Awl12 2 teacher kickoff sept 2012 (2)

‘A Week in the Life…’ 2012-2A Flat Classroom® Project for Elementary School students

Grades 3-5, age 8-10

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Who is the Flat Classroom®? Directors and co-founders

Julie Lindsay @julielindsay

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Coordinator: Lisa Durff @durff

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What do we do?

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In the past…….• http://aweekinthelife11-1.flatclassroomproject.org/ – Over 300 students– 14 classrooms– South Korea, Canada, Qatar, USA

• http://aweekinthelife11-2.flatclassroomproject.org/ – Over 370 students– 22 Classrooms– Canada, Poland, China, South Korea, USA

• http://aweekinthelife12-1.flatclassroomproject.org– Over 500 students– 25 classrooms– Turkey, China, Slovakia, USA

Project Management AWL 12-2

Project ManagersToni Olivieri-Barton toniobarton@gmail.comMichelle McGarvey angel82129@gmail.com LT Community BuildersMark Meyers markmeyers@hendricksdayschool.org Ashley Holst ashleyjean23@gmail.com LT Multimedia MentorMaureen Tumenas mtumenas@berkshirecountryday.orgMaryFran Lynch maryfranlynch@gmail.comMeetup ManagerFlat Classroom Coordinator: Lisa Durff

Project Tools - Teachers• Flat Classrooms Ning – Our ‘social’ educational

network– Join the AWL 12-2 group– ‘Handhake’ – introductions– Share ideas, converse, solve problems

• Google Group – For emails and more private communication as needed

• Google docs – Teacher admin doc– Team Grids – student teams and class information

Essential Questions Which Will Be Answered as part of the project

• What are the similarities and differences among children around the world?

• How can we connect with each other through our commonalities?

• How does your geography where you live impact your topic?

1. Do some research on a week in the life of children in your school around these NINE topics:

• School time• Languages• Clothing• Housing• Transportation• Leisure time• Food• Celebration• Environment

2. Collect multimedia and share with team members

• Multimedia choices: video, audio, slideshow, cartoons, etc.

• Share multimedia online via team wiki pages• Discuss differences and similarities between

multimedia

3. Complete a final project demonstrating your information to the rest of the group.

• Each classroom will be responsible to assemble a number of team projects

• Upload finished projects to the wiki• View all the group projects and compare and

contrast the results.

Project Tools - Students

• Edmodo – Our ‘social’ educational network– Students in teams– ‘Handhake’ – introductions– Share ideas, converse, solve problems

• Wikispaces - Our collaborative working area– Co-create wiki pages with material share for each

topic

How many of you have used Edmodo?

Good Tips for Edmodo

How many of you have used Wikispaces?

Good Tips for Wikispaces

Don’t worry! We will be going over all information again at each weekly

meeting!

• Any questions at this point of the meeting?

Workflow AWL 12-2 – Part 1

Multimedia Collection

Wiki, Edmodo Sharing raw multimedia

Team FormationEdmodo Organize by Teams In Teams, individual

handshake

Classroom HandshakeEdmodo Join the AWL 12-2, Class Handshake, teachers’

comment, interact

Team

Top

ics

FLAT CLASSROOM TEAMS 2009

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6

School Time 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

Languages 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F

Clothing 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F

Housing 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F

Transportation 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F

Leisure Time 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F

Food 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F

Celebrations 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F

Environment 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F

Student TEAMS

‘A Week in the Life...’ Team Grid

Level Based on Student Sizewith 6 students per team

Level Up to Number of Students Number of Teams

2 216 36 (4 x 9 topics)

3 270 45 (5x9)

4 324 54 (6x9)

5 432 72 (8x9)

(maximum number 432 after which time, the students should be split into separate strands and 2 simultaneous strands are run)

AWL Teacher Admin Doc

• You will be invited to this – List of resources as reference– Add your details – class size, experience etc.– Newbies and veterans sections

Fill out teacher information

You Should Already Have:Filled in the online billing formJoined the wikispaces

Join flatclassroomproject.org first, then after approval

Join the project wiki (will be ready soon!) aweekinthelife12-2.flatclassroomproject.org

Join the Teacher Google GroupJoined the Ning

Joined the AWL 12-2 teacher group on the Ning

Adding Your School on the Wiki• All Teachers will need to join the wiki• Add their school on the home page with– Their school logo– A time stamp from clocklink.com– A school photograph of students or the school

Putting Schools and Students onto the Team Grid

Before Next Meeting AS A TEACHER

• Fill in the Teacher admin doc.• Post a pre-project teacher reflection on the

teacher blog• Join Edmodo as a teacher

http://www.edmodo.com/– Group: FCP AWL 12-2 Code: j11x0w– Create a separate group for your class (optional)– Do not add students yet!

Before Next Meeting WITH STUDENTS

• Work on a Classroom Handshake to share on Edmodo

• Classroom to Classroom Handshake– Skype: http://skype.com or – Eyejot: http://eyejot.com

Project Workflow: AWL 02 - September-December

• Application Deadline: September 1• Online Teacher Information Meeting: before September

15• Classroom and Student Handshake: September 15-30• Team Formation and Project Discussions: October 1-30• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: November 1-15• Media Collation and Product Development: November

15-30• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: November 30-

December 15

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