Collaboration

=Collaboration= What is collaboration?

Collaboration is when two or more people are working together for or to reach a common goal. they pool their knowledge and research to come up with a more definitive answer or to seak out research on a particular topic. In this way all parties share what they know and learn to complete the project. The act of working together is also an importantlearn experience. 1. Three ways in which students collaborate in my classroom is: group work reading material in Chapter that all must cover: they utilize get the Gist by each person in a group focuses on a paragraph or two to find main points and share with each other to work their way through the chapter. 2. Creating a power point about a specific topic, where they must work together to devise 8 slides to present to class on a College, decide what is important to know about that college, work within a specific time frame (in 3 classes, using flashdrives to save materials), they both must present. Working out all details. 3. Work on a 1 week project that requires outside collaboration by students (3-4 in group) via, telephone, email, and personal meetings to get long project completed it can be presented to class. The majority of the time I have happy with the results, as there tends to be quality put into the assignments. Sometimes, I hear complaints that one person did not hold up their end of bargain, and one did more than other. I usually don't assign an outside collaboration until I have seen students collaborate in class several times and I can tell who might not pitch in to work. I could use a few ideas of how to arrange collabortation among students that gives more results.
 * 1) What are 3 ways in which students collaborate in your classroom and are they successful?

7.4 Voicethread
a new technology that is internet based where a teacher can create a voice thread to share 5 ways--telephone,web,microphone, text, or upload images and have students comment on what they see, read, hear. It is great way to have class engagement and interaction. Of Course the teacher needs to set all this up in advance(a little practice with this and finding lesson/images) then have students comment so that everyone hears what each has to say. I like this concept.

7.6 Voicethread Collaboration
Working with another teacher is a great way to set up a shared-class overview or assignment so that students can read, and share via the voicethread. Adding images to identify you/your subject is a nice idea to keep track of who is commenting on the topic/assignment and integrating images that reinforce your instruction at the time really allows students to visually and auditory wise get the information they need, and any comments they make can be shared/heard/read by all. I do like this voicethread technology tool. I did have some problems with recording and hearing on our classroom computers, in one lab H304 we could not embed this voicethread due to computer network not having firefox. Here is our embeded voicethread on Student Skills for the 21st century integrating technology: Just click on the voicethread link below and you can join our voicethread and hear what we had to say. trying to embed the code, then clicking on the voicethread site, got me as far as an Internet page that was blank, but had the voicethread address on it. What went wrong? I have tried it every which way and I can't get it to work.

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8.5 Collaboration Activity
Using google to get a gmail accout in order to create a collaborative slide show from all parties. It was thought provoking to see everyone's input, Yes, Wordle is a great tool for BDA reading assignments. I have started to use it in my classes, I think students respond well, they certainly know that these words I present from their readings are important. It would seem that they become more mindful of what they are doing when reading. they know they will be questioned, they will be responsible. I like it. I take any material that I would have used as a "mark up the text, Get the gist reading and create a wordle. They preview the readings via wordle and I have them pick out 5 words and write the definition for them from their perspective, then they read the article (mark it up) and define another 5 words, it is intereseting that they usually pick more new words. So they are building vocabulary and understanding. then I have them summarize what they read, and interject the vocab words from BDA. It would seem that they do better on a test after this process. It also gets them participating within the class groups they are put into. I will work on creating my own google doc to share with my classes. I need another 5 hours in a day.