Glübal Cümmunicatiüns

Design-Your-Own TeleCurriculum

Not finding the right project for you and your students to participate in? Why not think about designing your own? There are many web sites and articles available to assist you in planning your project – everything from templates to lists of links. Take advantage of all of these resources and don’t forget the most important part of the project – PLANNING. The key to a successful project is in the planning!

 

Click on the links below to locate information on how to design your own telecurriculum.

 NickNacks Telecollaborate - Collaborating in the global classroom! NickNacks details how to join projects and provides links to innovative projects and online resources. Want to develop your own project? NickNacks provides guidelines, hints, and tools for you to use. (http://home.talkcity.com/academydr/nicknacks/NNabout.html)

 Implementation of Global Internet Projects - Step-by-step planning of a collaborative project. Addresses value of projects, training objectives, definition of global projects, designing a simple project, evaluation of projects, and how to connect your project to a listserv. (http://www.k12.hi.us/~elake/global.html)

 How to Design a Successful Project – The authors of this information show how careful planning is the key to success. They have provided six essential tips and a project design template. (http://www.gsn.org/teach/articles/design.project.html)

 K-12 Telecomputing Projects Organized by Activity Structures – Use these exemplary projects as models for designing your own! (http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/Telecollaboration/more-telecollaboration.html)

 Unit Plan Template – This template helps teachers create a full-bodied unit that integrates technology. Many terrific links assist in integrating Dimensions of Learning, Multiple Intelligences, and provide ideas for different types of Internet projects to include in a unit. (http://www.globalclassroom.org/unittemp.html)

 Project Planning Template – This template helps you track pre-project essential steps and correlating NYS Learning Standards.

 Call for Collaboration – This template gives the essentials for posting your project at many of the registries.

 Integrating the Internet: Creating Projects – This site assists teachers in joining existing projects or creating their own! (http://integratingtheinternet.com/index/class.html)

 

These are just a few of the wonderful Internet sites available to help you in designing your own project. With a little searching, I’m sure you will find plenty more!

 

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