Global Collaboration Week

It’s not too late to connect your classroom with the world. Global Collaboration Week is still going on today and tomorrow. This event provides a one stop shop of opportunities for educators and learners looking to make connections around the globe. Participants from all over can collaborate on projects, make plans for future projects, or simply connect with one another to share information and resources. For links to events happening in Central Daylight Time Zone, click here.

On this planet we are all interdependent and ultimately already connected. Why not parallel that reality in your classrooms. Check out his video from the UN that really sums this up from the learner’s perspective.

Why Global Collaboration: 

Authentic & Experiential Learning

Preparing our learners to contribute in an ever increasing globally connected society

Connect with Industry Experts

Newly Possible Virtual Experiences

Cultural Awareness & Empathy

Celebrate differences

Provide different perspectives

Collaboration

Real-world communication skills

Communicating and creating products despite time and space

Connecting

Building your PLN 

Share Learning and resources

Find like-minded thought partners

Who's Connected?

Connecting learners with educators

Michael Yakubovsky’s learners are currently working on a project where they interview educators from other campuses to discover needs. Learners are designing solutions through 3-D printing inventions. Keep following to hear more about this as it develops.

Connecting learners across schools and grade levels

Pillar Castro-Zena’s learners connected with Kindergarteners through Flipgrid to get feedback on the toys they created during their design thinking unit. Read more about it here.

Connecting current learners with former learners

Ian Vanderschee hosted a Skype session with over 40 of his learners that have already graduated. He included a Q/A session for his current learners to hear what graduates said about college and preparing for college. 

Connecting with other districts

Sr. Mares challenged his learners to create Earth Day children's books with a target audience of Spanish speaking fourth graders in mind. Sr. Mares connected with a fourth grade dual language educator in another city. Her learners read the books, and then met with his learners through Google Hangouts. The high schoolers were able to practice authentic conversations in Spanish and received feedback on their books from the fourth graders. Read more about it here.

Connecting with parents

Suzanne Paylor uses Flipgrid to bring parents into the conversations happening in her classroom. 

Connecting through social media

Tracy Henson’s learners kept blogs related to causes that are dear to their hearts. The public blog tracks the learners’ journeys through research to fund raising. Example

We know so many more of you are making global connections, too! Inspire others. Tell you story below.