posted Oct 10, 2009 6:45 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Nov 5, 2009 1:18 PM by iCollaboratory Team
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The Northwestern University iCollaboratory invites all K-12 students to participate in What I Am Thankful For.
Students take a survey about being thankful and then use their
creativity to write, record and illustrate an essay about what they are
thankful for. They then share and comment on essays with each other.
To register for this year's What I am Most Thankful For project:
K-12 teachers send email to icollaboratory@gmail.com between September 1 and November 1. In your message, please include your
full name, email adderess, grade level you teach, your school's name,
city, state or province and country. Upon registration completion, you
will receive a teacher iCollaboratory Google account and a classroom
iCollaboratory Google account for each participating classroom.
NOTE: As you view and read results from past years, please remember
that this is the first year we are using the NEW iCollaboratory-Google
site. In past years, we used the Survey Studio and Nexus Communities
for the What I am Thankful For project. It is going to look different.
November 1-14: The Thankful Survey
Students take an online Survey and learn more about the other
students who are participating in the What I Am Not Thankful For
Project. November 3-21: The What I Am Most Thankful For Essay Students
share a description of what they are most thankful for and
why. They can include video, audio images and/or text. Once students
have gotten feedback from their class and teacher, they can share their
essay in a gallery which is linked to the Interactive Map. To view the
galleries, click the Interactive Map link above then click on each
individual school link. You are welcome to continue writing and
commenting through December but, I would like the first sets of essays
finished before Thanksgiving.
November 14-30: Reading and Commenting:
Students read each others essays and give feed back by writing comments. Students may look at the map to see where other participants are from.
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posted Sep 26, 2009 10:12 AM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Oct 31, 2009 6:01 PM
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Whether it be a
scary story or a fall poem, we encourage students to share their literary work and discuss it with one another. Students can use this project
to develop their writing skills by sharing and discussing their narrated
and/or illustrated (optional) writing in our online community.
The Scariest Stories project activities described below are designed
to take about one hour a week in a school computer lab or on set of
classroom computers. Teachers
should plan to spend an hour a week in addition to the computer time. Students who get involved spend more time writing, sharing and discussing their stories.
NOTE: As you view and read results from past years, please remember
that this is the first year we are using the NEW iCollaboratory site.
In past years, we used the Survey Studio and Nexus Communities for the
Scariest Stories project. It is going to look different.
October 1-7: The Scariest Survey
Students take an online Survey to learn about the other students who
are participating, what they like to do on Halloween and what they are
most scared of. October 8-14: The Scariest Cybrary
After registering for the Project,
students, as a class, select one link representing their collective
ideas about a scary story, Halloween tradition, or local legend from
their hometown or region for students in other regions to view.
Teachers submit the selected link to the Scariest Stories Cybary.
October 15-21: Write and Share Your Scariest Stories
Students use their iCollaboratory Sites classroom account to write
and share a scary story. The story may include text, illustrations and
audio narration/sound effects (optional) or a very short video
(optional). The stories can be written in any native language.
October 22-31: Review and Discuss Stories
Students review the stories others have written and discuss them online
by contributing comments at the end of each story. The comments can be
written in any native language. Please also translate them into English.
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posted Aug 29, 2009 10:48 AM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Oct 12, 2009 6:39 PM
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posted Jun 6, 2009 12:54 PM by Unknown user
From Google:
- Allows collaboration and sharing of information
- Multiple people can work on the same document at the same time
- Google maintains servers, network, and updates
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From Moodle:
- Automatic Password Locator
- Student management by teachers
- Single Sign-on
- Course management system
- In use by many educators
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From You:
- Projects,
- Ideas,
- Collaboration,
- Sharing,
- Student work & comments
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We have added Moodle as part of the iCollaboratory!
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posted Jun 6, 2009 12:50 PM by Unknown user
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updated Jun 6, 2009 12:55 PM
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You?
| Bonnie
Thurber
| Martha
Campbell
| Jan Hackman
| Ruth Shunick
| Linda Smentek
| Ed Suddarth
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