Presented at METC, February 9, 2010. Focuses on collaboration on Line.

1. Are Your Students REALLY Collaborating? Jon Orech Instructional Technology Coordinator Cooperative Learning Trainer South High School, Downers Grove, IL jorech@csd99.org

2. The Paperless Classroom

3. Conference Hash Tag:#METC_CSDSession Wiki:metccollab.wikispaces.com

4. Web Presence Email: jorech@csd99.org Blog: jonorech.blogspot.com Twitter, Delicious, etc, “jorech” Delicious tag: “collaboration” Digital Storytelling resource: jonorech.wikispaces.com

5. What have you read recently that has impacted your teaching?

6. What is the difference between Cooperation and Collaboration?

7. How do you make your classroom a “collaborative learning space”?

8. What about here?

9. Or here?

10. Or even here.

11. Are you over the Web 2.0 Hoopla…

12. and ready to focus (again) on learning? Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (Siemens and Titterberger, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/handbookemerging

14. BlogsNing social bookmarking Wikis

16. Wikis in the Classroom:Theory…

17. Wikis in the Classroom:Reality…

18. “Wiki” is a tool “Collaborative writing” is a process

19. Cooperative Learning (Johnson and Johnson) Positive Interdependence Individual Accountability Group Processing Social Skills Faceto Face Interaction

21. Role

22. Environment

23. Resource

24. Task

26. Frequent Assessment

27. History

30. Negotiate revision

33. Lord of the Flies wiki

34. The “Alice” projectChristian Long

35. Isabelle Menke

36. Research “Asynchronous writing results in richer communication” (Mabrito, 2006). “Online collaborative writing produces higher quality writing than face-to-face collaboration” (Passig and Schwartz, 2007). Why?

37. Successful teaching today requires: Experimentation. Co-creation of content. Relinquishing control. Tolerance [encouragement] of failure. Siemens and Titterberger