Collaborative Projects Workshop

Suggested Workshop Format

This format can be used and adapted for workshops from 1 hour to all day (or longer). Please add your own ideas using these instructions.

• Explain videoconferencing (see the SideBar for resources).

 

• Show examples of videoconference projects. Here are some resources you can use.
• Videoconferencing Out on a Lim Blog (entries specific to collaborations)
• Pen Pals QuickTime movie. This little clip of second grade students gives you an example of how a pen pals connection could happen.
• MysteryQuest QuickTime movie. This movie is about 12 minutes long and gives you the flavor of the whole two and a half hour event for middle school geography students.
• Where in Michigan movie. This movie also gives you a flavor of the whole two hour event for 4th grade students.
• Read Across America QuickTime movie of student presentations. And Read Across America WMV Overview movie to introduce the project.

 

• If possible, have participants actually participate in some project videoconferences. You can do this by partnering up with another location for your workshop. Or connect to some students who have participated in a project. Teachers love to hear about videoconferencing from a students' perspective.
• MysteryQuest Beaches

 

• Explain local scheduling procedures.

 

• Explain how to find partners (see the SideBar).

 

• Have the participants create their own project using these instructions. Feel free to add your own workshop name to the front page and add pages for your participants.

 

Designing Your Own Projects: Templates and Ideas

• Exchange Projects 
• Academic Challenges
• Problem Solving Projects
• Debate, Discussion and Data Collection
• Quiz Bowls