The document summarizes a webinar on collaborative learning presented by Anne Mirtschin. It defines collaborative learning as students working together to learn, complete tasks, or create products. Successful collaboration requires input from all members and allows for conversation. Various online tools that enable collaboration are mentioned, including Google Docs, Edmodo, Skype, and Padlet. Examples of collaborative activities using these tools include discussions between mixed student groups on developing a video game and assessing a debate between international students.

1. Collaborative Learning
An eduwebinar session: August 16th
Presenter: Anne Mirtschin
mirtschin@gmail.com

2. What is collaborative learning?
• where a group of students learn together. They may work together to
research, brainstorm, solve a problem, finish a task or make a
product.
• where global partnerships are made for the purpose of working and
learning together on specific goals and co-creating new knowledge.
Julie Lindsay

3. Successful collaboration:
• Input from each group member
• Multi-directional
• Interactivity
• Conversations evident via audio or video
• Positive and supportive criticism

7. Technology
Enabler for collaborative learning

8. ISTE standards

10. Some tools to try…
Google docs Facebook
Twitter Edmodo
Todays Meet Slack
Padlet
Voicethread Skype
Wikispaces Zoom
Sway Google Hangouts
Flip video

13. GamesNET
Mixed student groups of four from across Victoria work virtually
To develop a video game
Tools used:
• Slack
• Zoom
• Google documents
• email

14. • Joshua: i like red rock
• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR
• we are going there soon
• It's pretty :)
• do you know where mt eccells??
• water looks awesome
• Looks good to swim in ;)
• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?
• do you know where mt eccells is??
• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?
• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst
• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there
Backchannels
http://todaysmeet.com

15. Wikispaces

16. •Foresee and sense cultural misunderstanding
Should
Australia go to
India to play
sport?

17. Should Australia go to India to play sport?

19. Uses of Online Shared Documents
• Brainstorming
• Small classroom group discussions
• Global classroom discussions
• Reflections
• Collaborative outcomes

21. Skype intros with the
American School of Bombay
Should Australia go to India to play sport?

22. Sample questions
1. Please write some bullet points about what has been
happening to Indians in Australia in the past
year. Include the response from Indians as well as
the impact of these events on the upcoming
Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi.
2. Why do you think these incidents of violence have
been occurring against Indians? Is it happening
against other ethnic groups in Australia?

23. Collaborative Google docs

25. Advantages
• Robust
• Best used with a gmail account
• Extra tools
• Chat feature
• Editing rights
• Share for editing

26. Hi Flick!
Picture is very beautiful I think there are a lot of good
day in Australia. How do you think of that? Recently, I
always bring fold-up umbrella, because I often catch in a
shower
I will follow you example. I am going to try to study
Korean more and more. Now many people are
interested in Korean in Japan because there are a lot of
beautiful actress and actor in Korean. Obachann who is
30-50 years Japanese women loves Korean actor.
I have a favor to ask of you. Now I study English, but my
English have a lot of mistakes. I want you to check my
English and correct mistakes if you have time.
Thanks,
Ayaka

27. Your English is quite good for the majority of your
writing but I have written it now as I would have.
However, I was unable to complete your second
paragraph because I could not understand
what Obachann was. Could you please tell me? Chloe
Hi Chloe!
I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women whose
age are 30-50 and they have warm heart and great
energy. Most of them love going to shopping, watching
Korean dramas and having a chat in the street. Thanks,
Ayaka

28. Interactive Whiteboards

29. What do you look for in a friend?

30. What skills are important to learn?

32. One Note

36. I am 24 years old and, Freshman of Hokusei
University.
It is located in Sapporo Japan. And 180 million
people lives in Sapporo city
This is my questions.
What dose Hawkesdale P12 College or, Your town
looks like?
What do you want to be in the future or, What are
you going to do after graduate school?
What is your hobby? and, What do you do when
you hang out with your friends?

37. Hi Yuya, My name's Josh and Hawkesdale is a very small town
with about 200 people living in it. I am currently living in a bigger
town by the name of Port Fairy, i don't know the population, but
it is on the coast of Victoria. It's a very historical town and there
are a lot of old monuments in it.
What i want to do in the future i don't know yet, but my hobbies
are playing video games, listening to music and hanging with my
friends.
What i do when i hang out with my friends, we either play xbox
or walk around or even go fishing. sometimes i just kick the
football around with them as well.
What about you?
What are your hobbies and what do you do when you hang out
with your mates??

38. Hi Flick!
Picture is very beautiful I think there are a lot of good
day in Australia. How do you think of that? Recently, I
always bring fold-up umbrella, because I often catch in a
shower
I will follow you example. I am going to try to study
Korean more and more. Now many people are
interested in Korean in Japan because there are a lot of
beautiful actress and actor in Korean. Obachann who is
30-50 years Japanese women loves Korean actor.
I have a favor to ask of you. Now I study English, but my
English have a lot of mistakes. I want you to check my
English and correct mistakes if you have time.
Thanks,
Ayaka

39. Your English is quite good for the majority of your
writing but I have written it now as I would have.
However, I was unable to complete your second
paragraph because I could not understand
what Obachann was. Could you please tell me? Chloe
Hi Chloe!
I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women whose
age are 30-50 and they have warm heart and great
energy. Most of them love going to shopping, watching
Korean dramas and having a chat in the street. Thanks,
Ayaka

40. What do you know about Russia?
Padlet

41. Our questions of Russia

42. http://www.padlet.com

43. https://todaysmeet.com/worldclassroom
@murcha

44. International friendship day
International friendship day a special United Nations day on the first
Sunday of August. The lesson was aimed to make new friends in
other countries. We connected up with students from Ipoh, Perak in
Malaysia. There was 35, 16 year old student in the class that we
talked with. We used the chat and comments area to talk to each
other.

45. Some of the thing we talked about
How many subjects do you have in Malaysia?
We have 10 subjects here in Malaysia
We have English, Bahasa Melayu(our national language),Chinese, Additional Math, Modern
Math, Science(Biology, Chemistry, Physics), History(very boring T^T) and Moral Education

46. We shared a minute of silence with Malaysia for
MH17 and created a wall of sympathy
(created using www.padlet.com)

47. http://flatconnectionsglobalproject.net/

49. Topics studied
https://todaysmeet.com/worldclassroom
@murcha

50. http://www.connectchinacollaborative.com/

57. Voicethread
Team 9 Climate Change
Team 6

58. Japanese Uni Students- voicethread, scratch,
google slides, skype, facebook
“They are asking if the cattle do not run away from the farm.”
Link

59. https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#thread/73
41192/39628415/41001564
• I often eat Australian beef!

61. Flipgrid
See Bronwyn Joyce example

62. http://www.sway.com

63. http://www.virtualclassroom.org/

64. How do we assess collaboration?

65. eFind Me
mirtschin@gmail.com
Twitter: @murcha Skype: anne.mirtschin
My blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au
http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls