Global+Collaborations+101

//**Global Collaborations Wiki**//
This is the main page for professional development and sharing in the area of 21st Century Learning. What does that mean? To me it means collaboration and communication that provides and promotes learning and sharing opportunities between teachers, staff and students globally and locally. The possibilities and opportunities are endless.

You can return to this wiki and its attached pages to revisit content and find links when implementing a collaborative or individual project with your class. Hopefully, it will become a collaborative document where many of us can enter new ideas and links we have found and want to share.

My background: I have been dabbling in podcasting, blogging, delicious and wikis for over two years as an elementary teacher and everything I've learned related to these [|Web2.0] tools was found through listening to education podcasts, collaboration with teachers across the world and just lurking around in cyberspace looking at what other teachers are doing. The best advice I've received is keep it simple, start small and build from your first project. I would also add, just do it and don't judge- just reflect along the way as you build skills, strategies, your toolkit and base of online colleagues. Collaborations within your class or between ASM classes can be easily set up on [|Moodle] as well. These tools and projects create an audience for students and nothing motivates like a responsive audience and the opportunity to make new friends.

The links below //**do not**// represent all available tools and types of projects, they are limited to what I have experience with at this point. As we branch out, explore and develop resources, tools and projects we will add to the table below and build our community of specialty experts and sharing of ideas!

Workshop: Global Communication Projects (K-12)
[|Current 21st Century projects] Gr. 4-6 Pirates research project Elementary sample || Wikispaces [|PB Wiki] [| Ad-free Wikispaces] || [|Digital Media Kids] MKIS Grade 6-8 projects [|Current 21st Century projects] || [|Edublogs] [|Learnerblogs] || members (like Facebook and MySpace but with an educational focus) This area is new for me! [|Sample Gr. 2 Ning] (need to join group to open the site)
 * What is a [|Wiki]? || MKIS Grade 6-8 projects
 * What is a [|blog]? || Youth Radio
 * What is [|social networking]? || Educational collaboration through messages between group

[| Social Bookmarking] || [|Ning]

[|Del.icio.us] ||
 * Collaborative Media || [|DMK images] Flickr [|Online Photo sharing]

[|Small Moments stories] (first grade / ESL) VT [|Voice Thread in the Elem Classroom] VT Gr. 9 Chem/Bio samples || [|Flickr]
 * Voice Thread is my new favorite!**

[|Voice Thread] || Pageflakes [|Article] [|MS sample] [|Video] || [|Ning] [|Pageflakes] ||
 * VoIP || Live video conferencing with partners || [|Skype] ||
 * On the horizon for me... || Ning [|Video] [|Ning in Education] [|Video2]
 * A great way to search for ideas, information and tutorials for use of any tool, search [|Google], [|YouTube] or [|TeacherTube].