| Status | Seeking Partners | |
| Contact Information | Patrick Brown Education: Teacher Richford Elementary School Education: Elementary Richford, VT United States Phone: (802) 848-7453 pbrown@richfordk12.net | |
| Objective of Collaboration | A discussion of the culture, and historical background of the countries of South America. | |
| Time Frame | January 2011 - March 2011 | |
| Target Audience | Education: Grade(s): 6 | |
| Disciplines | Social Studies/History | |
| Technology | Internet 2, |
| tatus | Seeking Partners | |
| Contact Information | Joel Spencer Education: Teacher Don Roberts Elementary School Education: Elementary Little Rock, AR United States Phone: (501) 447-8380 joel.spencer@lrsd.org | |
| Objective of Collaboration | I am looking for a 3rd, 4th or 5th grade class to participate in weekly or monthly discussions on any aspect of science. Activites could include science games, discussion forums or any other activities. I am open to suggestions. I have the ability to do full video conferencing. | |
| Time Frame | December 2010 - June 2011 | |
| Target Audience | Education: Grade(s): 3, 4, 5 | |
| Disciplines | Sciences | |
| Technology | IP, |
| Status | Seeking Partners | |
| Contact Information | Annette Kessler Library: Staff Fairfax County Public Schools- Stone Middle School Education: K-12 School Centreville, VA United States Phone: (703) 631-5551 annette.kessler@fcps.edu | |
| Objective of Collaboration | Our middle school includes grades 7 and 8 and is located in the Northern Virginia area. We are looking for both statewide and international collaborations with a lead teacher to share/host lessons between groups of students. We are interested in most content areas: math, science, history, music, art(performing and theater), foreign language(Spanish & French), etc. | |
| Time Frame | December 2010 - June 2011 | |
| Target Audience | Education: Grade(s): 7, 8 | |
| Disciplines | Fine Arts, Foreign/World Languages, Industrial Technology, International, Language Arts/English, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Sciences, Social Studies/History, Technology/Information Science | |
| Technology | ISDN, |
| Description: | Northern States and Canada? Would you like to connect with a classroom from the South Central Texas to compare and contrast the winter weather? During this videoconference opportunity, your class will be matched up with a class from Comal ISD (near San Antonio) for a 30-45 minute videoconference in which both sides will present what winter is like in each region. Afterwards, the students will be able to ask each other questions about the area in which they live. Comal ISD has 11 classes ranging from grades 2-4 that would like to participate in this project. To read more about it access this link: http://comal-isd-distance-learning.wikispaces.com/Weather+Collaboration On this wiki page, teachers have listed the times they would like to have the conference. Just email me if you see a teacher you would like to pair up with. |
| Dates: | January 15-February 28 |
| Sign up method: | Email: Jennifer.Wivagg@comalisd.org |
| Grades: | 2, 3, 4 |
| Subjects: | Elementary All Subjects |
| Description: | On January 11th, the University of Alberta and the Centre for Global Education will be hosting the 3rd annual Human Impact on Climate Change Video Conference. This highly interactive session, focusing on the Grade 10 Science curriculum, will enable your students to talk directly to leading experts and researchers on the impact of human activity on Climate Change while engaging in discussion with their peers across North America. Students will have access to researchers, related articles and an ongoing Blog in which they can post and interact directly with the researchers leading up to the event through an interactive webpage. There is a limit of 5 schools. |
| Dates: | January 11th, 9:00-10:20, MST (GMT-7)) |
| Sign up method: | Email: terry.godwaldt@epsb.ca |
| Grades: | 9, 10, 11 |
| Subjects: | Science (Life), Science (Earth), Social Studies/History |
| Description: | Do you want to have a fun time leanring about Amelia Earhart? We can provide your class with a presentation and game show about Amelia Earhart. The conferences can be adjusted to fit your needs. It's lots of fun and very informative Visit the website for more about our project ttp://lakelandschools.us/do/lbrandon/earhart/Amelia_Earhart/Welcome.html |
| Dates: | between 9:10-3:30 EST |
| Sign up method: | Email: mcerniglia@lakelandschools.org |
| Grades: | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Subjects: | Language Arts/English, Mathematics, Science (Life), Social Studies/History, Special Education |
| Outcomes: | |
| Methods and Activities: | you can visit the website we made to take a look at what we have done. http://lakelandschools.us/do/lbrandon/earhart/Amelia_Earhart/Welcome.html |
| Responsibilities: | collaborating teacher needs to choose the students who will answer questions in the game show. they also can print out the "fact sheet" from our website for students to have during the conference |
| Agenda: | We start with a short presentation about the her life. we review important dates and events. then we start with the game show! students are asked questions about her life based on the information in the presentation. This information is also on the website we made http://lakelandschools.us/do/lbrandon/earhart/Amelia_Earhart/Welcome.html The show is interactive and we have "prizes" too. |
