6_7_8+Strand+2

“Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: · interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. · communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. · develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. · contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.” (Obtained from: http://nets-implementation.iste.wikispaces.net/Communication++and+Collaboration)
 * __ STRAND 2: COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION __**

// Concept 1: Effective Communications and Digital Interactions // // Communicate and collaborate with others employing a variety of digital environments and media. //

// Grade 6: // // PO //// 1. Communicate digitally with others by selecting and using a variety of appropriate communication tools. //

Students can create or join a variety of social networking sites in order to communicate digitally. It is best to use sites which can be moderated by the teacher, such as the ones below. Ning: [|http://www.ning.com] Blog: [] Glogster: [] Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/privatelabel/k-12
 * Nings, Blogs, Glogs or Wikis **

Epals is an online global community of penpals where students can safely connect, collaborate and learn using protected email and blogs. [|http://www.epals.com]
 * EPals **

// PO //// 2. Explain and demonstrate the safety and etiquette of digital environments to communicate and collaborate with intended audiences. //

Overview: Lesson plan provides articles and activities designed to teach students about internet etiquette. There is an interactive quiz at the end of the lesson. []
 * Netiquette Lesson Plan **

Overview: Provides all materials for a lesson on responsible blogging. Should be done prior to class blogging assignments.
 * Blog Responsibility Lesson Plan **

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Overview: “With this interactive tool, teens can create printed social networking or magazine/newspaper profiles for themselves, peers or family members whom they have interviewed, or fictional characters from books they have read. Featuring components of popular online social networking applications, this tool engages teens and provides a means for adults to talk about safe, responsible online behavior, such as having an awareness of who could be seeing online profiles and limiting highly personal information.” []
 * Create a Personal Profile **

// Grades 7 and 8: // // PO //// 1. Collaborate and communicate with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital tools to share findings and/or publish. //

Overview: Students can create or join a variety of social networking sites in order to communicate digitally. It is best to use sites which can be moderated by the teacher. Ning: [|http://www.ning.com] Blog: [] Glogster: [] Wikispaces: []
 * Nings, Blogs, Glogs or Wikis **

Overview: Epals is an online global community of penpals where students can safely connect, collaborate and learn using protected email and blogs. [|http://www.epals.com]
 * EPals **

Overview: “Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes.” This lesson provides complete instructions from taking the photos to posting messages on the blog. []
 * Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom **

// PO //// 2. Explain and demonstrate features, conventions, voice, and etiquette of interactive digital environments to communicate with an appropriate audience. //

Overview: Lesson plan provides articles and activities designed to teach students about internet etiquette. There is an interactive quiz at the end of the lesson. []
 * Netiquette Lesson Plan **

Overview: Provides all materials for a lesson on responsible blogging. Should be done prior to class blogging assignments. []
 * Blog Responsibility Lesson Plan **

Overview: “With this interactive tool, teens can create printed social networking or magazine/newspaper profiles for themselves, peers or family members whom they have interviewed, or fictional characters from books they have read. Featuring components of popular online social networking applications, this tool engages teens and provides a means for adults to talk about safe, responsible online behavior, such as having an awareness of who could be seeing online profiles and limiting highly personal information.” []
 * Create a Personal Profile **

Overview: Digital technology has had a tremendous impact on students’ lives. In this interactive activity, students can explore how to better deal with the issues that might arise from being able to communicate so quickly and easily with so many people. []
 * Life Online **

// Concept 2: Digital Solutions // // Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems. //

// Grades 6, 7 and 8 // // PO //// 1. Communicate and collaborate for the purpose of producing original works or solving problems. //

Overview: The following collaborative projects are from the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute for technology. ( [|http://www.ciese.org] ) There are many collaborative projects that run for specific periods of time. Below are some examples.
 * CIESE Collaborative Projects **

Down the Drain: How much water do you use? Students measure/share the amount of water they use daily and compare with others around the globe. []

The Stowaway Adventure: “Students will use real time data from the Internet to track a real ship at sea, determine its destination and predict when it will arrive. In addition, they will have the opportunity to monitor the weather conditions at sea and predict when rough weather might impact on the ship's arrival time.” []

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// Concept 3: Global Connections // // Create cultural understanding and global awareness by interacting with learners of other cultures. // // Grade 6 // // PO //// 1. Participate in communication at a distance with others of different cultures or geographic areas to gain different perspectives of topics. //

Overview: “A global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create students who are competitive and globally-minded.” [|http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/]
 * Flat Classroom Project **

This ning is good, and safe, place for students to communicate and share on the topic of digital citizenship.Every member must apply and be approved before being able to share or post on the site. []
 * Digiteen **

// Grades 7 and 8: // // PO //// 1. Independently locate and interact with teacher approved global communities. //