Monthly Archives: October 2009
A new communication WAVE
Today I got the invitation to join Google Wave. In order to understand the Wave concept I googled it and found this clear explanation: “Google Wave integrates services such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google IM and more into a single tool. Creating a Wave enables you to collaborate with your peers on documents in real time, watching them type and edit and allowing you to step in and make your own changes.”
As soon as I signed in to Google wave I got an invitation to join inspiring Webhead group. It was amazing to see how the Webhead Wave grew so quickly. Together we discovered several interesting features. My first reaction was to look for my email box!! You have chats and email conversations at the same time.
Seth has just created a wiki to help webhead join us in this new WAVE experience. If you still don´t have a google wave account please add you name and we will send you the invites.
Please check The complete Guide to Google Wave. Here you will find clear explanations on how to use Google Wave.
Happy Wave Learning!!
Jennifer
Places and Perspectives Learning Circle
This second half of the year we will start working with Collaborative Projects. Take a look at IEARN a non-profit organization that fosters the use of new technologies in the classroom.
What is a Learning Circle?
It is team of 6-8 teachers and their classes joined in the virtual space of an electronic classroom. The groups remains together over a 3-4 month period working on projects drawn from the curriculum of each of the classrooms organized around a selected theme. At the end of the term the group collects and publishes its work. Then, just as any class of students does, the Learning Circle comes to an end. Each session begins with new groupings of classes into Learning.
My class has been assigned to Places and Perspectives Learning Circle. We will be working with students from:
Komi Republic, Russia
Constanta, Romania
Mississaga, Ontario, Canada
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Novosibirsk, Russia
Ljubljana, Slovenia
We will start this collaborative project in September and will finish it in December. You can take a look at the Glogster created by my students to share our community with the rest of the schools.
Blog Action Day
Don´t miss Blog Action Day on October 15.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices. For more information take a look at http://www.blogactionday.org/
