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=Global Collaboration: Concept, Power and Magic= toc

Learning Objectives**:**

 * You will learn:**
 * 1) What a best-practice online global collaborative project is, how to find other projects, how to participate in projects and how to design a project.
 * 2) What global and digital citizenship issues are at stake and how to manage and encourage reliable and responsible interactions and learning from all participants.
 * 3) How to use Web 2.0 tools to connect, collaborate and create with a focus on community building and use of multimedia for assessment and presentation.

=Agenda=

This workshop runs 9am - 3pm

Introduction
9:00
 * Let's get to know each other
 * What questions do you have now?

PART 1: The Concept
9:15 =PART 2: The Power= 10:30
 * Introduction to Collaboration
 * What is a ‘global collaborative project’?
 * Why bother? A look at the imperative of collaboration in a global sense
 * Finding and participating in existing projects
 * Examining project characteristics - what makes a good project
 * Global Collaboration 3.0
 * Web 2.0 tools and infrastructure for collaboration and networking
 * Educational networking (Ning) - sociability of community learning
 * Wiki collaboration
 * Social bookmarking ([|Delicious] and [|Diigo])
 * RSS ([|Netvibes], [|Google Reader])
 * Other digital tools
 * ‘Flat Classroom’ pedagogy: the seven steps to flatten your classroom
 * 1) Connect
 * 2) Communicate
 * 3) Citizenship
 * 4) Contribute & Collaborate
 * 5) Choice
 * 6) Create
 * 7) Celebrate

3A
11:30 (Lunch)
 * Developing your own global projects
 * How to get started
 * What to look out for
 * Assessment considerations
 * Creative instructional design
 * Use emerging technologies to scaffold the project
 * Use Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom Global Collaborative Project Design template

3B
13:00
 * Hands on project work (with outcomes to take back to your classroom)
 * Find a real or virtual partner(s) and design a project
 * Prepare to pitch it to your administration or colleagues or globally

3C
13:45
 * Pitch your project ideas for feedback

3D
14:15
 * Further refine project design
 * Share finished ideas in final presentation