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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**

 * Project Design**
 * **Project Name** || (West meets East) ||
 * **Link to curriculum** || ([]) ||
 * **Aims of the project** || (Green Earth: recycling) ||
 * **Link to standards** || (if any standards are being referred to eg ISTE NETS) ||
 * **Student level/age** || (high school, grade 9-12, 14-18 yrs) ||
 * **Topics for investigation** || (A comparison of cross-cultural and environmental friendly on recycling from perspectives of daily life and global communities, comparison of Chinese and English classrooms ) Life in your corners ||
 * **Required outcomes** || Each student is expected to demonstrate ideas of implementing recycling by posting descriptions (Chinese or English) supported with images. how many images? **Tools: digital story-telling tools, mi. of one image to support your description.** ||
 * **Optional outcomes** || Each student or each group can choose to do extra credit work by conducting a video walk-show for campus/house environment.
 * Tools**: movie with title, contributors... ||
 * **Length of activity** || (part A: hand-shake introduction; part B: recycling project, landmarks by Dec. Feb. we would share ...) ||
 * **Assessment** || (see rubrics A and B) ||

**PART B**

 * Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom**
 * **Connect** || * Tools and strategies will be put into place to connect teachers and then students in preparation for collaboration, including ensuring Web 2.0 and other tools are available in school (and outside preferably)
 * Tools and strategies for connecting classrooms - what platform(s) eg wiki, Google Apps, Moodle, Ning
 * Expectations for connection protocols ||
 * **Communicate** || * More tools and strategies for monitoring and facilitating communication
 * Methods for communicating teacher-teacher, teacher-student and student-student
 * 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 ||