courses have a collaborative component in teach in a traditional setting, my classroom is a http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf97/pres/burke.html
Extractions: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND I began exploring the Internet in February, 1994, by joining various professional discussion lists and learning to navigate through gopher. At that time, my most rewarding experiences were the lively and informative discussions that occurred on various lists. I am not sure on what list I first encountered the idea of teaching composition over the Internet; however; the idea immediately interested me. How better to improve student writing but to have them write? I researched various Internet-delivered composition courses for nearly two years, and in the Winter, 1996 semester, I offered College Composition II, the second required composition course in our college sequence over the Internet. My first attempt at college composition online met with marginal success. I had fourteen students begin the course, and only five finished. At first, I thought that incorporating a synchronous chat element would help students feel a sense of community with others in the course. In the spring semester, I added optional IRC sessions where the students and I met to discuss the readings and the issues in the course. Twenty-two of twenty-seven students successfully completed the course. Initially, I thought that students built a community through these chats; however, after reading course evaluations and talking with students about their experiences online, I realized that it wasn't so much IRC chats that I organized which kept students motivated, but the ones that they organized to complete the few, and loosely structured, collaborative assignments. These assignments were the most popular and successful.
Deakin University - Website Templates the more real classroom experience of 2002) Educational partnerships online Global collaborative MIT Academic Computing online collaboration Resources. http://www.deakin.edu.au/teachlearn/cases/case03.htm
Extractions: Click on the microphone to hear the entire case study or select relevant sections from the text below. [ AUDIO TRANSCRIPT As a 2003 Online Teaching and Learning Fellow, Elizabeth Stacey , Senior Lecturer in the School of Scientific and Developmental Studies in Education in the Faculty of Education, focussed on moving from the FirstClass online teaching environment to Deakin Studies Online (DSO).
Extractions: hkinnie@unb.ca Abstract The Spirit of Democracy project began in the summer of 2000. The project aims to strengthen the commitment to democratic ideals and institutions in Russia. The objective of the project is to enhance the capacity of civic educators to develop and sustain a dynamic and vibrant program of citizenship education. This goal is being met through supporting teachers in Canada and Russia by providing online resources and training that will assist them in engaging their students in a thoughtful consideration of the ideas that shape democratic societies. We live in a new and exciting time. Boundaries between countries and continents are fading, and developments in information technologies and interconnectivity are facilitating the spread of democracy. Web media, by its nature is the most democratic type of modern media and is ideally suited for conveying the "spirit of democracy ". The Web also serves as a unique source of "live" information by providing hypertext links to government organizations, international organizations, educational Web sites, and online magazines. The pedagogical approaches adapted by the project include blended learning, situated learning, and creative use of Web media to effectively teach democracy on the Web.
Global Internet Collaborative Projects with project description, of excellent online projects. can find connections with other classroom email resource for finding on-going collaborative projects. http://members.tripod.com/exworthy/collabproj.htm
Extractions: powered by FreeFind Tips for Developing Collaborative Projects Implementation of a Global Internet Project - Here is the information needed for planning, implementing, and assessing an Internet project. Telecollaborate - Wow, this great site provides tips on designing, developing, and refining collaborative project. Find tons of ongoing projects for you to join, organized by subject! Knowledge Integration Environment - This site provides educational uses of the Internet for middle and high school instruction. Explore partnerships, curriculum and chat with other instructors here. CUseeMe Schools - Here is a place to find other schools who use video conferencing technology. Find CUseeMe technology information and meet other students. back to top Collaborative Project Collections Headbone Derby - Great for elementary schools, this is a listing of online adventure projects in different subject areas, designed to teach Internet research skills. Collaborative Projects - This is a nice collection of annotated links to varied projects across the curriculum.
Extractions: Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home ENC Features ENC Focus Past Issues ... Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom Search the Site More Options Classroom Calendar Digital Dozen ENC Focus ... Ask ENC Explore online lesson plans, student activities, and teacher learning tools. Find detailed information about thousands of materials for K-12 math and science. Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. Virtually every national standards document, every state framework, and every local set of standards calls for fundamental changes in what and how teachers teach. Read about ways to use the standards mandated in your school to improve your practiceto help you teach in your standards-based classroom. This page provides access to the full text of all articles in the print version of the magazine. Some articles have been enhanced for this electronic version, and the list of theme articles has been organized by content rather than reflecting the layout of the print version. This electronic version has other benefits. Live links are provided for all web sites mentioned.
