Collaborations

=Collaborative IVC Projects=

Videoconference Project Templates Booklet by Janine Lim, Arnie Comer, and Roxanne Glaser

[|Collaborative Projects Presentation]

Things to think about before you collaborate:

Academic Challenge
Students could develop questions on any topic and create a game format to review for a test. Use your favorite game show, such as Jeopardy, Match Game, etc., for the game. One of the teachers could act as the "host" of the tv show. Classes would take turns answering questions.

Coffee House Sharing
This type of collaborative project would work well for creative writing projects. Connect with other classes and have students share and discuss their creative writing. Students could give each other feedback about their writing and learn how to properly give constructive feedback.

Reader's Theater and skits are other ways classes could share by video conference. Classes could act out stories, poems, historic events, life cycle of a butterfly, or their own stories.

Social Studies teachers could use this project by having students research an event in history and write about it as if they are involved in that historical event. It could be presented as if it were a news show where students present their writing.

Debates
Have a debate about any topic where one site takes one viewpoint and the other site takes an opposing viewpoint. Spend time during the video conference debate the topic based on research done prior to class. Sample topic: Should cell phones be banned at school?

Exchange Projects
Students could make a public service commercial or a play about their city.

LOTE students could choose a country that speaks the language of study and develop an interactive presentation to do by video conference.

Primary students can share a story, information about their community, a project they are working on, a topic they are learning about...

Students could meet pen pals by video conference and share information on a variety of topics.

Mock Trials
Put literary characters or historical figures on trial. One class works on defense, the other prosecution.

MysteryQuest
English teachers could have students choose a character from a book and put together a box with items that represent that character. Share the items with the other class and they guess the character: MysteryBox (**ActivStudio**: [|MemoryBox.flp]; **SMART**:  [|mysterybox.notebook])

[|MQ.pps]: Social Studies teachers could do a MysteryQuest and ask questions pre-determined by the collaborating teachers for students to research and answer about a location in NYS or the US.

Other sample topics:


 * Suburban, Rural, City (exchange information on place and use as a way to show differences and similarities in each one)
 * Geography, weather patterns, geometry
 * Mystery Unit by playing clue and having them do it in a multi-point exchange

IVC + Web 2.0
Do a project where you meet periodically by video conference and use Web 2.0 (wikis, blogs, podcasts, etc.) to share information about your project between video conferences. The FlatClassroomProject is an example of a Web 2.0 project that could easily be integrated with interactive video conferencing.