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Crossing Borders for

Multicultural Understanding

“A tale of two educators with a passion to ignite global learning in their classrooms”

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Global Ed Con 2012: We meet and start collaborating.

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A shared vision for education and global learning:

“We learn best when we learn from each other.” - Pedro Aparicio���“This is the bedrock of everything that we’ve done as teaching partners” - Will Piper

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Perspectives...

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Personal Qualities: Rita Pierson

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Thinking about modern learning...

As teachers, we are taking an ongoing �journey of discovery with our

students.

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Teaching With Technology To Connect Students Worldwide

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Pedagogy.

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Learn from each other

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Break down classroom walls and have fun.

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Cultural Diversity

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Digital Natives

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Connect, Collaborate and Create

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Enhancing Education With Classroom Collaboration.

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How do I get started?

  • The best way to find connections with another class is take the risk and try it out.

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  • Your social media accounts. You probably use some form of social media: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram or Google Plus.

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What’s next?

  • A targeted Twitter hashtag from Educational Chats. There are hashtags for practically any content area, grade level or specialization in education.

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  • #MysterySkype. Mystery Skype is a great first step to connecting to other classes around the country or the world. Two classes meet via video chat online to guess where in the world each other is geographically.

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Hangout

  • The Google Hangouts in Education community on Google Plus. A quick scan of the community includes posts from all over the world. It’s a great place to get connected to people and classes. It covers all ages, levels and lessons.

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Sharing Unlocks Unlimited Potential

Blogs

Wikis

ePortfolio

edmodo

Skype

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Drive

Docs

Forms

Sites

Google+

Hangouts

Youtube

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Don’t Let #timezoneprobs get in the way of your collaborations

What’s App- free global texting- can share vids and pics- excellent for teacher to teacher.

Countries: Australia, Ghana, India, Venezuela, Mexico and the USA.

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Other Time Zone “Hacks:”

  • Global Pen Pals (email or “old school” snail mail)
  • Shared GAFE projects

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  • Twitter Chats: #MexEdChat

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Effective Global Collaborative Projects

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Global Collaborative Practices

https://sites.google.com/site/dayofthedeadinmexico/

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https://sites.google.com/a/cedrosnorte.edu.mx/3rd-grade-innovators/products-services

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http://www.nais.org/Magazines-Newsletters/ITMagazine/Pages/Latino-Arts-Brings-Death-to-Life.aspx

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Resources

  • Flat Connections: Learning about the world with the world.
  • Teacher’s Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet.
  • Skype in the Classroom.
  • Mystery Hangouts Communities on Google +
  • Educational Chats on twitter: #MexEdChat, #AussieEd, #ADEchat, #CaEdChat, #EdChat #GlobalEdChat, etc.

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Contact us...

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  • Twitter: @Aparicio_Pedro

@wdpiper

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