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| Before your classroom goes on-line and begins communicating
with peers around the world, you may want to spend some time
having students reflect on some of the issues which may arise
during their on-line collaboration. |
Preparing Students for Online Communication
You might also want to spend some time talking about appropriate
use of online forums. One iEARN School, Edmonds Cyberschool,
has even created an "iEARN
Buddy Support Contract"  to
help students in creating and posting their messages to the
iEARN forums.
In addition, it can be helpful to communicate to parents
that you will be involving your students in global collaboration
with peers worldwide. This can take many forms, from phone
calls or letters home, or in some cases permission slips to
request that they ok this use of interactive technologies.
We suggest you communicate your plans to your local administration
so that you create a local base of support and awareness of
this innovative work. Margaret Riel's Learning Circles Teachers
Guide provides helpful models for how to utilize these various
channels of communication with your local parental and school
communities, including students themselves (Letters
to Parents and Students).
Sample Internet Technology in the Classroom
Permission Slip
In our classroom, we are using internet technologies to support
our curricular learning including opportunities for email,
website publishing, video production, and videoconferencing
to learn and connect with schools in United States and around
the world through the International Education and Resource
Network (iEARN).
Within these opportunities, please consider the following
permission for your student to communicate his/her writing,
artwork, and documents of classroom learning including digital
images and video online.
My student has permission to:
__ write and read curricular topic email messages with students
and teachers in schools around the world with whom we are
doing curricular topic projects
__ have his/her curricular topic artwork on a classroom website
and iEARN website
__ have his/her digital image in curricular project activities
on a classroom and iEARN website
__ have his/her image in curricular project videos shared
with other schools in iEARN, on the classroom website and
iEARN websiteStudent
Name_____________________________________
Parent Name & Signature________________________________________
Date_________________ |
The activities below are readable through the Adobe Acrobat Reader
Program (free to download)
• Telecommunicating telecommunicating-activity.pdf
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Students will communicate with one another without seeing or hearing
each other; simulating communication via e-mail. The students will
then reflect on the experience and think about potential miscommunications
via email.
• Introducing your classroom to the iEARN Community
welcome letter.pdf
Constructing a welcome letter to introduce your classroom
and project ideas to the iEARN community
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