debbie oestreicher's List: Collaborative Learning

Collaborative Learning Structures and Techniques

A consortium of organizations committed to creating opportunities that facilitate interactions between youth worldwide.

Resources for Cross-cultural Interaction and Project Work

This is the original clearinghouse for collaborative projects from across the globe - projects hosted by the Global SchoolNet Foundation, other reputable organizations, and outstanding partner projects conducted by teachers worldwide! Whether you choose to join an existing project or announce one of your own, GSN's Projects Registry promises to save you time!

Travel Buddy projects are a fun and motivating way to increase science, math, social studies or literacy skills in primary students.

In project-based learning, students are involved in individual and collaborative work to explore real-world problems and create presentations to share what they have learned. Students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science and technology.

We believe that PBL is at the heart of good instruction because it brings together intellectual inquiry, rigorous real-world standards, and student engagement in relevant and meaningful work. It is a comprehensive instructional model in which project work is central to student understanding of the essential concepts and principles of the disciplines.

This is an ongoing list of resources for teachers planning multi-cultural curriculum and for teachers who are planning multi-classroom or projects with classrooms in other schools, states, and countries.

Project learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges. With this type of active and engaged learning, students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying.

A nonprofit subsidiary of the National Geographic Society, JASON connects young students with great explorers and great events to inspire and motivate them to learn science. Its core curriculum units are designed for 5th – 8th grade classrooms but are flexible enough to be adapted for higher or lower grades.

Listing of collaborative projects sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education

The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education listing of partner projects

Co-nect's online projects page! Below is a list of standards-based projects and activities you can use in your classroom during the school year - for free! Many projects are completed, but there is still a wealth of curriculum available for download.

Community Web Projects

online curriculum projects offer essential national and international networks to teachers and students. More recently, they have become involved in research partnerships and have been particularly effective in providing educators with the mechanism to conduct collaborative research.

Kidproj Multi projects invite participation in all languages. In our projects you may see student work not only in English but also in other languages.

Class2Class, the brainchild of Mel Sprouse, is an Internet service where math teachers can come to join in new projects and collaborations, taking advantage of one of the powerful features of the Internet: connecting people and information at a distance.

Nota is an incredible online collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to collaborate almost instantaneously on a shared whiteboard space. Instantly create and share any kind of document, presentations, notebooks, report, artwork, etc.. Nota makes any type of document and media work together seamlessly. The Nota interface is extremelly intuitive, it is quick to learn and use. Materials can be shared and edited simultaneously making it a truly incredible collaborative experience. Materials can be uploaded or added from sites like Flickr, YouTube, Google Maps, Wikipedia, and more. The Nota drawing tools work with any media or document in Nota. Public or private notebooks can be created. Collaborate with one or a hundred people on Nota and create as many pages as you want. Finished work can be stored, printed, or embeded. Best of all Nota is totally free!

"Highlighting exemplary student work from the most creative classrooms around the globe."
Current Projects 2009