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The Primary Years Program in the IB. How might those of us in the PYP, using inquiry based learning, collaborate across the nations using any elements of web2.0? (e.g. wikis, Skype, Ning, blogs)
I guess the pertinent thing is to discuss at the beginning of the year. If the enthusiasm exists there must be possibilities.
Hi! Leigh!
Happy New Year!
we have tried collaborating with differnt schools in India. I think most schools are comfortable with common Units of inquiry as it goes easy with the curriculum.If we take differnt topics most schools have a yearly timeta…
A group for teachers planning Flat Classroom projects with pupils aged 3-11.
Given the fact that the PYP uses a program of inquiry across a school, coordinating topics across the year levels and for the local community, there are certain challenges to be faced when wishing to collaborate with other schools that use (by defin…
The thing that I struggled with was that the units of inquiry would need to match or be complementary on at least some levels. Given that the program of inquiry is developed by the school as a whole it would take possibly 12months before that could…
Hi Leigh
Happy new year.
Thanks for sharing so candidly. I am trying at the personal level also. lets hope for the best.
take care ]
jaya
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- Leigh Newton
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- Teaching Grade 5 at The International School of Azerbaijan
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- http://leighnewton.edublogs.org
- Interest in Flat Classrooms
- Looking to connect with other international settings and collaborate with learning classrooms.
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Preparing for the new school year
I was part of the Flat Classrooms Elluminate seminar on the web on Wednesday (of 63 people), where Julie and Vicky gave a great presentation on international classroom collaboration. I'm interested in participating in something for our two Grade 5 classes here - total around 30 students. We are in a PYP school (within the IB) so there is an emphasis on inquiry based learning. Our international school is in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Posted on May 30, 2008 at 4:18pm — 4 Comments
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- At 3:52am on October 10, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Leigh,
With your interest in Online Collaboration, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording you might find of interest.
- At 9:34pm on August 29, 2008,
Nerine Chalmers said… - Hi Leigh - thanks very much for passing on my request. Our Grade 5 classes are just starting a unit called "Pattern, rhyme and rhythm" They will be reading and writing poetry, and also writing picture books illustrating the PYP attitudes, If you are interested, I'll keep in touch, and let you know if there are areas in which your students can collaborate.
To send a message to the group, go to the group main page, and on the left of the page, near the top is an envelope with the message "Send to group" I hadn't tried it before!
- At 6:16pm on August 26, 2008,
Julie Lindsay said…
- Hi Leigh
Don't get discouraged! OK, our teachers here have only been back 2 days, in fact over the next 2 days I am running PD showing how the Ning works. I will show them this NIng and also talk about collaboration opportunities.
Also, we have technology integration facilitators starting to kick in as of next week and they will be meeting with the yar levels and helping plan the units of inquiry.
Also, you are welcome to join our school Ning at http://elearning4life.ning.com/ We have a few international people with us. You could contact some of our teachers directly, however I will try to find some connections for you over the next week. OK, I see you are Grade 5, we have some excellent Gr 5 teachers!
- At 8:54pm on June 2, 2008,
- Hi Leigh
Thanks for starting a PYP group on this Ning. I will share this with my teachers at Qatar Academy in the PYP area and encourage them to come in and interact with you.
- At 6:30am on May 31, 2008,
Leigh Newton said…
- I've created Flat Classrooms group called PYP, which is the primary year's program for the IB. Please join if you're using inquiry based learning and want to explore possibilities of student and teacher international collaboration. Strangely enough, in March, 08, I attended a PD session in Lisbon called Collaboration in the PYP. I was a bit slow to catch on that they were talking about teacher and student collaboration. :-) I was taken by how empowering collaboratio was for us as teachers and knew that I had to implement the approaches in my classroom. I wish for my students the empowerment that comes from connections. The PYP is great but I want all of my students to be reaching their potential and that is not happening at this stage. While Flat Classrooms will not be the panacea for all out woes, the witness from others (albeit mostly secondary classes) is encouraging.
- At 3:57pm on May 30, 2008,
Leigh Newton said…
- I've had one class into blogging two years ago and am keen to get my primary kids creating a wiki in the new school year, but also working together with other students from around the world. I am at a school where there are 47 nations represented but even so we are on one campus and need more exposure to the rest of the world.
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Hi Yvonne,
Your project sounds excellent and I would love it if we could work together! I would love to skype. I have used this tool in my personal life but not yet with my students. I teach art in Milford, Ohio. I would like to do this project with…
The Falcons School for Girls in West London would like to invite you to part in a writing project with a school overseas.We would love to collaborate with a school on a short story flat classroom project at some point between now and the end of our…
Hi April
Great to hear from you. I have run this project for the last 4 years. I called it Author's Chair, the initial idea being that my students took turns being the author and presenting a specific part of their family story each week. When it wa…
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