1:00 – 1:30: Developing your PLN
- Why do teachers need a PLN?
- How can you build your PLN?
Readings:
- First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator by Kim Cofino
- Five Tips for Creating a Global Classroom by Kim Cofino
- How to Connect Your Students Globally by Kim Cofino
- First Steps Towards Becoming a 21st Century Educator by Kim Cofino
- 6 Reasons Students Should Have Their Own Blog
- Connection – The best professional development for educators (Craig Skinner)
- Coincidence or Connection? by Chris Betcher
- The 21st Century Educator (resources from Kim’s presentation)
1:30 – 2:00: Exploring effective tools for collaboration
- What tools can you use that can be useful when you design globally collaborative projects for your students? (more resources on this wiki too!)
2:00 – 2:15: Project Time:
Task: Determine some of the tools you plan to use in your project? What makes these tools the right ones for the task? Document your thinking on this Google Doc.