synthesis of opener 7 collaborate or die

Presented by Sarah Zaman

HMID 6303: Current Trends and Issues in Instructional Technology

Opener # 7:

ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION AND INTERACTION

Globalization 3.0What does that mean?

Collaborate or Die! You are left with no choice!!

Peter Drucker(The late management guru)

“Society needs knowledge workers who are adept at problem solving, collaboration, and learning in general.”

Collaboration tools help share knowledge &

generate ideas faster …

Ubiquitous access to the

internet

Voice over Internet Protocol

Web Conferencing

E-mail

Mobile Phones

Collaboration Tools

Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

Thousands or perhaps millions of connected individuals can work together on documents such as Wikipedia to create new products or

enhance the value of existing ones

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

InnoCentive – Open Innovation Community, Where World Innovates

September 2007 - InnoCentive created a network of over 120,000 scientists and engineers from over 70 countries to collaborate on

solving complex problems and challenges that could develop into new products and services.

As they exchange ideas, some of the foremost minds on the planet learn from each other, thus amplifying and extending scientific knowledge beyond anything possible for a single human.

Different Forms of Collaboration

Social Networking Software and Online

Collaborative Learning Communities

Kids ages 6 -14 take on an avatar- a virtual 3D digital persona in the form of penguins in Club Penguin and collaborate with children worldwide in exciting new ways!

But how can online collaboration tools and software be utilized when

there is lack of access to internet???

That’s possible!

Bridging the Gap between Rural China and

the Rest of the World

Collaborative Online Technology makes 1 Kg project possible even when there is lack of access of Internet.

Charity travel project supports rural education !

Three easy steps to participate in 1 Kg:

1)Travellers carry the educational materials, the rural schools need by checking on www.1Kg.org , with them

2) They then communicate and interact with kids, play games, give lessons, and bring information from the outside world to them

3) They then share their stories and pictures on the 1kg project forum when they return

TwinBooks Project – Outlet for

those with fewer resources

An urban child

buys

one of the TwinBooks

Enters the “twin code” of the other book on the TwinBooks Website

It is donated to

a

rural child

Global Collaboration – Environmental Projects

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GLOBE Project

Journey North

Kids as Global Scientists

Educational resources including human ones, exist beyond classrooms!

• Students in such programs might collect and share locally collected

data with peers around the world

• Scientists across international boundaries, in industry, government, or higher education often serve as advisors along the way or as evaluators of final projects

International Exchanges & Mentoring

Programs

• iEARN involves more than 20,000 schools and youth organizations from over 120 countries spanning the globe

• Through iEARN more than 1 million students each day solve global educational problems

ePals – International “Make a Wish” Foundation for Global Educators

ePals network includes more than 13 million students, 325,000 classrooms and 200 different countries and territories

Click on the ePals map and find a grade level and interest match In2Books enables adult pen pals to respond

to online letters and summaries about curriculum books that students read in schools

Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists

• In the Ice Stories project, students can read about experiments related to Antarctica’s sheet ice dynamics, climate change, penguin breeding behaviours, and …

…interact with REAL scientists!!!

Cassandra Brooks – Scientist working on the life history and population of Antarctic toothfish

Video, audio and text dispatches from Cassandra

Mentoring & collaboration through emails and blogs between Cassandra and students from anywhere around the globe!

Flat Classroom Project

Created by Viki & Julie; Inspired by Friedman’s The

World is Flat

Flat Classroom Project

Joint learning productions and educational

events, international relationships,

unique curriculum projects,

friendships and understandingsViki Davis

Julie Lindsay

Flat Classrooms Collaborate through …

Online collaboration & teamwork tools by

Groove & SharePoint come with a price!

Groove

Collanos Workplace – free peer-to-peer

collaboration tool

…learning pursuits need not be lonely endeavors anymore…

Find others with similar interests online on Google Groups, msn Groups and Yahoo! Groups etc!

Wide array of online collaboration tools with amazing features…

Adobe Connect Pro

DimDim

CentraWebEx

Eliminate

How can you use online collaboration tools and software

in your educational settings?

Are you using any already?

Acknowledgement

All ideas presented in this power point show are extracted from Dr Curtis J Bonk’s book The World is Open, chapter 8 opener # 7