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Great tool to use for collaboration and building ideas online with PLNs!

Face to face tool: communicating with others using webcam and mic. Whiteboard can be used to draw out ideas. Notepad can be used to creat TDLs, meeting notes, and sharing ideas.

background reading for global learning proj

"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation."

I thought the 2 page pdf summary was excellent.

"Inspire Students to Use Their Imaginations to Solve Global Challenges To help, we offer you media resources- including feature films, interview clips, video shorts, creativity challenges and an online collabortive media console for you to quickly and easily customize media for your teaching plans and classroom activities. A wide variety of our educational media and tools are ready to go now and more are coming soon. Students Learn 21st Century Skills The Imagine it! Project empowers students to develop their own ideas and focus on the process of discovery, giving them opportunities to learn new things in new ways. Students learn 21st century skills: information & media literacy, communications skills, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and curiosity, interpersonal and collaborative skills, self-direction, social responsibility."