Slides for 6th Virtual Round Table Web Conference presentation, May 2013 Collaborating with Kids! by Michelle Worgan

1. Collaborating with Kids!
How to set up a collaborative
online project for Young Learners
Michelle Worgan 2013

2. What is a collaborative online project?
1. An online space created by or contributed to by
learners
2. A task or series of tasks completed in conjunction by
learners
3. A collection of learners’ work presented online

3. Why set up a collaborative project?

4. Where do I start?
• Topic/idea
• Tasks/activities
• In/out of class
• Synchronous/asynchronous?

5. Choose a platform
Wikis – Wikispaces, PBWorks
Blogs – Blogger, Wordpress, Kidblog
VLE – Edmodo, School network (Moodle)

6. What content should I add?
• Photos
• Videos
• Tools e.g.
VoiceThread,
Fotobabble, Animoto,
Photopeach,Voki, GoAnimate, Creaza, Glogster
• Summaries of Skype interviews

7. Connecting with other classes
• Twitter
• Facebook groups
• Skype in the Classroom
• Epals
• Blogging

8. Trouble shooting!
• Public or Private?
• Ease (or lack of) of access
• Maintenance
• School permissions
• Getting others to join

9. Persistence required!
• Add weekly or monthly
tasks
• Invite colleagues
• Ask people to share
• Blog, tweet, share on
Facebook
• Directly contact people
who may be interested
• Post on VRT
• Blog, tweet, share
again!

10. An example: Food around the World
Food around the World

11. Links
Food around the World
Michelle’s blog
Skype in the Classroom
Wikispaces
PBWorks
Epals
Wordpress
Kidblog
Edmodo
Image attributions:
Wiki logo: By Cristian109 (Own work)
Blog logo: By Cortega9 (Own work)
Wordpress logo: By WordPress
Quote image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deeplifequotes/
Other images: www.images.microsoft.com

12. Twitter: @michelleworgan
Email:michelleworgan@gmail.com
Thank you for attending!