Voyage Coetail

The bumpy road of collaborative work Thanks Jennifer Keenan  for this collaborative work! I really enjoyed working with you and I think we are a great team! Thank you Suzy Ramsden for sharing your brilliant ideas and thank you Tanya Irene and Sean Walmsley for launching this project! This final project has changed from its initial statement. We decided, with the 4 others teachers working at my school and taking the Coetail programme, to work together with 3 others teachers. After realizing (we were told!) that the group was too big, some teachers left it and the others sub-divided the group into 4 groups. At first, it was: The vision for the whole project would be to have a working infographic for students and teachers as a guide, reference and reminder with lesson plans to go with it. Sean and I ( Tanya ) are looking at the big picture. We are trying to create an infographic for posting online that starts the conversation and thinking process but also identifies the 'outcome...

flickr photo shared by William M Ferriter under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license “Are we gonna watch an Internet video today?” That was the first thing my students asked me when entering the room! How exciting to see that they are so interested in the privacy/copyright/cyber bullying issue! What did I do then? I plugged in the microphone and asked them what the Internet is for? [audio mp3="https://magalibrutel.coetail.com/files/2015/11/WhatInternetfor.mp3"][/audio] So they got it! They understood the power of the Internet. However it’s still for them a dangerous place. [audio mp3="https://magalibrutel.coetail.com/files/2015/12/DangerousInternet.mp3"][/audio] Then, some reminded that there is no difference between online and offline worlds. Some people are still mean to each other on the playground! While listening to them, I gave them this comparison: the Internet and a sharp object. It may be dangerous only if we don’t use it properly. But if we take it the ...