Newell-Fonda, South Hamilton, Van Meter Collaboration-Year 3 Newell-Fonda, South Hamilton, Van Meter

How it started John talked to Stacey about Juliana in November Juliana and Stacey got in touch Juliana got in touch with Kim also We talked via e-mail, iChat and Skype Video conferences Met in person in March 2009 only at a conference presenting this

Ning-2009 Used Ning for students to get to know each other Projects for each level with one final product per group of 3 (1 from each school) Sharing pictures and videos Use of the target language

Web sites used Ning Voicethread Showbeyond Youtube Google images Wikipedia E-mail

iMovies - What Not to Wear Blogs Wikispaces Google docs

Groups To pair the students we used google docs

Lessons learned All 3 levels at once too much Students struggle in the communication area Use their own account instead of sharing usernames and passwords Fear to work with people they don't know

Bellringers After the first major project, bell ringers to keep in touch The students had to respond to a question every week and respond to two other students also Keep contact and the use of Spanish

Pictures of discussions

2010-2011 Wikispaces for collaboration One project at a time One per quarter Mixture of projects 2010 incorporated Spanish IV—blogging/story collaboration

Spanish 2 Collaborate in creating a dream vacation with pictures and voice on voicethread A little easier since students had already been through the process

Video explaining ser and estar Compete against each other within each school Compete against the other schools Please vote for the best one before you leave the conference—watch for the TWEET/and Email from Wade with the Survey Monkey link!

Spanish 3 Exchange pictures of their summer vacation The partner will make up the vacation based only on the pictures Next quarter, compare and contrast the vacation story told to check how much the other person got rights Use of Spanish and past tense

Spanish 4 Students create blogs They comment on each other's blogs every week Some weeks there will be some current events they will need to discuss together

Samples

THE TRUE COLLAB. Created a project that was TRUE collaboration w/Spanish 3 in 2010. Actors/Actresses Webquest Students had to interview each other via skype and be that person.

VOTE HERE WATCH TWITTER and EMAIL for a VOTING LINK! Don’t forget to vote! VOTE HERE WATCH TWITTER and EMAIL for a VOTING LINK!

NOW… Do you want a team!? Lets find 2-3 schools to team up, exchange info and get an idea going for this month!

Questions? Contact us! http://one2onecollaboration.pbworks.com Juliana Smith Newell Fonda CSD Stacey Wigant Van Meter CSD Kim Huegerich South Hamilton CSD or you can access our presentation from our presentation wiki: http://one2onecollaboration.pbworks.com