This is the ppt I shared with my friends at Learning2gether

3. Learning Together Session
Sunday 31st May, 2015
“Flattening classrooms
and building bridges with
Mystery Location Calls”
By Maria del Carmen Colussa
Host: Vance Stevens

4. Roles
Greeter Mapper Questioner Note-taker
Recorder Photographer

5. What does my partner class need to
know?
Students´age group
Time in GMT World Time Buddy, your best ally
Other detail?

6. Where do I find partner classes?
Skype in the Classroom
Edmodo
Google Communities, find yours!
Twitter!, aren´t you on Twitter??

7. What happens in a Mystery Session?

8. Mystery Location Calls
Make learning meaningful, relevant and F.U.N!
We model netiquette with our students.
First step for collab global projects.
Online safety.
Helps us build a positive online presence.

9. Impromptu Skype Session in an Argentinian public school
Me-Would you like to talk to someone from abroad?
Sts-Yes!!!!
(one student gives me wifi connection from her phone, she does the technical connections herself)
I post a request in my Hello Little World skype chat thread.
Mr Sebastian Panakal answers the request and has a conversation with the students with me as the
interpreter.
Sts-Teacher let´s do this every class!!

10. Reminder:
...before we leave…
REMEMBER!
Useful links

15. Icons from: Iconfinder
Photo Credits: All photographs are by Maria
del Carmen Colussa