HOW THE WORKSHOP WORKS

QUESTIONS
Create a starting point for yourself. Answer the questions , reflect on your own practice. You may wish to jot down a few notes.

EXAMPLES
Click to the online examples.

DISCUSSIONS
Contribute your original ideas to the COMMENTS section, at the bottom of each section or respond to someone else's comments. Discuss your own way of doing things, or the online examples. Or ask Judith a question.

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JOIN ANOTHER DISCUSSION,  BUT CHECK BACK HERE OCCASIONALLY TO SEE WHAT HAS BEEN ADDED.

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QUESTIONS

1. Do you encourage drop in students to collaborate in your physical library? How?
e.g. setting up furniture and allowing conversations: tutoring of fellow students; working on projects.

2. Do you build in collaboration opportunities for students in your inschool lessons?

3. Do you have rubrics for assessing individual students contributions to group work?

4. Have you adapted the above to an online environment?

5. Have you used the uniqueness of online resources and interactive sites to enhance collaborative learning for students?

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EXAMPLES

1. English 11 debate research:

An private access online workspace ( open access example) was created for each group of 4 ( pro and con) of 4 debates. Blogger was used.   Students started out in a library computer lab with the teacher and teacher-librarian, but once they developed their skills, were expected to complete the research process as homework.

They added information to their group blogs and discussed issues within the blog. They linked to their Facebook accounts.

Collaboration was built into the assignment. It was to the advantage of the group to help each other and keep their site private. The teacher could view and evaluate individual and group progress.

The debate itself was verbal, in class.

2. English 9: Use of  interactive site in library computer lab to create poems. Students post their poems so others can see them.

3. Support collaboration goals of curriculum

e.g. Socials studies 11

  • demonstrate skills of collaboration and co-operation,  the ability to:
  • collaborate and consult with others
  • respect and promote respect for the contributions of other team members

4. Support student collaboration goals of teachers (e.g. group assignments)

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