TWINMOOC UNIT 4

COLLABORATION

Challenge week 4:  To Design a collaborative activity.

Here is the design of some collaborative activities since the beginning of the project. I could not think of just ONE activity since I have to think in accordance with the whole project. The very first activity is to share the project, through Google Doc, with the teachers that are going to participate; and in that moment, they have to know about the way we are going to share each others, so they can contribute and react to this proposal, show agreement or suggest another course of actions. That is  the reason why I have elaborated all this ways to share and collaborate. The project I am presenting is for students 15 and up, so they have autonomy and have to learn with their peers and teachers how to use technology.

Nevertheless, I  ask if I could design more that one activity and received feedback from the team* you can see the answer below. Lets them present the different collaborative activities I have designed for the Project I have followed the Rubric** created for this challenge and also the ideas expressed in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMb9QeyM-sQ from the Mooc.

1. - Google Doc to share the written project and to encourage others colleagues, professors, to put their ideas on the table. I have to be ready to modify original project ideas, negotiate and seek consensus in favor of my partners.  

2. - Discussion Forum for teachers to agree upon the way to work and proceed. To decide how to organize the work of students so they can communicate efficiently with others students from others schools.  To agree upon who is going to present  the draft of students teams rules, rubrics, and other collaboration material to be presented and shared with  students.

3. – EDMODO, to connect each others and share resources and ideas. Each professor will participate at Edmodo, I will connect each one as a group to provide all the materials that are going to be created and have to be shared between us.

4. - Padlet with multiple purposes: to make students from different schools know each others. First a presentation and later to allow discussion between them about how are they  going to get organized, to discuss between  them the materials about the organization to see  the possibility to make teams of students from different schools work together.

5.- LINOIT.Once students are organized inside each single class and in teams from different schools,  to invite each team group to prepare a board type Linoit or any chosen to star posting the first requirement of the project content. Teachers monitor the process and give continuous feedback to students and discuss with other teachers in the forum.

6.- FORUM:  To invite each team of students to open a student's Forum for discussion.

What follows is the presentation of the activities and tools in a handy table. 

Collaborative Project’s Activities Using Technology.

Technology	Official Site	Who uses this tool	What Activity/ Collaboration	What objectives	What evaluation	Miscellaneous
GOOGLE DOC	https://www.google.com/docs/about/	All  Teachers in the project	To review the project and reach consensus and change it.	To foster collaboration between partners	To exchange opinions ad reach conclusions.	Used at the very beginning to share the first draft.
EDMODO	https://www.edmodo.com/	Each teacher with his/her students	To administer material designed for the course. To share with teams.	To Compare and contrast term and strategies	Quiz and assignments shared between teams. Coevaluation.	Used all through the course.
PADLET	https://es.padlet.com/	All the students in the course. Brainstorming  for the very beginning. One for all.	Knowing each others. Organizing in teams to share and learn.	Organize the work of students so they can communicate efficiently.	Analysis of the organization reached by students. Final Evaluation of results between all participants.	Used also at the end to show bulletins and final works
FORUM	http://www.forumotion.com/how-to-create-a-forum	Students they create it and run it, once organized in teams. One for all.	Give opportunity students to work together with their partners in others schools	Look discussions and negotiate and seek consensus if possible.	Final conclusions reached between groups.	There will be a forum for teachers as was said above
LINOIT	http://en.linoit.com/	All the students already organized in teams. One for team	Follow communication inside each team	Communication and etiquette in e-communication.	Auto-evaluation between students in the team.	To assure follow up and help from teachers

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**This is the rubric for  collaborative activities I have tried to follow: 
http://www.slideshare.net/SNA_etwinning/rubric-for-a-collaborative-activity-design?platform=hootsuite