Collaboration across districts, grades, etc

I'm looking for ideas and examples of using web 2.0 applications for students to collaborate with other students in other schools or grades within a district or between districts.

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Permalink Reply by Maddy on November 23, 2008 at 11:07am

We are using wikis to collaborate with another school in our district around the topic of animal adaptation. We participate in the Voices of the World Project and the Winter Wonderland project. We will be collaborating using Google sites on an Alien exchange project with a school outside our district. We are a K-5 school and are open to finding more schools to collaborate with on curriculum related objectives.

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Permalink Reply by Evelyn Cruz on November 23, 2008 at 12:18pm

I am also looking for ideas for students to collaborate with other students in high school biology and/or environmental classes.

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Permalink Reply by Erich Stephen on November 23, 2008 at 1:09pm

I can't show you an example because my wiki is closed, but using Wikis is a great way to stimulate collaboration. I use wetpaint and set them up as private so only users I invite can access. Then students can collaboratively create documents, brainstorm ideas, etc . . . If anyone uses it inappropriately, I simply ban them and they no longer can access it.

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Permalink Reply by Evelyn Cruz on November 23, 2008 at 1:34pm

I am presently using my Wiki for a class collaboration. I want to bring it to the next level and find classes that we can collaborate with outside of my school district.

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Permalink Reply by Pennie on November 24, 2008 at 5:44am

For links and ideas see http://studentcollaboration.wikispaces.com/

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Carswell on November 25, 2008 at 10:32am

What grade(s) are you teaching? We would be interested.

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Permalink Reply by Pennie on November 25, 2008 at 12:11pm

Let me know if you want a class in Australia!

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on November 25, 2008 at 2:49pm

Does it have to be in the US? I know some schools in the UK that collaborate and co-teach via Yacapaca.

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Permalink Reply by Pennie on November 25, 2008 at 2:57pm

Wow that looks like fantastic software

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on November 25, 2008 at 3:02pm

Thanks, Pennie. I think so too - but then I'm biased.

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Permalink Reply by Britt Gow on November 26, 2008 at 1:31am

Hi Sandra,
I teach maths and science (Year 7 and 9) at a small rural school in Victoria, Australia. We are using a wiki at "On Line Science Fair" to share our student science projects. We are also involved with a Maths Connections wiki (for all ages) sharing data and graphs on Voicethread. You will need to join both sites if you are interested in having a look.
What subjects and age students are thinking of?

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Carswell on November 26, 2008 at 9:28am

Thank you Britt. I will take a look at the Online Science Fair. I'm in 6-8 grade junior high. I'm the librarian but I will assist any teachers in getting started with this project.