| Description: | Hello! We are a 2nd grade class at Augusta Circle Elementary in Greenville, SC. Beginning February 7, 2010, we will be studying different cultural regions in the United States. We are looking for primary classrooms in the Northeast, Midwest, or Western regions of the United States. We would like to share our culture in the South, and learn about your culture, too! We will discuss the following cultural characteristics: 1) Linguistic characteristics and sayings (for example, in the South we say, “Hey, ya’ll!); 2) Cuisine; 3) Clothing typically worn; 4) Music your cultural region is known for; 5) Famous natural landforms or landmarks to visit in your region; 6) Weather and climate 7) Cool things about your history; 8) Natural resources in your region We would like to collaborate antime beginning February 14 through the next few weeks. We expect the chat to last about 30 minutes. If you are interested in getting to know about our culture here in the South, please let us know! We look forward to meeting you! We are available to connect between 8:30AM ET and 11:00AM ET. |
| Dates: | Between 02/14/2011 and 03/04/2011 |
| Sign up method: | Email: tvanheul@greenville.k12.sc.us |
| Grades: | 2 |
| Subjects: | Elementary All Subjects, Language Arts/English, Mathematics, Science (Life), Science (Physical), Science (Earth), Social Studies/History |
| Description: | 4th grade class from the NYC area would like to team up with other USA class to share memories of childhood during The Great Depression. Our class will invite older adult to visit our school speak and conference with your students. Students will get to ask and answer questions during the event. In preperation for the event our students will study the New York area during the 1930's. We would like to share the experience with another class who has studied the Great Depression and could even have a guest speaker of their own. Collaboration will take place in March and take about 40- 60 minutes. |
| Dates: | Time of day for conferences are open. March dates |
| Sign up method: | Email: wmckeon@ryeneck.k12.ny.us |
| Grades: | 4, 5 |
| Subjects: | Elementary All Subjects, Family & Consumer Science, Fine Arts, Language Arts/English, Social Studies/History |
| Description: | We have some first grade classes that would like to share the knowledge they are gaining about their state of Texas, by sharing some interesting state facts, a little about our capital, where we live and about a rodeo. In return we would like to learn about another state in the United States. We would like to learn about your capital, your symbols, and about where you live. We would like to VC with the class where we can also discuss the differences and/or similarities that we experience where we are too. |
| Dates: | Between Feb 1 - Mar 15 |
| Sign up method: | Exploding Collaboration |
| Grades: | 1 |
| Subjects: | Elementary All Subjects, Social Studies/History |
| Outcomes: | We are addressing a variety of Social Studies standards in our curriculum by learning about communities outside of our own. We would like the learner to accomplish an awareness of anothers community by what they are presented with and learned through the process. |
| Preparation Time Frame: | 1 hour |
| Methods and Activities: | We would like to see photos/creations of the items the students will be discussing for visual reference. We are going to have our students present their information to the other class by showcasing their speaking to a group and visual aids. We would like our collaborating class to do the same so we can "see" what you are telling us about. We would like to also have a Question and Answer period where the students can ask each other about where they live. |
| Responsibilities: | Students will each present a piece of our state information. The teachers will guide students in their presentations and help aid questions when needed. |
| Agenda: | Teachers will introduce their classes (each group), then teachers will guide the order of the discussion, having students come up and share one site at a time based on the information that we are presenting, state flower, bird, capital, etc. The students will then have time at the end to ask questions to the other class. |
| Description: | My 6th grade students are currently reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. I would love to videoconference with another class who is also reading this novel. We will be discussing plot, setting, characters, and theme. |
| Dates: | Dec. 8-17 |
| Sign up method: | Email: heather.blackwell@carteretk12.org |
| Grades: | 6, 7, 8 |
| Subjects: | Language Arts/English |
| Description: | Our 2010 Holiday StoryTelling Extravaganza event dates are Monday, Dec. 13 & Friday Dec. 17 (AM only) Choose your 30 min. time slot from the schedule. Some sessions are traditional literature. Some sessions are original holiday stories created just for you by Junior High students. this is an annual project between 2 Houston area district and a district in NY. We have expanded and are inviting you to a portion of our offerings. |
| Dates: | Dec. 13 or Dec. 17 |
| Sign up method: | Website Website: https://katyvc.pbworks.com/w/page/31967787/Holiday-Storytelling-Extravaganza-2010 |
| Grades: | PreK, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Subjects: | Elementary All Subjects, Language Arts/English, Special Education |
| Description: | 6th grade students will be reading Tuck Everlasting in January. We want a class that would be willing to discuss the book as we both read it. |
| Dates: | January 5th to February 1st |
| Sign up method: | Exploding Collaboration |
| Grades: | 7 |
| Subjects: | Language Arts/English |
