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Collaborative Classroom Projects - 2 views

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    List of collaborative classroom projects
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daronow wonders about having students use www.wordle.net to check what words they're us... - 1 views

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    Uses for Wordle in the classroom
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Speaking of History........: Podcast #184 - Creating "Common Craft" Type Videos about H... - 5 views

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    Great use of the Flip cameras in the classroom!!
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DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 22 views

  • “Turbo-Charged Wikis: Technology Embraces Cooperative Learning”
  • A wiki-based project should not be the first time students work together. Collaborative projects work well, but only if an environment of cooperation already exists.
  • assignment of the project must possess two qualities. First, it must be an authentic problem or situation which must be solved collaboratively. Second, the final product must be utilized by another audience, preferably classmates to advance the learning of the entire class. In other words, the wiki cannot result in an assignment that is merely "turned in." Also teachers need to remember that the wiki is only the tool to enhance learning; the problem solving is what drives the project.
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  • To make sure this project progresses, teachers need to instill the five components of Cooperative Learning: namely, Positive Interdependence, individual Accountability, Face to Face Interaction, Group Processing, and teaching small-group social skills. The most important of the two are Positive Interdependence and Individual Accountability. 
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    Great article on how to best prepare for a wiki-based project.
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