synthesis of opener 7 collaborate or die
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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
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