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Permalink Reply by Jared on July 11, 2007 at 6:02pm

I'm actively looking for teachers to collaborate with you on other social networks. I'll let you know as soon as i find a good match!

Jared

Permalink Reply by Peter Dawson on July 11, 2007 at 6:09pm

Thanks a bunch Jared!! I appreciate it.

Permalink Reply by Lucy Gray on July 11, 2007 at 6:26pm

Hi Peter -

I'm moving to a PreK-5 building (ages 4- 10) in the fall, and I bet I can get some of the teachers to participate. Also, there's a teacher in this Ning, Elaine Wrenn, who used to do a project called Communities Around the World. I think there was a theme each month like playgrounds and kids compared their playgrounds around the world. I wonder if we could do something simple like that... and post pictures to a Flickr group for discussion purposes. Maybe teachers then could record the discussions and we could post them online somewhere for other classes to listen to. Maybe we could use VoiceThread?

Any other ideas?

Lucy Gray

Permalink Reply by Peter Dawson on July 11, 2007 at 9:33pm

Hi Lucy,

I'm liking the sounds of this - may be some great possibilities. Excuse my ignorance but what is VoiceThread? Let me know if anyone is interested.

Permalink Reply by Lisa Stevens on August 10, 2007 at 12:21pm

Hi

I'm a Spanish teacher 2 days a week at a primary school near Birmingham, England - the details above look interesting and it might be something we could do.I don't have my own class - I teach everyone else's class Spanish and other things while the teachers have planning time, but I am going to run an afterschool club about links / blogging / podcasting etc so the above looks like fun!

Lisa xx

Permalink Reply by Sally Wan on January 15, 2010 at 8:32am

Hi
I am Sally working with different grade students.
I have some interesting festive topics for collaborative projects with you all. They include:
1. New Years around the world
2. Happy Easter
3. Dragon Boat Festival
4. ...etc.
The collaborative projects are very flexible for any kinds of web2.0 tools such as voicethread, google doc, etc.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Cheers,
Sally

Permalink Reply by Maddy Shapiro on January 16, 2010 at 8:59am

Hi Sally,

I would be interested in exploring a collaborative project with one of your classes. I am an intructional technology specialist at an K-5 elementary school outside of Boston, MA. Grades 4 and 5 learn Chinese here so a collaboration with one of those classes might be possible. I believe Skyping would be possible as we are 13 hours behind you.

Permalink Reply by Becky on July 28, 2008 at 6:05pm

VoiceThread is a digital storytelling resource. It is very easy to use. Upload a picture and record comments.

Example: Our students (grade 1) did a writing project about the funniest thing that ever happen to them. My Funniest Moment

Voice Thread in the Classroom: A PDF document

Voice Thread Education Wiki This wiki contains examples of how VoiceThread has been integrated into various grade levels.

Hope this helps.

Permalink Reply by Peter Dawson on September 1, 2007 at 3:32pm

Hi Lucy,

The new school year is fast approaching here in Canada and I'm just re-reading some of the posts over the summer. Are you still interested in hooking up to do something this fall? I think I'll need a few weeks of breathing space because, like you, I'm moving to a new building and I'm also taking on an admin. role along with teaching half time. I've looked into Voicethread a bit but haven't had a chance to check whether or not it will work on the system that our Board has adopted - there are quite a few blocks, etc.

Let me know if you still want to go ahead and in the meantime I'll check out things at my end.

Pete

Permalink Reply by Mrs. Archer on September 8, 2007 at 6:28am

I'd love to participate in something like this. i've found Yackpack to be a very easy tool for something lke this as well.

Permalink Reply by Becky on July 28, 2008 at 6:14pm

I like using ePals and Skype. Have you used either of those applications?

Permalink Reply by L. Smith on August 19, 2009 at 9:08pm

I would be interested in learning more about this group. I will be teaching 2nd grade this year. While investigating communities this year, I would like to broaden students global awareness as well as help them grow culturally.

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