‘A Week in the Life…’ 2012-1A Flat Classroom® Project for Elementary School students

Grades 3-5, age 8-10

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Julie Lindsay (Bangladesh, Qatar, China)Vicki Davis(Camilla, GA)

Last year…….

• http://aweekinthelife11-1.flatclassroomproject.org/ – Over 300 students– 14 classrooms– South Korea, Canada, Qatar, USA

• http://aweekinthelife11-2.flatclassroomproject.org/ – Over 370 students– 22 Classrooms– Canada, Poland, China, South Korea, USA

Project Management AWL 12-1

Project ManagersToni Olivieri-Barton toniobarton@gmail.comBetsye Sargent phoenix@phoenixschool.orgLT Community BuildersDonna Roman donna.roman@gmail.comDonna Esposito dje180@gmail.comLT Meetup ManagerTina Schmidt mrsschmidtb4@yahoo.comLT Multimedia MentorMaureen Tumenas mtumenas@berkshirecountryday.org

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Essential Questions Which Will Be Answered

• What are the similarities and differences among children around the world?

• How can we connect with each other through our commonalities?

• How does your geography where you live impact your topic?

1. Do some research on a week in the life of children in your school around these topics:

• School time• Languages & Clothing• Housing & Transportation• Leisure time• Holidays & Celebration• Environment

2. Collect multimedia and share with team members

• Multimedia choices: video, audio, slideshow, cartoons, etc.

• Share multimedia online via team wiki pages• Discuss differences and similarities between

multimedia

3. Complete a final project demonstrating your information to the rest of the group.

• Each classroom will be responsible to assemble a number of team projects

• Upload finished projects to the wiki• View all the group projects and compare and

contrast the results.

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Workflow AWL 12-1 – Part 1

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Team

Top

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FLAT CLASSROOM TEAMS 2009

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6

School Time 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

Languages and Clothing 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F

Housing and Transportation 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F

Leisure Time 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F

Food and Celebrations 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F

Environment 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F

TEAMS

‘A Week in the Life...’ Team Grid

AWL Teacher Admin Doc

• You have been invited to this – List of resources as reference– Add your details – class size, experience etc.– Newbies and veterans sections– https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kHsxHrPzr

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Fill out teacher information

Should Already Have:Fill in the online billing formJoin the wikispacesJoin the Teacher Google GroupJoined the Ning

Joined the AWL 12-1 on the Ning

Adding School on Wiki• All Teachers will need to join the wiki• Add their school on the home page with– Their school logo– A time stamp from clocklink.com– A school photograph of students or the school

Putting Schools and Students onto Team Grid

Before Next Meeting AS A TEACHER

• Fill in the Teacher admin doc.• Post a pre-project teacher reflection on the

teacher blog• Join Edmodo as a teacher

http://www.edmodo.com/– Group: FCP AWL 12-1 Code: fbijrm– Create a separate group for your class (optional)– Do not add students yet!

Before Next Meeting WITH STUDENTS

• Work on a Classroom Handshake to share on Edmodo

• Classroom to Classroom Handshake– Skype: http://skype.com or – Eyejot: http://eyejot.com

Project Workflow

• Online Teacher Information Meeting: February 28• Classroom Handshake and Team formation: March 1-

15• Student Handshake (by team) and Project

Discussions: March 15-April 15• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: April 15-30• Media Collation and Product Development: May 1-15• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: May 15-June 1

Questions?