EDCI 5825 Blogpost #2

Q1: One of the best ways to share your students work with both your local and global community is through the use of a Wiki. With a wiki, you can post just about anything to the web, such as video, audio, and document files (Richardson, 2010). As November pointed out, wikis can be used by a teacher as a repository of information for a class. The wiki can be used to review assignments, post projects, facilitate discussions, and even to keep in contact with the parents (2010).

Q2: November gave some wonderful examples as to how to broaden our students global and cultural horizons by harnessing the power of the Internet. One way he suggests is through the use of chat clients such as Skype, iChat, or the multitude of other chat clients available (2010). Through chat clients like Skype, students can video conference with other students or with professionals that live down the street from them or on the other side of the world. By being able to communicate directly with someone, students will receive a first hand account of that person's life and culture. Another way for students to reach out to the world is through the use of a class wiki. Richardson gave a few examples of how this works, most notably with Vicki Davis (2010). Her class set up a wiki collaborated with students in Bangladesh on a project. Yet another possibility, would be to set up a collaboration with another school and participate in something that November calls the "Anonymous Reviewer" (2010). Essentially, this is where a students work is reviewed anonymously by another student. Through anonymous reviews, November says that students will more likely be honest about their critiques and will also more likely heed the critique given (2010).

Q3: Emerging collaborative relationships for teachers are relationships that teachers set up between other teachers, professionals, or parents. Teachers can use these relationships to bring in other points of view to their curriculum, create community based projects, or to just share what their students have accomplished (November, 2010).