This week the students embedded their Voki into their Edmodo small groups. Since there are nearly 300 students participating in this project from around the world, the students have been divided into small groups around a given topic. For example, we have schools from Canada, California, Nepal, Illinois, and India. Students from these schools are divided into small group, with each group given a topic.
The group topics are:
1. Celebrations
2. Clothing
3. Environment
4. Food
5. Housing
6. Language
7. Leisure Time
8. School
9. Transportation
After posting their Voki into their team in Edimoto, students observed other student’s individual introductions and replied to their posts.
We have spent the last few sessions forming connections among students who are involved in the “A Week in the Life” project by sharing the class handshakes and replying to each other’s posts. Teachers monitor these groups and try to keep the discussions flowing. Sometimes the students get off the topic and do not follow the general guidelines we established for this project discussion. At the beginning of the project we held a class discussion about appropriate online communication and commenting.
Here are some of the clips that student solving other schools Jigsaw planet and they enjoyed it:
The group topics are:
1. Celebrations
2. Clothing
3. Environment
4. Food
5. Housing
6. Language
7. Leisure Time
8. School
9. Transportation
After posting their Voki into their team in Edimoto, students observed other student’s individual introductions and replied to their posts.
We have spent the last few sessions forming connections among students who are involved in the “A Week in the Life” project by sharing the class handshakes and replying to each other’s posts. Teachers monitor these groups and try to keep the discussions flowing. Sometimes the students get off the topic and do not follow the general guidelines we established for this project discussion. At the beginning of the project we held a class discussion about appropriate online communication and commenting.
Here are some of the clips that student solving other schools Jigsaw planet and they enjoyed it:
Speaking of commenting, we watched this video about leaving quality comments and then practiced commenting on others' posts within Edmodo.