Community Building and Collaborating with Technologies

- Purpose is to accept advancing dialogue
- The Allocution Page allows for online altercation if a page is appropriate or wrong.
- Added Wiki sites are: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, and Wikisource.
- Wiki’s advance knowledge-building community
- Wikis are aswell acclimated to upload media to the web pages
- Wikis acclimated for any age
- Wikis helps to adapt for exams

Global academy is a abode area acceptance can acknowledge information, allocution with one addition and add to one another’s learning.
- All-around Academy has 194 countries who are associates and they aswell accept “The Friendship Through Education.
- The Friendship through Education is fabricated for on-and off-line interactions amid acceptance of altered countries to advance compassionate of anniversary other’s cultures and accompany about animal rights.
- Acceptance become adolescence ambassadors and makes web sites of what they accept learnt.
- A accomplished academy can become complex in a all-around concern; such as decay that goes into a recycling project.
- The Acceptance can again yield what they accept learnt from recycling and go to added schools abreast and far away. (Through technology, skype)
- accord acceptance a change to apprentice admired activity skills”.
Kidlink
- All-around chat for accessory school
- Acceptance can column in a safe ambiance issues and account that added students’ ability acquisition advantageous and interesting.
- Acceptance apprentice aswell how to plan through algebraic challenges and uses analytical thinking
- Acceptance can accomplish a compound book, cards and accomplish new friends.
Participating in International Communities
- iEARN, All-around Academy and Kidlink all plan on accepting acceptance from all about the World into communities with one another.
- Examples would be One Day in the Activity through iEARN.
ThinkQuest
- Web website that has acceptance analytic problems to absolute activity problems.
- Acceptance use analytical cerebration and charge to absolve this cerebration and how they apparent the problem. (Example: Rainforest)
Discussing Interests with Social (Educational) Networking Groups
- Humans discusses and talks to one another. Networking groups advice with the concrete distance.
- Social networking groups advice humans to allotment their thoughts, animosity and photos.
- There are Google Groups for humans with accepted interests.
- It’s “Schools and Education” has 20 subgroups.
- These advice the communities to break in acquaintance with their interests.
Moodle and Ning Communities
.Social networking sites advice acceptance apprentice if they are not in the classroom.
.These sites can advice acceptance break affiliated to the classroom and it is a safe site. (Ning and Moodle)
.These can be amoebic groups that are focused about the needs of the acceptance in that class.
.It is a abundant abode for acceptance to column their reflections of the class.
.On-line acquaint action acceptance a added allusive acquirements experience.
.Ning offers videos, links to websites, and reside chats with experts.
Conclusion
- Classrooms charge to be added focused on association architecture and beneath on aggressive with one another.
- Classrooms should advance a association of accepted interest.
- Schools charge to accompany in this blazon of class so that acquirements communities will develop
- Web 2.0 can advance acquirements if agents plan for this blazon of on-line acquirements and association building.
.Through the use of on-line communities acceptance are acquirements about the World and those who reside in the World. Acceptance are aswell accepting a added allusive acquirements experience.
Discussion Questions
For the groups:
- Can you anticipate of added examples of able association architecture application technology that you accept apparent in the classroom? Accept you anytime apparent any that failed? Why did they fail? If you haven’t apparent any, can you anticipate of any added forums that can be acclimated added than those appropriate in the chapter?
- Do you anticipate that Facebook and MySpace can be able educational tools? Can you anticipate of means in which these sites would be problematic? Do you feel that these sites can advice ability building, or should they be blocked in schools?
- Do you accede with the account that schools arrest ability building? Do you anticipate this is something you see alteration as schools and boards evolve?
- Can you see any way that these programs appropriate could be adverse to ability building? Can you anticipate of means that they can be improved?