So, I have been trying to think of some ways to bring more online collaborative learning into my class and finally today I started to formulate some ideas that might work. I'm going to throw my ideas down here and then hopefully start to mold them into something that will work. I do want input from my students as well, so I would like this to be the framework and let the specifics be more malleable.
My plan is to have groups of about 5 students who's job is to either:
a) create some sort of ad that will persuade people to work for NASA (thanks to Zoe Branigan-Pipe for the idea http://gl.am/x0jrYe)
b) create a 'rant' similar to those by Rick Mercer about space travel.
c) make a story, comic or animation about experiences in space
(or others my students will come up with)
While going over the curriculum with the students we will decide on 5 jobs that one member of each group will take on. Then we will do a jigsaw using google docs, so that 1 member of each group will take on job #1. All the students doing job #1 will work together to produce a google doc that will give the information that will satisfy the curricular objectives for their job. This will ensure that a document exists for the groups to work with when making their final project. This document will have to be properly referenced.
Then the original groups will reconvene and have all 5 jobs represented by their expert and a google doc of information. They will then go about putting this information into their final product.
I will be starting this project this week. If anyone has any suggestions of how to make this project either more interactive, or run more smoothly, please comment.
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