Teachers Without Borders/Teacher Collaboration

by teachers for teachers

Teacher Collaboration

Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation

• Analysis - needs, audience, limitations, success, delivery - web, radio, mobile, facilitate, on-site, tutoring, mentoring, supervision, rewards

• Design / Development - find, reuse, remix - WE, eHow
• Implementation
• Evaluation

Questions

• primary concerns -
• time for lessons - length (words, time), detail
• motivation -
• internet access - frequency, reliability - email, discussions, eReading - online / offline
• offline reading - print, file / pdf, cdrom

Prototypes - lessons, specific topics

• WE pages - watchlist (subscribe), collaborate
• groups - Google, Yahoo - WikiEducator http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator
• Ning - Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/, Web 2 Class Digiteaching http://web2class.ning.com/ - asynchronous discussion, blog, static content, public/private, updates
• blog - reference, subscribe, RSS feed, comments - feedback / limited interaction
• internet - eHow (with ads)http://www.ehow.com/how_5131387_great-classroom-management.html
• video - YouTube, Vimeo http://vimeo.com
• conferencing - WiZiQ.com, Elluminate
• email - text, resources links
• mobile / audio file ? duration / file size ? phone recorded message
• text messaging - catch phrase teaser, link
• subscription - email frequency
• RSS
• social media - Facebook, Twitter
• community of practice - identify needs, sequence distribution ? connectivity
• Master Teachers - resource

Topics

• classroom management
• curriculum - strategies, lesson planning, pedagogy, learning styles, presentation, reflection, reinforcement, scaffolding
• assessment, evaluation
• subjects - Science, Mathematics, English

• Foundations of Teaching Practice
• Instructional Planning and Strategies
• Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up
• Literacy and Elementary Reading
• Elementary Language Arts and Handwriting
• Math and Science
• Health, VPA, and Social Studies ?? Visual and Performing Arts

Lessons, Skills

WikiEducator

• Life Skills Development http://wikieducator.org/Life_Skills_Development Unit Three/Conflict Resolution and Anger Management Lesson Types of Conflicts http://wikieducator.org/Life_Skills_Development/Unit_Three/Conflict_Resolution_and_Anger_Management/Lesson#Types_of_Conflicts

• Communication skills http://wikieducator.org/Life_Skills_Development/Module_Three - the process, methods, barriers, listening skills, conflict resolution and anger management interactions with others through technology, speech, drama and gestures

• Adult Learning Theories, Principles and Practices http://wikieducator.org/Learner_Centred_Learning/Adult_Learning_Theories,_Principles_and_Practices

Other sources - non-profit, no advertising

• Teaching Reading Skills - Adults learn to Read http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/rea-int.htm English, Spanish, French

• Teaching Methods http://wikieducator.org/Training_Methods - Role-playing http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/tm-rply.htm 1500 words English, Chinese, Spanish, Filipino, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian

Commercial - no charge, advertising supported

• Great Classroom Management http://www.ehow.com/how_5131387_great-classroom-management.html

Examples

• course - FOC08, CCK08, CCK09 - facilitated online, include readings, videos, discussions, activities, reflection assignments
  • Facilitating online communities (FOC) http://wikieducator.org/Facilitating_online_communities
  • Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) http://wikieducator.org/Teaching,_Learning_and_Technology

• topic with lessons - Life Skills Development http://wikieducator.org/Life_Skills_Development

• activity lesson plan - Biology http://wikieducator.org/Life_in_a_Bottle, Chemistry http://wikieducator.org/Erupt_into_Chemistry! more Biology http://wikieducator.org/Hill_of_beans

• open textbook - Education http://collegeopentextbooks.org/educationbooks.html - Educational Psychology http://docs.globaltext.terry.uga.edu:8095/anonymous/webdav/Educational%20Psychology/Educational%20Psychology.pdf (CC-BY) .pdf 373pages

• blogs - The Edublogger http://theedublogger.com/, Learnodes http://www.learnodes.com/

Resources

• WikiEducator - "objects" http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/WE_learning_objects

• Connexions http://cnx.org/ - courses, open textbooks

• Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL)http://integrating-technology.org/

• WikiEducator tutorials http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial - What is a wiki? http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/What_is_a_wiki, Images and Media http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Images_and_Media

• Tapped In http://tappedin.org - teacher training, support, interest groups http://tappedin.org/tappedin/do/CalendarAction?

• Teaching and Learning Strategies http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/front_strategies.html - Arts in Education http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/front_arts.htm

• Games in Education http://cis2f08.edublogs.org/2008/11/07/games-in-education/ student review submissions