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And now my fantastic new lesson plan
I have yet to implement it in the classroom, but now I think it will be greatly appreciated by the students and will offer many incentives and good opportunities for collaboration.

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Collaborative teaching and learning | Assessment for improving collaborative learning

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My lesson plan use a new methodologycal approach named "debate"

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And now my fantastic new lesson plan
I have yet to implement it in the classroom, but now I think it will be greatly appreciated by the students and will offer many incentives and good opportunities for collaboration.

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Module 2 - A my level 3 collaboration activity

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Module 2 - A my level 3 collaboration activity

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I documented it in a Learning Designer lesson plan. You can find it at this https://v.gd/iNsoZo

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Module 2 - A my 2 level collaboration activity

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Module 2 - A my 2 level collaboration activity

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I had done some experiments for educational purposes in the past using the webtool TimeLine JS but never for a collaborative work. It is an open source online application that permits the realization of the multimedia time lines. I had already been able to appreciate its usefulness in the laboratories of History as an educational tool to be used by the kids for small individual achievements. TimeLine JS is an excellent tool for the presentation of events and historical facts. So, what better occasion of the forthcoming Internet Day and the celebration of thirty years from the first Italian connections (30 April 1986) to try to use it for a collective and collaborative work?
Of course. Why TimeLine JS also allows it along the time line. As? Simple. It started off as a table model with the tool in Google Spreadsheets which is (like all of Google's cloud tools) inherently predisposed to sharing and synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. In short, an opportunity too good: to create in the classroom uTimelineJS Logona-line media time on the history of the Internet, working in 25 (24 boys and a teacher) on the same file, celebrate the Network of networks of "digital natives." activated skills: communication in the mother tongue, collaborative work, research and selection information, use of digital technology, etc ... But proceed with order. I try to tell all.

TimelineJS is an open source tool that allows the creation of the beautiful long lines, rich and interactive. Very little is needed. Everything is based on a spreadsheet with the appropriate tool from Google (Sheets). And 'possible to integrate different types of resources: Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, Vine, Dailymotion, GoogleMap, Wikipedia, SoundCloud, etc. ...

Little tutorial to TimelineJS

You have to create your own spreadsheet starting from the template available on the site TimeLine JS. Careful not to remove any column, not to change the titles of the columns and not to leave any blank line. Each line corresponds to an event. For each line so should you add the data for the event in question. The first four columns (A-D) are for the date. E 'can enter the year only or complete with month, day and time. In the case of a line containing the title data of the presentation it is not even necessary per year. For the years prior to the year Zero must enter negative numbers (-500 means 500 BC). If the event also has a date of "end event" there are four columns (E-H) to follow. Display the Date column (I) can be left blank but can be used to write the name of a month or day of the week.

The columns J and K (Headline and Text) are those for the title and the text. It 'clear that these must be completed and can be edited at any time. From column L to O found four cells for multimedia content. The first is for the link to the image or video or other resource. Here it is important to make sure that the link points exactly to the resource (not the web page containing the image). You can not add resources that are not published on the internet. Then there are the cells to enter the "credit" and the caption relative to the used resource. The last of these four cells (column O) allows you to put the link to an image (small) will be inserted in the event flag in question.

Finally the last 3 columns (P, Q, R). The box corresponding to the column "Type" you must not write anything unless we want the line where we find there is that of the "cover" for our timeline. In that case, we can choose "title" and will not have to put either the date information in the first cell of this row. Riga "title" it may have only one, of course. The column Q (Group) can be useful if we want in our timeline are recognizable different groups of events. And finally the R column (Background) for the background of each event page. We can insert here the links to the images that precisely will be the background or the hex codes to color with a very precise homogenous hue page.

The sheet (the spreadsheet) is on Google Drive and can therefore be shared. For which you can also work in many of the same timeline (that's what I did with my class). You can assign change permissions as in any type of permit other shared files on Google Drive. It 'important that the document is made public, however, otherwise the TimelineJS code can not access it to read the input data and generate the timeline.

