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 GotCredit under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license One of our key goals is to stop focusing quite so much on "do kids have computers in their classroom?" and start focusing more on "do kids have the basic social skills and cultural competencies so that when they do get computers in their classroom, they can participate fully?" I completely agree with this quote from the framework of PLAY (Participating Learning and You). And I had to start by educate myself with these terms: Creative Commons, mashup and remix. I found out how they could unlock our creativity and most importantly I learned how they could fit in the classroom. My research led me to Common Sense Graphite website. I was very inspired by reading this blog post that was linked to a lot of great resources to teach my students those social skills and competencies. I had at a fingertip all the tools I needed, I just had to figure out how I will introduce the lesson to them. My Gr...