Week 4 Reflection, Course 5364

Week 4 Reflection:

For week four much of the readings and videos focused on collaborative project learning. The project subject matter spans several different subjects. This innovative way of teaching gives students longer amounts of school hours to immerse themselves in a project. For example you could have students working on a project of reflection and refraction; they learn about the basic terms and identify it with their science teacher. Then when they start working with their art teacher, they continue working on their project of reflection and fraction in art class.

The key is that teachers work together to communicate with each other what they will be addressing with the class during their time with them and have a timeline so that everyone involved knows when what portion of the project is due when.

I found a couple of web resources that could help http://www.edmodo.com/ is a website that allows teachers to communicate with each other and their students. The platform allows teachers to keep student work private from the general public.

Another useful site is http://wikieducator.org that has resources for educators to learn how to use web 2.0 tools and collaborate with each other.

I would have liked to have collaborative project based learning projects when I was a student in K-12.

Thanks!
Sandra Villarreal

References

Edomo Home page (2009). Retrieved on December 11, 2009, from http://www.edmodo.com/

Wiki Educator Home page (2009). Retrieved on December 11, 2009, from http://wikieducator.org