Once completed the compilation of the spreadsheet you simply copy the link into the box provided on TimelineJS page and you're done. If our spreadsheet has been completed correctly we will see how it is coming our timeline by clicking on the Preview button on the same page.

The History of the Internet in a timeline

I prepared the spreadsheet with only the first column (year) and assigned each student an event after having selected a few from a couple of histories on the Internet history on the network. I shared with all pupils of my third and the guys started to enter data each on its own line corresponding to the event that has been assigned. Clearly, each student has his own account (a Gmail address). That you might look for news, articles, web pages, pictures and videos ... and we are still working !!! Fill the cells within their competence when and how they want (do not have the limitations of school hours). They can continue to work from anywhere and at any time.

The boys are 24 and have to fill one row (event) each. I continue to monitor what they do. Working from home or from other places (and I) with their own devices (in school is not always possible, unfortunately) ... and do not know yet exactly what will come out. But I can at any time realizing it and if necessary to intervene with comments and changes even while they are operating on the shared spreadsheet.

Our timeline (still work-in-progress as I write this article) is a shared work that makes use of cloud technology. In class we talk, the boys pull out their doubts, we relate the facts of history with events of our timeline. For a few hours we also went to work in multimedia classroom with PCs and to clarify some doubts. We have not finished the job. But I'm sure we will arrive in time to celebrate in our own way 30 years of Italian internet! 🙂

Here is the link to the spreadsheet on which they are still working. And here was the result (not yet final as I write). TimelineJS real-time reads the information in the spreadsheet, so any change is immediately shown in the timeline but you have to refresh the page.

Some considerations (as a teacher)

With this type of activities are called into question many skills. The children have a real task and they know that the result of their work can really be used by others (even strangers). The final product is good if the contribution of the individual is valid. Appreciate the collaborative work and realize that it is better to work together collaborating. They are careful to try and find authoritative sources. Learn to mention those who provide the resources found. Repackage texts intended for a real audience ... It's hard (for me) to think of as educational activity "effective" without the digital medium.

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First. Collaborative writing task. I used an online platform: BoomWriter. I have described in details this activity using LearningDesigner. Here is it https://v.gd/iNsoZo Please look there for details.

Second. A medium level collaborative activity is another one named "An Internet History Timeline". In this activity, my students have created a multimedia timeline on the history of the internet by working together.
Here is a report (in italian language) https://insegnantiduepuntozero.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/una-timeline-a-piu-mani-per-una-breve-storia-di-internet/

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Another activity was the Timeline about internet history. In this case students works in a cooperative way. Each student produce individually a part of project. A low level of collaboration in this activity is however in exchange between student and tutoring and tips to other classmates.
This is a report of this activity (in italian language).

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Una timeline a più mani per una "Breve storia di Internet"

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Avevo fatto già alcuni esperimenti in passato utilizzando a scopo didattico il webtool TimeLine JS ma mai per un lavoro collaborativo. Si tratta di un applicativo online open source che permette la realizzazione di linee del tempo multimediali. Avevo già potuto apprezzarne l'utilità in dei laboratori di Storia come strumento didattico da far usare ai...

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One collaborative learning activity where I exerienced an high level of collaboration is a job for collaborative writing. Here is a lesson plan (with LearningDesigner) that describes this activity.
Students write a novel together. I used an online tool for collaborative writing: boomwriter.com
During this activity student write, read, select and chose part of novel writed by other classmates

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I like to be part of this community. I love to study with teachers from other countries. Wonderfull the introduction with TimelineJS.
I used it last april for Italian Internet Day.... with my students. Here is a report og my activity with TimelineJS  (in italian) https://insegnantiduepuntozero.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/una-timeline-a-piu-mani-per-una-breve-storia-di-internet/

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I teach in Mascalucia (Sicily). My students are 11/14 years old. I teach history, geography and italian language

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I'm aa italian middle school teacher.