The Virtual Knowledge Building Centre

Turn an assignment, project, or exploration from a one-way directive into a giant conversation among the teacher, the students, the teacher librarian, and any other adult coaches or experts.

The Structure of the KBC Makes Collaboration a Natural Strategy

• I feel like helping .....Inviting..... Engaging..... Give and take

Knowledge Building Centers are:

• Collaborative construction zones between adults and students
• Places to learn, solve, work, create, think, achieve, shine, demonstrate…
• Participatory learning
• Higher level thinking and metacognition
• Ventures into the real world of information
• Free or almost free
• Simple to create on a variety of technologies
• 'learning to learn' spaces 

Workshop Assignment:

 Setting up a Knowledge Building Center for a Unit of Instruction in your school:

• First:

1. Set up a GMail Account if you don't already have one.
2. Decide on a name for a knowledge building center you will be creating
3. Pull down Dave Loertscher's Google Site Template for the Knowledge Building Centers:
• First, get into your gmail account and select "more" at the top:
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• Second,  select that you want to build a site:

• Third: click to create a new site

• Fourth:  name your site

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• Now enter any comments or tips you have in the comments box below
  
• Now you can edit your site as you wish with your own unit in mind. You might google a few tutorials to help you edit pages, create new pages, and upload pictures and files to your page. You need to remember to set the sharing permissions for those you wish to involve in the site.