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=Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom=
 * Global Collaborative Project Design**

Use the following chart to design your project Download a worksheet of the table below.

**PART A**
week 2 test question in section week 3 look at results, discuss with others, generate criteria for a "good" question, use ideas to revise question, share ideas for improving questions as a class week 4 have entire class answer questions via survey monkey or googledocs week 5 ||
 * Project Design**
 * **Project Name** || Who Are We? ||
 * **Link to curriculum** || Math, data collection and analysis ||
 * **Aims of the project** || Students in the 5th grade (Class of 2018) get to find out about each other by going through the process of designing a survey, getting responses and interpreting the results. ||
 * **Link to standards** || (if any standards are being referred to eg ISTE NETS) ||
 * **Student level/age** || 5th grade (10, 11 years old), all 4 sections ||
 * **Topics for investigation** || What would be interesting to find out about one's peers, How to design a survey, how to organize and interpret responses, how to share results so they are meaningful to others ||
 * **Required outcomes** || Students will select a question, test and revise it to make it a "good" question, collect results, analyze them and share observations ||
 * **Optional outcomes** || (state what each student or classroom may choose to contribute or participate in eg a real-time interaction, an audio introduction, a video walk showing the school environment) ||
 * **Length of activity** || week 1 frame a question
 * **Assessment** || Use Slideshare to share results -- including graphics or Voice Thread where comment can be shared. ||

**PART B**

 * Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom**
 * **Connect** || * Wiki, one page for each section
 * Google docs and/or survey monkey, Excel
 * Expectations for connection protocols ||
 * **Communicate** || * More tools and strategies for monitoring and facilitating communication
 * Story telling software (Voice Thread?) for sharing results
 * Expectations for communication - asynchronous and synchronous
 * Guidelines for reliable, culturally sensitive, gender appropriate, language sensitive, context aware communication ||
 * **Citizenship** || * Teach how to be a reliable, responsible and ethical online learner and collaborator
 * Establish agreed standards for educational networking (avatar development, online profile, customization of online spaces, managing an online presence)
 * Define practice for: Copyright, Intellectual Property and fair use, creative commons ||
 * **Contribute & Collaborate** || * Establish a mechanism for equal and fair contribution opportunities and expectations
 * Provide mechanisms for discussion between students while jointly researching, contributing and collaborating ||
 * **Choice** || * Determine outcomes that provide a challenge and engage students
 * Consider varied outcomes, or varied topics that provide choices for participation, promote higher order thinking and problem solving and build in success ||
 * **Create** || * Establish clear guidelines for format and submission of the final product(s)
 * Construct templates if needed
 * Consider a 'competition' or opportunity to share the work beyond the immediate participants ||
 * **Celebrate** || * Define a culminating activity when the work is completed as a form of celebration
 * Build in time for presentations and reflection/evaluation of the project ||