Extractions: Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home Web Links Professional Resources Online Classes for Teachers Search the Site More Options Classroom Calendar Digital Dozen ENC Focus ... Frequently Asked Questions Find detailed information about thousands of materials for K-12 math and science. Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. Sites featuring professional development that can be conducted and experienced in an online setting. These generally require registration and may include assignments that are carried out in the classroom. Learning math: number and operations This Internet site offers a college-level online mathematics course designed to teach concepts involving numbers and operations to teachers of elementary and middle school. The site focuses on the relationships among numbers and operations and attempts to engage teachers through video lessons, problem-solving activities, and online demonstrations.
Untitled Document these experiences extend traditional classroom instruction Schools online understands that teachers must first In these featured collaborative projects, teachers http://www.schoolsonline.org/whatwedo/cprojects.htm
Extractions: Stories Resources ... Newsletters Schools Online collaborative projects create and support partnerships between people and institutions internationally, utilizing the power of the Internet to work together for the purpose of accomplishing a common objective. It is our hope that these experiences extend traditional classroom instruction. Schools Online understands that teachers must first develop their own capabilities to use technological tools for teaching and learning before transferring these skills to their students. In these featured collaborative projects, teachers' growth is fostered through technical skill building, professional development and project design. In many cases, the project objectives and activities are mapped to the curriculum that the teachers must teach. Through these and other projects, Schools Online aims to increase the attention to and understanding of using the Internet for project-based learning. It is our belief that this type of education will greatly expand students' horizons and strengthen their capacity to learn.
Effective Strategies For The Online Classroom In a truly collaborative learning process, concerns about effective strategies for the online classroom, San Francisco a masters degree completely online and an http://itlearningspace-scot.ac.uk/courses/keynotes/module1/main.cfm
Extractions: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom a keynote presentation for the OTIS e-workshop presented by Rena M. Palloff, Ph.D. and Keith Pratt, Ph.D. Entering the Online Classroom The online classroom is a potentially powerful teaching and learning arena in which new practices and new relationships can make significant contributions to learning. In order to successfully navigate the power of this medium in education, faculty must be trained not only to use technology, but also to shift the ways in which they organize and deliver material. This shift can maximize the potential for learners to take charge of their own learning process and can facilitate the development of a sense of community among the learners. That learning community can and should be the vehicle through which the course is delivered. The shift to online learning poses enormous challenges to instructors and their institutions. Many faculty and administrators believe that the cyberspace classroom is no different from the face-to-face classroom and that approaches used face-to-face will surely work online. Many further believe that all that is needed to successfully teach online is to "convert" the course material. We believe, however, that when the only connections we have to our students is through words on a screen, we must pay attention to many issues that we take for granted in the face-to-face classroom (Palloff, R. and Pratt, K., p. xiv). It is our best practices that must follow us into the cyberspace classroom and those practices are the basis for what we term "electronic pedagogy," or the art of teaching online.
EPALS Classroom Exchange The online youth companion to the Machel Review and the What collaborative projects have you worked on Look below to see how one Kindergarten classroom is using http://www.epals.com/newsletters/april2002/
Extractions: ePALS Essentials Home Join ePALS Find Classrooms Check Email ... Products and Services Channels Teachers Higher Education Parents Students ePALS is the world's largest online classroom community and leading provider of student-safe email, connecting over 4.4 million educators and students through classrooms profiles. Members from classrooms in 191 countries use ePALS' free online collaborative technology. In This Edition: Our Sponsors What's New Cool Projects, Cool Ideas! Coming Soon New Partners Education News This month's sponsors: Save hours of preparation time with an online textbook, that can be photocopied, based on Reuters news stories. Updated daily, these resources will make your teaching fresh and rewarding and empower your students to think and communicate globally. Click below to get a FREE ready-to-use Instant Lesson now! http://www.english-to-go.com/freeresource/index.cfm?rc=219 Internet World has been providing solutions to leading technology companies for ten years. Make us YOUR solution this spring, at Internet World Spring 2002, April 22 - 26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Register for conference packages and FREE exhibit hall admission at the world's largest event dedicated to e-business and Internet technology! Please visit us at the ePALS Booth #483. We look forward to seeing you there! Visit http://www.internetworld.com/registerspring
Extractions: Other Articles This Week ... Technology Curriculum Article C U R R I C U L U M A R T I C L E Looking for ways to introduce technology into your classroom without losing valuable teaching time? Look no further! Education World has found ten terrific on-line projects to incorporate into your curriculum. There's no doubt about it: To compete academically today, and economically tomorrow, your students need to know how to use, and make use of, computer technology. Many teachers made aware of that imperative by in-service workshops, administrative pressure, and parental concern steal valuable curriculum time to engage their students in on-line technology projects. But is that really necessary?
