Monday, April 13, 2009

Using interactive tools for Global Communication

Working from both Mod 7 and 8 would be quite easy when designing a lesson for global cooperation. Lets say I want my students to organize a global effort to clean up their community. I would have my students create a video that would lay out all the concepts for the project.
The students would write scripts and create a video that would then be published using teacher tube and they would also post an audio file along with some pictures on voicethread so that students around the globe could chime in with ideas or suggestions.

The idea of the lesson would be for students to organize a massive clean up of all the garbage and debree in the area and lay it out in the center of town for everyone to see. {eventually getting rid of it} my idea for the project is to not only clean up the town but to expose the "refuge" that no one wants to think about once they drop it on the ground. I would have students collect then "display" the trash so that it cannot be ignored. The community would need to see what they have been adding to their town/city. The global effort would come in the form of an organized time, or day that each participating class would perform this clean-up/exposure. The entire event would be documented and posted in video format or pictures on flickr. Students would then be responsible for talking to each other and listening to what happened in each site of participation, and sharing thoughts with the class.

1 comment:

  1. Jenevieve,
    I love your idea! I hope you get to try it out sometime.
    Dr. Burgos

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