Collaboration Projects: Looking for an Egypt Partner
I just read a very informative post on Kim Cofino’s Always Learning Blog, titled: “5 Tips for Creating a Global Classroom“. Her tips are:
Tip 1: Set up that aggregator
Tip 2: Author a blog
Tip 3: Join a social network or online group
Tip 4: Contact an expert or use a company
Tip 5: Start putting your students work online
Kim’s post got my thoughts going again. I starting thinking about next school year and how I will be able to get as many of my elementary school students (Pre-K through 6th grade) involved in global collaboration projects.
Many of you might have also read about our school’s effort to move to a more global curriculum through awareness and about my trip to China last winter.
It looks the way that the school is going to travel again. This time to Egypt!
Although we visited the German Swiss International School in Hong Kong, I felt that the component of direct contact and collaboration between students was missing to make this a more rounded experience.I would love to start, at the beginning of next school year, collaborating with a teacher and his/her class in Egypt or a teacher teaching about Egypt.
So here goes my plea out into the blogoshpere:
If you are teaching/living in Egypt and are interested in having our 6th graders learn from each other through an online project
or
are not living in Egypt, but are teaching about Egypt in your curriculum and would like to collaborate with our 6th graders (11/12 year olds)
Please contact me to discuss further possibilities.
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April 27th, 2007 at 4:03 am
I am an American living in Egypt. What type of school are you looking for? Does class size matter? On what topics would the students collaborate?
April 27th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Hello Michelle,
I teach at an elementary school and preferably would like to partner with another elementary school (4 - 12 year olds). I don’t think that class size would matter. What kind of projects? I am open to anykind of project… One of the objectives for the students should be to collaborative learn with students who live half way across the world. The idea is that they learn from each other about the country they live in, become aware of the similarities and differences of the cultures, traditions, history and way of life that surround them. In short, that they make connnections… Some ideas that come to mind are:
* Exchanging Photostories about their typical days
* Exchanging their favorite fairy tales or legends in a podcast
* Video conferencing a live story time
* Demystifying myths about each other’s countries. “I heard that in “Egypt”/”USA”, this or that happens. Is that true”?
These are just some ideas, I am toying around with. Looking forward to hearing more from you and possible ideas.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Ooo! I’m so jealous - first China, now Egypt! You and your students are so lucky! I know a few teachers over at Cairo American College - an international school in Cairo - let me know if you are still looking for someone in Egypt because they might be interested