Television Watch Online from Montana involved in this online worldwide science to see a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to Shared VisionBeyond the classroom We explore http://teachingnow.org/tv_wo.php
Bringing Cyberspace Into The College Classroom The technologies for delivering classroom learning have been Electronic Archive (SEA), an online repository of technology to enhance collaborative learning. http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/1999/10-05mit.asp
Extractions: Microsoft.com Home Site Map Search Microsoft News Consumer News International News Legal News Events Microsoft Executives Exec Bios/Speeches Board of Directors Bill Gates Web Site Executive E-Mail Other Corporate Info Investor Relations Analyst Relations Fast Facts About Microsoft Image Gallery ... Community Affairs Archives by Month Press Releases Top Stories Microsoft and MIT Develop Partnership to Improve Higher Education Using Computer Technology REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 5, 1999 By now, it's no surprise that information technology is a major part of college life. Professors are making their course materials easily accessible to students by posting them on the Internet. Students are e-mailing their teachers to obtain quick answers to questions while they study. And numerous universities are attracting more students by offering entire programs and degrees over the Web. But how well is this being done? Are there new opportunities that universities could tap into? In an effort to answer these questions, Microsoft and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced a partnership to research new technologies that will enhance university education. The five-year effort, dubbed "I-Campus," will bring together scientists at Microsoft Research with students, faculty and researchers at MIT to develop solutions that could broaden learning opportunities at the higher-education level. "There's a sea change in the way universities are beginning to deliver education to students," said William Vablais, program manager, Microsoft University Research Programs. "As more and more universities come online, what does that mean for universities and what does that mean for students? What types of platforms are needed to deliver the information they need, and what kinds of tools do they need to create communities of people over the Web? We're trying to find out answers to these questions."
Teacher-to-Teacher Collaboration and, more especially, their classrooms around the about using videoconferencing for teacher collaboration. in a graduate, mostly online InternetBased http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~lynda_abbot/teacher2teacher.html
Extractions: Teacher-to-Teacher Collaboration The primary focus of this Website is to note sites that support teacher-to-teacher collaboration, particularly teacher-to-teacher exchanges focused on professional development "of teachers, by teachers, and for teachers." A few sites are included that foster classroom project-oriented collaborative exchanges between teachers. About this Site Contact Information The following group of sites promote teacher-to-teacher exchanges, particularly communications between teachers that foster the notion of the teacher as reflective practitioner. Some sites specifically mention the "professional development" aspects of these collaborations. The Alive! Education Network
Research And Development continuous learning, planning and collaborative work, increasing Science Physics Simulationsnew classroom tools for a survey tool and online team portfolio http://www.vermontinstitutes.org/rd/
Extractions: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Mission: To actively pursue new partnerships to develop innovative programs and services in education. David Gibson , Director Online Learning Services online campus . VI offers asynchronous online learning and working spaces to groups, schools and networks of educators. The online campus facilitates continuous learning, planning and collaborative work, increasing outreach and effectiveness with learners of all ages. Click here Research Development Nick Boke,Project Co-Director
Sloan-C - Publications - Journal: JALN - Vol5:1 Computer mediated communication and the online classroom overview and of ambiguity in online communication (computer 1998); Hiltz, SR Collaborative Learning in http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v5n1/v5n1_curtis.asp
Extractions: An investigation was carried out to determine the extent to which evidence of collaborative learning could be identified in students' textual interactions in an online learning environment. The literature on collaborative learning has identified a range of behaviors that characterize successful collaborative learning in face-to-face situations. Evidence of these behaviors was sought in the messages that were posted by students as they interacted in online work groups. Analysis of students' contributions reveals that there is substantial evidence of collaboration, but that there are differences between conventional face-to-face instances of collaborative learning and what occurs in an asynchronous, networked environment. KEYWORDS
Keypals www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/coll1c.htm with and mail them your collaborative project ideas Intercultural Email classroom Connections IECC is a free service http://training.fcps.org/tt5/2GlobalComm/keypals.htm
Extractions: Gl bal C mmunicati ns ePal and KeyPal Projects Teachers choose to use epals or keypals when: Email is a wonderful way for your class to connect with students in another part of the country or in another part of the world. In addition to practicing their writing skills, your students can learn about the geography, culture, and language of their epals. The teacher can also build on this use of email by working on a collaborative project. For example, teach the students how to collect and present data for a given topic and then share it with epals! Click on the links below to locate ePal and Key Pal projects! Email in the Classroom - This site helps teachers use email with students. From where to find mailing lists to how to set everything up in your classroom! (http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/TEC/integrate/emailnclass.htm) KeyPals Club - A place for students and teachers to locate and correspond with other students or another class from around the world. (http://www.mightymedia.com/keypals)
